Ohio Journal of Science: Volume 88, Issue 5 (December, 1988)

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Influence of Local Bedrock on the Clay Mineralogy of Pre-Woodfordian Tills of the Grand River Lobe in Columbiana County, Ohio
Volpi, Richard W.; Szabo, John P. pp. 174-180
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Reassessment of the Illinois Ranges of the Bigeye Chub, Hybopsis amblops, and the Pallid Shiner, Notropis amnis
Warren, Melvin L., Jr.; Burr, Brooks M. pp. 181-183
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The Early Career of John L. Riddell as a Science Lecturer in the 19th Century
Dexter, Ralph W. pp. 184-188
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Changing Intraurban Location of the Elderly and Access to Nutrition Services: A Case Study of Toledo, Ohio
Smith, Bruce W.; Hiltner, John pp. 189-191
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Relationships Between Soil Salinity, Sap-Sugar Concentration, and Health of Declining Roadside Sugar Maples (Acer saccharum)
Herrick, Graham T. pp. 192-194
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A Scanning Electron Microscopic Study of Eggshell Surface Topography of Leidynema portentosae and L. appendiculatum (Nematoda: Oxyuroidea)
Yu, Xiong; Crites, John L. pp. 195-198
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Brief Note: Diet of the Rainbow Darter (Etheostoma caeruleum) in Rock Run, Clark County, Ohio
Stewart, Craig A. pp. 198-200
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Brief Note: A Significant Seed Bank for Spergularia marina (Caryophyllaceae)
Ungar, Irwin A. pp. 200-202
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Distribution and Status of Orconectes (Rhoadesius) sloanii (Bundy) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Cambaridae)
St. John, F. Lee pp. 202-204
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Book Reviews
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Obituaries of Members of the Ohio Academy of Science: Report of the Necrology Committee, 1988
pp. 207-211
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The Ohio Academy of Science Officers, Committees and Academy Representatives for 1988-89
pp. 212-213
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Index to Volume 88
pp. 214-218
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The Ohio Journal of Science Table of Contents, Volume 88
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Back Matter
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The Ohio Journal of Science Table of Contents, Volume 88
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Index to Volume 88
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The Ohio Academy of Science Officers, Committees and Academy Representatives for 1988-89
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Obituaries of Members of the Ohio Academy of Science: Report of the Necrology Committee, 1988
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Book Reviews
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Distribution and Status of Orconectes (Rhoadesius) sloanii (Bundy) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Cambaridae)
(1988-12) St. John, F. Lee
The distribution of the crayfish, Orconectes sloanii (Bundy), is revised from Rhoades' (1962) report. Five county records are added: Dubois, Lawrence, Perry, Rush and Spencer, Indiana; the species has been extirpated from three counties: Miami and Shelby, Ohio, and Shelby, Indiana. Where 0. sloanii is sympatric with Orconectes (Procericambarus) rusticus (Girard), the number of O. rusticus collected usually exceeded the number of O. sloanii. The status of the species as a threatened Ohio crayfish is supported.
Brief Note: A Significant Seed Bank for Spergularia marina (Caryophyllaceae)
(1988-12) Ungar, Irwin A.
The seed bank of Spergularia marina averaged 471,135 seeds m~2 in an Ohio salt marsh, representing the largest seed pool reported in the literature for a flowering plant community. Seed banks perform an important role in maintaining populations of annual halophytes, such as S. marina, in salt marshes, because of the local extinction of plant populations in these unpredictable and highly stressful saline environments.
Brief Note: Diet of the Rainbow Darter (Etheostoma caeruleum) in Rock Run, Clark County, Ohio
(1988-12) Stewart, Craig A.
The diet of the rainbow darter, Etheostoma caeruleum, was studied during fall and winter in Rock Run (Clark County, Ohio), a second-order tributary of the Mad River. Chironomid larvae comprised over half of the diet (by numerical percentage) during both seasons. Other important components of the diet were simuliid larvae, trichopteran larvae (Cheumatopsyche and Hydropsyche) and coleopteran larvae (Stenelmis). Both chironomid and simuliid larvae appeared in the diet of E. caeruleum in greater abundance than they appeared in the available benthic macroinvertebrate populations. Stenelmis larvae comprised a smaller portion of the diet than of the benthic macroinvertebrate population. Etheostoma caeruleum typically feeds heavily on dipteran, trichopteran, and ephemeropteran larvae, but other locally abundant prey may also be an important part of the diet. It appears that dietary selectivity of E. caeruleum may be greater during the winter than during the fall.
A Scanning Electron Microscopic Study of Eggshell Surface Topography of Leidynema portentosae and L. appendiculatum (Nematoda: Oxyuroidea)
(1988-12) Yu, Xiong; Crites, John L.
