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Relationship Issues In Lds Blended Families, Janet S. Scharman

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

Persistent Pollen As A Tracer For Hibernating Butterflies: The Case Of Hesperia Juba (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), Amy Berkhousen, Arthur M. Shapiro

Great Basin Naturalist

Pollen grains of plants with well-defined flowering seasons may persist on insects through episodes of dormancy, such as hibernation. When readily recognizable and possibly confounding taxa can be excluded, these pollen grains can serve as direct evidence of life-history phenomena that are notoriously difficult to verify in the field. Pollen of the autumn-flowering composite Chrysothamnus nauseosus was used to demonstrate that the common montane skipper, Hesperia juba, hibernates as an adult in Sierra Nevada. This is the first demonstration of adult overwintering in a temperate-zone hesperiid and may represent the smallest butterfly known to overwinter in a cold climate.

Front Matter, Vol. 54 No. 1

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Birds Of Northern Black Mesa, Navajo County, Arizona, Charles T. Larue

Great Basin Naturalist

Two hundred forty-one species of birds have been identified from northern Black Mesa, Arizona. This region's avifauna was poorly known until the late 1970s when large-scale coal mining began. Vegetation of the region is predominantly Great Basin desert scrub, pinyon-juniper woodland, and mixed-conifer woodland. The latter vegetation supports an assemblage of isolated montane bird species unique to the region. Numerous environmental changes have recently affected the bird life of Black Mesa. These include large-scale type conversions (pinyon-juniper clearing and surface mining), pond construction, and establishment of exotic vegetation.

Breeding Ecology Of Long-Billed Curlews At Great Salt Lake, Utah, Peter W. C. Paton, Jack Dalton

Great Basin Naturalist

We qualified nest site characteristics, breeding densities, and migratory chronology of Long-billed Curlews at the Great Salt Lake, Utah. The species is apparently declining in Utah, and little is known about their breeding in the eastern Great Basin Desert. This study was designed to provide wildlife biologist with the baseline data useful for their successful management. Curlews arrived in northern Utah in late March and generally departed by mid-August. Nest densities at Great Salt Lake ranged from 0.64 to 2.36 males/km². The habitat at curlew nest sites consisted of significantly shorter vegetation than nearby random locations (x̄ …

Full Issue, Vol. 54 No. 1

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

End Matter, Vol. 54 No. 1

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Cobble Embeddedness On The Microdistribution Of The Sculpin Cottus Beldingi And Its Stonefly Prey, Roger J. Haro, Merlyn A. Brusven

Great Basin Naturalist

Laboratory experiments were undertaken to assess the effects of three levels of cobble embeddedness on the microdistribution of the sculpin Cottus beldingi and its stonefly prey, Skwala Americana. Experiments were conducted separately and together as predator and prey in temperature- and flow-controlled artificial streams. When tested either separately or together, both the predator sculpin and its stonefly prey occurred in significantly greater numbers on substrata having unembedded cobbles than substrata having half- or completely embedded cobbles. Stonefly densities were greater in substrata having unembedded cobbles even though predator densities within the more embedded cobble patches were significantly lower. These …

Japanese Libraries In The Kinki Region, Toshie Marra

Journal of East Asian Libraries

This is a report of my visit to seven libraries and one museum in the Kinki Region of Japan which took place between May and August 1993. In this report I will provide a profile of each library or museum and mention its special features, current activities, and other observations I have made, examining these institutions from the viewpoint of a library staff member and of a patron, hoping that readers may gain an understanding of the specific interests of these institutions. In compiling this information, I have particularly taken the interests of Japan specialists outside of Japan into consideration.

Nephi's Descendants? Historical Demography And The Book Of Mormon, James E. Smith

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of “Multiply Exceedingly: Book of Mormon Populations Sizes” (1993), by John C. Kunich

Orson Scott Card: The Book Of Mormon As History And Science Fiction, Eugene England

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Homecoming (5 vols., 1992-95); A Storyteller in Zion: Essays and Speeches (1993); and “An Open Letter to those who are concerned about 'plagiarism' in The Memory of Earth” (1993), by Orson Scott Card.

