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Behavior management Behavior management

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Authors
S.R. Swengel, George W. Archibald, D. H. Ellis, D.G. Smith

Behavioral studies of contaminant effects on aquatic invertebrates: A review of Russian investigations Behavioral studies of contaminant effects on aquatic invertebrates: A review of Russian investigations

Studies by Russian scientists have documented significant alterations and impairment of critical behavioral functions in aquatic organisms following exposure to environmental contaminants. Behavioral responses disrupted by sublethal exposure to toxicants are intimately involved in habitat selection, foraging, competition, predator-prey relationships, and reproduction, and are essential...
Authors
V. A. Nepomnyashchikh, V. A. DeLonay, E. E. Little

Breaching the levee of a channel on the Mississippi Fan Breaching the levee of a channel on the Mississippi Fan

GLORIA images of the youngest channel on the Mississippi Fan indicate that it has not been a stable feature, but instead has shifted its course several times. A detailed study of a site of channel shifting found a complex stratigraphy that resulted from one episode of channel avulsion. The channel avulsion appears to have been initiated by a large mass flow that choked the channel below...
Authors
David C. Twichell, William C. Schwab, Neil H. Kenyon, Homa J. Lee
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