Arctic biology;

Arctic biology; ten papers presented at the 1957, and one presented at the 1965, Biology Colloquium at Oregon State University. Edited by Henry P. Hansen. - [2d ed.] - Corvallis, Oregon State University Press [1967] - 318 p. illus., maps, ports. 24 cm.

Half title: "Proceedings of the Biology Colloquium." The papers included have been rev. by their authors.

Includes bibliographies.

The Arctic; its discovery and past development, by I. L. Wiggins.--Permafrost and its effect on life in the North, by T. L. P�ew�e.--Vegetation of the Arctic tundra, by M. E. Britton.--Pleistocene and postglacial vegetation of Alaska and the Yukon Territory, by C. J. Heusser.--Some characteristics of microtine cycles in the Arctic, by F. A. Pitelka.--Wildlife in Arctic and subarctic Alaska, by J. L. Buckley.--Arctic and subarctic agriculture, by A. H. Mick.--Health and sanitation problems in the Arctic, by A. J. Alter.--American Arctic populations: their survival problems, by M. L. Lantis.--Observations on some host-parasite relationships among Arctic wildlife, by E. L. Schiller.--Potentialities for the future development of the American Arctic, by I. L. Wiggins.

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Natural history--Arctic regions.


Arctic regions.

QH199 / .A7 1967

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