Sentenced To Be Hanged: The Tragic Story Of A Danish Immigrant, Peter D. Thomsen

The Bridge

Several years ago, Thorvald Hansen who was then in

charge of the Danish Immigrant Archives at Grand View

College, Des Moines, Iowa, asked if I would be interested in

writing the Peter Mathiasen story. I had previously told him

that in my childhood home I had heard bits and pieces of this

tale and that what I remembered most was how intensely it

was discussed by some of the immigrant people with whom

my parents associated. Little did I realize they were talking

about something that happened fifteen years before my

birth.

The Functions Of The Executive And The Republic: Exploring The Platonic Roots Of Chester Barnard, Paul C. Godfrey

Faculty Publications

This essay examines the similarities between Plato's Republic and Barnard's Functions of the Executive. The essay argues that comparisons between Barnard and Plato are not overstated in form or substance. Three major areas of each work are compared: the ethical foundations, the political foundations, and the role of education in achieving those political means. Implications arising from the comparison are discussed and the essay concludes by linking the Barnard- Plato dialogue with current issues in management theory and practice.

"Make Your Proof": Interpretation And Twelfth Night'S Conclusion, Chris Roark

Quidditas

That it should all depend on there being an indistinguishable twin brother always troubles me when I think about it, though never when I watch the play. Can it be that we enjoy the play so much simply because it is a wish fulfillment so skillfully presented that we do not notice that our hearts are duping our heads?

Effects Of Soil Structure On Burrow Characteristics Of Five Small Mammal Species, John W. Laundré, Timothy D. Reynolds

Great Basin Naturalist

Burrows of small mammals can impact a variety of soil processes including organic turnover, aeration, and mineralization rates. The structure of burrows, depth, length, and complexity can influence the extent of the impact burrows have on soil processes. Soil properties, in turn, are thought to affect burrow structure. To increase our understanding of burrow-soil dynamics, we compared maximum depth, total volume, total length, volume:length ratio, and complexity of burrows of five small mammal species with bulk density of soil texture in multiple regression analyses. Burrows of Wyoming ground squirrels (Spermophilus elegans) were deeper, longer, and more complex as …

Some New Records Of Naididae And Tubificidae (Annelida: Oligochaeta) From Washington, Douglas R. Spencer, Robert E. Wisseman

Great Basin Naturalist

Five species of Naididae (Ophidonais serpentina, Uncinais uncinata, Arcteonais lomondi, Dero (Dero) digitata, and Slavina appendiculata) and six species of Tubificidae (Tasserkidrilus harmani, Aulodrilus limnobius, A. pluriseta, A. pigueti, A. americanus, and Branchiura sowerbyi) are reported for the first time from Washington. T. harmani, A. pigueti, and A. americanus are also new to the fauna of the western United States. Descriptions and distribution ranges are provided for the new records. A checklist of the freshwater species occurred in Washington is presented.

End Matter, Vol. 53 No. 4

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Temporal And Spatial Patterns Of Small Mammal Density And Species Composition On A Radioactive Waste Disposal Area: The Role Of Edge Habitat, John D. Boone, Barry L. Keller

Great Basin Naturalist

Small mammal populations inhabiting radioactive waste disposal areas could be important vectors of contaminant redistribution, given sufficiently high numbers. Earlier studies conducted at the Subsurface Disposal Area (SDA) in southeastern Idaho found small mammal densities equaling or exceeding densities in native habitat. Our live-trapping study was conducted in 1988 and 1989 to assess the role of edge habitat (where SDA crested wheatgrass [Agropyron cristatum] plantings and native sagebrush habitat are separated by an earthen dike) in facilitating use of this highly modified site by small mammals. Small mammals had a significantly greater density in SDA edge habitat than …

