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Code, data, and metadata for the manuscript: Territoriality drives preemptive habitat selection in recovering wolves: implications for carnivore conservation
No full text1. According to the ideal-free distribution (IFD), individuals within a population are free to select habitats that maximize their chances of success. Assuming knowledge of habitat quality, the IFD predicts that average fitness will be approximately equal among individuals and between habitats, while density varies (density-dependent habitat selection). Populations are often assumed to follow an IFD, although this assumption is rarely tested with empirical data, and may be incorrect when territoriality indicates habitat selection tactics that deviate from the IFD (e.g. ideal despotic distribution or ideal preemptive distribution).
2. When territoriality influences habitat selection, species’ density will not directly reflect components of fitness such as reproductive success or survival. In such cases, assuming an IFD can lead to false conclusions about habitat quality. We tested theoretical models of density-dependent habitat selection on a species known to exhibit territorial behavior in order to determine whether commonly applied habitat models are appropriate under these circumstances.
3. We combined long-term radio telemetry and census data from gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA to relate spatiotemporal variability in wolf density to underlying classifications of habitat within a hierarchical state-space modeling framework. We then iteratively applied isodar analysis to evaluate which distribution of habitat selection best described this recolonizing wolf population.
4. The wolf population in our study expanded by >1000% during our study (~ 50 to > 600 individuals), and density-dependent habitat selection was most consistent with the ideal preemptive distribution, as opposed to the ideal-free or ideal-despotic alternatives.
5. Population density of terrestrial carnivores may not be positively correlated with the fitness value of their habitats, and density-dependent habitat selection patterns may help to explain complex predator-prey dynamics and cascading indirect effects. Source-sink population dynamics appear likely when species exhibit rapid growth and occupy interspersed habitats of contrasting quality. These conditions are likely and have implications for large carnivores in many systems, such as areas in North America and Europe where large predator species are currently recolonizing their former ranges.O’Neil, Shawn T; Vucetich, John A; Beyer, Dean E; Hoy, Sarah R; Bump, Joseph K. (2020). Code, data, and metadata for the manuscript: Territoriality drives preemptive habitat selection in recovering wolves: implications for carnivore conservation. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.13020/0p2p-j920
Code, data, and metadata document for the manuscript: Territorial landscapes: incorporating density-dependence into wolf resource selection study designs
No full textCode, data, and metadata document for the manuscript: Territorial landscapes: incorporating density-dependence into wolf resource selection study designsBump, Joseph K; Beyer, Dean; O'Neil, Shawn. (2019). Code, data, and metadata document for the manuscript: Territorial landscapes: incorporating density-dependence into wolf resource selection study designs. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.13020/s40h-fv72
Dr. Joseph H. Peck, author of "All about men"
No full textBlack and white photograph of Dr. Joseph H. Peck, author of "All about men," about 1958, when the book was published
R code and data for "Comparing multiple survey and recruitment-mortality models to assess growth rates and population projections"
No full textSee ReadMe text file for a comprehensive description of all uploaded data files.This collection of files provides data and R code supporting the publication "Comparing survey and multiple recruitment-mortality models to assess growth rates and population projections" in Ecology and Evolution. We provide all necessary data not included in the manuscript to reproduce the analysis of growth rates and population projections of moose in northeastern Minnesota.Minnesota Environmental and Natural Resources Trust FundWildlife Restoration (Pittman-Robertson) ProgramMinnesota Department of Natural Resources Section of Wildlife’s Wildlife Populations and Research UnitMinnesota Deer Hunters AssociationNational Science Foundation NSF ID#1545611National Science Foundation NSF ID#1556676Severud, William J; DelGiudice, Glenn D; Bump, Joseph K. (2019). R code and data for "Comparing multiple survey and recruitment-mortality models to assess growth rates and population projections". Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.13020/bd01-3547
Histoire Complete de Joseph
No full textThe Joseph story in Genesis was a subject of great interest to Syriac writers, and in this volume Bedjan presents the Syriac text (in vocalized East Syriac script) of a lengthy and highly praised poem on the subject, sometimes attributed to Ephrem, but more recently to the fifth-century author Balai. The poem consists of twelve homilies (memre) in the 7 + 7 meter, the subjects of which are: 1. On jealousy and the sale of Joseph, 2. Bringing his coat to his father, 3. Going down to Egypt and his sale to Potiphar, 4. His temptation, 5. His imprisonment, 6. His exaltation, 7. His brothers going down to Egypt, 8. Benjamin going down to Egypt, 9. Joseph revealing himself to his brothers, 10. News of Joseph reaching his father, 11. The death of Jacob, and 12. Joseph’s death. An appendix contains a poem on the translation of Joseph’s bones
A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing
No full textIn this latest Advance & Rutgers Report, entitled “A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing,” Dean James W. Hughes and Professor Joseph J. Seneca deliver an incisive assessment of the current market conditions and obstacles in the path of our economic recovery. They offer a statistical cautionary tale that the private and public sector need to hear and acknowledge in order for the economy to make continued progress.This report was published as Issue Paper Number 7, November 2011, in Advance & Rutgers Report
Letter from Joseph R. Goodman to Akiko Nishioka, May 27, 1942
No full textLetter from Joseph R. Goodman to Akiko Nishioka, regarding Japanese American students from the west coast who resettled at colleges and universities in the east.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
No full textHistorian Joseph Crespino interviews Decatur, Georgia-based historical novelist, Thomas Mullen, author of Darktown (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), The Revisionists (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011), The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (New York: Random House, 2010), and The Last Town on Earth (New York: Random House, 2006)
Supporting disabled children and their families in Scotland: A review of policy and research
No full textThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has been supporting research about disabled children and their families for a number of years. An earlier Foundations covering the messages from these projects has already been published (1). This Foundations places the messages from that work into the Scottish context. It gives an overview of current policies affecting disabled children and their families in Scotland and draws on research carried out north of the border
The new enfant du siècle: Joseph de Maistre as a writer
No full textThe essays contained within this volume were first presented at Reappraisals/Reconsidérations, the Fifth International Colloquium on Joseph de Maistre, held at Jesus College, Cambridge on 4 and 5 December 2008.Series editor-in-chief: Guy Rowlands, University of St AndrewsJoseph de Maistre's reputation as a writer is legendary. His style, unique and alive, moulded the French language anew. It sabotaged his attempts at anonymous publication and earned him, through the centuries, the praises of enemies and admirers. Yet the relationship between Maistre's thought and writing remains ill-known. This collection is the first to examine how Maistre's ideas – including his denunciation of the written word – intersected with his writing practices and personas. The essays disclose an author formed by duty and affectionate relationships, by the conventions of public combat, by an intense sense of history, and by the imperatives of Revolution.Introduction: assessing Maistre's style and rhetoric / Richard A. Lebrun -- Joseph de Maistre as pamphleteer / Richard A. Lebrun -- Joseph de Maistre, letter writer / Pierre Glaudes ; translated by Kevin Michael Erwin and Richard A. Lebrun -- Joseph de Maistre: the paradox of the writer / Benjamin Thurston -- Epilogue: the forced inhabitant of history / Carolina ArmenterosPublisher PD
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