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A partnership between the USGS and the Klamath Tribes to apply structured decision making for chronic wasting disease management A partnership between the USGS and the Klamath Tribes to apply structured decision making for chronic wasting disease management

Project Overview: The Klamath Tribes (TKT) are the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin Paiute peoples, and are the first peoples of the land, having lived in ancestral lands of Oregon and California since time immemorial. Members of TKT have rights to hunt, fish, trap, and gather, including the harvest of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni) within the 1.19...
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Margaret C. McEachran, Katie M. Guntly-Yancey, Richard Eugene Waggaman Berl, Donald Gentry, Michael C. Runge, Carl White, Jonathan D. Cook
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center, Eastern Ecological Science Center

A trend analysis and model comparison of total phosphorus concentrations and loads in the Boise River near Parma, southwestern Idaho, water years 2003–21 A trend analysis and model comparison of total phosphorus concentrations and loads in the Boise River near Parma, southwestern Idaho, water years 2003–21

Total phosphorus (TP) concentrations and loads in the Boise River near Parma, Idaho, were examined to identify changes by month over a 19-year period from water year 2003 through water year 2021 and to evaluate the performance of three common water-quality models. Mean annual TP concentrations and loads were estimated to have reduced by approximately 60 percent over the study period...
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Tyler V. King, Alysa M. Yoder
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Idaho Water Science Center

System characterization report on Resourcesat-2A Linear Imaging Self Scanning-4 sensor System characterization report on Resourcesat-2A Linear Imaging Self Scanning-4 sensor

Executive Summary This report documents the system characterization of the Indian Space Research Organisation Resourcesat-2A Linear Imaging Self Scanning-4 (LISS–4) sensor. It is part of a series of system characterization reports produced by the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Cal/Val Center of Excellence. These reports describe the methodology and...
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Mahesh Shrestha, Aparajithan Sampath, Minsu Kim, Seonkyung Park, Jeffrey Clauson
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National Land Imaging Program, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, EROS CalVal Center of Excellence (ECCOE)

Consistent individual differences and plasticity in migration behaviour of three North American ungulates Consistent individual differences and plasticity in migration behaviour of three North American ungulates

Migratory herbivores often time spring migration to coincide with the green-up of plants. When the timing of green-up changes across years, herbivores can respond directly and be plastic to changing conditions or populations may adapt via inherent differences among individuals that may allow for an evolutionary response. We quantified plasticity and individual variation in the timing of...
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Michel P. Laforge, Eric Vander Wal, Quinn M.R. Webber, Chris Geremia, Matthew J. Kauffman, Douglas E. McWhirter, Arthur Middleton, Tony W. Mong, Kevin L. Monteith, Anna C. Ortega, Hall Sawyer, Jerod A. Merkle
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Nitrate loads and concentrations from forested watersheds and implications for Long Island Sound Nitrate loads and concentrations from forested watersheds and implications for Long Island Sound

Reduction in point sources of nitrogen has led to improvement in water quality of the Long Island Sound (LIS) since 2000, but changes in nonpoint sources are less clear. A significant yet poorly quantified nonpoint nitrogen source is the forested landscape. Because a large proportion of the LIS basin is forested, even small areal inputs from the forested landscape have a large cumulative...
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Alana B. Spaetzel, James B. Shanley, Leslie A. DeSimone, John R. Mullaney
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New England Water Science Center, USGS Science in Long Island Sound and its Watershed

Reconstructing relative abundance indices for Atlantic sturgeon using hierarchical ecological models Reconstructing relative abundance indices for Atlantic sturgeon using hierarchical ecological models

Objective The Atlantic Sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus is a wide-ranging, long-lived diadromous fish that is endangered in most of its range. Our objective was to develop and apply long-term, detection-corrected indices of relative abundance for juvenile and adult Atlantic Sturgeon in the Hudson River, New York, United States, to support population monitoring and stock assessment.Methods...
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Daniel S. Stich, Dewayne Fox, Amanda Higgs, David C. Kazyak, Richard Pendleton, Suresh A Sethi
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Eastern Ecological Science Center
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