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January 1, 1997

Water management and cottonwood forest dynamics along prairie streams

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Jonathan M. Friedman, Michael L. Scott, Gregor T. Auble

Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

January 1, 1997

Whooping crane mortality at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, 1982-95

Whooping cranes (Grus americana) have been reared at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center since 1966. During 1982-95 there were 103 mortalities caused by infectious and parasitic diseases (46%), trauma (21%), anatomic abnormalities (17%), miscellaneous conditions (12%), and open or no diagnoses (5%). The implications that disease may have on new whooping crane flocks in Florida and Canada are discuss

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Glenn H. Olsen, J.A. Taylor, G.F. Gee

Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

January 1, 1997

Zinc hazards to plants and animals with emphasis on fishery and wildlife resources

Ecological and toxicological aspects of zinc in the environment are reviewed with emphasis on natural resources. Subtopics include sources and uses; chemical and biochemical properties; carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, teratogenicity; background concentrations in biological and nonbiological compartments; effects of zinc deficiency; toxic and sublethal effects on terrestrial plants and invertebrates

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R. Eisler

Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

December 31, 1996

Fluoride in birds

No abstract available.

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Walker (Jim) J Fleming

December 31, 1996

U-Pb age of an older metamorphic group mica schist: Earliest terrain of the eastern Indian craton

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A. R. Basu, M. Sharma, Wayne R. Premo

Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

December 31, 1996

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Homa J. Lee, Robert E. Kayen, Brian D. Edwards, Michael E. Field, James V. Gardner, William C. Schwab, David C. Twichell

Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program

Book Chapters

Science Quality and Integrity

The USGS provides unbiased, objective, and impartial scientific information upon which our audiences, including resource managers, planners, and other entities, rely.

Water management and cottonwood forest dynamics along prairie streams

Whooping crane mortality at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, 1982-95

Zinc hazards to plants and animals with emphasis on fishery and wildlife resources

Fluoride in birds

U-Pb age of an older metamorphic group mica schist: Earliest terrain of the eastern Indian craton

Watershed disturbance and lahars on the east side of Mount Pinatubo during the mid-June 1991 eruptions

Discrimination of fluid seeps on the convergent Oregon Continental Margin with GLORIA imagery

Global environmental changes, natural

Ground-truthing studies of west coast and Gulf of Mexico submarine fans

Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean EEZ: Part III

U.S. East Coast EEZ: Part II

Ground-truth studies of west coast and Gulf of Mexico submarine fans

U.S. Geological Survey

U.S. Department of the Interior