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Founding populations in conservation: Problems and characteristics of small populations
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C. Schonewald-Cox
Immunosuppressive effects of lead
Immunosuppressive effects of lead were reported as early as 1966, when it was noted that lead increased the sensitivity of rats to bacterial endotoxins (Selye et al. 1966). Since then a substantial body of literature has demonstrated adverse effects of lead on the immune system in a variety of laboratory animals, but very little has been done in this area with avian species. Such immunosuppressive
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J. Christian Franson
Interannual variability in biochemistry of partially mixed estuaries: Dissolved silicate cycles in northern San Francisco Bay
Much of the interannual variability in partially mixed estuaries in dissolved inorganic nutrient and dissolved oxygen patterns results from an enhancement or reduction of their annual cycle (generally via climatic forcing). In northern San Francisco Bay estuary the annual cycle of dissolved silicate supply peaks in spring and the effect of phytoplankton removal peaks in fall. Because riverine sili
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David H. Peterson, Daniel R. Cayan, John F. Festa
Introduction: development, testing, and application of wildlife-habitat models
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K.H. Berry
Levels of time information in weathering measurements, with examples from weathering rinds on volcanic clasts in the Western United States
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Steven M. Coleman, David P. Dethier
Managing water heating costs for intensive culture of tiger muskellunge
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W. F. Krise, J. T. Fuss
Marine birds
In this chapter we review existing knowledge of marine birds in the Gulf of Alaska. Three estuarine systems in the Gulf provide critical habitat for migratory shorebirds and waterfowl: 1) the Stikine River Delta, 2) Cook Inlet, and 3) the Copper River Delta. Over 20 million waterbirds are estimated to use the latter system during spring migration. Western sandpipers, dunlin, and northern pintails
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Anthony R. DeGange, Gerald A. Sanger
Mineral nutrition : effects of phosphorus in trout and salmon feeds on water pollution
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H. G. Ketola
Mortality of muskellunge fingerlings attributed to a multiple tapeworm infection
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J.H. Schachte, G. L. Hoffman