Scientific research by the United States Geological Survey staff, published in outside (that is, non-USGS) publications or scholarly journals.

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2004

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Earthquake source parameters determined by the SAFOD Pilot Hole seismic array, Kazutoshi Imanishi, William L. Ellsworth, and Stephanie G. Prejean

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Stress field variations in the Swiss Alps and the northern Alpine foreland derived from inversion of fault plane solutions, Ulrike Kastrup, Mary Lou Zoback, Nicholas Deichmann, Keith Evans, Domenico Giardini, and Andrew J. Michael

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Thermal Characteristics of Wild and Captive Micronesian Kingfisher Nesting Habitats, Dylan C. Kesler and Susan M. Haig

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A Holocene pollen record of persistent droughts from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, USA, Scott A. Mensing, Larry Benson, Michaele Kashgarian, and Steve Lund

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New Distributional Record of the Nothern Redbelly Dace in the Northern Great Plains, Nathan M. Morey and Charles R. Berry Jr.

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Federal Listing of Prairie Grouse: Lessons from the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken, Michael Morrow, Terry A. Rossignol, and Nova J. Silvy

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Mineralogical maturity in dunefields of North America, Africa and Australia, Daniel R. Muhs

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Holocene loess deposition and soil formation as competing processes, Matanuska Valley, southern Alaska, Daniel R. Muhs, John P. McGeehin, Jossh Beann, and Eric Fisher

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Quaternary sea-level history of the United States, Daniel R. Muhs, John F. Wehmiller, Kathleen R. Simmons, and Linda L. York

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Differential parasitism of seed-feeding Cydia (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) by native and alien wasp species relative to elevation in subalpine Sophora (Fabaceae) forests on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, Peter T. Oboyski, John W. Slotterback, and Paul C. Banko

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Contamination of groundwater under cultivated fields in an arid environment, central Arava Valley, Israel, O. Oren, Y. Yechieli, J.K. Bohlke, and A. Dody

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Enhanced Marine Productivity Off Western North America During Warm Climate Intervals of the Past 52 k.y., J.D. Ortiz, S.B. O’Connell, J. DelViscio, W. Dean, J.D. Carriquiry, T. Marchitto, Y. Zheng, and A. van Geen

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Record of Late Pleistocene Glaciation and Deglaciation in the Southern Cascade Range. I. Petrological Evidence from Lacustrine Sediment in Upper Klamath Lake, Southern Oregon, Richard L. Reynolds, Joseph G. Rosenbaum, Josh Rapp, Michael W. Kerwin, J. Platt Bradbury, David Adam, and Steven Colman

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Great Plains Ecosystems: Past, Present, and Future, Fred B. Samson, Fritz L. Knopf, and Wayne Ostlie

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CONCENTRATIONS OF ARSENIC, CADMIUM, COPPER, LEAD, SELENIUM, AND ZINC IN FISH FROM THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN, 1995, Christopher J. Schmitt

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IN SITU STRESS, FRACTURE, AND FLUID FLOW ANALYSIS IN WELL 38C-9: AN ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM IN THE COSO GEOTHERMAL FIELD, Judith M. Sheridan and Stephen H. Hickman

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History of Greater Sage-grouse in the Dakotas: Distribution and Population Trends, Joe T. Smith, Lester D. Flake, Kenneth F. Higgins, and Gerald D. Kobriger

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Estimating accumulation rates and physical properties of sediment behind a dam: Englebright Lake, Yuba River, northern California, Noah P. Snyder, David M. Rubin, Charles N. Alpers, Jonathan R. Childs, Jennifer A. Curtis, Lorraine E. Flint, and Scott A. Wright

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Persistence of pharmaceutical compounds and other organic wastewater contaminants in a conventional drinking-water-treatment plant, Paul E. Stackelberg, Edward T. Furlong, Michael T. Meyer, Steven D. Zaugg, Alden K. Henderson, and Dori B. Reissman

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Mudfish on the Menu? Rise of the Much-Maligned Bowfin, Ken Sulak

