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Ecosystems

Ecosystems

Ecosystems

The USGS Ecosystems Mission Area provides science to help America achieve sustainable management and conservation of biological resources in wild and urban spaces, and places in between.

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Drainage of Prairie Pothole Wetlands Can Increase Flooding and Degrade Ecosystems

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A multiscale, hierarchical model of pulse dynamics in arid-land ecosystems

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Melissa Foley, measuring sediment accumulation in the Elwha estuary

USGS Postdoctoral Researcher Studying Effects of Dam Removal on Marine Ecosystems

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Characterizing the oxygen isotopic composition of phosphate sources to aquatic ecosystems

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Plant functional traits in relation to fire in crown-fire ecosystems

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Estimating toxic damage to soil ecosystems from soil organic matter profiles

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Environmental Contaminants and Terrestrial Vertebrates: Effects on Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems

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Climatic and biotic controls on annual carbon storage in Amazonian ecosystems

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Research and management in whitebark pine ecosystems: a workshop organizer's perspective

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Book review of Acid deposition and aquatic ecosystems: regional case studies

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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) Co-Production Workshop Series

Featured Story
Prairie grassland flowers on the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center campus.

10 Ways Infrastructure Investments are Helping the USGS Build Resilient Ecosystems

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Designing Climate-Resilient Stormwater Management in Northeastern US Cities to Support Stream Ecosystems

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Identifying Chains of Consequences and Interventions for Post-fire Hazards and Impacts to Resources and Ecosystems

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A new method for bioassessment of ecosystems with complex communities and environmental gradients

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Mapping Habitat Connectivity and Climate Refugia in Headwater Ecosystems to Support Amphibian Conservation

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Impact of Future Climate and Non-Natives on HI's Aquatic Ecosystems
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Temperature-driven convergence and divergence of ecohydrological dynamics in the ecosystems of a sky island mountain range

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

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Implications of tree expansion in shrubland ecosystems for two generalist avian predators

Center News
A field of golden colored grasses surrounded by conifers under a blue sky.

Providing a Framework for Species Status Assessments of Southeastern Grassland Ecosystems

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Licking Creek, Maryland

Mapping Connections across Ecosystems in the Northeast to Inform Climate Refugia

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Paleowetland deposits in the Las Vegas Valley

Reconstructing Ancient Ecosystems’ Response to Climate Change to Inform Future Conservation

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Aufeis fields as novel groundwater-dependent ecosystems in the arctic cryosphere

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Temporal gamma-diversity meets spatial alpha-diversity in dynamically varying ecosystems

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Impacts of climate changes and amplified natural disturbance on global ecosystems

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Trends and drivers of fire activity vary across California aridland ecosystems

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Carbon and energy fluxes in cropland ecosystems: a model-data comparison

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Biological nitrogen fixation: rates, patterns and ecological controls in terrestrial ecosystems

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Panorama of Alaskan coastline with Hubbard Glacier on the left and hills on the right

From Icefield to Ocean: Glacier Change Impacts to Alaska’s Coastal Ecosystems

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