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Human Alteration of a Neotropical Landscape Drives Long-term Changes in its Forest Bird Communities

Creator:

Curtis, Jenna R.

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Human alteration of natural landscapes leads to biodiversity loss, often from a combination of area effects and fragmentation effects. Smaller habitat patches support fewer species than large ones and incur additional consequences from isolation. Efforts to preempt biodiversity loss from insular habitat fragments are complicated by individualistic species responses and...

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Dissertation

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. Aguilar, A. Sanjur, R. Martínez, R. F. Stallard, T. García, G. R. Angehr, and L. Petit. 2001. The Status
You are What, When, Where, and How you Eat : Mercury in Avian Food Webs across Multiple Spatial Scales

Creator:

Jackson, Allyson K.

Abstract:

Human alterations of landscapes take many forms, one of which is anthropogenic pollution. Mercury (Hg) is a complex contaminant because its uptake into the food web is not driven entirely by loading to the system; methylation is necessary to make Hg bioavailable and toxic to fish and wildlife. Because methylation...

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Dissertation

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Page 2.1. Whole blood Hg (µg/g wet weight) comparison across 20 avian piscivores in western