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Physio-chemical processes affecting copper, tin and zinc toxicity to algae: A review

This chapter focuses on the physic-chemical processes affecting copper, zinc, and tin toxicity to algae. Both Cu and Zn are essential algal micronutrients, cofactors in numerous biochemical processes. The availability of a nutrient or toxic substance can be significantly affected by precipitation. Methods for modeling the effects of adsorption–desorption reactions have been previously reviewed. Us
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James S. Kuwabara

Evaluating the structure of habitat for wildlife

No abstract available.
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H.L. Short, S.C. Williamson

Artificial propagation of coregonines in the management of the Laurentian Great Lakes

Numerous stresses caused wide fluctuations in the abundance of Great Lakes coregonine fishes during the last century. State, Provincial, and Federal agencies attempted to bolster these fisheries by stocking more than 32 billion fry of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and 6 billion fry of lake herring (C. artedii) over a period of about 90 years (1870-1960). Propagation efforts were unsucces
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Thomas N. Todd

Concepts and constraints of habitat model testing

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M. Schamberger, J. O'Neil

Minturn and Sangre de Cristo formations of Southern Colorado: A prograding fan delta and alluvial fan sequence shed from the ancestral Rocky Mountains

The Middle Pennsylvania!) Minturn Formation and the Pennsylvanian-Permian Sangre de Cristo Formation of the northern Sangre de Cristo Range form a thick progradational sequence of coarse clastic sediments. These sediments were deposited along the western margin of the central Colorado trough during uplift of the late Paleozoic Uncompahgre highland, a major structural and topographic feature of the
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D. A. Lindsay, R. F. Clark, S. J. Soulliere

An overview of rates of chemical weathering

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Steven M. Coleman, David P. Dethier

Analysis of forest structure using thematic mapper simulator data

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D. L. Peterson, W.E. Westman, N.L. Stephenson, V.G. Ambrosia, J.A. Brass, M.A. Spanner

Animal on the move

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J. A. Howell

Aquatic birds and selenium in the San Joaquin Valley

Kesterton Reservoir is a series of ponds comprising 1,200 acres sitting in the grasslands of the Kesterton National Wildlife Refuge. It is bounded on the east by the San Luis Drain, a concrete-lined canal that discharges agricultural drainage into the ponds at their southern end, from which point it then flows northward through the twelve ponds (see the map on the page following).Mike Saki and I s
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Harry M. Ohlendorf