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USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center staff publish results of their research in USGS series reports and in peer-reviewed journals. Publication links are below.  Information on all USGS publications can be found at the USGS Publications Warehouse.

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Improved population estimates through the use of auxiliary information Improved population estimates through the use of auxiliary information

When estimating the size of a population of birds, the investigator may have, in addition to an estimator based on a statistical sample, information on one of several auxiliary variables, such as: (1) estimates of the population made on previous occasions, (2) measures of habitat variables associated with the size of the population, and (3) estimates of the population sizes of other...
Authors
Douglas H. Johnson

The winter season - Northern Great Plains The winter season - Northern Great Plains

This winter was hardly a winter by usual standards. At Grand Forks six record highs were set in February, a month which averaged 11°F above normal, and a -20° reading was not recorded the entire season for the first time in 50 years. Fort Peck Lake in Montana finally iced over February 12, only to begin reopening three days later (CMC). Temperatures reached into the 70s in South Dakota...
Authors
David O. Lambeth, Craig A. Faanes

High duck nesting success in a predator-reduced environment High duck nesting success in a predator-reduced environment

Duck nesting and production were studied during 1969-74 on a 51-ha field of undisturbed grass-legume cover and a surrounding 8.13-km2 area in north-central South Dakota. The principal mammalian predators of ducks were reduced within a 259-km2 zone from May 1969 through August 1971. Dabbling duck nest densities, hatching success, and breeding populations attained high levels. Seven duck...
Authors
Harold F. Duebbert, John T. Lokemoen

[Book review] Wildflowers across the prairies, by F. R. Vance, J. R. Jowsey and J. S. McLean [Book review] Wildflowers across the prairies, by F. R. Vance, J. R. Jowsey and J. S. McLean

Review of: Wildflowers across the prairies. F. R. Vance, J. R. Jowsey and J. S. McLean. Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie books, 1977. 214 p. : col. ill., map ; 22 cm.
Authors
C. Faanes
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