Search Results - "Straub, Jacob N."
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Acorn and aquatic invertebrate biomass in Mississippi Alluvial Valley hardwood bottomlands
Published in The Journal of wildlife management (01-02-2024)“…The Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) is an internationally important migration and wintering region for Nearctic waterfowl. Most of the MAV is a lowland…”
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Variation in the Diet of Ducks During Spring Migration
Published in The Journal of wildlife management (01-11-2021)“…Because management practices that promote the production of plant foods may differ from management practices that promote the production of aquatic…”
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Unconventional life history in a migratory shorebird: desegregating reproduction and migration
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (30-04-2024)“…Conventional life-history theory predicts that energy-demanding events such as reproduction and migration must be temporally segregated to avoid resource…”
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Use of Tree Cavities and Nest Boxes by Wood Ducks at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge
Published in Northeastern naturalist (01-01-2020)“…We measured use rates, nest success, and inter- and intra- specific nest parasitism by ducks using tree cavities and nest boxes in an old-growth forested…”
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Multi-scale waterfowl habitat conservation planning in Wisconsin, USA
Published in Landscape ecology (01-11-2021)“…Context The North American Waterfowl Management Plan and the Upper Mississippi River/Great Lakes Joint Venture waterfowl habitat conservation strategy provide…”
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Red Oak Acorn Yields in Green-Tree Reservoirs and Nonimpounded Forests in Mississippi
Published in Wildlife Society bulletin (2011) (01-09-2019)“…Although bottomland hardwood forests in southeastern United States are among the most productive ecosystems in North America, indigenous flora, wildlife, and…”
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Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients
Published in Nature plants (01-07-2023)“…The benefits of masting (volatile, quasi-synchronous seed production at lagged intervals) include satiation of seed predators, but these benefits come with a…”
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Estimation and Correction of Seed Recovery Bias from Moist-Soil Cores
Published in The Journal of wildlife management (01-05-2011)“…Scientists estimate seed abundances to calculate seasonal carrying capacities and assess wetland management actions for waterfowl and other wildlife using soil…”
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Wetland food resources for spring-migrating ducks in the Upper Mississippi River and Great Lakes Region
Published in The Journal of wildlife management (01-05-2012)“…Wetlands in the Upper Mississippi River and Great Lakes Region (UMRGLR) must annually sustain populations of migrating waterfowl from the mid-continent of…”
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Simulations of wood duck recruitment from nest boxes in Mississippi and Alabama
Published in The Journal of wildlife management (01-08-2015)“…Since the early 20th century, wildlife managers have deployed artificial nesting structures for wood ducks (Aix sponsa) to increase availability of nest sites…”
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Acorn Yield and Masting Traits of Red Oaks in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley
Published in Forest science (08-02-2016)“…We studied five species of endemic red oaks (Section Erythrobalanus) in hardwood bottomlands of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV), including cherrybark,…”
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Assessment of Student Learning in Undergraduate Courses with Collaborative Projects from the Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN)
Published in Scholarship and practice of undergraduate research (13-11-2020)“…Multisite, course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) in the Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN) were assessed for impacts on student…”
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Effect of winter flooding on mass and gross energy of bottomland hardwood acorns
Published in The Journal of wildlife management (01-09-2012)“…Decomposition of red oak acorns (Quercus spp.; Section Erythrobalanus) could decrease forage biomass and gross energy (GE) available to wintering ducks from…”
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Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery
Published in Nature communications (02-05-2022)“…The relationships that control seed production in trees are fundamental to understanding the evolution of forest species and their capacity to recover from…”
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Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients
Published in Ecology letters (01-06-2022)“…Lack of tree fecundity data across climatic gradients precludes the analysis of how seed supply contributes to global variation in forest regeneration and…”
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Linking seed size and number to trait syndromes in trees
Published in Global ecology and biogeography (01-05-2023)“…Aim Our understanding of the mechanisms that maintain forest diversity under changing climate can benefit from knowledge about traits that are closely linked…”
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Simulations of wood duck recruitment from nest boxes in Mississippi and Alabama: Late Summer Wood Duck Recruitment
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Spring migration of waterfowl in the northern hemisphere: a conservation perspective
Published in Wildfowl (Slimbridge) (2014)“… Spring migration is a key part of the annual cycle for waterfowl populations in the northern hemisphere, due to its temporal proximity to the breeding season…”
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