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Not all publications have extents, not all extents are completely accurateRobert E. Gill Jr., Colleen M. Handel, Gary W. Page
Edward T. LaRoe, Gaye S. Farris, Catherine E. Puckett, Peter D. Doran, Michael J. Mac, editor(s)
1995, Book chapter, Our living resources: A report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems
Shorebirds are a diverse group that includes oystercatchers, stilts, avocets, plovers, and sandpipers. They are familiar birds of seashores, mudflats, tundra, and other wetlands, but they also occur in deserts, high mountains, forests, and agricultural fields. Widespread loss and alteration of these habitats, especially wetlands and grasslands during the past...
Anthony R. DeGange, Brenda E. Ballachey, Keith Bayha
Terrie M. Williams, Randall W. Davis, editor(s)
1995, Book chapter, Emergency care and rehabilitation of oiled sea otters: A guide for oil spils involving fur-bearing marine mammals
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services’ (USFWS) Response Plan for sea otters (USFWS, in preparation), in the event of an oil spill, the decision to release sea otters from rehabilitation centers following treatment will be linked to the decision on whether to capture sea otters for treatment. Assuming...
Victor G. Barnes Jr., Roger B. Smith, Mark S. Udevitz, J.R. Bellinger
Edward T. LaRoe, Gaye S. Farris, Catherine E. Puckett, Peter D. Doran, Michael J. Mac, editor(s)
1995, Book chapter, Our living resources: A report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems
Brown bears (Ursus arctos middendorffi) on the Kodiak Archipelago are famous for their large size and seasonal concentrations at salmon streams. Sport hunting of Kodiak bears has been popular since World War II. Their value as captivating subjects to observe or photograph is a more recent development that is increasing...
Bruce W. Dale, Layne G. Adams, R. Terry Bowyer
Ludwig N. Carbyn, Steven H. Fritts, Dale R. Seip, editor(s)
1995, Occasional Publication of the Canadian Circumpolar Institute 35
We investigated patterns of winter wolf predation, including prey selection, prey switching, kill rates, carcass utilization, and consumption rates for four wolf packs during three different study periods (March 1989, March 1990, and November 1990) in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Wolves killed predominantly caribou (165...
Steven C. Amstrup, George M. Durner
Øystein Wiig, Erik W. Born, Gerald W. Garner, editor(s)
1995, Occasional Papers of the IUCN Species Survival Comission (SSC) 10
Current research is designed to determine the status of the polar bear population in the Beaufort Sea and adjacent areas. One goal is to determine how polar bears are distributed relative to each other and habitat features, and to define population boundaries. Another goal is to determine the population size...
Liz Chilton, Philip N. Hooge, S. James Taggart
Daniel R. Engstrom, editor(s)
1995, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the third Glacier Bay science symposium
Stomach contents were collected from sport-caught halibut in Glacier Bay National Park. Stomach samples containing a combination of fish and invertebrate species were observed less frequently than expected. Small, subtidal, noncommercial crab and cod-like fish (Gadidae) appear to be the most important prey items. In thc dict of Pacific halibut....
Elizabeth Ross Hooge
Daniel R. Engstrom, editor(s)
1995, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the third Glacier Bay science symposium
Black-legged Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) have recently experienced widespread population declines and frequent colony failures throughout the North Pacific. At Glacier Bay National Park, the Margerie Glacier colony was censused visually in 1991 through 1993. In 1993 a new photographic census technique was also tested to assess its feasibility, accuracy, and...
Theodore R. Meyers, James R. Winton
1995, Annual Review of Fish Diseases (5) 3-24
The first detections of viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) in North America were in Washington State from adult coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and chinook (O. tshawytscha) salmon in 1988. Subsequently, VHSV was isolated from adult coho salmon returning to hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest in 1989, 1991 and 1994. These isolates...
Gretchen H. Bishop, Philip N. Hooge, S. James Taggart
Daniel R. Engstrom, editor(s)
1995, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the third Glacier Bay science symposium
Originally conceived as a modified Schnabel (1938) design mark-recapture study, the unique random sampling regime of this long line tagging study has allowed us to describe habitat correlates of Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) and other demersal fishes. Pacific halibut and other fish were captured by longline sets of constant length...
George M. Durner, Steven C. Amstrup
1995, Arctic (48) 338-341
Using satellite telemetry, we monitored the movements of an adult female polar bear (Ursus maritimus) as she traveled from the Alaskan Beaufort Sea coast to northern Greenland. She is the first polar bear known to depart the Beaufort Sea region for an extended period, and the first polar bear known...
Joel A. Schmutz, Alexander V. Kondratyev
1995, The Auk (112) 1037-1038
Emperor Geese (Chen canagica) breed primarily on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska (Eisenhauer and Kirkpatrick 1977), but a small, poorly quantified proportion of the world's population is known to breed in the Russia Far East (Kistchinski 1976, 1988, Portenko 1981). Eisenhauer and Kirkpatrick (1977) stated that 80 to 90% of all...
