Dietary niches of creodonts and carnivorans of the late Eocene Cypress Hills Formation
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DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyab123
Abstract: Modern North American carnivorous mammal assemblages consist of species from a single clade: the Carnivora. Carnivorans once coexisted with members of other meat-eating clades, including the creodonts (Hyaenodontida and Oxyaenida). Creodonts, however, went extinct in… read more here.
Keywords: late eocene; creodonts carnivorans; dietary niches; cypress hills ... See more keywords
Management assessment of mountain pine beetle infestation in Cypress Hills, SK
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DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2018-0301
Abstract: Insect epidemics such as the mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreak have a major impact on forest dynamics. In Cypress Hills, Canada, the Forest Service Branch of the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment aims to control as… read more here.
Keywords: mountain pine; model predictions; management; pine beetle ... See more keywords
Living on the edge: comparative phylogeography and phylogenetics of Oreohelix land snails at their range edge in Western Canada
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DOI: 10.1186/s12862-019-1566-1
Abstract: BackgroundThe biodiversity and distributions of terrestrial snails at local and regional scales are influenced by their low vagility and microhabitat specificity. The accessibility of large-bodied species and their characteristically high levels of genetic polymorphism make… read more here.
Keywords: land snails; cypress hills; phylogeography phylogenetics; edge ... See more keywords