During a warm and dry summer crops of 0-27 day-old chicks contained nearly twice as much food by dry weight as during an extremely wet and cold summer. Weather did not influence the ratio of insects ...

Annual variation in harvested animals (hereafter bag size) is often used as an index of population abundance when investigating population dynamics. Few studies have evaluated how well bag size tracks ...

One nice day in September, I walked with a few friends in a subalpine meadow of no-longer-blooming wildflowers with small shrub thickets scattered throughout. A subdued clucking sound in the brush ...

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