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Fisheries Report No 12 - Results Of A Biological Survey Of A Proposed Wildlife Sanctuary At Dragon Rocks Near Hyden, Western Australia, N. L. Mckenzie, A. A. Burbidge, N. G. Marchant

Fisheries Research Reports

In 1972, three visits were made to an area of vacant crown lam 30 kilometres south-south~east of Hyden, Western Australia.

A preliminary survey was made in April 1972 and following this recommendations were made on the equipment and staff required for a detailed survey of the vegetation and animals.

From the 30th July to the 4th August 1972, a team from the Fauna Research Branch of the Department of Fisheries and Fauna began a detailed fauna survey.

Between the 20th August and the 25th August 1972, the fauna survey was continued am a botanist from the Western Australian Herbarium undertook …

Density And Dietary Habits Of Pocket Gophers (Thomomy Bottae Centralie) In Rock Valley, R. E. Dingman, James Bandoli

Memorandum

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Density On The Population Dynamics Of Perognathus Formosus And Its Relationships Within A Desert Ecosystem, R. M. Chew, F. B. Turner, Peter August, Bernardo Maza, James Nelson

Memorandum

No abstract provided.

Biology Of Nematodes In Desert Ecosystems, R. Mankau, S. A. Sher, D. W. Freckman

Memorandum

No abstract provided.

Demography And Bioenergetics Of Herbivorous Ants In A Desert Ecosystem As Functions Of Vegetation Soil Type And Weather Variables, W. G. Whitford

Memorandum

No abstract provided.

Curlew Valley Validation Site Report, David F. Balph

Memorandum

No abstract provided.

Distillation-Condensation Of Water And Nutrient Movement In A Desert Ecosystem, N. Stark

Memorandum

No abstract provided.

Terrestrial Models: Animal Processes (Versions I, Ii), S. Payne

Memorandum

No abstract provided.

Aquatic Models, Wayne Minshall

Memorandum

No abstract provided.

Chronic Effect Of Low Ph On Fathead Minnow Survival, Growth And Reproduction, Donald I. Mount

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

Fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas Rafinesque) were continuously exposed to reduced pH levels of 4.5, 5.2, 5.9, 6.6 and 7.5 (control) during a 13-month, one-generation test. Survival was not affected, even at the lowest pH tested. Fish behavior was abnormal, and fish were deformed at pH 4.5 and 5.2. Egg production and egg hatchability were reduced at pH 5.9 and lower, and all eggs were abnormal. A pH of 6.6 was marginal for vital life functions, but safe for continuous exposure. Free carbon dioxide, liberated by the addition of sulfuric acid to reduce the pH, may have had an unknown …

Preliminary Interpretations Of Coyote Population Mechanics With Some Management Implications, Frederick F. Knowlton

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

The need for control of coyote (Canis latrans) depredations and a simultaneous demand for recognition of the aesthetic and ecologic values of the species create a conflict in resource utilization that should be resolved through more intensive management. A coyote population model is proposed from current estimates of density, reproduction, population structure, and mobility. Densities of 0.5 to 1.0 coyote per square mile are frequently suggested, with occasional estimates of 4.0 or more per square mile. Reproductive rates fluctuate as functions of the proportion of females that ovulate, the average number of ova shed, and in utero viabilities. …

Protection Of Our Fragile Upper Atmosphere, Clayton Clark

Faculty Honor Lectures

Termination of U.S. government support for the Supersonic Transport, SST, may eventually cost the United States its leadership in aviation and billions of dollars in international trade losses, yet if the world wide SST program is allowed to continue, the costs to mankind as a result of damage to environmental resources could be much higher. The decision to terminate the project was heavily based upon concern for possible changes in the properties of the upper atmosphere as a result of SST operations in that realm, with consequent danger to plant and animal life on the Earth below. Briefly, the concern …

Objective Measurement And The Stud Breeder, B R. Beetson

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

The movement towards sale of wool by certificate and sample highlights the significance of objective measurement in the Merino stud breeders' selection of his top rams.

This article suggests how stud breeders should use the Department of Agriculture's Flock Testing Service to gain genetic progress in wool producing ability without loss of visual buyer appeal.

Studs' use of the service will be evaluated in 1974.

