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Vascular plants near the margins of their range in Cedarburg Bog. Part 1. Gymnosperms and Monocots
(1981-10-01)Marginal populations are those located at the extreme or periphery of a species' range. In the context of this paper, marginal populations refer to a geographical periphery rather than to possible ecological margins. A ... -
Vascular plants near the margins of their range in Cedarburg Bog. Part II. Dicots
(1982-04-01)There are two species of gymnosperms and 18 monocots that are near the southern edge of their geographic range in Cedarburg Bog (Reinartz and Reinartz 1981). Six of these may actually reach their range boundary in the bog. ... -
Vascular plants of the Sapa Bog
(1991-04-01)The vascular plants occurring within an acidic black spruce bog and its surrounding moat in southeastern Wisconsin are listed with observational notes on abundance and habitat. Of the 156 species, at least 20 are at or ... -
Vascular plants of the UWM Field Station area
(1990-04-01)Since 1967, Field Station staff and volunteers have been assembling a vascular plant species list and herbarium for the Field Station. For the purpose of this list the Field Station area is defined as a 15.5 km2 (6 mi2) ... -
Vegetation development in old fields at the UWM Field Station
(1991-04-01)We studied abandoned fields at the UW-Milwaukee Field Station in 1990 to determine how previous cropping history and management practices have influenced present vegetation composition. Eleven fields were sampled for ... -
Vegetation forest island edges: A preliminary report
(1977-04-01)As the original native forest has been dissected by roads and replaced by farms or towns, the amount of forest edge relative to the area of forest interior has greatly increased. Today forest edge communities are widespread ... -
Vegetation of the Ulao Swamp, a disturbed hardwood-conifer swamp in southeastern Wisconsin
(2005-01-01)Ulao Swamp (Grafton, Wisconsin) is a 185-hectare wetland, which was a confer/hardwood swamp before European settlement. Post-settlement disturbances include logging, drainage, flooding, cultivation, grazing, non-metallic ... -
Verbascum densiflorum at the UWM Field Station
(1984-10-01)Nine of 260 species of the Eurasian genus Verba scum have been reported from North America; only two (y. thapsus and y. blattaria) are common. Verba scum densiflorum is well established in the U.S. only in southeast Wisconsin ... -
Volunteer urban vegetation of Racine, Wisconsin
(1981-04-01)We have only meagre knowledge of the composition and the functions performed by vegetation in Wisconsin cities. The records of the U.S. Government Land Survey conducted in the 1830s provide information on the presettlement ... -
Wetlands in environmental education
(1974-10-01)Wetlands are one of the most useful resources the environmentally oriented educator has at his disposal. They are his best teaching facility. Most wetlands allow active use. They provide rapid and easy "direct contact" ... -
Why support a field station?
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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 ... -
Wintering populations of juncos at the UWM Field Station
(1985-04-01)Since 1966 the winter populations of Dark-eyed Juncos, Junco hyemalis at the UWM Field Station have been monitored by mark-recapture methods. Schnabel estimates with 95% confidence intervals are presented for each winter. ... -
Wisconsin freshwater isopods (Asellidae)
(1997-04-01)Four species of freshwater isopods in the family Asellidae were collected from Wisconsin. There is very little published information on the asellid isopods of Wisconsin. In this paper we provide descriptions of the size ... -
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 ... -
Yews and hemlocks - A progress report.
(1969-10-01)An investigation which has been underway for several years at the Cedar-Sauk Field Station and the adjacent Cedarburg Bog is concerned with the American Yew or Ground Hemlock (Taxus canadensis Marsh.) and the Eastern Hemlock ...