Fire suppression in forest ecosystems has changed fire regimes and modified woody plant composition, structure, and function throughout the US. Specific effects on the herbaceous plant communities are largely unknown. My study...
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fire seasonality, herbaceous plants, and southern Appalachians
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Herbaceous plants -- Effect of fires on -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.), Fire ecology -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.), Prescribed burning -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.), and Fire ecology -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Panthertown is a high-elevation valley in the Nantahala National Forest, and is one of few sites in western North Carolina with natural wetlands. Radiocarbon dating of multiple cores at a Panthertown valley wetland shows...
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Blue Ridge Mountains, ecology, environmental history, Holocene, paleoecology, and palynology
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Panthertown Valley (N.C.) -- Environmental conditions, -- History, Paleoecology -- Blue Ridge Mountains -- Holocene, and Palynology -- Blue Ridge Mountains -- Holocene
Pheromones play a pivotal role in salamander reproductive behavior. Males deliver internally made pheromones from their mental gland to females during courtship interactions in the family Plethodontidae. These courtship...
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animal behavior, plethodontid, reproductive isolating mechanism, salamanders, and sexual selection
La Crosse virus (LACV) is a leading cause of pediatric arboviral neuroinvasive disease in the United States. Three mosquito species are known to transmit LACV during blood feeding – Aedes triseriatus, the primary, endemic...
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Arbovirus infections, Mosquitoes as carriers of disease, Immunoglobulins, and Encephalitis
The identification of body fluids present on evidence items in a criminal investigation can be vital to understanding the nature of a crime, particularly in cases of sexual assault. Although crime labs can confirm the presence...
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body fluid identification, forensic, MinION, mRNA, and nanopore sequencing
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Body fluids -- Analysis, Messenger RNA -- Analysis, Messenger RNA -- Biotechnology, DNA fingerprinting, and Forensic genetics -- Technique
Evolutionary theory predicts that selection should minimize variation inbehavioral traits if they are associated with reproductive success. Yet, some behavioraltraits, such as territorial aggression, show high levels of...
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Song sparrow -- Behavior -- Genetic aspects, Aggressive behavior in animals, and Natural selection
Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus is an invasive annual grass in the eastern United States. It can form dense monocultures along roads and forest understories, displacing native species due to its superior ability to...
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invasive plants and native plants
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Plant competition -- Kentucky, Plant competition -- North Carolina, Invasive plants -- Kentucky, Invasive plants -- North Carolina, Impatiens -- Kentucky, and Impatiens -- North Carolina
The Buck Creek Serpentine Barrens in Clay County, North Carolina is an unusual habitat comprised of a pine savannah with endemic plant species underlain by serpentinite rock. The area is drained by a stream with a mostly open...
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aberrant, coloration, integument, morphology, physiology, and salamander
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Dusky salamanders -- Variation -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest, Color variation (Biology), Dusky salamanders -- Effect of metals on -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest, Dusky salamanders -- Effect of predation on -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest, Light -- Physiological effect, and Dusky salamanders -- Habitat -- Environmental aspects -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest
The Pigeon River, North Carolina has a long history of habitat degradation due to water diversion and high levels of toxic effluents from a paper mill. Over the last 20 years the paper mill has modernized its processes and...
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conservation, mussels, and re-introduction
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Freshwater mussels -- Ecology -- Pigeon River (N.C. and Tenn.), Lampsilis -- Ecology -- Pigeon River (N.C. and Tenn.), Freshwater mussels -- Reintroduction -- Pigeon River (N.C. and Tenn.), and Lampsilis -- Reintroduction -- Pigeon River (N.C. and Tenn.)
North American freshwater mussels are an imperiled group of organisms, with 29 of the 102 species in the Tennessee River basin listed as federally endangered or threatened, and another 11 believed to be extinct (Fraley 2002)....
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Alasmidonta viridis, Freshwater Mussels, Oconaluftee River, and Reintroduction
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Alasmidonta -- North Carolina -- Oconaluftee River, Freshwater mussels -- North Carolina -- Oconaluftee River, and Freshwater mussels -- Reintroduction -- North Carolina -- Oconaluftee River