A Geochemical Study Of A Marsh Environment, Thomas F. Lytle, Julia Sever Lytle, Patrick L. Parker

Gulf and Caribbean Research

The goal of this study was twofold: 1) chemically to characterize a specific salt marsh, the sediments and associated biota and 2) to establish clear relationships between the chemical substances residing in the sediments and similar or identical substances occurring in the biological specimens. In this particular study it was felt that the hydrocarbons would yield the most significant organic geochemical information. These compounds are ubiquitous but minor components of all organisms. Though their function is not entirely understood, it is known that they are concentrated in the waxy coatings of plants and most likely aid in the protective mechanisms …

Proceedings Of The Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop- December 1973: Contents

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Cover Pages

Program Planning Committee

Registered Attendance

Preface

Table of Contents

A Brief History Of Extension Predator Control In Missouri, Dan F. Dickneite

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Missouri, like many of its neighbors, has long had to content with complaints of damage caused by predatory wildlife. Unlike some other states, however, in Missouri the control, management, restoration, etc. of all bird, fish and game and other wildlife resources of the state is vested in a Conservation Commission to an exclusive degree. Because of this Constitutional mandate, the Conservation Department in Missouri has been the agency primarily responsible for assisting farmers and ranchers with their various wild animal damage control problems. Poisons and explosive or chemical devices are not legal. This legal prohibition not withstanding, Missouri's relatively dense …

Summary, Dan F. Dickneite

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

During this workshop we have heard from some of the leading animal damage control and livestock management specialists in the Great Plains and adjoining states. It appears that western states personnel will likely be involved in wild animal damage control to a greater extent than before as control activities are passed from federal to the separate state agencies--hopefully, with financial assistance for both implementation and research.

There is no widespread agreement on numbers or severity of damage, or on the best damage control techniques to use. What works in one area of the country will not necessarily work in another. …

Extension Wildlife Damage Control In Arkansas, Rocky Lynch

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

With the curtailment of a service type predator control program that existed in Arkansas for 29 years, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission in 1970 initiated a Nuisance Animal Control Section within the framework of the Commissions' Game Division. This extension - demonstration type wildlife control unit was named such because of the increase in rodent control (beaver and muskrat) within the state. Their numbers were spawned by the habitat inhancement in the delta and timber growing regions of Arkansas.

A Game Biologist visited the Missouri Department of Conservation and observed the technique of their predator control agent. With ideas …

Coyote Trapping As A Method Of Damage Control, Robert A. Smith

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Purpose of Program

Method

Cost of Service

Conclusion

Extension Wildlife Damage Control In Colorado, Dale A. Wade

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Wildlife damage control in Colorado may be more varied and difficult than in some other states. Colorado has a widely diversified agricultural, industrial and recreational business base and a great range of human density from the Denver Metropolitan area containing approximately half of the state population to the semi-desert and mountain areas where the population density is extremely low.

Approximately 40 percent of the land is federally owned, much of this in large tracts in the western two-thirds of the state. Privately owned land in this western area is primarily distributed along the more accessible valleys of major drainages. It …

1973 Seasonal Results Phosphorus And Sulphur Group, J W. Bowden

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Summary of 1973 Seasonal results phosphorus and sulphur group. Stocking rate x super rate Residual value of superphosphate - 1972 'Decide' Maintenance assessments PXS trials Rates of super on pasture - CSIRO/NSFP Rate/super on wheat - Sources of sulphur - Gyplap - Bunbury - Lake Grace Lime Trials - Lake Jasper - Northcliffe

62MB9, 65N5, 65A1, 65C5, 65A166M30, 66ME3, 66NO7, 66LG1, 66NA3, 67NO5, 67NO5, 67GE2, 67NO11,68AL36, 68B1, 68BR5, 68BR6, 68B1, 68BR7, 68BU2, 68NO5, 69AL2, 69AL3, 69E6, 69WH15, 72M034, 72M042, 72NA35, 72NA39, 72N40, 72N037, 72N040, 72M043, 72N057, 72NO57, 72BA33, 73BA16, 73BY10, 73BY11, 73BY12, 73BY13, 73LG3/3A, 73MA9, 73MA10, 73MA12, 73MA13, 73MA14.

1973 Pasture Species Investigations - High Rainfall Area, D. A. Nicholas

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

1. Clover cultivar grazing trial - North Bannister 2. Clover cultivar grazing trial - Chowerup 3. Pasture types x stocking rate trial - Denmark Research Station 4. Low oestrogen clover cultivar trial - Mobrup 5. Stocking rate and conservation for steer beef production - Mt. Barker Research Station. 6. Perennial versus annual grass grazing trial – Manjimup Research Station. 68NA1, 701BR15, 72D1, 68BR27, 71MTT46, 72MN5,

Seasonal Movements And Habitat Selection Of Pheasant Cocks In South Dakota, Robert A. Fedeler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Data were gathered on seasonal movements and habitat selection of 30 pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) cocks that were radio-equipped in eastern South Dakota from 1970 to 1972. Pheasant cocks stayed in an area of less than 100 acres from spring through hunting season. In winter, cocks used even smaller areas more intensively. Cocks moved about their home range by shifting their activity center rather than by adjustment in range of daily travel. Adult cocks seemed to have strong site attachments on a year-round basis. Immature cocks were more mobile, especially during the fall prior to hunting season. In spring, adult cocks …

