Scientific research by the US Geological Survey staff, published in outside (i.e., non-USGS) publications or scholarly journals.

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2013

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Response of palila and other subalpine Hawaiian forest bird species to prolonged drought and habitat degradation by feral ungulates, Paul C. Banko, Richard J. Camp, Chris Farmer, Kevin W. Brinck, David L. Leonard, and Robert M. Stephens

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The floodplain food web mosaic: a study of its importance to salmon and steelhead with implications for their recovery, J. Ryan Bellmore, Colden V. Baxter, Kyle Martens, and Patrick J. Connolly

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Potential Effects of Changes in Temperature and Food Resources on Life History Trajectories of Juvenile Oncorhynchus mykiss, Joseph R. Benjamin, Patrick J. Connolly, Jason G. Romine, and Russell W. Perry

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Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Pneumonia in Bighorn Sheep, E. Frances Cassirer, Raina K. Plowright, Kezia R. Manlove, Paul C. Cross, Andrew P. Dobson, Kathleen A. Potter, and Peter J. Hudson

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Overview of Intercalibration of Satellite Instruments, G. Chander, Tim J. Hewison, Nigel Fox, Xiangqian Wu, Xiaoxiong Xiong, and William J. Blackwell

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Predictive Models for Escherichia coli Concentrations at Inland Lake Beaches and Relationship of Model Variables to Pathogen Detection, Donna S. Francy, Erin A. Stelzer, Joseph W. Duris, Amie M. G. Brady, John H. Harrison, Heather E. Johnson, and Michael W. Ware

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Disease in a dynamic landscape: Host behavior and wildfire reduce amphibian chytrid infection, Blake R. Hossack, Winsor H. Lowe, Joy L. Ware, and Paul Stephen Corn

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Chinook Salmon Foraging Patterns in a Changing Lake Michigan, Gregory R. Jacobs, Charles P. Madenjian, David B. Bunnell, David M. Warner, and Randall M. Caramunt

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A comprehensive change detection method for updating the National Land Cover Database to circa 2011, Suming Jin, Limin Yang, Patrick Danielson, Collin Homer, Joyce Fry, and George Xian

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On the halophytic nature of mangroves, Ken W. Krauss and Marilyn C. Ball

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A Data-Based Conservation Planning Tool for Florida Panthers, Jennifer L. Murrow, Cindy A. Thatcher, Frank T. van Manen, and Joseph D. Clark

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The Malthusian–Darwinian dynamic and the trajectory of civilization, Jeffrey C. Nekola, Craig D. Allen, James H. Brown, Joseph R. Burger, Ana D. Davidson, Trevor S. Fristoe, Marcus J. Hamilton, Sean T. Hammond, Astrid Kodric-Brown, Norman Mercado-Silva, and Jordan G. Okie

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Estimation of Evapotranspiration Across the Conterminous United States Using a Regression with Climate and Land-Cover Data, Ward E. Sanford and David L. Selnick

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Using hand proportions to test taxonomic boundaries within the Tupaia glis species complex (Scandentia, Tupaiidae), Eric J. Sargis, Neal Woodman, Aspen T. Reese, and Link E. Olson

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Introduced northern pike predation on salmonids in southcentral alaska, Adam J. Sepulveda, David S. Rutz, Sam S. Ivey, Kristine J. Dunker, and Jackson A. Gross

2012

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On Modeling Weak Sinks in MODPATH, Daniel Abrams, H. Haitjema, and L. Kauffman

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Effects of Mining-Derived Metals on Riffle-Dwelling Crayfish in Southwestern Missouri and Southeastern Kansas, USA, Ann L. Allert, Robert J. DiStefano, Christopher J. Schmitt, James F. Fairchild, and William G. Brumbaugh

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The Driving Forces Of Land Change In The Northern Piedmont Of The United States, Roger F. Auch, Darrell E. Napton, Steven Kambly, Thomas R. Moreland Jr., and Kristi L. Sayler

