Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science articles from March 2006

Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science archives from March 2006

A new look and new editors for the Transactions.(Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science )(Editorial)
March 22, 2006... As noted by Dan Merriam (this issue), a former editor of this journal, the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science has been published since 1872. Many editors have toiled over the previous 108 volumes and all of them have left their mark...

The effect of scent-station precipitation covers on visitations by mammalian carnivores and eastern cottontails.
March 22, 2006... The distribution and abundance of mammalian predators are difficult to monitor because of their elusive nature. One tool used to monitor predators is strategically placed tracking stations. Precipitation often renders tracking stations...

Nineteenth century E.L. Trouvelot astronomical prints at Emporia State University.
March 22, 2006... Although known more infamously for his efforts with sericulture and the accidental release of the gypsy moth in North America, the mid-nineteenth century French emigrant E.L. Trouvelot left a more honorable legacy to astronomy based on his...

Ichthyornis sp. (Aves: Ichthyornithiformes) from the lower Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of western Kansas.
March 22, 2006... FHSM VP-2139 is the proximal end of a right carpometacarpus of the Late Cretaceous toothed seabird, Ichthyornis sp. (Aves: Ichthyornithiformes), housed in the Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays Kansas. The specimen was found near the...

Shark-bitten dinosaur (Hadrosauridae) caudal vertebrae from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Coniacian) of western Kansas.
March 22, 2006... The Niobrara Chalk in western Kansas was deposited on the eastern shelf of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Sea during Coniacian through early Campanian time, hundreds of miles from the nearest land. As might be expected, the remains of...

Density and minimum number of mesopredators on the Fort Riley Military Reservation.
March 22, 2006... During research on mesopredators on Fort Riley Military Reservation, Kansas, we determined the densities of sympatric coyotes (Canis latrans), bobcats (Lynx rufus), raccoons (Procyon lotor), and opossums (Didelphis virginiana). For six-month...

Homogenization of fish faunas in two categories of streams in a single basin in Kansas and the choice of similarity coefficients.
March 22, 2006... The process of biotic homogenization represents an increased similarity among communities in their taxonomic, genetic, or functional attributes (Olden et al. 2004) through the loss of unique elements of native communities and the addition of...

Small-format aerial photography for assessing change in wetland vegetation, Cheyenne Bottoms, Kansas.
March 22, 2006... Cheyenne Bottoms is a Ramsar wetland site in central Kansas, where the Nature Conservancy (NC) has undertaken an effort since the mid-1990s to maintain and restore marsh and wet-meadow habitats for migrating shorebirds and waterfowl....

Sclereid development during fruit ripening in two lines of Tabasco pepper (Capsicum frutescens).
March 22, 2006... Fruit development was examined in two lines of Tabasco pepper (Capsicum frutescens) which had previously been selected for hard-to-pick persistent fruit (HP) or easy-topick (EP) fruit. Four plants of each line were grown under glass. Random...

Potential of color analysis of astrophotographs to group asteroids.
March 22, 2006... Asteroids that lie in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter are grouped into asteroid families based upon similar characteristics such as orbit eccentricity and inclination. The purpose of this research is to investigate the possibility of...

Stolon production by Caucasian bluestem (Bothriochloa bladhii).
March 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION The Old World bluestem, Caucasian bluestem (Bothriochloa bladhii (Retz.) S. T. Blake) is a warm-season, perennial, caespitose grass native to southern Asia and Australia (Harlan and Chheda 1963). Because of its claimed...

The "Ray Spider," Theridiosoma gemmosum, newly discovered in Kansas.
March 22, 2006... The diminutive "ray spider," Theridiosoma gemmosum (L. Koch 1878) (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae), is a common, widespread species in eastern North America. In the United States, it has been recorded from Maine to Florida, westward into Minnesota,...

The wolf spider genus Gladicosa (Araneae: Lycosidae) in Kansas and egg sac predation by the mantisfly, Mantispa interrupta (Neuroptera: Mantispidae) and the wasp, Idiolispa aestivalis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) upon Gladicosa bellamyi, a new state record.
March 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION The genus Gladicosa was erected in 1986 by Allen Brady to encompass 5 nearctic species of medium to large wolf spiders based upon similarity of genitalic characters and dorsal patterns. The type species, Gladicosa gulosa...

Observations of foraging on taproots of invasive thistles by prairie voles.
March 22, 2006... Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) feed primarily on leaves and stems of forbs and grasses and to a lesser extent on plant roots and seeds, and arthropods (Fleharty and Olson 1969; Kaufman and Bixler 1995; Menhusen 1963; Zimmerman 1965). As...

Kansas Academy of Science: editors of the Transactions.
March 22, 2006... This seems an appropriate time with a new editor taking over the Transactions, to look back at past editors and how the journal originated and developed in style and format during the past one hundred and twenty-five years. The Kansas...

The impossible fossil--revisited.
March 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL J. EVERHART The "Fish-within-a-fish" fossil exhibit at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays is one of the most recognizable and most photographed fossils in the world. The story surrounding the discovery,...