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2025

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CAERS Customization and Onboarding Lessons Learned, Ross

2024

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What Climate Change Means for Nebraska

2023

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Maine CAERS Before and After Use Case, Allen

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Leveraging the Impact Database to Improve Emissions Data, Beck

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Wisconsin's Air Reporting System, Corrado

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AirToxScreen: EPA's Screening-Level Assessment Tool for Outdoor Air Toxics, Farkas and Woody

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Lessons Learned: Creating an Air Toxics Emissions Reporting Program for Oregon, Funk

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Combined Air Emissions Reporting System (CAERS), Gamas

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Comparison of EPA AirToxScreen with Local Monitoring Stations and the Benefits for EJ Analyses, Hirshorn

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Air Emissions Reporting Requirements (AERR) Rulemaking, Houyoux

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SLEIS Enhancement Work by OK DEQ, Loney

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The Benefits of an Integrated Data Platform, Manning

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Use of NEI & SPECIATE Data for Development of Regulatory Reporting Requirements for VOC in Canada, Monette

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Using Innovative Tools to Improve Minnesota's Point Source Emissions Inventory, Olmanson

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Detailed HC Analysis as Tool for Identification of Fuel Blending Synergies to Reduce Emissions of Mobile Source Air Toxics, Pfleger

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Speciation Methods in the US EPA's Modeling Platforms, Seltzer

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Clean Air Act NESHAP Assessment, Shrager

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Emissions and Potential Health Risks from Welding Operations, Weller

2022

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The natural history and ecology of melanism in red wolf and coyote populations of the southeastern United States – evidence for Gloger’s rule, Joseph W. Hinton, Kyla M. West, Daniel J. Sullivan, Jacqueline L. Frair, and Michael J. Chamberlain

2019

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The effects of combinations of limited ration and diazinon exposure on acetylcholinesterase activity, growth and reproduction in Oryzias latipes, the Japanese medaka, Kevin Flynn, Rodney Johnson, Doug Lothenbach, Joe Swintek, Frank Whiteman, and Matthew Etterson

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Integrating LiDAR data and multi-temporal aerial imagery to map wetland inundation dynamics using Google Earth Engine, Qiusheng Wu, Charles B. Lane, Xuecao Li, Kaiguang Zhao, Yuyu Zhou, Nicholas Clinton, Ben DeVries, Heather E. Golden, and Megan W. Lang

2018

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Preface: Workshop on Pesticide Exposure Assessment Paradigm for Non-Apis Bees, Richard Bireley, Shannon Borges, Karina Cham, David Epstein, Kristina Garber, Connie Hart, Wayne Hou, Alessio Ippolito, Jens Pistorius, Veronique Poulsen, Keith Sappington, and Thomas Steeger

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Reproductive success and contaminant associations in tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) used to assess a Beneficial Use Impairment in U.S. and Binational Great Lakes’ Areas of Concern, Christine M. Custer, Thomas W. Custer, Matthew A. Etterson, Paul M. Dummer, Diana Goldberg, and J. Christian Franson

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The effects of continuous diazinon exposure on growth and reproduction in Japanese medaka using a modified Medaka Extended One Generation Reproduction Test (MEOGRT), Kevin Flynn, Doug Lothenbach, Frank Whiteman, Dean Hammermeister, Joe Swintek, Matthew Etterson, and Rodney Johnson

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Sensitivity analyses for simulating pesticide impacts on honey bee colonies, A. Carmen Kuan, Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Robert J. Curry, Kristina V. Garber, Andrew R. Kanarek, Marcia N. Snyder, Kurt L. Wolfe, and S. Thomas Purucker

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Seasonality of nitrogen balances in a Mediterranean climate watershed, Oregon, US, Jiajia Lin, Jana E. Compton, Scott G. Leibowitz, George Mueller-Warrant, William Matthews, Stephen H. Schoenholtz, Daniel M. Evans, and Rob A. Coulombe

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Coupling Toxicokinetic–Toxicodynamic and Population Models for Assessing Aquatic Ecological Risks to Time-Varying Pesticide Exposures, Glen Thursby, Keith Sappington, and Matthew Etterson

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Estimates of present and future flood risk in the conterminous United States, Oliver E.J. Wing, Paul D. Bates, Andrew M. Smith, Christopher C. Sampson, Kris A. Johnson, Joseph Fargione, and Philip Morefield

