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Montana, etc ; humans; livestock; watersheds; wildlife; wolves; Show all 6 Subjects
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... How do hunters and livestock producers who report increased tolerance for wolves account for the changes in their attitudes, and how can their perspectives inform researchers’ understanding of human conflicts about wolves? I explore this by analyzing interviews with people who live, work, and recreate in the Blackfoot watershed, Montana. All interviewees who reported increased tolerance over time ...
... Kudzu plants have become increasingly invasive in the US, yet are not highly utilized. Intending to produce eco-friendly fibers, this research used fresh kudzu vines to produce fibers by four different processes: boiling, retting, enzymatic and mild chemical processes. Two types of fibers resulted from each process – soft and woody. Unlike more popularly used natural bast fibers such as linen, the ...
Montana, etc ; ecosystems; fire severity; species diversity; wildfires; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Spatial variation in species interactions (interaction β‐diversity) and its ecological drivers are poorly understood, despite their relevance to community assembly, conservation and ecosystem functioning. We investigated effects of wildfire severity on patterns and four proximate ecological drivers of interaction β‐diversity in plant–bee communities across three localities in the northern Rocky Mo ...
Montana, etc ; Artemisia; flight; grasses; phenology; shrublands; shrubs; temporal variation; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Grasslands and shrublands exhibit pronounced spatial and temporal variability in structure and function with differences in phenology that can be difficult to observe. Unpiloted aerial vehicles (UAVs) can measure vegetation spectral patterns relatively cheaply and repeatably at fine spatial resolution. We tested the ability of UAVs to measure phenological variability within vegetation functional g ...
Pueraria montana var. lobata, etc ; starch; stearic acid; thermal stability; viscoelasticity; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The edible quality of starch paste formed by direct dispersion in boiling water is crucial to the design and production of instant starch-based products. In the present study, the kudzu powder was complexed with different chain-length fatty acids to improve its instant properties. The formation of V6-type kudzu powder-fatty acid complexes was initially characterized. Then, the impact of different ...
Montana, etc ; aquifers; drought; flood irrigation; rangelands; runoff; water storage; watersheds; Show all 8 Subjects
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... •The concept of natural water storage has gained traction as an alternative to traditional dams that can potentially mitigate the impacts of changing precipitation patterns by slowing runoff and increasing aquifer recharge. We investigated the barriers and opportunities for two natural water storage practices, flood irrigation and beaver mimicry.•We interviewed 8 amenity and 14 traditional rancher ...
Quercus montana, etc ; Quercus alba; digital images; ice; snow; urban forestry; wood; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Branch failure resulting from static loading events can be caused by ice, snow, or a climbing arborist aloft in a tree and can cause power outages, road blockages, costly property damage, or personal injury. In previous studies, researchers calculated bending stress to investigate the load-bearing capacity of branches. Yet, these calculations require geometric measurement of the wood that may not ...
Jessica M. Krohner; Paul M. Lukacs; Robert Inman; Joel D. Sauder; Justin A. Gude; Cory Mosby; Jessica A. Coltrane; Rebecca A. Mowry; Joshua J. Millspaugh
Montana, etc ; canopy; habitats; models; mountains; national forests; wildlife management; winter; Idaho; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Monitoring rare and elusive carnivores is inherently challenging because they often occur at low densities and require more resources to effectively assess status and trend. The fisher (Pekania pennanti) is an elusive mesocarnivore endemic to North America; in its western populations it is classified as a species of greatest conservation need. During winter of 2018–2019, we deployed remotely trigg ...
Felipe C. Maciel; Otávio R. Machado Neto; Marcio S. Duarte; Min Du; Josiane Fonseca Lage; Priscilla D. Teixeira; Cyntia L. Martins; Edmilson H.R. Domingues; Luiz A. Fogaça; Marcio M. Ladeira
Montana, etc ; Nellore; beef cattle; genes; intramuscular fat; longissimus muscle; marbling; vitamin A; Show all 8 Subjects
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... This study aimed to evaluate intramuscular fat and expression of genes in the muscle of Montana × Nellore treated with vitamin A at birth. We hypothesized that an injection of vitamin A after birth would increase marbling by increasing the expression of angiogenic, adipogenic, and lipogenic genes. Animals treated with vitamin A had greater marbling in the longissimus muscle (P = 0.05). The vitamin ...
Pueraria montana var. lobata, etc ; Oriental traditional medicine; flavonoids; prediction; quantitative analysis; rapid methods; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In the extraction process of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the rapid detection of the active components of TCM plays a vital role. We pioneered the choice of dual-spectrum technology based on near-infrared (NIR) and ultraviolet–visible (UV–Vis) spectra and applied it to the quantitative monitoring of online extraction of puerarin and total flavonoids from Pueraria lobata. An online monitorin ...
