Use of banding data in migratory game bird research and management
A. D. Geis
1972, Special Scientific Report - Wildlife 154
Bibliography on methods of analyzing bird banding data, with special reference to the estimation of population size and survival
David R. Anderson
1972, Special Scientific Report - Wildlife 156
Comparative Dietary Toxicities of Pesticides to Birds
R.G. Heath, J. W. Spann, E. F. Hill, J.F. Kreitzer
1972, Special Scientific Report - Wildlife 152
This report presents measurements of the lethal dietary toxicity of 89 pesticidal chemicals to young bowhites, Japanese quail, ring-necked pheasants, and mallards. Toxicity is expressed as the median lethal concentration (LC 50) of active chemical in a 5-day ad libitum diet. LC 50's and associated statistics are derived...
An Analysis of the Population Dynamics of Selected Avian Species--With Special References to Changes During the Modern Pesticide Era
Charles J. Henny
1972, Wildlife Research Report No. 1
The impact of pesticides on the mortality rates and recruitment rates of nongame birds during the last 25 years was evaluated by studying the population dynamics of 16 species. A mathematical model showing the relations between population parameters that yielded stable populations was developed. The information needed for the model...
Food resources of the California condor
S.R. Wilbur
1972, Report
Conclusions and Recommendations: Although much of the above information is imprecise and inconclusive, it is evident that the condors foraging habitat is diminishing. Food supply probably is still adequate for free-ranging nonbreeding birds, but could become limited if current land use trends continue. Congregating condors on fewer...
Summary of research upon the yuma clapper rail and the masked bobwhite quail
R. E. Tomlinson
1972, Book chapter, Symposium on Rare and Endangered Wildlife of the Southwestern United States, September 22-23, 1972, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Black-footed ferret-Prairie dog interrelationships
R. L. Linder, R.B. Dahlgren, C. N. Hillman
1972, Book chapter, Symposium on Rare and Endangered Wildlife of the Southwestern United States, September 22-23, 1972, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Role of banding data in migratory bird population studies
A. D. Geis
1972, Wildlife Research Report 2
Effects of polychlorinated biphenyls on birds
R.G. Heath, J. W. Spann, J.F. Kreitzer, C. Vance
K.H. Voous, editor(s)
1972, Book chapter, Proceedings of the 15th International Ornithological Congress
No abstract available. ...
Biological data on PCBs in animals other than man
L.F. Stickel
1972, Book chapter, Polychlorinated Biphenyls and the Environment
SUMMARY: Polychlorinated biphenyls have become ubiquitous in the world ecosystem in quantities similar to those of DDE. Experimental studies have shown that PCBs have a toxicity to mallards, pheasants, bobwhite quail, coturnix quail, red-winged blackbirds, starlings, cowbirds, and grackles that is of the same...
Eggshell changes in certain North American birds
D. W. Anderson, J.J. Hickey
K.H. Voous, editor(s)
1972, Book chapter, Proceedings of the XVth International Ornithological Congress
Effects of DDT on steroid metabolism and energetics in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus)
S. Lustick, T. Voss, T.J. Peterle
John A Morrison, James C. Lewis, editor(s)
1972, Book chapter, Proceedings of the First National Bobwhite Quail Symposium
Mercury in wild animals, Lake St. Clair, 1970
E. H. Dustman, L.F. Stickel, J. B. Elder
R. Hartung, B.D. Dinman, editor(s)
1972, Book chapter, Environmental Mercury Contamination
No abstract available....
Population ecology and environmental pollution: Red-tailed and Cooper's hawks
Charles J. Henny, H. M. Wight
1972, Wildlife Research Report 2
The effects of certain pesticides on wildlife
J. R. Longcore
1972, Book chapter, Report of the Eighth Northeast Aerial Applicators Conference
Los plaguicidas y la contaminacion del medio ambiente Venezolano
L.F. Stickel, W. H. Stickel
1972, Book chapter, Contribucion al Estudio Especial: La Agricultura y la Contaminacion del Medio Abiente de Venezuela.
RESUMEN DE RECOMENDACIONES Recomendaciones para el Programa de Investigacion: 1. Establecer un sistema de muestreo biologico para detectar los niveles tendencias de los productos quimicos toxicos en un peque?o numero de si tios representativos. 2. Mantener continua...
Time lapse ecology, Muskeget Island, Nantucket, Massachusetts
D.K. Wetherbee, R.P. Coppinger, R.E. Walsh
1972, Book
Swamps, river bottoms, and canebrakes
B. Meanley
1972, Book
Hydraulic testing of hole UA-1-HTH-1, Amchitka Island, Alaska
Wilbur C. Ballance, G.A. Dinwiddie
1972, Report
Total depth of the hole was 1,054 meters (3,458 feet) but, because of borehole erosion and bridging, only about 198 meters (650 feet) of the hole was·hydraulically tested with straddle packers. Some information was obtained on the lower part of the hole by use of the pressure recorders which are...
Channel erosion surveys along proposed TAPS route, Alaska, July 1971
Joseph M. Childers
1972, Report
The U.S. Geological Survey has the threefold responsibility along the proposed route of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS): to investigate possible hydroloqic hazards to the pipeline, to investigate possible impacts of the pipeline on water resources, and to develop a better understanding of Arctic hydrology. Because the proposed pipeline route...
A land use classification scheme for use with remote sensor data
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1972, Book
The needs of Federal agencies for a broad overview of national land use patterns, trends, and environmental impacts, with data inputs from both conventional sources and some of the more exotic sensors in high altitude aircraft and satellite platforms led to the formation in early 1971 of an Inter-Agency Steering...
Generalized gradient and contour program
Marshall Strong Hellman
1972, Computer contribution 22
This program computes estimates of gradients, prepares contour maps, and plots various sets of data provided by the user on the CalComp plotters. The gradients represent the maximum rates of change of a real variable Z=f(X,Y) with respect to the twodimensional rectangle on which the function is defined. The contours...
U.S. Geological Survey National Center, Reston, Virginia
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1972, Report
In 1917 the Geological Survey moved into the newly built Interior Building near the White House in Washington, D. C. Twenty years later a larger building was constructed nearby to house the expanding U. S. Department of the Interior. Height restrictions reduced the planned size of the new building, and...
Middle pleistocene mollusks from St. Lawrence Island and their significance for the paleo-oceanography of the Bering Sea
D.M. Hopkins, R.W. Rowland, W. W. Patton Jr.
1972, Quaternary Research (2) 119-134
Drift, evidently of Illinoian age, was deposited on St. Lawrence Island at the margin of an ice cap that covered the highlands of the Chukotka Peninsula of Siberia and spread far eastward on the continental shelf of northern Bering Sea. Underlying the drift on the northwestward part of the island...
Appraisal of the future climate of the Holocene in the Rocky Mountains
G.M. Richmond
1972, Quaternary Research (2) 315-322
Consideration of the history of Holocene climate in the Rocky Mountains indicates that the over-all trend during the past 2500 yr has been toward increasing warmth, interrupted by cooler times of minor advances of cirque glaciers. Comparison of Holocene climatic history with the...