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{"title":"One Hundred Years Ago in the Transactions","authors":"M. Everhart","doi":"10.1660/062.124.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.124.0105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"124 1","pages":"58 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47151227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Photo Essay: Observations on the Late Season Emergence of Clouded Sulphur Butterflies (Colias philodice) at High Park, Derby, Kansas","authors":"M. Everhart","doi":"10.1660/062.124.0117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.124.0117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"124 1","pages":"132 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45674893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Estimating the Underlying Death Rate of a Small Population: A Case Study of Counties in Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota","authors":"D. Swanson, A. Kposowa, Jack D Baker","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0303","url":null,"abstract":"While the crude death rate has well-known drawbacks, it remains a population health statistic of interest. One of its drawbacks is found exclusively in the context of a small population, where the number of deaths is subject to a high level of stochastic uncertainty. This can lead to dramatic variations in the crude death rate from year to year even though there is neither a corresponding change in the population nor its mortality regime. A simple method is presented for estimating the “underlying” mortality rates of areas with small populations where the number of deaths is subject to a high level of stochastic uncertainty. The idea is that the underlying rates generated by the estimation method should better reflect the mortality regimes of these small populations. The method is described and illustrated in a case study by estimating crude death rates for the 88 “small population” counties, representing approximately the first quartile of the 317 counties found in four Great Plains states, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The method's validity is tested using a synthetic population in the form of a simulated data set generated from a model stable population with a crude death rate of 0.0194, representing Level 23 of the West Family Model Life Table for males. This synthetic population similar to the study population in that it has a slightly negative rate of population growth, with relatively high life expectancy (71.2) and mean age (43.1). The test indicates that the method is capable of producing estimates that represent underlying rates that reflect mortality regimes. Results shown here support the argument that the method can produce reasonable estimates of the underlying crude death rates for small populations subject to high levels of stochastic uncertainty.","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"353 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42491028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kansas Wind Power Status","authors":"J. Aber, S. E. Aber","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0309","url":null,"abstract":"Wind-generated electricity has grown from a niche enterprise in the late 20th century to become a major energy source globally and nationally, and Kansas has played a significant role. Kansas wind power expanded more than six-fold between 2008 and 2018. Among states, Kansas now ranks fourth for total wind generating capacity (>6 GW) and second for combined wind and solar electricity production as a fraction of electricity consumption (47%). Kansas is virtually tied with Iowa for the highest amount of wind energy as part of the electric grid mix (>41%). From early development in the High Plains, wind farms and energy complexes have expanded into nearly all regions of the state. The drainage divide between the Missouri River and Arkansas River basins is a geographic focus for recent development of wind farms in eastern Kansas. Generation of electricity in Kansas mirrors overall energy trends in the United States during the past two decades. Coal, petroleum, and nuclear have declined, hydroelectric has been stable, natural gas has grown, and renewable (wind, solar) energy has expanded dramatically. These shifts in energy sources are reflected likewise in significant declines of carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen emissions. Kansas reflects the international character of the wind-energy industry. Installed wind turbines are mainly of Danish, German, and/or Spanish origin with some components manufactured in Kansas and other nearby states.","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"403 - 413"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48004684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bowfishing in the United States: History, Status, Ecological Impact, and a Need for Management","authors":"D. Scarnecchia, J. Schooley","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0301","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we review the history and development of bowfishing, provide a case study of a high-profile bowfishing tournament in Oklahoma, survey and summarize management of the sport in all 50 states, and provide scientifically-based approaches for its management. Bowfishing has a distinct niche in the evolution of the bow and arrow and in fishing, as one of several methods practiced by many and scattered indigenous cultures worldwide. In the past century, advances in technology, including the development of the compound bow, custom boat and lighting systems for night bowfishing, and improved