Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science articles from December 2007

Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science archives from December 2007

People, pots, and prosperity: the ceramic value index and an assumption of economic class.(Report)
December 31, 2007... ABSTRACT. The ceramic value index is a powerful empirical tool used in historical archaeology to assess the required economic access necessary for a family or individual to accumulate specific household goods. The focus of this method is...

Vehicle impacts on vegetation cover at Camp Atterbury, Indiana: Part 1. Initial impacts and vegetation recovery.(Report)
December 31, 2007... ABSTRACT. Geographic Positioning System (GPS) based vehicle tracking systems were installed on three military vehicle types (M88 tank recovery vehicle, M35A3 cargo truck, and M1009 utility cargo vehicle) at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, to assess...

Vehicle impacts on vegetation cover at Camp Atterbury, Indiana: Part 2. Predicting impacts of untested vehicles.
December 31, 2007... ABSTRACT. Vehicle tracking systems were installed on four military vehicles (M813 cargo truck, M998 utility vehicle, M548A cargo carrier, M1025 utility vehicle) at Camp Atterbury, Indiana to assess the impact of tracking by these vehicle types...

Amendments for field-scale phytotreatment of Pb, Cd and Zn from an Indiana Superfund soil.(Report)
December 31, 2007... ABSTRACT. A field study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a mixed grass crop, sunflower (Helianthus annuus), or ragweed (Ambrosia trifida) and several amendments in revegetation and treatment of soil severely contaminated with...

Land Type Association delineation and spatial analysis for the Hoosier National Forest in Southern Indiana.
December 31, 2007... ABSTRACT. A GIS approach was used to delineate Land Type Association (LTA) map units for the Hoosier National Forest (HNF) area. It was assumed that the spatial distribution pattern of Ecological Land Type (ELT) and Ecological Land Type Phase...

Zooplankton growth responses to the cyanobacteria Microcystis and Anabaena in Eagle Creek Reservoir in Indiana.(Report)
December 31, 2007... ABSTRACT. Eagle Creek Reservoir is a small, eutrophic reservoir located on the northwest side of Indianapolis. Recent assessments by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) have shown that ECR is impaired due to persistent...

Fishes of the lower Prairie Creek area, Vigo County, Indiana.(Report)
December 31, 2007... ABSTRACT. Sixty-five species of fish are known from the lower Prairie Creek drainage of Vigo County, Indiana; 51 of them had been reported prior to the present study. During the summer of 1999 we seined 15 sites in Prairie Creek, Oxendine...

Food habits of mammals during an emergence of 17-year cicadas.(Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Magicicada spp.)(Report)
December 31, 2007... ABSTRACT. We examined the diet of nine species of mammals in Vigo and Clay Co. Indiana during an emergence of 17-year cicadas (Cicadidae; Magicicada spp.) in May and June of 2004. Small mammals were snap-trapped, and larger mammals were...

Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in St. Joseph County, Indiana.(SHORT COMMUNICATION)(Report)
December 31, 2007... ABSTRACT. Two adult female specimens of Aedes aegypti, the Yellow Fever mosquito, were collected on separate occasions in September of 2006 at a collection site in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The eggs of this species are not believed to be...