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Long-term effects of the ‘Exxon Valdez’ oil spill: sea otter foraging in the intertidal as a pathway of exposure to lingering oil, James L. Bodkin, Brenda E. Ballachey, Heather A. Coletti, George G. Esslinger, Kimberly A. Kloecker, Stanley D. Rice, John A. Reed, and Daniel H. Monson

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Gene transcription in sea otters (Enhydra lutris); development of a diagnostic tool for sea otter and ecosystem health, Lizabeth Bowen, A. Keith Miles, Michael Murray, Martin Haulena, Judy Tuttle, William Van Bonn, Lance Adams, James L. Bodkin, Brenda Ballachey, James Estes, M. Tim Tinker, Robin Keister, and Jeffrey L. Stott

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The population structure of Escherichia coli isolated from subtropical and temperate soils, Muruleedhara N. Byappanahalli, Tao Yan, Matthew J. Hamilton, Satoshi Ishii, Roger S. Fujioka, Richard L. Whitman, and Michael J. Sadowsky

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Simulated Effects Of Host Fish Distribution On Juvenile Unionid Mussel Dispersal In A Large River, J. A. Daraio, L. J. Weber, Steven J. Zigler, Teresa J. Newton, and John M. Nestler

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Partial systematic adaptive cluster sampling, Arthur L. Dryver, Urairat Netharn, and David R. Smith

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Landscape controls on the timing of spring, autumn, and growing season length in mid-Atlantic forests, Andrew J. Elmore, Steven M. Guinn, Burke Minsley, and Andrew Richardson

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Linking River Management To Species Conservation Using Dynamic Landscape-Scale Models, M. C. Freeman, G. R. Buell, L. E. Hay, W. B. Hughes, R. B. Jacobson, J. W. Jones, S. A. Jones, J. H. Lafontaine, K. R. Odom, J. T. Peterson, J. W. Riley, J. S. Schindler, C. Shea, and J. D. Weaver

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Complementarity of ResourceSat-1 AWiFS and Landsat TM/ETM+ sensors, S.N. Goward, G. Chander, M. Pagnutti, A. Marx, R. Ryan, N. Thomas, and R. Tetrault

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Identifying grasslands suitable for cellulosic feedstock crops in the Greater Platte River Basin: dynamic modeling of ecosystem performance with 250 m eMODIS, Yingxin Gu, Stephen P. Boyte, Bruce K. Wylie, and Larry L. Tieszen

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Genetic Population Substructure in Bison at Yellowstone National Park, Natalie D. Halbert, Peter J. P. Gogan, Philip W. Hedrick, Jacquelyn M. Wahl, and James N. Derr

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Reconciling estimates of the contemporary North American carbon balance among terrestrial biosphere models, atmospheric inversions, and a new approach for estimating net ecosystem exchange from inventory-based data, Daniel J. Hayes, David P. Turner, Graham Stinson, A. David Mcguire, Yaxing Wei, Tristram O. West, Linda S. Heath, Bernardus Dejong, Brian G. Mcconkey, Richard A. Birdsey, Werner A. Kurz, Andrew R. Jacobson, Deborah N. Huntzinger, Yude Pan, W. Mac Post, and Robert B. Cook

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Effects of biotic disturbances on forest carbon cycling in the United States and Canada, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Craig D. Allen, Ankur R. Desai, Michael C. Dietze, Ronald J. Hall, Edward (Ted) H. Hogg, Daniel M. Kashian, David Moore, Kenneth F. Raffa, Rona N. Sturrock, and James Vogelmann

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Field experiment provides ground truth for surface nuclear magnetic resonance measurement, Rosemary Knight, Elliot Grunewald, Trevor Irons, Katherine Dlubac, Yiqiao Song, Henry N. Bachman, Ben Grau, Dave Walsh, Jared D. Abraham, and Jim Cannia

