| Title | Comparison of Douglas fir-hemlock and oak-hickory biotic communities |
| Publication Type | Thesis |
| Year of Publication | 1941 |
| Authors | Dirks-Edmunds, Jane C. |
| Academic Department | Dept. of Zoology |
| Degree | Ph. D. |
| Pagination | 162 p. |
| University | University of Illinois |
| City | Urbana, Ill. |
| Type of Work | Doctoral dissertation |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Guin QH541.5 .F6 D51 1941 |
| Keywords | amphibia, birds, crustaceans, general ecosystem description, insects, mammals, mollusks, reptiles, Saddle Bag Mountain, Salmon River, Salmon River Basin, species list, terrestrial vegetation, theses |
| Notes | Doctoral dissertation. This is a wonderful look at the ecosystem around Saddle Bag Mountain, near the headwaters of the Salmon River, in the mid-1930s (Much of the mountain is now a Federal Research Natural Area). This community was studied from 1935 to 1938 when the author was at Linfield College. In this volume, the Douglas fir-hemlock community is contrasted with an oak-hickory community from Platt County, Illinois that was studied from 1937 to 1940. This work, along with the work of James Macnab, constitutes the most complete description of the ecology of a Lincoln County site that has ever been written. See also Macnab (1958) and Bayer (1994) for related studies. An early typescript draft of this dissertation is available online at https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/jcde_docs/4/ . |
