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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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Twelfth breeding-bird census: 13. Mixed oak forest

No abstract available.
Authors
C.H. Kolb, C.S. Robbins, E.C. Robbins

The isolation of Salmonella typhimurium from ferrets

No abstract available.
Authors
J.A. Morris, D.R. Coburn

Does ain't deer

No abstract available.
Authors
D.L. Allen

Living fences--for more game and better farms

Shrub fences are coming back with multiflora rose. They mean more game, better farms. Here's an outstanding sprotsman's club project.
Authors
D.L. Allen

Barbed wire that grows

A many-flowered rose makes an ideal, living fence for farm and pasture lands.
Authors
D.L. Allen

Muskrat investigations on the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, 1941-1945

1. Approximately 5,233 acres of tidal marsh on the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland were trapped by Fish and Wildlife Service personnel from 1941-1945, with the closely controlled operations yielding 23,539 muskrats; 13,421 (57 per cent) were males and 10,090 (43 per cent) were females, a sex ratio of 133: 100. This preponderance of males was consistently maintained throughout the e
Authors
H.L. Dozier, M.H. Markely, L. M. Llewellyn

Comparison of methods for the determination of carotene

Replicate samples of dehydrated :alfalfa-leaf meal were assayed for carotene content by four different analytical procedures. The results obtained by the modified A.O.A.C.method were significantly higher than those obtained by the other procedures.
Authors
J.V. Derby, J.B. DeWitt

Notes on two species of Calliphoridae (Diptera) parasitizing nestling birds

In the course of studies on the effect of feeding DDT-killed insect larvae to nestling birds, some incidental information was gathered on Calliphorid parasites of the nestlings. The work was done at Lake Clear Junction, N. Y., during June and July, 1946.
Authors
J.L. George, R.T. Mitchell