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Right whale mortality: a message from the dead to the living
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M.J. Moore, W.A. McLellan, P.-Y. Daoust, R. K. Bonde, A.R. Knowlton
Spatial data infrastructures in management of natural disasters
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K.O. Asante, J. P. Verdin, M. P. Crane, S.A. Tokar, James D. Rowland
Strategies for survival: Marine mammals
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Sara J. Iverson, Alan M. Springer, James L. Bodkin
Strategies for survival: Stellar sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters Chapter 4.9
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Alan M. Springer, Sara J. Iverson, James L. Bodkin
Sublethal responses of avian embryos exposed to polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers PBDEs) have been detected in bird eggs worldwide, and despite increasing concentrations over the past 25 years, toxicological thresholds have yet to be established. We previously reported embryonic survival, and pipping and hatching success in chicken (Gallus gallus), mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) and American kestrel (Falco sparverius) embryos receiving 0.01-20 :g P
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Barnett A. Rattner, M.A. McKernan, M. Ottinger
Suspended-sediment transport measurement
Of the two operationally defined phases of fluvial-sediment transport – suspended load and bedload – collection of suspended-load data is the more common. This is a reflection of a number of factors including the general predominance of suspended load over bedload in mass transport and the greater difficulty and costs associated with collecting bedload data. Acquisition of suspended-sediment data
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John R. Gray
The Crown of the Continent: Striving for ecosystem sustainability
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Tony Prato, Daniel B. Fagre
The effects of acidic mine drainage from historical mines in the Animas River watershed, San Juan County, Colorado—What is being done and what can be done to improve water quality?
Historical production of metals in the western United States has left a legacy of acidic drainage and toxic metals in many mountain watersheds that are a potential threat to human and ecosystem health. Studies of the effects of historical mining on surface water chemistry and riparian habitat in the Animas River watershed have shown that cost-effective remediation of mine sites must be carefully p
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Stanley E. Church, Robert J. Owen, Paul Von Guerard, Philip L. Verplanck, Briant A. Kimball, Douglas B. Yager
The geochemistry of pesticides
The mid-1970s marked a major turning point in human history, for it was at that moment that the ability of the Earth’s ecosystems to absorb most of the biological impacts of human activities appears to have been exceeded by the magnitude of those impacts. This conclusion is based partly upon estimates of the rate of carbon dioxide emission during the combustion of fossil fuels, relative to the rat
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Jack E. Barbash
Tower counts
Counting towers provide an accurate, low-cost, low-maintenance, low-technology, and easily mobilized escapement estimation program compared to other methods (e.g., weirs, hydroacoustics, mark-recapture, and aerial surveys) (Thompson 1962; Siebel 1967; Cousens et al. 1982; Symons and Waldichuk 1984; Anderson 2000; Alaska Department of Fish and Game 2003). Counting tower data has been found to be co
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Carol Ann Woody
Use of rapid analysis technologies for the field identification and on-site confirmation of avian influenza
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John Y. Takekawa