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Species Composition and Trophic Structure of Insect Communities in Texas Prairies

This research project is about species composition and trophic structure of the insect community were compared between coastal and central prairies of Texas. Species diversity was higher in the coastal prairie, but average richness per habitat and among-habitat diversity were greater in the central prairie. Insect diversity increased as vertical More...

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Management and Research Applications of Long-Range Surveillance Radar Data for Birds, Bats, and Flying Insects

This publication is intended to provide a summary of long-range surveillance radar technology and applications of these data to questions about movement patterns of birds and other flying wildlife based on publications that provide more detailed information (Buurma, 1995; Gauthreaux and Belser, 2003a, b; Gauthreaux and others, 2003; Diehl and More...

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Native Plants, Insects and Ecosystems

The geographical isolation of the Hawaiian Islands has resulted in the evolution of a highly endemic biota: approximately 80 percent of Hawaii's plants, 100 percent of its forest birds, and 67 percent of its arthropods are found nowhere else in the world. But human colonization of the Islands has severely impacted native plant and animal More...

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