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January 1, 1992

Ecological studies of Caroline Atoll, Republic of Kiribati, South-central Pacific Ocean. Part 1. History, physiography, botany, and islet descriptions

No abstract available.

Authors

A.K. Kepler, C.B. Kepler, D. H. Ellis

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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

January 1, 1992

Ecological studies on Caroline Atoll, Republic of Kiribati, South-central Pacific Ocean. Part 2. Seabirds, other terrestrial animals, and conservation

No abstract available.

Authors

C.B. Kepler, A.K. Kepler, D. H. Ellis

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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

January 1, 1992

Effects of extended photoperiod on sandhill crane reproduction

Photoperiod studies were conducted with greater sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis tabida) from 1969 to 1972 and from 1982 to 1987 at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Maryland. When housed indoors and exposed to long photoperiods, males produced semen during winter. When exposed to artificially extended photoperiods during spring in outdoor pens, females apparently laid earlier in the year a

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G.F. Gee, G.W. Pendleton

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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

January 1, 1992

Emergent marine strandlines and associated sediments, coastal California; a record of Quaternary sea-level fluctuations, vertical tectonic movements, climatic changes, and coastal processes

No abstract available

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K. R. Lajoie, D. J. Ponti, C.L. Powell, S.A. Mathieson, A. M. Sarna-Wojcicki

January 1, 1992

Evidence for a major fall land bird migration corridor across the South China Sea from Indo-China to the Greater Sunda Islands

No abstract available.

Authors

D. H. Ellis, A.K. Kepler, C.B. Kepler

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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

January 1, 1992

Evolution of fish rhabdoviruses

No abstract available

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J. R. Winton

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Ecosystems Mission Area, Western Fisheries Research Center

January 1, 1992

Exploration for submarine mineral deposits by use of gamma-ray radiometric methods

No abstract available

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A. E. Grosz

January 1, 1992

Extraordinary synorogenic and anoxic deposits amidst sequence cycles of the Late Devonian-Early Mississippian carbonate shelf, Lakeside and Stansbury mountains, Utah

No abstract available

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K. M. Nichols, N. J. Silberling, P. H. Cashman, J.H. Trexler

January 1, 1992

Field guide to the upper Miocene siliceous coastal sequence of Montana de Oro State Park, California

No abstract available

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M.A. Keller

January 1, 1992

Field guide: Gold-copper-silver deposits of the New World District Northwest Geology

No abstract available

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J. E. Elliot, A. R. Kirk, T.W. Johnson

January 1, 1992

Field Research Panel - Reptiles

No abstract available.

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R.W. McDiarmid, D.E. Scott, A.D. Tucker

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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

January 1, 1992

First records of the long-tailed cuckoo (Eudynamis taitensis) on Caroline Atoll, Southern Line Islands, Republic of Kiribati

No abstract available.

Authors

D. H. Ellis, C.B. Kepler, A.K. Kepler, K. Teeb'aki

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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center