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

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2018

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T.D.A. Cockerell (1866–1948) of the University of Colorado: his contributions to the natural history of the California islands and the establishment of Channel Islands National Monument, Daniel R. Muhs

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Geochemistry and mineralogy of late Quaternary loess in the upper Mississippi River valley, USA: Provenance and correlation with Laurentide Ice Sheet history, Daniel R. Muhs, E. Arthur Bettis III, and Gary L. Skipp

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Origin of last-glacial loess in the western Yukon-Tanana Upland, central Alaska, USA, Daniel R. Muhs, Jeffrey S. Pigati, James R. Budahn, Gary L. Skipp, E Arthur Bettis III, and Britta Jensen

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Past role and future outlook of the Conservation Reserve Program for supporting honey bees in the Great Plains, Clint R.V. Otto, Haochi Zheng, Alisa L. Gallant, Rich Iovanna, Benjamin L. Carlson, Matthew D. Smart, and Skip Hyberg

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Is Sensitivity to Anticoagulant Rodenticides Affected by Repeated Exposure in Hawks?, Barnett A. Rattner; Rebecca S. Lazarus; Thomas G. Bean; Katherine E. Horak,; Steven F. Volker; and Julia Lankton

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Designing a Protected Area to Safeguard Imperiled Species from Urbanization, Stephanie S. Romanach, Brad Stith, and Fred A. Johnson

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Fight and air exposure times of caught and released salmonids from the South Fork Snake River, Curtis J. Roth, Daniel J. Schill, and Michael C. Quist

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Organochlorine Chemical Residues in Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Eggs from Greater Washington, DC USA, Christopher J. Schmitt, Kathy E. Echols, Paul H. Peterman, Carl E. Orazio, K. Christiana Grim, Shirlee Tan, Nora E. Diggs, and Peter P. Marra

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Correction to: Organochlorine Chemical Residues in Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Eggs from Greater Washington, DC USA, Christopher J. Schmitt, Kathy R. Echols, Paul H. Peterman, Carl E. Orazio, K. Christiana Grim, Shirlee Tan, Nora E. Diggs, and Peter P. Marra

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Evaluating the Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey for Scaup, Michael L. Schummer, Alan D. Afton, Shannon S. Badzinski, Scott A. Petrie, Glenn H. Olsen, and Mark A. Mitchell

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Evaluating the Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey for Scaup, Michael L. Schummer, Alan D. Afton, Shannon S. Badzinski, Scott A. Petrie, Glenn H. Olsen, and Mark A. Mitchell

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Risks and Hazards of Rodenticide to Non-raptor Birds, Nimish B. Vyas

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Global dynamics of a mutualism–competition model with one resource and multiple consumers, Yuanshi Wang, Hong Wu, and Donald L. DeAngelis

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Macrobenthic infaunal communities associated with deep‐sea hydrocarbon seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Travis W. Washburn, Amanda W. J. Demopoulos, and Paul A. Montagna

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Phytoforensics: Trees as bioindicators of potential indoor exposure via vapor intrusion, Jordan L. Wilson, V. A. Samaranayake, Matt A. Limmer, and Joel G. Burken

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Internal parasites of the two subspecies of the West Indian manatee Trichechus manatus, Heidi Wyrosdick, Alycia Chapman, Antonio A. Mignucci-Giannoni, Carla I. Rivera-Pérez, and Robert K. Bonde

2017

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Micronuclei and Other Erythrocyte Nuclear Abnormalities in Fishes from the Great Lakes Basin,USA, Ryan P. Braham, Vicki S. Blazer, Cassidy H. Shaw, and Patricia M. Mazik

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Design Tradeoffs in Long-Term Research for Stream Salamanders, Adrianne B. Brand and Evan H. Campbell Grant

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Linking Animals Aloft with the Terrestrial Landscape, Jeffrey J. Buler, Wylie C. Barrow Jr., Matthew E. Boone, Deanna K. Dawson, Robert H. Diehl, Frank R. Moore, Lori A. Randall, Timothy D. Schreckengost, and Jaclyn A. Smolinsky

