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Summer world : a season of bounty
Naturalist Heinrich brings us the same bottomless reserve of wonder and reverence for the teeming animal life of backwoods New England that he brought us in Winter World. Now he focuses on the animal kingdom in the extremes of the warmer months, with all its feeding, nesting, fighting, and mating. Whether presenting disquisitions on ant wars, the predatory characteristics of wasps, the mating rituals of woodpeckers, or describing an encounter with a road full of wood frogs, Heinrich never stops observing the beautifully complex interactions of animals and plants with nature, giving extraordinary depth to the relationships between habitat and the warming of the earth.--From publisher description.
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New world, known world : shaping knowledge in early Anglo-American writing
New World, Known World examines the works of four writers closely associated with the early period of English colonization, from 1624 to 1649: John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia, William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, Thomas Morton's New English Canaan, and Roger Williams's A Key into the Language of America (in conjunction with another of Williams's major works, The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution). David Read addresses these texts as examples of what he refers to as \"individual knowledge projects\"- the writers' attempts to shape raw information and experience into patterns and narratives that can be compared with and assessed against others from a given society's fund of accepted knowledge.
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Past perfect
Sixteen-year-old Chelsea knows what to expect when she returns for a summer of historical reenactment at Colonial Essex Village until she learns that her ex-boyfriend is working there, too, and then meets the very attractive Dan who works at a rival historical village.
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Rubber meets the road in classic style
WORCESTER - Something about the smell of tire rubber burned into the asphalt stirs the souls of the hot-rodders who have tooled their growly gleamers into the city for the five-day New England Summer Nationals car show. \"I went through five sets of tires last year,\" said John Drew, of Concord, N.H., his creamy white 1940 Chevrolet sedan parked at the edge of the Crowne Plaza hotel parking lot late yesterday afternoon. \"Nothing like frying tires till they blow,\" said Drew, 57, who sometimes drives over to his friend's 700-foot driveway just to leave a little rubber behind. \"Even better is doing it with the cops watching.\"
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Summer Nationals expect to top last year
WORCESTER - Promoter Bob Moscoffian and city officials are expecting crowds at this year's New England Summer Nationals car show to top last year's attendance of more than 40,000. At a press conference yesterday kicking off the car show, Moscoffian praised the city's support of the event and announced that he will donate $15,000 to the petting zoo at Green Hill Park. During the eight years the show has been held in Worcester, the promoter has donated more than $100,000 to Green Hill Park in exchange for the use of the park.
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City gears up for Summer Nationals // 3-day event opens Friday
The three-day classic and custom car event will again be held mostly at Green Hill Park, where admission is charged. Some free evening activities also will be held at the north end of Main Street. Last year, Bob Moscoffian, who founded and produces the show through the Moscoffian Performance Show Series, said he wasn't sure he could continue the event here without corporate sponsorship. With the millennium year coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the New England Summer Nationals in Worcester, Moscoffian thinks he will be able to secure major sponsorship by then, if not before.
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In search of New England's best lobster roll? This guide's for you
Book Review LOBSTER ROLLS OF NEW ENGLAND Seeking Sweet Summer Delight By Sally Lerman History, 192 pp., $16.99 There are a myriad of opinions about what makes the list of New England's most iconic foods.
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Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization
Nonrandom collecting practices may bias conclusions drawn from analyses of herbarium records. Recent efforts to fully digitize and mobilize regional floras online offer a timely opportunity to assess commonalities and differences in herbarium sampling biases.
We determined spatial, temporal, trait, phylogenetic, and collector biases in c. 5 million herbarium records, representing three of the most complete digitized floras of the world: Australia (AU), South Africa (SA), and New England, USA (NE).
We identified numerous shared and unique biases among these regions. Shared biases included specimens collected close to roads and herbaria; specimens collected more frequently during biological spring and summer; specimens of threatened species collected less frequently; and specimens of close relatives collected in similar numbers. Regional differences included overrepresentation of graminoids in SA and AU and of annuals in AU; and peak collection during the 1910s in NE, 1980s in SA, and 1990s in AU. Finally, in all regions, a disproportionately large percentage of specimens were collected by very few individuals. We hypothesize that these mega-collectors, with their associated preferences and idiosyncrasies, shaped patterns of collection bias via ‘founder effects’.
Studies using herbarium collections should account for sampling biases, and future collecting efforts should avoid compounding these biases to the extent possible.
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Rehabilitation outcomes of bird-building collision victims in the Northeastern United States
Building collisions are a leading threat to wild birds; however, only those that are found dead or fatally wounded are included in current mortality estimates, with injured or stunned birds largely assumed to survive long-term. Avian building collision victims are often brought to wildlife rehabilitators for care, with the hopes they can be released and resume their natural lives. We examined the wildlife rehabilitation records of over 3,100 building collisions with 152 different avian species collected across multiple seasons to identify patterns of survival and release among patients. The number of admissions varied by season; fall migration had the highest number of cases and winter had the least number of cases, and summer having the lowest release proportion and winter having the highest. The most common reported injury was head trauma and concussion. Our logistic and Poisson models found that mass had a strong positive effect on release probability, and the season of summer had a strong negative effect on release probability. Mass and winter had a strong positive effect on treatment time, and age and the seasons of fall and winter had a strong negative effect on treatment time in these models. Ultimately, about 60% of patients died in care, either by succumbing to their injuries or by euthanasia. Patients that were released remained in care for longer than patients that died. This study reports different data than carcass studies and views bird-building collisions from the perspective of surviving victims to explore longer-term effects of these collisions on mortality. Increased communication and collaboration between wildlife rehabilitators and conservation researchers is recommended to better understand building collisions and how to respond to this leading threat to wild birds. These findings, along with our estimate of delayed mortality, suggest that overall collision mortality estimates based on carcass collection far exceed one billion birds in the U.S. each year.
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The impact of temperature and precipitation on blacklegged tick activity and Lyme disease incidence in endemic and emerging regions
Background
The incidence of Lyme disease shows high degrees of inter-annual variation in the northeastern United States, but the factors driving this variation are not well understood. Complicating matters, it is also possible that these driving factors may vary in regions with differing histories of Lyme disease endemism. We evaluated the effect of the number of hot (T > 25 °C), dry (precipitation = 0) days during the questing periods of the two immature
Ixodes scapularis
life stages (larval and nymphal) on inter-annual variation in Lyme disease incidence between 2000 and 2011 in long-term endemic
versus
recently endemic areas. We also evaluated the effect of summer weather on tick questing activity and the number of ticks found on small mammals between 1994 and 2012 on six sites in Millbrook, NY.
Results
The number of hot, dry days during the larval period of the previous year did not affect the human incidence of Lyme disease or the density of questing nymphs the following season. However, dry summer weather during the nymphal questing period had a significant negative effect on the incidence of Lyme disease in the long-term endemic areas, and on the density of questing nymphs. Summer weather conditions had a more pronounced effect on actively questing
I. scapularis
collected
via
dragging than on the number of ticks found feeding on small mammals. In recently endemic areas Lyme disease incidence increased significantly over time, but no trend was detected between disease incidence and dry summer weather.
Conclusions
Recently endemic regions showed an increase in Lyme disease incidence over time, while incidence in long-term endemic regions appears to have stabilized. Only within the stabilized areas were we able to detect reduced Lyme disease incidence in years with hot, dry summer weather. These patterns were reflected in our field data, which showed that questing activity of nymphal
I. scapularis
was reduced by hot, dry summer weather.
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