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Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (NPWRC, Jamestown) | Format: URL
www.npwrc.usgs.gov — This research project is about species composition and trophic structure of the insect community were compared between coastal and central prairies of Texas. Species diversity was higher in the coastal prairie, but average richness per habitat and among-habitat diversity were greater in the central prairie. Insect diversity increased as vertical More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Fort Collins Science Center (FORT, Ft. Collins) | Format: URL
www.fort.usgs.gov — This publication is intended to provide a summary of long-range surveillance radar technology and applications of these data to questions about movement patterns of birds and other flying wildlife based on publications that provide more detailed information (Buurma, 1995; Gauthreaux and Belser, 2003a, b; Gauthreaux and others, 2003; Diehl and More...
June 25 2009 | Publisher: USGS | Format: AUDIO
gallery.usgs.gov — This sound recording is an interview with USGS scientist Sam Droege about the tremendous importance of native bees and pollinators in general. The interview was held during the 2009 Pollinator Week.
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center (PIERC, Honolulu) | Format: URL
biology.usgs.gov — Ants are not native to Hawaii and are a significant threat to endemic insects which have not evolved in their presence. This resource is a study of the palila, an endangered honeycreeper that inhabits the dry subalpine slopes of Mauna Kea. The ants are a threat because they are potential predators of insects upon which the Palila feed.
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center (PIERC, Honolulu) | Format: URL
biology.usgs.gov — The geographical isolation of the Hawaiian Islands has resulted in the evolution of a highly endemic biota: approximately 80 percent of Hawaii's plants, 100 percent of its forest birds, and 67 percent of its arthropods are found nowhere else in the world. But human colonization of the Islands has severely impacted native plant and animal More...
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