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Resurrection Peninsula and Knight Island ophiolites and recent faulting on Montague Island, southern Alaska

The Resurrection Peninsula forms the east side of Resurrection Bay (Fig. 1). The city of Seward is located at the head of the bay and can be reached from Anchorage by highway (127 mi;204 km). Relief ranges from 1,434 ft (437 m) at the southern end of the peninsula to more than 4,800 ft (1,463 m) 17 mi (28 km) to the north. All rock units composing the informally named Resurrection Peninsula ophiol
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Steven W. Nelson, Marti L. Miller, Julie A. Dumoulin

Seasonal metabolic and reproductive cycles in wolves

No abstract available.
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U. S. Seal, E.D. Plotka, L. D. Mech, J.M. Packard

Seekuhe. [Seacow]

No abstract available at this time
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G. B. Rathbun

Telemetry of gastric motility data from owls

No abstract available.
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V.B. Kuechle, M.R. Fuller, R.A. Reichle, R.J. Schuster, G.E. Duke

The use of kestrels in toxicology

Various species of kestrels have become important bioindicators of environmental quality and test species for comparative toxicology in captivity. At least 7 species of kestrels have been used to document the presence of environmental contamination primarily organochlorines and metals, in at least 15 countries. Captive kestrels have been used in studies involving a wide variety of environmental
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Stanley N. Wiemeyer, J.L. Lincer

Trends in American kestrel counts from the North American Breeding Bird Survey

A 15-year summary of the BBS data suggests that continental numbers of American Kestrels have increased during 1966-1979. According to analyses of physiographic and state/province strata, some areas are largely responsible for the increase in the U.S. and southern Canada and that only in Illinois and Arkansas have kestrels declined. BBS data are too few in Florida to detect trends concerning F. s.
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M.R. Fuller, D. Bystrak, C.S. Robbins, R.M. Patterson

Use of hatcheries in the management of Pacific anadromous salmonids

No abstract available.
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J.A. Lichatowich, J.D. McIntyre