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Use of Radar Remote Sensing (RADARSAT) to Map Winter Wetland Habitat for Shorebirds in an Agricultural Landscape, Oriane W. Taft, Susan M. Haig, and Chris Kiilsgaard

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Distribution and Abundance of the Mariana Subspecies of the Common Moorhen, Leilani L. Takano and Susan M. Haig

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Fine-scale structure of the San Andreas fault zone and location of the SAFOD target earthquakes, C. Thurber, S. Roecker, H. Zhang, S. Baher, and W. Ellsworth

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Streaks, multiplets, and holes: High-resolution spatio-temporal behavior of Parkfield seismicity, F. Waldhauser, W. L. Ellsworth, D. P. Schaff, and A. Cole

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Testing density-dependent groundwater models: two-dimensional steady state unstable convection in infinite, finite and inclined porous layers, Douglas Weatherill, Craig T. Simmons, Clifford I. Voss, and Neville I. Robinson

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Uranium-series coral ages from the US Atlantic Coastal Plain–the ‘‘80 ka problem’’ revisited, John F. Wehmiller, Kathleen R. Simmons, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Jamie Martin-McNaughton, Linda L. York, David E. Krantz, and Chuan-Chou Shen

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The H4IIE Cell Bioassay as an Indicator of Dioxin-like Chemicals in Wildlife and the Environment, J. J. Whyte, Christopher J. Schmitt, and D. E. Tillitt

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Cryptotis meridensis, Neal Woodman and Amelia Dıaz de Pascual

2003

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Ancient maize from Chacoan great houses: Where was it grown?, Larry Benson, Linda Cordell, Kirk Vincent, Howard E. Taylor, John Stein, G. Lang Farmer, and U.S. Geological Survey

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Age of the Mono Lake excursion and associated tephra, Larry Benson, Joseph Liddicoat, Joseph Smoot, Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki, Robert M. Negrini, and Steve Lund

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Influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the climate of the Sierra Nevada, California and Nevada, Larry Benson, Braddock Linsley, Joe Smoot, Scott Mensing, Steve Lund, Scott Stine, and Andre Sarna-Wojcicki

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Response of North American Great Basin Lakes to Dansgaard–Oeschger oscillations, Larry Benson, Steve Lund, Robert M. Negrini, Braddock Linsley, and Mladen Zic

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Rare-earth Elements and Nd and Pb Isotopes as Source Indicators for Labrador Sea Clay-size Sediments during Heinrich Event 2, Larry V. Benson, Don Barber, John T. Andrews, Howard E. Taylor, and Paul Lamothe

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Last Glacial loess in the conterminous USA, E. Arthur Bettis III, Daniel R. Muhs, Helen M. Roberts, and Ann G. Wintle

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Are Veterinary Medicines Causing Environmental Risks?, Alistair Boxall, Dana Kolpin, Bent Holling-Sorensen, and Johannes Tolls

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Eutrophication and Carbon Sources in Chesapeake Bay Over the Last 2700 Yr: Human Impacts in Context, John F. Bratton; Steven M. Colman; and Robert R. Seal, II

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Birth of the Modern Chesapeake Bay Estuary Between 7.4 and 8.2 Ka and Implications for Global Sea-Level Rise, John F. Bratton, Steven M. Colman, E. Robert Thieler, and Robert R. Seal II

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Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Amount and Source of Dissolved Organic Carbon: Implications for Ultraviolet Exposure in Amphibian Habitats, Paul D. Brooks, Catherine M. O'Reilly, Stephen A. Diamond, Don H. Campbell, Roland Knapp, David Bradford, Paul Stephen Corn, Blake Hossack, and Kathy Tonnessen

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Differences in Habitat Use by Blanding’s Turtles, Emydoidea blandingii, and Painted Turtles, Chysemys picta, in the Nebraska Sandhills, R. Bruce Bury and David J. Germano

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Effects of Holocene Climate Change on Mercury Deposition in Elk Lake, Minnesota: The Importance of Eolian Transport in the Mercury Cycle, W.F. Cannon, Walter E. Dean, and John H. Bullock Jr.

