Time-series vegetation monitoring with NOAA satellite data
Wayne A. Miller, Donald G. Moore
1983, Conference Paper, Renewable resource inventories for monitoring changes and trends: Proceedings of an international conference
No abstract available....
Sulfur diagenesis in Everglades peat and origin of pyrite in coal
Z. S. Altschuler, M. M. Schnepfe, C.C. Silber, F.O. Simon
1983, Science (221) 221-227
The pattern of sulfur transformation in peat across the Everglades basin indicates that pyrite formation in organic-rich swamps depends on the use of organic oxysulfur compounds in dissimilatory respiration by sulfur-reducing bacteria. This paragenesis explains the primary distribution of sulfur compounds in low-sulfur coals and possibly in most coals and...
Neptunium and americium speciation in selected basalt, granite, shale, and tuff ground waters
J.M. Cleveland, T.F. Rees, K.L. Nash
1983, Science (221) 271-273
Neptunium and americium are relatively insoluble in ground waters containing high sulfate concentrations, particularly at 90°C. The insoluble neptunium species is Np(IV); hence reducing waters should enhance its formation. Americium can exist only in the trivalent state under these conditions, and its solubility also should be representative...
Ages estimated from a diffusion equation model for scarp degradation
Steven M. Colman, Ken Watson
1983, Science (221) 263-265
The diffusion equation derived from the continuity equation for hillslopes is applied to scarp erosion in unconsolidated materials. Solutions to this equation allow direct calculation of the product of the rate coefficient and the age of the scarp from measurements of scarp morphology. Where the rate coefficient can be estimated...
Multiple microtektite horizons in upper Eocene marine sediments: No evidence for mass extinctions
G. Keller, Steven L. D’Hondt, T.L. Vallier
1983, Science (221) 150-152
Microtektites have been recovered from three horizons in eight middle Eocene to middle Oligocene marine sediment sequences. Five of these occurrences are coeval and of latest Eocene age (37.5 to 38.0 million years ago); three are coeval and of early late Eocene age (38.5 to 39.5 million...
Disruption, dispersion, and dominance in lek-breeding birds
Mercedes S. Foster
1983, American Naturalist (122) 53-72
No abstract available....
Cholinesterase inhibition of birds inhabiting wheat fields treated with methyl parathion and toxaphene
K. R. Niethammer, Thomas S. Baskett
1983, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (12) 471-475
Red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) and dickcissels (Spiza americana) inhabiting wheat fields treated with 0.67 kg AI/ha methyl parathion and 1.35 kg AI/ha toxaphene showed brain cholinesterase (ChE) inhibition compared with birds inhabiting untreated fields. Maximum inhibition occurred about five days after insecticide application. ChE activities again approached “normal” 10 days...
Concentrated nesting of mallards and gadwalls on Miller Lake Island, North Dakota
Harold F. Duebbert, John T. Lokemoen, David E. Sharp
1983, Journal of Wildlife Management (47) 729-740
Island-nesting mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) and gadwalls (A. strepera) were studied on a 4.5-ha island in 385-ha Miller Lake in northwestern North Dakota during 1976-80. During the 5-year study, 2,561 duck nests of 9 species were found on Island A located 180 m offshore; 59% were mallard and 34% were gadwall....
Effective record length for the T-year event
Gary D. Tasker
1983, Journal of Hydrology (64) 39-47
The effect of serial dependence on the reliability of an estimate of the T-yr. event is of importance in hydrology because design decisions are based upon the estimate. In this paper the reliability of estimates of the T-yr. event from two common distributions is given as a function of number of observations...
Woodcock singing-ground counts and habitat changes in the northeastern United States
Thomas J. Dwyer, Daniel G. McAuley, Eric L. Derleth
1983, Journal of Wildlife Management (47) 772-779
Aerial photography from the late 1960's and the late 1970's was used to study habitat changes along 78 American woodcock (Scolopax minor) singing-ground routes in 9 northeastern states. The most noticeable changes were declines in the amount of abandoned field, cropland, shrubland, and field/pasture. The amount of land in the...
Blood indicators of seasonal metabolic patterns in captive adult gray wolves
U.S. Seal, L.D. Mech
1983, Journal of Wildlife Management (47) 704-715
Blood samples and physical data were collected weekly from a colony of gray wolves (Canis lupus) maintained under natural weather arid light conditions. Sampling over 33 continuous months indicated that hemoglobin, hematocrit, red blood cells, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), and thyroxine exhibited consistent circannual patterns of variation in both...
Late Wisconsin mountain glaciation in the western United States
S.C. Porter, Kenneth L. Pierce, T. D. Hamilton
1983, Book chapter, Late-Quaternary environments of the United States
No abstract available....
Organochlorine residues and shell characteristics of roseate tern eggs, 1981
T. W. Custer, I.C.T. Nisbet, A. J. Krynitsky
1983, Journal of Field Ornithology (54) 394-400
Roseate Terns (Sterna dougallii) breed in two areas in the Western Hemisphere: in northeastern North America between Long Island, New York, and Nova Scotia, and around the Caribbean Sea from the Florida Keys and the Bahamas to the Netherlands Lesser Antilles (Bent 1921, Bond 1956, Nisbet 1980). Both populations are...
