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January 1, 1964

Research, Key to Progress

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D.L. Leedy, D. A. Munro, W.F. Crissey

Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

January 1, 1964

Significance of bird losses on Lake Michigan during November and December 1963

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C. M. Herman

Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

January 1, 1964

South of the border

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G.B. Saunders

Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

January 1, 1964

Water off and on

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W.E. Green, L.G. MacNamara, F.M. Uhler

Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

January 1, 1964

Weather

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J.J. Lynch

Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

January 1, 1964

Wildlife studies, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

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L.F. Stickel

Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

January 1, 1963

1963 progress report: Pesticide-bald eagle relationships

To sum up, we know that DDT in sufficient quantity will kill eagles. We know that wild eagles carry body burdens of DDT, and that some of this is transferred to the egg by the females. We do not know that the levels in the egg are sufficient to affect hatching; nor do we know that body burdens in wild eagles are sufficiently high to be detrimental. Certainly, however, we have no evidence...

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J.L. Buckley, James B. DeWitt

Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

January 1, 1963

Association and determinacy in geomorphology

You find a rock. It looks like an ordinary piece of flint, broken and rough. On a part of it is a patina whose soft grey color contrasts with the shiny brownish surfaces of conchoidal fracture. You could have found this rock in nearly any kind of an environment almost anyplace in the world. There is nothing distinctive about it.You hand this same piece of rock to a colleague and ask what...

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Luna Bergere Leopold, Walter Basil Langbein

January 1, 1963