• High-density camera trap grid reveals lack of consistency in detection and capture rates across space and time 

  Kolowski, Joseph M.; Oley, Josephine; McShea, William J. (2021)
• Identification of novel bacterial biomarkers to detect bird scavenging by invasive rats 

  Muletz-Wolz, Carly R.; Wilson Rankin, Erin; McGrath-Blaser, Sarah; Venkatraman, Madhvi; Maldonado, Jesus E.; Gruner, Daniel S.; Fleischer, Robert C. (2021)

  Rapid advances in genomic tools for use in ecological contexts and non-model systems allow unprecedented insight into interactions that occur beyond direct observation. We developed an approach that couples microbial ...
• Tree height and leaf drought tolerance traits shape growth responses across droughts in a temperate broadleaf forest 

  McGregor, Ian R.; Helcoski, Ryan; Kunert, Norbert; Tepley, Alan J.; Gonzalez-Akre, Erika B.; Herrmann, Valentine; Zailaa, Joseph; Stovall, Atticus E. L.; Bourg, Norman A.; McShea, William J.; Pederson, Neil; Sack, Lawren; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J. (2020)
• Long-Term Impacts of Invasive Insects and Pathogens on Composition, Biomass, and Diversity of Forests in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains 

  Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Herrmann, Valentine; Cass, Wendy B.; Williams, Alan B.; Paull, Stephen J.; Gonzalez-Akre, Erika B.; Helcoski, Ryan; Tepley, Alan J.; Bourg, Norman A.; Cosma, Christopher T.; Ferson, Abigail E.; Kittle, Caroline; Meakem, Victoria; McGregor, Ian R.; Prestipino, Maya N.; Scott, Michael K.; Terrell, Alyssa R.; Alonso, Alfonso; Dallmeier, Francisco; McShea, William J. (2020)

  Exotic forest insects and pathogens (EFIP) have become regular features of temperate forest ecosystems, yet we lack a long-term perspective on their net impacts on tree mortality, carbon sequestration, and tree species ...
• Giant Panda National Park, a step towards streamlining protected areas and cohesive conservation management in China 

  Huang, Qiongyu; Fei, Yuxiang; Yang, Hongbo; Gu, Xiaodong; Songer, Melissa A. (2020)
• Social network analysis reveals specialized trade in an Endangered songbird 

  Sánchez-Mercado, A.; Cardozo-Urdaneta, A.; Moran, L.; Ovalle, L.; Arvelo, M. Á.; Morales-Campos, J.; Coyle, Brian James; Braun, Michael J.; Rodríguez-Clark, Kathryn M. (2020)
• The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree ?-diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests? 

  Parmentier, Ingrid; Malhi, Yadvinder; Senterre, Bruno; Whittaker, Robert J.; Alonso, Alfonso; Balinga, Michael P. B.; Bakayoko, Adama; Bongers, Frans; Chatelain, Cyrille; Comiskey, James A.; Cortay, Renaud; Kamdem, Marie-Noël Djuikouo; Doucet, Jean-Louis; Gautier, Laurent; Hawthorne, William D.; Issembe, Yves A.; Kouamé, François N.; Kouka, Lazare A.; Leal, Miguel E.; Lejoly, Jean; Lewis, Simon L.; Nusbaumer, Louis; Parren, Marc P. E.; Peh, Kelvin S. -H; Phillips, Oliver L.; Sheil, Douglas; Sonké, Bonaventure; Sosef, Marc S. M.; Sunderland, Terry C. H.; Stropp, Juliana; Ter Steege, Hans; Swaine, Mike D.; Tchouto, M. G. P.; Gemerden, Barend S. Van; Van Valkenburg, Johan L. C. H.; Wöll, Hannsjörg (2007)
• Variation in photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic vegetation along edaphic and compositional gradients in northwestern Amazonia 

  Higgins, M. A.; Asner, G. P.; Perez, E.; Elespuru, N.; Alonso, Alfonso (2014)

  Abstract. Tropical forests vary substantially in aboveground properties such as canopy height, canopy structure, and plant species composition, corresponding to underlying variations in soils and geology. Forest properties ...
• Desiccation and supra-zero temperature storage of cat germinal vesicles lead to less structural damage and similar epigenetic alterations compared to cryopreservation 

  Lee, Pei-Chih; Comizzoli, Pierre (2019)

  Understanding cellular and molecular damages in oocytes during exposure to extreme conditions is essential to optimize long-term fertility preservation approaches. Using the domestic cat (Felis catus) model, we are developing ...
• Current State of and Future Opportunities for Prediction in Microbiome Research: Report from the Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up in Baltimore on 9 January 2019 

  Sakowski, Eric; Uritskiy, Gherman; Cooper, Rachel; Gomes, Maya; McLaren, Michael R.; Meisel, Jacquelyn S.; Mickol, Rebecca L.; Mintz, C. D.; Mongodin, Emmanuel F.; Pop, Mihai; Rahman, Mohammad Arifur; Sanchez, Alvaro; Timp, Winston; Vela, Jeseth Delgado; Wolz, Carly Muletz; Zackular, Joseph P.; Chopyk, Jessica; Commichaux, Seth; Davis, Meghan; Dluzen, Douglas; Ganesan, Sukirth M.; Haruna, Muyideen; Nasko, Dan; Regan, Mary J.; Sarria, Saul; Shah, Nidhi; Stacy, Brook; Taylor, Dylan; DiRuggiero, Jocelyne; Preheim, Sarah P. (2019)

  Accurate predictions across multiple fields of microbiome research have far-reaching benefits to society, but there are few widely accepted quantitative tools to make accurate predictions about microbial communities and ...
• Projecting Mammal Distributions in Response to Future Alternative Landscapes in a Rapidly Transitioning Region 

