Basket Gathering

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Basket Gathering
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ASIN: B000OZCJDC

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Basket YoYo Quilt with Pillow (HG-59 Quilt and Pillow Patten)
Harvest Gatherings
Manufacturer: Harvest Gatherings
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Pamphlet
ASIN: B000WOTNY8

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6 page fold-over pamphlet with instructions to make the Basket YoYo quilt and matching pillow. Includes a list of supplies need to finish the quilt. The cover picture is a photograph of the finished product.

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once you start you can't put it down

The Gathering Basket
Charmaine Coimbra
Manufacturer: Imprint Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1591097991
Release Date: 2003-08-08

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How did Annamarie Iver's mother die? Was it really as her death certificate read, or far more sinister? Perhaps, Annamarie's lifelong nightmares are the only clues to the truth. Bypassing conventional therapy, Annamarie discovers and gathers the secrets behind her nighttime ghosts and terror, under the guidance of a Taos, New Mexico shaman, Rosemary Quintana.

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once you start you can't put it down.......2003-11-01

the gathering basket is very powerful. i started it and could not put it down until i finished. the attention to detail is great and i would suggest this book to everyone.

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OUT OF THE GATHERING BASKET
Grace Goodman Mauran
Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WQXHWA

Out of the gathering basket;: A series of sketches on gardens and books,

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Out of the gathering basket;: A series of sketches on gardens and books,
Grace Goodman Mauran
Manufacturer: R.F. Seymour
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00086K7NG

From vines to vessels: A vinegatherer's handbook, identification, gathering, preparation

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From vines to vessels: A vinegatherer's handbook, identification, gathering, preparation
Beryl Omega Lumpkin
Manufacturer: B. Lumpkin
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007B2GQI

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Although the hostilities of the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the diplomatic repercussions lasted for several more decades. Eventually, however, the dedicated perseverance of diplomats on both sides paid off. In November 2003, Major General Pham Van Tra, defense minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, met with U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the halls of the Pentagon, signaling a new era in U.S.-Vietnamese defense relations.

This book traces the development of that relationship in the years since the Vietnam War. It focuses especially on the 1990s, a decade in which the author served as country director for Indochina, Thailand and Burma in the Office of the Assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. His experience adds a personal perspective to the historical and political record. Multiple facets of the relationship between the two countries are addressed, including trade, immigration of Amerasian children, and POW-MIA concerns. Through this honest depiction of the sometimes fractious and confusing policy-making process, Stern shows how both parties came to agree, in the words of Major General Tra, that we "should not allow the future to repeat the past."

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All Foreign Policy is Local.......2006-08-11

As reviewed in May 2006 Foreign Service Journal:
"From time to time a book comes along that illustrates a truth familiar to the professional diplomat: domestic parameters within interacting countries often explain the goals and conduct of foreign policy. A classic in this genre, Dr. Stern's "Defense Relations" should be required reading for every advanced class in International Relations. Beyond a meticulous review of the policy process in both countries, Stern's analysis highlights the private and public actors who are part of the policy process, including American legislators who block initiatives and Vietnames generals and bureaucratics who are disparaging, feaful and unimaginative."

Required Reading.......2005-09-02

My boss made me buy this book.
My boss made me read this book.
Thank GOD for my boss! Only the author himself could possibly know more about the subject than my boss.

This book is required for a complete understanding of the dynamics of this once troubled relationship.

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After the terrorist attacks of September 11, many Americans yearned to understand why Muslim extremists felt such passionate animosity toward the Western world, particularly the United States. Since that historic attack there have been many books and discussions about this very question, but few of them offer such a readable and relevant response as this excellent offering by renowned historian Bernard Lewis (What Went Wrong?). For modern Westerners, Islam is an especially foreign religion and culture to understand. For instance, Westerners typically dismiss things as unimportant when using the expression "that's history." But for those raised in Muslim households, history—even ancient history—is just as important (if not more important) as the present. And to better understand the hostilities rooted in this history—one could start with recognizing the long-standing resentment the Islamic community harbors from having its homelands torn apart and re-packaged into random political states by occupying Europeans (Westerners). Or stretch back in time to the brutality of the Crusades. Or go straight to the U.S. political meddling in the region throughout the latter 20th century.

