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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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The sea lamprey in the Great Lakes

Abstract has not been submitted
Authors
Vernon C. Applegate

Effect of bactericides on steelhead trout fry

No abstract available.
Authors
R.R. Rucker, W.J. Whipple

In Memoriam: Albert Kenrick Fisher

Dr. Albert Kenrick Fisher, a Founder and Past President of the American Ornithologists' Union and one of its best known Fellows for nearly 65 years, died in Washington, D. C. on June 12, 1948, after a brief illness from circulatory complications that developed as a result of advanced age. With his passing, the American Ornithologists' Union has lost one of its last links with that eminent group o
Authors
F.M. Uhler

Biological effects of DDT applications on tidal salt marshes

No abstract available.
Authors
P. F. Springer, J.R. Webster

Biological effects of DDT applications on tidal salt marshes

No abstract available.
Authors
P. F. Springer, J.R. Webster

The Potomac Basin 3. Where are the ducks?

No abstract available.
Authors
W. Slavik, F.M. Uhler

Wood mouse and box turtle populations in an area treated annually with DDT for five years

A 117-acre area of dense woodland on the Patuxent Research Refuge received an aerial application of DDT in oil at the rate of 2 pounds per acre gnnually for five years. DDT reached ground level in a much smaller amount (thousandths to hundredths of a pound per acre). Treatment was made during the first week of June of each year from 1945 through 1949. Field studies of the wood mouse population
Authors
L. F. Stickel

Distinctions between the snake genera Contia and Eirenis

Summary: Various workers have believed Contia to be related to or congeneric with either or both Sonora and Eirenis, the latter a genus of Western Asia. Study of hemipenes, teeth, and jaws indicates that these genera are not related to one another. The hemipenes of Eirenis modesta and Contia tenuis are described. Eirenis is thought to be a derivative of the racer group. Relationships of Cont
Authors
W. H. Stickel

Upper digestive tract trichomoniasis in mourning doves and other birds

No abstract available.
Authors
R. M. Stabler, Carlton M. Herman