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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Some phases of the life history of the trout-perch
The trout-perch, Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum), is one of the more abundant forage fishes in the larger lakes of midwestern United States and central Canada where walleye, Stizostedion v. vitreum (Mitchill), yellow perch, Perca flavescens (Mitchill), and coregonids predominate. It has been suggested that it may have considerable effect on perch and walleye populations of these lakes. The pres
Authors
John L. Magnuson, Lloyd L. Smith
Age, growth, and maturity of round whitefish of the Apostle Islands and Isle Royale Regions, Lake Superior
The round whitefish has been of some commercial importance in the upper Great Lakes but production in Lake Superior has generally been small; the United States average was 26,600 pounds for 1929-59. This study is based on 1,173 fish collected in the Apostle Islands in 1958-60 and 103 collected at Isle Royale in 1958 and 1960. The average age of 6.0 years at Isle Royale was concluded to be signific
Authors
Merryll M. Bailey
Common mammals, birds, reptiles, and shrubs of Huddart Park
No abstract available at this time
Authors
G. B. Rathbun
Parasites of freshwater fish, I Fungi, Fungi (Saprolegnia and relatives) of fish and fish eggs
No abstract available.
Authors
G. L. Hoffman
Surface currents of Lake Michigan, 1931 and 1932
Seven hundred fourty-five bottles containing post cards for recording of information were released at stations in Lake Michigan; 283 were released June 17 to August 17, 1931, south of a line from Frankfort, Michigan, to Algoma, Wisconsin, and 462 during May 9 to August 25, 1932, both south and north of that line. One hundred eighty-six bottles or 65.7 percent of those released in 1931, 331 bottle
Authors
John Van Oosten
Estimating consumption of food by wintering waterfowl populations
No abstract available.
Authors
John L. Sincock
Observations of birds feeding on overwintering corn borer
No abstract available.
Authors
Don Fankhauser
Whirling disease of trouts caused by Myxosoma cerebralis in the United States
No abstract available at this time
Authors
G. L. Hoffman, C.E. Dunbar, A. Bradford
Freshwater fish diseases caused by bacteria belonging to the genera Aeromonas and Pseudomonas: Revised
No abstract available.
Authors
S. F. Snieszko