Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science articles from October 2001

Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science archives from October 2001

Leaders of the Tennessee Academy of Science, 1912-1936: an overview and bibliography.
October 1, 2001... ABSTRACT--Forty-four leaders managed the Tennessee Academy of Science from its founding in 1912 through the end of its first quarter-century in 1936. Each is briefly identified. These leaders guided a changing Academy through 39 general...

Mercury contamination in abiotic and biotic compartments of the North Fork Holston River (Virginia and Tennessee) ecosystem.
October 1, 2001... ABSTRACT--From 1950 to 1972, industrial activity at a now-defunct chloralkali plant in Saltville, Virginia, caused severe mercury contamination of the North Fork Holston River (NFHR) ecosystem. Water, sediment, periphyton, snails, and fishes...

Influence of acephate and carbaryl ingested from prey on development, mortality, and survival of the spined soldier bug, Podisus maculiventris (Say) (hemiptera: pentatomidae).
October 1, 2001... ABSTRACT--The toxicities of acephate and carbaryl were evaluated for the spined soldier bug, Podisus maculiventris (Say), to determine the potential use of this predator in an integrated pest management program for snapbeans. Acephate (Orthene...

Multi-scale breeding bird and land-cover associations.
October 1, 2001... ABSTRACT--The association patterns between breeding bird diversity and amount of different land cover types at five spatial scales were analyzed. Breeding bird surveys were conducted at 2,021 randomly selected roadside locations in a 500,000 ha...

Plants and Society. (Book Reviews).
October 1, 2001... Plants and Society. Estelle Levetin and Karen McMahon. 1999. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, Boston, 475 pp., $67.80 (paper). ISBN 0-697-34522-1. Botanists know that plants are exciting: plants display great variety, do things that animals cannot, and...

Laboratory Manual for Applied Botany. (Book Reviews).
October 1, 2001... Laboratory Manual for Applied Botany. Estelle Levetin, Karen McMahon, and Robert Reinsvold. 2001. McGraw-Hill, Boston. 264 pp., $25.20 (paper). ISBN 0-27-246548-4. Like the textbook Plants and Society by Levetin and McMahon, this lab...