Fish Studies:

• Reduced metabolic rates in males of two cyprinid fishes

• Sun-compass orientation in the mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis

• A study of the movements of the channel catfish, Ictalurus lacustris punctatus, in the Savannah River and one of its tributaries within the AEC Savannah River Operations area

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Thermal Studies:

General:

• The power park concept: ameliorating man's disorder with nature's order An analysis of the relationship between stress and parasitism

• Studies of a simple laboratory microecosystem: effects of stress

• Thermal alteration of aquatic ecosystems

• Ecology of artificially heated streams, swamps and reservoirs on the Savannah River Plant

• Ecological impacts of energy production on rivers and lakes

• Ecological studies in a cooling reservoir in the southeastern United States

• Observations on the superficial sediment temperatures of some lakes in the southeastern United States

• The principles of ecology and their application to environmental problems associated with the production and utilization of energy

• Impacts of thermal effluents from nuclear reactors on southeastern ecosystems

• Impact of production-reactor effluents on vegetation in a southeastern swamp forest

• Ecological comparisons of thermally affected aquatic environments

• Some basic principles concerning biological response to environmental change

• Bibliography of Aquatic and Thermal Studies Conducted on the Savannah River Plant

• Growth curve analysis: a potential measure of the effects of environmental stress upon wildlife populations

• Thermal alteration and the enhancement of species populations

• Evaluation of heat distribution in a South Carolina reservoir receiving heated water

• An analysis of surface slicks in a reservoir receiving heated effluent

 Effects on Plants:

• Growth of duckweed under constant and variable temperatures

• Thermal sensitivities of malate dehydrogenase isozymes in Typha

• Morphological aberrations in Typha populations in a post-thermal aquatic habitat

• Biochemical and morphological effects of temperature on Typha latifolia L. (Typhaceae) originating from different ends of a thermal gradient. I. Controlled environment studies

• Vegetation of swamps receiving reactor effluents

• Changes in the vegetation of a South Carolina swamp following cessation of thermal pollution

 Effects on Invertebrates:

• Effects of a thermal effluent on the ostracods of Par Pond, South Carolina

• Responses of planktonic cladocerans to heated waters

• Agonistic behavior in crayfish in relation to temperature and reproductive period

• Temperature adaptation in the freshwater snail, Helisoma trivolvis (Say), in an artificially heated reservoir in the southeastern United States

• Thermal effluent and the epizootiology of the ciliate Epistylis and the bacterium Aeromonas in association with centrarchid fish

• Seasonal abundance of Neoechinorhynchus cylindratus taken from largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) in a heated reservoir

• Seasonal abundance of Proteocephalus ambloplitis (Cestoidea: Proteocephalidea) from largemouth bass living in a heated reservoir

• Effects of thermal effluent on the population dynamics of helminth parasites in largemouth bass

• Distribution of Aeromonas hydrophila in natural and man-made thermal effluents

• Relationship of season, thermal loading and red-sore disease with various haematological parameters in Micropterus salmoides

• Effect of thermal effluents from nuclear reactors on species diversity of aquatic insects

• Thermal tolerance of dragonfly nymphs. II. Comparison of nymphs from control and thermally altered environments

• Thermal ecology of dragonflies in habitats receiving reactor effluent

• Thermal tolerances of dragonfly nymphs. I. Sources of variation in estimating critical thermal maximum

• Effect of thermal stress on dragonfly nymphs

 Effects on Fish:

• Environmental evaluation based on relative growth rates of fishes

• Thermal tolerances of fish from a reservoir receiving heated effluent from a nuclear reactor

• Fish diversity in adjacent ambient, thermal, and post-thermal freshwater streams

• Biochemical genetics of sunfish. III. Genetic subdivision of fish populations inhabiting heated waters

• Amounts of asymmetry in centrarchid fish inhabiting heated and nonheated reservoirs

• Body condition and stomach contents of fish inhabiting thermally altered areas

• Thermal tolerance of stream cyprinid minnows

• Chronic malnutrition in four species of sunfish in a thermally loaded impoundment

• Thermal tolerance and respiratory movement of bluegill from two populations tested at different levels of acclimation temperature and water hardness