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Grizzly Bear Population Vital Rates and Trend in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, Montana, Richard D. Mace, Daniel W. Carney, Tonya Chilton-Radandt, Stacy A. Courville, Mark A. Haroldson, Richard B. Harris, James Jonkel, Bruce Mclellan, Michael Madel, Timothy Manley, Charles Schwartz, Christopher Servheen, Gordon Stenhouse, John S. Waller, and Erik Wenum

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Airborne electromagnetic imaging of discontinuous permafrost, Burke J. Minsley, Jared D. Abraham, Bruce D. Smith, James C. Cannia, Clifford I. Voss, M. Torre Jorgenson, Michelle A. Walvoord, Bruce K. Wylie, Lesleigh Anderson, Lyndsay B. Ball, Maryla Deszcz-Pan, Tristan P. Wellman, and Thomas A. Ager

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Remote sensing of sagebrush canopy nitrogen, Jessica J. Mitchell, Nancy F. Glenn, Temuulen T. Sankey, DeWayne R. Derryberry, and Matthew J. Germino

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Long-term impacts of invasive species on a native top predator in a large lake system, Scott A. Rush, Gordon Paterson, Tim B. Johnson, Ken G. Drouillard, Gordon D. Haffner, Craig E. Hebert, Michael T. Arts, Daryl J. Mcgoldric, Sean M. Backus, Brian F. Lantry, Jana R. Lantry, Ted Schaner, and Aaron T. Fisk

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Groundwater depletion and sustainability of irrigation in the US High Plains and Central Valley, Bridget R. Scanlon, Claudia C. Faunt, Laurent Longuevergne, Robert C. Reedy, William M. Alley, Virginia L. McGuire, and Peter B. McMahon

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Lake sturgeon population attributes and reproductive structure in the Namakan Reservoir, Minnesota and Ontario, S. L. Shaw, S. R. Chipps, Steve K. Windels, M. A. H. Webb, Darryl T. McLeod, and D. W. Willis

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Hybridization among Arctic white-headed gulls (Larus spp.) obscures the genetic legacy of the Pleistocene, Sarah A. Sonsthagen, R. Terry Chesser, Douglas A. Bell, and Carla J. Dove

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Monitoring gradual ecosystem change using Landsat time series analyses: Case studies in selected forest and rangeland ecosystems, James E. Vogelmann, George Xian, Collin Homer, and Brian Tolk

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Taxonomic status and relationships of Sorex obscurus parvidens Jackson, 1921, from California, Neal Woodman

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Predicting impacts of increased CO2 and climate change on the water cycle and water quality in the semiarid James River Basin of the Midwestern USA, Yiping Wu, Shuguang Liu, and Alisa L. Gallant

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Identifying potential areas for biofuel production and evaluating the environmental effects: a case study of the James River Basin in the Midwestern United States, Yiping Wu, Shuguang Liu, and Zhengpeng Li

2011

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Airborne Electromagnetic Surveys For 3d Geological Mapping, Jared D. Abraham and James C. Cannia

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Mercury trends in fish from rivers and lakes in the United States, 1969–2005, Ann Chalmers, Denise M. Argue, David A. Gay, Mark E. Brigham, Christopher J. Schmitt, and David Lorenz

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Tracking solutes and water from subsurface drip irrigation application of coalbed methane–produced waters, Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Mark A. Engle, Carleton R. Bern, Richard W. Healy, James I. Sams, John W. Zupancic, and Karl T. Schroeder

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Comment on ‘‘An unconfined groundwater model of the Death Valley Regional Flow System and a comparison to its confined predecessor’’ by R.W.H. Carroll, G.M. Pohll and R.L. Hershey [Journal of Hydrology 373/3–4, pp. 316–328], Claudia C. Faunt, Alden M. Provost, Mary C. Hill, and Wayne R. Belcher

