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A comparison of the reproductive rates of zooplankton in East and Paulina Lakes

Creator:: Alevras, Ronald Allen
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A population study of the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) in a Central Oregon stream

Creator:: Osborn, Charles Edwin
Abstract:: The rainbow trout population in Elder Creek, Oregon was studied between June 1965 and November 1966. The physical characteristics of the stream during the summer season were described. Rainbow trout were captured in each of three sections on the stream by electrofishing and were tagged and measured. Population size, mortality,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A review of the Gadopsidae, with a description of a new species from Tasmania

Creator:: Parrish, Richard H.
Abstract:: The taxonomic placement of Gadopsidae is discussed and an evaluation of its osteological relationships with related families is given. Similarities to the more primitive genera of the trachinoids, notothenioids, and uranoscopoids are noted and the inclusion of Gadopsidae in the Trachinoidae is recommended. A description of the geological history of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Age-fecundity relationships in the striped seaperch Embiotoca lateralis from Yaquina Bay, Oregon

Creator:: Swedberg, Stephen Ernferd
Abstract:: A study was conducted at Yaquina Bay, Oregon, to determine the age-fecundity relationships in the striped seaperch Embiotoca lateralis. A questionnaire was sent to California, Oregon, and Washington to ascertain what regulations were in effect, and the value of the family Embiotocidae with regard to the sport and commercial harvest....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Agonistic behavior in Montane voles, Microtus montanus, from different parent population densities

Creator:: Belden, Lonnie Mack
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Alterations of carbohydrate metabolism by pentachlorophenol in cichlid fish

Creator:: Liu, David Hyuk Wui
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Behavior and survival of coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch (Walbaum), in Sashin Creek, southeastern Alaska

Creator:: Crone, Richard Allan
Abstract:: Behavior and survival in fresh water were studied for three brood years of coho salmon in Sashin Creek, Alaska, from October 1963, until September 1966. Investigations of spawning adults were conducted to determine numbers of spawners, distribution on the spawning grounds, effects on pink salmon, age composition, redd life, fecundities,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Behavioral ecology of juvenile coho salmon (O. kisutch) in stream aquaria with particular reference to competition and aggressive behavior

Creator:: Mason, John Christopher
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Bioenergetics of feeding and growth of largemouth bass in aquaria and ponds

Creator:: Lee, Ronald Arthur
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Biology of juvenile sockeye salmon resident in Chignik River, Alaska

Creator:: Iverson, Ronald Albert
Abstract:: The life history of juvenile sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) resident in Chignik River, Alaska, represents a departure from the lacustrine, pelagic existence typical of juveniles of this species. For this reason, the distribution, relative abundance in different parts of the river, growth, and upstream and downstream movements of juvenile sockeye...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Biology of the pile perch (Rhacochilus vacca)

Creator:: Wares, Paul Gordon
Abstract:: Data were gathered on the life history of the pile perch (Rhacochilus vacca) from Yaquina Bay, Oregon, between April, 1966, and July, 1967. Pile perch feed on the bottom and consume mostly molluscs, barnacles and decapod crustaceans. Food habits varied among seasons and locations within the bay, whereas the diet...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Biology of the ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei (Lay and Bennett)

Creator:: Johnson, Allyn G.
Abstract:: In the fall and winter of 1965, 1966, and 1967, 298 ratfish (180 males, 118 females) were collected off the Pacific coast of Oregon and Washington and examined for food habits , parasites, growth relationships and a method of age determination. The following food organisms were found to be the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Calling behavior of band-tailed pigeons in reference to a census technique

Creator:: Sisson, Leonard Harold
Abstract:: Calling of captive and free-living band-tailed pigeons (Columba fasciata, Say) was studied between June, 1965, and June, 1967, in western Oregon. Vocalizations of captive band-tails were observed during mornings and afternoons in 1965 and 1966; calling of free-living band-tails was observed in mornings during call-counts and point observations in 1966....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Cryo-preservation of viable fish sperm

Creator:: Graybill, James Roger
Abstract:: Fishery researchers have attempted to preserve viable fish sperm for extended periods of time. Only limited success has been achieved with storage of spermatozoa from salmonids. The principal accomplishments of this investigation during the fiscal year 1966-1967 were the development of standard methods for the collection and evaluation of fish...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Definitive hosts of the trematode vector, Nanophyetus salmincola

Creator:: Schlegel, Michael Wesley
Abstract:: Of 149 wild animals from two western Oregon river drainage areas and other localities in which "salmon poisoning" disease (SPD) is enzootic, including ten mammalian and two avian species, 79 harbored Nanophyetus salmincola, the SPD vector. The shorttail weasel, Mustela erminea; river otter, Lutra canadensis; spotted skunk, Spilogale putorius; Norway...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Density dependent relationships in trophic processes of simplified stream communities