• Relationship between thermal loading and parasitism in the mosquitofish

• Response of mosquitofish to thermal effluent

• Effects of thermal effluents on populations of mosquito fish

• Winter responses of largemouth bass to heated effluent from a nuclear reactor

• Effects of thermal effluent on the fat content of the mosquito fish

• Effects of thermal effluent on body condition of largemouth bass

• Thermal ecology and stress: a case history for red-sore disease in largemouth bass

• Growth and condition of juvenile largemouth bass from a reservoir receiving thermal effluent

• Reproductive cycles of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) in a cooling reservoir

• Abundance and local movement of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) in a reservoir receiving heated effluent from a reactor

• Food of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) from a South Carolina reservoir receiving heated effluent

• Temperature tolerance and preference of immature channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)

• Preliminary examination of body temperatures of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) from an artificially heated reservoir

• Length-weight relationships and condition factors of fishes from a South Carolina reservoir receiving thermal effluent

• Long range movement and homing by largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) in a thermally altered reservoir

• Behavioral thermoregulation of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) in a reservoir receiving thermal effluent

• Thermal tolerance and biochemical polymorphism of immature largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)

 Effects on Herps:

• Growth and developmental responses of larval toad populations to heated effluent in a South Carolina reservoir

• Effect of temperature and photoperiod acclimations on the water economy of Hyla crucifer

• Enhanced growth and increased body size of turtles living in thermal and post-thermal aquatic systems

• Population ecology of parasites in turtles from thermally altered and natural aquatic communities

• Reproductive dynamics of a turtle (Pseudemys scripta) population in a reservoir receiving heated effluent from a nuclear reactor

• Distribution of alligators in response to thermal gradients in a reactor cooling reservoir

• An eight-channel radio telemetry system to monitor alligator body temperatures in a heated reservoir

Effects on Birds:

• Abundance and diversity of waterfowl inhabiting heated and unheated portions of a reactor cooling reservoir

• Bird diversity and thermal stress in a cypress swamp

Non-thermal studies:

General:

• Comparative chemistry of submicron sized organic fractions in four rivers of the southeastern United States

• Genetic variability in Corbicula, an invading species

• Studies on the population biology of two larval trematodes in the amphipod, Hyalella azteca

• Chemical communication and agonism in the crayfish, Procambarus acutus

• Studies on the population biology of Proteocephalus ambloplitis (Cestoda) in the smallmouth bass

• Recruitment of helminth parasites by bluegills (Lepomis macrochirus) using a modified live-box technique

• The distribution and abundance of enteric helminths in Chrysemys s. scripta from various habitats on the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina

• Species diversity of helminth parasites in Chrysemys s. scripta from a variety of habitats in South Carolina

 Fish studies:

• Analysis of genic continuity in a headwater fish, Etheostoma radiosum (Percidae)

• Relationships between primary productivity and mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) production in large microcosms

• Learned orientation in the predator avoidance behavior of mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis

• Phenotypic and genetic trends in bluegills of a single drainage

• Biochemical genetics of sunfish. I. Geographic variation and subspecific intergradation in the bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus

• Biochemical genetics of sunfish. II. Genic similarity between hybridizing species

• Gene frequency comparisons between sunfish (Centrarchidae) populations at various stages of evolutionary divergence

• Biochemical genetics of sunfish. IV. Relationships of centrarchid genera

• Sun compass orientation of immature bluegill

• Elemental composition of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)

• Observations on the ecology of Clinostomum marginatum in largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)

• Ultrastructure of red-sore lesions on largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides): association of the ciliate Epistylis sp. and the bacterium Aeromonas hydrophila

• Histopathology of red-sore disease (Aeromonas hydrophila) in naturally and experimentally infected largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides

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Thermal Studies:

General:

• Effects of thermal effluents from nuclear reactors. Environmental Consequences of Energy Production: Problems and Prospects

• Effects of thermal effluents on a lake: enrichment and stress

• Thermal ecology: environmental teachings of a nuclear reactor site

• Thermal ecology research at the Savannah River Plant: a review

• Structural and functional aspects of succession in southeastern floodplain forests following a major disturbance

• Distribution of g exposure rates in a reactor effluent stream flood plain system

• Multivariate methods used to dissect water chemistry data from systems receiving thermal effluent

• Leaf litter decomposition across broad thermal gradients in southeastern coastal plain streams and swamps

• Organic matter transport and retention in a blackwater stream recovering from flow augmentation and thermal discharge