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STRESS ORIENTATION DETERMINED FROM FAULT SLIP DATA IN HAMPEL WASH AREA, NEVADA, AND ITS RELATION TO CONTEMPORARY REGIONAL STRESS FIELD, Virgil A. Frizzell Jr. and Mark D. Zoback

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What Do We Know About Metal Recycling Rates?, T. E. Graedel, Julian Allwood, Jean-Pierre Birat, Matthias Buchert, Christian Hagelűken, Barbara K. Reck, Scott F. Sibley, and Guido Sonnemann

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Patterns of maternal yolk hormones in eastern screech owl eggs (Megascops asio), D. Caldwell Hahn

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Genetic Applications in Avian Conservation, Susan M. Haig, Whitcomb M. Bronaugh, Rachel S. Crowhurst, Jesse D'Elia, Collin A. Eagles-Smith, Clinton W. Epps, Brian Knaus, Mark P. Miller, Michael L. Moses, Sara Oyler-McCance, W. Douglas Robinson, and Brian Sidlauskas

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A Geospatial Approach to Identify Water Quality Issues for National Wildlife Refuges in Oregon and Washington, Jo Ellen Hinck, Kimberly Chojnacki, Susan Finger, Greg Linder, and Kevin Kilbride

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Integration of Palmer Drought Severity Index and remote sensing data to simulate wetland water surface from 1910 to 2009 in Cottonwood Lake area, North Dakota, Shengli Huang, Devendra Dahal, Claudia Young, Gyanesh Chander, and Shuguang Liu

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Soil carbon distribution in Alaska in relation to soil-forming factors, Kristofer D. Johnson, Jennifer Harden, A. David McGuire, Norman B. Bliss, James G. Bockheim, Mark Clark, Teresa Nettleton-Hollingsworth, M. Torre Jorgenson, Evan S. Kane, Michelle Mack, Jonathan O'Donnell, Chien-Lu Ping, Edward A.G. Schuur, Merritt R. Turetsky, and David W. Valentine

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Incorporating parametric uncertainty into population viability analysis models, Conor P. McGowan, Michael C. Runge, and Michael A. Larson

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The role of demographic compensation theory in incidental take assessments for endangered species, Conor P. McGowan, Mark R. Ryan, Michael C. Runge, Joshua J. Millspaugh, and Jean Fitts Cochrane

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A trans-dimensional Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for model assessment using frequency-domain electromagnetic data, Burke J. Minsley

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Hydrogeophysical Investigations at Hidden Dam, Raymond, California, Burke J. Minsley, Bethany L. Burton, Scott Ikard, and Michael H. Powers

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Plant Community Recovery Following Restoration in Semiarid Grasslands, Seth M. Munson and William K. Lauenroth

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An Exploratory Investigation of Polar Organic Compounds in Waters from a Lead–Zinc Mine and Mill Complex, Colleen E. Rostad, Christopher J. Schmitt, John G. Schumacher, and Thomas J. Leiker

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Mercury bioaccumulation and biomagnification in Ozark stream ecosystems, Christopher J. Schmitt, Craig A. Stricker, and William G. Brumbaugh

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Surface complexation modeling for predicting solid phase arsenic concentrations in the sediments of the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer, Arkansas, USA, Md. Salah U. Sharif, Ralph K. Davis, Kenneth F. Steele, Burmshik Kim, Phillip D. Hays, Tim M. Kresse, and John A. Fazio

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Evaluation Of Single And Two-Stage Adaptive Sampling Designs For Estimation Of Density And Abundance Of Freshwater Mussels In A Large River, D. R. Smith, J. T. Rogala, B. R. Gray, Steven J. Zigler, and Teresa J. Newton

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Agricultural Herbicide Transport In A First‐Order Intermittent Stream, Nebraska, USA, Jason Vogel and Joshua Linard

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Evaluating spawning migration patterns and predicting spawning success of shovelnose sturgeon in the Lower Missouri River, M. L. Wildhaber, S. H. Holan, G. M. Davis, D. W. Gladish, A. J. DeLonay, Diana M. Papoulias, and D. K. Sommerhauser