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Imaging the complexity of an active normal fault system: The 1997 Colfiorito (central Italy) case study, L. Chiaraluce, W. L. Ellseworth, C. Chiarabba, and M. Cocco

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Acquisition and Evaluation of Thermodynamic Data for Morenosite-Retgersite Equilibria at 0.1 MPa, I-Ming Chou and Robert R. Seal II

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Quaternary Sedimentation and Subsidence History of Lake Baikal, Siberia, Based on Seismic Stratigraphy and Coring, S.M. Colman; E.B. Karabanov; and C.H. Nelson, III

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Landscape Change in the Southern Piedmont: Challenges, Solutions, and Uncertainty Across Scales, Michael J. Conroy, Craig R. Allen, James T. Peterson, Lowell Pritchard, and Clinton T. Moore

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Seasonal Distribution of Migratory Tree Bats (Lasiurus and Lasionycteris) in North America, Paul M. Cryan

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Genetic Variation in Black Bears in Arkansas and Louisiana Using Microsatellite DNA Markers, Ildiki Csiki, Cynthia Lam, Audie Key, Erica Coulter, Joseph D. Clark, Richard M. Pace III, Kimberley G. Smith, and Douglas D. Rhoads

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Interplay of Late Cenozoic Siliciclastic Supply and Carbonate Response on the Southeast Florida Platform, Kevin J. Cunningham, Stanley D. Locker, Albert C. Hine, David Bukry, Laura A. Guertin, and John A. Barron

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Trace Elements in Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) from the Mississippi Flyway, Christine Custer, Thomas Custer, Michael J. Anteau, Alan D. Afton, and David Wooten

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Inverse modeling of BTEX dissolution and biodegradation at the Bemidji, MN crude-oil spill site, Hedeff I. Essaid, Isabelle M. Cozzarelli, Robert P. Eganhouse, William N. Herkelrath, Barbara A. Bekins, Geoffrey N. Delin, and Win Butler

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Weathering of Sulfidic Shale and Copper Mine Waste: Secondary Minerals and Metal Cycling in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, and North Carolina, USA, Jane M. Hammarstrom, Robert R. Seal II, Allen L. Meier, and John C. Jackson

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Mid-Holocene climates of the Americas: a dynamical response to changed seasonality, S. P. Harrison, J. E. Kutzbach, Z. Liu, P. J. Bartlein, B. Otto-Bliesner, Daniel R. Muhs, I. C. Prentice, and R. S. Thompson

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Changes in the timing of high river flows in New England over the 20th Century, G. A. Hodgkins, R. W. Dudley, and T. G. Huntington

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Apparent break in earthquake scaling due to path and site effects on deep borehole recordings, Satoshi Ide, Gregory C. Beroza, Stephanie G. Prejean, and William L. Ellsworth

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Mississippi River Blufflands and Bird Conservation, Eileen M. Kirsch

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Nebraska Birds in Recorded History, Fritz L. Knopf

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Mapping vegetation in Yellowstone National Park using spectral feature analysis of AVIRIS data, Raymond F. Kokaly, Don G. Despain, Roger N. Clark, and K. Eric Livo

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Public Knowledge and Perceptions of Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs, Berton Lee Lamb and Kurt Cline

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Nesting Behavior of Palila, as Assessed from Video Recordings, Megan E. Laut, Paul C. Banko, and Elizabeth M. Gray

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Entropy and generalized least square methods in assessment of the regional value of streamgages, Momcilo Markus, H. Vernon Knapp, and Gary D. Tasker

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Capture of Breeding and Wintering Shorebirds with Leg-Hold Noose-Mats, Katherine R. Mehl, Kiel L. Drake, Gary W. Page, Peter M. Sanzenbacher, Susan M. Haig, and Jonathan E. Thompson

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Review of Population Viability Analysis, Mark W. Miller

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Stratigraphy, geochronology, and accretionary terrane settings of two Bronson Hill arc sequences, northern New England, Robert H. Moench and John N. Aleinikoff

