Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Date of this Version
1997
Abstract
Editorial Contents
Nebraska Academy of Sciences Officers, Policy Committee ................. ii
Editorial Board ................. iv
Membership Objectives and Friends of the Academy ................. v
Nebraska Association of Teachers of Science ................. vi
Preparation of manuscripts ................. inside back cover
Papers
Creativity in science: historical illustrations and the academic paradigm (Kaddie J. Bicak) ................. 1
Keys and distributional maps for Nebraska Cyperaceae, Part 2: Carex and Scleria (Steven B. Rolfsmeier and Barbara Wilson) ................. 5
Vegetation dynamics at the Gerald Gentleman Station mitigation site, Lincoln County, Nebraska (Michael P. Gutzmer) ................. 27
The unionid mollusks of the Upper Kansas Basin of northwestern Kansas and southwestern Nebraska (Ellet Hoke) ................. 35
The effects of aeration on amphibian larval growth: An experiment with bullfrog tadpoles (Geoffrey R. Smith) ................. 63
Pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) disturbance on a tallgrass prairie in central Nebraska (Gregory D. Klein) ................. 67
Spontaneous pressure diuresis in conscious rats (Janet E. Steele, Paul H. Brand, Patricia J. Metting, and Steven Loyal Britton) ................. 71
Retention of relative grip effort for at-home isometric exercise (Janet E. Steele) ................. 81
The sphinx moths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) of Nebraska (Charlie Messenger) .................89
Comments
1997. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, 24: i-vi