2017

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Statistical Survey of Persistent Organic Pollutants: Risk Estimations to Humans and Wildlife through Consumption of Fish from U.S. Rivers, Angela L. Batt, John B. Wathen, James M. Lazorchak, Anthony R. Olsen, and Thomas M. Kincaid

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Mechanistic modeling of insecticide risks to breeding birds in North American agroecosystems, Matthew Etterson, Kristina Garber, and Edward Odenkirchen

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Weight of evidence evaluation of a network of adverse outcome pathways linking activation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in honey bees to colony death, Carlie A. LaLone, Daniel L. Villeneuve, Judy Wu-Smart, Rebecca Y. Milsk, Keith Sappington, Kristina V. Garber, Justin Housenger, and Gerald T. Ankley

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Model application niche analysis: assessing the transferability and generalizability of ecological models, JESSICA B. MOON, THEODORE H. DEWITT, MELISSA N. ERREND, RANDALL J. F. BRUINS, MARY E. KENTULA, SARAH J. CHAMBERLAIN, M. SIOBHAN FENNESSY, and KUSUM J. NAITHANI

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A Framework for Linking Population Model Development with Ecological Risk Assessment Objectives, Sandy Raimondo, Matthew Etterson, Nathan Pollesch, Kristina Garber, Andrew Kanarek, Wade Lehmann, and Jill Awkerman

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A photosynthesis-based two-leaf canopy stomatal conductance model for meteorology and air quality modeling with WRF/CMAQ PX LSM, Limei Ran, Jonathan Pleim, Conghe Song, Larry Band, John T. Walker, and Francis S. Binkowski

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Factors that influence vital rates of Seaside and Saltmarsh sparrows in coastal New Jersey, USA, Samuel G. Roberts, Rebecca A. Longenecker, Matthew A. Etterson, Katharine J. Ruskin, Chris S. Elphick, Brian J. Olsen, and W. Gregory Shriver

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ATP Binding Cassette Sub-family Member 2 (ABCG2) and Xenobiotic Exposure During Early Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation, Mitchell B. Rosen, Susan C. Jeffay, Harriette P. Nichols, Maria R. Hoopes, and E. Sidney Hunter III

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Factors associated with bat mortality at wind energy facilities in the United States, Maureen Thompson, Julie A. Beston, Matthew Etterson, Jay E. Diffendorfer, and Scott R. Loss

2016

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Seasonality of Coliform Bacteria Detection Rates in New Jersey Domestic Wells, Thomas B. Atherholt, Nicholas A. Procopio, and Sandra M. Goodrow

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Estimating ozone and secondary PM2.5 impacts from hypothetical single source emissions in the central and eastern United States, Kirk R. Baker, Robert A. Kotchenruther, and Rynda C. Hudman

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Using Ecological Production Functions to Link Ecological Processes to Ecosystem Services, Randall JF Bruins, Timothy J. Canfield, Clifford Duke, Larry Kapustka, Amanda M. Nahlik, and Ralf B. Schäfer

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Quantitative structure–mesothelioma potency model optimization for complex mixtures of elongated particles in rat pleura: A retrospective study, Philip M. Cook, Joseph Swintek, Timothy D. Dawson, David Chapman, Mathew A. Etterson, and Dale Hoff

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Influence of resource availability on Juniperus virginiana expansion in a forest–prairie ecotone, A. C. Ganguli, D. M. Engle, P. M. Mayer, and L. F. Salo

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Alpha-lipoic acid supplementation protects enzymes from damage by nitrosative and oxidative stress, Sylvia Hiller, Robert DeKroon, Eric D. Hamlett, Longquan Xu, Cristina Osorio, Jennifer Robinette, Witold Winnik, Stephen Simington, Nobuyo Maeda, Oscar Alzate, and Xianwen Yi

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IDENTIFICATION OF PUTATIVE GEOGRAPHICALLY ISOLATED WETLANDS OF THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES, Charles R. Lane and Ellen D'Amico

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Cyanotoxins in inland lakes of the United States: Occurrence and potential recreational health risks in the EPA National Lakes Assessment 2007, Keith A. Loftin, Jennifer L. Graham, Elizabeth D. Hillborn, Sarah C. Lehmann, Michael T. Meyer, Julie E. Dietze, and Christopher B. Griffith

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Carbon storage in US wetlands, A. M. Nahlik and M. S. Fennessy

