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Filtering by: Creator Rowland, Mary M. Subject Agricultural wastes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Tulare Lake

Post-hatching survival and productivity of American avocets at drainwater evaporation ponds in the Tulare Basin, California

Creator:

Marn, Carolyn M. (Carolyn Mary), 1962-

Abstract:

Evaporation ponds that dispose of agricultural drainwater provide attractive habitat for waterbirds but may result in contaminant exposure that impairs reproduction. I estimated post-hatching survival and evaluated productivity estimates for American avocets (Recurvirostra americana) nesting at evaporation ponds in the Tulare Basin, California from 1991 to 1993. Avocets and Black-necked...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Carolyn M. Marn for the degree of