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NorthCarolina, etc ; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; blood serum; environment; humans; nutrition; principal component analysis; regression analysis; Colorado; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are synthetic chemicals that are ubiquitous in environmental and biological systems, including human serum. PFASs are used in many products and industrial processes and are tied to numerous health effects. Due to multiple sources and exposure pathways, methods are needed to identify PFAS sources in communities to develop targeted interventions. We assess ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; Frankliniella fusca; Frankliniella tritici; Gossypium hirsutum; adults; biomass; cotton; education; insecticide application; insecticide resistance; landraces; plant protection; seedlings; selection index; species identification; Show all 15 Subjects
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... Thrips (Thysanoptera) are the most prevalent early season pests of cotton and are often detrimental to the establishing crop. Heavy reliance on prophylactic insecticides, primarily used as seed treatments, has led to insecticide resistance in populations of Frankliniella fusca Hinds. Sustainable, alternative management tactics are needed to protect seedling cotton from thrips. We evaluated day-neu ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; Lutjanus campechanus; acoustics; fish; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The behavior of fish around bait is poorly understood despite it being important for the fish catching process and estimating relative abundance. We used a fine-scale acoustic positioning system to quantify the movements of 26 red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) around 120 bait deployments in 2019 at a natural reef site (∼37-m deep) in North Carolina, USA. There were 39 instances of tagged red snap ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; business enterprises; forest habitats; refining; surveys; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Winter Bird Population Studies (WBPS) were initiated in 1948. The recommended minimum number of surveys for WBPS plots has been 8, but examination of the influence of the number of surveys on counts of individual species on WBPS plots has been restricted to only a few types of forested habitats in eastern North America. This study documents that 10 surveys, not 8, were required to produce stable m ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; Lymantria dispar; insect pests; prioritization; probability; Minnesota; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Studies of biological invasions at the macroscale or across multiple scales can provide important insights for management, particularly when localized information about invasion dynamics or environmental contexts is unavailable. In this study, we performed a macroscale analysis of the roles of invasion drivers on the local scale dynamics of a high‐profile pest, Lymantria dispar dispar L., with the ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; Fissidens; Zygodon; forests; rare species; Pisgah National Forest; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The Big Ivy section of Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina was surveyed to produce a baseline bryophyte species list. Big Ivy is a minimally disturbed 5700-hectare mature forested headwaters tract in the heart of the botanically rich Southern Appalachian Mountains and has not previously been surveyed for bryophytes. From twenty sites representing common and unique habitats, roughly 5000 speci ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; descriptive statistics; females; nutrition education; refrigerators; surveys; teachers; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Food-based learning (FBL) in the classroom has been theorized as an effective method for improving children's eating behaviors through positive exposures to healthy foods. However, few studies have explored preschool teachers’ resources and training needs specific to hands-on FBL in the classroom. Examine North Carolina (NC) Head Start (HS) teachers’ FBL needs, assets, and current resources to inf ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; animal pathology; hematopoiesis; hepatocytes; histopathology; immunohistochemistry; keratin; metastasis; mitosis; Show all 9 Subjects
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... We performed a retrospective examination of spontaneous hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) (primary and metastatic tumors) in 14 captive prosimians brought to the Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory in North Carolina State University over a period of 11 years (2003 to 2014) to characterize the tumors. These animals are endangered primates; a better understanding of the main fatal neoplasms is c ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; case studies; fauna; freshwater fish; new species; occupations; society; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Honorific scientific names have recently received intense scrutiny because societal values have changed. Across disciplines groundswells of support for renaming species have occurred; specifically those named after dishonorable people or with culturally inappropriate common names. Fishes have not been immune to this attention, but changes have come slowly. Now is the time for AFS to confront this ...
