TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PREFACE
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SOILS
Plutonium in Surface Soils of Area 13:
Report.
Tswmeo Tamura.
A Progress
Nevada Applied Ecology Group Soils Element Activities
for Period July 1, 1974, to May 1, 1975.
FE. d.
Essington and E. B. Fowler.
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VEGETATION
NAEG Plutonium Program Vegetation Studies Status
Report, May 1975.
&. M. Romney.
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LARGE VERTEBRATES
Seasonal Effects on the Solubility in In Vitro Bovine
Gastrointestinal Fluids of Plutonium Ingested by
Grazing Cattle.
dJultus Barth.
35
Status Report on Grazing Studies on a Plutonium-
Contaminated Range of the Nevada Test Site.
Smith,
D. D.
Passage of Sand Particles Through the Gastrointestinal
Tract of Dairy Cows.
RFR. G. Patzer, G. D. Potter, and
W. W. Sutton.
Biological Transfer of Plutonium-238 Via In Vitro
Labeled Milk.
William W. Sutton.
41
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SMALL VERTEBRATES
Ecological Studies of Small Vertebrates in Pu-
Contaginated Study Areas of Nevada Test Site and
Tonopah Test Range.
Moor.
W. Glen Bradley and Kenneth S.
53
MICROORGANISMS
Possible Influence of Desert Soil Microbial Changes.
F. a. F. Au, V. D. Leavitt, and W. F. Beekert.
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