Publications
Below is a list of WERC's peer-reviewed publications. If you are searching for a specific publication and cannot find it in this list, please contact werc_web@usgs.gov
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Distribution and stability of grasslands in the Los Angeles Basin
No abstract available.
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D.O. Fruedenberger, B.E. Fish, J. E. Keeley
Residence times of channel-stored sediment in Redwood Creek, northwestern California
No abstract available at this time
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Mary Ann Madej
Follow that bird!
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M. R. Miller, John Y. Takekawa, J. P. Fleskes
The concept of prey refugia helps explain vegetation dynamics on the California Channel Islands
No abstract available.
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W. L. Halvorson
[Book review] A field guide to western reptiles and amphibians (Second Edition, Revised), by Robert C. Stebbins and Roger Tory Peterson
Review of: A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians (Peterson Field Guides, No. 16). Robert C. Stebbins and Roger Tory Peterson. Houghton Mifflin; 2nd Revised edition (June 10, 1985). 448 pages. ISBN: 978-0395382530.
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M.R. Jennings
[Book review] The Peccaries, by Lyle K. Sowls
Review of: The Peccaries. By Lyle K. Sowls. University of Arizona Press (September 1984). 240 pages. ISBN-10: 0816508224, ISBN-13: 978-0816508228.
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N. J. Scott
Power and speed of swimming dolphins
The belief that dolphins have an extraordinary ability to generate propulsive power or can modify the water flow over their bodies to the low-resistance laminar flow is pervasive in the perception of the animals by the public and by some of the biology communities. I analyzed measured swimming speeds for dolphins of the Stenella-Delphinus morphology. A conservative hydrodynamics model equivalent t
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Clifford A. Hui
Foraging strategies of Glaucous-winged Gulls in rocky intertidal communities
No abstract available.
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David B. Irons, Robert G. Anthony, James A. Estes
Status of a translocated sea otter population and its habitat in Washington
During the summers of 1969 and 1970, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the Washington Department of Game translocated 59 sea otters from Amchitka Island, Alaska, to release sites in Washington (Jameson et al. 1982, Wildl. Soc. Bull. 10:100-107). Of the 29 released near Pt. Grenvil (Fig. 1) in 1969, 16 are known to have died. In 1970, 30 otters were held in a floating enclosure anchored ne
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Ronald J. Jameson, Karl W. Kenyon, S. Jeffries, Glenn R. VanBlaricom
Demographic structure of chaparral under extended fire-free conditions
No abstract available.
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J. E. Keeley, A. Brooks, T. Bird, S. Cory, H. Parker, E. Usinger
Demographic patterns of the shrub Ceanothus megacarpus in an old stand of chaparral in the Santa Monica Mountains
Wildfires have had a major influence on the structural and functional adaptations that have evolved in Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Some chaparral shrubs sprout after fires while others produce serotinous cones or seeds refractory to germination until they are cued by a fire. Ceanothus megacarpus is a sclerophylous shrub commonly found in California in either pure of mixed stands which does no
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T. M. Montygierd-Loyba, J. E. Keeley
Long-term on-site and off-site effects of logging and erosion in the Redwood Creek basin, northern California
For nearly 15 years, the Redwood Creek Watershed in north coastal California has been the focus of both U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and National Park Service (NPS) studies designed to document and quantify the nature of erosion, sedimentation and sediment transport processes active in the basin. While none of these studies were specifically designed to assess possible cumulative effects resulti
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Danny K. Hagans, William E. Weaver, Mary Ann Madej