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Landscape determinants of nonindigenous fish invasions

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Landscape determinants of nonindigenous fish invasions

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Landscape characteristics for urban gradients in United States cities across multiple scales

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Quantitative comparison of some aesthetic factors among rivers

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Factors limiting mallard brood survival in prairie pothole landscapes

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A graphic showing Restoration outcomes on the Colorado Plateau are the product of many diverse, interconnected factors

Restoration outcomes on the Colorado Plateau are the product of many diverse, interconnected factors
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Life in San Francisco Bay Influenced by Factors Far Out at Sea

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Landscape-scale determinants of native and nonnative Great Plains fish distributions

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Ecological and sampling constraints on defining landscape fire severity

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Mapping the thermal landscape of the Upper Mississippi River

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Factors influencing the variation in capture rates of shrews in southern California, USA

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Factors affecting female space use in ten populations of prairie chickens

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Influence of landscape characteristics on retention of expandable radiocollars on young ungulates

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Landscape community genomics: understanding eco-evolutionary processes in complex environments

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Emergent biological patterns and surface-subsurface interactions at landscape scales

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Scale-dependent factors affecting North American river otter distribution in the midwest

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Combining demographic and genetic factors to assess population vulnerability in stream species

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Landscape-scale processes influence riparian plant composition along a regulated river

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Influences of landscape heterogeneity on home-range sizes of brown bears

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Replicated landscape genomics identifies evidence of local adaptation to urbanization in wood frogs

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New study highlights the role of wastewater and landscape sources contributing to pesticide contamination in the Potomac River watershed

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Combining local, landscape, and regional geographies to assess plant community vulnerability to invasion impact

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Landscape genetics reveal broad and fine‐scale population structure due to landscape features and climate history in the northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) in North Dakota

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Avian communities respond to plant and landscape composition in actively revegetated floodplains of the Colorado River delta in Mexico

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Grassland bird communities and environmental health: The role of landscape features

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Trails in flat terrain with wet soils are also unsustainable

Sustainably Designed Trails: Recent Recreation Ecology Findings on Design Factors Affecting Soil Loss

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Historical and projected trends in landscape drivers affecting carbon dynamics in Alaska

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Time marches on, but do factors driving instream habitat and biology remain consistent?

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Classifying physiographic regimes on terrain and hydrologic factors for adaptive generalization of stream networks

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Bacteria common to rhizosphere communities of Asiatic bittersweet across a post-glacial landscape

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