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Helicopters flying in at KMA

Disturbance Ecology, Geomorphology, and Plant Dynamics in Grass Invaded Sites, Hawai‘i

Topic
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Fire Ecology

Project
A healthy, individual galleta grass (Pleuraphis jamesii)

Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program Field Trial Study

publication
image of publications layered on a wooden table

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

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USGS

Assessing hydrologic function, plant stress, and success of bottomland restoration using UAS

publication
image of publications layered on a wooden table

Landscape ecology of the Upper Mississippi River System: Lessons learned, challenges and opportunities

Photography
Field technicians taking root data on dryland plant species

Field technicians taking root data on dryland plant species for EDGE
Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Southwestern Riparian Plant Trait Matrix, Colorado River, Grand Canyon, 2014 - 2016Data

Research
Near-surface “mantis” sensors and a webcam, which is part of the National PhenoCam Network, to monitor sagebrush steppe.

Impacts of climate change on habitat quality: plant phenology interactions with animal use and fitness

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Wyoming landscape in spring.

Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI)

Photography
Water evaporating from a power-plant cooling tower.

Power-generating plants use evaporation to cool their hot water.
Research
Huckleberries are central to the diets of bears, grouse, and other animals, as well as being a cultural and food resource.

Predicting changes in Bear Foods

Featured Films and Shorts

GeoGirls: Five days of discovery at Mount St. Helens
Research
Great Basin in bloom.

Adaptive Capacity: the linchpin for understanding and addressing species vulnerability to climate-change impacts

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USGS researcher struggling to set up a line transect (tape measure) in a dense thicket of tamarisk.

Southwestern Riparian Zones, Tamarisk Plants, and the Tamarisk Beetle

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Six metal poles support heating lamps several feet above the tropical floor. Tropical forest vegetation surrounds the structure

How Increasing Temperatures Affect Tropical Forests

Research
Winter Manatee Foraging Behavior and the Decline of Seagrass Beds in the Northern Indian River Lagoon

Winter Manatee Foraging Behavior and the Decline of Seagrass Beds in the Northern Indian River Lagoon

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Samoan swallowtail

Understanding Factors Affecting the Decline of the Samoan Swallowtail Butterfly

Presentations and Events

Surprising Role of Trees in the Boreal Water Cycle
Presentations and Events

Mercury and Rice in the California Delta: Lessons Linking Wetlands to Water to Wildlife
Photography
A researcher in a wetland collecting samples

Sampling in a Wetland
Project
Agave plants in a field

Biofuels in the Southwest

Presentations and Events

Karst, Critters, and Climate Change
Project
A healthy native sand dropseed grass inside a connectivity modifier consisting of small mesh screens that trap seeds

New Approaches for Restoring Colorado Plateau Grasslands

Research
sky with double rainbow above a plateau and field of sagebrush

Field of Sagebrush Dreams: Planting and Restoring Functional Sagebrush in Burned Landscapes

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