Craig R. Jensen; David P. Genereux; Troy E. Gilmore; D. Kip Solomon; Aaron R. Mittelstet; C. Eric Humphrey; Markus R. MacNamara; Caner Zeyrek; Vitaly A. Zlotnik
NorthCarolina, etc ; age determination; groundwater; groundwater recharge; streams; uncertainty; watersheds; Nebraska; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Stream reach mass-balance can be used to estimate groundwater age at scales larger than individual wells. Atmospherically derived SF₆ was used as an age-dating tracer in reach mass-balance analysis of six stream reaches in Nebraska, USA. The goal was to estimate the flow-weighted mean SF₆ concentration in the groundwater discharge to each reach (Cgw) and the groundwater mean transit time (MTT) bas ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; Cladonia; Lecanora; Lichinales; Phyllopsora; Verrucaria; humans; lichens; rivers; streams; Show all 10 Subjects
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... One hundred five species of lichenized and allied fungi are reported from recent and historical collections made in the Mitchell Mill State Natural Area in northeastern Wake County, North Carolina, USA. Mitchell Mill is unique among granitic flatrock communities in the southeastern United States by having riparian elements from the Little River, which flows directly over the flatrock, supporting s ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; humans; prices; public lands; recreation; stakeholders; wildlife; wildlife management; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Acquisition of public land is critical for wildlife conservation and can impact local tax bases and property values. Those impacts reflect the capitalized value of benefits (e.g., recreational opportunities) and costs (e.g., nuisance wildlife) of living near protected areas. We employed the hedonic price framework to determine how proximity and adjacency to public hunting land in North Carolina we ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; compliance; regression analysis; research; water; water conservation; water supply; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Water main breaks disrupt services provided by utilities and result in Water Service Interruptions (WSIs). Water utilities can manage WSIs through water advisories, which request that consumers limit their water use. The performance of water advisories depends on consumer compliance and decisions to conserve water. This research explores customer compliance with water advisories using water consum ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; beach erosion; geophysics; issues and policy; mathematical models; research; storms; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Dunes and beaches are vulnerable to erosion during storm events. Numerical models can predict beach response to storms with fidelity, but their computational costs, the domain‐specific knowledge necessary to use them, and the wide range of potential future storm and beach conditions can hinder their use in forecasting storm erosion for short‐ and long‐term horizons. We develop an emulator, which i ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; Calliblepharis; DNA; Hypnea; coasts; conspecificity; cytochrome-c oxidase; genes; mitochondria; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Complete and/or partial DNA sequences for the plastid-encoded rbcL gene and the 5′ end of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI-5P) gene were used to re-examine the systematics of Hypnea species (Cystocloniaceae, Rhodophyta) from North Carolina, USA. These data, combined with light microscopic observations, indicate that two species (Hypnea cryptica and H. musciformis sensu stricto) are pres ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; bromination; environment; fire fighters; occupational exposure; organophosphorus compounds; phthalates; risk; silicone; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Firefighters are occupationally exposed to an array of hazardous chemicals, and these exposures have been linked to the higher rates of some cancer in firefighters. However, additional research that characterizes firefighters' exposure is needed to fully elucidate the impacts on health risks. In this pilot study, we used silicone wristbands to quantify off-duty and on-duty chemical exposures exper ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; Mammalia; cameras; cryptic species; ecology; females; radio frequency identification; skunks; summer; Show all 9 Subjects
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... We tracked a female eastern spotted skunk Spilogale putorius in North Carolina, USA, that gave birth to a litter of three kits in summer 2020. Using camera traps and radio-collars, we were able to monitor the movement and behaviors of the female and litter. We observed behaviors including food provisioning, play-fighting, and interspecific interactions. We tracked the movements of the kits past in ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; biodiversity; forest growth; habitat connectivity; habitat fragmentation; landscapes; uncertainty; wildlife management; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Maintaining and enhancing landscape connectivity reduces biodiversity declines due to habitat fragmentation. Uncertainty remains, however, about the effectiveness of conservation for enhancing connectivity for multiple species on dynamic landscapes, especially over long time horizons. We forecasted landscape connectivity from 2020 to 2100 under four common conservation land‐acquisition strategies: ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; Castanea; Ludwigia; allometry; coastal plains; herbaria; seed germination; tetraploidy; Florida; Virginia; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Ludwigia ravenii is a critically imperiled tetraploid known historically from Virginia to Florida. There have been no published studies examining the number of seeds produced per capsule to guide researchers and conservationists in planning studies or collection efforts. Such data are important considering current guidelines by the Center for Plant Conservation recommend that no more than 10 perce ...
NorthCarolina, etc ; Quercus; acorns; administrative management; forest ecology; surveys; wildlife; West Virginia; Wisconsin; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Acorns are a vital resource for many wildlife species and are required for oak (Quercus spp.) regeneration. Many different methods can be used to estimate acorn production and generate a hard mast index (HMI), however, the ability to compare data collected with different visual survey methods is limited. We conducted five visual acorn production survey methods on 70 oak trees (Quercus spp.) in nor ...