Publications
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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Waterfowl in the Canadian breadbasket
No abstract available.
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Ernest L. Paynter, W.J.D. Stephen
A massive kill of white perch (Roccus americanus) involving a Pasteurella-like bacterium
No abstract available at this time.
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S. F. Snieszko, G. L. Bullock
Highlights of bird control research in England, France, Holland, and Germany
No abstract available.
Authors
J.L. Seubert
Primary publication in microprint
This is a progress report on an experiment to demonstrate practicality of such publication. Based on a study conducted since 1959 through the publication of 'Wildlife Disease', the co-authors review the original aims, accomplishments, and future of primary publication in microprint. Space and cost savings, as well as author and reader reactions, portend further developments and use of this medium.
Authors
C. M. Herman, D.E. Davis
Notes on the ecology of the opossum in Maryland
No abstract available.
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L. M. Llewellyn, F.H. Dale
Renesting and second nesting of individually marked red-winged blackbirds
No abstract available.
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D. P. Fankhauser
Origin, structure, molt, and dispersal of a late summer red-winged blackbird population
No abstract available.
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B. Meanley
A merganser die-off associated with larval eustrongylides
A die-off of red-breasted mergansers on Lake Holly, Virginia Beach, Virginia, was found to be due to a larval Eustrongylides. Massive tissue destruction and hemorrhage was produced by the migration of the larval Eustrongylides. Earlier stages of the same Eustrongylides were found in eastern mosquitofish and silversides upon which the mergansers had been feeding. In addition, residues of DDT were f
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L. N. Locke, J.B. DeWitt, C. M. Menzie, J.A. Kerwin
Rigid plastic collars for marking geese
Rigid plastic collars of one to three colors proved useful for recognition of individual Canada geese (Branta canadensis). The collars did not seem to affect the behavior of the geese, and there was little mortality caused by their use. In good light, bright colors are visible through a 20-power spotting scope for more than 1 mile. Retention of collars was about 90 percent for 1 year and more than
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R.M. Ballou, F.W. Martin