Swarth on 'Birds and Mammals of the Stikine River Region' Birds and Mammals of the Stikine River Region of Northern British Columbia and South-Eastern Alaska H. S. Swarth

The Auk ◽  
1922 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 582-584
1889 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 350-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
George M. Dawson

In an article published in the Geological Magazine for August, 1888, an outline was presented of some facts resulting from recent investigations on the glaciation of British Columbia and adjacent regions, bearing more particularly on the flow of ice in a northerly direction brought to light by explorations in the Yukon district, but touching also on the south-eastern extension of the great western glacier-mass of the continent, which I have proposed to name the Cordilleran glacier. Field-work carried out by me during the summer of 1888 has resulted in the accumulation of many new facts relating to the southern part of the area, which was at one time covered by the Cordilleran glacier, from which it would appear that it may ultimately be possible not only to trace the various stages in the recession of the main front of the great confluent glacier beneath which the interior or plateau region of British Columbia was buried, but even to follow the later stages of its decline as it became broken up into numerous local glaciers confined to the valleys of the several mountain ranges which limit the plateau.


Blue Jay ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert G. Kondla ◽  
Edward M. Pike ◽  
Felix A. H. Sperling

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 855-866
Author(s):  
Thomas C.A. Royle ◽  
Dongya Y. Yang ◽  
Jonathan C. Driver

Ancient DNA was extracted from 12 500 to 10 500 year old ground squirrel bones from Tse’K’wa, an archaeological site in the Peace River region of northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Analysis of mitochondrial DNA from seven individuals demonstrates that all are Urocitellus richardsonii (Richardson’s ground squirrel), a species not found in the region today. Phylogenetic and sequence analyses indicate these individuals share a previously undocumented mitochondrial control region haplotype that is most closely related to haplotypes observed in modern specimens from Saskatchewan and Montana. At the end of the Pleistocene these ground squirrels extended their range north and west into open vegetation communities that developed when ice sheets melted and glacial lakes drained. They were subsequently extirpated from the Peace River region when forests replaced earlier pioneering vegetation communities.


1990 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 403 ◽  
Author(s):  
KA Claytongreene ◽  
DH Ashton

The vegetation in the rain shadow areas of the Snowy River region was studied. Five distinct woodland communities were recognised from a numerical classification, a community dominated by C. columellaris at lower altitudes on north and west aspects, three mixed C. columellaris/E. albens communities which are also aspect and altitude dependent, and a higher altitude, cool aspect, E. albens dominated community. Although C. columellaris and E. albens occupy separate niches, they compete strongly. Contrasting dispersal and germination behaviour between the two species may explain the current distribution and structure of these woodlands.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-107
Author(s):  
Editorial Team

The editors would like to thank the following colleagues for the time and careful attention given to manuscripts they reviewed for Volume 1 of HRER. Rebecca ADAMIUniversity of Stockholm, Sweden Paul BRACEYUniversity of Northampton, UK Kjersti BRATHAGENUniversity of South-Eastern Norway, Norway Cecilia DECARADanish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark Judith DUNKERLY-BEANOld Dominion University, USA Viola B. GEORGIUniversity of Hildesheim, Germany Carole HAHNEmory University, USA Brynja HALLDÓRSDÓTTIRUniversity of Iceland, Iceland Lisa HARTLEY Curtin University, Australia Lee JEROME Middlesex University, UK Claudia LENZ Norwegian School of Theology, Norway Hadi Strømmon LILE Østfold University College, Norway Anja MIHR Center on Governance though Human Rights, Germany Virginia MORROWUniversity of Oxford, UK Thomas NYGREN Uppsala University, Sweden Barbara OOMEN Roosevelt University College, The Netherlands Anatoli RAPOPORT Purdue University, USA Farzana SHAIN Keele University, UK Hugh STARKEY University College London, UK Sharon STEIN University of British Columbia, Canada


Koedoe ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
D.E. Van Dijk

Surveys were made of the anuran fauna of the Khatse Dam catchment area in the Lesotho Highlands, and of the region between the Central Mountains and the Thaba Putsoa Range which would be affected by Phase 1B of the Lesotho Highlands Water Scheme, if implemented. The Khatse Dam is at present filling. Seven species of anurans were encountered in the Khatse Dam catchment, and five of them also in the valley to the south-west. Four taxa occur all around central Lesotho, but one, the Gariep toad, has its south-eastern limit on the Drakensberg Escarpment, and another. Gray's frog, shows indications in Lesotho, as elsewhere, of being distinct from the typical taxon. Two taxa are endemic to the mountains of the Lesotho region, the one being more rheophilic and more wide-spread. The remaining anuran, previously unknown in Lesotho, is now recorded from the highly characteristic, strongly rheophilic tadpoles, as Heleophryne. The various available habitats and the associated anurans are reviewed. Features of the reproductive cycles, are noted. Dispersal and isolation are outlined. Reference is made to the most probable additions to the anuran fauna which further collecting might reveal. The probable impact of the Khatse Dam is discussed.


1991 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. T. Fairey ◽  
L. P. Lefkovitch

The hard-seed content of alfalfa (Medicago spp.) grown in Canada in relation to genotype and geographic location of production was surveyed for the commercial growing regions in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. The average hard-seed content of all pedigreed production over a 5-yr period, ranged from 22 to 37% and that in nonpedigreed production was between 14 and 30%. A database of the five widely grown cultivars revealed that the hard-seed content of alfalfa in the most northerly growing areas in the Peace River region of Alberta and British Columbia ranged from 31 to 51%, while hard seed content of alfalfa produced elsewhere varied from 22 to 38%. There was no apparent effect of latitude on the proportion of hard seeds, while there was a small increase for two of the five cultivars in production areas further west. Of particular interest was the trend in viable seed production. There was consistent evidence suggesting that the proportion of viable seeds decreased in production areas further north, but increased in production areas further west. However, the minimum viability was always in excess of 85%. There was no correlation between hard and viable seed. Key words: Medicago spp., alfalfa, lucerne, hard seeds, viable seeds


1940 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Stuart Walley

It was with some surprise that the writer encountered a representative of this rare and, until recently, little known genus, from a locality in south-eastern British Columbia. The specimen in question is a female reared at Ottawa, by officers of the Forest Insect Survey of the Division of Entomology, Irom the cocoon of a Chrysopid beaten from Engelmann spruce, Aug. 26, 1938, by Mr. D. N. Ross of the British Columbia Forest Service, in the vicinity of Bayne's Lake, B. C. The adult parasite emerged in the laboratory, Feb. 20, 1939.


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