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Predicting And Mapping Plethodontid Salamander Abundance Using Lidar-Derived Terrain And Vegetation Characteristics, Marco Antonio Contreras, Wesley A. Staats, Steve J. Price

Forestry and Natural Resources Faculty Publications

Aim of the study: Use LiDAR-derived vegetation and terrain characteristics to develop abundance and occupancy predictions for two terrestrial salamander species, Plethodon glutinosus and P. kentucki, and map abundance to identify vegetation and terrain characteristics affecting their distribution.

Area of study: The 1,550-ha Clemons Fork watershed, part of the University of Kentucky’s Robinson Forest in southeastern Kentucky, USA.

Materials and methods: We quantified the abundance of salamanders using 45 field transects, which were visited three times, placed across varying soil moisture and canopy cover conditions. We created several LiDAR-derived vegetation and terrain layers and used these …

Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing Data Of Sunflower Rhizosphere Microbial Community In South Africa, Olubukola Oluranti Babalola, Temitayo Tosin Alawiye, Carlos M. Rodriguez Lopez, Ayansina Segun Ayangbenro

Horticulture Faculty Publications

This dataset presents shotgun metagenomic sequencing of sunflower rhizosphere microbiome in Bloemhof, South Africa. Data were collected to decipher the structure and function in the sunflower microbial community. Illumina HiSeq platform using next generation sequencing of the DNA was carried out. The metagenome comprised 8,991,566 sequences totaling 1,607,022,279 bp size and 66% GC content. The metagenome was deposited into the NCBI database and can be accessed with the SRA accession number SRR10418054. An online metagenome server (MG RAST) using the subsystem database revealed bacteria had the highest taxonomical representation with 98.47%, eukaryote at 1.23%, and archaea at 0.20%. The most …

Nanoceria Distribution And Effects Are Mouse-Strain Dependent, Robert A. Yokel, Michael T. Tseng, D. Allan Butterfield, Matthew L. Hancock, Eric A. Grulke, Jason M. Unrine, Arnold J. Stromberg, Alan K. Dozier, Uschi M. Graham

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

Prior studies showed nanoparticle clearance was different in C57BL/6 versus BALB/c mice, strains prone to Th1 and Th2 immune responses, respectively. Objective: Assess nanoceria (cerium oxide, CeO₂ nanoparticle) uptake time course and organ distribution, cellular and oxidative stress, and bioprocessing as a function of mouse strain. Methods: C57BL/6 and BALB/c female mice were i.p. injected with 10 mg/kg nanoceria or vehicle and terminated 0.5 to 24 h later. Organs were collected for cerium analysis; light and electron microscopy with elemental mapping; and protein carbonyl, IL-1β, and caspase-1 determination. Results: Peripheral organ cerium significantly increased, generally more …

Heart Failure In Humans Reduces Contractile Force In Myocardium From Both Ventricles, Cheavar A. Blair, Elizabeth A Brundage, Katherine L. Thompson, Arnold J. Stromberg, Maya Guglin, Brandon J Biesiadecki, Kenneth S. Campbell

Statistics Faculty Publications

This study measured how heart failure affects the contractile properties of the human myocardium from the left and right ventricles. The data showed that maximum force and maximum power were reduced by approximately 30% in multicellular preparations from both ventricles, possibly because of ventricular remodeling (e.g., cellular disarray and/or excess fibrosis). Heart failure increased the calcium (Ca²⁺) sensitivity of contraction in both ventricles, but the effect was bigger in right ventricular samples. The changes in Ca²⁺ sensitivity were associated with ventricle-specific changes in the phosphorylation of troponin I, which indicated that adrenergic stimulation might induce different effects …

Space Telescope And Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. Xi. Disk-Wind Characteristics And Contributions To The Very Broad Emission Lines Of Ngc 5548, Maryam Dehghanian, Gary J. Ferland, G. A. Kriss, B. M. Peterson, K. T. Korista, M. R. Goad, Marios Chatzikos, Francisco Guzmán, G. De Rosa, M. Mehdipour, J. Kaastra, S. Mathur, M. Vestergaard, D. Proga, T. Waters, M. C. Bentz, S. Bisogni, W. N. Brandt, E. Dalla Bontà, M. M. Fausnaugh, J. M. Gelbord, Keith Horne, I. M. Mchardy, R. W. Pogge, D. A. Starkey

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

In 2014 the NGC 5548 Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping campaign discovered a two-month anomaly when variations in the absorption and emission lines decorrelated from continuum variations. During this time the soft X-ray part of the intrinsic spectrum had been strongly absorbed by a line-of-sight (LOS) obscurer, which was interpreted as the upper part of a disk wind. Our first paper showed that changes in the LOS obscurer produces the decorrelation between the absorption lines and the continuum. A second study showed that the base of the wind shields the broad emission-line region (BLR), leading to the emission-line decorrelation. …

