Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science articles from December 2005

Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science archives from December 2005

Palaeoecological interpretation of pollen, macrofossils, polygonal fissures, and taphonomy of the Shafer Mastodont Locality, Warren County, Indiana.
December 30, 2005... ABSTRACT. Discovery of the jaw of an American mastodont (Mammut americanum) and an unusual sedimentary profile in a cornfield in Warren County, Indiana, prompted a multidisciplinary study of the palaeoenvironment of the site. Wood taken from...

Insects and other arthropods of economic importance in Indiana in 2004.
December 30, 2005... ABSTRACT. Indiana experienced a number of exotic invasive insects of regulatory concern in 2004. Among the species are emerald ash borer, European Sirex woodwasp, Asian ambrosia beetle, two species of longhorned beetles from China, banded elm...

The spider species of the Great Lakes States.(Part 1)
December 30, 2005... ABSTRACT. Critical analysis of existing spider species lists for Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois reveals 900 species recorded from the five-state region (284 genera, 40 families). All non-native, Palearctic, or otherwise...

The spider species of the Great Lakes States.(Part 2)(Table)
December 30, 2005... APPENDIX I Literature sources and vouchers for spider species records of the five state region. S = lists the literature sources for the record, V = indicates a vouchered specimen in the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), the...

The spider species of the Great Lakes States.(Part 3)(Table)
December 30, 2005... APPENDIX II Spider Species Name Concordance Table. The table contains all species names and genus-species name combinations employed in the referenced species lists (Literature cited). The literature source is listed in the column...

The amphibians of the Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College, Noble County, Indiana.
December 30, 2005... ABSTRACT. We report the results of a survey of amphibians near Wolf Lake, Noble County, Indiana. From 1995 to 2001 we conducted terrestrial surveys of adult amphibians, anuran calls, and aquatic surveys of spring breeding amphibians and fall...

Bats of Camp Atterbury in South-Central Indiana.
December 30, 2005... ABSTRACT. Eight species of bats were found at Camp Atterbury, a military training facility in Bartholomew, Brown, and Johnson counties, Indiana. Listed in approximate order of decreasing abundance they are the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus),...

Jackson Dan Webster: a life in the field.(Biography)
December 30, 2005... It is a particular pleasure for me to have been asked by Jim Berry to write the first article in this biographical series. When J. Dan Webster retired in 1984 as a member of the Biology Department at Hanover College, I was hired into the...