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Protection of biological diversity: Missing connection between science and management
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C. Schonewald-Cox
Range and habitats of the desert tortoise
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D.J. Germano, R.B. Bury, T. C. Esque, T. H. Fritts, P.A. Medica
Recognition of mussel taxa: a conservation challenge
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J.D. Williams, M. Mulvey
Regional waterfowl habitat trends and implications for neotropical birds
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K. J. Reinecke
Sea otter foraging behavior and hydrocarbon levels in prey
Following the Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS), Prudhoe Bay crude oil from the vessel spread on the sea surface and covered coastal shores from western Prince William Sound (PWS) to the Alaska Peninsula. In PWS alone. acute mortality of sca otters at the time of the spill was estimated to be greater than 2000 (Doroff et al. 1993; Garrott et al. 1993).Shoreline oiling was observed on approximately 24%
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Angela M. Doroff, James L. Bodkin
Secondary minerals and acid mine-water chemistry
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Charles N. Alpers, D.W Blowes, D. Kirk Nordstrom, J.L. Jambor
Sediment-based carbon nutrition in tropical alpine Isoetes,
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J. E. Keeley, D. DeMasson, R. Gonzalez, K. Markham
Shorebirds in western North America: Late 1800s to late 1900s
Only anecdotal information is available to assess whether populations of the 47 shorebird species that breed or winter west of the Rocky Mountains changed in size or distribution during the past century. Unregulated hunting from 1870 to 1927 reduced populations of several species, at least temporarily, and was a factor in bringing the Eskimo Curlew (Numenius borealis) close to extinction. Large sc
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Gary W. Page, Robert E. Gill
Small-scale digital maps for interpreting natural resources
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N.B. Bliss, W.U. Reybold
Soda Lake-Painted Rock(!) Petroleum System in the Cuyama Basin, California, U.S.A.
The Cuyama basin, located in the central California Coast Ranges, was formed by extension during early Miocene time and was filled with a variety of nonmarine, marginal marine, and neritic to bathyal marine sediments. Low sulfur oil is produced primarily from the lower Miocene Painted Rock Sandstone Member of the Vaqueros Formation along a structural trend parallel to the Russell fault, which was
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Paul G. Lillis