  Cove, Michael V.; Fergus, Craig; Lacher, Iara; Akre, Thomas; McShea, William J. (2019)

  Finding balance between the needs of people and wildlife is an essential component of planning sustainable landscapes. Because mammals make up a diverse and ecologically important taxon with varying responses to human ...
• Lincoln Brower, Champion for Monarchs 

  Oberhauser, Karen S.; Alonso, Alfonso; Malcolm, Stephen B.; Williams, Ernest H.; Zalucki, Myron P. (2019)
• Substrate, moisture, temperature and seed germination of the threatened endemic tree <I>Eriotheca vargasii</I> (Malvaceae) 

  Mamani, Godofredo; Chuquillanqui, Hé; Chumbiauca, Susana; Sahley, Catherine; Alonso, Alfonso; Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo (2018)

  We studied the germination of Eriotheca vargasii (Malvaceae), a poorly known endemic Peruvian Andean tree species characteristic of the dry forests of the Torobamba river valley. We determined seed characteristics, embryo ...
• Primary seed dispersal by a sigmodontine rodent assemblage in a Peruvian montane forest 

  Sahley, Catherine Teresa; Cervantes, Klauss; Salas, Edith; Paredes, Diego; Pacheco, Victor; Alonso, Alfonso (2016)

  Abstract: We examined quantity and quality components of primary seed dispersal for an assemblage of sigmodontine rodents in a high-elevation montane tropical forest in Peru. We collected faecal samples from 134 individuals ...
• Raising pups of urban San Joaquin kit fox: relative roles of adult group members 

  Westall, Tory L.; Cypher, Brian L.; Ralls, Katherine; Germano, David J. (2019)

  Maternal care of young is the norm in mammals because of internal gestation and lactation by females. Care by adults other than the mother is rare in most mammals but is common in primates, rodents, and carnivores. We ...
• Scale-insensitive estimation of speed and distance traveled from animal tracking data 

  Noonan, Michael J.; Fleming, Christen H.; Akre, Thomas S.; Drescher-Lehman, Jonathan; Gurarie, Eliezer; Harrison, Autumn-Lynn; Kays, Roland; Calabrese, Justin M. (2019)

  Speed and distance traveled provide quantifiable links between behavior and energetics, and are among the metrics most routinely estimated from animal tracking data. Researchers typically sum over the straight-line ...
• Picture recognition of food by sloth bears (<I>Melursus ursinus</I>) 

  Tabellario, Stacey; Babitz, Mindy A.; Bauer, Erika B.; Brown-Palsgrove, Michael (2020)

  Pictures are often used in cognitive research to represent objects and many species have demonstrated the ability to recognize two-dimensional pictures as representations of their three-dimensional counterparts. However, ...
• The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy 

  Dunn, Daniel C.; Harrison, Autumn-Lynn; Curtice, Corrie; DeLand, Sarah; Donnelly, Ben; Fujioka, Ei; Heywood, Eleanor; Kot, Connie Y.; Poulin, Sarah; Whitten, Meredith; Åkesson, Susanne; Alberini, Amalia; Appeltans, Ward; Arcos, José Manuel; Bailey, Helen; Ballance, Lisa T.; Block, Barbara; Blondin, Hannah; Boustany, Andre M.; Brenner, Jorge; Catry, Paulo; Cejudo, Daniel; Cleary, Jesse; Corkeron, Peter; Costa, Daniel P.; Coyne, Michael; Crespo, Guillermo Ortuño; Davies, Tammy E.; Dias, Maria P.; Douvere, Fanny; Ferretti, Francesco; Formia, Angela; Freestone, David; Friedlaender, Ari S.; Frisch-Nwakanma, Heidrun; Froján, Christopher Barrio; Gjerde, Kristina M.; Glowka, Lyle; Godley, Brendan J.; Gonzalez-Solis, Jacob; Granadeiro, José Pedro; Gunn, Vikki; Hashimoto, Yuriko; Hawkes, Lucy M.; Hays, Graeme C.; Hazin, Carolina; Jimenez, Jorge; Johnson, David E.; Luschi, Paolo; Maxwell, Sara M.; McClellan, Catherine; Modest, Michelle; Notarbartolo, di Sciara; Palacio, Alejandro Herrero; Palacios, Daniel M.; Pauly, Andrea; Rayner, Matt; Rees, Alan F.; Salazar, Erick Ross; Secor, David; Sequeira, Ana M. M.; Spalding, Mark; Spina, Fernando; Van Parijs, Sofie; Wallace, Bryan; Varo-Cruz, Nuria; Virtue, Melanie; Weimerskirch, Henri; Wilson, Laurie; Woodward, Bill; Halpin, Patrick N. (2019)
• A new automated stem CO<SUB>2</SUB> efflux chamber based on industrial ultra-low-cost sensors 

  Brändle, Johannes; Kunert, Norbert (2019)

  Tree autotrophic respiratory processes, especially stem respiration or stem CO2 efflux (Estem), are important components of the forest carbon budget. Despite the efforts to investigate the controlling processes of Estem ...
• Cilostamide and forskolin maintain gap junction function of incubated dog follicles 

  Thongkittidilok, Chommanart; Doriguzzi, Nicole; Nagashima, Jennifer; Brown, Megan; Chansaenroj, Ajjima; Songsasen, Nucharin (2019)

  Disruption of the communication between the oocyte and granulosa cells is one of the major causes of poor development of in vitro grown ovarian follicles and oocytes. The present study investigated the effect of two cAMP ...

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