299 research outputs found
Survey data from: Feit et al. (2020). A trophic cascade initiated by an invasive vertebrate alters the structure of native reptile communities. Global Change Biology
No full textSurvey data for trapping locations in Feit et al. (2020) A trophic cascade initiated by an invasive vertebrate alters the structure of native reptile communities. Global Change Biology.Please see the paper for details on data collection and processing.</div
Benjamin Pantier (Together in this grave lie Benjamin Pantier, attorney at law, And Nig, his dog, constant companion, solace and friend)
No full text3/80ed. 80The print was the first in a series illustrating Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology."Man embraces dog. Image depicts "Benjamin Pantier," a poem in Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," in which the narrator expresses solace in companionship with his dog
Dingo Cat and Prey abundance along road transects.xlsx
No full textFeit et al. (2019) Apex predators' decouple population dynamics between mesopredators and their prey. Ecosystems Abundance data for dingoes, cats and prey along road transects on either side of the Dingo Fence in the Strzelecki Desert, Australia.We indexed the abundance of dingoes, feral cats,
rabbits, and dusky hopping mice (Notomys
fuscus) by conducting spotlight surveys at night along narrow (<2 m wide)
unmade roads within each of the study areas. During spotlight surveys, mammals
were counted by an observer who scanned a 50 W spotlight while sitting on the
roof of a 4-wheel-drive vehicle (circa 2.3 m above ground level) that was
moving at approximately 15 km/h. Spotlight surveys commenced at dusk and varied
in length from 10-30 km. The total length of spotlight transects conducted at
each of the four sites during each sampling session was approximately 30 km. Abundance of rabbits and hopping mice is combined as prey abundance. <br
Voices from a Disappearing Forest: Government, Corporate and Cree Participatory Forestry Management Practices.
No full textRobert Beaulieu, ingenieur forestier with the Cree Regional Authority, is the co-author of the section of this chapter entitled "A Quantitative Exploration," including "Social Data Methodology," "Forest Disturbance Data Methodology" (for which Beaulieu is the primary author), and "Findings." Other portions of the paper were written by and are the responsibility of Harvey Feit. The authors wish to acknowledge the support for this project given by people of the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi and by the Cree Regional Authority. Harvey Feit wants to thank the following commentators: Fatima Amarshi, Mario Blaser, Diane Cooper, Brian Craik, Abraham Dixon, Paul Dixon, Stewart Gilby, Peter Gull, Sam C. Gull, Suzanne Hilton, Glenn McRae, Monica Mulrennan, Derek Neeposh, Alan Penn, Evelyn Pinkerton, Geoff Quaile, Alan Saganash, Colin Scott, and Wendy Russell. We prepared this chapter in our capacity as researchers, and it does not purport to speak for anyone other than ourselves as authors of the sections for which we are individually or jointly responsible. We do not intend this chapter as a commentary on the issues presently before the courts in cases involving James Bay Cree versus the governments of Quebec, Canada, and over two dozen forestry companies. This chapter is included in the MacSphere Repository with the permission of UBC Press, March 6, 2019.Participation has become a cornerstone of the new solutions to problems of the management of resources and the legitimation of their exploitation. But the opportunities to participate, and the means and conditions of participation, are being offered on the terms set by government authorities and the corporate sector. Nevertheless, compliance cannot be taken for granted, for these new arenas of participatory discourse and action are sites of new contestation that may also serve as a renewable resource for autonomous demands for change. This chapter explores the significance of participation in the new forestry management regimes that have emerged in Canada and, especially, in northern Quebec on the lands of the James Bay Cree covered by the James Bay and Northern Quèbec Agreement (1975). The chapter shows that when the government declares that there will be no decisions without consultations, it also initiates means of excluding groups from, or of diminishing the legitimacy of their participation in, the process. These perspectives are echoed in various forms by other groups at the core of the process, including some natural scientists. The chapter documents Cree knowledge of the impacts of forestry, especially on moose. We, an anthropologist and a forestry engineer with the Cree Regional Authority, demonstrate a quantitative and statistical relationship between the expansion of the areas of logging and the decline of moose harvests. We convey what Cree hunters told us of their visions of how some careful forestry could co-exist with healthy lands, animals and Cree hunting society. The final section notes how efforts to turn participation into pacification have not succeeded, but neither have the efforts to adequately regulate forestry activities.The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Research Grants and a Major Collaborative Research Initiatives program grant to the AGREE team directed by Colin Scott, the Cree Regional Authority, and the Arts Research Board of McMaster University
Can water exclusion limit the ecological impact of invasive cane toads?
