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Can we determine the best practices for involving community in conservation?

The Flagstaff Kestrel Project (FKP) seeks to understand effective strategies for integrating community participation into conservation. After building a large, interconnected web of com...

Northern Arizona University

106% funded

Ecology

Education

Ticks and tick-borne pathogens of the Mojave Desert Tortoise

Ornithodoros ticks occur in the Mojave desert and frequently parasitize desert tortoises. These ticks carry the pathogen

Molly June Bechtel

Northern Arizona University

107% funded

Biology

Ecology

Drought Adaptation in a Threatened White Pine

Increasing drought conditions in the southwestern USA due to climate change will result in the most widespread forest decline ever to occur in North America. Our team of 26 scientists fr...

Northern Arizona University

102% funded

Biology

Ecology

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Did you know the Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) has a borreliacidal effect on ticks carrying the causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi? This means that an enzyme in lizard blood kills the Borrelia pathogen carried...

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$24,756

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