Food habits and distribution of wintering canvasbacks,Aythya valisineria,on Chesapeake Bay     

Matthew C. Perry  Francis M. Uhler 《Estuaries and Coasts》1988,11(1):57-67

Baltic clams (Macoma balthica) were the predominant food items of 323 canvasbacks (Aythya valisineria) collected throughout Chesapeake Bay during 1970–1979. Natural vegetation constituted 4% of the food volume. Widgeongrass (Ruppia maritima) and redhead grass (Potamogeton perfoliatus) constituted the greatest percent volume and frequency of occurrence among the plant species, whereas wild celery (Vallisneria americana) constituted only a trace of the food volume. These results contrast with historical records of food habits of canvasbacks in Chesapeake Bay. Canvasback population estimates during the 1970’s were examined to detect annual and seasonal changes in distribution. Linear regression analyses of winter canvasback populations in the bay showed a significant decline in the upper-bay and middle-bay populations, but no significant changes in the lower-bay and Potomac River populations. The changes in winter distribution and abundance of the canvasback appear related to changes in natural food availability, which is the result of altered environmental conditions.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

John S. Perry  A. Henderson-Sellers  P. M. Morrisette 《Climatic change》1989,15(3):487-494

The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.  相似文献   

A Field Evaluation of In-Situ Biodegradation of Chlorinated Ethenes: Part 3, Studies of Competitive Inhibition   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Lewis Semprini  Gary D. Hopkins  Paul V. Roberts  Dunja Grbic-Galic  Perry L McCarty 《Ground water》1991,29(2):239-250

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Surface study of HF- and $\text{HF}\text{H}{}_2\text{SO}{}_4\text{-}\text{treated}$ feldspar using Auger electron spectroscopy     

Dale L. Perry  Leon Tsao  Kenneth A. Gaugler 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1983,47(7):1289-1291

Auger electron spectroscopy has been used to study K-feldspar that has been reacted with both aqueous 10% HF and a 50% mixture of a 10% HF/0.1 N H₂SO₄ solution. In the feldspar/HF system, the resulting feldspar surface was shown to have been fluorinated; depth profiling, using argon ion sputtering, showed the fluorination to have occurred substantially into the mineral bulk. In the feldspar/ $\text{HF}\text{H}{}_2\text{SO}{}_4$ system, the resulting surface contained both fluorine and sulfur. The fluorination had again penetrated into the bulk, but the sulfur could be removed with mild argon ion sputtering. The $\text{Al}\text{F}$ signal ratio was much lower on the feldspar surface treated with the 10% HF/0.1 N H₂SO₄ solution than the feldspar surface treated with the weaker 10% HF acid solution.  相似文献   

Fast Nearest Neighbor Classification Methods for Multispectral Imagery     

Perry J. Hardin  Curtis N. Thomson 《The Professional geographer》1992,44(2):191-202

Nearest neighbor classifiers have not been widely used by remote sensing practitioners. The lack of acceptance of these classifiers may be partially due to their notoriously slow speed of execution which makes them impractical for the classification of mega-pixel images. However, training data reduction, distance measure optimization, and neighbor searching algorithms based on the modified k-d tree can speed nearest neighbor classification substantially.  相似文献   

Improved three-dimensional mapping of the electron density distribution of the solar corona     

R. Michael Perry  Martin D. Altschuler 《Solar physics》1973,28(2):435-456

Three-dimensional maps of the distribution of coronal electron density can now be computed with two radial functions in the series expansion for the density (rather than with only one radial function as shown in our previous paper). With the improved maps we can determine the topological variation of the electron density with radial distance, and thus can (1) distinguish coronal condensations from coronal streamers, (2) trace the structure of a streamer as a function of height, and (3) determine the non-radial orientation of a streamer. We summarize the previous work in concise mathematical notation, show examples of the improved maps derived from two radial functions, and discuss in detail the expectations and limitations of the method. Of great utility are computer-simulated pictures showing the solar corona as it would appear if veiwed from above the north (or south) pole.The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.  相似文献   

Political Geography: A New Introduction By Richard Muir.     

Peter Perry 《New Zealand geographer》1998,54(2):49-50

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Northern Light on Global Warming: Henning Rodhe and Robert Charlson (eds.), The Legacy of Svante Arrhenius – Understanding the Greenhouse Effect     

John S. Perry 《Climatic change》1999,42(4):627-631

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Shoreline retreat at Titan’s Ontario Lacus and Arrakis Planitia from Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem observations   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

E.P. Turtle  J.E. Perry  A.S. McEwen 《Icarus》2011,212(2):957-959

Recent observations by Cassini’s Imaging Science Subsystem reveal that part of the shoreline of Titan’s Ontario Lacus has retreated by several kilometers and may indicate that the dark area that appeared at Arrakis Planitia (80°S, 120°W) in late 2004 has subsequently faded. These changes provide constraints on aspects of Titan’s methane cycle, as well as on the properties of Titan’s surface materials.  相似文献   

Fattening of wild short‐finned eels,Anguilla Australis schmidtii Phillipps     

Tetuo Tomiyama  J. L. Sumner  G. W. Kitson  I. R. Perry 《新西兰海洋与淡水研究杂志》2013,47(3):377-378

Short‐finned wild eels fed an artificial diet containing either a low (5%) or a high (20%) oil content were found to increase their mass by an average of more than 30% after a 34‐day feeding period; the lipid content of the eels’ muscle was also increased from about 10% to around 20%.  相似文献