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Recent growth increases in old-growth longleaf pine
Longleaf pine (Pinuspalustris Mill.) tree-ring data were obtained from an old-growth stand located in Thomas County, Georgia. The tree-ring chronology from the pine stand is composed of a collection of cores extracted from 26 trees ranging in age from approximately 100 to 400 years. These cores were prepared, dated, and measured, and the resulting data were examined with dendrochronological and st
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D.C. West, T.W. Doyle, M.L. Tharp, J.J. Beauchamp, William J. Platt, D.J. Downing
A multifunctional decision support GIS for coastal management
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Wei Ji, Loyd C. Mitchell, Marcia McNiff, James B. Johnston
Natural resource problem solving: An interdisciplinary approach in coastal Louisiana
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A. Lee Foote, Virginia R. Burkett, S. Jeffress Williams
Laguna madre: Seagrass changes continue decades after salinity reduction
Vegetation maps of the lower Laguna Madre prepared from surveys conducted in 1965–1967, 1974–1976, and 1988 document a >330 km2 decrease in cover byHalodule wrightii, an increase of almost 190 km2 in other seagrass species, and an increase of 140 km2 in bare bottom. Loss in seagrass cover is confined to deeper parts of the laguna; turbidity caused by maintenance dredging is the suspected cause. Th
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Millicent L. Quammen, Christopher P. Onuf
Use of a mark-visual recapture technique to estimate the relative abundance of nutria
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Lori A. Johnson
Plant decomposition rates in two Louisiana coastal marshes
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Kathleen A. Reynolds, A. Lee Foote, Glenn R. Guntenspergen
Body composition of wintering canvasbacks in Louisiana: Dominance and survival implications
I studied effects of sex, age, and month on body mass and composition of Canvasbacks (Aythya valisineria) at Catahoula Lake (CL) and the Mississippi River Delta (MRD), Louisiana, in winter 1987-1988. Size-adjusted body mass and fat varied by age, month, and site. Fat levels in immatures were greater at MRD than at CL, but changed similarly at both sites. Adults at MRD were also fatter than those a
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William L. Hohman
Relative effects of nutrient enrichment and grazing on epiphyte-macrophyte (Zostera marina L.) dynamics
The independent and interactive effects of nutrient concentration and epiphyte grazers on epiphyte biomass and macrophyte growth and production were examined in Zostera marina L. (eelgrass) microcosms. Experiments were conducted during early summer, late summer, fall, and spring in a greenhouse on the York River estuary of Chesapeake Bay. Nutrient treatments consisted of ambient or enriched (3× am
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Hilary A. Neckles, R. L. Wetzel, R.J. Orth
Sex ratios of canvasbacks wintering in Louisiana
Disparate sex ratios in waterfowl are considered indicative of differential survival between the sexes and may limit reproductive potential. Because other studies have shown canvasbacks (Aythya valisineria) have highly skewed sex ratios, I examined aerial photographs from surveys flown monthly during winters 1987-88 and 1988-89 to determine sex ratios of canvasbacks in Louisiana where the winteri
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Dennis W. Woolington
A geographic information systems approach to the analysis of contaminants in Galveston Bay
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Marcia McNiff, P.F. Roscigno, Wei Ji
A matter of scale: damage from Hurricane Hugo (1989) to U.S. Virgin Islands reefs at the colony, community and whole reef level
Studies at Buck Island Reef National Monument (St. Croix) and Virgin Islands National Park (St. John) by scientists in the U.S. National Park Service Coral Reef Assessment Program re- vealed the effects of Humcane Hugo on individual coral species, community parameters, and overall reef structure. Effects of the storm varied with depth, coral species, location relative to the storm path, character
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Caroline S. Rogers
[Book review] Battle against extinction: Native fish management in the American West, by W. L. Minckley and J. E. Deacon
Review of: BATTLE AGAINST EXTINCTION: NATIVE FISH MANAGEMENT IN THE AMERICAN WEST. W. L. Minckley and J. E. Deacon (eds.). 1991. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. ISBN 0-8165-1221-3. 517 p., $40.00 (hardcover).
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S. J. Walsh