Browsing by Subject "restoration"
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(2012-07-16)The numerous benefits that wetlands provide make them essential to ecosystem services and ecological functions. Historically, wetland losses have been caused by natural and anthropogenic changes. In Texas, nearly 50% of ...
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(2015-05-13)In ecological restoration, habitat managers intervene in a degraded ecosystem to aid its recovery. To assess a restored habitat, one or more characteristics such as biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and community structure ...
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(2016-09-01)The Colonel James Morgan New Washington Prairie Master Plan provides a vision for the development of a new community recreation area to serve the residents of Morgan’s Point and visitors to the area. The focus of the ...
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(2020-12-01)Electric power systems face the risk of outages due to extreme weather events, cyber-attack, human errors, and other unforeseen circumstances. A power grid that is resilient to these unfortunate events has become a consistent ...
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(2018-11-23)Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) once occupied mountain ranges from western Canada to northern Mexico in North America. The distribution and abundance of mountain sheep in North America have declined from >500,000 historically, ...
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(2009-05-15)Increasing interest among restoration ecologists exists in developing strategies that stimulate biotic interactions and promote self-regulation in restored systems. These approaches should target above- and belowground ...
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(2012-04-22)Military training lands are among the most degraded rangelands in the United States. Tracked vehicle training represents the largest source of soil disturbance on these rangelands (Fang et al. 2002). Training activities ...
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(2009-05-15)Woody encroachment upon grasslands is a global trend that is cause for concern. In the Lampasas Cut Plain of Texas, Ashe juniper is the dominant woody invasive species. Grassland restoration is dependent upon proper seedbed ...
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(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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(2009-05-15)Given the past history and future risk of storm surge in the United States, alternative storm protection techniques are needed to protect vital sectors of the economy and population, particularly within southeastern ...
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(2012-05-04)To date, over 50% of historical tidal marsh habitat in the U.S. has been lost. A widely accepted approach to mitigate the loss of valuable ecological services is marsh restoration, which includes using excavated soil or ...
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(2023-08-07)Anthropogenic changes to freshwater inflow into estuarine environments may have detrimental consequences, as changing salinity regimes may cause some species to proliferate at the expense of others. One such species of ...
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(2009-05-15)Rapid urban growth of Austin, Texas, has resulted in significant alteration of the surface characteristics of the Colorado River Watershed. These changes have increased the runoff and accelerated erosion of the banks of ...
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(2020-10-28)As decades have passed there has been a noticeable decline in the northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus; hereafter bobwhite) population. Only a handful of studies have been made in the assessment of the survival of ...
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Responses of Coastal Wetland Vegetation to a Large-Scale Tidal Restoration on the Texas Upper Coast (2022-04-22)Coastal wetlands are often modified by climate- and human-driven events of various frequency, intensity, and duration. These alterations may result in substantial changes to ecosystem structure and function. For example, ...