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Dose-response effects of recombinant bovine somatotrop (Posilac) on growth performance and body composition of two-year-old rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Dose-response effects of recombinant bovine somatotrop (Posilac) on growth performance and body composition of two-year-old rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Two hundred rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss, mean weight 301.5 g) were allotted to four treatments with five replicates in a randomized block design to determine the dose-response effects of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST; PosilacTM) on growth performance and carcass composition. Treatments were sham-injected controls (S), 10 µg/g BW of rbST (L), 20 µg/g BW of rbST (M), and 30...
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M.J. Garber, K.G. DeYonge, J.C. Byatt, W.A. Lellis, D. C. Honeyfield, R.C. Bull, G.T. Schelling, R.A. Roeder

Large wave at Daytona Beach, Florida, explained as a squall-line surge Large wave at Daytona Beach, Florida, explained as a squall-line surge

On a clear calm evening during July 1992, an anomalously large wave, reportedly 6 m high struck the Daytona Beach, Florida area. It is hypothesized that a squall line and associated pressure jump, travelling at the speed of a free gravity wave, coupled resonantly with the sea surface forming the large wave or "squall-line surge'. The wave was forced along the length of the squall line...
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A. H. Sallenger, J. H. List, G. Gelfenbaum, R. P. Stumpf, M. Hansen

Vanishing lands: Sea level, society and Chesapeake Bay Vanishing lands: Sea level, society and Chesapeake Bay

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S.P. Leatherman, R. Chalfont, E.C. Pendleton, T.L. McCandless, S. Funderburk

Year-round movements of a Wahlberg's Eagle Aquila wahlbergi tracked by satellite Year-round movements of a Wahlberg's Eagle Aquila wahlbergi tracked by satellite

An adult female Wahlberg's Eagle from northern Namibia was tracked by satellite ovcr a total distance of 8816 km and located 104 times between 11 February and 4 November 1994. It migrated on an almost due north heading to northern Cameroon, north-eastern Nigeria and western Chad through the rain forest belt of the Congo and Zaire after the breeding season. The total trans-equatorial...
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B.-U. Meyburg, J.M. Mendelsohn, D. H. Ellis, D.G. Smith, C. Meyburg, A.C. Kemp

Overwinter survival of neotropical migratory birds in early-successional and mature tropical forests Overwinter survival of neotropical migratory birds in early-successional and mature tropical forests

Many Neotropical migratory species inhabit both mature and earty-successional forests on their wintering grounds, yet comparisons of survival rates between habitats are lacking. Consequently, the factors affecting habitat suitability for Neotropical migrants and the potential effects of tropical deforestation on migrants are not well understood. We estimated overwinter survival and...
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C.J. Conway, G.V.N. Powell, J.D. Nichols

Aquatic toxicity, salinity and water hardness Aquatic toxicity, salinity and water hardness

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I.R. Hardin, P. V. Winger, P. J. Lasier, M.S. Brewer

Taxonomy of the genus Lycalopex (Carnivora: Canidae) in Argentina Taxonomy of the genus Lycalopex (Carnivora: Canidae) in Argentina

Previously treated as species of Pseudalopex, Argentine members of the genus Lycalopex (L. griseus, L. gymnocercus, and L. culpaeus) are examined to clarify the taxonomic status of each named form. Principal components analyses of 26 cranial measurements of 151 adult specimens and 11 pelage characters of 111 specimens, clearly distinguish L. culpaeus from the other two taxa. Lycalopex...
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G.E. Zunino, O.B. Vaccaro, M. Canevari, A. L. Gardner

Estimating annual survival and movement rates of adults within a metapopulation of roseate terns Estimating annual survival and movement rates of adults within a metapopulation of roseate terns

Several multistratum capture—recapture models were used to test various hypotheses about possible geographic and temporal variation in survival, movement, and recapture/resighting probabilities of 2399 adult Roseate Terns (Sterna dougallii) color—banded from 1988 to 1992 at the sites of the four largest breeding colonies of this species in the northeastern USA. Linear—logistic...
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Jeffrey A. Spendelow, James D. Nichols, Ian C. T. Nisbet, Helen Hays, Grace Cormons, Joanna Burger, C. Safina, James E. Hines, Michael Gochfeld
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