The eggs of the nematodes Leidynema appendiculatum and L. portentosae were studied with scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The opercular grooves on the eggshells of both species are oblique, incomplete, and terminal. They deepen as the embryo develops. Numerous pores and pits are distributed on the eggshell surface in both species. The pits on the eggshell of L. portentosae are sharply delineated; those on the eggshell of L. appendiculatum are less sharply defined. The surface texture of the eggshell of L. portentosae is rougher than that of the eggshell of L. appendiculatum and sandy in appearance. The entire eggshell of both species is undulated irregularly to a very small degree.
Relationships Between Soil Salinity, Sap-Sugar Concentration, and Health of Declining Roadside Sugar Maples (Acer saccharum)
(1988-12) Herrick, Graham T.
A study of 50 sugar maples {Acer saccharum) along Gates Mills Boulevard in Gates Mills, Ohio, showed that a tree's sap-sugar concentration tended to increase with decreasing tree health and increasing soil salt concentration. Relative tree health was determined by growth ring analysis. Salt concentration in soil was determined by measuring soil extract conductivity. Extract conductivity correlated positively with the concentration of road deicing salts in the snow in winter.
Changing Intraurban Location of the Elderly and Access to Nutrition Services: A Case Study of Toledo, Ohio
(1988-12) Smith, Bruce W.; Hiltner, John
Literature focusing on the intraurban location patterns of the elderly, based on 1970 and earlier data, generally suggests that they are concentrated in the inner city and have good access to services. Recent literature and data from the 1980 Census of Population and Housing suggest that the location of the elderly in urban areas is changing. In a case study of Toledo, Ohio, concentrations of elderly increased in the periphery of the city, while the inner city lost elderly between 1970 and 1980. Although Title III-C nutrition services are accessible now to the inner city residents, the periphery of the city is poorly served.
The Early Career of John L. Riddell as a Science Lecturer in the 19th Century
(1988-12) Dexter, Ralph W.
John Leonard Riddell (1807-1865), trained in science, especially botany and geology, by Amos Eaton at the Rensselaer School at Troy, New York, became a professional itinerant science lecturer. He began in Ogdensburg, New York, then in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with lectures on chemistry and physics. From 1832 to 1836 he concentrated his efforts in Ohio, focusing his lectures on botany, particularly medical botany, chemistry, geology, and electricity. He continued his botanical studies, including the collection of plant specimens, and studied medicine, obtaining an M.D. degree from Daniel Drake's School, the Medical Department of the Cincinnati College. After departing Ohio to teach chemistry at the Medical College of Louisiana in New Orleans, he published and lectured on science fiction based on fancied documentation from a presumed former student, Orrin Lindsay, at Cincinnati. Riddell was an early 19th century science lecturer, field botanist, and author of science fiction.
Reassessment of the Illinois Ranges of the Bigeye Chub, Hybopsis amblops, and the Pallid Shiner, Notropis amnis
(1988-12) Warren, Melvin L., Jr.; Burr, Brooks M.
Examination of all extant Illinois specimens deposited in museum collections revealed that the Illinois ranges of the bigeye chub, Hybopsis amblops, and pallid shiner, Notropis amnis, were confounded by previous workers. The bigeye chub is now known to have been restricted historically to tributaries of the upper Wabash and Kaskaskia river systems. Recent efforts (1986-1987) to discover extant populations of the species in Illinois were unsuccessful. Thus, it is either extirpated or exists in very low numbers in the state. The pallid shiner is now or was known to occur in the Mississippi River proper, and the Illinois, Kaskaskia, Big Muddy, Saline, and lower Wabash river systems. The species is consistently taken in the Kankakee River and occasionally in the Mississippi River adjacent to Rock Island County, Illinois. In Illinois, the bigeye chub is recognized as endangered; the pallid shiner is recommended for state recognition as endangered.
Influence of Local Bedrock on the Clay Mineralogy of Pre-Woodfordian Tills of the Grand River Lobe in Columbiana County, Ohio
(1988-12) Volpi, Richard W.; Szabo, John P.
The clay mineralogy of three pre-Woodfordian tills of the Grand River lobe in Columbiana County, Ohio, shows the influence of the underlying Pennsylvanian strata of the Allegheny Plateau. The mean diffraction intensity ratios (DI) of these sandy tills range from 0.5 to 0.7. These ratios are comparable to those of the underlying bedrock; 60% of the variance of the clay mineralogy may be attributed to the bedrock. Weathered bedrock and weathered older drift are possible sources of kaolinite. Locally entrained Pennsylvanian sandstone clasts at the base of the glacier may have acted as tools for extensive abrasion of softer argillaceous shales. This abrasion may have produced tills having a higher kaolinite content than those near the edge of the Allegheny Escarpment in north-central Ohio.
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