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The Prairie Naturalist Volume 6, Nos. 3 And 4. September-December 1974

The Prairie Naturalist

A BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF KRAFT SLOUGH ▪ G. L. Krapu & H. F. Duebbert

CHRISTMAS BIRD·COUNTS FOR NORTH DAKOTA - 1974 ▪ R. N. Randall

USE OF SMALL FENCES TO PROTECT GROUND BIRD NESTS FROM MAMMALIAN PREDATORS ▪ A. B. Sargeant & A. D. Kruse

BOOK REVIEW: Finding Birds in Minnesota ▪ E. M. Welter

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 6, No.2. June 1974

The Prairie Naturalist

WOOD DUCKS IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ H. A. Doty

AERIAL FEEDING BY RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS NEAR FULLER'S LAKE, NORTH DAKOTA ▪ W. C. Royall, Jr. & O. E. Bray

ARBOREAL WOODCHUCKS? ▪ K. T. Killingbeck

IMAGES, CHOICE, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ▪ E. Smith

BREEDING STATUS OF THE LEAST BITTERN IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ C. L. Cink

NOTE: Maximum Sizes for Ambystomatid Salamanders ▪ D. W. Larson

Microfossils From The Upper Severy Shale (Pennsylvanian) Near Dubois, Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Organic rich limestone nodules within the Severy Shale Formation collected directly above the Nodaway Coal Member near DuBois, Nebraska, have yielded a rich microflora and microfauna. The microflora includes Triletes megaspores, seeds, cuticle, and pieces of wood with well preserved structures. The microfaunal skeletal material is either partially or completely replaced by pyrite, marcasite, or, in rare cases, by sphalerite. The following major invertebrate groups and genera within these groups have been identified to date: Bryozoa (one undetermined genus); Brachiopoda (Juresania) ; Gastropoda (four undetermined genera); Ammonoidea (one undetermined genus); Ostracoda (Amphissites, Coryellites, Hollinella, Macrocypris); Echinoidea (five spine types); and …

Finitely Generated Modules Over Bezout Ringsrwiegand@Unl.Edu, Roger Wiegand, Sylvia Wiegand

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

Let R be a Bezout ring (a commutative ring in which all finitely generated ideals are principal), and let M be a finitely generated R -module. We will study questions of the following sort: (A) If every localization of M can be generated by n elements, can M itself be generated by n elements? (B) If M 0 R m = Rn for some m, n, is Af necessarily free? (C) If every localization of M has an element with zero annihilator, does M itself have such an element? We will answer these and related questions for various familiar classes …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 6, No.1. March 1974

The Prairie Naturalist

AVIAN MORTALITY FROM COLLISIONS WITH OVERHEAD WIRES IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ G. L. Krapu

NOTES ON THE BIOLOGY OF THE OLIVE-BACKED POCKET MOUSE PEROGNATHUS FASCIATUS ON THE NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS ▪ J. E. Pefaur & R. S. Hoffman

NOTE: Swans Resting on the Surface of A Dry Lake ▪ D. S. Gilmer

Automation Of The Continuous Coagulation Monitor, Dee Mitchell, James J. Oskowis

Technical Reports

The development of automation in the past 50 years has paralleled the accelerating growth of today’s vast technological society. Automatic control systems are indispensable extensions of man's brain that enable him to monitor and regulate his complex environment. The principles of automatic control have a wide range of applications and interests in virtually every scientific field. The need for automatic control systems in vital applications of environmental engineering is both real and urgent. Extensive pollution has resulted in unavoidable water re-use and in the inevitable establishment of stringent effluent standards. Both water and wastewater treatment processes have necessarily become more …

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

Progress reports

No abstract provided.

Ecology Of Cool Desert Annuals, L. G. Klikoff, D. C. Freeman, N. Negus

Progress reports

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Executive Meeting Minutes, Us/Ibp Desert Biome

Progress reports

No abstract provided.

Nitrogen Transformations In Rock Valley And Adjacent Areas Of The Mohave Desert, R. B. Hunter, A. Wallace, M. Romney, P. A. T. Wieland

Progress reports

No abstract provided.

Primary Production And Carbon Allocation In Creosotebush, G. L. Cunningham, J. P. Syvertsen, T. V. Feather

Progress reports

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La Investigación De Los Recursos Minerales Españoles Ante La Crisis De Materias Primas, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Arthropod Food Of Curlew Valley Lizards, George F. Knowlton

Progress reports

No abstract provided.

Us/Ibp Desert Biome Executive Meeting Minutes, Us/Ibp Desert Biome

Progress reports

No abstract provided.

Aculeate Hymenoptera (Vespidae And Sphecidae) Of Curlew Valley, George E. Bohart, George F. Knowlton, Wilford J. Hanson

Progress reports

No abstract provided.

Measurement Of Evapotranspiration With A Monolith Lysimeter, D. W. Young, D. D. Evans, T. W. Sammis

Progress reports

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Mycorrhizae Of Desert Plants, E. E. Staffeldt, K. B. Vogt

Progress reports

No abstract provided.

Environmental Evaluation Report On The Big Mulberry Creek Basin In Franklin, Madison, Newton, Johnson And Crawford Counties, Arkansas, Edward E. Dale Jr.

Technical Reports

The environmental evaluation report which follows is based on information supplied by the Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District, available literature, field observations made during the summer of 1972, and results of research now in progress on natural features of the Big Mulberry Basin. Since most major dams, levees, and flood retarding structures now in existence in the Ozarks have been constructed since about 1940, opportunities to make long term studies of their effects have been limited. Also, the natural vegetation, fauna, and archeology of the Big Mulberry Basin have not been extensively investigated, but available sources provide enough information …