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Evaluation of the effectiveness of a trophy Blue Catfish regulation in Oklahoma
(2020-05)
Growing interest in trophy Blue Catfish Ictalurus furcatus angling has resulted in implementation of trophy regulations by some natural resource agencies. On January 1, 2010, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation ...
Bird-window collisions: Field testing a potential solution and evaluating stakeholder perceptions
(2021-07)
Bird-window collisions are a major source of human-caused avian mortality for which there are multiple mitigation and prevention options available. Despite growing availability of products designed to reduce collisions, ...
Tradeoff between water yield and biomass production associated with eastern redcedar encroachment into grassland ecosystems
(2019-12)
Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) is encroaching tallgrass prairie ecosystems in the southern Great Plains disrupting multiple ecosystem services provided by these ecosystems. While not suitable for row crop production, ...
Urban Tick Ecology in Oklahoma City: Tick Distribution, Pathogen Prevalence and Avian Infestation Across an Urbanization Gradient
(2019-05-01)
Urbanization has been linked to the emergence and increased prevalence of many vector-borne diseases, including tick-borne diseases. Despite the growing public health importance of tick-borne diseases, little is known about ...
Examining Occurrence, Life History, and Ecology of Cavefishes and Cave Crayfishes Using Both Traditional and Novel Approaches
(2019-05-01)
The persistence of cavefishes and cave crayfishes in the Ozark Highlands ecoregion is threatened due to narrow ranges coupled with declining groundwater quality. To adequately address the threats to cavefishes and cave ...
Seed dispersal and overland flow: The role of rainfall in the proliferation of sericea lespedeza, a non-native invasive legume
(2021-05)
Sericea lespedeza is an invasive legume native to eastern Asia. Although it was initially introduced for forage and erosion control, it has since become a widespread problem, especially in prairie areas, forming dense ...
Long-term loblolly pine aboveground growth, canopy dynamics, and economic implications from throughfall exclusion, fertilization, and thinning in southeastern Oklahoma, USA
(2020-12)
Loblolly pine (Pinus tadea L.) is the most commercially important timber species in the southern USA. Climate change induced drought, due to longer periods without rainfall, will alter forest growth in the region. Loblolly ...
Investigating the effects of weather, artificial lighting, and polarized light on bird-building collisions in the downtown area of a major U.S. City
(2019-05)
Collisions with buildings are a major source of human-caused mortality of birds, killing up to 1 billion birds annually in the United States. Most bird-building collision studies have focused on building and landscape-related ...
Effects of season of burn on native forage quality: Implications for cattle and white-tailed deer management
(2021-12)
Previous research has examined the benefits of fire and its ability to alter the nutrient quality of forages. Fire increases forage quality, but is largely based upon composite forage samples or on fire removing older, ...
Stakeholder perceptions on better management of Cross-timbers forest resources
(2018-07)
The Cross-timbers ecoregion represents the broad ecotone between the Eastern Deciduous Forest and the Tallgrass Prairie. The region is threatened by both natural and anthropogenic factors including urban development, ...