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Growth and equilibrium in sea otter populations Growth and equilibrium in sea otter populations

(1) Counts through time were compiled for five sea otter (Enhydra lutris) populations in the north-east Pacific Ocean that were below equilibrium density: Attu Island, south-east Alaska, British Columbia, Washington State, and central California. Similar data were obtained from the equilibrium density population at Amchitka Island in 1971 and 1986. (2) Shorelines of Attu and Amchitka...
Authors
J. A. Estes

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

No abstract available at this time
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

Petrosaurus thalassinus Petrosaurus thalassinus

No abstract available at this time
Authors
M.R. Jennings
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