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Longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis)

New Fish and Climate Change Database, FiCli, Informs Freshwater Fisheries Management

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Survey Data for Loon Occupancy in Freshwater Lakes, National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, 2011-2014

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Ph.D. student, Bonnie Myers re-cementing pools in the Luquillo LTER artificial flumes to fix leaks.

Scientist Spotlight: Bonnie Myers & the Shifting Assemblages of Freshwater Fish

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Chesapeake Bay at Edgewater, MD

Mercury in Freshwater Fish of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed—Story Map

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DayCent-Chem simulations of ecological and biogeochemical processes of eight mountain ecosystems in the United States

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Invasive crayfish as vectors of mercury in freshwater food webs of the Pacific Northwest

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Warmer temperatures interact with salinity to weaken physiological facilitation to stress in freshwater fishes

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USGS science for a changing world

Development of Sampling Protocols and Diagnostic Tools for Assessment of Freshwater Mussel Health

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Sampit River, SC, USA

Ecology of Tidal Freshwater Forested Wetlands of the Southeastern United States

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Freshwater flows into the Chesapeake Bay hit an August record last month

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Freshwater mussel survey for the Columbia Dam removal, Paulins Kill, New Jersey

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Effects of temporal hydrologic shifts on the population biology of an endangered freshwater fish in a dryland river ecosystem

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qPCR-based phytoplankton abundance and chlorophyll a: A multi-year study in twelve large freshwater rivers across the United States

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Map of the Chesapeake Bay watershed with location of community samples identified by habitat size and aggregated ecoregions

Assessing the habitat conditions to support freshwater fisheries in the Chesapeake Watershed

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Cartoons showing ocean wave scenarios and what would happen to groundwater given rising sea level conditions.

Saltwater contamination of freshwater resources could make many atoll islands uninhabitable in decades

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Vientiane Fish Market Laos

Inland Fisheries Across the World: Assessing the State of Freshwater Aquatic Resources

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Using eDNA metabarcoding to establish targets for freshwater fish composition following river restoration

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Manistee River

Bending the Curve of Global Freshwater Biodiversity Loss: An Emergency Recovery Plan

Data Release
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Davis Pond Freshwater Diversion (BA-0001): 1998 pre-construction land-water classification of the BA-0001 Ponding Area

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A quantitative survey of freshwater mussels of the Buffalo National River, Arkansas from 2019 to 2021

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Hydraulics of freshwater mussel habitat in select reaches of the Big River, Missouri

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USGS Tracks How Hurricane Floodwaters Spread Non-Native Freshwater Plants and Animals

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Detritus fuels ecosystem metabolism but not metazoan food webs in San Francisco estuary's freshwater delta

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Two medium-sized fishing boats with their sails furled are tied up along a muddy beach, along with a small rowboat. Leafy trees

New Study Reveals Hidden Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Inland Freshwater Fisheries

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Increase in nuisance blooms and geographic expansion of the freshwater diatom Didymosphenia geminata

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Mercury concentrations in amphibian tissues and egg masses, fish tissues and sediment in subarctic, freshwater systems near Churchill, Manitoba, 2015-2019

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A comparative phylogeographic approach to facilitate recovery of an imperiled freshwater mussel (Bivalvia: Unionida: Potamilus inflatus)

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Six freshwater mussels of varying shapes and colors sit in a person’s cupped hands.

Changes in Texas Stream Flows Could Prove Disastrous for Endangered Freshwater Mussels

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Metabarcoding data from freshwater mussel eDNA collected in Clinch River, Virginia 2017

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Could a freshwater fish be at the root of dystrophic crises in a coastal lagoon?

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