Browsing by Subject "Great Plains"
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Analysis of prescribed burn costs and associated variables in the Great Plains
(Oklahoma State University, 2023-04-27)In the Great Plains, fire is an important land management tool essential to maintaining and preserving the region’s ecosystems. Prescribed fire is critical in perpetuating regular fire return intervals and enhancing land ... -
The Changing Hydroclimate of the United States Great Plains: Meteorological and Climatological Impacts on Water Resources
(2018-12-14)In the United States Great Plains (GP), understanding precipitation variability is key in developing an understanding of the present and future availability of water in the region. Numerous studies have investigated the ... -
Differences in mosquito communities in six cities in Oklahoma
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-04-05)Vector-borne diseases in the United States have recently increased as a result of the changing nature of vectors, hosts, reservoirs, pathogens, and the ecological and environmental conditions. Current information on vector ... -
Genetic analysis and ecological niche modeling of an Archilochus hybrid zone reveals duality in hybrid zone characteristics.
(2016)Two species of hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris and A. alexandri) whose breeding ranges and timing overlap in the great plains from south Texas to northern Oklahoma were hypothesized to produce hybrids in this area. ... -
Invasive woody plants as foci of tick-borne pathogens: Eastern redcedar in the southern Great Plains
(Society for Vector Ecology, 2021-06)Habitat preference and usage by disease vectors are directly correlated with landscapes often undergoing anthropogenic environmental change. A predominant type of land use change occurring in the United States is the ... -
Landscape and anthropogenic factors associated with adult Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in small cities in the southern Great Plains
(MDPI AG, 2020-10-13)As mosquito-borne diseases are a growing human health concern in the United States, the distribution and potential arbovirus risk from container-breeding Aedes mosquitoes is understudied in the southern Great Plains. The ... -
Nocturnal Ascent and Low-Level Jet in a Baroclinic Zone
(2022-05)A remarkable feature of the regional climatology of the central United States and the Great Plains is the existence of a nocturnal maximum in convective rainfall during the warm season. This study follows up the work of ... -
RADICAL REACTIONS: THE FIRST RED SCARE IN THE GREAT PLAINS AND THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDERLANDS, 1918-1920
(2017-05-12)This dissertation will focus on the First Red Scare in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. The First Red Scare was a wave of mass panic and hysteria directed against suspected radicals, leftists, anarchist, and Communist ... -
Theory and observations of bores in the nocturnal environment of the Great Plains
(2017-08-03)Accurate representation of bores in forecast models is a challenge. This challenge is of considerable interest to both the operational and the research communities because bores are capable of producing vertical displacements ... -
Three studies using business naming patterns to delimit regional geographies
(2022-07)The following work contains three articles delimiting and interrogating the concept of vernacular regions using the spatial distribution and frequency of keywords in business names. The basics of this approach are not ...