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Friday's Findings - July 23 2021
Supersized: Coastwide Scale Wetland Monitoring to Support Large Scale Restoration in America’s Delta
Date: July 23, 2021 from 2-2:30 p.m. eastern time
Speaker: Sarai Piazza, Ecologist, USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
Sound Waves Newsletter - April-June 2021
Celebrate Ocean Month by exploring recent research and news from the USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program.
Wetland Word: Blue Carbon
Coastal ecosystems, like wetlands, may be smaller in size when compared to say, a forest, but they have the ability to sequester more carbon per unit area, making them an incredible climate change mitigation tool
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Grassland live fractional cover map creation and Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis for rangeland management supporting Kenya Northern Rangelands Trust Conservancies
The handbooks and synchronized MP4 recordings provide hands-on instruction for creating and analyzing vegetation live fractional cover (LFC) maps. The methods and protocols used in the instruction materials follow those developed and recorded in Rangoonwala and Ramsey (2019). The LFC mapping and geographic information system (GIS) analyses...
Rangoonwala, Amina; Ramsey, Elijah
Spatial ecology of invasive Burmese pythons in southwestern Florida
Understanding the spatial ecology of an invasive species is critical for designing effective control programs. Determining and quantifying home range estimates and habitat associations can streamline targeted removal efforts for wide-ranging, cryptic animals. The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is a large-bodied constrictor snake with an...
Bartoszek, Ian A.; Smith, Brian J.; Reed, Robert; Hart, Kristen Using systems thinking to inform management of imperiled species: A case study with sea turtles
Management of imperiled species facing spatiotemporally dynamic threats is difficult. Systems thinking can inform their management by quantifying the impacts that they face. We apply systems thinking to the Northern Gulf of Mexico (NGM) loggerhead (Caretta caretta) Recovery Unit (RU), one of the smallest subpopulations of loggerheads...
Silver-Gorges, Ian; Ceriani, Simona A.; Ware, Matthew; Lamb, Megan; Lamont, Margaret; Becker, Janice; Carthy, Raymond; Matechik, Chris; Mitchell, Joseph C.; Pruner, Raya; Reynolds, Mike; Smith, Bradley; Snyder, Caitlyn; Fuentes, Mariana M. P. B.