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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Seventieth Christmas bird count. 278. Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Va
No abstract available.
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P.W. Sykes
Molts and plumages of the red-winged blackbird with particular reference to fall migration
No abstract available.
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B. Meanley, G.M. Bond
A million robins and 10,000 pine siskins in the Dismal Swamp
No abstract available.
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B. Meanley
Propagation of captive American kestrels
A colony of kestrels (Palco sparverius) was established at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in 1964 in connection with work on pesticides. The kestrels were acquired from the wild, both as nestlings and as full-grown birds, and were housed in several rows of outdoor pens. Each 50 x 20 ft pen was covered with wire netting and had its long sides in common with adjacent pens. During the first
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Richard D. Porter, Stanley N. Wiemeyer
Induction of liver microsomal activities in Japanese quail [with supplemental information on] the induction of microsomal ethylmorphine demethylase activity in sparrow hawk livers by diets containing DDT and dieldrin or DDE
No abstract available.
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J.W. Gillett, Richard D. Porter, Stanley N. Wiemeyer, T.H. Gram, D.H. Schroeder, J.R. Gillette
Approved procedure for determining absence of infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) in salmonid fishes
No abstract available.
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D.F. Amend
Pituitary activation by bacterial endotoxins in the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)
No abstract available.
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Gary Wedemeyer
Duck viral enteritis (duck plague) in North American Waterfowl
Duck Viral Enteritis (DVE) was first recognized in North America in January 1967, when an outbreak occurred in a commercial flock of white Pekin ducks in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York (Leibovitz and Hwang, 1968b). Originally described as a disease of domestic ducks in the Netherlands, DVE has since been reported from India and Belgium. it is also believed to have occurred in China and Fran
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Louis N. Locke, Louis Leibovitz, Carlton M. Herman, John W. Walker
Status of duck virus enteritis (duck plague) in the United States
No abstract available.
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John W. Walker, C.J. Pfow, S.S. Newcomb, W.D. Urban, H.E. Nadler, L. N. Locke
Adoption of a nestling house mouse by a female short-tailed shrew
A nursing female short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda) adopted a nestling house mouse (Mus musculus). The mouse was observed in the nest with the female and her litter of shrews three days after it was introduced into the aluminum box containing the shrews, but it was found dead in the nest four days later.
Authors
Lawrence J. Blus, D.A. Johnson
Effects of toxicants on community metabolism in pools
Estimates of community metabolism of simulated natural environments were dcrivcd by diel oxygen techniques over a period of nine months. During this time, toxicants were added to some of the pools. "Natural" environmental factors and toxicants that did not affect the communities (0.02 mg/liter p,p' DDT; 0.1 mg/liter antimycin A; and 9.2 mg/liter KMnO,I) usually resulted in simultaneous changes, up
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Walter R. Whitworth, Thomas H. Lane