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Advancing water security in Africa with new high-resolution discharge data Advancing water security in Africa with new high-resolution discharge data

VegDischarge v1 is a comprehensive river discharge across Africa (2000–2021), produced by coupling the agro-hydrologic VegET model and the mizuRoute routing framework. Using remote sensing data and hydrological modeling, the 1-km runoff field simulated by VegET, and routed with mizuRoute, covers over 64,000 river segments in Africa. The VegET model simulates runoff based on vegetation...
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Komlavi Akpoti, Naga Manohar Velpuri, Naoki Mizukami, Stefanie Kagone, Mansoor Leh, Kirubel Mekonnen, Afua Owusu, Primrose Tinonetsana, Michael Phiri, Lahiru Madushanka, Tharindu Perera, Paranamana T. Prabhath, Gabriel Edwin Lee Parrish, Gabriel B. Senay, Abdulkarim Seid
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Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

An evaluation of cyanobacterial occurrence and bloom development in Adirondack lakes An evaluation of cyanobacterial occurrence and bloom development in Adirondack lakes

Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) have occurred in many low nutrient (oligotrophic) lakes in the northeastern United States. The Adirondack Park in New York is a large, mountainous region with many low nutrient lakes. There is a gap in understanding regarding whether cyanoHAB reporting data are truly reflective of the susceptibility of lakes to develop bloom conditions. We...
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Rebecca Michelle Gorney, Elizabeth A. Nystrom, Michael D.W. Stouder, Ann E. St. Amand, Cory Suave, Denise Clark, Erin A. Stelzer, Carrie E. Givens, Jennifer L. Graham
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Water Resources Mission Area, New York Water Science Center

Environmental Flows for Riverine EcoSystem Habitats (E-FRESH) decision support tool user guide Environmental Flows for Riverine EcoSystem Habitats (E-FRESH) decision support tool user guide

The E-FRESH decision support tool is intended to facilitate assessment and comparison of different flow management scenarios on available habitat for various aquatic, riparian, and invertebrate species of interest. This tool also allows users to conduct a variety of analyses ranging from large-scale data processing and export to detailed and complex flow scenario manipulation around...
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Tyler Wible, Christopher Holmquist-Johnson, Heidi Klingel, Ryan R. Morrison, David Merritt, Matthew Korsa
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Long-term trends in abundance and potential drivers for eight species of coastal birds in the U.S. South Atlantic Long-term trends in abundance and potential drivers for eight species of coastal birds in the U.S. South Atlantic

The U.S. South Atlantic coastal region is used by many marine birds for foraging, reproduction, and migration. We developed standardized indices of relative abundance from long–term (1980–2016), semi-structured monitoring data (eBird) for eight species: Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), Double-Crested Cormorant (Nannopterum auritum), White Ibis (Eudocimus albus), Wood Stork...
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J.K. Craig, K.I. Siegfried, R.T. Cheshire, M. Karnauskas, Patrick G.R. Jodice
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Cooperative Research Units

The state of the science and practice of stream restoration in the Chesapeake: Lessons learned to inform better implementation, assessment and outcomes The state of the science and practice of stream restoration in the Chesapeake: Lessons learned to inform better implementation, assessment and outcomes

The Chesapeake Bay Program’s (CBP) Science and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) organized and led a workshop on the science and practice of stream restoration in order to summarize the state of knowledge in order to identify ways to improve stream restoration outcomes. The workshop identified a general framework for explaining the main factors leading to stream restoration outcomes...
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Gregory E. Noe, Neely Law, Joel Berger, Solange Filoso, Sadie Drescher, L. Fraley-McNeal, Ben Hayes, Paul Mayer, Chris Ruck, Bill Stack, Rich Starr, Scott Stranko, Tess Thompson
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Chesapeake Bay Activities, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Individual return patterns of spawning flannelmouth sucker (Catostomus latipinnis) to a desert river tributary Individual return patterns of spawning flannelmouth sucker (Catostomus latipinnis) to a desert river tributary

Tributaries provide temporal and spatial habitat heterogeneity in river networks that can be critical for parts of the life history of a species. Tributary fidelity can benefit individual fish undergoing spawning migrations by reducing time and energy spent exploring new areas and leveraging previous experience, but anthropogenic activities that fragment or degrade these systems can...
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Sophia Marie Bonjour, Keith B. Gido, Charles N. Cathcart, Mark C. McKinstry
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Columbia Environmental Research Center
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