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Ballard, B. M., and L. D. Igl.  (In Prep.)  Seasonal habitat use of migrating 
     and wintering grassland birds in southern Texas.  

Cowardin, L. M., J. T. Lokemoen, P. J. Pietz, and H. T. Sklebar.  (In Review)  
     Estimating response of nesting ducks to predator exclosures during drought.  
     Submitted to J. Wildl. Manage.

Cox, R. R., Jr., and A. D. Afton.  (In Prep.)  Effects of capture and handling 
     on survival of female northern pintails.  

Cox, R. R., Jr., and A. D. Afton.  (In Review)  Use of mini-refuges by female 
     northern pintails wintering in southwestern Louisiana.   

Cox, R. R., Jr., and A. D. Afton.  (In Review)  Use of habitats by female 
     northern pintails wintering in southwestern Louisiana.  Submitted to 
     J. Wildl. Manage.

Cox, R. R., Jr., A. D. Afton, and R. M. Pace, III.  (In Prep.)  Survival of 
     female northern pintails wintering in southwestern Louisiana.  

Cox, R. R., Jr., M. A. Hanson, C. C. Roy, N. H. Euliss, Jr., D. H. Johnson, 
     and M. G. Butler.  (In Review)  Mallard duckling growth and survival 
     in relation to aquatic invertebrates.  

Cox, R. R., Jr., and D. H. Johnson.  (In Prep.)  Incorporating brood and 
     duckling survival functions into the mallard productivity model:  a 
     sensitivity analysis.  

Cox, R. R., Jr., and J. A. Kadlec.  (In Prep.)  Diets of postbreeding adult 
     male northern pintails and cinnamon teal near Great Salt Lake, Utah.   

Euliss, N. H., Jr., R. L. Jarvis, and D. S. Gilmer.  (In Review)  
     Relationship between waterfowl nutrition and condition on 
     agricultural drainwater ponds in the Tulare Basin, California:  
     waterfowl body condition.  Submitted to Wetlands.

Fellows, D. P.,  and W. E. Newton.  (In Prep.)  Effects of prescribed fire 
     on the establishment and viability of Aphthona nigriscutis for 
     biological control of leafy spurge.

Gleason, R. A.  1996.  (In Review)  Influence of agricultural practices on 
     sedimentation rates, aquatic invertebrates, and bird-use in prairie 
     wetlands.  M.S. Thesis, Humboldt State University.

Grace, J., and G. R. Guntenspergen.  (In Review)  Development of a 
     multivariate model of plant species richness using structural 
     equation modeling.

Hicks, J. M., N. H. Euliss, Jr., and S. W. Harris.  (In Review)  Response 
     of aquatic invertebrates to waterfowl carcasses in a seasonally 
     flooded Sacramento Valley wetland.  Submitted to Wetlands.

Igl, L. D., and D. H. Johnson.  (In Prep.)  Breeding range expansion of 
     the Le Conte's Sparrow.  

Igl, L. D., and D. H. Johnson.  (In Review)  Le Conte's Sparrows breeding 
     in Conservation Reserve Program fields:  precipitation and patterns 
     of population change.  Submitted to J. Field Ornithol.

Igl, L. D., D. H. Johnson, and H. A. Kantrud.  (In Prep.)  Uncommon 
     breeding birds in North Dakota:  population estimates and 
     frequencies of occurrence, 1967 and 1992-93.  

Johnson, D. H., L. D. Igl, and C. J. Johnson.  (In Prep.)   North Dakota 
     birdlife:  Tracking changes over a quarter-century.  

Keough, J. R., T. Thompson, G. R. Guntenspergen, and D. Wilcox.  (In Review)  
     Physical forcing factors and ecosystem response in coastal wetlands of 
     the Great Lakes:  The nominal condition.

Kirby, R.E., and J.A. Beiser.  (In Review)  Survival of post-fledging 
     mallards in north-central Minnesota.

Larson, D. L., and A. J. Fivizzani.  (In Prep.)  Variation in plasma 
     corticosterone concentrations in free-living Ambystoma tigrinum 
     in agricultural and nonagricultural prairie wetlands.  

Larson, D. L., W. E. Newton, P. J. Anderson, and S. J. Stein.  (In Review)  
     Effects of fire retardant chemical and fire suppressant foam on shrub 
     steppe vegetation in northern Nevada.  Submitted to Int. J. Wildland 
     Fire. 

Leventhal, J., and G. R. Guntenspergen.  (In Review)  Seasonal methane 
     emissions by diffusion and ebullition from oligohaline marsh 
     environments.  Submitted to Biogeochemistry. 

Marlow, J. W., L. D. Igl, and M. R. Hartman.  (In Review)  Second record 
     of White Ibis in North Dakota.  Submitted to Prairie Nat.

Rocke, T. E., N. H. Euliss, Jr., and M. D. Samuel.  (In Review)  Ecological 
     conditions associated with Type C avian botulism epizootics in wetlands 
     of a northern California refuge.

Sargeant, G. A., and D. H. Johnson.  (In Prep.)  An improved carnivore scent 
     station index.  

Sargeant, G. A., D. H. Johnson, and W. E. Berg.  (In Prep.)  Interpreting 
     carnivore scent-station surveys.  

Sargeant, G. A., D. H. Johnson, and W. E. Berg.  (In Prep.)  Temporal and 
     environmental influences on carnivore scent-station surveys.  

Sargeant, G. A., R. L. Ruff, and D. H. Johnson.  (In Prep.)  Demographic 
     response of black bears at Cold Lake, Alberta, to removal of adult 
     males.  

Smith, B. E.  (In Prep.)  A problem in interpretation of amphibian calling 
     surveys:  Not all species are equally observable.  

Smith, B. E.  (In Prep.)  Multivariate morphometric variation in the colubrid 
     snake, Ninia diademata.  

Smith, B. E.  (In Prep.)  Multivariate morphometric variation in the colubrid 
     snake, Ninia sebae.  

Smith, B. E.  (In Prep.)  The herpetofauna of Wind Cave National Park.