John F. Piatt
1995, American Scientist (83) 396-398
The March-April issue of American Scientist contains a commentary by Julia K. Parrish and P. Dee Boersma (Macroscope, "Muddy Waters") that purports to "assess the validity of the claims made concerning seabird mortality as a result of the [Exxon Valdez oil] spill." Parrish and Boersma would have us believe that...
Donna G. Robertson, R. Douglas Slack
1995, Biological Conservation (71) 179-185
The Texas coast has experienced considerable urban, industrial, and agricultural growth during the 20th Century. The region provides important wintering habitat to many avian species, including lesser snow geese Chen caerulescens caerulescens. This paper draws the biological and ecological fields into an historical perspective by examining available literature on the...
Richard B. Lanctot, Robert E. Gill Jr., T. Lee Tibbitts, Colleen M. Handel
1995, Ibis (137) 559-569
Alloparental care in birds generally involves nonbreeding adults that help at nests or breeding adults that help raise young in communal nests. A less often reported form involves the amalgamation of broods, where one or more adults care for young that are not their own. We observed this phenomenon among...
James S. Sedinger, Robert G. White, Jerry W. Hupp
1995, The Condor (97) 116-122
We measured apparent metabolizability of organic matter, gross energy, nitrogen and cell wall constituents of pelleted alfalfa by Lesser Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens. We also used simultaneous measurements of energy expenditure and apparent metabolizable energy intake to estimate heat increment of feeding and net energy for production and maintenance....
C. John Ralph, George L. Hunt Jr., Martin G. Raphael, John F. Piatt
1995, Book chapter, Ecology and conservation of the Marbled Murrelet (USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-152)
Over the past decade, the Marbled Murrelet has become a focus of much controversy. It was listed as threatened in Washington, Oregon, and California by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in February 1993. In order to aid the various agencies with management, the Marbled Murrelet Conservation Assessment was formed...
Carl J. Markon, Michael D. Fleming, Emily F. Binnian
1995, Polar Record (31) 179-190
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite data were acquired and composited into twice-a-month periods from 1 May 1991 to 15 October 1991 in order to map vegetation characteristics of the Alaskan landscape. Unique spatial and temporal qualities of the AVHRR data...
Daniel H. Monson, Anthony R. DeGange
1995, Canadian Journal of Zoology (73) 1161-1169
Radiotelemetry methods were used to examine the demographic characteristics of sea otters inhabiting the leading edge of an expanding population on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Fifteen male and 30 female sea otters were instrumented and followed from 1986 to 1990. Twenty-one percent of females were sexually mature (had pupped) at age...
Paul L. Flint, Margaret C. MacCluskie
1995, Journal of Field Ornithology (66) 515-521
Previous studies of waterfowl have measured nest attendance and nest temperature separately using a variety of methods. A device was developed that monitors nest attendance and temperature simultaneously. The device consists of an artificial egg with a microswitch that records nest attendance and a thermistor probe that records temperature. Data...
James S. Sedinger, Michael W. Eichholz, Paul L. Flint
1995, The Condor (97) 107-115
We studied behavior of broods of Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) during five summers between 1987 and 1993, a period in which the local breeding population increased >3-fold. Goslings spent more time foraging than adults of either sex, while adult males spent more time alert and less time foraging than...
Margaret R. Petersen, David C. Douglas, Daniel M. Mulcahy
1995, The Condor (97) 276-278
Population estimates of Spectacled Eiders (Somateria fischeri) on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (YKD), Alaska, suggest that by 1992 the number of birds on this major nesting area had declined to 1,721 pairs, 4% of that estimated in the 1970s (Stehn st al 1993). Consequently, Spectacled Eiders were listed as threatened under...
Mark S. Udevitz, Kenneth H. Pollock
1995, Biometrics (51) 471-481
Most change-in-ratio (CIR) methods for estimating fish and wildlife population sizes have been based only on assumptions about how encounter probabilities vary among population subclasses. When information on sampling effort is available, it is also possible to derive CIR estimators based on assumptions about how encounter probabilities vary over time....
Donald D. Young Jr., Carol L. McIntyre, Peter J. Bente, Thomas R. McCabe, Robert E. Ambrose
1995, Journal of Field Ornithology (66) 373-379
Twenty-two Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) nesting territories and 31 occupied eagle nests were documented on the north slope of the Brooks Range in northeastern Alaska, 1988-1990, in an area previously thought to be marginal breeding habitat for eagles. The mean number of young/successful nest was 1.25 in 1988, 1.27 in...
David H. Ward, Paul L. Flint
1995, Journal of Wildlife Management (59) 39-46
Radio transmitters are an important tool in waterfowl ecology studies, but little is known about their effects on free-ranging geese. We attached transmitters to female brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) to investigate migration schedules at a fall staging area, return rates to nesting grounds, and nesting rates of returning females in...