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Seasonal fecundity is not related to geographic position across a species’ global range despite a central peak in abundance, Katharine J. Ruskin, Matthew A. Etterson, Thomas P. Hodgman, Alyssa C. Borowske, Jonathan B. Cohen, Chris S. Elphick, Christopher R. Field, Rebecca A. Kern, Erin King, Alison R. Kocek, Adrienne I. Kovach, Kathleen M. O’Brien, Nancy Pau, W. Gregory Shriver, Jennifer Walsh, and Brian J. Olsen

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Potential aquifer vulnerability in regions down-gradient from uranium in situ recovery (ISR) sites, James A. Saunders, Bruce E. Pivetz, Nathan Voorhies, and Richard T. Wilkin

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A comparison between 2010 and 2006 air quality and meteorological conditions, and emissions and boundary conditions used in simulations of the AQMEII-2 North American domain, Till E. Stoeckenius, Christian Hogrefe, Justin Zagunis, Timonthy M. Sturtz, Benjamin Wells, and Tanarit Sakulyanontvittaya

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Water consumption estimates of the biodiesel process in the US, Qingshi Tu, Mingming Lu, Y. Jeffrey Yang, and Don Scott

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TEMPORAL TRENDS IN THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF IMPERVIOUS COVER RELATIVE TO STREAM LOCATION, J. Wickham, A. Neale, M. Mehaffey, T. Jarnagin, and D. Norton

2015

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Investing in Prospective Cohorts for Etiologic Study of Occupational Exposures, A Blair, C J. Hines, K W. Thomas, MCR Alavaja, L E. Beane Freeman, J A. Hoppin, F Kamel, C F. Lynch, J H. Lubin, D T. Sliverman, E Whelan, S H. Zahm, and D P. Sandler

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Effects of temperature, salinity and seed age on induction of Zostera japonica germination in North America, USA, James E. Kaldy, Deborah J. Shafer, M. Stephen Ailstock, and A. Dale Magoun

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Impact of natural organic matter on particle behavior and phototoxicity of titanium dioxide nanoparticles, Shibin Li, Hongbo Ma, Lindsay K. Wallis, Matthew A. Etterson, Benjamin Riley, Dale J. Hoff, and Stephen A. Diamond

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Regional scale cropland carbon budgets: Evaluating a geospatial agricultural modeling system using inventory data, Xuesong Zhang, Roberto C. Izaurralde, David H. Manowitz, Ritvik Sahajpal, Tristram O. West, Allison M. Thomson, Min Xu, Kaiguang Zhao, Stephen D. LeDuc, and Jimmy R. Williams

2014

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Bringing Resilience to Wildlife Management and Biodiversity Protection, Melinda Harm Benson and Matthew E. Hopton

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GHG mitigation options database (GMOD) and analysis tool, Gurbakhash Bhander, Nick Hutson, Jacky Rosati, Frank Princiotta, Kristine Pelt, Jim Staudt, and Jeffrey Petrusa

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Field assessment of the effects of roadside vegetation on near-road black carbon and particulate matter, Halley L. Brantley, Gayle S.W. Hagler, Parikshit J. Deshmukh, and RichardW. Baldauf

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Microbial diversities (16S and 18S rRNA gene pyrosequencing) and environmental pathogens within drinking water biofilms grown on the common premise plumbing materials unplasticized polyvinylchloride and copper, Helen Buse, Jingrang Lu, Xiaozhen Mou, and Nicholas Ashbolt

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Esterification Pretreatment of Free Fatty Acid in Biodiesel Production, from Laboratory to Industry, Ming Chai, Qingshi Tu, Jeffrey Y. Yang, and Mingming Lu

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Flow in horizontally anisotropic multilayered aquifer systems with leaky wells and aquitards, Abdullah Cihan, Quanlin Zhou, Jens Birkholzer, and Stephen Kraemer

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A review of water use in the U.S. electric power sector: insights from systems-level perspectives, Rebecca S. Dodder

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Incorporating Resilience and Innovation into Law and Policy: A Case for Preserving a Natural Resource Legacy and Promoting a Sustainable Future, Tarsha Eason, Alyson C. Flournoy, Heriberto Cabezas, and Michael A. Gonzalez

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In Vitro and Modelling Approaches to Risk Assessment from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ToxCast Programme, Richard Judson; Keith Houck; Matt Martin; Thomas Knudson; Russell Thomas; Nisha Sipes; U.S. EPA, National Center for Computational Toxicology, Research Triangle Park; John Wambaugh; and Kevin Crofton

