Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Date of this Version
1992
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Editorial Papers
Nebraska Academy of Sciences Officers, Policy Committee .............. ii
Editorial Board .............. v
Membership Objectives and Friends of the Academy .............. vi
Papers
The impacts of environmental legislation and vehicle emissions on the future of alternative fuels in the transportation industry (Massoum Moussavi and Kevin Hughes) .............. 1
Growth of the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana Kellog (Anostracoda) in the materials dispersion apparatus as a sealed microcosm (James R. Rosowski and Aris A. Efting) .............. 7
A preliminary study of antibiotic sensitivity of planktonic bacteria from cultures of brine shrimp Artemia franciscana Kellog (Rosowski, Ayotte, Peterson, and Martin) .............. 21
New distributional records for three fishes in Lincoln County, Nebraska (Jody L. Haynes and J. Mathew Weekly) .............. 31
Age and growth of the channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) in the lower Platte River, Nebraska (Richard S. Holland and Edward J. Peters) .............. 33
Strike-induced chemosensory searching: variation among lizards (Ballinger, Coady, Prokop, and Lemos-Espinal) .............. 43
First evidence of plague (Yersinia pestis) in Nebraska is found in Panhandle predators (Virchow, Kramer, Hygnstrom, Brown, and Barnes) .............. 49
Status of Plantanthera praeclara Sheviak and Bowles (western prairie fringed orchid) in the Platte River valley in Nebraska from Hamilton to Garden counties (Tanya E. Bray and Barbara L. Wilson)
Pollination characteristics of blowout penstemon (Penstemon haydenii S. Watson) (Theresa R. Flessner and James Stubbendieck) .............. 63
Distribution, habitats, and taxonomy of Ruppia maritima L. and R. occidentalis S. Watson in Nebraska (Robert B. Kaul)
Cylindrodonts (Cylindrodonidae, Rodentia) and a new genus of eomyid, Paranamatomys, (Eomyidae, Rodentia) from the Chadronian of Sioux County, Nebraska (William W. Korth) .............. 75
Fossil birds of the Nebraska region (James Ducey) .............. 83
Comments
1992. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, XIX: ii-vi