When Ryan is leaving, he claims he is going to Ohio because "they call it the Silicone Prairie," a reference to Silicon Valley, a part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States that is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations.
In the 1990s, the hatching success of amphibians from agricultural sites was significantly depressed in the Sumas Prairie compared to reference sites.
Geographical area (a time-dependent variable) was a nominal variable with five categories: Atlantic (Halifax, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island); British Columbia; Prairies (Manitoba, Saskatoon, Alberta Quebec and Ontarioareferencerencategoryory).
We control for six regions: the Atlantic Provinces, Quebec, Ontario (the reference category), the Prairies, Alberta and British Columbia.
We assessed the potential value of urban "green roofs" for native pollinator conservation in the Chicago region, comparing them with reference habitats of tallgrass prairie natural areas and traditional city-park green spaces.
Several grassland sites and one native prairie site located nearby were characterized as reference points for examining biodiversity and soil quality attributes of the treatments.
Kalish's storytelling definitely has a Little House on the Prairie kind of vibe, with lots of references to caring for various adorably-named farm animals, family gatherings where everyone helps gather enough nuts to last the winter, one-room schoolhouses, and making toys out of scraps of wood and nails.
From an adjacent undisturbed native prairie, soil cores were collected and composited similarly to provide a reference.
Thus, though the number of markers included in our comparative maps is relatively small, these observations suggest that the mouse genome could be a better reference for predicting the location of genes in the prairie vole genome versus the rat genome.
Other reference for the visual effects work included government tapes of nuclear tests, and video reference of real prairie dogs shot in 1080p by Nathan Edward Denning.
