... be important to its long-term conservation. burrows mounds niche model saltbush Thomomys idahoensis Thomomys talpoides The Wyoming pocket gopher (Thomomys clusius) has been the subject of only 1 published paper but has, nonetheless, undergone repeated taxonomic and biogeographic...

... clinical examination basics, summarize various surgical approaches for treatment and propose an algorithm for their application, and describe the most common postsurgical complications. festoons malar mounds malar edema facelift blepharoplasty periorbital rejuvenation oculoplastics Blepharoplasty...

...Alejandro G. Farji-Brener; Mariana Tadey Acromyrmex lobicornis ants behavioral plasticity hygienic behavior nest-mounds organic waste. Animal behavior is molded by natural selection to minimize costs and maximize benefits ( Krebs and Davies 1997 ). However, behaviors occur...

... to the management of the Okavango Delta as an ecosystem supporting diverse and abundant fish and wildlife. Once developed, this understanding can be used to allocate water within the Okavango watershed. hippopotamus elephants termite mounds flow regime environmental flows The Okavango Delta, Botswana, a giant...

...James T. Vogt Table 2. Potential overestimation caused bycommission errors for imported fire ant mound detection in multispectral airborne digital images NIR, false color infrared composite; RGB, true color composite. Means within a combination of effects that are followed by the same...

..., incubation involves burying eggs in mounds of decaying organic material, which megapodes rake together from the forest floor ( Rand and Gilliard 1967 ). For successful incubation, suitable temperature, moisture, and gas conditions must be maintained in the mound ( Seymour and Bradford 1992 ) over the long...

... in air currents ( Vogel, 1978 ; Vogel and Bretz, 1972 ; Wenzel, 1990 ). Some species of the fungus-cultivating termites, Macrotermitinae, construct elaborate mounds, in which the colonies generate their own appropriate microclimate to a considerable extent (e.g., Korb and Linsenmair, 1998...

..., 124 Science II, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 (BAK, BJD) Department of Botany, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 (BAK, KAM) Present address of BAK: 1117A East Cota, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 Creation of mounds by plains pocket gophers (Geomys bursarius) may...

... with different soil types and amounts of shrub cover (macrohabitats). At all spatial scales examined, mice used disturbances of soil (primarily pocket gopher mounds) and burrows more than expected based on abundance of these microhabitats, but showed no affinity for large shrubs. Furthermore, movement patterns...

... population densities associated with polygyny. This study compared population densities of polygyne and monogyne fire ant colonies using measures of mound density, worker number, ant biomass, metabolic consump- tion, and standing caloric energy of ant biomass. We began...

... Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182-0057 Environ. Entomol. 21(2): 281-286 (1992) ABSTRACT Mirna-type earth mounds up to =1.5 m in height and =20 m in diameter occur...

... a period of broad buy-in to collective projects by diverse segments of Coast Salish society. These landscape-focused efforts contrast with the more limited scale of prior types of constructions, particularly burial cairns and mounds, which resulted from the pursuit of social differentiation by elite...

...“Orientation” hinges on the multicentury cartographies of the Upper Mississippi River Valley’s Indigenous communities. Through monumental (e.g., rock art, effigy mounds) and ephemeral (e.g., pottery, tobacco pipes) forms of craftwork, these communities oriented themselves again and again...

...Archeologists have found evidence of Native Americans’ presence in Oconaluftee Valley during every era, from Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian to Qualla, or Cherokee. Home sites and mounds appear within the valley; some continue to be excavated and studied by collaborative teams of park...

...This chapter focuses on four visible and concrete tools used during the Viking Age to shape the ideology of the population: feasts, gifts, skaldic poetry, and monumental burial mounds. These helped bring honor to the members of the social elite and ensure a good posthumous reputation for them...

...This chapter provides an introduction to the study of Archaic Period shell mounds for interested avocational readers and professional archaeologists. It situates the study of ancient shell mounds in the context of recent perceptions of the St. Johns River valley as a natural landscape. The chapter...

... of shell mounds. By 6,500 years ago, communities constructed both residences and mortuary mounds which referenced earlier shell sites. After 5,700 years ago, major environmental and social transformations necessitated the rejection of earlier residential and ceremonial traditions. The chapter concludes...

...-community political entities known as chiefdoms. If mounds were the seats and symbols of political power within Mississippian societies and if ground-level earthlodges were more accessible than structures on the summits of mounds, then access to leaders and leadership may have decreased over time...

...Recent findings of a calendric temple complex dating to 2,100 bc, at the middle Chillón valley site of Buena Vista, Chillón, raise the question as to the importance of astronomical orientations in construction of early platform mounds. Buena Vista alignments from a Mito-style offering...

...The practice of enclosing open spaces with earthen mounds begins in the Lower Mississippi Valley around 3500 B.C. As the earliest recognized monumentalized landscapes in Eastern North America, these locations are thought to have provided periodic bases for the exploitation of rich natural resources...