Creator:: Brocksen, Robert W
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Determination of molecular hydrocyanic acid in water and studies of the chemistry and toxicity to fish of the nickelocyanide complex

Creator:: Broderius, Steven J.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Development of a streamside incubator for culture of Pacific salmon

Creator:: Poon, Derek Clinton
Abstract:: Criteria for the design and construction of a prototype streamside incubator for Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus) eggs and alevins are described. Operation of the prototype and methods of transporting freshly spawned salmon eggs from distant sources are reported. Effects of water velocity, stocking density, and substrate type on the growth, development,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Distribution and mortality of the Pacific coast band-tailed pigeon

Creator:: Silovsky, Eugene Donald
Abstract:: A study of the Pacific coast Band-tailed pigeon (Columbia fasciata Say) was conducted from August 1966 to September 1968. Bands recovered from 14,787 pigeons banded in the Pacific Coast states, 1929-65, were used to determine distribution, migration, and mortality. Data on the age structure of populations were obtained from 3,596...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Distribution patterns of black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) in relation to environment

Creator:: Miller, Frank L.
Abstract:: Direct observation of a known number of black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), within the Cedar Creek study enclosure in the Tillamook Burn, Oregon, was carried on throughout 1964. Observations were made from three huts located outside of the enclosure on surrounding prominences. During this period, 1,410 hours of observational time...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Ecology of the striped seaperch, Embiotoca lateralis, in Yaquina Bay, Oregon

Creator:: Gnose, Charles E.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Effects of kraft pulp mill effluent on the production and food relations of juvenile chinook salmon in laboratory streams

Creator:: Ellis, Robert Hewitt
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Effects of logging on the spawning bed environment in two Oregon coastal streams

Creator:: Ringler, Neil Harrison
Abstract:: The effects of two patterns of logging on the intragravel environment were studied in three Oregon coastal streams between June 1968 and June 1969. The watershed of one stream (Needle Branch) had been clearcut, and that of a second stream (Deer Creek) cut in staggered settings in 1966. A third...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Effects of rotenone treatment on the fauna of the Green River, Wyoming

Creator:: Binns, Niles Allen
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Effects of sub-lethal levels of pentachlorophenol on the growth and metabolism of a cichlid fish

Creator:: Chapman, Gary A.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Effects of the insecticide Sevin on the cockle clam Clinocardium nuttalli (Conrad)

Creator:: Butler, Jerry Allan
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Evaluation of a louver guidance facility used to sample salmon and trout emigrants

Creator:: Holubetz, Terry Bruce
Abstract:: The subject of this thesis is an evaluation of a louver facility in the Lemhi River, Idaho. The louver facility was designed to guide juvenile chinook salmon and steelhead trout into a trap in order to sample downstream migrant populations. The study was designed to determine: (1) if the catch...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Evidence for the nonessentiality of ascorbic acid in the diet of the rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri

Creator:: Primbs, Edward R. J.
Abstract:: Numerous tests were applied to rainbow trout of eleven months of age to determine whether ascorbic acid is an essential element of the diet of these fish. Although previous work had been done on this question, conflicts in the results, the large reliance upon abnormal symptoms such as lordosis and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Factors affecting the abundance of fall chinook salmon in the Columbia River

Creator:: Van Hyning, Jack M.
Abstract:: A study of the population ecology of Columbia River fall chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum), was made in an attempt to determine the cause of a serious decline in this run which occurred in the early 1950's. Fluctuations in abundance of major salmon runs the North Pacific were examined to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Fatty acids of exercised and non-exercised salmon

Creator:: Saddler, James Bryan
Abstract:: The fatty acids of coho salmon were identified and then a study was conducted to determine the effects of exercise on the fatty acids of salmon forced to swim against water velocities of 52, 54, 56, and 59 cm/sec, The shorter and lighter salmon were less competent at a given...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Fertilization of salmonid eggs with cryopreserved sperm

Creator:: Ott, Alvin G.
Abstract:: Numerous fishery researchers have attempted to preserve viable fish sperm, but only three investigations were successful in the fertilization of fresh eggs with frozen and thawed sperm: Blaxter (1953); Hoyle and Idler (1968); and Graybill and Horton (1969). Significant advances reported in this thesis were: the development of suitable life...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Fish production and related limnology in two experimental ponds as influenced by fertilization

Creator:: Goodwin, Chester Lynn
Abstract:: The merits of fertilizing warmwater fish ponds with dry organic manure were studied from October, 1964 to November, 1965 using two experimental ponds in the Willamette Valley. One pond (pond II) was fertilized with urea and single superphosphate and the other (pond III) was fertilized with dried manure as well...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Food relations and production of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki clarki Richardson, in an experimental stream

Creator:: McIntyre, John D.
Abstract:: Production, food consumption and food habits by groups of small, mixed and large sizes of cutthroat trout were studied in enriched and unenriched sections of the Berry Creek Experimental Stream, Oregon State University. Continuous introduction of sucrose and urea to portions of the stream resulted in heavy growth of Sphaerotilus...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Formulation of a synthetic seawater for bioassays with Mytilus edulis embryos