Satureja montana, etc ; agronomy; coasts; drought; honey; polyethylene glycol; seed germination; seedlings; water stress; Croatia; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Winter savory (Satureja montana L.) is an important medicinal, aromatic, and honey plant. In Croatia, it is widely distributed along the Adriatic coast, where it is frequently exposed to droughts. First, the winter savory natural population with the highest germination across different drought treatments after hydropriming was selected. Nine hundred seeds from each of the three natural populations ...
Montana, etc ; Bayesian theory; Siberia; herbaria; monophyly; statistical analysis; taxonomy; China; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Mongolia; Tajikistan; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Nanophyton L. has been treated as a monotypic genus, but seven other Nanophyton species have been published based on morphological features. To examine the phylogenetic relationships between Nanophyton species, especially the similar species N. erinaceum and N. mongolicum, all species in Nanophyton except N. pulvinatum and different populations of N. erinaceum and N. mongolicum in China were sampl ...
Montana, etc ; adsorption; cation exchange; cations; clay; geochemistry; illite; models; pH; silver; thallium; variable charge; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Cation sorption on clays and on humic acids (HA) has been extensively documented in scientific literature. Both are important components of natural environments, especially in soils, and therefore, innate competitors in the retention of metallic cations. The aim of this work was to investigate the sorption behavior of thallium (I) on a 2:1 type clay (IMt-2 illite, from silver Hill, Montana), and t ...
Pueraria montana var. lobata, etc ; colonizing ability; introduced species; invasive species; niche conservatism; vines; Europe; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Niche dynamics represent an important element in predicting potential invasion areas of alien species and their impacts as well as in understanding mechanisms underlying invasion success. Pueraria lobata, commonly named “kudzu”, is an Asian vine and one of the 100 worst invasive species in the world. In Europe, it is a serious pest although its distribution is quite localized. At present, no detai ...
Pueraria montana var. lobata, etc ; Quinvirinae; coat proteins; genes; new species; nucleotides; virology; viruses; South Korea; Show all 9 Subjects
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... A new virus, tentatively named “kudzu virus D” (KuVD) was discovered in kudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobata) in South Korea. Its complete genome comprises 7,922 nucleotides, excluding the poly(A) tail, and contains five open reading frames (ORFs) encoding, from 5′ to 3′, a replicase (ORF1), three triple gene block proteins TGB1–3 (ORF2–ORF4), and a coat protein (ORF5). This genome organization is ...
Pueraria montana var. lobata, etc ; education; invasive species; nonindustrial private forests; outreach; quarantine; stakeholders; vines; Oklahoma; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Kudzu is a rapidly growing ornamental vine, which continues to invade forests and other natural ecosystems in many parts of the United States including the state of Oklahoma. Effective quarantine regulations and their strict enforcement can help prevent invasive species from spreading, but public awareness, support, and early detection are keys for long-term success. The goal of this study is to u ...
Pueraria montana var. lobata, etc ; chemistry; daidzein; daidzin; flora; genistin; glycosides; hepatoprotective effect; liver; models; Georgia; Show all 11 Subjects
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... The new isoflavone glycoside 3′-hydroxydaidzein-7-O-β-D-glucopyranoside and four known isoflavones (daidzin, daidzein, genistin, and ononin) were isolated from Pueraria hirsuta (Thunb.) Matsum. introduced into the flora of Georgia. Total isoflavonoids from the roots exhibited hepatoprotective activity in an in vivo experiment in an acute CCl₄-induced liver injury model in mice. ...
... On 12 April 2021, we observed a Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia) kill an apparently-healthy adult female Cassin's Finch (Haemorhous cassinii) in an urban backyard near a feeding station in Missoula, Montana. The magpie landed on a chain-link fence above the finch before dropping to the ground 1–2 s later where it grabbed the finch with its bill and pinned it to the ground with a foot, then deli ...
Pueraria montana var. lobata, etc ; antioxidant activity; daidzein; genistein; molasses; solid phase extraction; ultrasonic treatment; value added; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The extraction efficiency, recovery, quantification, and stability of isoflavones (daidzein, genistein and puerarin) from the wastes /by-products of kudzu roots and soy molasses were evaluated by using natural deep eutectic solvents (NADESs) coupled with ultrasound-assisted extraction. The NADES extraction was compared with the conventional Soxhlet extraction technique, and the extracted isoflavon ...
Montana, etc ; Aquila chrysaetos; Canis lupus; Cervus canadensis; Ursus americanus; dead animals; elks; hunters; wildlife; wildlife management; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Hunters support scavengers with seasonal pulses of carrion. If those hunters also deploy remote cameras at kill sites, they could simultaneously contribute data to wildlife research while gaining first‐hand knowledge of scavenger ecology. In 2018–2020, we recruited hunters to monitor carcasses and offal with remote cameras across western Montana, USA. We increased our sampling effort by also setti ...