Effects on Plants:

• Lacustrine vegetation establishment within a cooling reservoir

• Structure and function of a warm monomictic lake

• Thermal flooding injury of woody swamp seedlings

• Recovery processes in southeastern riverine wetlands

• Limits on regeneration processes in southeastern riverine wetlands

• Response of woody swamp seedlings to flooding and increased water temperatures. I. Growth, biomass, and survivorship

• Responses of woody seedlings to elevated flood water temperatures

• Potential for bald cypress establishment in thermally altered streams

• Revegetation of a Taxodium-Nyssa forested wetland following complete vegetation destruction

• Growth and mineral nutrition of cattail (Typha) as influenced by thermal alteration

• Growth and mineral nutrition of cattails inhabiting a thermally-graded South Carolina reservoir. I. Growth and the macronutrients

• Growth and mineral nutrition of cattails inhabiting a thermally-graded South Carolina reservoir. II. The micronutrients.

• Distribution and biomass of aquatic macrophytes in an abandoned nuclear cooling reservoir

• Biomass, photosynthesis and water use efficiency of woody swamp species subjected to flooding and elevated water temperature

• Characteristics of three populations of a swamp annual under different temperature regimes

• Response of wetland herbaceous communities to gradients of light and substrate following disturbance by thermal pollution

• Morphological and root carbohydrate responses of bald cypress to water level and water temperature regimes

• Bald cypress seedling growth in thermally altered habitats

• Disturbance in a cypress-tupelo wetland: an interaction between thermal loading and hydrology

Effects on Invertebrates:

• Extinction and recolonization: processes regulating zooplankton dynamics in a cooling reservoir

• Factors affecting depth distribution of dragonflies and other benthic insects in a thermally destabilized reservoir

• Rapid evolution in a post-thermal environment

• Adaptation of phytoplankton-degrading microbial communities to thermal reactor effluent in a new cooling reservoir

• Stress and growth response of juvenile crayfish to rhythmic and arrhythmic temperature fluctuations

• A thermal effluent as a sporadic cornucopia: effects on fish and zooplankton Long-term studies on the population biology of Diplostomulum scheuringi in a thermally altered reservoir

• Effects of temperature on microbial utilization of Lignocellulosic detritus in a thermally impacted stream

• A long-term study on various aspects of the population biology of Ornithodiplostomum ptychocheilus in a South Carolina cooling reservoir

• Emergence patterns and size variation of Odonata in a thermal reservoir

• The influence of temperature on the functional response of the dragonfly Celithemis fasciata

• Notes on the use of wood refugia by Physella heterostropha in a thermally disturbed swamp

• Thermal tolerance and preference of the freshwater shrimp Palaemontetes kadiakensis

Effects on Fish:

• Evaluating the constraints of temperature, activity and consumption on growth of largemouth bass

• Population response to stress: population structure and movement of largemouth bass in a nuclear reactor cooling reservoir

• Stress and body condition in a population of largemouth bass: implications for red-sore disease

• Behavioral thermoregulation of largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, and bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus, in a nuclear reactor cooling reservoir

• Behavioural thermoregulation of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides): response of naive fish to the thermal gradient in a nuclear reactor cooling reservoir

• Influence of acclimation temperature and developmental stage on behavioral responses of lake chubsuckers to temperature gradients

• Demographic and genetic characteristics of dispersal in the mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis

• Biochemical genetics of mosquitofish. II. Demographic differentiation of populations in a thermally altered reservoir

• Biochemical genetics of mosquitofish. V. Perturbation effects on genetic organization of populations

• Predator-induced changes in thermoregulation of bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus, from a thermally altered reservoir

• Effect of tetracycline hydrochloride treatment on the critical thermal maximum of common shiners

Effects on Herps:

• Opportunistic behavioral thermoregulation of turtles, Pseudemys scripta, in response to microclimatology of a nuclear reactor cooling reservoir

• Bioenergetics, behavior, and resource partitioning in stressed habitats: biophysical and molecular approaches

• Growth, selected temperature and CTM of young snapping turtles, Chelydra serpentina

Non-thermal studies:

Vegetation, Hydrologic and Nutrient processes:

• Cumulative impact assessment in bottomland hardwood forests

• Impact of dam operations on hydrology and associated floodplain forest of southeastern rivers

