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How Can Managers Respond to Changing Ecosystems? New BioScience Special Section Provides In-Depth Exposition of the Resist-Accept-Direct Framework
A new Special Section in the journal BioScience provides an in-depth exposition of the Resist-Accept-Direct framework, a new approach to guide natural resource decision making. Articles in the Special Section explore the practical application of the framework, compatibility of existing tools, social barriers and opportunities, and future science needs.
Friday's Findings - November 5 2021
What is a glacier? Defining Ice Dynamic Thresholds for Regional Assessments of Glacier Mass Change
Date: November 5, 2021 from 2-2:30 p.m. eastern time
Speaker: Caitlyn Florentine, Research Physical Scientist, USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
Erik Beever, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center Research Ecologist, Acknowledged by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
On September 8, 2021, Erik Beever was acknowledged in the 2021 Climate Adaptation Leadership Awards by receiving an honorable mention for his research about how species respond to contemporary climate change. The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) sponsors the award.
Publications
Responses of American black bears to spring resources
In temperate regions of the world, food resources are seasonally limited, which causes some wildlife species to seek out nutrient-rich resources to better meet their caloric needs. Animals that utilize high-quality resources may reap fitness benefits as they prepare for mating, migration, or hibernation. American black bears (Ursus americanus) are...
Bowersock, Nathaniel R.; Litt, Andrea R.; Merkle, Jerod A.; Gunther, Kerry A.; van Manen, Frank T. Sustaining transmission in different host species: The emblematic case of Sarcoptes scabiei
Some pathogens sustain transmission in multiple different host species, but how this epidemiologically important feat is achieved remains enigmatic. Sarcoptes scabiei is among the most host generalist and successful of mammalian parasites. We synthesize pathogen and host traits that mediate sustained transmission and present cases illustrating...
Browne, E; Driessen, MM; Cross, Paul; Escobar, L. E.; Foley, Janet E.; López-Olvera, JR; Niedringhaus, KD; Rossi, Liza; Carver, Scott Scavengers reduce potential brucellosis transmission risk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Scavengers likely play an important role in ecosystem energy flow as well as disease transmission, but whether they facilitate or reduce disease transmission is often unknown. In the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, scavengers are likely to reduce the transmission and subsequent spread of brucellosis within and between livestock and elk by consuming...
Szcodronski, Kimberly E; Cross, Paul