This is not a pity fest for Muslims. Lewis even-handedly explores the sources of Islamic antagonism toward the West while also explaining how a supposedly peace-worshipping religion could be so distorted by violent extremism. He notes that the American way of life—especially that of fulfillment through material gain and sexual freedom—is a direct threat to Islamic values (which is why night clubs—places where men and women publicly touch one another—are targets of bombings). But it is basic Western democracy that especially threatens Islamic extremists, notes Lewis, because within its own community more and more Muslims are coming to value the freedom that political democracy allows. For anyone wanting an intelligent and accessible primer on the Islamic-Western conflict, this is an excellent place to begin. Gail Hudson

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In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes us through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, examining the impact of radical Wahhabi proselytizing, and Saudi oil money, on the rest of the Islamic world.

The Crisis of Islam ranges widely through thirteen centuries of history, but in particular it charts the key events of the twentieth century leading up to the violent confrontations of today: the creation of the state of Israel, the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution, the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, the Gulf War, and the September 11th attacks on the United States.

While hostility toward the West has a long and varied history in the lands of Islam, its current concentration on America is new. So too is the cult of the suicide bomber. Brilliantly disentangling the crosscurrents of Middle Eastern history from the rhetoric of its manipulators, Bernard Lewis helps us understand the reasons for the increasingly dogmatic rejection of modernity by many in the Muslim world in favor of a return to a sacred past. Based on his George Polk Award–winning article for The New Yorker, The Crisis of Islam is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what Usama bin Ladin represents and why his murderous message resonates so widely in the Islamic world.

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Crisis of Islam? What Crisis? .......2007-09-28

Sophmoric reasoning, innuendo, and misleading "facts" characterize "The Crisis of Islam" by Bernard Lewis, the US's best known scholar of the Middle East.

The first 60-70 pages of this brief book are a relatively dispassionate examination of why the Muslims are different from Christians. There are insights here worthy of attention -- although hardly original or brilliantly insightful. But the last 100 pages take on the character of a gradually building diatribe against the Islamic countries.

To give just one example of Lewis's misleading the reader, he characterizes the statistics about economic progress and quality of life in the Islamic countries as "devastating" (page 114). He reels off several pages of statistics to prove his point. Let's take just one set of figures and apply a degree of objectivity to it. The most widely accepted comparison among countries of quality of life is the "human development index" of the UN. Lewis portrays it as a "dismal picture" that Muslim countries do not rank higher. Brunei ranks 32, Kuwait 36, Bahrain 40, Libya 66, etc. But how bad are those rankings? Well, better than India, China, and Brazil -- which are often cited as the coming super-powers. And better than Russia, and better than more than 100 other countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. (The Human Development Index rates 177 countries in its latest version. The US ranks 8.)

Lewis insinuates that all the Middle Eastern Muslim countries rank near the bottom in terms of industry, education, life expectancy, and other quality of life indicators. That's plain wrong. A careful and objective scholar would have evaluated the statistics with more fairness. The Middle Eastern ountries as a group might be better described as "middling" or even "above average" in quality of life compared to the hundreds of millions of destitute poor in economic "powerhouses" like India and China or in truly poor countries in Africa.

Not that the Middle Eastern countries don't have problems. An unbiased scholar would note that they lag behind the West and several Asian countries in social and economic development. He might have a defensible case if he called their progress in the last 50 years "disappointing" compared to, say, South Korea. But for Lewis to throw all -- or even a majority of -- Middle Eastern countries into a pot of despair, poverty, backwardness, and evil is silly, wrong, and misleading. He's describing the half-empty glass, without giving the other side, the half-full glass. Fifty years ago Dubai was a flyspeck. Today, it's vying with Malaysia, another Muslim country, to construct the world's tallest building and buying chunks of the NASDAQ and the LSE.

