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A comparison of drone imagery and ground-based methods for estimating the extent of habitat destruction by lesser snow geese (Anser caerulescens caerulescens) in La Pérouse Bay by Barnas, Andrew F, Darby, Brian J, Vandeberg, Gregory S, Rockwell, Robert F, Ellis-Felege, Susan N

“…Lesser snow goose (Anser caerulescens caerulescens) populations have dramatically altered vegetation communities through increased foraging pressure. In remote…”
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Bear presence attracts avian predators but does not impact lesser snow goose daily nest attendance by Barnas, Andrew F., Darby, Brian J., Iles, David T., Koons, David N., Rockwell, Robert F., Semeniuk, Christina A. D., Ellis‐Felege, Susan N.

“…The presence of foraging bears in Arctic breeding bird colonies has been increasingly reported in the literature, and these may constitute disturbance events…”
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Mesozoic contractional deformation in the middle of the Asian tectonic collage: the intraplate Western Ordos fold–thrust belt, China by Darby, Brian J, Ritts, Bradley D

“…Intraplate deformation can occur at great distances from synchronous plate boundaries and is most likely the result of strain concentrations into weak zones…”
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Heterogeneity of soil nutrients and subsurface biota in a dryland ecosystem by Housman, David C., Yeager, Chris M., Darby, Brian J., Sanford, Robert L., Kuske, Cheryl R., Neher, Deborah A., Belnap, Jayne

“…Dryland ecosystems have long been considered to have a highly heterogeneous distribution of nutrients and soil biota, with greater concentrations of both in…”
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Detrital zircon reference for the North China block by Darby, Brian J., Gehrels, George

“…U–Pb analyses of 250 single detrital zircons from Upper Proterozoic to Ordovician strata collected from the Zhuozi Shan in north-central China provide a…”
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Normalization and centering of array-based heterologous genome hybridization based on divergent control probes by Darby, Brian J, Jones, Kenneth L, Wheeler, David, Herman, Michael A

“…Hybridization of heterologous (non-specific) nucleic acids onto arrays designed for model-organisms has been proposed as a viable genomic resource for…”
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Few apparent short-term effects of elevated soil temperature and increased frequency of summer precipitation on the abundance and taxonomic diversity of desert soil micro- and meso-fauna by Darby, Brian J., Neher, Deborah A., Housman, David C., Belnap, Jayne

“…Frequent hydration and drying of soils in arid systems can accelerate desert carbon and nitrogen mobilization due to respiration, microbial death, and release…”
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A Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Strain Evades a Major Caenorhabditis elegans Defense Pathway by White, Corin V, Darby, Brian J, Breeden, Robert J, Herman, Michael A

“…Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a ubiquitous bacterium and an emerging nosocomial pathogen. This bacterium is resistant to many antibiotics, associated with a…”
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Kin grouping is insufficient to explain the inclusive fitness gains of conspecific brood parasitism in the common eider by Hervey, Samuel D., Barnas, Andrew F., Stechmann, Tanner J., Rockwell, Robert F., Ellis‐Felege, Susan N., Darby, Brian J.

“…Conspecific brood parasitism allows females to exploit other females' nests and enhance their reproductive output. Here, we test a recent theoretical model of…”
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Impact of biological soil crusts and desert plants on soil microfaunal community composition by Darby, Brian J, Neher, Deborah A, Belnap, Jayne

“…Carbon and nitrogen are supplied by a variety of sources in the desert food web; both vascular and non-vascular plants and cyanobacteria supply carbon, and…”
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Transcriptome resources for the perennial sunflower Helianthus maximiliani obtained from ecologically divergent populations by Kawakami, Takeshi, Darby, Brian J, Ungerer, Mark C

“…Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) technologies provide a rapid means to generate genomic resources for species exhibiting interesting ecological and…”
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Effect of prey richness on a consumer’s intrinsic growth rate by Darby, Brian J, Herman, Michael A

“…The intrinsic growth rate of non-selective microbivores increases asymptotically with increasing prey biomass, but we do not know how intrinsic growth rate is…”
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Digital fragment analysis of short tandem repeats by high‐throughput amplicon sequencing by Darby, Brian J., Erickson, Shay F., Hervey, Samuel D., Ellis‐Felege, Susan N.

“…High‐throughput sequencing has been proposed as a method to genotype microsatellites and overcome the four main technical drawbacks of capillary…”
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Effects of monoculture-conditioned soils on common tallgrass prairie species productivity by McKenna, Thomas P, Darby, Brian J, Yurkonis, Kathryn A

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Mesozoic Tectonics and Sedimentation of the Giant Polyphase Nonmarine Intraplate Ordos Basin, Western North China Block by Ritts, Bradley D., Weislogel, Amy, Graham, Stephan A., Darby, Brian J.

“…The Mesozoic Ordos Basin is a large intracontinental basin that is characterized by a thick, undeformed stratigraphic succession over a wide region that is…”
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Late Paleozoic Sedimentation on the Northern Margin of the North China Block: Implications for Regional Tectonics and Climate Change by Cope, Tim, Ritts, Bradley D., Darby, Brian J., Fildani, Andrea, Graham, S. A.

“…The Late Paleozoic collision between the North China continental block and the Altaid arc terranes of Mongolia represents one of the earliest and most…”
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Invertebrates Associated with a Horizontal-Flow, Subsurface Constructed Wetland in a Northern Climate by Giordano, Rosanna, Weber, Everett, Darby, Brian J, Soto-Adames, Felipe N, Murray, Robert E, Drizo, Aleksandra

“…Wetlands function as buffers between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, filtering pollutants generated by human activity. Constructed wetlands were developed…”
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Early Jurassic extensional basin formation in the Daqing Shan segment of the Yinshan belt, northern North China Block, Inner Mongolia by Ritts, Bradley D, Darby, Brian J, Cope, Tim

“…Structural and stratigraphic studies of the western Daqing Shan segment of the Yinshan belt have recognized an Early Jurassic extensional episode supported by…”
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Several Grassland Soil Nematode Species Are Insensitive to RNA-Mediated Interference by Wheeler, David, Darby, Brian J, Todd, Timothy C, Herman, Michael A

“…Phenotypic analysis of defects caused by RNA mediated interference (RNAi) in Caenorhabditis elegans has proven to be a powerful tool for determining gene…”
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Ordos Basin Gas Reservoir Outcrop Analogs: Permian Braided Fluvial Sandstone of the Zhuozi Shan and Helan Shan, China by Ritts, Bradley D., Keele, Dustin, Darby, Brian J., Liu, Shaofeng

“…Permian sandstone outcrops along the eastern margin of the Zhuozi Shan, Inner Mongolia China, represent the most geographically proximal analogs for subsurface…”
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