Arctic biology
Subtitle: ten papers presented at the 1957, and one presented at the 1965, Biology Colloquium at Oregon State University.
By: Edited by Henry P. Hansen.
Contributors: Hansen, Henry P. ed.; Biology Colloquium.
Edition: [2d ed.]
Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Corvallis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Natural history -- Arctic regions.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Half title: "Proceedings of the Biology Colloquium."
The papers included have been rev. by their authors.
Table of contents: value: The Arctic; its discovery and past development, by I. L. Wiggins.; value: Permafrost and its effect on life in the North, by T. L. Péwé.; value: Vegetation of the Arctic tundra, by M. E. Britton.; value: Pleistocene and postglacial vegetation of Alaska and the Yukon Territory, by C. J. Heusser.; value: Some characteristics of microtine cycles in the Arctic, by F. A. Pitelka.; value: Wildlife in Arctic and subarctic Alaska, by J. L. Buckley.; value: Arctic and subarctic agriculture, by A. H. Mick.; value: Health and sanitation problems in the Arctic, by A. J. Alter.; value: American Arctic populations: their survival problems, by M. L. Lantis.; value: Observations on some host-parasite relationships among Arctic wildlife, by E. L. Schiller.; value: Potentialities for the future development of the American Arctic, by I. L. Wiggins.