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Bird guilds exhibit varied responses to floodplain forest restoration in the Colorado River delta, Mexico Bird guilds exhibit varied responses to floodplain forest restoration in the Colorado River delta, Mexico

Grouping species into guilds can be useful to inform management decisions locally and at broader scales because guilds lack species-specificity. We investigated the response of five breeding bird guilds to riparian habitat restoration in the arid Colorado River delta, based on two decades of bird detections (2002–2021) at 230 bird count stations across 7 routes in actively revegetated (...
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Eduardo González-Sargas, Timothy D. Meehan, Osvel Hinojosa-Huerta, Stefanny Villagomez-Palma, Christopher Dodge, Martha Gómez-Sapiens, Pamela L. Nagler, Patrick B. Shafroth
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Groundwater budget for the Mountain Home area, southern Idaho, 2022–23 Groundwater budget for the Mountain Home area, southern Idaho, 2022–23

The U.S. Geological Survey, with funding from the Idaho Department of Water Resources, developed a groundwater budget for the Mountain Home area in southern Idaho for irrigation year 2023 (November 1, 2022–October 31, 2023). This study focused on the water balance across the Cinder Cone Butte Critical Groundwater Area (CGWA), Mountain Home Groundwater Management Area (GWMA), and the rest...
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Paul M. Thomas
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Idaho Water Science Center

RoadxStr user’s guide—For collection of road-stream crossing assessment field observations RoadxStr user’s guide—For collection of road-stream crossing assessment field observations

Intersections of drainage networks and road networks represent a critical nexus between natural waterways and human infrastructure. Managing these systems involves decisions related to management of infrastructure, hydrologic and geomorphic processes, and ecological connectivity. Interactions among these systems influence multiple values, including the intactness of transportation...
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Emily Heaston, Sean Winter, Shelby Bauer, Tait Ronningen, Jason Dunham
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center

Reconstructing the Quaternary depositional history using geologic mapping and three-dimensional modeling of the subsurface near Fort Morgan, northeastern Colorado Reconstructing the Quaternary depositional history using geologic mapping and three-dimensional modeling of the subsurface near Fort Morgan, northeastern Colorado

Centered on Fort Morgan, Colorado, this study is intended to build from previous work by adding a three-dimensional (3D) view of the subsurface to better understand the depositional history of Quaternary deposits. A 1:100,000 scale geologic map was made by combining previous geologic maps, regional soil maps, and recent field investigations. In addition to the geologic mapping, drill...
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Emily M. Taylor, Margaret E. Berry, Shannon A. Mahan, Jeremy C. Havens
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Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Boxed in or branching out? Movement and resource selection of eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) in an urban green space Boxed in or branching out? Movement and resource selection of eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) in an urban green space

The eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) is a long-lived terrestrial turtle species distributed throughout the eastern United States that has experienced widespread population decline. Many eastern box turtle populations are persisting as remanent populations in small, fragmented urban green spaces. We investigated the movement and resource selection of eastern box turtles...
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Max D. Jones, Kenneth B. Ferebee, W. Mark Ford, Elizabeth Ann Hunter
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Cooperative Research Units

Short-term estuarine phytoplankton dynamics in response to hurricanes along the Gulf Coast of America: A Variational Autoencoder (VAE) approach with satellite and bio-optical observations Short-term estuarine phytoplankton dynamics in response to hurricanes along the Gulf Coast of America: A Variational Autoencoder (VAE) approach with satellite and bio-optical observations

Hurricanes drive diverse estuarine phytoplankton responses and can trigger cascading ecological and physicochemical impacts. Capturing these short-term dynamics requires high spatiotemporal resolution. Here, we applied a globally-applicable coastal ocean color algorithm, Variational Autoencoder (VAE), to Sentinel-2 MSI imagery for chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) estimation and validated its strong
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Jiang Li, Bingqing Liu, Jiadong Lou, Xu Yuan, Eurico J. D'Sa, Melissa Millman Baustian, Megan La Peyre, Angelina Freeman, Vitor S. Martins, Emad Habib
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Cooperative Research Units, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
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