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Effects of Containerization on Great Lakes Ports
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Wisconsin's earliest native flowering plant
(1968-01-01)With the coming of spring there is an enthusiastic revival of interest in people for the out-of-doors and, not infrequently, a more than casual interest in the pursuit of the first flowering plant. For the stay-at-home ... -
Winter Bird Studies At The UWM Field Station
(1968-04-01)The winter trapping program was begun in the winter of 1965-66 and was expanded and conducted more systematically in 1966-67 and 1967-68. The primary objective has been to determine accurately the daily and seasonal changes ... -
A Plan for a Fast Work Boat
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Bird Hybrids in the Kettle Moraine
(1968-10-01)Since hybridization in birds is so rare in nature, it is unusual to have the opportunity to study what happens when two species interbreed. Blue-winged Warblers (Vermivora pinus) and Golden-winged Warblers (V. chrysoptera) ... -
In Quest of the Elusive Ovenbird
(1968-10-01)The Ovenbird was selected for intensive study at the UWM Field Station for a variety of reasons. First, it is closely adapted in all respects-morphological, physiological, behavioral- to the upland forest environment, ... -
Goldenrods
(1968-10-01)The Goldenrods, with their abundance and diversity, produce one of the most brilliant natural wildflower displays in our area from mid-August to November. In North America there are about one hundred species of these plants ... -
Benedict Prairie
(1968-10-01)The Benedict Prairie Unit of The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Field Stations consists of about six acres, actually 100 feet wide and one half mile long, on what was once a railroad right of way on the old Kenosha-Silver ... -
UWM’s first PhD in botany awarded for study of Cedarburg Bog
(1969-04-01)Thomas F. Grittinger's thesis, entitled "Vegetational Patterns and Edaphic Relationships in Cedarburg Bog," summarized for the first time we now have a large amount of information about the variety and detailed composition ... -
Small mammals at the Field Station
(1969-04-01)Ecological studies of small mammals are undertaken for a variety of reasons. Some investigations are conducted to determine their economic relationship to man, since small mammals directly affect his welfare through ... -
A 24-hour radiation budget at a high-grass marsh in early winter
(1969-04-01)As with others of the numerous physical factors forming the nonliving environment of terrestrial ecosystems, the upward and downward exchanges of the fluxes of solar (short-wave) and terrestrial (long-wave) radiation often ... -
Phenology
(1969-04-01)A number of events are being recorded at the UWM Field Station, chiefly concerning the earliest arrival dates of certain birds and the earliest flowering dates of native woodland and bog plants. In the table below are ...