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Landscape Patterns and Disturbance

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RCMAP Background and Data Access

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Population dynamics of wetland fishes: Spatio-temporal patterns synchronized by hydrological disturbance?

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Canopy disturbance patterns in a bottomland hardwood forest in northeast Arkansas, USA

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Data Release: The effects of wildfire on snow water resources estimated from canopy disturbance patterns and meteorological conditions

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Landscape Patterns and Disturbance - Additional Publications

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Anthropogenic disturbance and landscape patterns affect diversity patterns of aquatic benthic macroinvertebrates

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Interactions of landscape disturbances and climate change dictate ecological pattern and process: spatial modeling of wildfire, insect, and disease dynamics under future climates

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Catchment disturbance and stream metabolism: Patterns in ecosystem respiration and gross primary production along a gradient of upland soil and vegetation disturbance

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Change and Disturbances

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A comparison of hydrocarbon-related landscape disturbance patterns along the New York-Pennsylvania border, 2004–2013

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Disturbance automated reference toolset (DART): Assessing patterns in ecological recovery from energy development on the Colorado Plateau

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Patterns of hillslope and channel recovery following disturbances in steep, forested basins

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USGS Firelight: PHIRE Edition - Vol. 2 | Issue 2
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The intermediate disturbance hypothesis does not explain fire and diversity pattern in fynbos

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Matching existing and future native plant materials to disturbance-driven restoration needs

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Sagebrush Recovery Patterns after Fuel Treatments Affected by Disturbance Type and Plant Functional Group Interactions

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Sagebrush recovery patterns after fuel treatments mediated by disturbance type and plant functional group interactions

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Post-Fire Hazards Impacts to Resources and Ecosystems (PHIRE): Support for Response, Recovery, and Mitigation

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Disturbance History in Natural Communities

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Waterfowl Disturbance in California and Nevada (2018)

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Effects of urban development in the Puget Lowland, Washington, on interannual streamflow patterns: Consequences for channel form and streambed disturbance

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Characterizing the environmental drivers of range-wide gene flow for greater sage-grouse

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Informing wetland management with waterfowl movement and sanctuary use responses to human-induced disturbance

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Climate teleconnections synchronize Picea glauca masting and fire disturbance: Evidence for a fire‐related form of environmental prediction

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Spatiotemporal patterns and environmental drivers of eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) abundance along the Missouri River, USA

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Spatial controls on patterns of land-use induced stream disturbance at the drainage-basin scale: an example from gravel-bed streams of the Ozark Plateaus, Missouri

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Disturbance regime and disturbance interactions in Rocky Mountain subalpine forest

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Characterizing interactions between fire and other disturbances and their impacts on tree mortality in western U.S. Forests

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Going beyond low flows: Streamflow drought deficit and duration illuminate distinct spatiotemporal drought patterns and trends in the U.S. during the last century

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