Northern prairie wetlands
By: edited by Arnold van der Valk.
Contributors: Valk, Arnoud van der.; National Wetlands Technical Council (U.S.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Iowa State University
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Ames
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Wetland ecology -- Great Plains -- Congresses.; Wetlands -- Great Plains -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Papers presented at a regional symposium held in Nov. 1985 at the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, N.D. and sponsored by the National Wetlands Technical Council.
Table of contents: title: Politicoeconomic overview of prairie potholes / Jay A. Leitch; title: Hydrologic studies of wetlands in the northern prairie / Thomas C. Winter; title: Chemical characteristics of water in northern prairie wetlands / James W. LaBaugh; title: Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics and the fate of agricultural runoff / Robert K. Neely and James Baker; title: Vegetation of wetlands of the prairie pothole region / Harold A. Kantrud, John B. Millar, and A.G. Van der Valk; title: Algae in northern prairie wetlands / William G. Crumpton; title: The use of prairie potholes by North American ducks / Bruce D.J. Batt ... [et al.]; title: Wetland habitats of waterfowl in the prairie pothole region / George A. Swanson and Harold F. Duebbert; title: Mammals in the prairie wetlands / Erik K. Fritzell; title: Fishes in northern prairie wetlands / J.J. Peterka; title: The basis for food chains in prairie wetlands / Henry R. Murkin; title: The water and wetland resources of the Nebraska sandhills / Jean M. Novacek.