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Can acoustic recordings of cave-exiting bats in winter estimate bat abundance in hibernacula? by Whiting, Jericho C., Doering, Bill, Aho, Ken

“…•We performed 29 hibernacula surveys and set passive acoustic detectors in winter to detect bat cave-exiting activity.•Recordings of bats flying out of caves…”
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Disturbance of hibernating bats due to researchers entering caves to conduct hibernacula surveys by Whiting, Jericho C., Doering, Bill, Aho, Ken, Bybee, Bryan F.

“…Estimating population changes of bats is important for their conservation. Population estimates of hibernating bats are often calculated by researchers…”
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Long-term patterns of cave-exiting activity of hibernating bats in western North America by Whiting, Jericho C., Doering, Bill, Aho, Ken, Rich, Jason

“…Understanding frequency and variation of cave-exiting activity after arousal from torpor of hibernating bats is important for bat ecology and conservation,…”
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An updated insect exclosure design for pollination ecology by Tetreault, Troy, Aho, Ken

“…Exclosures are a common method for quantifying the effects of animal pollinators on flowering plant species. However, a lack of standardized designs or clear…”
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Evaluating variation of respiration:photosynthesis ratio in sagebrush species: Implications for carbon flux modeling by Sharma, Harmandeep, Reinhardt, Keith, Lohse, Kathleen A., Aho, Ken

“…Plant respiration and photosynthesis are the two main processes influencing carbon (C) flux balance at leaf‐to‐ecosystem scales. The ratio of respiration to…”
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Variation in Biological Soil Crust Bacterial Abundance and Diversity as a Function of Climate in Cold Steppe Ecosystems in the Intermountain West, USA by Blay, Erika S., Schwabedissen, Stacy G., Magnuson, Timothy S., Aho, Ken A., Sheridan, Peter P., Lohse, Kathleen A.

“…Biological soil crust (biocrust) is a composite of mosses, lichens, and bacteria that performs many important soil system functions, including increasing soil…”
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Biological Soil Crust Bacterial Communities Vary Along Climatic and Shrub Cover Gradients Within a Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystem by You, Yaqi, Aho, Ken, Lohse, Kathleen A, Schwabedissen, Stacy G, Ledbetter, Rhesa N, Magnuson, Timothy S

“…Numerous studies have examined bacterial communities in biological soil crusts (BSCs) associated with warm arid to semiarid ecosystems. Few, however, have…”
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Short‐term exposure to synthetic flaxseed lignan LGM2605 alters gut microbiota in mice by Badger, Reagan, Aho, Ken, Serve, Kinta

“…LGM2605 is a synthetic version of the naturally occurring flaxseed lignan secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (SDG), with known anti‐inflammatory and antioxidant…”
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Psychoactive pharmaceuticals as environmental contaminants may disrupt highly inter-connected nodes in an Autism-associated protein-protein interaction network by Kaushik, Gaurav, Thomas, Michael A, Aho, Ken A

“…Most cases of idiopathic autism spectrum disorder (ASD) likely result from unknown environmental triggers in genetically susceptible individuals. These…”
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Mapping socio‐ecological systems in Idaho: Spatial patterns and analytical considerations by Aho, Ken, Parsons, Susan, Castro, Antonio J., Lohse, Kathleen A.

“…Policy interest in socio‐ecological systems has driven attempts to define and map socio‐ecological zones (SEZs), that is, spatial regions, distinguishable by…”
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Nitrogenase activity by biological soil crusts in cold sagebrush steppe ecosystems by Schwabedissen, Stacy G., Lohse, Kathleen A., Reed, Sasha C., Aho, Ken A., Magnuson, Timothy S.

“…In drylands worldwide, biological soil crusts (BSC) form a thin photosynthetic cover across landscapes, and provide vital benefits in terms of stabilizing soil…”
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Diversity and Ice Nucleation Activity of Microorganisms Collected With a Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) in France and the United States by Jimenez-Sanchez, Celia, Hanlon, Regina, Aho, Ken A, Powers, Craig, Morris, Cindy E, Schmale, 3rd, David G

“…Many microbes relevant to crops, domestic animals, and humans are transported over long distances through the atmosphere. Some of these atmospheric microbes…”
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Sixty-Five Years of Change in Montane Plant Communities in Western Colorado, U.S.A by Zorio, Stephanie D, Williams, Charles F, Aho, Ken A

“…Documenting and predicting patterns of vegetation change over time are challenging due to a lack of sufficiently detailed historical data for comparison…”
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Relative abundance of and composition within fungal orders differ between cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and sagebrush (Artemisia tridentate)-associated soils by Weber, Carolyn F, King, Gary M, Aho, Ken

“…Nonnative Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) is decimating sagebrush steppe, one of the largest ecosystems in the Western United States, and is causing…”
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Spatiotemporal patterns of microbial composition and diversity in precipitation by Aho, Ken A., Weber, Carolyn F., Christner, Brent C., Vinatzer, Boris A., Morris, Cindy E., Joyce, Rachel, Failor, Kevin C., Werth, Jason T., Bayless-Edwards, Aurora L. H., Schmale, David G.

“…Microbes in the atmosphere have broad ecological impacts, including the potential to trigger precipitation through species and strains that act as ice…”
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Diversity and ice nucleation activity of Pseudomonas syringae in drone-based water samples from eight lakes in Austria by Hanlon, Regina, Jimenez-Sanchez, Celia, Benson, James, Aho, Ken, Morris, Cindy, Seifried, Teresa M., Baloh, Philipp, Grothe, Hinrich, Schmale, David

“…Bacteria from the Pseudomonas syringae complex (comprised of at least 15 recognized species and more than 60 different pathovars of P. syringae sensu stricto )…”
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First Report of Fungal Endophyte Communities and Non-Defensive Phytochemistry of Biocontrol-Inoculated Whitebark Pine Seedlings in a Restoration Planting by Ehren R. V. Moler, Keith Reinhardt, Richard A. Sniezko, Ken Aho

“…Plant endosymbionts (endophytes) influence host plant health and express genotype-dependent ecological relationships with plant hosts. A fungal species…”
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The Antiepileptic Drug and Toxic Teratogen Valproic Acid Alters Microglia in an Environmental Mouse Model of Autism by Triyasakorn, Korawin, Ubah, Ubah Dominic Babah, Roan, Brandon, Conlin, Minsyusheen, Aho, Ken, Awale, Prabha S.

“…Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a neurodevelopmental condition affecting approximately 1 in 44 children in North America, is thought to be a connectivity…”
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Water and substrate control of cliff communities: patterns among species and phyla by Aho, Ken, Weaver, T, Eversman, Sharon, Halvorsen, Rune

“…AIMS: Cliff communities tend to be compositionally simple but taxonomically diverse at the phylum/division level. As a result, they provide a setting for…”
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Relative abundance of and composition within fungal orders differ between cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)-associated soils by Wiber, Carolyn F, King, Gary M, Aho, Ken

“…Nonnative Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) is decimating sagebrush steppe, one of the largest ecosystems in the Western United States, and is causing…”
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