A Study Of Organochlorine Insecticides In Freshwater Crayfish -- Analytical Problems And Biomonitoring Survey, Robert C. Vanderjack

Masters Theses

Crayfish were collected from 3 sites on Polecat Creek, Coles County, Illinois in early spring, early summer, and late summer of 1972. Pesticides were extracted from the crayfish tissue in a one step procedure utilizing a Florisil elution column. Analysis was by electron capture gas chromatography. Pesticide residues in the nannogram range were analyzed and background contamination was an important consideration. Sources of background contamination were investigated and teflon stopcocks, Florisil, and residues on “cleaned” glassware were found to be major contamination sources. Distilled water used in flushing glassware should also be considered a potential contamination source.

Aldrin, dieldrin, and …

Some Implications Of The Second Law Of Thermodynamics, Nancy Barklage

Student Scholarship

Thermodynamics is the branch of science concerned with energy changes that accompany all natural processes. While there are three primary laws, the Second Law of Thermodynamics is the most far-reaching due to its influence on the direction of time and its philosophical implications for life and the universe. Central to this law is the concept of entropy, which serves as a measure of disorder or randomness within a system. All spontaneous processes are irreversible and naturally progress toward a state of maximum entropy and lowest energy. 

One significant implication of the Second Law involves the origin of life. While the …

Ferroxidase-Ii: A Blood Serum Lipo-Protein, Christine Shih Ming Sung

Master's Theses

Ferroxidase-II was definitely identified as a lipoprotein. Cholesterol and phospholipids remained tightly associated with the ferroxidase-II protein following extensive purification. Quantitative analysis showed that it is a high-density lipoprotein. Thin-layer chromatographic analyses indicated that phosphatidylcholine accounts for the majority of the bound phospholipid with lysophosphatidyl choline and sphingomyel in accounting for the remaining phospholipid.

Treatment of purified ferroxidase-II with phospholipase C or A resulted in a loss of ferroxidase activity which paralleled the hydrolysis of phospholipid. Phospholipid D treatment also resulted in the loss of ferroxidase activity, yet the loss was not as great as with other phospholipases. A lipid-depleted …

Heavy Metals In The Main Streams Of The James River Basin, Missouri, Richard Jerome Lance

Masters Theses

"Demands on water resources in the James River basin have greatly increased. Industrial plants and lead-zinc prospects in the basin are potential sources of heavy metal additions to the waters of the area. The study determines the heavy metal content and distribution in the streams of the basin.

Approximately 50 water samples were collected each season and analyzed by atomic absorption techniques. Field determinations of temperature, specific conductance, pH, and effective alkalinity were also made.

Ranges of heavy metal content were: (1) mercury- <0. 1 to 0.3 ppb (summer only); (2) zinc-

The urban areas of Springfield contribute dissolved heavy metals to the surface streams. The Southwest Springfield Sewage …

The Evolution Of The Eastern North American Isopods Of The Genus Asellus (Crustacea: Asellidae) Part Ii, Laurence E. Fleming

International Journal of Speleology

This paper is the second in the three part series dealing with the evolution of the North American isopods of the genus Asellus. The generic status of Asellus is discussed with emphasis placed on the newly proposed genera of Henry and Magniez (1968). Use is made of comparative anatomical and where feasible statistical methods during this investigation. The first, shorter portion of the study deals with the presentation of evidence supporting the viewpoint that if "Pseudobaicalasellus” is to be considered a valid genus then it must include the members of the Cannulus Group of Steeves (1965). The …

Cadmium In Kittitas County Soils, Don G. Muller

All Master's Theses

This paper deals with a survey of soil cadmium concentrations in Kittitas County, Washington, using atomic absorption spectrophotometry as the analytical method. The purpose of the survey was to establish, in an area relatively free from cadmium contamination, background levels for a wide variety of soil conditions. The results showed cadmium concentrations ranging from amounts below the detection limit in remote areas to 2.58ppm in cultivated, inhabited areas, with an overall average concentration of 0.12 ppm cadmium

Safe And Legal Aspects For Washington Teachers With Respect To Selected Elementary Science Programs, Wendy Jean Stoddard

All Master's Theses

This thesis presents varieties of information regarding teaching science in elementary school classrooms in the State of Washington. Included are Washington State Laws, National Fire Codes, general rules, and an annotated list of materials and equipment. This list was developed from items suggested in six elementary science programs. Each item was judged for safety either by scientists or by judgements found in the literature.

Recommendations included use of this material by schools, colleges, and textbook companies. Additional research was urged.