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Below is a list of WERC's peer-reviewed publications. If you are searching for a specific publication and cannot find it in this list, please contact werc_web@usgs.gov

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The issue of scale in selecting and designing biological reserves The issue of scale in selecting and designing biological reserves

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Authors
J. M. Scott, E. A. Norse, H. Arita, A. Dobson, J. A. Estes, M. Foster, B. Gilbert, D.B. Jensen, R.L. Knight, D. Mattson, M. E. Soule

Habitat invasibility and dominance by alien annual plants in the western Mojave Desert Habitat invasibility and dominance by alien annual plants in the western Mojave Desert

Patterns of habitat invasibility and alien dominance, respectively measured as species richness and biomass of alien annual plants, were evaluated in association with four habitat factors at the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area (DTNA) in the western Mojave Desert, USA. Habitat factors varied in levels of disturbance outside (high) and inside (low) the DTNA, and in levels of soil...
Authors
Matthew L. Brooks

The evolution of trophic transmission The evolution of trophic transmission

Parasite increased trophic transmission (PITT) is one of the more fascinating tales of parasite evolution. The implications of this go beyond cocktail party anecdotes and science fiction plots as the phenomenon is pervasive and likely to be ecologically and evolutionarily important. Although the subject has already received substantial review, Kevin Lafferty here focuses on evolutionary...
Authors
Kevin D. Lafferty

The partnership between park wild life management policy and landscape wild life management policy. How shall we then manage? The partnership between park wild life management policy and landscape wild life management policy. How shall we then manage?

Resources management practices are changing in North America, not only based on greater understanding of the resources that are being managed, but also on some critical sociological relationship changes between human beings and between humans and nature. The entire way that humans look at the natural world and our own society is changing dramatically as we come to the end of the...
Authors
William L. Halvorson, Chris Eastin
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