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Warming drives a front of white spruce establishment near western treeline, Alaska by Miller, Amy E., Wilson, Tammy L., Sherriff, Rosemary L., Walton, James

“…Regional warming has led to increased productivity near the boreal forest margin in Alaska. To date, the effects of warming on seedling recruitment have…”
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Direct and indirect effects of temperature and prey abundance on bald eagle reproductive dynamics by Schmidt, Joshua H., Putera, Judy, Wilson, Tammy L.

“…Understanding the mechanisms by which populations are regulated is critical for predicting the effects of large-scale perturbations. While discrete mortality…”
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Integrating distance sampling survey data with population indices to separate trends in abundance and temporary immigration by Schmidt, Joshua H., Wilson, Tammy L., Thompson, William L., Mangipane, Buck A.

“…Managers rely on accurate estimators of wildlife abundance and trends for management decisions. Despite the focus of contemporary wildlife science on…”
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Deriving Snow Cover Metrics for Alaska from MODIS by Lindsay, Chuck, Zhu, Jiang, Miller, Amy E, Kirchner, Peter, Wilson, Tammy L

“…Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) daily snow cover products provide an opportunity for determining snow onset and melt dates across broad…”
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Monitoring questing winter tick abundance on traditional moose hunting lands by Berube, Juliana A., Sirén, Alexej P. K., Simpson, Benjamin D., Klingler, Kelly B., Wilson, Tammy L.

“…An important symbolic and subsistence animal for many Native American Tribes, the moose (Alces alces; mos in Algonquin, Penobscot language) has been under…”
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Collaborative Co-Managed Care (C3): A Sustainable Gastrointestinal Motility Practice Model by Shah, Eric D., Barry, Lauren A., Connolly, Mariah L., Del Giudice, Kathy A., Dillehay, Richard T., Greeley, Carol, McBride, Shari, Northam, Kayla A., Pelletier, Elizabeth A., Perrone, Jessica A., Rothstein, Richard I., Sanchez, Jamie D., Siegel, Corey A., Sieglinger, Emily E., Tetreault, Patrick N., Weiss, Joseph D., Wilson, Tammy-Lynn A., Curley, Michael A.

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Understanding drivers of mercury in lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), a top-predator fish in southwest Alaska's parklands by Bartz, Krista K., Hannam, Michael P., Wilson, Tammy L., Lepak, Ryan F., Ogorek, Jacob M., Young, Daniel B., Eagles-Smith, Collin A., Krabbenhoft, David P.

“…Mercury (Hg) is a widespread element and persistent pollutant, harmful to fish, wildlife, and humans in its organic, methylated form. The risk of Hg…”
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Accounting for missing ticks: Use (or lack thereof) of hierarchical models in tick ecology studies by Sirén, Alexej P.K., Berube, Juliana, Clarfeld, Laurence A., Sullivan, Cheryl F., Simpson, Benjamin, Wilson, Tammy L.

“…Ixodid (hard) ticks play important ecosystem roles and have significant impacts on animal and human health via tick-borne diseases and physiological stress…”
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Distance sampling surveys: using components of detection and total error to select among approaches by Schmidt, Joshua H., Thompson, William L., Wilson, Tammy L., Reynolds, Joel H.

“…Wildlife population estimators often require formal adjustment for imperfect detection of individuals during surveys. Conventional distance sampling (CDS) and…”
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Using a structured decision analysis to evaluate bald eagle vital signs monitoring in Southwest Alaska National Parks by Kolstrom, Rebecca, Wilson, Tammy L., Gigliotti, Larry M.

“…Monitoring programs can benefit from an adaptive monitoring approach, where key decisions about why, where, what, and how to monitor are revisited periodically…”
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Monitoring nearshore ecosystem health using Pacific razor clams (Siliqua patula) as an indicator species by Bowen, Lizabeth, Counihan, Katrina L, Ballachey, Brenda, Coletti, Heather, Hollmen, Tuula, Pister, Benjamin, Wilson, Tammy L

“…An emerging approach to ecosystem monitoring involves the use of physiological biomarker analyses in combination with gene transcription assays. For the first…”
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Improving Bald Eagle Nest Monitoring With a Second Spring Survey by WILSON, TAMMY L., PHILLIPS, LAURA M., MANGIPANE, BUCK A.

“…Failure to account for observation error can cause bias in estimators of variables important for wildlife management and conservation, such as abundance,…”
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Physiological and gene transcription assays to assess responses of mussels to environmental changes by Counihan, Katrina L, Bowen, Lizabeth, Ballachey, Brenda, Coletti, Heather, Hollmen, Tuula, Pister, Benjamin, Wilson, Tammy L

“…Coastal regions worldwide face increasing management concerns due to natural and anthropogenic forces that have the potential to significantly degrade…”
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Gene Expression Profiles in Two Razor Clam Populations: Discerning Drivers of Population Status by Coletti, Heather A, Bowen, Lizabeth, Ballachey, Brenda E, Wilson, Tammy L, Waters, Shannon, Booz, Michael, Counihan, Katrina L, Hollmen, Tuula E, Pister, Benjamin

“…With rapidly changing marine ecosystems, shifts in abundance and distribution are being documented for a variety of intertidal species. We examined two…”
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Scale dependence in occupancy models: implications for estimating bear den distribution and abundance by Wilson, Tammy L, Schmidt, Joshua H

“…Monitoring programs are typically designed to identify long-term trends in animal abundance, however estimating abundance at a relevant scale can be…”
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Intravenously Injected Human Apolipoprotein A‐I Rapidly Enters the Central Nervous System via the Choroid Plexus by Stukas, Sophie, Robert, Jerome, Lee, Michael, Kulic, Iva, Carr, Michael, Tourigny, Katherine, Fan, Jianjia, Namjoshi, Dhananjay, Lemke, Kalistyne, DeValle, Nicole, Chan, Jeniffer, Wilson, Tammy, Wilkinson, Anna, Chapanian, Rafi, Kizhakkedathu, Jayachandran N., Cirrito, John R., Oda, Michael N., Wellington, Cheryl L.

“…Background Brain lipoprotein metabolism is dependent on lipoprotein particles that resemble plasma high‐density lipoproteins but that contain apolipoprotein…”
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Nest use dynamics of an undisturbed population of bald eagles by Wilson, Tammy L., Schmidt, Joshua H., Mangipane, Buck A., Kolstrom, Rebecca, Bartz, Krista K.

“…Management or conservation targets based on demographic rates should be evaluated within the context of expected population dynamics of the species of…”
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Improving inference for aerial surveys of bears: The importance of assumptions and the cost of unnecessary complexity by Schmidt, Joshua H., Wilson, Tammy L., Thompson, William L., Reynolds, Joel H.

“…Obtaining useful estimates of wildlife abundance or density requires thoughtful attention to potential sources of bias and precision, and it is widely…”
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Using double-observer aerial surveys to monitor nesting bald eagles in Alaska: Are all nests available for detection? by Wilson, Tammy L., Schmidt, Joshua H., Thompson, William L., Phillips, Laura M.

“…The abundance of nesting eagles is often identified as the parameter of primary interest for monitoring their populations. We compared the standard dual-frame…”
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Relative importance of habitat area and isolation for bird occurrence patterns in a naturally patchy landscape by Wilson, Tammy L, Johnson, Elizabeth J, Bissonette, John A

“…There is debate among ecologists about whether total habitat area or patch arrangement contributes most to population and/or community responses to fragmented…”
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