This publication aims to provide information on how variation in prescribed fire size and heterogeneity their impact over time relate the habitat needs of animals plants that live frequently burned savannas. Written by Jennifer M. Fill Raelene Crandall, published UF/IFAS School Forest, Fisheries, Geomatics Sciences, August 2023.

Bootstrapping is a general approach to statistical inference based on building a sampling distribution for a statistic by resampling from the data at hand. The term ‘bootstrapping,’ due to Efron (1979), is an allusion to the expression ‘pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps’ – in this case, using the sample data as a population from which repeated samples are drawn. At first blush, the approac...

Genechip oligonucleotide microarrays have been used widely for transcriptional profiling of a large number of genes in a given paradigm. Gene expression estimation precedes biological inference and is given as a complex combination of atomic entities on the array called probes. These probe intensities are further classified into perfect-match (PM) and mismatch (MM) probes. While former is a mea...

Videotapes of migrant Semipalmated Sandpipers foraging in the upper Bay of Fundy were analyzed to test for foraging behaviors sensitive to prey density. Over a range of prey densities, both the number of steps set-’ and probes set-’ increased with increasing prey density. However, the number of steps between probes was constant over the range of prey densities observed. The average angle of dir...