Creator:: Courtright, Robert Carl
Abstract:: Commerical preparations and published formulations using reagent chemicals for seawater substitutes were not biologically acceptable to Mytilus edulis embryos, in that calcification did not occur. When Leslie coarse hide salt was used as the source of NaCl for literature formulations, most formulas provided some success in the development, growth and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Growth and reproduction of the feral nutria Myocastor coypus (molina) near Corvallis, Oregon

Creator:: Peloquin, Edgar Paul
Abstract:: Six hundred and forty nutrias, Myocastor coypus (Molina), were collected near Corvallis, Oregon, and examined to determine criteria of their growth and reproduction. Two hundred and eighty-nine were tagged, measured, and released to determine growth under natural conditions. Nutria weights were calculated to the nearest 0.1 pound by weighing the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Growth of juvenile sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum), in Auke Lake, Alaska

Creator:: Bucaria, Garvan Pat
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Home range, dispersal, homing and density of the Townsend mole Scapanus townsendii (Bachman) near Tillamook, Oregon

Creator:: Giger, Richard D.
Abstract:: Home range, dispersal, homing and density of Townsend's mole, Scapanus townsendii (Bachman), were studied during 1964 near Tillamook, Oregon. Additional information on the success of marking and capture techniques and the response of moles to flooding was gathered. This study was initiated to supply information which might aid in the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Influence of biologically stabilized kraft mill effluent on the food relations and production of juvenile chinook salmon in laboratory streams

Creator:: Seim, W. K. (Wayne K.)
Abstract:: This thesis reports the results of a study on the influence of biologically stabilized kraft mill effluent (SKME) on the food relations and production of juvenile chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha (Walbaum), in laboratory streams. Experiments were conducted at the Oak Creek Fisheries Research Laboratory, Oregon State University, during 1967 and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Influence of competition on the food consumption and production of animals in laboratory stream communities

Creator:: Brocksen, Robert W.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Influence of temperature on energy and material utilization by juvenile coho salmon

Creator:: Averett, R. C.
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Laboratory studies on the food consumption, growth, and activity of juvenile coho salmon

Creator:: Carline, Robert F.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Limnology of Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, with emphasis on benthos

Creator:: Hazel, Charles R.
Abstract:: Aspects of the limnology and benthic ecology of Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, are described emphasizing those features that identify its uniqueness. The lake is large, shallow, and characterized by nuisance abundances of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae and midge flies. Results of this study indicate that it does not stratify and dissolved oxygen...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Metabolism of periphyton communities in two small streams

Creator:: Lane, Charles Bertell
Abstract:: A technique for estimating gross primary production and respiration of periphyton communities, in situ, in small turbulent streams was developed using a photosynthesis-respiration chamber in a modified "light and dark bottle" method. Trays containing portions of the substrate bearing the benthic community were embedded in the stream, level with the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Movement and angler use of four foodfishes in Yaquina Bay, Oregon

Creator:: Beardsley, Alan J.
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Movements of spawning sockeye salmon in Hidden Creek, Brooks Lake, Alaska

Creator:: Tsunoda, Setsuwo
Abstract:: The movements of a population of adult sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) were followed in a small tributary of Brooks Lake, Alaska until spawning was nearly complete in 1963. The objectives of the study were to describe the movements of sockeye salmon on the spawning ground of an entire small stream,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Nest box selection of wood ducks as influenced by color and site factors

Creator:: Morse, Thomas Earl
Abstract:: Selection of colored nest boxes by wood ducks (Aix sponsa) was evaluated during the breeding seasons of 1967-68 in Benton County, Oregon. No color or site factor influence was observed in 1967 when nest boxes were erected in sets of eight boxes served in 1967 when nest boxes were erected...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Origin and distribution of the fish fauna of the Harney Basin, Oregon

Creator:: Bisson, Peter Andre
Abstract:: A theory of the origin and distribution of fishes in the Harney Basin is presented. Blitzen River, the hydrographically and ecologically isolated creeks, and the upland tributaries of Silvies River all contain populations derived from the basin's Pleistocene connection with Malheur River of the Snake system. Colonization of many streams...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Population characteristics of the dusky Canada goose as determined from banding data

Creator:: Henny, Charles J.
Abstract:: See pdf
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Population characteristics, hunter kill, and productivity of dusky Canada geese

Creator:: Chapman, Joseph A.
Abstract:: See pdf
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Production and behavioral interactions of salmonids in an experimental stream

Creator:: McIntyre, John D.
Abstract:: The behavior of two species of stream salmonids, juvenile coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch (Walbaurn) and cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki clarki Richardson, was studied in terms of the time spent by individual fish in carrying out various activities. Studies were conducted from June 1968, through May 1969, at Berry Creek, a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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