Delta Marsh Field Station Archive Annual Report, Volume 31, 1996

Table of Contents: 1996 Personnel (47 KB) Director’s Report (26 KB) Gordon Goldsborough, University Field Station (Delta Marsh) Manager’s Report (18 KB) Russell Mead, University Field Station (Delta Marsh) 1996 Weather and water quality data summary (33 KB) Gordon Goldsborough, University Field Station (Delta Marsh) History of the Field Station: Donald H. Bain (75 KB) Gordon Goldsborough, University Field Station (Delta Marsh) The effect of macrophyte exclusion and inorganic nutrient addition on the algal communities in a prairie wetland (81 KB) Rhonda L. McDougal and L. Gordon Goldsborough, Department of Botany, University of Manitoba Waterfowl feces as a source of nutrients to planktonic and benthic algae in Delta Marsh (126 KB) Sara L. Purcell and L. Gordon Goldsborough, Department of Botany, University of Manitoba Submersed macrophytes and water quality data for four sites in Delta Marsh (45 KB) Jodine Zirk, Environmental Science Program and L. Gordon Goldsborough, University Field Station (Delta Marsh), University of Manitoba Seasonal emergence of chironomids (Chironomidae, Diptera) in Delta Marsh (45 KB) Elizabeth Dykman, Environmental Science Program and Brenda J. Hann, Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba Snail-periphyton interactions in a prairie wetland (121 KB) C.J. Mundy and Brenda J. Hann, Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba Ecological genetics of Daphnia pulex in a temporary prairie woodland pond (54 KB) Brenda J. Hann, Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba Effect of fish and submersed macrophytes on the abundance of zooplankton in a prairie wetland (47 KB) Ken A. Sandilands and Brenda J. Hann, Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba Further studies on the seasonal distribution and abundance of fish in Delta Marsh (52 KB) Michael A. Goodyear, Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba Soil composition and elevation along the forested dune ridge at the University Field Station (35 KB) Michelle McDonald, Environmental Science Program and L. Gordon Goldsborough, University Field Station (Delta Marsh), University of Manitoba Demography of clonal ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris). IV. Year four of a long-term study (24 KB) Norm C. Kenkel, Department of Botany, University of Manitoba The inadequacy of passive, wind-driven traps in assessing the aerial insects of Delta Marsh (62 KB) Stephen Ellis, Environmental Science Program, University of Manitoba Delta Marsh Bird Observatory interim report: 1996 (23 KB) Heidi den Haan, Delta Marsh Bird Observatory Are begging calls of generalist parasitic cowbirds adapted for brood parasitism? (62 KB) Janice C. Lorenzana and Spencer G. Sealy, Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba Do female Yellow Warblers (Dendroica petechia) incubate while in the nest during the laying period? (59 KB) D. Glen McMaster, Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba Importance of nest size and materials in host choice of the Brown-headed Cowbird (40 KB) Michelle Mico, Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba The role of nonvocal begging behaviour in food allocation in nestling yellow warblers (Dendroica petechia) (25 KB) Cori Schuster, Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba Demography, mating system and reproductive success of the Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) at Delta Marsh, Manitoba (19 KB) Bonnie Woolfenden and H. Lisle Gibbs, Department of Biology, McMaster University and Spencer Sealy, Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba Theses resulting from work at the University Field Station (Delta Marsh) (26 KB) Publications resulting from work at the University Field Station (Delta Marsh) (47 KB)

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