Publications
This list of publications includes peer-review journal articles, official USGS publications series, reports and more authored by scientists in the Ecosystems Mission Area. A database of all USGS publications, with advanced search features, can be accessed at the USGS Publications Warehouse.
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Recovery of DDT and dieldrin from tissues of Coturnix japonica stepwise during residue analysis
No abstract available.
Authors
R. M. Prouty, E. Cromartie
Propagation of captive American kestrels
A colony of kestrels (Palco sparverius) was established at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in 1964 in connection with work on pesticides. The kestrels were acquired from the wild, both as nestlings and as full-grown birds, and were housed in several rows of outdoor pens. Each 50 x 20 ft pen was covered with wire netting and had its long sides in common with adjacent pens. During the first
Authors
Ron Porter, Stanley N. Wiemeyer
The effect of putrefaction of eggs upon residue analysis of DDT and metabolites
No abstract available.
Authors
B. M. Mulhern, W. L. Reichel
Organochlorine residues and autopsy data from bald eagles 1966-68
Sixty-nine bald eagles found moribund or dead in 25 States during 1966-68 were analyzed for pesticide residues. Residues of polychlorinated biphenyls and DDE were detected in all samples of eagle carcasses; residues of dieldrin were detected in 68 and residues of DDD in 64; DDT, heptachlor epoxide, and DCBP were detected less frequently. Eight specimens had levels of dieldrin in the brain within t
Authors
B. M. Mulhern, W. L. Reichel, L. N. Locke, T. G. Lamont, A. A. Belisle, E. Cromartie, George E. Bagley, R. M. Prouty
Seventieth Christmas bird count. 278. Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Va
No abstract available.
Authors
P.W. Sykes
Molts and plumages of the red-winged blackbird with particular reference to fall migration
No abstract available.
Authors
B. Meanley, G.M. Bond
A million robins and 10,000 pine siskins in the Dismal Swamp
No abstract available.
Authors
B. Meanley
Pituitary activation by bacterial endotoxins in the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)
No abstract available.
Authors
Gary Wedemeyer
Duck viral enteritis (duck plague) in North American Waterfowl
Duck Viral Enteritis (DVE) was first recognized in North America in January 1967, when an outbreak occurred in a commercial flock of white Pekin ducks in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York (Leibovitz and Hwang, 1968b). Originally described as a disease of domestic ducks in the Netherlands, DVE has since been reported from India and Belgium. it is also believed to have occurred in China and Fran
Authors
Louis N. Locke, Louis Leibovitz, Carlton M. Herman, John W. Walker