Browsing by Subject "population growth"

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    Contextualizing Nashville’s Response to its Affordable Housing Crisis
    (2021-05) Carrier, Benjamin J.
    Over the past decade, Nashville has experienced disruptive political, social, and economic instability and suffered devastating effects from a number of natural disasters. Despite the challenges, the city has also experienced significant population growth and was recently ranked among the top ten performing metropolitan areas in the U.S. The city’s increased population paired with its insufficient housing supply has contributed to aggressive real estate speculation and dramatic neighborhood change throughout the city. This activity has produced an environment where housing is increasingly unattainable for many Nashvillians and has provoked in many residents a distrust and resentment toward the development community. In acknowledgment of the city’s urgent housing needs, Nashville’s Mayor announced his administration’s formation of an Affordable Housing Task Force in January 2021. In order to produce an assessment of its work, I closely monitored the Affordable Housing Task Force over a period of 12 weeks. To contextualize the work of the Affordable Housing Task Force, I have included some recent history in this report along with an analysis of the city’s population changes between 2010 and 2019.
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    Framework for Measuring Sustainable Regional Development for the Twin Cities Region. Final Report.
    (Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota., 2010) Center for Urban and Regional Affairs; Center for Transportation Studies
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    A multifactorial study of the resistance of honeybees Apis mellifera to the mite Varroa destructor over one year in Mexico
    (2005) Mondragon, Luis; Spivak, Marla; Vandame, Remy
    A one year study was conducted to evaluate the population growth of three kinds of honey bee colonies and Varroa destructor mites in Mexico, and to estimate the relative contributions of three resistance mechanisms of the bees: hygienic behavior, grooming behavior, and reproductive ability of the parasite. Very significant changes over the year were observed in the number of mated female offspring produced per mother mite (Wr), mite fertility and mutilation of V. destructor. These changes were correlated to the total number of mites per colony. A factorial analysis showed that two mechanisms explained the variation in the amount of mites per colony: Wr (r2 = 0.73) and proportion of mutilated mites (r2 = 0.51). A multi-factorial model including these two mechanisms was significant (r2 = 0.97). The mite fecundity and the hygienic behavior could not explain the population changes of the mite, and the different kinds of bees showed no differences in the expression of the resistance mechanisms.
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    R code and data for "Comparing multiple survey and recruitment-mortality models to assess growth rates and population projections"
    (2019-09-23) Severud, William J; DelGiudice, Glenn D; Bump, Joseph K; seve0135@umn.edu; Severud, William J; Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Forest Wildlife Populations and Research Group
    This collection of files provides data and R code supporting the publication "Comparing survey and multiple recruitment-mortality models to assess growth rates and population projections" in Ecology and Evolution. We provide all necessary data not included in the manuscript to reproduce the analysis of growth rates and population projections of moose in northeastern Minnesota.