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Abstracts: NOAA issues new regulations on space-based data collection systems. NOAA names deputy assistant administrator and Arctic research advisor for Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
Abstracts: NOAA-K weather satellite successfully launched. Comments on "regional real-time numerical weather prediction: current status and future potential."
Abstracts: No behavioral control over mating frequency in queen honey bees (Apis mellifera L.): implications for the evolution of extreme polyandry
Abstracts: Northern light on global warming. When is it appropriate to combine expert judgments? Speaking for citizens from the far distant future
Abstracts: Null models and dispersal distributions: a comment on an article by Caley. The analysis and interpretation of seedling recruitment curves
Abstracts: Null models and fish communities: evidence of non-random patterns. Morphological assortment and the assembly of communities of introduced passeriforms on oceanic islands: Tahiti versus Oahu
Abstracts: Numerical modeling of trishear fault propagation folding. A deep seismic reflection profile across the extinct Mid-Labrador sea spreading center
Abstracts: Numerical reconstruction of a soft-bedded Laurentide ice sheet during the last glacial maximum: comment. New constraints on the limits of the Barents-Kara ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum based on borehole stratigraphy from the Pechora Sea
Abstracts: Nutrient cycling at the landscape scale: the role of diel foraging migrations by geese at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
Abstracts: Nutrients and zooplankton as multiple stressors or phytoplankton communities: evidence from size structure. A dynamic regulatory model of phytoplankton acclimation to light, nutrients, and temperature
Abstracts: Nutrient-use efficiency: a litterfall index, a model, and a test along a nutrient-availability gradient in North Carolina peatlands
Abstracts: Occurrence and distribution of "moganite" in agate/chalcedony: a combined micro-Raman, Rietveld, and cathodoluminescence study
Abstracts: Ocean scalar irradiance near-surface maxima. Diel patterns in optical properties of the chlorophyte Nannochloris sp.: relating individual-cell to bulk measurements
Abstracts: Ocean scalar irradiance near-surface maxima. Light scattering and chlorophyll concentration in case 1 waters: a reexamination
Abstracts: Odor transport in turbulent flows: constraints on animal navigation. Chemical cues: why basic peptides are signal molecules in marine environments
Abstracts: O, H, C isotope study of rocks from the KTB pilot hole: crustal profile and constraints on fluid evolution. A detailed Th, Sr and O isotope study of Hekla: differentiation processes inan Icelandic volcano
Abstracts: On expected lifetimes of small-bodied and large-bodied species of birds on islands. Co-occurrence of morphologically similar species of stream fishes
Abstracts: Ongoing La Nina conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean are expected to increase Atlantic hurricane activity
Abstracts: On the causes of O(super 18)-depletion and O(super 18)O(super 16) homogenization during regional metamorphism; the East Humboldt Range core complex, Nevada
Abstracts: On the evolution of mating systems: a comment on Arnold and Duvall. Static, ontogenetic, and evolutionary allometry: a multivariate comparison in nine species of water striders
Abstracts: On the future of research-intensive universities and their associated atmospheric science programs. Ninth Meeting of the Heads and Chairs of Departments of Atmospheric Science: a summary
Abstracts: On the growth of normal faults and the existence of flats and ramps along the El Asnam active fold and thrust system
Abstracts: On the search for the correct economic assessment method. Universal pattern of changes - on what spatial scale? comment on H.S. Kheshgi, M.E. Schlesinger and A.G. Lapenis
Abstracts: On the secular variations in the composition of Phanerozoic marine potash evaporites: comment and reply. No statistical support for sudden (or gradual) extinction of dINNsaurs: comment and reply
Abstracts: Ontogeny of a flood plain. Reply. Kinematics and timing of tertiary extension in the western Lake Mead region, Nevada: discussion and reply
Abstracts: Open-system magma chamber process in the Freetown Complex of Sierra Leone: evidence from Zone 3. Pterosaur fossils from the Cretaceous of Chile: evidence for a pterosaur colony on an inland desert plain
Abstracts: Operational use of weather satellites. NASA scientists use satellites to track early sign of El Nino. NASA satellite sheds new light on La Nina phenomenon
Abstracts: Optimal egg distribution among host patches for parasitoids subject to attack by hyperparasitoids. Disease and community structure: the importance of host self-regulation in a host-host-pathogen model
Abstracts: Optimal fat loads in migrating birds: a test of the time-minimization hypothesis. Evolutionary precursors of long-distance migrations: resource availability and movement patterns in neotropical landbirds