Scholars of the Middle East like to talk about the Arab "street." If such a "street" exists, Lewis hasn't found it. Unfortunately, he has been influential over the decades in building up a body of biased scholarship.

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Great Book.......2007-05-18

Does a great job explaining the Middle East SNAFU, unlike any News Media channel!

Bernard Lewis is a Right-Wing Neo-Con sellout, but he knows a lot:.......2007-05-07

Whether you lean on the right or left side of the paradigm is your own personal business, but I have to say after reading this book. I can now say without a doubt that I have a better grasp of the issues that engulf the Middle East. Bernard Lewis is a historian with impeccable credentials. In the book Lewis takes you through Middle Eastern history and explains the politics that metastasized from it. You won't believe that a 169-page book could pack so much information.
I'm not going to give away too much info, but I have to remind you to be circumspect when reading this book his opinions are in favor of the Zionist.
In chapter 3 of the book Lewis writes about the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099 AD. To get the other side of the story I recommend "Arab Historians of the Crusades" translated by Francesco Gabrieli.
Moreover, chapter 3 then takes you through the second Turkish siege of Vienna, in 1683, which was a defeat for the Ottoman Turks, and by 1914 Germany allied themselves with the Muslim element in the British, French and Russian empires, which paid off in 1933 when the Mufti of Jerusalem allied himself with the Nazis.
In chapter 4 Lewis writes about the early encounters between the Muslim world and America. He ends chapter 4 in 2002. Only a scholar like Lewis could meticulously cram so much info in such a little book.
This was a great book, but don't believe everything in it. For example, Al'Qaeda doesn't really exist, and Osama bin Laden is really working for the CIA. Lewis will never divulge that information because of what side of the fence he dwells on. So if you want the complete story I recommend "The Terror Conspiracy" by Jim Marrs.
Even still, Bernard Lewis like Noam Chomsky is required reading.

The threat from Muslim extemists in a nutshell.......2007-05-06

If you don't have time to read hefty books about Islam then this 164 page book is perfect. Only an expert like Bernard Lewis would know how to boil such a complicated subject down to the essentials.

Understanding Islam.......2007-04-03

I am enrolled in an Air Force program that required reading three books off of the Chief of Staff Reading List. I chose this book to try and help me understand the Middle East and it has. It has raised more questions for me than answers, which is a mark of a good book to me. I spend time thinking about it after I've read a chapter and I can't say all books stick with me like that. It is an easy read and helps someone not familiary with the Middle East to understand the way they think and where their animosity towards the West comes from. Very interesting and thought provoking read, I would suggest it.

The Crisis of Islam Holy War and Unholy Terror [Unabridged] [Audiobook] by Lewis, Bernard

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The Crisis of Islam Holy War and Unholy Terror [Unabridged] [Audiobook] by Lewis, Bernard

Manufacturer: Books on Tape
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ASIN: 0736690689

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Internationally recognized as one of our greatest historians of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis investigates the motivations behind the September 11 attacks and the larger development of an Islamic holy war against the United States. Over time, with the decline of Islamic power and the rise of the West, Muslims interpreted the Koranic injunction of "jihad" to mean not just a struggle for God, but actual armed struggle against all "infidels" in defense of Muslim power. As Lewis explains, to many Muslims, the world was conceptually divided into two houses: the "House of Islam," where Muslim government and law prevails, and the "House of War," ruled and inhabited by infidels - notably Christians, and now more than ever, Americans. A spectacular primer on the historical roots of Islamic anti-Americanism.

