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National Park Service Feature Story on Pacific Marine Heatwave
Marine heatwaves are global phenomena that can have major impacts on the structure and function of coastal ecosystems. The 2014-2016 northeast Pacific...
Piping Plovers Breed Less and Move More in the Northern Great Plains
Piping plover breeding groups in the Northern Great Plains are notably connected through movements between habitats and show lower reproductive rates...
Read about the challenges of conducting research during a pandemic, how USGS scientists conducted a nationwide assessment of salt marsh vulnerability...
The USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) database, housed at the USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, has released 506 Alert Risk Maps (ARMs)...