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Nomenclatural notes and identification of small-eared shrews (Mammalia: genus Cryptotis) from Cobán, Guatemala, in The Natural History Museum, London, Neal Woodman

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Patterns of morphological variation amongst semifossorial shrews in the highlands of Guatemala, with the description of a new species (Mammalia, Soricomorpha, Soricidae), Neal Woodman

2010

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Enhanced Late Holocene ENSO/PDO expression along the margins of the eastern North Pacific, John A. Barron and Lesleigh Anderson

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Locations and magnitudes of historical earthquakes in the Sierra of Ecuador (1587–1996), Céline Beauval, Hugo Yepes, William H. Bakun, José Egred, Alexandra Alvarado, and Juan-Carlos Singaucho

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Abandoned Mine Drainage in the Swatara Creek Basin, Southern Anthracite Coalfield, Pennsylvania, USA: 2. Performance of Treatment Systems, Charles A. Cravotta III

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Abandoned Mine Drainage in the Swatara Creek Basin, Southern Anthracite Coalfield, Pennsylvania, USA: 1. Stream Water Quality Trends Coinciding with the Return of Fish, Charles A. Cravotta III, Robin A. Brightbill, and Michael J. Langland

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Survival of Feral Cats, Felis catus (Carnivora: Felidae), on Mauna Kea, Hawai‘i, Based on Tooth Cementum Lines, Raymond M. Danner, Chris Farmer, Steven C. Hess, Robert M. Stephens, and Paul C. Banko

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Scale‐invariant stress orientations and seismicity rates near the San Andreas Fault, Amy Day-Lewis, Mark Zoback, and Stephen Hickman

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Recent Advances in Global Lake Coring Hold Promise for Global Change Research in Paleolimnology, Walter E. Dean

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Mineralogical and Chemical Characteristics of Some Natural Jarosites, George A. Desborough, Kathleen S. Smith, Heather A. Lowers, Gregg A. Swayze, Jane M. Hammarstrom, Sharon F. Diehl, Reinhard W. Leinz, and Rhonda L. Driscoll

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Subspecific Status and Population Genetic Structure of Least Terns (Sternula antillarum) Inferred by Mitochondrial DNA Control-Region Sequences and Microsatellite DNA, Hope M. Draheim, Mark P. Miller, Patricia Baird, and Susan M. Haig

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Vulnerability of age-0 pallid sturgeon Scaphirhynchus albus to fish predation, W. E. French, Brian D. S. Graeb, S. R. Chipps, Katie N. Bertrand, T. M. Selch, and R. A. Klumb

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Evidence for Recent Population Bottlenecks in Northern Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis caurina), W. Chris Funk, Eric D. Forsman, Matthew Johnson, Thomas D. Mullins, and Susan M. Haig

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Avian Subspecies and the U.S. Endangered Species Act, Susan M. Haig and Jesse D'Elia

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Avian Subspecies: Summary and Prospectus, Susan M. Haig and Kevin Winker

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IN-SITU STRESS AND FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION FOR PLANNING OF AN EGS STIMULATION IN THE DESERT PEAK GEOTHERMAL FIELD, NEVADA, Stephen H. Hickman and Nicholas C. Davatzes

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APPARENT SURVIVAL OF BREEDING WESTERN SANDPIPERS ON THE YUKON-KUSKOKWIM RIVER DELTA, ALASKA, Matthew Johnson, Daniel R. Ruthrauff, Brian J. McCaffery, Susan M. Haig, and Jeffrey R. Walters

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The ties that bind: Soil surveyor William Edgar Tharp and oceanographic cartographer Marie Tharp, Edward R. Landa

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Holocene landscape response to seasonality of storms in the Mojave Desert, David M. Miller, Kevin M. Schmidt, Shannon A. Mahan, John P. McGeehin, Lewis A. Owen, John A. Barron, Frank Lehmkuhl, and Rene Lohrer