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State

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The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State
Andrew D. Kinsey
Manufacturer: J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Church and State, published by J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 765 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror.(Book Review)
Author: Andrew D. Kinsey
Publication: Journal of Church and State (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State
Volume: 46 Issue: 3 Page: 648(3)

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Roots of jihad.(The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror)(Book Review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

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Roots of jihad.(The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror)(Book Review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Robert Louis Wilkens
Manufacturer: Institute on Religion and Public Life
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, published by Institute on Religion and Public Life on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1778 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Roots of jihad.(The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror)(Book Review)
Author: Robert Louis Wilkens
Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2003
Publisher: Institute on Religion and Public Life
Issue: 136 Page: 67(5)

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THE reference book for birds of the Great Basin

The authoritative guide to Great Basin birds

Birds of the Great Basin: A Natural History (Max C. Fleischmann series in Great Basin natural history)
Fred A. Ryser
Manufacturer: Univ of Nevada Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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Fishes of the Great Basin: A Natural History (Max C. Fleischmann Series in Great Basin Natural History)

The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin (Max C. Fleischmann Series in Great Basin Natural History.)

Great Basin Wildflowers: A Guide to Common Wildflowers of the High Deserts of Nevada, Utah, and Oregon (Wildflower Series)

Wildflowers of the Eastern Sierra and Adjoining Mojave Desert and Great Basin

ASIN: 0874170796

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THE reference book for birds of the Great Basin.......2000-08-18

And, as one of the photographers who did "Watchable Birds of the Great Basin" (also available through Amazon), I should know. Much of my knowledge about the distribution and physiology of Great Basin birds, and of the history of ornithological discovery in the region, comes from this book.

I was a fan years before I had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Dewey, high atop the Goshute range on the Utah/Nevada border while volunteering for a raptor banding/migratory count project. In fact, she was largely responsible for encouraging me to pursue publishing my own writing and photography.

So - full circle. This book has given me much over the years, my ace-in-the-hole when answering questions from Elderhostel participants in birding classes taught in the SE Oregon portion of the Basin, and at other times in the field.

So it gives me pleasure to give something back, by recommending this book to those who are interested in the bird life of this region.

And the rest of this series is good, too...

The authoritative guide to Great Basin birds.......1999-03-10

Part of an outstanding natural history of the Great Basin series published by UNR. All are very good guides for the interested observer, but Ryser's book is the best in the series. It is written with an emphasis on behavior and adaptations to the stresses of living in the arid Basin. Too heavy for the field, and the detailed text does not lend itself to quick searches.

BIRDS OF THE GREAT BASIN. A NATURAL HISTORY.

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BIRDS OF THE GREAT BASIN. A NATURAL HISTORY.
F. Ryser
Manufacturer: Unversity of Nevada Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WPZVRU

Birds of Utah (Great Basin naturalist memoirs)

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Birds of Utah (Great Basin naturalist memoirs)

Manufacturer: Brigham Young University Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Glimpses of desert bird life in the Great Basin,

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Glimpses of desert bird life in the Great Basin,
Harry Church Oberholser
Manufacturer: Govt. Print. Off
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00089V2B4

Handbook of Birds of the Western United States, Including the Great Plains, Great Basin, Pacific Slope, and Lower Rio Grande Valley

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Handbook of Birds of the Western United States, Including the Great Plains, Great Basin, Pacific Slope, and Lower Rio Grande Valley
Florence Merriam Bailey
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company/Riverside Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NWYXUI

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Handbook of birds of the western United States: Including the Great Plains, Great Basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley
Florence Merriam Bailey
Manufacturer: Houghton, Mifflin and Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00085S0JA

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Nice introduction to Great Basin Birds

Watchable Birds of the Great Basin
David Lukas
Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback

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Nice introduction to Great Basin Birds.......2002-02-26

This is a great little introduction for novice birders and armchair naturalists to some of the key birds of the Great Basin. Good photographs and lively text make it a pleasant read. Not a field guide.

Birds breeding in or beneath Osprey nests in the Great Lakes basin. (Short Communications): An article from: Wilson Bulletin

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Birds breeding in or beneath Osprey nests in the Great Lakes basin. (Short Communications): An article from: Wilson Bulletin
Peter J. Ewins , J.R. Miller , E. Barker , and Sergej Postupalsky
Manufacturer: Wilson Ornithological Society
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on December 1, 1994. The length of the article is 3578 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Ospreys share a symbiotic relationship with several bird species by sharing their nesting sites. These species include the Common Grackle, Tree Swallow, European Starling, House Sparrow, Northern Flicker and Barn Swallow. Studies show that the co-existence of the birds in a single nesting area offers a lower risk of predation for the smaller bird species from birds of prey such as eagles, falcons and hawks. In return, the small birds alerts the Ospreys on the presence of predatory birds.

