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Unusual Social Feeding And Soaring By The Common Raven (Corvus Corax), Clayton M. White, Merle Tanner-White Jan 1985

Unusual Social Feeding And Soaring By The Common Raven (Corvus Corax), Clayton M. White, Merle Tanner-White

Great Basin Naturalist

A flock of some 1000 ravens, not associated with night roosts, was seen during the breeding season. Some were feeding on the ground while others soared in the air above them. It is suggested that the large soaring flock acted as information transfers for feeding conditions.


Three Additional Cases Of Predation By Magpies On Small Mammals, Kerry P. Reese Jan 1985

Three Additional Cases Of Predation By Magpies On Small Mammals, Kerry P. Reese

Great Basin Naturalist

Three acts of predation by Black-billed Magpies (Pica pica hudsonia) on small mammals indicate that magpies will not only attack prey opportunistically encountered at close range, as suggested by recent literature, but will also pursue prey detected at long distances.


End Matter, Vol. 45 No. 1 Jan 1985

End Matter, Vol. 45 No. 1

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.


Use Of Biomass Predicted By Regression From Cover Estimates To Compare Vegetational Similarity Of Sagebrush-Grass Sites, L. David Humphrey Jan 1985

Use Of Biomass Predicted By Regression From Cover Estimates To Compare Vegetational Similarity Of Sagebrush-Grass Sites, L. David Humphrey

Great Basin Naturalist

Regressions between vegetational cover, estimated with a two-tiered, gridded sampling frame, and biomass were used to obtain predicted biomass values from cover values. Comparisons of eight sites based on predicted biomass data and comparisons of the sites based on cover data indicate that predicted biomass data may better identify differences among sites. Also, some suggestions are made regarding the methods of using cover-biomass regressions to obtain predicted biomass values.


Spatial Patterns Of Plant Communities And Differential Weathering In Navajo National Monument, Arizona, Jack D. Brotherson, William E. Evenson, Samuel R. Rushforth, John Fairchild, Jeffrey R. Johansen Jan 1985

Spatial Patterns Of Plant Communities And Differential Weathering In Navajo National Monument, Arizona, Jack D. Brotherson, William E. Evenson, Samuel R. Rushforth, John Fairchild, Jeffrey R. Johansen

Great Basin Naturalist

Vegetation patterns in Navajo National Monument, Arizona, were studied over a five-year period from 1977 to 1981. Twelve distinct plant community types occur within the boundaries of the park. These communities are characterized and the dominant plant species of each are recorded. The relationships of parent material, soils, and moisture to plant communities are also discussed. It appears that discrete communities occupy soils of different characteristics, particularly with respect to amount of weathering of parent material.


Cryptogamic Soil Crusts: Seasonal Variation In Algal Populations In The Tintic Mountains, Juab County, Utah, Jeffrey R. Johansen, Samuel R. Rushforth Jan 1985

Cryptogamic Soil Crusts: Seasonal Variation In Algal Populations In The Tintic Mountains, Juab County, Utah, Jeffrey R. Johansen, Samuel R. Rushforth

Great Basin Naturalist

The soil algae in the Tintic Mountains, Juab County, Utah, was studied over a one-year period in 1982 and 1983. Fluorescence microscopy was used to measure algal density in samples directly from the field. A total of 30 algal taxa was observed, blue-green algae being most abundant both in terms of density and number of species. Algal density showed peaks in late fall and late spring. Minima were present in September 1982 and July 1983. Several weak correlations between algal density and climatic data existed. In general algae correlated positively with precipitation and negatively with temperature. A combination of low …


Understory Response To Tree Harvesting Of Singleleaf Pinyon And Utah Juniper, Richard L. Everett, Steven H. Sharrow Jan 1985

Understory Response To Tree Harvesting Of Singleleaf Pinyon And Utah Juniper, Richard L. Everett, Steven H. Sharrow

Great Basin Naturalist

Fifteen widely separated sites within the pinyon-juniper woodlands of the Great Basin were cleared of trees. Understory response was recorded for 2 to 4 years. The array of postharvest plant assemblages were classified into one of four phytosociological groups using discriminant analysis. Pre- and postharvest plant assemblages from the same site appeared in the same phytosociological group, which indicates postharvest response could be predicted from the preharvest plant assemblage. Initial postharvest response appears cyclic in nature, and cycles are controlled by both residual plants and the rapid immigration of shrub species. Perennial plant density generally declined following tree harvest, but …


