Bats are important bio-indicators of ecosystem health and provide a number services. White-nose Syndrome habitat loss have led to the decline many bat species in eastern North America, including federally threatened northern long-eared bat, Myotis septentrionalis. was only recently found Nebraska, which lies on western extent this geographic range. To better understand how forest-dependent pers...

Southeast Asian tropical rainforests are shrinking at an alarming rate largely due to anthropogenic activities such as logging and agricultural expansion. The loss of from human exploitations caused devastating irreversible impacts on avian biodiversity. establishment protected areas is effective tool mitigate further forest biodiversity loss. However, the ability degraded rainforest support st...

Abstract The role of coarse woody debris (CWD) in the global carbon (C) cycle is growing under increasing tree mortality driven by climate variability and disturbances. Quantifying C CWD critically depends on accurate estimates density concentration CWD. This study considered main decomposition pathways (the proportions decomposed fungi vs. invertebrates; fungal decay types) relationships betwe...

Respiratory carbon losses from a mixed oak forest ecosystem following experimental manipulations were examined for their magnitudes and biophysical regulations. To quantify these losses, respiration measurements from chamber-based ecosystem components of sapwood, snags, down-logs, and soil, using chamber-based methods, were collected from experimental stands 8 yr after the manipulations of: non...

Large-scale experimental manipulations of dead wood are needed to better understand its importance to animal communities in managed forests. In this experiment, we compared the abundance, species richness, diversity, and composition of arthropods in 9.3-ha plots in which either (1) all coarse woody debris was removed, (2) a large number of logs were added, (3) a large number of snags were added...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES With the current snags from the use of Artemisinin - combination therapies (ACTs) in malaria treatment in addition to fear of cross- resistance to unrelated drugs, raising the immunocompetence of individuals in malaria endemic areas by vaccination is the best approach to malaria - free world. METHODS Water - soluble cationic derivative, N, N, N- trimethylchitosan (TMC)...

Mountain pine beetle-caused tree mortality has substantially changed live tree biomass in lodgepole pine ecosystems in western North America since 2000. We studied how beetle-caused mortality altered ecosystem carbon (C) stocks and productivity using a central US Rockies age sequence of ecosystem recovery after infestation, augmented with growth-and-yield model simulations. Field measurements s...

Monash University (Gippsland campus) is situated in Churchill, Latrobe Valley, located in central Gippsland, eastern Victoria. A large percentage of the Gippsland region comprises of a socio-economically disadvantaged population (Figure 1). In Semester One, 2011 as part of the Bachelor of Primary Education course at Monash, it was decided that a pathway be created to achieve these national idea...

The southeastern U.S. is widely known as a bastion of privately-owned, managed pine (Pinus spp.) forests, comprised primarily native species. region supports high levels biodiversity, but also multi-billion-dollar forest products economy critical to socioeconomic stability rural areas. We conducted systematic review studies focused exclusively on avifaunal associations within landscapes in the ...

Modification, fragmentation and loss of boreal forest habitats have been intensive during the last century due to forestry practises land use. This has related population declines many species, yet mechanisms affecting on background are largely unknown. The willow tit, a primary cavity-nesting species that was once 4th most common bird in Finland is nowadays endangered. Earlier findings suggest...