• Potential advantages and disadvantages of germinating early for trees in floodplain forests

• Effects of flooding and root competition on growth of shaded bottomland hardwood seedlings

• Tree spatial patterns: South Carolina bottomland and swamp forests

• Microsite abundance and distribution of woody seedlings in a South Carolina cypress-tupelo swamp

• Seed bank dynamics in a southeastern riverine swamp

• Hydrochory and regeneration in a bald cypress-water tupelo swamp forest

• Ecophysiological implications of tree architecture for two cypress taxa, Taxodium distichum and T. ascendens

• Comparison of isozymes among Typha species in the eastern United States

• Genetic diversity in natural populations of a soil bacterium across a landscape gradient

• Green leaf decomposition in coastal plain streams

• Dissolved carbohydrate distribution and dynamics in two southeastern United States reservoirs

• Seasonal dynamics of physical and chemical properties of a warm monomictic reservoir

• Effects of burial and floodplain retention on stream processing of allochthonous litter

• Consequences of anaerobiosis on metal-organic interactions in two ponds of the southeastern United States

• Organic carbon and cation associations in humic material from pond water and sediment

• Effects of dissolved organic nitrogen enrichment on mass loss and chemical composition on leaf litter being processed in a blackwater stream

• Use of in situ microcosms to study mass loss and chemical composition of leaf litter being processed in a blackwater stream

• Seston and dissolved organic carbon transport during storm flows in a natural and a disturbed coastal plain stream

• The effect of leaf pack composition on processing: a comparison of mixed and single species packs

Invertebrates:

• Zooplankton grazing in a eutrophic lake: implications of diel vertical migration

• Floating field microcosms for studying benthic communities

• Field experiments on responses of a freshwater benthic macroinvertebrate community to vertebrate predators

• Regulation of freshwater community structure at multiple intensities of dragonfly predation

• The impact of zooplankton size structure on phosphorus cycling in field enclosures

• Potential impact of size-selective planktivory on phosphorus release by zooplankton

• Laboratory experiments to determine if crayfish can communicate chemically in a flow-through system

• Low genetic variability and high similarities in the crayfish genera Cambarus and Procambarus

• Tests of prey preference and switching behavior of the dragonfly Celithemis fasciata

• Winter-spring depth distribution of Chironomidae in a southeastern reservoir

• Microbial colonization of limnephilid caddisfly larvae cases

• Ecology of macroinvertebrate shredders in a low-gradient sandy-bottomed stream

• Effect of excluding shredders on leaf litter decomposition in two streams

• Effects of grazing by chrysomelid beetles on two wetland herbaceous species

• Seasonal responses of lentic midge assemblages to environmental gradients

• Field experiments on interactions between vertebrate predators and larval midges (Diptera: Chironomidae)

• Invertebrate colonization of submerged wood in a cypress-tupelo swamp and blackwater stream

Fish:

• Conservation genetics and the management of endangered fishes

• Rationale for conserving genetic variation of fish gene pools

• The influence of habitat structure on fish assemblage structure in southeastern blackwater streams

• The influence of submerged pulpwood on feeding and condition of fishes in a reservoir

• Speciation rates and morphological divergence in fishes: tests of gradual versus rectangular modes of evolutionary change

• Analysis of morphology and asymmetry in bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) in the southeastern United States

• Habitat suitability index models and instream flow suitability curves: Redbreast sunfish

• Biochemical genetics of mosquitofish. III. Incidence and significance of multiple insemination

• Microgeographic genetic organization of populations of largemouth bass and two other species in a reservoir

• Bluehead chub (Nocomis leptocephalus) nests used by yellowfin shiners (Notropis lutipinnis)

• Observations on the spawning habits of the yellowfin shiner, Notropis lutipinnis

• Selective mortality of post-spawning yellowfin shiners Notropis lutipinnis

• Embryo size variation in mosquitofish: optimality vs. plasticity in propagule size

• Possible growth and reproductive benefits of cannibalism in the mosquitofish

• Dispersal, reproductive strategies, and the maintenance of genetic variability in mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)

• Biochemical genetics of mosquitofish. I. Environmental correlates, and temporal and spatial heterogeneity of allele frequencies within a river drainage

• Biochemical genetics of mosquitofish. IV. Changes of allele frequencies through time and space