Deception And Distance In Béroul's Tristan: A Reconsideration, Norris J. Lacy Jan 1985

Deception And Distance In Béroul's Tristan: A Reconsideration, Norris J. Lacy

Quidditas

Some years ago, I suggested that the irony and the pervasive equivocations that characterize the text of Béroul's Tristan have the effect of precluding, on the narrator's part, an implicit ethical endorsement of the characters. Although that is still my view, I went on, perhaps too incautiously, to question Béroul's narrative reliability. Considering the importance of such matters for our understanding of Béroul's art, it is not inappropriate to reconsider this problem. In fact, I think it reasonable now to begin with the assertion that, although his work is full of ambiguities, ironies, and tricks, Béroul's narrator never deceives his …


The Fiction Of The "Livre" In Robert De Boron's Merlin, Stephen Maddux Jan 1985

The Fiction Of The "Livre" In Robert De Boron's Merlin, Stephen Maddux

Quidditas

Robert de Baron, thought to have been responsible for changing Chrétien's graal into a Christian relic and his tale of Perceval into a cycle, was also an innovator when it came to the convention of the bookish source for his story. Marie de France and Chrétien both were careful to supply their poems with some kind of external authority, which was often book-like, if not in fact always a written text. Chrétien twice refers to actual books; Marie de France's sources were presumably all oral, but she treats them as though they were written, that is, deserving the same treatment …


Full Issue Jan 1985

Full Issue

Quidditas

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Jan 1985

Front Matter

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Blessed Are The Meek, Philip White Jan 1985

Blessed Are The Meek, Philip White

Inscape

No abstract provided.


The Athenan, Scott Hatch Jan 1985

The Athenan, Scott Hatch

Inscape

No abstract provided.


A Fisherman's Love Song, Porn-Chai Juntratip Jan 1985

A Fisherman's Love Song, Porn-Chai Juntratip

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Electric Dryer Breakdown, Caroline P. M. West Jan 1985

Electric Dryer Breakdown, Caroline P. M. West

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Instructions To A Census Taker, Carla Thomas Jan 1985

Instructions To A Census Taker, Carla Thomas

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Utah Seagulls, Cara Bullinger Jan 1985

Utah Seagulls, Cara Bullinger

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Medusa (Artwork), Sally Gardner Jan 1985

Medusa (Artwork), Sally Gardner

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Town Plaza, Socorro, New Mexico (Artwork), Sally Gardner Jan 1985

Town Plaza, Socorro, New Mexico (Artwork), Sally Gardner

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Front Cover Jan 1985

Front Cover

The Bridge

No abstract provided.


Editorial Statement Jan 1985

Editorial Statement

The Bridge

No abstract provided.


Chapter Ii: Chicago And The Danish Settlement Jan 1985

Chapter Ii: Chicago And The Danish Settlement

The Bridge

If two words characterized Chicago in its first halfcentury, they were "growth" and "change." In 1840 Chicago was a small prairie town of 4,500 inhabitants. But the forces that brought immigrants to the Midwest had already begun to transform Chicago. With the development of trade and commerce between the Midwest and the East, better transportation over land and water became essential. In the 1840s, the State of Illinois constructed the Illinois and Michigan Canal, connecting the Mississippi River with Lake Michigan by way of Chicago. For the first time, Midwestern produce could go to market through the Great Lakes, as …


Snowshoeing, Cara Bullinger Jan 1985

Snowshoeing, Cara Bullinger

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Three Related Stanzas, Patricia Gunter Jan 1985

Three Related Stanzas, Patricia Gunter

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Phases: Twin Moons In Cancer, Virginia Baker Jan 1985

Phases: Twin Moons In Cancer, Virginia Baker

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Medusa, Mark Crimmins Jan 1985

Medusa, Mark Crimmins

Inscape

No abstract provided.


An Archetypal Analysis (Artwork), Sally Gardner Jan 1985

An Archetypal Analysis (Artwork), Sally Gardner

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Instructions To A Census Taker (Artwork), Sally Gardner Jan 1985

Instructions To A Census Taker (Artwork), Sally Gardner

Inscape

No abstract provided.


Home For Xmas (Artwork), Sally Gardner Jan 1985

Home For Xmas (Artwork), Sally Gardner

Inscape

No abstract provided.


The Baby Catcher (Artwork), Sally Gardner Jan 1985

The Baby Catcher (Artwork), Sally Gardner

Inscape

No abstract provided.