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Fuel bed characteristics of Sierra Nevada conifers

A study of fuels in Sierra Nevada conifer forests showed that fuel bed depth and fuel bed weight significantly varied by tree species and developmental stage of the overstory. Specific values for depth and weight of woody, litter, and duff fuels are reported There was a significant positive relationship between fuel bed depth and weight. Estimates of woody fuel weight using the planar intercept me
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J. W. van Wagtendonk, J.M. Benedict, W.M. Sydoriak

A new Lepidodactylus (Squamata:Gekkonidae) from Vanuatu

No abstract available.
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H. Ota, Robert N. Fisher, I. Ineich, T. J. Case, G.R. Zug

Attacks on sea otters by killer whales

No abstract available.
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B.B. Hatfield, D.B. Marks, M. T. Tinker, K. Nolan, J. Peirce

The role of natural history collections in documenting species declines

No abstract available.
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H.B. Shaffer, Robert N. Fisher, C. Davidson

Fall 1997 sea otter survey

No abstract available.
Authors
B.B. Hatfield

Metal and trace element burdens in two shorebird species at two sympatric wintering sites in southern California

In January and November, 1994, ten willets (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) and ten black-bellied plovers (Pluvialis squatarola) were collected at a south-facing sandy beach at the North Island Naval Air Station (NASNI) and ten willets and three plovers were collected at the Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge (TSNWR), 16 km to the southeast. Concentrations of 19 inorganic analytes were determine
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Clifford A. Hui

Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog) Predation

No abstract available.
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J.J. Crayon, R. L. Hothem

Exotic Species of California Deserts

No abstract available.
Authors
P. Kemp, M.L. Brooks