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Aboveground carbon stocks across a hydrological gradient: Ghost forests to non-tidal freshwater forested wetlands Aboveground carbon stocks across a hydrological gradient: Ghost forests to non-tidal freshwater forested wetlands

Upper estuarine forested wetlands (UEFWs) play an important role in the sequestration of atmospheric carbon (C), which is facilitated by their position at the boundary of terrestrial and maritime environments but threatened by sea level rise. This study assessed the change in aboveground C stocks along the estuarine–riverine hydrogeomorphic gradient spanning salt-impacted freshwater...
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Christopher J. Shipway, Jamie A. Duberstein, William H. Conner, Ken Krauss, Gregory E. Noe, Stefanie L. Whitmire
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Ecosystems Land Change Science Program, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center

Spatial and temporal variability of movements among sympatric salmonids in an unfragmented inland watershed Spatial and temporal variability of movements among sympatric salmonids in an unfragmented inland watershed

Objective Our aim was to determine the movement patterns of three abundant salmonids—Brown Trout Salmo trutta, Mountain Whitefish Prosopium williamsoni, and Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss—in the Smith River watershed of Montana.Methods We tagged 7172 fish with passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags, monitored their movements past 15 stationary PIT arrays over 4 years, and located...
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Michael J. Lance, T. David Ritter, Alexander V. Zale, Grant G. Grisak, Jason A. Mullen, Stephen J. Walsh, Kurt C. Heim, Robert Al-Chokhachy
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3-D mapping of the conterminous U.S. within the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program: Progress and future prospects 3-D mapping of the conterminous U.S. within the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program: Progress and future prospects

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Cooperative Mapping Program (NCGMP) is bringing together subsurface and three-dimensional information at multiple scales for the conterminous United States from data produced throughout the USGS and by federal and state partners. Components of this work include data inventory and catalog development, data integration and database development...
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Donald S. Sweetkind
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Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Bedrock geologic map of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and vicinity, southwest Arizona Bedrock geologic map of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and vicinity, southwest Arizona

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Lisa A. Thompson, Gordon B. Haxel, Donald W. Peterson, Daniel J. May, Richard M. Tosdal, Robert J. Miller, Floyd Gray, Richard A. LeVeque, Paul J. Umhoefer
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Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Reference 1D seismic velocity models for volcano monitoring and imaging: Methods, models, and applications Reference 1D seismic velocity models for volcano monitoring and imaging: Methods, models, and applications

Seismic velocity models of the crust are an integral part of earthquake monitoring systems at volcanoes. 1D models that vary only in depth are typically used for real‐time hypocenter determination and serve as critical reference models for detailed 3D imaging studies and geomechanical modeling. Such models are usually computed using seismic tomographic methods that rely on P‐ and S‐wave...
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Jeremy D. Pesicek, Trond Ryberg
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Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

Spatial and temporal surveys of salmon environmental DNA (eDNA) in a Seattle urban creek Spatial and temporal surveys of salmon environmental DNA (eDNA) in a Seattle urban creek

Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) has a history of conducting traditional fish surveys in urban streams of Seattle, Washington. Limited staff resources have reduced SPU's capacity to monitor fish, and environmental DNA (eDNA) was recognized as an alternative survey method that could potentially improve the efficiency and capacity of SPU-sponsored fish surveys. We performed spatiotemporal...
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Carl O. Ostberg, Chapin Pier, Dorothy M. Chase, Russell Perry
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Western Fisheries Research Center
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