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RESEARCH BRIEF: Lessons from five years of RestoreNet

RESEARCH BRIEF: Lessons from five years of RestoreNet

RestoreNet is a networked ecological restoration experiment spanning drylands of the American Southwest to inform land management. Since 2017, we have...

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SBSC’s Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center Adds Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Dish to Historic Grand Canyon Sediment Gaging Station

SBSC’s Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center Adds Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Dish to Historic Grand Canyon Sediment Gaging Station

Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite telemetry is an emerging technology that shows promise for improving both USGS scientist and stakeholder access to...

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Global vegetation decline is linked with multiple climate extremes

Global vegetation decline is linked with multiple climate extremes

A study led by the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, USGS, and colleagues found that 70% of extreme vegetation declines are linked with five...

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Injuries and abnormalities of the southwestern pond turtle in the Mojave River of California

Injuries and abnormalities of the southwestern pond turtle in the Mojave River of California

A USGS study examined adult southwestern pond turtles, a CA Species of Special Concern, at study sites along the Mojave River in California during...

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Research directions to aid in Colorado Plateau restoration during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Research directions to aid in Colorado Plateau restoration during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

In a Restoration Ecology paper, early-career restoration scientists provide promising areas of research that are aligned with UN Decade on Ecosystem...

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SBSC’s restoration research featured in the 2023 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report

SBSC’s restoration research featured in the 2023 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released their 2023 “Assessment of Native Seeds Needs and the Capacity for Their...

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SBSC scientists publish one of the longest water quality records for any reservoir

SBSC scientists publish one of the longest water quality records for any reservoir

The USGS Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC), US Bureau of Reclamation, and partners compiled a 58-year limnology dataset of historical and...

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JOB ALERT! Post-doc position open for highly motivated algal or macrophyte ecologist to study diatom community dynamics and ecosystem metabolism in a regulated river

JOB ALERT! Post-doc position open for highly motivated algal or macrophyte ecologist to study diatom community dynamics and ecosystem metabolism in a regulated river

The U.S. Geological Survey is hiring a post-doc with experience in algal and macrophyte taxonomic ID, stream or lake metabolism modeling...

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High female desert tortoise mortality in the western Sonoran Desert during California’s epic 2012–2016 drought

High female desert tortoise mortality in the western Sonoran Desert during California’s epic 2012–2016 drought

USGS conducted population surveys for desert tortoises at two sites in the western Sonoran Desert of California, USA, from 2015-2018, during the...

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Lidar monitoring of the geomorphic condition of archaeological sites in Grand Canyon National Park, 2010-2020

Lidar monitoring of the geomorphic condition of archaeological sites in Grand Canyon National Park, 2010-2020

This report presents topographic change results from surveys conducted at 30 archaeological sites in 23 locations in Grand Canyon National Park from...

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A new framework to resolve mismatches during transitions to different monitoring methods for northern spotted owls

A new framework to resolve mismatches during transitions to different monitoring methods for northern spotted owls

An integrated framework has been developed in order to resolve mismatches and provide continuity during transitions to different monitoring procedures...

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Saguaros flower in an entirely unique formation

Saguaros flower in an entirely unique formation

New research from the USGS and the National Park Service overturns a century of thinking regarding the flowering pattern of the Southwest's iconic...

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