USGS Wildland Fire Science
USGS science helps understand the causes, consequences, and benefits of wildfire and helps prevent and manage larger, catastrophic events.
USGS Drought Science
Helping managers understand the interactions that determine the magnitude and impact of drought on water availability and ecosystems across the Nation
Ecosystems Science at USGS
Ecosystems Mission Area
The USGS Ecosystems Mission Area provides science that directly benefits the health, safety, and prosperity of the American people by providing trusted and timely information to help address the Nation’s toughest management and conservation issues impacting public lands and the surrounding communities that benefit from them.
USGS Science for Food & Water Security
USGS Ecosystems Mission Area science helps ensure safe and abundant domestic food and water supplies, ensuring all Americans access to livelihoods and traditions that connect generations with each other and the outdoors and strengthen America’s self-reliance
USGS Science for Public Safety & Security
Science within the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area provides a critical advantage in addressing public safety, infrastructure, and security issues surrounding natural disasters and changing landscapes, strengthening America’s ability to be a hazard ready Nation.
USGS Science for Economic Growth
Science provided by the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area helps boost America’s economy by providing practical tools to implement cost-effective management and development strategies that supports the Nation’s economic growth and protects our natural heritage.
News
USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center at the 2026 Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America Meeting
Summer Drought May Increase Human-Bear Interactions
Bats of the California Coast and Beyond!
Publications
How Indigenous socio-cultural systems resist, accept, or direct ecological transformation: A research agenda How Indigenous socio-cultural systems resist, accept, or direct ecological transformation: A research agenda
Genetic bottleneck and panmixia following the collapse of a Great Lakes lake whitefish fishery Genetic bottleneck and panmixia following the collapse of a Great Lakes lake whitefish fishery
Spatial ecology and recovery patterns of a translocated mammal community in southern Africa Spatial ecology and recovery patterns of a translocated mammal community in southern Africa
Science
Fish and Aquatic Ecology
The Rusting of Arctic Rivers: Freshwater Ecosystems Respond to Rapidly Uptaking Metals
