Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes by Department "Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences"
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A Herpetology Survey of Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary: A Nature Sanctuary West of Downtown Houston (2018-04-30)Urban herpetology “deals with the interaction of amphibians and reptiles and humans with each other and their environment in urban or urbanizing settings” (Mitchell et al. 2008). Miller (2006) urges that human experience ...
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(1977)The albacore, Thunnus alalunga, is a high seas pelagic tuna (Scombridae) whose distribution frequently seems governed by temperature. Tunas probably behaviorly thermoregulate using kineses. One method for explaining this ...
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(1982)The last decade has witnessed a 665% increase in licenses sold to fur trappers in Texas. In 1976-77, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department initiated a program of sending questionnaires to a randomly selected sample of ...
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(1977)Laboratory bioassays were conducted with toxaphene to determine its toxicity and LC₅₀ for grass shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio. Tests were conducted at 10, 19 and 100 ppb at 25°C and 10, 19 and 23 ppb at 30°C. The 24 hour LC₅₀ ...
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(2016-08-15)Herpetofaunal communities have been monitored intermittently on the Matador Wildlife Management Area for the past 12 years in an attempt to understand and track species’ responses to habitat changes. This study analyzed ...
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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SHRIMP CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES IN THE GULF OF MEXICO (2013-02-04)The commercial shrimp harvest is the second most important fishery in the United States, and eighty percent of this harvest by weight is caught in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Survival rate in the post larval stage in GOM ...
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(1998)Ridge mortality is a new coral malady, observed only at the Flower Gardens National Marine Sanctuary and the Florida Keys Sanctuary. Its effects are most dramatically seen on the brain coral (Diploria strigosa). This paper ...
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The nectar-feeding Mexican long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis or L. nivalis) population has been experiencing a steep decline over the past ten years. Conservation of this species is vital for the mutualistic relationship ...
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(1977)Tilapia are currently being evaluated as a potential aquaculture organism. Tilapia culture is restricted by the organism's limited low temperature tolerance and its tendency toward overpopulation resulting in a reduction ...
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(2014-09-12)ABSTRACT The Dietary Tryptophan Requirement of Juvenile Red Drum. (May 2015) Emily Pewitt Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Texas A&M University Research Advisor: Dr. Delbert M. Gatlin III Department of ...
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(2012-07-11)Ecological theory suggests morphology should be linked to foraging mode and strategy. This study was conducted to determine the possible relationship between morphology and diet of a monophyletic group of lizards in the ...
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(2013-02-04)Maternally-transmitted associations between endosymbiotic bacteria and insects are pervasive in nature, and vary from commensalism to mutualism to parasitism. The association between the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster ...
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(1982)Data on the regrowth of rye grass after clipping and application of saliva, water, and nothing (in the case of the control) was collected from 1 September 1981 to 1 April 1982 at the department of Wildlife and Fisheries ...
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(1977)A 2,025 acre experimental area, enclosed by a deer-proof fence and a water barrier, was burned over a 2-year period. Thirteen known deer food plants were collected every two weeks and 30 deer were collected three times ...
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(2018-04-23)One of the most endangered marine mammals in the coastal areas of the United States is the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris). The Florida manatee population has been increasing and decreasing since 1991 along ...
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(2018-04-19)Deepwater Horizon (DWH) was the largest offshore oil spill in US history. The result was approximately 3.19 million barrels of oil being released into the ocean. Deepwater Horizon significantly affected the Gulf of Mexico ...
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(2017-04-24)In the Antarctic, blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) feed primarily on Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), which feed primarily on under-ice algae. The retreat of the Antarctic ice shelf may pose potentially serious ...
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(1993)In many species, such as the Scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) , high levels of inter-male aggression plague attempts to-maintain bachelor herds in captivity. At Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, two groups of 5 male oryx were ...
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(2018-04-24)Deepwater Horizon (DWH) was the largest offshore oil spill in the petroleum industry’s history. For a total of 87 days, approximately 3.19 million gallons of oil and natural gas seeped into the Gulf of Mexico. DWH altered ...
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(1976)Food habits of gizzard shad, threadfin shad, and blue tilapia were studied in summer and winter, 1975. Stomach contents of all three species consisted predominantly of organic detritus, followed by green algae, blue-greens,and ...