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AN INEXPENSIVE, TEMPORALLY INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR MONITORING OCCURRENCE AND BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF AQUATIC CONTAMINANTS IN THE FIELD, Michael D. Kahl, Daniel L. Vileneuve, Kyle Stevens, Anthony Schroeder, Elizabeth A. Makynen, Carlie A. LaLone, Kathleen M. Jensen, Meagan Hughes, Bruce A. Holmen, Evan Eid, Elizabeth J. Durhan, Jenna E. Cavallin, Jason Berninger, and Gerald T. Ankley

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LAND USE AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY AMPLIFY CARBON, NUTRIENT, AND CONTAMINANT PULSES: A REVIEW WITH MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS, Sujay S. Kaushal, Paul M. Mayer, Philippe G. Vidon, Rose M. Smith, Michael J. Pennino, Tamara A. Newcomer, Shuiwang Duan, Claire Welty, and Kenneth T. Belt

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LAND USE AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY AMPLIFY CARBON, NUTRIENT, AND CONTAMINANT PULSES: A REVIEW WITH MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS, Sujay S. Kaushal, Peter M. Mayer, Philippe G. Vidon, Rose M. Smith, Micheal J. Pennino, Tamara A. Newcomer, Shuiwang Duan, Claire Welty, and Kenneth T. Belt

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Comparison of TiO2 nanoparticle and graphene–TiO2 nanoparticle composite phototoxicity to Daphnia magna and Oryzias latipes, Shibin Li, Xuan Pan, Lindsay K. Wallis, Zhaoyang Fan, Zuliang Chen, and Stephen A. Diamond

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Silver speciation and release in commercial antimicrobial textiles as influenced by washing, Enzo Lombi, Erica Donner, Kirk G. Scheckel, Ryo Sekine, Christiane Lorenz, and Natalie Von Goetz

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Scale-dependency of LiDAR derived terrain attributes in quantitative soil-landscape modeling: Effects of grid resolution vs. neighborhood extent, J. J. Maynard and M. J. Johnson

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Evaluating the application of multipollutant exposure metrics in air pollution health studies, Michelle Oakes, Lisa Baxter, and Thomas C. Long

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Institutionalized Cooperation and Resilience in Transboundary Freshwater Allocation, Olivia Odom Green and Charles Perrings

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Ammonia emissions in the United States, European Union, and China derived by high-resolution inversion of ammonium wet deposition data: Interpretation with a new agricultural emissions inventory (MASAGE_NH3), F. Paulot, D. J. Jacob, J. O. Bash, K. Travis, and D. K. Henze

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Transparent Stakeholder Engagement in Practice: Lessons Learned from Applying Comprehensive Environmental Assessment to Research Planning for Nanomaterials, Christina Powers, Christine Hendren, Amy Wang, and Michael Davis

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A novel hybrid approach for estimating total deposition in the United States, Donna B. Schwede and Gary G. Lear

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An environmental oestrogen disrupts fish population dynamics through direct and transgenerational effects on survival and fecundity, Adam R. Schwindt, Dana L. Wrinkelman, Kristen Keteles, Mark Murphy, and Alan M. Vajda

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An environmental oestrogen disrupts fish population dynamics through direct and transgenerational effects on survival and fecundity, Adam Scwindt, Dana L. Winkelman, Kristen Keteles, Mark Murphy, and Alan M. Vajda

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Remote sensing of CO2 leakage from geologic sequestration projects, Joshua L. Verkerke, David J. Williams, and Eben Thoma

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Associations between prenatal exposure to air pollution, small for gestation alage,and term low birthweight in a state-widebirth cohort, Lisa C. Vinikoor-Imler, J. Allen Davis, Robert E. Meyer, Lynne C. Messer, and Thomas J. Luben

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Spatial patterns of watershed impervious cover relativeto stream location, J.D. Wickham, T.G. Wade, and D.J. Norton

2013

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MODIS-derived spatiotemporal water clarity patterns in optically shallow Florida Keys waters: A new approach to remove bottom contamination, Brian B. Barnes, Chuanmin Hu, Blake A. Schaeffer, Zhongping Lee, David A. Palandro, and John C. Lehrter

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Selecting Surrogate Endpoints for Estimating Pesticide Effects on Avian Reproductive Success, Richard S. Bennett and Matthew A. Etterson