• Enzyme levels in natural mosquitofish populations

• Allometric relationship between oxygen consumption and body weight of mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis

• Microhabitat variation in enzyme activities in the mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis

• Genetic variability and systematics of Gambusia in the southeastern United States

• Cannibalism, food availability, and reproduction in mosquitofish: a critique

• Nondestructive methods of obtaining genotypic data from fish

Amphibians:

• Growth and metamorphosis of larval red salamanders (Pseudotriton ruber) on the Coastal Plain of South Carolina

• The influence of sex and breeding condition on microhabitat selection and diet in the pig frog Rana grylio

• Habitat use by dwarf waterdogs (Necturus punctatus) in South Carolina streams, with life history notes

Reptiles:

• Applied ecological studies of the American alligator at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory: an overview of program goals and design

• Genetic patterns and the conservation of crocodilians: a review of strategies and options

• Body temperatures and behavior of American alligators during cold winter weather

• Posthatching yolk reserves in hatchling American alligators

• Biochemical variation in the American alligator

• A method of live-trapping wary crocodiles

• Gram-negative septicemia in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis)

• Celestial compass orientation in juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis)

• Feed formulation for alligators: an overview and initial studies

Birds:

• Growth characteristics of wood ducks from two southeastern breeding locations

• Frequency and timing of second broods in wood ducks

• Reproductive potency of an aged male wood duck

• Population parameters and philopatry of breeding female wood ducks

• Recruitment and natal philopatry of wood ducks

• Factors affecting variation in the egg and duckling components of wood ducks

• Age determination of female wood ducks during the breeding season

• Body mass dynamics of wood ducks during incubation: individual variation

• Food robbery of wintering Ring-necked Ducks by American Coots

• Effect of diving ducks on benthic food resources during winter in South Carolina, USA

• Foods of wintering diving ducks in South Carolina

• Differential habitat use by diving ducks wintering in South Carolina

• Time-activity budgets of diving ducks wintering in South Carolina

• Effects of body weight and age on the time of pairing of American black ducks

• Genetic distance and hybridization of black ducks and mallards: a morph of a different color?

• Little Blue Herons nesting among cattails

• Notes on hooded merganser nests in the coastal plains of South Carolina

Mammals:

• Biochemical variability in a population of beaver

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Thermal Studies:

General:

• Differential recovery of a deepwater swamp forest across a gradient of disturbance intensity

Effects on Plants:

• Direct heat injury of roots of woody swamp species
• Population genetic structure of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) in a thermally affected swamp forest

Effects on Invertebrates:

• Plankton composition, abundance and dynamics in a severely stressed cooling reservoir
• Differential effects of a brief thermal disturbance on caddisflies (Trichoptera) in a regulated river
• Development of the zooplankton assemblage in a new cooling reservoir
• Toxicity of the mixotrophic chrysophyte Poterioochromonas malhamensis to the Cladoceran Daphnia ambigua

Effects on Fish:

• Post-defaunation recovery of fish assemblages in southeastern blackwater streams
• Population dynamics and food habits of bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) in a thermally stressed reservoir
• Validation of otolith annuli of bluegills in a southeastern thermal reservoir
• Genetic differences in thermal tolerance of eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) from ambient and thermal ponds
• Offspring size variation in eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) from contrasting thermal environments
• Life history changes in eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) induced by thermal elevation
• Plasticity of life-history characters in eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) in response to thermal stress
• Single- and multiple-locus genotypes and life history responses of Gambusia holbrooki reared at two temperatures

Effects on Herps:

• Roles of diet protein and temperature in the growth and nutritional energetics of juvenile slider turtles, Trachemys scripta

Effects on Birds:

• Wading bird use of established and newly created reactor cooling reservoirs at the Savannah River Site, near Aiken, South Carolina, USA

General, process, and bacterial studies:

• New concepts in stream ecology: proceedings of a symopsium
• Floodplain vegetation phenology in the Southeast USA: optimizing the timing of aerial imagery acquisition
• Chance events, habitat age, and the genetic structure of pond populations
• Temporal and spatial dynamics of beaver-created patches as influenced by management practices in a south-eastern North American landscape
• Influence of summer storms on the solution geochemistry in a coastal plain hydrosequence
• Forest sources and pathways of organic matter transport to a blackwater stream: a hydrologic approach
• Ground water flow and runoff in a coastal plain stream
• Release of NH4-N, NO3-N, and PO4-P from litter in two bottomland hardwood forests
• Cation dynamics in bottomland hardwood forest litter
• The relative importance of mechanisms determining decomposition in a southeastern blackwater stream
• Interspecific leaf interactions during decomposition in aquatic and floodplain ecosystems
• Effect of nutrient content on leaf decomposition in a coastal plain stream: A comparison of green and senescent leaves
• Effect of macroinvertebrates on detachment of bacteria from biofilms in stream microcosms
• Information spiraling: movement of bacteria and their genes in streams
• Evaluation of sources of bacteria in coastal plain streams using gram staining
• Spatial and temporal response of stream bacteria to sources of dissolved organic carbon in a blackwater stream system
• Potential nitrate leaching losses and nitrogen mineralization in an Atlantic Coastal Plain watershed following disturbance
• Detection of Tn5-like sequences in kanamycin-resistent stream bacteria and environmental DNA
• Comparison of methods of DNA extraction from stream sediments
• Identification of aquatic Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia using species-specific rRNA gene probes
• Spatial and temporal variability of antibiotic resistance in freshwater bacterial assemblages
• Persistence and dissemination of introduced bacteria in freshwater microcosms
• Physiologic and genetic determinants of lotic bacterial distribution and abundance
• Genetic diversity of bacteria along a stream continuum
• Characterization of riparian species and stream detritus using multiple stable isotopes
• Information length: spatial and temporal parameters among stream bacterial assemblages
• Spatial and temporal patterns of nutrient concentrations in foliage of riparian species
• Bacterial production on humic and nonhumic components of dissolved organic carbon
• The microbial activity season in southeastern hydric soils
• Free and humic-bound carbohydrates leached from leaves of four floodplain tree species
• Wetland identification in seasonally flooded forest soils: soil morphology and redox dynamics
• Using 18O/16O data to examine the mixing of water masses in floodplain wetlands

Plants:

• Southern floodplain forests. Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States/Lowland Terrestrial Communities
• Composition and regeneration of a disturbed river floodplain in South Carolina. Ecological Processes and Cumulative Impacts
• Planting unconsolidated sediments with flood-tolerant species
• Dynamics of advance regeneration in four South Carolina bottomland hardwood forests
• Hurricane damage to an old-growth floodplain forest in the southeast
• Aboveground production in southeastern floodplain forests: A test of the subsidy - stress hypothesis
• Substrate heterogeneity and regeneration of a swamp tree, Nyssa aquatica
• Size differences, sex ratio, and spatial distribution of male and female water tupelo Nyssa aquatica
• Successful planting of tree seedlings in wet areas
• Flooding and salinity effects on growth and survival of four common forested wetland species
• Growth and photosynthesis of seedlings of five bottomland tree species following nutrient enrichment
• Survival and growth of seedlings of four bottomland oak species in response to increases in flooding and salinity
• Effects of flooding on root and shoot production of bald cypress in large experimental enclosures
• Growth response of bald cypress [Taxodium distichum] to an altered hydrologic regime
• False ring formation in bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) saplings under two flooding regimes
• Flood and salinity stress of wetland woody species buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) and swamp tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica var. biflora)
• Seasonal growth patterns of Nyssa sylvatica var. biflora, Nyssa aquatica, and Taxodium distichum as affected by hydrologic regime
• Species selection and seedling establishment for restoration of bottomland forests
• Effects of flooding and salinity on photosynthesis and water relations of four southeastern coastal plain forest species
• Photosynthesis and water relations of four oak species: impact of flooding and salinity
• Selection of woody species for bottomland restoration
• Effects of root competition and flooding on growth of Chinese tallow tree seedlings
• Survival and growth of woody plant seedlings in the understory of floodplain forests in South Carolina
• Woody plant regeneration in four floodplain forests
• Tree population dynamics in seven South Carolina mixed-species forests
• Why do early-emerging tree seedlings have survival advantages?: A test using Acer rubrum
• Growth and photosynthetic responses to a range of light environments in Chinese tallowtree and Carolina ash seedlings
• A comparison of wetland tree growth response to hydrologic regime in Louisiana and South Carolina
• Accuracy of tree growth measurements using dendrometer bands
• The effects of water level fluctuations on weekly tree growth in a southeastern USA swamp

