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Progress and challenges toward the development of a uniform moment magnitude catalog for eastern Canada Progress and challenges toward the development of a uniform moment magnitude catalog for eastern Canada
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Allison L. Bent, Kevin Mayeda, Jorge I. Roman-Nieves, David R. Shelly, Justin Barno
Can spatial food web subsidies associated with river hydrology and lateral connectivity be detected using stable isotopes? Can spatial food web subsidies associated with river hydrology and lateral connectivity be detected using stable isotopes?
During and following lateral connections, aquatic organisms residing in the river channel may assimilate material from sources imported from oxbows, and oxbow residents may consume and assimilate material imported from the channel. Hydrology, lateral connectivity, and stable isotope ratios of fishes and mussels were analyzed for evidence of spatial food web subsidies between the active...
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Kirk O. Winemiller, Marcelo C. Andrade, Caroline C. Arantes, Thethela Bokhutlo, Luke Max Bower, Eduardo R. Cunha, Friedrich W. Keppeler, Edwin O. Lopez-Delgado, Yasmin Quintana, David E. Saenz, Kevin B. Mayes, Clint R. Robertson
Assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources of the United States Assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources of the United States
In 2020, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) completed a probabilistic assessment of the volume of technically recoverable oil resources that could be produced using current carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) technologies in amenable conventional oil reservoirs underlying onshore and State-owned offshore waters (herein after, onshore and State waters areas) of the conterminous...
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Peter D. Warwick, Emil Attanasi, Madalyn S. Blondes, Sean T. Brennan, Marc L. Buursink, Steven M. Cahan, Colin A. Doolan, Philip A. Freeman, C. Ozgen Karacan, Celeste D. Lohr, Matthew D. Merrill, Ricardo A. Olea, Jenna L. Shelton, Ernie R. Slucher, Brian A. Varela
Supplemental vegetation monitoring plots at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument to accelerate learning of the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model Supplemental vegetation monitoring plots at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument to accelerate learning of the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model
The Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) project is a consortium of seven parks in the Northern Great Plains (NGP) working together to better understand how to control invasive annual grasses (including Bromus species) through an adaptive management approach. This approach is supported by a quantitative model that uses current data from standardized vegetation monitoring plots in all...
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Amy Symstad, Steven Bekedam
Stormwater reduction and water budget for a rain garden on sandy soil, Gary, Indiana, 2016–18 Stormwater reduction and water budget for a rain garden on sandy soil, Gary, Indiana, 2016–18
Stormwater reduction measures, or green infrastructure, were implemented in the parking area at Gary City Hall, Gary, Indiana, with the intention of reducing stormwater discharge to the sewers. A study area, including a centrally located rain garden and the surrounding paved surfaces and green space, was instrumented during both a preconstruction and a postconstruction period to (1)...
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David C. Lampe, E. Randall Bayless, Danielle D. Follette
Bivalves Bivalves
Bivalves are important as consumers of pelagic and demersal food resources. With sufficient biomass, they can compete with and, in some cases, outcompete other members of the pelagic food web for food resources such as phytoplankton and zooplankton. We include bivalves in the San Francisco Estuary (SFE) and Delta in the FLOAT MAST because they have been and continue to be an important...
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Janet K. Thompson
Fort Laramie National Historic Site 2022 ABAM Investigator Annual Report Fort Laramie National Historic Site 2022 ABAM Investigator Annual Report
The Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) project is a consortium of seven parks in the Northern Great Plains working together to better understand how to control invasive annual grasses (including Bromus species) through an adaptive management approach. This approach is supported by a quantitative model that uses current data from standardized vegetation monitoring plots in all seven...
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Amy Symstad
Appendix C: Exposure and effects of bioaccumulative contaminants of emerging concern in tree swallows nesting across the Laurentian Great Lakes Appendix C: Exposure and effects of bioaccumulative contaminants of emerging concern in tree swallows nesting across the Laurentian Great Lakes
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Christine M. Custer, T. W. Custer, Paul M. Dummer
Landscape change, fire and erosion Landscape change, fire and erosion
New Mexico has a dynamic landscape, which will become even more so in response to climate change over the next 50 years, in part because of increasing incidence of wildfire. As the climate changes to warmer conditions, less rainfall will infiltrate into aquifers, leading to increased overland runoff. Landform processes can be complex, but in general, the predicted changes in climate and
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Anne C. Tillery, Leslie D. McFadden, Craig Allen
Supplemental vegetation monitoring plots at Wind Cave National Park to accelerate learning of the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model Supplemental vegetation monitoring plots at Wind Cave National Park to accelerate learning of the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model
The Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) project is a consortium of seven parks in the Northern Great Plains (NGP) working together to better understand how to control invasive annual grasses (including Bromus species) through an adaptive management approach. This approach is supported by a quantitative model that uses current data from standardized vegetation monitoring plots in all...
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Amy Symstad, Timm Richardson
PHREEQ-N-AMDTreat+REYs water-quality modeling tools to evaluate acid mine drainage treatment strategies for recovery of rare-earth elements PHREEQ-N-AMDTreat+REYs water-quality modeling tools to evaluate acid mine drainage treatment strategies for recovery of rare-earth elements
The PHREEQ-N-AMDTreat+REYs water-quality modeling tools have the fundamental capability to simulate aqueous chemical reactions and predict the formation of metal-rich solids during the treatment of acid mine drainage (AMD). These new user-friendly, publicly available tools were expanded from the PHREEQ-N-AMDTreat tools to include the precipitation of rare-earth elements plus yttrium...
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Charles A. Cravotta
Understory structure and heterospecifics influence the occupancy of a ground-nesting species of conservation concern, the Canada Warbler Understory structure and heterospecifics influence the occupancy of a ground-nesting species of conservation concern, the Canada Warbler
Forest structure and composition in eastern U.S. forests are changing because of forest regeneration after farmland abandonment, less frequent occurrence of severe disturbances, and climate change. Some of these changes may disproportionally affect birds that rely on gap dynamics or other forest canopy disturbances to create understory habitat. The Canada Warbler (Cardellina canadensis)...
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Gordon W. Dimmig, Christopher T. Rota, Petra B. Wood, Christopher M. Lituma