Browsing by Author "Lopez, Roel"
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Restivo, Kaitlyn Nicole (2022-05-31)Traditional wildlife and range extension programs offered to landowners and land managers provide information, knowledge, and tools for land stewardship. However, effectively educating today’s landowners may require new ...
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Gregory, Lucas; Karthikeyan, R.; Gentry, Terry; Harmel, Daren; Wagner, Kevin; Lopez, Roel (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2015-11)Bacteria water quality impairments are the most common water quality issue in Texas and are a considerable source of impairments nationally. Fecal indicator bacteria such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) and enterococci derived ...
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Cathey, James; Alldredge, Blake; Kalisek, Danielle; Wagner, Kevin; Lopez, Roel (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2014-09)Through the Building Partnerships for Cooperative Conservation in the Trinity River Basin project, funded by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with Clean Water Act (CWA) §319(h) funds through the Texas State ...
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Van Allen, Mycha Ashlee (2023-04-24)Wildlife diversity is essential and valuable for the environment, society, and the economy. Grasslands have long been a biodiversity hotspot before anthropogenic impacts. In Texas, grasslands comprised much of the landscape ...
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Nelson, Fletcher Chris (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Little current data exist concerning the status and ecology of Owens Valley vole (OVV; Microtus californicus vallicola), despite its California Department of Fish and Game listing as a Species of Special Concern. No formal ...
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Schlottman, Jared Blaise (2023-05-02)Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) have experienced population reductions throughout their historic range over the past half-century according to multiple indices of abundance. This decline is often attributed in part ...
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Knipps, Anna (2012-02-14)The Landowner Incentive Program (LIP) was developed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in 1997 in response to controversy and conflict between wildlife conservation agencies and landowners. The incentive was meant ...
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Stewart, Laura Roe (2012-07-16)Oak wilt is a fatal disease of oaks caused by the fungus Ceratocystis fagacearum. Loss or degradation of habitat due to the disease may negatively affect the federally endangered golden-cheeked warbler (Setophaga chrysoparia). ...
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Diaz Galarraga, Rodrigo Rogelio (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Inclusion/exclusion field experiments demonstrated that the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren, did not affect the abundance of 49 groups of insects and spiders collected in pitfall traps. However, arthropod ...
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Adetayo, Tosin Abiola (2016-08-31)It is unclear if impacts to jurisdictional wetlands in the United States are mitigated commensurately to ensure that the no net loss goal of the Clean Water Act is being met. Similarly, the effect of judicial interpretation ...
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Harveson, Patricia Moody (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Conservation of native wildlife is becoming increasingly difficult due to continued human population growth and expansion. As the human population continues to increase, so does the rate of consumption of our natural ...
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Abney, Alexandra Anne (2017-12-09)Prescribed fire is an affordable and effective tool in managing woody plant encroachment, but landowners’ liability perceptions contribute to their inconsistent application of fire. Personal liability concerns can be ...
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Dixon, Thomas Pingul (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Surface mining and subsequent reclamation often results in the establishment of large areas of grassland that can benefit wildlife. Grasslands have declined substantially over the last 150 years, resulting in declines of ...
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Munoz, Anna Maria (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Texas A&M University (TAMU) supports a substantial breeding population of mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) with one of the highest nest densities in Texas. There has been a long history of mourning dove research on the ...
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Shingote, Ramaa Jhamvar (2012-07-16)Conflicts between humans and leopards have intensified in the Junnar Forest Division (JFD), India due to a combination of factors: loss of natural habitats, increasing rural human densities, and increasing leopard populations. ...
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Butler, James Joseph (Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman) is currently under eradication in the U.S. The eradication program is implemented by means of area-wide applications of malathion ULV. Frequent applications of this ...
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Toledo Rodriguez, Frances (2013-08-05)Pterocarpus officinalis dominated forests are a rare ecosystem, found only in fifteen locations in Puerto Rico, all of which are adjacent to the coast and at risk from sea level rise, as well as nutrient pollution, upstream ...
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Kulawardhana, Ranjani W (2013-12-02)Recent climatic change projections have increased scientific and public attention on the issues relating to carbon cycling patterns, its controls, and the importance of ecosystems in the cycling and sequestration process. ...
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Huff, Thomas Preston (2017-07-11)Hydrologic changes have affected coastal ecosystem sustainability along the Texas coast and throughout the Gulf of Mexico. Human utilization of coastal ecosystems has led to the alteration of tidal hydrology. These ecosystems ...
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DeMoulpied, Michael David (2022-12-09)Understanding how processes shape the occurrence and life history of species is important to their management and conservation. Freshwater mussels are one of the most imperiled groups in North America, with 90 of the ~300 ...