Invertebrates:

• Aquatic insects of Upper Three Runs Creek, Savannah River Site, South Carolina. Part IV
• Population dynamics of Daphnia spp. and implications for trophic interactions in a small, monomictic lake
• Complex interactions of multiple aquatic consumers: an experimental mesocosm manipulation
• Foodweb response to the experimental manipulation of a benthivore (Cyprinus carpio), zooplanktivore (Menidia beryllina) and benthic insects
• Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the lower reaches
• Temporal variation in genetic diversity and structure of a lotic population of Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia
• Actinomycete-flora associated with submersed freshwater macrophytes
• Older than the Atlantic Ocean: discovery of a freshwater Microcerberus (Isopoda) in North America and erection of Coxicerberus, new genus
• Application of molecular genetic markers to conservation of freshwater bivalves
• Molecular systematics and evolution of reproductive traits of North American freshwater unionacean mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia) as inferred from 16S rRNA gene sequences
• Conservation genetics of North American freshwater mussels Amblema and Megalonaias
• Spatial distribution, seston removal, and potential competitive interactions of the bivalves Corbicula fluminea and Elliptio complanata in a coastal plain stream
• Tissue-specific maternal and paternal mitochondrial DNA in the freshwater mussel, Anodonta grandis grandis
• Genetic differentiation in and management recommendations for the freshwater mussel, Pyganodon grandis
• Paternal mitochondrial DNA differentiation far exceeds maternal mitochondrial DNA and allozyme differentiation in the freshwater mussel, Anodonta grandis grandis
• Upstream mobility of the Asiatic clam Corbicula fluminea: identifying potential dispersal agents
• The relative importance of refugia in determining the drift and habitat selection of predaceous stoneflies in a sandy-bottomed stream
• Linkages between trophic variability and distribution of Pteronarcys spp. along a stream continuum
• Evolution of net-spinning caddisflies: a hypothetical mechanism for the reproductive isolation of conspecific competitors
• Genetic diversity vs. geographic distribution of five congeneric caddisflies

Fish:

• Influence of beavers on stream fish assemblages: effects of pond age and watershed position
• Habitat use and temporal dynamics of blackwater stream fishes in and adjacent to beaver ponds
• An experimental study of the trade-offs between age and size at maturity: effects of energy availability
• Phenotypic plasticity: implications for captive-breeding and conservation programs
• Short-term recolonization by fishes of experimentally defaunated pools of a coastal plain stream
• Genetic and ecological guidelines for species reintroduction programs
• Combining science and policy in conservation biology
• Multivariate analysis of feeding relationships of fishes in blackwater streams
• Path analysis of collective properties and habitat relationships of fish assemblages in coastal plain streams
• Helminth parasites of Bowfin (Amia calva) from South Carolina
• Cytonuclear introgressive swamping and species turnover of bass after an introduction
• Growth and mortality of juvenile sunfishes (Lepomis sp.) under heavy predation
• Variation in growth and age at maturity in bluegill sunfish: genetic or environmental effects?
• Predation-induced differences in growth and reproduction of bluegills (Lepomis macrochirus)
• Molecular genetic dissection of spawning, parentage, and reproductive tactics in a population of redbreast sunfish Lepomis auritus
• Evaluation of the effects of cryopreservation of isolated erythrocytes and leukocytes of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) by flow cytometry
• Nest association of dusky shiners (Notropis cummingsae) and redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus), a potentially parasitic relationship
• Male ontogeny and size-related variation in mass allocation of bluenose shiners (Pteronotropis welaka)
• Reproductive biology, larval description, and diet of the North American bluehead shiner, Pteronotropis hubbsi, with comments on conservation status
• Glue secretion and adhesion by larvae of sailfin shiner (Pteronotropis hypselopterus)
• Reproduction under predatory threat: tradeoffs between nest guarding and predator avoidance in male dollar sunfish (Lepomis marginatus)
• Direct and indirect effects of predation on mosquitofish behavior and survival
• The symbiotic nest association of yellowfin shiners, Notropis lutipinnis, and bluehead chubs, Nocomis leptocephalus
• Phenotypic plasticity of life-history traits in clonal and sexual fish (Poeciliopsis) at high and low densities
• Comparisons of life-history traits between clonal and sexual fish (Poeciliopsis: Poeciliidae) raised in monoculture and mixed treatments
• Patterns of offspring size at birth in clonal and sexual strains of Poeciliopsis (Poeciliidae)
  • Lipid dynamics and growth relative to resource level in juvenile eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki)
• Parental investment in temporally varying environments
• Quantitative genetic and optimality analysis of life-history plasticity in the Eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki
• Effect of Gambusia holbrooki on a similar-sized, syntopic Poeciliid, Heterandria formosa: competitor or predator?
• Cannibalism frequencies in wild populations of the eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) in South Carolina
• “Grandfather Effects" on offspring size in the eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki
• Annual lipid cycle in eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) from South Carolina
• Cytochrome b sequence variation and a molecular phylogeny of the live-bearing fish genus Gambusia
• Hybrid zone dynamics are influenced by genotype-specific variation in life-history traits: experimental evidence from hybridizing Gambusia species
• Patterns of genetic variation in eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) from the Piedmont and Coastal Plain of three drainages
• Downstream gene flow and genetic structure of Gambusia holbrooki (eastern mosquitofish) populations
• Molecules, morphology and area cladograms: a cladistic and biogeographic analysis of Gambusia
• Occurrence of Gambusia affinis in the Savannah and Chattahoochee drainages: Previously undescribed geographic contacts between G. affinis and G. holbrooki
• Phylogenetic analysis of species richness: has viviparity increased the diversification of actinopterygian fishes?
• Management of indigenous fish species impacted by introduced mosquitofish: An experimental approach
• Effects of predation on population demography and genetics of the eastern mosquitofish
• Lipid dynamics during reproduction in two livebearing fishes, Gambusia holbrooki and Poecilia latipinna
• Failed invasion of a southeastern blackwater stream by bluegills: Implications for conservation of native communities
• Cytonuclear genetic architecture in mosquitofish populations and the possible roles of introgressive hybridization
• Population structure, reproduction, and lipid cycling in the dusky shiner (Notropis cummingsae) in contrasting streams
• Blood flow distribution and tissue allometry in channel catfish
• Life history of the Savannah darter, Etheostoma fricksium, in the Savannah River drainage, South Carolina

