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Point Reyes National Seashore Plant Checklist Point Reyes National Seashore Plant Checklist

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Authors
Gary M. Fellers, Virginia Norris, Wilma Follette

Plant communities of Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park Plant communities of Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park

A survey of the plant communities on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, was conducted from January through July 1988. Vegetation data were collected at 296 sites using a releve technique. The plant communities described include: grassland, coastal marsh, caliche scrub, coastal sage scrub, lupine scrub, baccharis scrub, coastal bluff scrub, coastal dune scrub, mixed...
Authors
Ronilee A. Clark, William L. Halvorson, Andell A. Sawdo, Karen C. Danielsen

Toxicity of municipal wastewater effluents contaminated by pentachlorophenol in southwest Missouri Toxicity of municipal wastewater effluents contaminated by pentachlorophenol in southwest Missouri

Toxicity of effluents from two sewage treatment plants in Joplin, Missouri, was tested using Ceriodaphnia dubia and Pimephales promelas. No test organisms survived in effluents from either plant, in effluents diluted with water from Turkey Creek (the receiving stream), or in water from Turkey Creek. Mortality was complete in all but the most dilute treatments of effluents, in which...
Authors
G.D. Wylie, S.E. Finger, R.W. Crawford

[Book review] Prescribed Burning in California Wildland Vegetation Management, by H. Biswell [Book review] Prescribed Burning in California Wildland Vegetation Management, by H. Biswell

Book review: Prescribed Burning in California Wildlands Vegetation Management. Harold Biswell (Author), James Agee (Foreword). 274 pages. ISBN: 9780520219458.
Authors
Jon E. Keeley

Petrosaurus Petrosaurus

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Authors
M.R. Jennings

Status of the greater flamingo in Haiti Status of the greater flamingo in Haiti

Although flamingos in Haiti can still be found in most areas of their historical range, survey results indicate that numbers have declined drastically over the last 50 years. The coastal mangrove lagoons between Grand Saline and Gonaïves, the inland lakes of Étang Saumâtre and Trou Caïman, and Ile de la Gonâve have been, and remained, the major areas used by flamingos. The species has...
Authors
J. A. Ottenwalder, C.A. Woods, G. B. Rathbun, J.B. Thorbjarnarson
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