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Zoonotic protozoa in the marine environment: a threat to aquatic mammals and public health
This collection of abstracts provides an account of four presentations at the 19th International Conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP) (held in New Orleans, LA, USA from 10–14 August 2003) in a symposium session on zoonotic protozoan parasites found in the marine environment and chaired by Ronald Fayer and David Lindsay. The focus was on three g
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M.E. Olson, A. Appelbee, L. Measures, Rebecca A. Cole, D. S. Lindsay, J. P. Dubey, N. J. Thomas, M. Miller, P. Conrad, I. Gardner, J. Kreuder, J. Mazet, D. Jessup, Erin Dodd, M. Harris, J. Ames, K. Worcester, D. Paradies, M. Grigg, R. Fayer, E.J. Lewis, J.M. Trout, L. Xiao, D.W. Howard, R. Palmer, K. Ludwig, S.S. Tyler
A guide to sampling freshwater mussel populations
No abstract available.
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David L. Strayer, David R. Smith
Acropora corals in Florida: status, trends, conservation, and prospects for recovery
Despite representing the northern extent of Acropora spp. in the Caribbean, most of the Florida reef line from Palm Beach through the Keys was built by these species. Climatic factors appear to have bee important agents of Acropora loss within historic (century) time frames. In the recent past (1980-present), available quantitative evidence suggests dramatic declines occurred in A. cervicornis f
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Margaret W. Miller, Walt C. Jaap, Mark Chiappone, Bernardo Vargas-Angel, Brian Keller, Richard B. Aronson, Eugene A. Shinn
Integrated assessment of the climate change impacts on the Gulf Coast Region of the United States
No abstract available.
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Zhu Ning, R. Eugene Turner, Thomas W. Doyle, Kamran Abdollahi, Alma Thornton, Enrique Reyes, D. Justic, Erick Swenson, Wael Khairy, Kam-Biu Liu
Arsenic in ground water: Geochemistry and occurrence
Interest in arsenic in ground water has greatly increased in the past decade because of the increased awareness of human health effects and the costs of avoidance or treatment of ground water supplies used for consumption. The goal of this book is to provide a description of the basic processes that affect arsenic occurrence and transport by providing sufficient background information on arsenic g
Surveillance strategies for detecting Chronic Wasting Disease in free-ranging deer and elk: Results of a CWD surveillance workshop
Executive SummaryChronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a fatal brain disease of North American deer and elk, has recently emerged as an important wildlife management issue. Interest and concern over the spread of this disease and its potential impact on free-ranging cervid populations has increased with discovery of the disease in numerous states and provinces. Current studies suggest that CWD may advers
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Michael D. Samuel, Damien O. Joly, Margaret A. Wild, Scott D. Wright, David L. Otis, Rob W. Werge, Michael W. Miller
Natural gas hydrate in oceanic and permafrost environments
THE BEGINNINGS OF HYDRATE RESEARCH Until very recently, our understanding of hydrate in the natural environment and its impact on seafloor stability, its importance as a sequester of methane, and its potential as an important mechanism in the Earth's climate change system, was masked by our lack of appreciation of the vastness of the hydrate resource. Only a few publications on naturally occurring
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Michael D. Max
Chasing lava: a geologist's adventures at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
A lively account of the three years (1969-1972) spent by geologist Wendell Duffield working at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory at Kilauea, one of the world's more active volcanoes. Abundantly illustrated in b&w and color, with line drawings and maps, as well. Volcanologists and general readers alike will enjoy author Wendell Duffield's report from Kilauea--home of Pele, the goddess of fire and vo
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Wendell A. Duffield
Handbook of groundwater remediation using permeable reactive barriers: Applications to radionuclides, trace metals, and nutrients
Over the last century and a half, groundwaters have become contaminated by a growing number of organic and inorganic substances ranging from petroleum-derived hydrocarbons to radioactive compounds, to cancer-causing hexavalent chromium. The importance of uncontaminated groundwater for agriculture, human consumption, and the environmental health of ecosystems is paramount to the health and producti
Structural Equation Modeling: Applications in ecological and evolutionary biology
This book presents an introduction to the methodology of structural equation modeling, illustrates its use, and goes on to argue that it has revolutionary implications for the study of natural systems. A major theme of this book is that we have, up to this point, attempted to study systems primarily using methods (such as the univariate model) that were designed only for considering individual pro
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Bruce H. Pugesek, Adrian Tomer, Alexander von Eye
Earth's climate and orbital eccentricity: The marine isotope stage 11 question
No abstract available.
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André Droxler, Richard Z. Poore, Lloyd H. Burckle
Amphibian decline: An integrated analysis of multiple stressor effects
Capturing the attention and imagination of the public and the scientific community alike, the mysterious decline in amphibian populations drew scientists and resource managers from ecotoxicology and chemistry, ecology and field biology, conservation biology, and natural resource policy to a SETAC–Johnson Foundation workshop. Facilitating environmental stewardship, increasing capacity of the scienc