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Effects of DDT on steroid metabolism and energetics in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus)
No abstract available.
Authors
S. Lustick, T. Voss, T.J. Peterle
Biological data on PCBs in animals other than man
SUMMARY: Polychlorinated biphenyls have become ubiquitous in the world ecosystem in quantities similar to those of DDE. Experimental studies have shown that PCBs have a toxicity to mallards, pheasants, bobwhite quail, coturnix quail, red-winged blackbirds, starlings, cowbirds, and grackles that is of the same order as the toxicity of DDE to these species. Overt signs of poisoning also are si
Authors
L. F. Stickel
Population ecology and environmental pollution: Red-tailed and Cooper's hawks
No abstract available.
Authors
C. J. Henny, H. M. Wight
Los plaguicidas y la contaminacion del medio ambiente Venezolano
RESUMEN DE RECOMENDACIONES Recomendaciones para el Programa de Investigacion: 1. Establecer un sistema de muestreo biologico para detectar los niveles tendencias de los productos quimicos toxicos en un peque?o numero de si tios representativos. 2. Mantener continua vigilancia de la contaminacion ambiental, mediante la seleccion acertadamente dirigida de las zonas afectadas y de las fu
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L. F. Stickel, W. H. Stickel
Time lapse ecology, Muskeget Island, Nantucket, Massachusetts
No abstract available.
Authors
D.K. Wetherbee, R.P. Coppinger, R.E. Walsh
Comparison of evaporation computation methods, Pretty Lake, Lagrange County, northeastern Indiana
Evaporation from Pretty Lake has been computed for a 2%- year period between 1963 and 1965 by the use of an energy budget, mass-transfer parameters, a water budget, a class-A pan, and a computed pan evaporation technique. The seasonal totals for the different methods are within 8 percent of their mean and are within 11 percent of the rate of 79 centimeters (31 inches) per year determined from publ
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John F. Ficke
Appraisal of stream sedimentation in the Susquehanna River basin
The Susquehanna River presently transports about 3.0 million tons of sediment annually (110 tons per square mile). Only about 1.8 million tons of sediment enters the head of Chesapeake Bay annually because some sediment is trapped behind the power dams on the lower Susquehanna. Measured annual sediment yields from subbasins in the Susquehanna range from 40 to 440 tons per square mile. The highest
Authors
Kenneth F. Williams, Lloyd A. Reed
Water quality of streams in the Neshaminy Creek basin, Pennsylvania
The Neshaminy has carved a scenic route on its way to the Delaware River, thereby helping to increase the value of land. The unabated growth of nearby metropolitan areas and the multiplying needs for water and open space for water storage and recreation in southeastern Pennsylvania have become impelling forces that mark the Neshaminy valley watershed for continued development of its land and water
Authors
Edward F. McCarren
Definitions of selected ground-water terms, revisions and conceptual refinements
For many years there has been a need for redefinition or more precise definition of certain ground-water terms used in publications by members of the U.S . Geological Survey. Another problem has been the expression of the coefficient of permeability (herein redefined as hydraulic conductivity) and the coefficient of transmissibility (herein redefined as transmissivity) in inconsistent units that i
Authors
Stanley William Lohman
Evaporation from Morse Reservoir, Indiana
No abstract available.
Authors
J. E. Heisel, R.E. Hoggatt, C. H. Tate