Abstracts: Optimal foraging: the importance of environmental stochasticity and accuracyin parameter estimation. Optimal harvesting of fluctuating populations with a risk of extinction
Abstracts: Optimal resource allocation and the marginal value of organs. Physiology and phylogeny: the evolution of locomotor energetics in hylid frogs
Abstracts: Order-disorder kinetics in orthopyroxenes of ophiolite origin. Water in boninite glass and coexisting orthopyroxene: concentration and partitioning
Abstracts: Organic enrichment of submarine-canyon and continental-shelf benthic communities by macroalgal drift imported from nearshore kelp forests
Abstracts: Organic matter mineralization rates in sediments: a within- and among-lake study. A direct comparison between the historical record of lake level and the delta18-O signal in carbonate sediments from Lake Turkana, Kenya
Abstracts: Organic maturation in the French Subalpine Chains: regional differences in burial history and the size of tectonic loads
Abstracts: Organic maturation, thermal history and hydrocarbon generation in the Orcadian Basin, Scotland. Evidence for an early Proterozoic crustal province in the North Atlantic region
Abstracts: Origin and differentiation of picritic arc magmas, Ambae (Aoba), Vanuatu. Phase equilibria constraints
Abstracts: Origin of the high plateau in the Central Andes, Bolivia, South America. Slow apparent polar wander for North America in the late Triassic and large Colorado plateau rotation
Abstracts: Origin of the upper Capitan-Massive limestone (Permian), Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico-Texas: is it a reef? Paleoweathering of Mississippian Monteagle Limestone preceding development of a lower Chesterian transgressive systems tract and sequence boundary, middle Tennessee and northern Alabama
Abstracts: Other causes of climate change. Miscellaneous. Climate change observations
Abstracts: Oxidation of ammonia and methane in an alkaline, saline lake. The onset of meromixis during restoration of Mono Lake, California: unintended consequences of reducing water diversions
Abstracts: Oxidation of sulfide by Spartina alterniflora roots. Parade of the little millions. Transition metal sulfides and the origins of metabolism
Abstracts: Oxygen and carbon dioxide mass balance for the estuarine-intertidal marsh complex of five rivers in the southeastern U.S
Abstracts: Oxygen and hydrogen isotope systematics of Lake Baikal, Siberia: implications for paleoclimate studies. Organisms' response in a chronically polluted lake supports hypothesized link between stress and size
Abstracts: Oxygen isotope constraints on the petrogenesis of the Sybille intrusion of the Proterozoic Laramie Anorthosite Complex
Abstracts: Oxygen isotope geochemistry of the Mesozoic anorogenic complexes of Damaraland, northwest Namibia: evidence for crustal contamination and its effect on silica saturation
Abstracts: Oxygen isotope geochemistry of the Mesozoic anorogenic complexes of Damaraland, northwest Namibia: evidence for crustal contamination and its effect on silica saturation. part 2
Abstracts: Ozone-depleting gases in the atmosphere: will they continue to decline? Scientific background for AMS policy statement on atmospheric ozone
Abstracts: Paleomagnetic evidence for en echelon crustal extension and crustal rotations in western Montana and Idaho. Implications of paleomagnetic data on Miocene extension near a major accommodation zone in the Basin and Range province, northwestern Arizona and southern Nevada
Abstracts: Paleomagnetic study of the northern Ford Ranges, western Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica: motion between West and East Antarctica
Abstracts: Paleomagnetism and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of gabbro sills at Mariscal Mountain anticline, southern Big Bend National Park, Texas: implications for the timing of Laramide tectonism and vertical axis rotations in the southern Cordilleran orogenic belt
Abstracts: Paleomagnetism and paleogeography of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria). Jurassic and Cretaceous paleomagnetic data from the Southern Alps (Italy)
Abstracts: Paleomagnetism, magnetic anisotropy, and mid-Cretaceous paleolatitude of the Duke Island (Alaska) ultramafic complex
Abstracts: Paleomagnetism of the Dockum Group (Upper Triassic), northwest Texas: further evidence for the J-1 cusp in the North America apparent polar wander path and implications for rate of Triassic apparent polar wander and Colorado plateau rotation
Abstracts: Parallel speciation by natural selection. Using phylogenies to test macroevolutionary hypotheses of trait evolution in cranes (Gruinae)
Abstracts: Parasites, worker polymorphism, and queen number in social insects. Partitioning of reproduction in mother-daughter versus sibling associations: a test of optimal skew theory
Abstracts: Parasitism and the dynamics of ungulate grazing systems. Does food web complexity eliminate trophic-level dynamics?
