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RECORD NUMBER: 106 OF 155Main Title | Natural history of an arctic oil field : development and the biota / | |||||||||||
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Publisher | Academic Press, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2000 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 42954739 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0127012354 (acid-free paper) | |||||||||||
Subjects | Zoology--Alaska--North Slope Region ; Oil fields--Environmental aspects--Alaska--North Slope Region ; Petroleum industry and trade--Environmental aspects--Alaska--North Slope Region ; Nature--Effect of human beings on--Alaska--North Slope Region ; Habitat (Ecology)--Modification--Alaska--North Slope Region | |||||||||||
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Collation | xvi, 422 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Notes | Introduction -- North Slope oil field development -- Vegetative responses to disturbance -- Caribou -- Caribou and oil fields -- Grizzly bear -- Polar bear -- Arctic fox -- Pacific loon -- Tundra swans -- Black brant -- Lesser snow goose -- Pacific eider -- Shorebirds -- Freshwater invertebrates : their reproduction and importance to vertebrates -- Freshwater fishes in the Arctic oil-field region and coastal plain of Alaska -- Anadromous and amphidromous fishes -- The benthic faunal assemblage of the Boulder Patch kelp community -- Synthesis. |