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Linking Animals Aloft with the Terrestrial Landscape, Jeffrey J. Buler, Wylie C. Barrow Jr., Matthew E. Boone, Deanna K. Dawson, Robert H. Diehl, Frank R. Moore, Lori A. Randall, Timothy D. Schreckengost, and Jaclyn A. Smolinsky

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Sensitivity of mangrove range limits to climate variability, Kyle C. Cavanaugh, Michael J. Osland, Remi Bardou, Gustavo Hinojosa-Arango, Juan M. Lopez-Vivas, John D. Parker, and Andre S. Rovai

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Degradation of Crude 4‑MCHM (4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol) in Sediments from Elk River, West Virginia, Isabelle M. Cozzarelli; Denise M. Akob; Mary Jo Baedecker; Tracey Spencer; Jeanne Jaeschke; Darren S. Dunlap; Adam C. Mumford; Amisha T, Poret-Peterson; and Douglas B. Chambers

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Balancing stability and flexibility in adaptive governance: an analysis of tools available in U.S. environmental law, Robin Kundis Craig, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold, Hannah E. Birge, Hannah Birge, Daniel A. DeCaro, Alexander K. Fremier, Alexander K. Fremier, Hannah Gosnell, and Edella C. Schlager

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Floristic Quality Index and Forested Floristic Quality Index: Assessment Tools for Restoration Projects and Monitoring Sites in Coastal Louisiana, Kari F. Cretini, William B. Wood, Jenneke M. Visser, Ken W. Krauss, Leigh Anne Sharp, Gregory D. Steyer, Gary P. Shaffer, and Sarai C. Piazza

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Extending the Habitat Concept to the Airspace, Robert H. Diehl, Anna C. Peterson, Rachel T. Bolus, and Douglas Johnson

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Extending the Habitat Concept to the Airspace, Robert H. Diehl, Anna C. Peterson, Rachel T. Bolus, and Douglas Johnson

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Channel-planform evolution in four rivers of Olympic National Park, Washington, USA: the roles of physical drivers and trophic cascades, Amy E. East, Kurt J. Jenkins, Patricia J. Happe, Jennifer A. Bountry, Timothy J. Beechie, Mark C. Mastin, Joel B. Sankey, and Timothy J. Randle

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Greater Sage-Grouse Population Trends Across Wyoming, David R. Edmunds, Cameron L. Aldridge, Michael S. O'Donnell, and Adrian P. Monroe

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Temporal shift of sea turtle nest sites in an eroding barrier island beach, Ikuko Fujisaki, Margaret Lamont, and Ray Carthy

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Vegetation response to invasive Tamarix control in southwestern U.S. rivers: a collaborative study including 416 sites, Eduardo Gonzalez, Anna A. Sher, Robert M. Anderson, Robin F. Bay, Daniel W. Bean, Gabriel J. Bissonnete, Berenger Bourgeois, David J. Cooper, Kara Dohrenwend, Kim D. Eichhorst, Hishma El Waer, Deborah K. Kennard, Rebecca Harms-Weissinger, Annie L. Henry, Lori J. Makarick, Steven M. Ostoja, Lindsay V. Reynolds, W. Wright Robinson, and Patrick B. Shafroth

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Integrating future scenario-based crop expansion and crop conditions to map switchgrass biofuel potential in eastern Nebraska, USA, Yingxin Gu and Bruce K. Wylie

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Key differences between lakes and reservoirs modify climate signals: A case for a new conceptual model, Nicole M. Hayes, Bridget R. Deemer, Jessica R. Corman, N. Roxanna Razavi, and Kristin E. Strock

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Habitat mosaics and path analysis can improve biological conservation of aquatic biodiversity in ecosystems with low-head dams, Sean M. Hitchman, Martha E. Mather, Joseph M. Smith, and Jane S. Fencl