Abstracts: Parental expenditure and offspring sex ratios in the dioecious plant Silene alba. Population structure influences sex ratio evolution in a gynodioecious plant
Abstracts: Parental melts of melilitolite and origin of alkaline carbonatite: evidence from crystallised melt inclusions, Gardiner complex
Abstracts: Partial melting below Tubuai (Austral Islands, French Polynesia). Cross-arc geochemical variations in volcanic fields in Honduras C.A.: Progressive changes in source with distance from the volcanic front
Abstracts: Partial melting of the Appin Quartzite driven by fracture-controlled H2O infiltration in the aureole of the Ballachulish Igneous Complex, Scottish Highlands
Abstracts: Partitioning of platinum-group elements and Au in the Fe-Ni-Cu-S system: experiments on the fractional crystallization of sulfide melt - a discussion
Abstracts: Passive margins and their subsidence. Granite magma generation, ascent and emplacement within a transpressional orogen
Abstracts: Passive margin uplift around the North Atlantic region and its role in Nothern Hemisphere late Cenozoic glaciation: comment and reply
Abstracts: Patchy surface stone movement during disturbance in a New Zealand stream and its potential significance for the fauna
Abstracts: Paternal effects of offspring quality in Campis radicans. Is founder-flush speciation defensible? Evolutionary rates in partially self-fertilizing species
Abstracts: Path analysis of local adaptation in two ecotypes of the annual plant Diodia teres Walt (Rubiaceae). Angiosperm fleshy fruits and seed dispersers: a comparative analysis of adaptation and constraints in plant-animal interactions
Abstracts: Path modeling methods and ecological interactions: a response to Grace and Pugesek. Assembly rules: desert rodent communities are structured at scales from local to continental
Abstracts: Patterns and consequences of interspecific competition in natural communities: a review of field experiments with plants
Abstracts: Patterns of late Cenozoic volcanic and tectonic activity in the West Antarctic rift system revealed by aeromagnetic surveys
Abstracts: Pb-Sr-Nd isotopic compositions and trace element geochemistry of megacrysts and melilitites from the Tertiary Urach volcanic field: source composition of small volume melts under SW Germany
Abstracts: Penetration of ultraviolet radiation in the waters of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Trophic ecology of massive shrimp aggregations at a Mid-Altantic Ridge hydrothermal vent site
Abstracts: Penetrative calcretes and their stratigraphic implications: comment and reply. Stratigraphic classification of ancient lakes: balancing tectonic and climatic controls
Abstracts: Permian paleomagnetism of the northern Tien Shan and its tectonic implications. Paleomagnetism and geochronology of the Late Cretaceous-Paleogene island arc complex of the Kronotsky Peninsula, Kamchatka, Russia: Kinematic implications
Abstracts: Permo-Triassic collision, subduction-zone metamorphism, and tectonic exhumation along the East Asian continental margin
Abstracts: Petrogenesis of anomalous K-enriched MORB from the Southwest Indian Ridge: 11 degrees 53 minutes E to 14 degrees 38 minutes E
Abstracts: Petrogenesis of late stage magmatism at Hold with Hope, East Greenland. Petrogenesis and significance of late Caledonian granitoid magmatism in western Norway
Abstracts: Petrography and geochemistry of eclogites from the Mir kimberlite, Yakutia, Russia. Petrogenesis of Variscan high-temperature Group A eclogites from the Moldanubian Zone of the Bohemian Massif, Czechoslavakia
Abstracts: Petrological constraints and PT path of Devonian collapse tectonics within the Scandinavian mountain belt (Western Gneiss Region, Norway)
