Publications
Below is a list of WERC's peer-reviewed publications. If you are searching for a specific publication and cannot find it in this list, please contact werc_web@usgs.gov
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Past occurrence of eulachon, Thaleichthys pacificus, in streams tributary to Humboldt Bay, California
No abstract available.
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M.R. Jennings
Threatened fishes of the world: Eucyclogobius newberryi Girard, 1857 (Gobiidae)
No abstract available.
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Kevin D. Lafferty, R. O. Swenson, Camm C. Swift
Altered behavior of parasitized killifish increases susceptibility to predation by bird final hosts
Parasites that are transmitted from prey to predator are often associated with altered prey behavior. Although many concur that behavior modification is a parasite strategy that facilitates transmission by making parasitized prey easier for predators to capture, there is little evidence from field experiments. We observed that conspicuous behaviors exhibited by killfish (Fundulus parvipinnis) were
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Kevin D. Lafferty, A. K. Morris
Reproduction in a Sonoran Desert population of the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii)
No abstract available.
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R.C. Murray, C. R. Schwalbe, S.J. Bailey, S.P. Cuneo, S.D. Hart
Evaluation of a flipper-mounted transmitter on sea otters
No abstract available.
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B.B. Hatfield, G. B. Rathbun
Channel response to sediment wave propagation and movement, Redwood Creek, California, USA
Redwood Creek, north coastal California, USA, has experienced dramatic changes in channel configuration since the 1950s. A series of large floods (in 1955, 1964, 1972 and 1975) combined with the advent of widespread commercial timber harvest and road building resulted in extensive erosion in the basin and contributed high sediment loads to Redwood Creek. Since 1975, no peak flows have exceeded a 5
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Mary Ann Madej, Vicki Ozaki
Sea otter mortality from the Exxon Valdez spill: evaluation of an estimate from boat-based surveys
No abstract available.
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D.L. Garshelis, J. A. Estes
Preliminary estimate of rice present in strip-harvested fields in the Sacramento Valley, California
No abstract available.
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M. R. Miller, G.D. Wylie
Developing a criterion for delisting the southern sea otter under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Recent surveys of recovery plans indicate that criteria, such as population sizes, for delisting species from the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) are often unrealistically low by scientific standards. We describe the delisting criterion for the threatened southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) developed by the Southern Sea Otter Recovery Team. A major oil spill is the most serious threat to
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K. Ralls, D. DeMaster, J. A. Estes
Mitochondrial-DNA variation among subspecies and populations of sea otters (Enhydra lutris)
We used restriction-enzyme analysis of polymerase-chain reaction-amplified, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to assess genetic differentiation of subspecies and populations of sea otters, Enhydra lutris, throughout the range of the species. There were several haplotypes of mtDNA in each subspecies and geographically separate populations. MtDNA sequence divergence of haplotypes of sea otters was 0.0004–0.
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Matthew A. Cronin, James L. Bodkin, Brenda E. Ballachey, James A. Estes, John C. Patton
Challenges in the quest for keystones
No abstract available.
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M.E. Power, D. Tilman, J. A. Estes, B.A. Menge, W.J. Bond, L. S. Mills, G. Daily, J.C. Castilla, J. Lubchenco, R.T. Paine