information transfer have opened the sport to many people previously unable to participate in the sport at a satisfying level. Bowfishing poses some distinct challenges for fisheries managers compared to angling, including the impracticality of catch-and-release, non-catch (wounding) mortality, and by-catch mortality of non-targeted native species. In 2019, we conducted a survey of 50 state fish and wildlife agencies that indicated only nine states had bowfishing education programs and none had articulated management goals or plans specific to the sport. Evidence indicates that bowfishing may provide plentiful opportunities for harvesting nuisance invasive species such as Asian carps (Cyprinidae) and the Common Carp Cyprinus carpio, but must be practiced much more judiciously, and in some instances, not at all, depending on locality, for higher valued native species such as buffalofishes (Catostomidae: Ictiobus spp.), Paddlefish Polyodon spathula, gars (Lepisosteidae), and rays (Batoidea). Whereas in the terrestrial and avian species that bowhunters most commonly target, males reach a larger size than females, in fish species targeted by bowfishers, the opposite is the case. The result is selective depletion of large, older, mature females and evolutionarily disruptive truncation of life histories. We suggest ten of many potential topics for consideration in agency management planning for bowfisheries. We seek to provide agencies information for developing historical, ecological, and socioeconomic perspectives for managing bowfisheries, as other fisheries, as instruments of species conservation, public benefit, and sound long-term public policy.","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"285 - 338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42981576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Enigmatic Snouted Bony Fish, Plethodus sp. (Actinopterygii: Tselfatiiformes), from the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group of Texas, U.S.A.","authors":"K. Shimada","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0312","url":null,"abstract":"Plethodus Dixon (Tselfatiiformes: Plethodidae) is an enigmatic Cretaceous bony fish genus characterized by circular or slightly oblong tooth plates and a short blunt rostrum. In this paper, two isolated rostral specimens attributable to Plethodus are described from the Britton Formation (Cenomanian-lower Turonian) of the Eagle Ford Group in Texas, U.S.A. This discovery, along with other recently described tselfatiiform fishes from the Britton Formation as well as isolated teeth and fragmentary bones of plethodids from the mid-late Cenomanian marine deposits, indicates that the radiation of tselfatiiform fishes in North America had already begun by the Cenomanian.","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"429 - 434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42678588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"One Hundred Years Ago in the Transactions","authors":"M. Everhart","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"386 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46106726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Photo Essay: Observations on the 2020 Occurrence and Mating Behavior of the Diamondback Water Snake (Nerodia rhombifer) at High Park, Derby, Kansas","authors":"Micheal J. Everhart","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0317","url":null,"abstract":"Diamondback Water Snakes (Nerodia rhombifer) were observed from late March through early October, 2020, around the fishing lake in High Park, west of Derby, Kansas (Sedgwick County). Assumed mating aggregations (piles) of several males around a larger female were observed in May and to a lesser extent in early August. As noted by other authors, when these snakes were on the shore, they were never more than 2 meters from the water, and usually right next to water. When disturbed, they immediately escape to the water. No aggressive behavior was observed.","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"460 - 464"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47555770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"For Publication in the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science","authors":"","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"402 - 402"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49430229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Possible Undescribed Aulopiform Fish Allied to the Genus Apateodus from the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk of Kansas, U.S.A.","authors":"C. Fielitz, K. Shimada","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0313","url":null,"abstract":"We describe an isolated lower jaw of a fossil bony fish collected from the Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas. The specimen exhibits some characters common to a relatively rare Late Cretaceous aulopiform fish genus Apateodus Woodward. However, because it also exhibits some features not found in Apateodus, along with its fragmentary condition and preservation mode, we conservatively refer it to as ‘cf. Apateodus sp.’ where it may belong to a previously undescribed aulopiform species phylogenetically allied to Apateodus. The recognition of this potential new taxon from the well-studied Niobrara Chalk demonstrates that there is yet to learn much about the biodiversity and paleoecology of the Western Interior Seaway that existed during the Late Cretaceous in North America.","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"435 - 440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46536108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}