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Subspecies Status and Population Genetic Structure in Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus), Mark P. Miller, Susan M. Haig, Cheri L. Gratto-Trevor, and Thomas D. Mullins

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Hydrogeophysical Methods for Analyzing Aquifer Storage and Recovery Systems, Burke J. Minsley, Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, Amitabha Mukhopadhyay, and Frank Dale Morgan

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The Influence of Topology on Hydraulic Conductivity in a Sand-and-Gravel Aquifer, Roger H. Morin, Denis R. LeBlanc, and Brent M. Troutman

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Heat Flow and Hydrologic Characteristics at the AND-1B borehole, ANDRILL McMurdo Ice Shelf Project, Antarctica, Roger H. Morin, Trevor Williams, Stuart A. Henrys, Diana Magens, Frank Niessen, and Dhiresh Hansaraj

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A macroinvertebrate assessment of Ozark streams located in lead–zinc mining areas of the Viburnum Trend in southeastern Missouri, USA, Barry Poulton, Ann L. Allert, John M. Besser, Christopher J. Schmitt, William G. Brumbaugh, and James F. Fairchild

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Limiting Factors of Five Rare Plant Species in Mesic Forests, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Linda W. Pratt, Joshua R. VanDeMark, and Melody Euaparadorn

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Mercury concentrations in fish from a Sierra Nevada foothill reservoir located downstream from historic gold-mining operations, Michael K. Saiki, Barbara A. Martin, Thomas W. May, and Charles N. Alpers

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Trail Pheromone Disruption of Argentine Ant Trail Formation and Foraging, David Maxwell Suckling, Robert W. Peck, Lloyd D. Stringer, Kirsten Snook, and Paul C. Banko

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Microbial production of isotopically light iron(II) in a modern chemically precipitated sediment and implications for isotopic variations in ancient rocks, G. E. Tangalos, B. L. Beard, C. M. Johnson, Charles N. Alpers, E. S. Shelobolina, H. Xu, H. Konishi, and E. E. Roden

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Status of the California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) and Efforts to Achieve its Recovery, Jeffrey R. Walters, Scott R. Derrickson, D. Michael Fry, Susan M. Haig, John M. Marzluff, and Joseph M. Wunderle Jr.

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History and dating of the publication of the Philadelphia (1822) and London (1823) editions of Edwin James’s Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Neal Woodman

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Two new species of shrews (Soricidae) from the western highlands of Guatemala, Neal Woodman

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At the foot of the shrew: manus morphology distinguishes closely-related Cryptotis goodwini and Cryptotis griseoventris (Mammalia: Soricidae) in Central America, Neal Woodman and Ryan B. Stephens

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Global estimates of evapotranspiration and gross primary production based on MODIS and global meteorology data, Wenping Yuan, Shuguang Liu, Guirui Yu, Jean-Marc Bonnefond, Jiquan Chen, Ken Davis, Ankur R. Desai, Allen H. Goldstein, Damiano Gianelle, Federica Rossi, Andrew E. Suyker, and Shashi B. Verma

2009

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Ecological effects of lead mining on Ozark streams: In-situ toxicity to woodland crayfish (Orconectes hylas), Ann L. Allert, James F. Fairchild, Robert J. DiStefano, C.J. Schmitt, William G. Brumbaugh, and J.M. Besser

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Fate of Sulfamethoxazole, 4-Nonylphenol, and 17β-Estradiol in Groundwater Contaminated by Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent, Larry Barber, Steffanie Keefe, Dennis LeBlanc, Paul Bradley, Francis Chapelle, Michael Meyer, Keith Lofton, Dana Kolpin, and Fernando Rubio

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Paleoceanography of the Gulf of Alaska During the Past 15,000 Years: Results From Diatoms, Silicoflagellates, and Geochemistry, John A. Barron, David Bukry, Walter E. Dean, Jason A. Addison, and Bruce Finney