Organochlorine pesticides and PCB's: A continuing problem for the 1980s
W. James Fleming, D. R. Clark Jr., Charles J. Henny
1983, Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference (48) 186-199
In general. decreases in OC contamination in North America are unmistakable. This is documented by the NPMP. but. more importantly. it is borne out by improvements in the reproduction and population status of the brown pelican. bald eagle, peregrine falcon, and osprey. However, some OC contamination still persists, and several...
Clutch size, reproductive success, and organochlorine contaminants in Atlantic coast black-crowned night-herons
Thomas W. Custer, Gary L. Hensler, T. Earl Kaiser
1983, The Auk (100) 699-710
In 1979, we gathered clutch-size and reproductive-success data on Black-crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) nesting in three New England and two North Carolina colonies. In 1975, we gathered similar data from one of the New England and one of the North Carolina colonies. Latitudinal differences in clutch initiation were not evident....
Environmental contaminant hazards to Attwater's greater prairie-chickens
Edward L. Flickinger, Douglas M. Swineford
1983, Journal of Wildlife Management (47) 1132-1137
The Attwater's greater prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) was declared an endangered species in 1966 and exists only on the upper Gulf Coast prairie of southeast Texas. Since 1975, total numbers have declined from 2,240 to 1,456 in 1981 (Jurries 19679; W. Shifflett, Manager Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge [APCNWR],...
Effects on wildlife from use of endrin in Washington State orchards
L. J. Blus, Charles J. Henny, T. E. Kaiser, R. A. Grove
1983, Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference (48) 159-174
No abstract available....
Parathion alters incubation behavior of laughing gulls
Donald H. White, C. A. Mitchell, E. F. Hill
1983, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (31) 93-97
One member of each pair of incubating laughing gulls at 9 nests was trapped, orally dosed with either 6 mg/kg parathion in corn oil or corn oil alone, and marked about the neck with red dye. Each nest was marked with a numbered stake and the treatment was recorded. A...
Relationships of environmental contaminants to reproductive success in red-breasted mergansers (Mergus serrator) from Lake Michigan
G. H. Heinz, S. D. Haseltine, W. L. Reichel, Gary L. Hensler
1983, Environmental Pollution (Series A) (32) 211-232
In 1977 and 1978, we studied red-breasted mergansers Mergus serrator nesting on islands in northwestern Lake Michigan to determine whether environmental contaminants were having effects on reproduction. Seventeen contaminants were measured in randomly chosen eggs from 206 nests under study. Using a variety of statistical approaches, we looked for effects of individuals...
Contaminants in greater snow geese and their eggs
J. R. Longcore, J.D. Heyland, A. Reed, P. Laporte
1983, Journal of Wildlife Management (47) 1105-1109
No abstract available....
Effects of heptachlor on American kestrels in the Columbia Basin, Oregon
Charles J. Henny, L. J. Blus, C. J. Stafford
1983, Journal of Wildlife Management (47) 1080-1087
Wheat seeds treated with heptachlor to control wireworms (Ctenicara pruinina) resulted in American kestrels (Falco sparverius) in the Columbia Basin accumulating residues of heptachlor epoxide (HE) that reduced productivity and caused some adult mortality. The kestrel is more sensitive to HE residues in eggs than the Canada goose (Branta...
Jiddah and vicinity, ... Saudi Arabia : 1:25,000-scale topographic maps
Saudi Arabia. Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources, Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1983, Report
Contents: SP-2B2. Al Kurāʻ SW --SP-3B2. Al Kurāʻ --SP-4B2. ʻUsfān SW --SP-5B2. Ra's Abḩur --SP-6B2. Buraymān --SP-7B2. Jabal Ţanḑub NW --SP-8B2. Buraymān SW --SP-9B2. Jiddah north --SP-10B2. Jabal Ţanḑub --SP-11B2. Jiddah south --SP-12B2. Jabal al Ḩamrāʼ --SP-13B2. Jazīrat Ghurāb --<br...
Early Tertiary age of pitchstone in the northern Black Hills, South Dakota
J. A. Redden, J. D. Obradovich, C. W. Naeser, R. E. Zartman, J.J. Norton
1983, Science (220) 1153-1154
A block of pitchstone in the northern Black Hills, South Dakota, is Paleocene in age, according to potassium-argon dating of biotite and fission-track dating of zircon in the sample. These data invalidate published suggestions that the age is much younger. The pitchstone is not extrusive in its present position but...
Solubility of crude oil in methane as a function of pressure and temperature
Leigh C. Price, L.M. Wenger, T. Ging, C.W. Blount
1983, Organic Geochemistry (4) 201-221
The solubility of a 44° API (0.806 sp. gr.) whole crude oil has been measured in methane with water present at temperatures of 50 to 250°C and pressures of 740 to 14,852 psi, as have the solubilities of two high molecular weight petroleum distillation fractions at temperatures of 50 to...
Ground-water contamination by organic bases derived from coal-tar wastes
Wilfred E. Pereira, Colleen E. Rostad, John R. Garbarino, Marc F. Hult
1983, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (2) 283-294
A fluid sample from a shallow aquifer contaminated by coal-tar wastes was analyzed for organic bases. The sample consisted of a mixture of aqueous and oily-tar phases. The phases were separated by centrifugation and filtration. Organic bases were isolated from each phase by pH adjustment and solvent extraction. Organic bases...
