The Winter Sourcebook Volume VI is here
Directly from the field, the Winter 2025 NRI Sourcebook is here — each season, we publish a digital collection of the recently published peer-reviewed scientific publications, research reports, and resources developed to support the improvement of conservation, natural resource management, and private land stewardship. This collection is for you, your partners and community to use and share where we can collaborate to create resilient landscapes.
We collaborated on such a wealth of knowledge in 2024 that we decided to create another Sourcebook edition with a diverse body of work including findings on toxicant use to control red imported fire ants threatening native species, machine learning methods used to categorize grazing cattle behaviors, assessing hurricane impacts on habitat of the endangered Key deer, genome-data on the relationships of earless lizard species, comparisons on the morphology and vocalizations of the Houston toad and dwarf American toads, studies to better understand how mammal species react to humans, two studies assessing site selection for ocelot reintroduction and the viability of said reintroduction, and research on imperiled freshwater mussels including on their growth and longevity, annulus validation, and the creation of conservation and management frameworks to protect the species.
We are also releasing reports and landowner resources that provide an overview of the permitting and regulatory process surrounding living shorelines in four coastal states, updates on landowner demographics and their relationship to wildlife management, and an evaluation of the Texas Farm and Ranch Lands Conservation Program in 2024. Each item featured in the Sourcebook can be accessed on the NRI website under Research.
Written by Abigail Holmes, NRI Project Coordinator and Brittany Wegner, NRI Program Manager
Originally published at https://nri.tamu.edu.
