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The role of fire in the Yosemite Wilderness

No abstract available at this time
Authors
J. W. van Wagtendonk

[Book review] Otters. Ecology and Conservation, by C. F. Mason and S. M. MacDonald

Review of: Otters. Ecology and Conservation. C. F. Mason and S. M. MacDonald. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1986, viii, 236 pp., illus. $34.50.
Authors
J. A. Estes

[Book review] The natural history of otters, by P. Chanin

Review of: The Natural History of Otters. Paul Chanin. Croom Helm (in association with the Mammal Society). 1985. 179 pp.
Authors
J. A. Estes

An incidence of twinning in the sea otter (Enhydra lutris)

On 3 October 1984 at 0928 h (PST) near Pt. San Simeon, California (35°39’N, 121°11’W), we observed a female sea otter (Enhydra lutris) resting in a kelp bed (Macrocystis pyrifera) with a small pup on her chest;  approximately 2 m away another small pup floated unattended in the kelp. The only other otters we saw in the area was a mated pair (adult male tending an adult female) resting about 20 m f
Authors
Ronald J. Jameson, James L. Bodkin

Status of a translocated sea otter population and its habitat in Washington

No abstract available.
Authors
R.J. Jameson, K.W. Kenyon, S. Jeffries, G.R. VanBlaricom

Dune stabilization on San Miguel Island off the coast of southern California

No abstract available.
Authors
W. L. Halvorson, R. E. Koske, D.P. Morris

Seed predation by yucca moths on semelparous, iteroparous and vegetatively reproducing subspecies of Yucca whipplei (Agavaceae)

Yucca whipplei subspecies are distinguished by differences in reproduction: spp. whipplei and ssp. parishii are semelparous, flowering once and dying; ssp. caespitosa is iteroparous, producing multiple rosettes which may flower in different years; ssp. percursa has clonal reproduction from rhizomes, and ssp. intermedia is intermediate to the latter two. Seed loss due to the symbiotic yucca moth Te
Authors
Jon E. Keeley, Sterling C. Keeley, D. A. Ikeda