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North American Bird Banding and quantitative population ecology
Early bird-banding programs in North America were developed to provide descriptions of bird migration and movement patterns. This initial interest in description quickly evolved into more quantitative interests in two ways. There was (1) interest in quantifying migration and movement patterns, and (2) rapid recognition that re-observations of marked birds provided information about other paramete
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J. D. Nichols, J. Tautin
Preface
The idea for Landslides and Engineering Geology of the Seattle, Washington, Areagrew out of a major landslide disaster that occurred in the Puget Sound region at the beginning of 1997. Unusually heavy snowfall in late December 1996 followed by warm, intense rainfall on 31 December through 2 January 1997 produced hundreds of damaging landslides in communities surrounding Puget Sound. This disaster
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Rex L. Baum, Jonathan W. Godt, Lynn M. Highland
Riparian plant community structure in a managed hydrological regime
The hydrology of the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park is partly determined by releases from Jackson Lake Dam. The dam was first built in 1908 and became part of the National Park system when GTNP was expanded to include most of Jackson Hole. Completion of the present structure of Jackson Lake Dam occurred in 1917 and resulted in an increase above the natural level of Jackson Lake of 11.9 m
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Sabine Mellman-Brown, Dave Roberts, Bruce H. Pugesek
Rivers and streams: Ecosystem dynamics and integrating paradigms
Full understanding of running waters requires an ecosystem perspective, which encompasses the physical and chemical setting in interaction with dependent biological communities. Several conceptual models or paradigms of river and stream ecosystems that capture critical components of lotic ecosystems have been developed, including the ‘river continuum concept’, to describe fluxes of matter and ener
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K.W. Cummins, M.A. Wilzbach
Roles and contributions of banding organizations to the North American Banding Program
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S.R. Morris, B. Dale, M. Gustafson
Sediment transport measurements
Sediment erosion, transport, and deposition in fluvial systems are complex processes that are treated in detail in other sections of this book. Development of methods suitable for the collection of data that contribute to understanding these processes is a still-evolving science. Sediment and ancillary data are fundamental requirements for the proper management of river systems, including the desi
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P. Diplas, R. Kuhnle, J. Gray, D. Glysson, T. Edwards
State of the art in design, modelling and software for tagging studies
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W. L. Kendall
Temperate freshwater wetlands: Response to gradients in moisture regime, human alterations and economic status
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Mark M. Brinson, Barbara E. Bedford, Beth Middleton, Jos T. A. Verhoeven
Ticks
The most common vector-borne diseases in both Europe and North America are transmitted by ticks. Lyme borreliosis (LB), a tick-borne bacterial zoonosis, is the most highly prevalent. Other important tick-borne diseases include TBE (tick-borne encephalitis) and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Europe, Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) in North America, and numerous less common tick-borne bac
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H. S. Ginsberg, M.K. Faulde
Track of the Yellowstone hotspot: Young and ongoing geologic processes from the Snake River Plain to the Yellowstone Plateau and Tetons
This field trip highlights various stages in the evolution of the Snake River Plain–Yellowstone Plateau bimodal volcanic province, and associated faulting and uplift, also known as the track of the Yellowstone hotspot. The 16 Ma Yellowstone hotspot track is one of the few places on Earth where time-transgressive processes on continental crust can be observed in the volcanic and tectonic (faulting
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Lisa A. Morgan, Kenneth L. Pierce, Pat Shanks