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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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Nest boxes for wood ducks

No abstract available.
Authors
C.G. Webster

The marshes of Delaware, their improvement and preservation

No abstract available.
Authors
J.H. Steenis, N.G. Wilder, H.P. Cofer, R.A. Beck

An epizootic among rainbow trout

An epizootic among rainbow trout (Salmo gairdnerii) in a private trout farm, resulting from a species of Ichthyosporidium that caused very high mortality rates in all ages of trout, reported from the State of Washington.

Observations on gas-bubble disease of fish

SOME DIFFICULTY has been experienced in raising fry and young fingerlings at the Puyallup hatchery of the Washington State Department of Game, a hatchery now in its fourth year of operation. There has been evidence of gas in the yolk-sac fry, and the mortality was always excessive among the fingerlings while reared in the hatchery troughs. The mortality rate decreased and evidence of gas-bubble di

A contagious disease of salmon, possibly of virus origin

Production records for 1885, 1891–1908, and 1929–49, indicate cyclic fluctuations for several important species of fish. The average annual take (all species) of 3,582,000 pounds in 1929–49 was 3,503,000 pounds below the 1891–1908 mean of 7,085,000 pounds. Decline in the output of lake herring alone from 5,841,000 pounds in 1891–1908 to 1,070,000 pounds in 1929–49—a drop of 4,771,000 pounds—more t
Authors
R.R. Rucker, W.J. Whipple, J.R. Parvin, C.A. Evans

Fifty-third Christmas Bird Count

No abstract available.
Authors
C.S. Robbins