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Effects of crustal stresses on fluid transport in fractured rock: case studies from northeastern and southwestern USA, Roger H. Morin and William Z. Savage

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A late Quaternary record of eolian silt deposition in a maar lake, St. Michael Island, western Alaska, Daniel R. Muhs, Thomas A. Ager, Josh Been, J. Platt Bradbury, and Walter E. Dean

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Stratigraphy and palaeoclimatic significance of Late Quaternary loess–palaeosol sequences of the Last Interglacial–Glacial cycle in central Alaska, Daniel R. Muhs, Thomas A. Ager, E. Arthur Bettis III, John McGeehin, Josh M. Been, James E. Begét, Milan J. Pavich, Thomas W. Stafford Jr., and De Anne S. P. Stevens

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Quaternary loess-paleosol sequences as examples of climate-driven sedimentary extremes, Daniel R. Muhs and E. Arthur Bettis III

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Eolian sand transport pathways in the southwestern United States: importance of the Colorado River and local sources, Daniel R. Muhs, Richard L. Reynolds, Josh Been, and Gary Skipp

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Evidence for disease-related amphibian decline in Colorado, Erin Muths, Paul Stephen Corn, Allan P. Pessier, and D. Earl Green

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Evolution from a Conventional Well Field to a Riverbank-Filtration System, John D. North, Douglas J. Schnoebelen, Shelli Grapp, and Roy E. Hesemann

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Monitoring Trends in Bat Populations of the United States and Territories: Status of the Science and Recommendations for the Future, Thomas J. O'Shea, Michael A. Bogan, and Laura E. Ellison

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A LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF THE AQUATIC MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY IN THE CHANNELIZED LOWER MISSOURI RIVER, Barry C. Poulton, Mark L. Wildhaber, Collette S. Charbonneau, James F. Fairchild, Brad G. Mueller, and Christopher J. Schmitt

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High precision earthquake locations reveal seismogenic structure beneath Mammoth Mountain, California, Stephanie Prejean, Anna Stork, William Ellsworth, David Hill, and Bruce Julian

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Aeolian cliff-top deposits and buried soils in the White River Badlands, South Dakota, USA, J. Elmo Rawling III, Glen G. Fredlund, and Shannon Mahan

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Unprecedented last-glacial mass accumulation rates determined by luminescence dating of loess from western Nebraska, Helen M. Roberts, Daniel R. Muhs, Ann G. Wintle, Geoff A. T. Duller, and E. Arthur Bettis III

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Topographically driven groundwater flow and the San Andreas heat flow paradox revisited, Demian M. Saffer, Barbara A. Bekins, and Stephen Hickman

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Groundwater Flow andWater Quality – A Flowpath Study in the SeminoleWell Field, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Douglas J. Schnoebelen, Michael J. Turco, and John D. North

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Paleolimnology of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, over the past 100 k yr, Christopher A. Scholz, John W. King, Geoffrey S. Ellis, Peter K. Swart, J. Curt Stager, and Steven M. Colman

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Survival of the western pond turtle (Emys marmorata) in an urban California environment, Phillip Q. Spinks, Gregory B. Pauly, John J. Crayon, and H. Bradley Shaffer

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Longitudinal analysis of bioaccumulative contaminants in freshwater fishes, Jianguo Sun and C. J. Schmitt

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HISTORICAL WETLANDS IN OREGON’S WILLAMETTE VALLEY: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESTORATION OF WINTER WATERBIRD HABITAT, Oriane W. Taft and Susan M. Haig

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Use of Radar Remote Sensing (RADARSAT) to Map Winter Wetland Habitat for Shorebirds in an Agricultural Landscape, Oriane W. Taft, Susan M. Haig, and Chris Kiilsgaard

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Survival, dispersal, and home-range establishment of reintroduced captive-bred puaiohi, Myadestes palmeri, Erik J. Tweed, Jeffrey T. Foster, Bethany L. Woodworth, Paul Oesterle, Cynthia Kuehler, Alan A. Lieberman, A. Tracey Powers, Kristin Whitaker, William B. Monahan, Jherime Kellerman, and Tom Telfer

