Incidental take is the permitted unintended or collateral killing, harassment, or habitat destruction of a protected species under endangered species law and is permissible as long as the take does not jeopardize the species’ persistence in the wild. However, take is seldom addressed in a quantitative or population modeling context and the criterion of ‘‘jeopardy” has no universal, quantitative...

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This paper proposes a description of German word order including phenomena considered as complex, such as scrambling, (partial) VP fronting and verbal pied piping. Our description relates a syntactic dependency structure directly to a topological hierarchy without resorting to movement or similar mechanisms.

Piping systems are a representative social infrastructure to provide oil, gas, and water. Damage piping may cause serious consequences, such as fire, water outage, environmental pollution. Therefore, need be protected from natural disasters, earthquakes. Earthquakes deformation that exceeds design criteria. For example, large relative displacements liquefaction of the ground resulting in loss s...

Understanding patterns of habitat selection across a species’ geographic distribution can be critical for adequately managing populations and planning for habitat loss and related threats. However, studies of habitat selection can be time consuming and expensive over broad spatial scales, and a lack of standardized monitoring targets or methods can impede the generalization of site-based studie...

The metapopulation viability analysis package, vortex, was used to examine viability and recovery objectives for piping plovers Charadrius melodus, an endangered shorebird that breeds in three distinct regions of North America. Baseline models indicate that while Atlantic Coast populations, under current management practices, are at little risk of near-term extinction, Great Plains and Great La...