MAFES provides funding to support seven publications

The Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station (MAFES) has restarted it’s publication funding program after a two-year pause. We are proud to announce that with the first cycle of 2024 funding, MAFES has supported seven peer-reviewed publications. These publications reflect the diverse research programs supported by the Experiment Station (see below). A second 2024 funding cycle is currently underway and MAFES will be reviewing applications on October 1, 2024. Contact MASEF Assistant Director Lee Hecker (lee.hecker@maine.edu) for details.

• “American woodcock (Scolopax minor) migration phenology in Eastern North America: implications for hunting season timing.” By  Alexander C. Fish, Amber M. Roth, Greg Balkcom, Liam Berigan, Kylie Brunette, Sarah Clements, Gary Costanzo, Clayton L. Graham, William F. Harvey, Michael Hook, Douglas L. Howell, Seth Maddox, Scott McWilliams, Shawn W. Meyer, Theodore C. Nichols, J. Bruce Pollard, Christian Roy, Josh Stiller, Dawn Washington, Lisa Williams, and Erik J. Blomberg. In The Journal of Wildlife Management.
  
• “Assessing responses to heat in a range-shifting, nocturnal, flying squirrel.” By Vanessa R. Hensley, Ek Han Tan, Emily Gagne, and Danielle L Levesque. In Journal of Mammalogy.
• “Characterization of Wood Fiber Insulation for the Development of Wood Fiber-Insulated Panels (WIPs) for Use in Building Envelope.” By Jacob Snow, Benjamin Herzog, Liam O’Brien, and Ling Li. Submitted to Journal of BioResources.
• “Forester interest in, and limitations to, adapting to climate change across the rural-to-urban gradient.” By Rachel Schattman, Peter Clark, Anthony D’Amato, Todd Ontl, Caitlin Littlefield, and Eric North. In Climate Risk Management.
• “Low temperature tolerance of peach flower buds and shoot tissues is differentially influenced by freezing and high temperature exposure.” By Renae E. Moran and Peyton Ginakes. In HortScience.
• “Metagenomic sequencing sheds light on microbes putatively associated with pneumonia-related fatalities of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus).” By Melanie B. Prentice, Marie L.J. Gilbertson, Daniel J. Storm, Wendy C. Turner, Daniel P. Walsh, Marie E. Pinkerton, and Pauline L. Kamath. In Microbial Genomics.
• “Testing avian umbrella species to inform the conservation of intertidal areas in Acadia National Park.” By Abigail A. Muscat, Bik Wheeler, Elliot M. Johnston, Joshua Parrot, and Brian J. Olsen. In The Wilson Journal of Ornithology.