Abstracts: Petrology and geochemistry of spinel peridotite xenoliths from the western Pannonian Basin (Hungary): evidence for an association between enrichment and texture in the upper mantle
Abstracts: Petrology, geochemistry, S, Cl and F abundances, and S oxidation state of sideromelane glass shards from Pleistocene ash layers north and south of Gran Canaria (ODP Leg 157)
Abstracts: Petrology of the Chilliwack batholith, North Cascades, Washington: generation of calc-alkaline granitoids by melting of mafic lower crust with variable water fugacity
Abstracts: Petrology of the late-Carboniferous Punta Falcone gabbroic complex, northern Sardinia, Italy. Petrology of the mafic lavas within the Onega plateau, central Karelia: evidence for 2.0 Ga plume-related continental crust growth in the Baltic Shield
Abstracts: Petrology of ultramafic xenoliths from Kishyuku Lava, Fukue-jima, Southwest Japan. Thermal history of the upper mantle beneath a young back-arc extensional zone: ultramafic xenoliths from San Luis Potosi, Central Mexico
Abstracts: PGE in solid solution in base metal sulfides and the down-temperature equilibration history of Merensky ores. Magnetic metasomatism and formation of the Merensky reef, Bushveld Complex
Abstracts: Phanerozoic biodiversity mass extinctions. Evolution of the North American Cordillera. Madagascar: heads it's a continent, tails it's an island
Abstracts: Phase equilibria and oxygen isotopes in the evolution of metapelitic migmatites: a case study from the Pre-Alpine basement of Northern Switzerland
Abstracts: Phase equilibria and the pressure-temperature path of the highest-grade Ryoke metamorphic rock in the Yanai district, SW Japan
Abstracts: Phase equilibria of phlogopite lamprophyres from western Mexico: biotite-liquid equilibria and P-T estimates for biotite-bearing igneous rocks
Abstracts: Phase relations and chemistry of Ti-rich K-richterite-bearing mantle assemblages: An experimental study to 8.0 GPa in a Ti-KNCMASH system
Abstracts: Phase relations in the phlogopite-apatite system at 20 kbar; implications for the role of fluorine in mantle melting
Abstracts: Phase relations of osumilite and dehydration melting in pelitic rocks: a simple thermodynamic model for the KFMASH system
Abstracts: Phenological aspects of male and female function in hermaphroditic plants. A herbivore paradox: why salt marsh aphids live on poor-quality plants
Abstracts: Phenotypic design, plasticity, and ecological performance in two tadpole species. Phenotypic plasticity as a product of selection in a variable environment
Abstracts: Philip D. Thompson 1922-1994. Philip F. Clapp: 1912-1997. Verner Edward Suomi: 1915-1995
Abstracts: Phosphorus availability in the Parana flood plain lakes (Argentina): influence of pH and phosphate buffering by fluvial sediments
Abstracts: Phosphorus in rainwater: partitioning inputs and impact on the surface coastal ocean. Dissolved organic nitrogen and phosphorus pools and fluxes in the central Atlantic Ocean
Abstracts: Photochemically produced carboxylic acids as substrates for freshwater bacterioplankton. Relaxation of phosphorus limitation due to typhoon-induced mixing in two morphologically distinct basins of Lake Biwa, Japan
Abstracts: Photophysiology of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus: ecotypic differences among cultured isolates. Frequency distributions of phytoplankton single-cell fluorescence and vertical mixing in the surface ocean
Abstracts: Photophysiology of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus: ecotypic differences among cultured isolates. part 2
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