I conducted a study to identify potential spawning habitat for anadromous salmonids above a 60-year-old hydropower dam in the headwaters of the North Umpqua River in Oregon. Like many other historical salmonid-bearing ri ...
Background: Pinnipeds, including many endangered and declining species, are inaccessible and
difficult to monitor for extended periods using externally attached telemetry devices that are shed
during the annual molt. A ...
Kauffman, J. Boone; Medina, Israel; Gamboa, Julieta N.; Torres, Olmo; Caamal, Juan P.; Reza, Miriam; Herrera-Silveira, Jorge A.; Adame, Maria Fernanda(Public Library of Science, 2013-02-14)
Coastal wetlands can have exceptionally large carbon (C) stocks and their protection and restoration would constitute an effective mitigation strategy to climate change. Inclusion of coastal ecosystems in mitigation stra ...
Characterizing the behaviors of sea turtles and identifying high-use areas as they
vary in time and space is important for conservation planning, particularly when turtles overlap
with fisheries that may unintentionall ...
Gardner, Andy; Allsop, David J.; Charnov, Eric L.; West, Stuart A.(University of Chicago Press, 2005-05)
Recent comparative studies across sex-changing animals
have found that the relative size and age at sex change are strikingly
invariant. In particular, 91%–97% of the variation in size at sex
change across species can ...