Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
Search Results
31 results
for Ecology
Currently viewing results 1 - 15
|
PAGE
OF 3
|
Next |
Record #:
27847
Author(s):
Abstract:
The Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival in Chatham County is raising money to buy the land it currently leases. The nonprofit that produces the festival cannot afford the land but does not want to leave. The festival is growing each year and its lease is almost up. The problem is explored and compared with other national festivals who have experienced similar issues.
Source:
Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 6, February 2010,
p39
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Record #:
28166
Author(s):
Abstract:
A survey of streams in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park revealed low populations of hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) and mudpuppies (Necturus maculosus). Water quality profiles indicated acidic conditions for Little River and Noland Creek, suggesting that monitoring efforts should be continued.
Source:
Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 118 Issue 1, Spring 2002,
p27-34, il, map, bibl
Periodical Website
Record #:
28206
Author(s):
Abstract:
The golden mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) ranges across the southeastern United States, and typically prefers habitat consisting of greenbrier and honeysuckle. In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the golden mouse prefers similar habitats in high elevation grassy balds.
Source:
Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 119 Issue 3, Fall 2003,
p120-122, bibl
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Record #:
28254
Author(s):
Abstract:
A total of twenty-nine scale-bearing Protista were observed from freshwater North and South Carolina sites. While ten of the taxa have been previously reported from the United States, nineteen are new records.
Source:
Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 121 Issue 1, Spring 2005,
p1-16, il, bibl
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Record #:
28342
Author(s):
Abstract:
The diversity and seasonal abundance of arthropods (insects and spiders) associated with two old growth and two secondary growth stands of eastern hemlock were assessed in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. More arthropods were captured in secondary growth hemlock stands than in old growth stands.
Source:
Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 125 Issue 2, Summer 2009,
p70-77, il, bibl
Periodical Website
Record #:
28343
Author(s):
Abstract:
Coastal and estuarine systems are highly susceptible to species invasions. This study examined the relationship between recruitment and adult communities in Charleston, South Carolina. The non-indigenous Asian green mussel (Perna viridis) was found indicating the need for extended monitoring efforts.
Source:
Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 125 Issue 2, Summer 2009,
p78-84, il, bibl
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Record #:
28390
Author(s):
Abstract:
Understory vegetation biomass and species richness response to site preparation treatments, fertilization trials and drainage locations in loblolly pine and pond pine plantations were studied in an Eastern North Carolina pocosin. Results indicate whether some ecosystem functions are being lost.
Source:
Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 126 Issue 2, Summer 2010,
p37-43, il, map, bibl
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Record #:
28393
Author(s):
Abstract:
A fish inventory in 2004 of Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in Greensboro, North Carolina was conducted by sampling three reaches of the two streams within the park. The fish community was surprisingly diverse, considering alterations and urbanization of surrounding Greensboro.
Source:
Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 126 Issue 4, Winter 2010,
p77-83, il, map, bibl
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Record #:
28415
Author(s):
Abstract:
Selected high elevation forests and heath balds of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park were comprehensively sampled for the first time. Overall species richness declined with elevation, yet numbers of snails appear to change little with increasing altitude.
Source:
Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 128 Issue 2, Summer 2012,
p27-32, il, bibl
Periodical Website
Record #:
28419
Author(s):
Abstract:
The spiny water flea (Daphnia lumholtzi) is a potentially invasive species native to Eastern Africa. While its complete distribution in North Carolina is unknown, this is the first report of the flea in B. Everett Jordan Lake, a reservoir in central North Carolina.
Source:
Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 128 Issue 2, Summer 2012,
p51-53, il, map, bibl
Periodical Website
Record #:
28430
Author(s):
Abstract:
In North Carolina, dog-day cicadas appear in smaller numbers every year. Observations in a Charlotte, North Carolina suburban neighborhood revealed that the cicadas were being attacked by carpenter ants as they emerged from the ground. Thus, predation is an important regulator of dog-day cicadas.
Source:
Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 129 Issue 4, Winter 2013,
p190, bibl
Periodical Website
Record #:
28561
Author(s):
Abstract:
Danielle Keller, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute of Marine Sciences, describes how changing seagrass cover in North Carolina waters might affect juvenile fish.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
30051
Author(s):
Abstract:
Collections of invertebrate animals and ecological data were made from approximately five-hundred caves in the Appalachian Valley and Ridge province of Virginia and eastern Tennessee from 1961 to 1980. The regional cave faunas consist of species that are related to or also exist in North Carolina and other southeastern states.
Source:
Full Text:
Record #:
30075
Author(s):
Abstract:
This paper offers a taxonomic and ecological summary of all known species of Sympotthastia, a genus of non-biting midges in the insect family Chironomidae. Chironomid larvae occur in all types of aquatic or brackish waters. Species found in the Nearctic realm of North Carolina provide additional information on the larval stages of certain species.
Source:
Full Text:
Record #:
30091
Author(s):
Abstract:
The eighteen terrestrial isopod crustaceans from North Carolina are reviewed with synonymies, illustrations, distribution maps, ecological notes and a key to species. The species can be divided into species exclusively from the seashore, and species from more upland locations.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text: