Understanding the process in which individuals engage in ethical decision making and the
factors influencing this process may be important for developing more effective ethics …

Most of the fundamental elements of ecology, ranging from individual behavior to species
abundance, diversity, and population dynamics, exhibit spatial variation. Partial differential …

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MARSS is a package for fitting multivariate autoregressive state-space models to time-series
data. The MARSS package implements state-space models in a maximum likelihood …

Management decisions for threatened and endangered species require risks to be identified
and prioritized, based on the degree to which they influence population dynamics. The …

Census data on endangered species are often sparse, error-ridden, and confined to only a
segment of the population. Estimating trends and extinction risks using this type of data …

Diffusion models of animal movement are often criticized because they assume animals
have infinite velocity and completely random motion. To investigate the impact of these …

Twelve salmonid evolutionarily significant units (ESUs) throughout the Columbia River Basin
are currently listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act; these …

Two methanotrophic bacteria with optimum growth temperatures above 40 C were isolated.
Thermotolerant strain LK6 was isolated from agricultural soil, and the moderately …

Background: Regular cancer surveillance is crucial for understanding where progress is being
made and where more must be done. We sought to provide an overview of the expected …