Download or read book Recovery of the Alligator Snapping Turtle in Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alligator Snapping Turtle Recovery Plan Macrochelys Temminckii written by Joseph A. Kath and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes of Meeting written by Illinois Nature Preserves Commission and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Natural Heritage of Illinois written by John E Schwegman and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Natural Heritage of Illinois is an engaging collection of ninety-three essays on the lands, waters, plants, and animals found in Illinois. Written in lively, accessible prose, the book discusses how wind, water, glaciers, earthquakes, fire, and people have shaped Illinois’ landforms, natural habitats, rivers and streams, and the ways in which native plants and animals, from individual species to entire ecosystems, have thrived, survived, or died out. Author John E. Schwegman looks at the state’s early natural history, including its prehistoric vegetation and wildlife. He describes surviving remnants of formerly widespread species, such as biting horseflies so abundant they could kill a horse and flights of passenger pigeons dense enough to block the sun. The book addresses issues of species decline, the ways animals adapt to climate change and dwindling habitats, and the problem of invasive exotic species. Ecosystem preservation is discussed, and readers will witness prescribed burning techniques and volunteers aiding in natural land management. Animal and plant conservation in Illinois is illustrated by essays that examine the efforts to save our dwindling Prairie Chicken population and to reintroduce river otters, the return of nesting bald eagles and cormorants to the state, the discovery of armadillos in southern Illinois, the pros and cons of feeding birds, and the biological significance of frog calls. Essays on Illinois’ native plants cover a wide range of topics, from defensive strategies to poisonous and edible species, prairie’s dependence on fire, how to recognize our wild roses, orchids, prairie grasses, and more. Full of fascinating information and expert knowledge, this book will prove invaluable to scholars, students, teachers, and casual nature lovers.
Download or read book Publications of the State of Illinois written by Illinois. Office of Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Illinois Nature Preserves Commission Proposed Agenda written by Illinois Nature Preserves Commission and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outdoor Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Endangered Species Technical Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illinois Audubon written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Living Museum written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conservation and Recovery of the Yellow Mud Turtle Kinosternon Flavescens in Mason and Tazewell Counties Illinois written by Andrew J. Berger and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yellow Mud Turtle, Kinosternon flavescens, is listed as state endangered in Illinois and has suffered severe declines throughout its Midwest range. Trapping surveys were performed to document the presence and distribution of K. flavescens inhabiting Mason and Tazewell counties, Illinois. Previous trapping in the study area from 1992-2001 resulted in a catch per unit effort of 0.1013 compared to recent studies conducted from 2007-2009, that resulted in a catch per unit effort of 0.0120. The results of recent trapping suggest a decline in numbers of K. flavescens in the study area despite protection of suitable habitat. The study area lies in the central Illinois range of K. flavescens, where much of the landscape has been modified for agricultural use, leaving very little terrestrial habitat suitable for aestivation, nesting and overwintering. Because K. flavescens is a philopatric species it is important to focus initial habitat conservation on areas known to be used by K. flavescens. Based on radio-telemetry observations of 25 K. flavescens, 40 terrestrial locations were identified as being suitable for aestivation, nesting and overwintering. These 40 locations occurred on grassland (38) or savannah (2) habitats and 37 of 40 locations occurred on the Plainfield Sand Soil Series. Although conservation of habitat alone is not sufficient to recover K. flavescens in Mason and Tazewell counties, the identification and characterization of terrestrial habitats used by turtles is necessary for other recovery efforts to succeed. Because of the low numbers of individuals captured from small wetlands in a fragmented landscape, there are concerns that K. flavescens populations in the study area are vulnerable to problems associated with low genetic diversity and demographic stochasticity. Graph theory was used to model connectivity among wetlands in the study area. Two groups of wetlands, including all but one wetland where K. flavescens had been captured from 2007-2009, were identified as being connected by edge distances of 650 m or less. Understanding connectivity among wetlands in the study area will assist managers in focusing conservation efforts at the landscape scale and not on individual wetlands. Increasing connectivity among wetlands in the study area will help to increase genetic diversity and demographic stability of K. flavescens in the study area.
Download or read book The Alligator Snapping Turtle written by Peter Charles Howard Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biennial Report written by Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science written by Illinois State Academy of Science and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illinois Issues written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interior Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2015 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
