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Role that climate variability and landscape heterogeneity have on the movement ecology of Northern Bobwhite
(2021-12)
Movement is a fundamental characteristic of life influencing survival and population connectivity. Therefore, understanding how animals move is critical to their conservation in a changing world. Animal behavior is influenced ...
17,000 Years of Climate Change: The Phytolith Record from Hall's Cave, Texas
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-12-01)
We used modern analog technique to develop phytolith-based transfer functions. We applied these transfer functions to phytolith assemblages in sediments from Hall's Cave, Texas to reconstruct mean annual precipitation and ...
Species distributions and trait-environment correlations: Implications for the evolutionary ecology of crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae)
(2014-07)
Crayfish occur on every continent, except for Antarctica and Africa excluding Madagascar, and are a very diverse group of freshwater crustaceans with over 600 species. Crayfish are keystone species, ecosystems engineers, ...
Restored Heterogeneity as a Conservation Strategy for Grassland Birds
(Oklahoma State University, 2014-05-01)
Grasslands are inherently dynamic in space and time evolving with frequent disturbance from fire and herbivores. Throughout much of the world, grasslands have been converted and fragmented and many remaining grasslands ...
Potential Climate Change Impacts on Wind Resources in Oklahoma: a Focus on Future Energy Output
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-05-01)
The current study focused on the potential climate change effects on wind resources in Oklahoma. This was a quantitative study that involved Global Climate Model output, Oklahoma Mesonet data, and electric power-curve ...
Biotic and abiotic drivers of avian community dynamics
(2022-05)
Birds are an imperiled taxon in North America and have experienced rapid and widespread decline in the most recent century. Here, we use both basic and applied approaches to better understand how bird communities function ...
Investigation of Changing Wind Energy on the Evolution of Copanobay, Texas
(Oklahoma State University, 2010-05-01)
Over 123 km of high-resolution 2-D seismic lines and 6 sediment cores up to 16 m in length were collected from Copano Bay along the northwestern Gulf of Mexico in order to investigate the role wind energy had on the evolution ...
Movement and flow-ecology relationships of Great Plains pelagophil fishes
(2020-07)
Alterations to freshwater systems are a leading cause of reduction in diversity and abundance of freshwater fishes. Pelagophils have been negatively affected by anthropogenic decreases in the frequency and magnitude of ...
Spatial Smoothing of Corn Yield Trends and Robustness of the Impact of Climate Change on U.S. Corn Yields
(2019-07)
In evaluating plans to mitigate climate change, policy makers require estimates of the cost of climate change. One potential cost of climate change is the negative effect that an increase in temperature would have on ...
What kills trees? Drivers, mechanisms, and timing of climate-induced tree mortality
(2021-05)
In recent decades, drought-induced tree mortality has been observed on every forested continent of the planet. This is of great concern, as trees support some of the most biodiverse communities on Earth, are keystones in ...