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Variation in abundance and hatch date of Prairie Chub Machrybopsis australis in the upper Red River basin
(2021-08)
Understanding multi-scale population and life history relationships is key to informing management decisions. Abundance and life history relationships can provide insight on a species' status, population dynamics, recruitment ...
Space use and survival of scaled quail in the nonbreeding season
(2022-12)
Scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) occur throughout the Chihuahuan Desert and the southwestern United States. Scaled quail populations have been declining over recent decades and factors influencing this decline are not ...
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 ...
Development of the Oklahoma rapid assessment method for floodplain wetlands
(2021-12)
Wetlands provide many important services to society, but degradation of wetlands reduces their ability to provide those services. Loss and degradation of wetlands have been ongoing in Oklahoma since settlement though recent ...
Factors associated with Paddlefish restoration success in Oklahoma reservoirs: Availability of potentially suitable spawning substrate in reservoir tributaries
(2021-07)
American Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) were once widely distributed, but have been extirpated from parts of their native range, primarily due to habitat fragmentation and degradation brought on by dams. To mitigate losses ...
Evaluating above- and belowground effects of native and non-native earthworms in grasslands
(2021-07)
Previous research has shown non-native earthworms can alter ecosystem function and structure by altering plant communities, soil dynamics, and soil microbial functional groups, including disruption of arbuscular mycorrhizal ...
Distribution of resprouting woody plants and the effect of fire on vegetation types in the Southern Great Plains
(2021-07)
The effects of soil, topography, and fire on woody plant distribution and extent has been studied over numerous systems; however, most literature has focused individually on these influencing variables at single sites. In ...
Effects of prescribed fire and forest thinning on white-tailed deer forage productivity and quality in a southern oak-pine forest-savanna continuum
(2021-07)
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginiana) represent an important economic component in the management of forest lands in the USA with over 16 billion dollars of expenditures annually related to deer hunting. Climate change ...
Precision and accuracy of low-frequency electrofishing for sampling reservoir Flathead Catfish Pylodictis olivaris populations
(2021-07)
Flathead Catfish Pylodictis olivaris are popular among anglers, however; information about sampling Flathead Catfish is limited. Low-frequency electrofishing (LFE; < 30 pulses per second [pps]) is the most commonly used ...
Landscape-scale factors affecting detection and occurrence of threatened Yaqui Catfish in the Yaqui River Basin, Mexico
(2020-12)
Desert fishes are some of the most threatened species in the world because of anthropogenic alterations and competition for limited freshwater. Among threatened desert fishes is the Yaqui Catfish, Ictalurus pricei, which ...