No full textThe proliferation of artificial water points (AWP) to enhance livestock production has fundamentally changed the ecology of dryland ecosystems. By providing a constant source of surface water, AWP can affect the density, distribution and activity of water-dependent native and invasive species. Thus, AWP have the potential to facilitate trophic and competitive interactions, thereby amplifying their impact on the structure and composition of resident animal and plant communities. Recent studies suggest that a strategic manipulation of surface water availability in dryland biomes could be a useful management approach to reduce the negative impacts of native herbivores on vegetation and to mitigate the spread and impact of water-dependent invasive species. However, there is only limited empirical evidence that water exclusion could provide benefits for the ecology and community structure of dryland ecosystems by returning them to their natural water-limited state. Especially for invasive species where the effectiveness of a large scale water exclusion strategy has not been sufficiently evaluated. This is particularly important for high-impact invasive species such as the cane toad Rhinella marina, an anuran that is currently invading northern and arid regions of Australia. Due to their potent chemical defences cane toads put a wide range of native predators at risk of toxic ingestion. During periods of prolonged hot and dry conditions which typically prevail in arid regions, cane toads need regular access to water to survive. In rangeland areas of the Tanami Desert in Australia’s Northern Territory, the existence of AWP fitted with two types of reservoirs provided an opportunity to examine whether exclusion from access to surface water at AWP could limit the abundance and ecological impacts of cane toads. Cane toads could readily access surface water at AWP fitted with earthen dams as reservoirs but cane toads could not access surface water at AWP fitted with water tanks. This study has implications for the management of cane toads in Australia’s arid and semi-arid rangelands. The findings demonstrate that excluding
water-dependent species from access to surface water at AWP by changing the water reservoir system from traditionally used earthen dams to water tanks results in a reduction of both their population densities and ecological impacts
Beheersing van automobiliteit: Feit of fictie?
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Debt and financial expectations: an individual and household level analysis
No full textIn this paper we show that optimistic financial expectations impact positively on both the uantity of debt and the growth in debt, at the individual and household levels. Our heoretical model shows that this association is predicted under a variety of plausible cenarios. In the empirical analysis we explore the determinants of debt and of growth in ebt using British data. We find convincing support for our theoretical priors and show that t is optimistic financial expectations per se that are important in influencing debt, rather han the accuracy of individuals’ predictions regarding their future financial situation.Debt; Financial Expectations; Inter-temporal Consumption; Random Effects; Tobit Estimator
Clinicopathological and molecular biologic characteristics of selected cutaneous epithelial and nonepithelial tumors
No full textThe doctoral thesis MD. Liubov Kastnerova (previous name Kyrpychova) is focused on the histomorphological and molecular biologic features of selected cutaneous epithelial and nonepithelial tumors and is structured as a commentary to the 20 articles published during four years, representing the completed scientific projects in the Ph.D. course. In eight papers, the author of the thesis is the first author, whereas she coauthored in the remaining 12 papers. The thesis is composed of the commented files of authors own publications and it is divided into cutaneous epithelial and nonepithelial tumors. The first section, «Cutaneous epithelial tumors», includes 14 articles that are subdivided into two parts: adnexal tumors (9 articles) and lesions of anogenital mammary-like glands (5 articles). Of the nine articles on adnexal tumors, there are 5 articles focused on various benign and malignant adnexal lesions with apocrine or eccrine differentiation. Novel findings in this part include the identification of hitherto unreported alterations of the MYBL1 gene in adenoid cystic carcinoma of the skin and lack of deletion of the 1p36 locus in this neoplasm; the lack of a correlation between cellular composition and the presence CRTC1-MAML2 fusions in hidradenoma, the absence of CRTC3-MAML2 fusions in this tumor,..
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