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. Includes bibliographies and index.

Politicoeconomic overview of prairie potholes / Jay A. Leitch -- Hydrologic studies of wetlands in the northern prairie / Thomas C. Winter -- Chemical characteristics of water in northern prairie wetlands / James W. LaBaugh -- Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics and the fate of agricultural runoff / Robert K. Neely and James Baker -- Vegetation of wetlands of the prairie pothole region / Harold A. Kantrud, John B. Millar, and A.G. Van der Valk -- Algae in northern prairie wetlands / William G. Crumpton -- The use of prairie potholes by North American ducks / Bruce D.J. Batt ... {et al.} -- Wetland habitats of waterfowl in the prairie pothole region / George A. Swanson and Harold F. Duebbert -- Mammals in the prairie wetlands / Erik K. Fritzell -- Fishes in northern prairie wetlands / J.J. Peterka -- The basis for food chains in prairie wetlands / Henry R. Murkin -- The water and wetland resources of the Nebraska sandhills / Jean M. Novacek.