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Title: Birds breeding in or beneath Osprey nests in the Great Lakes basin. (Short Communications)
Author: Peter J. Ewins
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1994
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: v106 Issue: n4 Page: p743(7)

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An empirical evaluation of the area and isolation paradigm of metapopulation dynamics [An article from: Biological Conservation]

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An empirical evaluation of the area and isolation paradigm of metapopulation dynamics [An article from: Biological Conservation]
J. Pellet , E. Fleishman , D.S. Dobkin , A. Gander , and M
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ASIN: B000PDYIIW

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This digital document is a journal article from Biological Conservation, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Much of metapopulation theory assumes that the persistence of individual populations in a metapopulation, and persistence of the metapopulation as a whole, is best modeled by the area of habitat patches and their isolation. Estimates of isolation typically include a measure of geographic distance and a measure of either population size or patch area. This ''area and isolation paradigm'' assumes a functional relationship between the area of a patch and its extinction probability, and between isolation of a patch and its colonization probability. Although these assumptions are fundamental to use of incidence function models of metapopulation dynamics, the assumptions have been validated in only a small number of studies. We tested the ability of area and isolation to predict extinction and colonization patterns using multiple-year occupancy data for 10 species from three taxonomic groups (butterflies, amphibians, and birds). We examined 13 potential models of metapopulation dynamics. All models included four basic parameters: occupancy during the first year of the survey, probability of extinction, probability of colonization, and single-visit detection probability. In eight models, each parameter was either constant or time-dependent. Five models included a patch-level covariate of extinction probability (patch area or population size), colonization probability (connectivity, the inverse of isolation), or both. Extinction patterns generally were predicted more effectively as a function of local population size than as a function of patch area, a constant probability of extinction, or a time-dependent probability of extinction. In most cases, inclusion of connectivity as a patch-level covariate did not improve predictions of colonization patterns. We estimated single-visit detection probabilities for all species in our analyses, thus providing evidence-based guidelines for the refinement of future monitoring protocols.

Influence of the temporal resolution of data on the success of indicator species models of species richness across multiple taxonomic groups [An article from: Biological Conservation]

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Influence of the temporal resolution of data on the success of indicator species models of species richness across multiple taxonomic groups [An article from: Biological Conservation]
J.R. Thomson , E. Fleishman , R. Mac Nally , and Dobkin
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is a journal article from Biological Conservation, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Indicator species models may be a cost-effective approach to estimating species richness across large areas. Obtaining reliable distributional data for indicator species (and therefore reliable estimates of species richness) often requires longitudinal data, that is, surveys for indicator species repeated for several years or time steps. Maximum information must be extracted from such data. We used genetic algorithms and a Bayesian approach to compare the influence of presence/absence data and reporting rate data (the proportion of survey years in which a species was present) on models of species richness based on indicator species. Using data on birds and butterflies from the Great Basin (Nevada, USA), we evaluated models of species richness for one taxonomic group based on indicator species drawn from the same taxonomic group and from a different group. We also evaluated models of combined species richness of both taxonomic groups based on indicator species drawn from either group. We identified suites of species whose occurrence patterns explained as much as 70% of deviance in species richness of a different taxonomic group. Validation tests revealed strong correlations between observed and predicted species richness, with 83-100% of the observed values falling within the 95% credible intervals of the predictions. Whether reporting rate data improved the explanatory and predictive ability of cross-taxonomic models depended on the taxonomic group of the indicator species. The discrepancy in predictive ability was smaller for same-taxon models. Our methods provide a manager with the means to maximize the information obtained from longitudinal survey data.

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