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History of land cover mapping

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Spatially explicit land-use and land-cover scenarios for the Great Plains of the United States

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A holistic strategy for adaptive land management

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Hormones in Land-Applied Biosolids Could Affect Aquatic Organisms

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Socioeconomic issues for the Bear River Watershed Conservation Land Area Protection Plan

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Land change variability and human-environment dynamics in the United States Great Plains

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Developing spatially explicit footprints of plausible land-use scenarios in the Santa Cruz Watershed, Arizona and Sonora

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System analysis of land use and climate effects on ecosystem services affecting C and N exchanges with the atmosphere and water cycles

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Data resources for range-wide assessment of livestock grazing across the sagebrush biome

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Method for estimating potential wetland extent by utilizing streamflow statistics and flood-inundation mapping techniques: Pilot study for land along the Wabash River near Terre Haute, Indiana

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Niger River - 2012
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Niger River - 2004
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Rural village beneath escarpment near Dapaong, western Togo

Rural village beneath escarpment near Dapaong, western Togo, 2012
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2012 Landsat Top Ten Loop
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Nearshore morphology, benthic structure, hydrodynamics, and coastal groundwater discharge near Kahekili Beach Park, Maui, Hawaii

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Climate change and ecohydrology in temperate dryland ecosystems: a global assessment

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Global Croplands and Their Water Use for Food Security in the Twenty-first Century

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Next Generation of Ecological Indicators: Defining Which Microbial Properties Matter Most to Ecosystem Function and How to Measure Them

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Groundwater Avail. Study: One of most productive aquifers in world
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EarthExplorer

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The effects of drought and disturbance on the growth and developmental instability of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.)

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Integrating ecological forecasting methods to improve applications for natural resource management: An invasive species example

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The View from Space: Tracking Forty Years of Global Changes
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Circumpolar assessment of ecological mismatch between avian herbivores and plant phenology

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DOI Climate Science Centers--Regional science to address management priorities

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U.S. Department of the Interior South Central Climate Science Center

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Water quality and landscape processes of four watersheds in eastern Puerto Rico

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Arthropod prey for riparian associated birds in headwater forests of the Oregon Coast Range

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A benthic-macroinvertebrate index of biotic integrity and assessment of conditions in selected streams in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1998-2009

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Drought and cooler temperatures are associated with higher nest survival in Mountain Plovers

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