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Freshwater mussels: a neglected and declining aquatic resource
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J.D. Williams, R. J. Neves
Genetic variation and evolution of satellite viruses and satellite RNAs
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G. Kurath, C. Robaglia
Geographic patterns in relative abundances and population trends of breeding and wintering loggerhead shrikes in North America
In North America, the Breeding Bird Survey and the Christmas Bird Count provide data that are collected at sites visited each year, and the site-specific data can be placed in a Geographic Information System and smoothed to produce contour maps of relative abundance and trend for the United States and southern Canada. We develop these contour maps for Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) data f
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J.R. Sauer, Sandra Orsillo, B.G. Peterjohn
Geomorphic and geochemical evidence for the source of sand in the Algodones dunes, Colorado Desert, southeastern California
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D.R. Muhs, C. A. Bush, S.D. Cowherd, S. Mahan
Hawaii's endemic birds
The endemic landbirds of Hawaii, particularly the Hawaiian honeycreepers, an endemic subfamily of the cardueline finches, are one of the world's most dramatic examples of adaptive radiation and speciation (see glossary) in island ecosystems (Freed et al. 1987; Scott et al. 1988). From what is believed to have been a single successful colonization of the Hawaiian Archipelago by an ancestral species
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James D. Jacobi, Carter T. Atkinson
History of timber harvest in the Redwood Creek basin, Northwestern California
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D.W. Best
Hormonal control of gill Na+, K+ and -ATPase and chloride cell function
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S. D. McCormick
Hydrological processes and the water budget of lakes
Lakes interact with all components of the hydrological system: atmospheric water, surface water, and groundwater. The fluxes of water to and from lakes with regard to each of these components represent the water budget of a lake. Mathematically, the concept of a water budget is deceptively simple: income equals outgo, plus or minus change in storage. In practice, however, measuring the water fluxe
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Thomas C. Winter
Impact of the 1993 floods in the upper Mississippi River basin
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J. C. Dohrenwend, Byron D. Stone