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Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid Occurrence and Removal Through Bank Filtration in the Platte River, Nebraska, Jason R. Vogel, Larry B. Barber, Tyler B. Coplen, Ingrid M. Verstraeten, Thomas F. Speth, Jerry Obrist, and Win Butler

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Late-Holocene climate and ecosystem history from Chesapeake Bay sediment cores, USA, Debra A. Willard, Thomas M. Cronin, and Stacey Verardo

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New Record of the Rare Emballonurid Bat Centronycteris centralis Thomas, 1912 in Costa Rica, with Notes on Feeding Habits, Neal Woodman

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The Humerus Of Cryptotis Colombiana And Its Bearing On The Species’ Phylogenetic Relationships (Soricomorpha: Soricidae), Neal Woodman, Carlos A. Cuartas-Calle, and Carlos A. Delgado-V.

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Calibration of remotely sensed, coarse resolution NDVI to CO2 fluxes in a sagebrush–steppe ecosystem, Bruce K. Wylie, Douglas A. Johnson, Emilio Laca, Nicanor Z. Saliendra, Tagir G. Gilmanov, Bradley C. Reed, Larry L. Tieszen, and Bruce B. Worstell

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An Approach for mapping large-area impervious surfaces: synergistic use of Landsat-7 ETM+ and high spatial resolution imagery, Limin Yang, Chengquan Huang, Bruce K. Wylie, and Michael J. Coan

2002

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Availability of food resources, distribution of invasive species, and conservation of a Hawaiian bird along a gradient of elevation, Paul C. Banko, Peter T. Oboyski, John W. Slotterback, Steven J. Dougill, Daniel M. Goltz, Luanne Johnson, and Megan E. Laut

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Holocene multidecadal and multicentennial droughts affecting Northern California and Nevada, Larry Benson, Michaele Kashgarian, Robert Rye, Steve Lund, Fred Paillet, Joseph Smoot, Cynthia Kester, Scott Mensing, Dave Meko, and Susan Landström

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HIBAL: a hydrologic-isotopic-balance model for application to paleolake systems, Larry Benson and Fred Paillet

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A Test of “Annual Resolution” in Stalagmites Using Tree Rings, Julio L. Betancourt, Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Matthew W. Salzer, and Thomas W. Swetnam

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Sources of terrestrially-derived organic carbon in lower Mississippi River and Louisiana shelf sediments: implications for differential sedimentation and transport at the coastal margin, Thomas S. Bianchi, Siddhartha Mitra, and Brent A. McKee

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Parasitism of Cidia Spp. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) on Sophora Chrysophylla (Fabaceae) Along an Elevation Gradient of Dry Subalpine Forest on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, Gregory J. Brenner, Peter T. Oboyski, and Paul C. Banko

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The impact of buffer strips and stream-side grazing on small mammals in southwestern Wisconsin, Erik W. Chapman and Christine A. Ribic

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Determination of Melanterite-Rozenite and Chalcanthite-Bonattite Equilibria by Humidity Measurements at 0.1 MPa, I-Ming Chou, R.R. Seal II, and B.S. Hemingway

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Radiocarbon Dating, Chronologic Framework, and Changes in Accumulation Rates of Holocene Estuarine Sediments from Chesapeake Bay, Steven M. Colman, Pattie C. Baucom, John F. Bratton, Thomas M. Cronin, John P. McGeehin, Debra Willard, Andrew R. Zimmerman, and Peter R. Vogt

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Depositional History and Neotectonics in Great Salt Lake, Utah, from High-Resolution Seismic Stratigraphy, Steven M. Colman, Kerry R. Kelts, and David A. Dinter

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A 1500-Year Record of Climatic and Environmental Change in Elk Lake, Clearwater County, Minnesota II: Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Stable Isotopes, Walter E. Dean

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Early Holocene Change in Atmospheric Circulation in the Northern Great Plains: An Upstreamview of the 8.2 Ka Cold Event, Walter E. Dean, Richard M. Forester, and J. Platt Bradbury