Herps:

• Imperiled aquatic reptiles of the southeastern United States: historical review and current conservation status
• Nerodia taxispilota (brown water snake) diet
• Spatial ecology and movements of the brown water snake (Nerodia taxispilota)
• Effects of incubation temperatures on characteristics of hatchling American alligators
• Growth of juvenile alligators in Par Pond, Savannah River Site, South Carolina
• Long-term changes in a population of Alligator mississippiensis in South Carolina
• Behavior of hatchling Alligator mississippiensis exposed to ice
• Glycolysis and swimming performance in juvenile American alligators
• The behavior of juvenile Alligator mississippiensis and Caiman crocodilus exposed to low temperature
• Post-hatching yolk reserves: parental investment in American alligators
• Long-term population studies of American alligators inhabiting a reservoir: initial responses to water level drawdown
• Population studies of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) inhabiting a reservoir: responses to long-term drawdown and subsequent refill
• Extended maintenance of American alligators on a dry formulated ration
• Growth curve analyses and their application to the conservation and captive management of crocodilians
• Essential fatty acid nutrition of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
• Protein and energy relationships in the diet of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
• The influence of environmental temperature and dietary factors on utilization of dietary energy and protein in purified diets by alligators, Alligator mississippiensis
• Dietary energy sources for the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis
• Supplemented nutria (Myocastor coypu) meat as a practical feed for American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis)

Birds:

• Conservation and genetic resources in waterfowl
• Use of reservoirs and other artificial impoundments by bald eagles in South Carolina
• Relationships between genetic variation and body size in wintering mallards
• Genetic structure in a wintering population of American Coots (Fulica americana)
• Evaluation of the cyclopropane absorption method of measuring avian body fat
• Embryonic development and nest attentiveness of wood ducks during egg laying
• Composition of wood duck eggs in relation to egg size, laying sequence, and skipped days of laying
• Wood duck hatch date: Relationship to pairing chronology, plasma leutinizing hormone, and steroid hormones during autumn and winter
• Characteristics and consequences of nest-site fidelity in wood ducks
• Effects of age and experience on reproductive performance of wood ducks
• Incubation as a reproductive cost in female wood ducks

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