Effects Of Grazing And Rainfall Variation On Root And Shoot Decomposition In Steppe Ecosystem, M. Giese, N. Fanselow, H. Brueck, S. Lin, Q. Pan, K. Dittert

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Phosphate Uptake By White Clover (Trifolium Repens L.) Genotypes With Contrasting Nodal Root Morphology, James R. Crush, L. Ouyang

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid Accumulation In Tall Fescue During Plant Growth And Development, Walyati Burhan, F. F. Fannin, L. P. Bush

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Root Phenotypic Plasticity In Response To P Deficiency In Two Tall Fescue Cultivars, Mónica G. Agnusdei, M. J. Martinefsky, A. Mollier, S. Pellerin, Silvia G. Assuero

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Resources Use Efficiency In Tall Fescue And Annual Ryegrass Pastures With Different Nitrogen Nutrition (Humid Pampa, Argentina), Mónica G. Agnusdei, M. A. Marino, F. Lattanz

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Tillage And Slurry Application On Soil Quality And Co2 Emissions, Iker Mijangos, Isabel Albizu, Lur Epelde, A. Ibarra, Carlos Garbisu

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Salt Driven Interactions Between Salsola Inermis And Pistacia Lent, Oz Barazani, Avi Golan-Goldhirsh

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Nitrogen Cycling In Intensively Grazed Pastures And Practices To Reduce Whole‐Farm Nitrogen Losses, Sterwart F. Ledgard, J. Luo

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Shifting Rangeland Mineral Resource Limitations: Ecological Responses To Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition, Heather L. Throop

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

How Do Grazing And Stochastic Rainfall Affect Vegetation? Insights From A Simulation Approach, S. Pütz, J. M. Paruelo, G. E. Weber, M. B. Bertiller, F. Jeltsch, T. Wiegand

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

High-Temperature Optical Properties Of Indium Tin Oxide Thin-Films, Jiwoong Kim, Sujan Shrestha, Maryam Souri, John G. Connell, Sungkyun Park, Ambrose Seo

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Indium tin oxide (ITO) is one of the most widely used transparent conductors in optoelectronic device applications. We investigated the optical properties of ITO thin films at high temperatures up to 800 °C using spectroscopic ellipsometry. As temperature increases, amorphous ITO thin films undergo a phase transition at ~ 200 °C and develop polycrystalline phases with increased optical gap energies. The optical gap energies of both polycrystalline and epitaxial ITO thin films decrease with increasing temperature due to electron-phonon interactions. Depending on the background oxygen partial pressure, however, we observed that the optical gap energies exhibit reversible changes, implying that …

The Results Of Analysis Of Allium Genus Of Mongolia, Batsukh Buyanchimeg

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Investigation The Improvement Operations Affections On Ecological Indexes Of Rangeland Health In Rangelands Of Golestan Province, Iran, Zeid Ahmadi, Mehdi Abedi, Gholam Ali Heshmati

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

The Monitoring Of Ecological Effect Of Implement Of Sand Control Project In Sand Source Area Round Beijing And Tianjing, Jun Hong, Xujiang Yun, Jie Liu

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Changes Of Residue Function And Signaling Regrowth After Forage Cutting, Huimin Yang, Linag Zhao, Yuying Shen, Xiaoyan Zhang

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Observation On The Pollen Morphology Of 5 Species Of Caragana Fabr. Plants In The Alashan Desert, Tao Wan, Ping Cai, Weidong Yi, Xiaoming Zhang, Chenbo Zhang

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Rangeland Availability, Use Of The Flora And Land Ownership In El Toro Gorge (Rosario De Lerma Department, Salta Province, Argentina), Francisco Ramón Barbarón

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Spatial‐Temporal Landscape Dynamics In The Hulunbeir Forest‐Steppe Ecotone, Licheng Liu, Shihai Lu

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Compound System And Benefit Analysis About Legumes Forage Intercrop With Prickly Ash In Linxia, Yanqiong Zeng, Shiming Yang

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Population Structure On Tubers Of Scirpus Planiculmisin Alkali‐Lake Habitat In The Songnen Plains Of China, Xun Tian, Yunfei Yang

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Vegetation Succession Characters Of Desertification Grassland In Hulunbeier Steppe, Dongxia Liu

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Study On Photoperiod Sensitivity And Hereditary Potentiality Maize Inbred Lines, Zhengmei Zhu, Feng Tang, Xiaoliang Lu

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Preliminary Experiment On Photoregulation Of Turfgrass, Zhenping Zhu, Qinlu Lu, Xiao Liang

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Stability Of Alpine Meadow Ecosystem On The Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau, Huakun Zhou, Xinquan Zhao, Li Zhou, Wei Liu, Yingnian Li, Song Gu, Xinmin Zhou

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Nitrogen Application On Forage Yield In Alpine Rangeland, Q. P. Zhou, K. J. De, C. T. Xu, Y. J. Ji

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.