Front Matter, Vol. 53 No. 4

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Phytoplankton In A High-Elevation Lake, Colorado Front Range: Application To Lake Acidification, Dale Toetz, John Windell

Great Basin Naturalist

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the status of phytoplankton in Lake Albion in the Green Lakes valley, Colorado Front Range, with respect to lake acidification. The research was conducted during the inventory phase of the Long-Term Ecological Research program of the University of Colorado at the Niwot Ridge/Green Lakes valley site. Lake Albion is a small subalpine lake on the terminal end of the Green Lakes valley (13 ha, mean depth 6 m, and surface pH 6.51). Net plankton were collected six times during June–August 1984. Ancillary data on nutrients, temperature, chlorophyll a, and Secchi disc …

Full Issue, Vol. 53 No. 4

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Morphology And Growth Variation Of Agropyron Smithii Rydb. (Western Wheatgrass) At Different Salinity Levels, Rengen Ueng, Ivo E. Lindauer

Great Basin Naturalist

The purpose of this study was to determine the morphology and growth responses of Agropyron smithii Rydb. To various saline environments as evaluated in the laboratory. Agropyron smithii Rydb. (Rosana) seeds were germinated, transplanted into nutrient solutions with NaCl concentrations of 0, 50, 100, 150, and 200 mM, and grown for 80 days. Plant height, length of culm, and number of culms per plant were significantly reduced by the presence of NaCl in the nutrient solutions. As the external NaCl concentrations increased, values of root and plant ratio and leaf dry/fresh mass ratio increased significantly; biomass decreased significantly. …

Comparison Between Plant Species In Bushy-Tailed Woodrat Middens And In The Habitat, Barbara A. Frase, Wendy E. Sera

Great Basin Naturalist

Bushy-tailed woodrats (Neotoma cinera) collect vegetation and store it in middens. We asked to what extent plant species collected by woodrats reflect the array of species growing in the habitat. Species composition of plant clippings at 20 bushy-tailed woodrat middens in central Colorado were compared to vegetation growing within 30 m of the dens. Amount of overlap between midden and habitat species was low (28–49%) when all taxa were included; however, if only woody taxa were considered, overlap was 71–89%. Sorensen's Index of Similarity exhibited a like pattern; the index increased markedly if only woody taxa were included. …

Seasonal Trends And Colonization Patterns Of Macroinvertebrate Assemblages In Two Streams With Contrasting Flow Regimes, Christopher T. Robinson, G. Wayne Minshall, Lynn Van Every

Great Basin Naturalist

Patterns of colonization by macroinvertebrates were examined in two streams that differ in flow regime: a snowmelt system and a mesic groundwater system. Experiments were conducted during spring runoff, summer baseflow, and winter baseflow using artificial substrata. Colonization patterns reflected seasonal changes in benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages and life histories in each stream. The density and biomass of benthic organisms were approximately 3× greater in winter than in either spring or summer for both streams. Similarly, colonization was greater in winter than in spring or summer for both streams. In spring, colonization patterns were different between streams, with colonization being imperceptible …

Some Personal Reflections On My Brief Experience At The Chinese University Of Hong Kong, Chi Wang

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

A Branch Apart: East Asian Collections In A Research Library Context, Diane E. Perushek

Journal of East Asian Libraries

Much has been written in library literature of late about access and ownership and how libraries should respond organizationally to the new role libraries are developing to meet the dual challenges of pervasive information technology and reduced budgets. There are repeated calls for libraries to give customized service, be intimately aware of users' needs and deliver documents at the point of use. In an article on the efficacy of branch libraries entitled "Organization Misfits," it is posited that departmental (or "branch") libraries, due to their size and flexibility, can provide models for this type of service with little change to …

Civilization In Context, Roger Williams Wescott

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Index, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

The Story Of The Truth, The Way, The Life, James B. Allen

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

The Proper Edge Of The Sky: The High Plateau Country Of Utah By Edward A. Geary, Dean L. May

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.