Search Results - "Nussear, KE"

‘Unscrambling’ the drivers of egg production in Agassiz’s desert tortoise: climate and individual attributes predict reproductive output by Mitchell, CI, Friend, DA, Phillips, LT, Hunter, EA, Lovich, JE, Agha, M, Puffer, SR, Cummings, KL, Medica, PA, Esque, TC, Nussear, KE, Shoemaker, KT

“…The ‘bet hedging’ life history strategy of long-lived iteroparous species reduces short-term reproductive output to minimize the risk of reproductive failure…”
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Severe mortality of a population of threatened Agassiz’s desert tortoises: the American badger as a potential predator by Emblidge, PG, Nussear, KE, Esque, TC, Aiello, CM, Walde, AD

“…In the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States, adult Agassiz's desert tortoises Gopherus agassizii typically experience high survival, but population…”
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Is there room for all of us? Renewable energy and Xerospermophilus mohavensis by RD Inman, TC Esque, KE Nussear, P Leitner, MD Matocq, PJ Weisberg, TE Dilts, AG Vandergast

“…Mohave ground squirrels Xerospermophilus mohavensis Merriam are small ground-dwelling rodents that have a highly restricted range in the northwest Mojave…”
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Modeling operative temperature in desert tortoises and other reptiles: Effects imposed by habitats that filter incident radiation by Snyder, S.J., Tracy, C.R., Nussear, K.E.

“…We challenged the common practice of using a single mean absorptance based on unfiltered skylight spectra to model operative temperature for reptiles in…”
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Translocation as a conservation tool for Agassiz's desert tortoises: Survivorship, reproduction, and movements by Nussear, K. E., Tracy, C. R., Medica, P. A., Wilson, D. S., Marlow, R. W., Corn, P. S.

“…We translocated 120 Agassiz's desert tortoises to 5 sites in Nevada and Utah to evaluate the effects of translocation on tortoise survivorship, reproduction,…”
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Quantifying development to inform management of Mojave and Sonoran desert tortoise habitat in the American southwest by Carter, SK, Nussear, KE, Esque, TC, Leinwand, IIF, Masters, E, Inman, RD, Carr, NB, Allison, LJ

“…Two tortoise species native to the American southwest have experienced significant habitat loss from development and are vulnerable to ongoing threats…”
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Does translocation influence physiological stress in the desert tortoise? by Drake, K. K., Nussear, K. E., Esque, T. C., Barber, A. M., Vittum, K. M., Medica, P. A., Tracy, C. R., Hunter Jr, K. W.

“…Wildlife translocation is increasingly used to mitigate disturbances to animals or habitat due to human activities, yet little is known about the extent to…”
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Associating sex-biased and seasonal behaviour with contact patterns and transmission risk in Gopherus agassizii by Aiello, C.M, Esque, T.C, Nussear, K.E, Emblidge, P.G, Hudson, P.J

“…Abstract Interactions between wildlife hosts act as transmission routes for directly transmitted pathogens and vary in ways that affect transmission…”
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The importance of physiological ecology in conservation biology by Tracy, C. Richard, Nussear, K. E., Esque, T. C., Dean-Bradley, K., Tracy, C. R., DeFalco, L. A., Castle, K. T., Zimmerman, L. C., Espinoza, R. E., Barber, A. M.

“…Many of the threats to the persistence of populations of sensitive species have physiological or pathological mechanisms, and those mechanisms are best…”
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Can Modeling Improve Estimation of Desert Tortoise Population Densities? by Nussear, Kenneth E., Tracy, C. Richard

“…The federally listed desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) is currently monitored using distance sampling to estimate population densities. Distance sampling,…”
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Lizards, Lipids, and Dietary Links to Animal Function by Simandle, Eric T., Espinoza, Robert E., Nussear, Kenneth E., Tracy, C. Richard

“…Our experiments were designed to test the hypotheses that dietary lipids can affect whole‐animal physiological processes in a manner concordant with changes in…”
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Diet quality does not affect resting metabolic rate or body temperatures selected by an herbivorous lizard by Nussear, K. E., Espinoza, R. E., Gubbins, C. M., Field, K. J., Hayes, J. P.

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Desert Tortoise Hibernation: Temperatures, Timing, and Environment by Nussear, Kenneth E, Esque, Todd C, Haines, Dustin F, Richard Tracy, C

“…This research examined the onset, duration, and termination of hibernation in Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) over several years at multiple sites in the…”
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