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Exposure and Effects of Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Tree Swallows Nesting in Minnesota and Wisconsin, USA, Christine M. Custer, Thomas W. Custer, Paul M. Dummer, Matthew A. Etterson, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Qian Wu, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Annette Trowbridge, and Patrick C. McKann

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Effect of dietary treatment with dimethylarsinous acid (DMAIII) on the urinary bladder epithelium of arsenic (+3 oxidation state) methyltransferase (As3mt) knockout and C57BL/6 wild type female mice, Puttappa R. Dodmane, Lora L. Arnold, Karen L. Pennington, David J. Thomas, and Samuel M. Cohen

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Chapter 13: Climate Adaptations in the Southeast USA, Kirstin Dow, Lynne Carter, Ashley Brosius, Ernesto Diaz, Rick Durbrow, Rhonda Evans, Stephanie Fauver, Tim Hayden, Bob Howard, Kasey Jacobs, Glenn Landers, Steve McNulty, Janine Nicholson, Dale Quattrochi, Linda Rimer, Scott Shuford, Skip Stiles, and Adam Terando

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Managing for resilience: early detection of regime shifts in complex systems, Tarsha Eason, Ahjond S. Garmestani, and Heriberto Cabezas

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Hidden Markov models for estimating animal mortality from anthropogenic hazards, MATTHEW A. ETTERSON

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Quantifying the Effects of Pesticide Exposure on Annual Reproductive Success of Birds, Matthew A. Etterson and Richard S. Bennett

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Sustainability science: accounting for nonlinear dynamics in policy and social–ecological systems, Ahjond S. Garmestani

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A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems, Ahjond S. Garmestani and Melinda Harm Benson

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A systems perspective on responses to climate change, Wesley W. Ingwesen, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Michael A. Gonzalez, and Joshua J. Templeton

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Defining quantitative stream disturbance gradients and the additive role of habitat variation to explain macroinvertebrate taxa richness, Raphael Ligeiro, Robert M. Hughes, Philip R. Kaufmann, Diego R. Macedo, Kele R. Firmiano, Wander R. Ferreira, Déborah Oliveira, Adriano S. Melo, and Marcos Callisto

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Molecular Detection of Campylobacter spp. and Fecal Indicator Bacteria during the Northern Migration of Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) at the Central Platte River, Jingrang Lu, Hodon Ryu, Jason R. Vogel, Jorge Santo Domingo, and Nicholas J. Ashbolt

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Fumigation of a Laboratory-scale HVAC System with Hydrogen Peroxide for Decontamination Following a Biological Contamination Incident, K. M. Meyer, M. W. Calfee, J. P. Wood, L. Michelsen, B. Attwood, M. Clayton, A. Touati, and R. Delafield

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Resilience in Transboundary Water Governance: the Okavango River Basin, Olivia Odom Green, Barbara A. Cosens, and Ahjond S. Garmestani

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EU Water Governance: Striking the Right Balance between Regulatory Flexibility and Enforcement?, Olivia Odom Green, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Helena F. M. W. van Rijswick, and Andrea M. Keessen

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Upscaling Natural and Social Capitals for Decentralized Urban Stormwater Management, Olivia Odom Green, William D. Shuster, Ahjond S. Garmestani, and hale thurston

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Comparison of PCR and quantitative real-time PCR methods for the characterization of ruminant and cattle fecal pollution sources, Meredith R. Raith, Catherine A. Kelty, John F. Griffith, Alexander Schriewer, Stefan Wuertz, Sophie Mieszkin, Michele Gourmelon, Georg H. Reischer, Andreas H. Farnleitner, Jared S. Ervin, Patricia A. Holden, Darcy L. Ebentier, Jennifer A. Jay, Dan Wang, Alexandria B. Boehm, Tiong Gim Aw, Joan B. Rose, E. Balleste, W.G. Meijer, Mano Sivaganesan, and Orin C. Shanks

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Carbon dynamics and export from flooded wetlands: A modeling approach, Amirreza Sharifi, Latif Kalin, Mohamed M. Hantush, Sabahattin Isik, and Thomas E. Jordan

2012

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Wetland and riparian plant communities at risk of invasion by transgenic herbicide-resistant Agrostis spp. in central Oregon, Michael A. Bollman, Marjorie J. Storm, George A. King, and Lidia S. Watrud