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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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Survival and development of lake herring (Coregonus artedii) eggs at various incubation temperatures

Lake herring eggs stripped and fertilized from a local stock were incubated in a constant-flow incubator at constant temperatures ranging from 0 to 12.1° C. Rate of development, percentage survival, percentage of abnormal and normal hatching, and length of fry at hatching were determined. The average incubation time from fertilization to 50% hatch varied from 37 days at 9.9-10.3° C to 236 days at
Authors
Peter J. Colby, L.T. Brooke

A brief history of commercial fishing in Lake Erie

Salient features of the development of the industry from about 1815 to 1968, changes in fishing gears and methods, changes in the kinds and abundance of fishes caught, and the attendant effects of disappearing species on the stability of the fishery are described. The history and present status of the walleye, yellow perch, and eight other fishes, still taken in commercial quantities, are presente
Authors
Vernon C. Applegate, Harry D. Van Meter

Mourning dove recoveries from Mexico

No abstract available.
Authors
Lytle H. Blankenship, Henry M. Reeves

Common marsh plants of the United States and Canada

This is the fourth of a series of publications on field identification of North American marsh and water plants. It describes the emergent and semiemergent plants most likely to be found in inland and coastal marshes. It omits hundreds of uncommon marsh plants and plants less characteristic of marshes than of marsh edges, lake and stream shores, or wet meadows. The first of the series, "Pondweeds
Authors
Neil Hotchkiss

Oral immunization of salmonids: a review

No abstract available 
Authors
G.W. Klontz, D. P. Anderson