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Ecosystem Dynamics
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The chytrid insurance hypothesis: Integrating parasitic chytrids into a biodiversity–ecosystem functioning framework for phytoplankton–zooplankton population dynamics

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Scale‐dependent population drivers inform avian management in a declining saline lake ecosystem

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Foraging ecology of southern sea otters at the northern range extent informs regional population dynamics

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Intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of water clarity in a large, floodplain-river ecosystem

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The role of spring-neap phasing of intermittent lateral exchange in the ecosystem of a channel-shoal estuary

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Immediate effect of floating solar energy deployment on greenhouse gas dynamics in ponds

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A clutch of 8 eggs broken open in a sage-grouse nest, broken in half with inner membranes intact

Influence of future climate scenarios on habitat and population dynamics of greater sage-grouse

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Thermal and hydrological limitations on modeling carbon dynamics at wetland sites of discontinuous and continuous permafrost extent

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Sunset over a mountainous study site in central Oregon, showing sagebrush and western juniper

Prioritizing Restoration of Sagebrush Ecosystems Tool (PReSET): A USGS-facilitated Decision-support Tool for Sagebrush Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration Actions

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Atlantic White Cedar

Rachel R Sleeter
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Detail of tree-ring cross-section from southern Colorado

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Identifying the forage base and critical forage taxa for Chesapeake waterbirds

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Robyn DeBruyne

GLSC’s DeBruyne Interviewed on Lake Whitefish in the Detroit River for Great Lakes Now

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Diagram showing carbon cycling through a natural system.

Carbon Storage and Fluxes on Department of Defense Installations

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The where and why of large wood occurrence in the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers

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Establishment of terrestrial mammals on former reservoir beds following large dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA

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Salt marsh habitats and diamondback terrapins in a rapidly changing climate: A review

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Intraguild interactions and abiotic conditions mediate occupancy of mammalian carnivores: Co-occurrence of coyotes–fishers–martens

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Diminishing productivity and hyperstable harvest in northern Wisconsin walleye fisheries

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Warm places, warm years, and warm seasons increase parasitizing of moose by winter ticks

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Climate and landform interact to control the source and transport of nitrate in Pacific Northwest rivers

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Survival, cause-specific mortality, and population growth of white-tailed deer in western Virginia

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A research vessel moves through a channel toward Lake Michigan

Research Vessel Sturgeon leaving Charlevoix
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Several antelope moving through a sagebrush landscape

Prioritizing restoration and conservation of sagebrush ecosystems in northwestern Colorado

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A researcher looks back at Cleveland as the vessel finishes deploying a new trawl net.

Research Vessel Muskie near Cleveland
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Photo of hands patting dirt around a small sagebrush seedling

Prioritizing sagebrush protection and restoration within the upper Colorado River Basin

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Photograph of the Lake in Central Park, NY under harmful algal bloom conditions

Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms in Central Park, New York

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photo of dirt road cutting through sagebrush habitat, blue partly cloudy skies above

Gunnison Sage-grouse Prioritizing Restoration of Sagebrush Ecosystems Tool (PReSET)

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Vegetation, fuels, and fire-behavior responses to linear fuel-break treatments in and around burned sagebrush steppe: Are we breaking the grass-fire cycle?

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