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Cytonuclear discordance in the Florida Everglades invasive Burmese python (Python bivittatus) population reveals possible hybridization with the Indian python (P. molurus), Margaret E. Hunter, Nathan A. Johnson, Brian J. Smith, Michelle C. Davis, John S.S. Butterfield, Ray W. Snow, and Kristen M. Hart

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Challenges for creating a site-specific groundwater-use record for the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system (central USA) from 1900 to 2010, Katherine J. Knierim, Anna M. Nottmeier, Scott Worland, Drew A. Westerman, and Brian R. Clark

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Weathering and erosion of fractured bedrock systems, Marina I. Lebedeva and Susan L. Brantley

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Simulating the effects of management practices on cropland soilorganic carbon changes in the Temperate Prairies Ecoregion of theUnited States from 1980 to 2012, Zhengpeng Li, Shuguang Liu, Zhengxi Tan, Terry L. Sohl, and Yiping Wu

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Water-Level and Recoverable Water in Storage Changes, High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment to 2015 and 2013–15, Virginia L. McGuire

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Effects of Industrial and Investigator Disturbance on Arctic-Nesting Geese, Brandt W. Meixell and Paul L. Flint

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Camera system considerations for geomorphic applications of SfM photogrammetry, Adam R. Mosbrucker, Jon J. Major, Kurt R. Spicer, and John Pitlick

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Evaluation of simple geochemical indicators of aeolian sand provenance: Late Quaternary dune fields of North America revisited, Daniel R. Muhs

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The geochemistry of loess: Asian and North American deposits compared, Daniel R. Muhs

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Quaternary sea-level history and the origin of the northernmost coastal aeolianites in the Americas: Channel Islands National Park, California, USA, Daniel R. Muhs, Jeffrey S. Pigati, R. Randall Schumann, Gary L. Skipp, Naomi Porat, and Stephen B. DeVogel

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Late Quaternary uplift along the North America-Caribbean plate boundary: Evidence from the sea level record of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Daniel R. Muhs, Eugene S. Schweig, Kathleen R. Simmons, and Robert B. Halley

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Review of A Chorus of Cranes: The Cranes of North America and the World by Paul A. Johnsgard, Aaron T. Pearse

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Lack of Observed Movement Response to Lead Exposure of California Condors, Sharon A. Poessel, Joseph Brandt, Linda Uyeda, Molly Astell, and Todd E. Katzner

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δ13C and δ15N in the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle Lepidochelys kempii after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Kimberly J. Reich, Melania C. López-Castro, Donna J. Shaver, Claire Iseton, Kristen M. Hart, Michael J. Hooper, and Christopher J. Schmitt

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Moving from Generalisations to Specificity about Mangrove –Saltmarsh Dynamics, Kerrylee Rogers and Ken W. Krauss

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The Aerosphere as a Network Connector of Organisms and Their Diseases, Jeremy D. Ross, Eli S. Bridge, Diann J. Prosser, and John Y. Takekawa

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Semi-Arid Grassland Bird Responses to Patch-Burn Grazing and Drought, Susan K. Skagen, David J. Augustine, and Justin D. Derner

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FLOOD EFFECTS PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF AN ALTERNATE STABLE STATE FROM DAM MANAGEMENT ON THE UPPER MISSOURI RIVER, K. Skalak, A. Benthem, C. Hupp, E. Schenk, J. Galloway, and R. Nustad

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Assessment of Frequency and Duration of Point Counts When Surveying for Golden Eagle Presence, Ben R. Skipper, Clint W. Boal, Jo-Szu Tsai, and Mark R. Fuller

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Diet Composition of Age-0 Fishes in Created Habitats of the Lower Missouri River, Trevor A. Starks and James M. Long

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Variation in δ15N and δ13C values of forages for Arctic caribou: effects of location, phenology and simulated digestion, Lindsay L. Vansomeren, Perry S. Barboza, David D. Gustine, and M. Syndonia Bret-Harte

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Comparison of Acoustic Recorders and Field Observers for Monitoring Tundra Bird Communities, Skyler T. Vold, Colleen M. Handel, and Lance B. McNew

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Rodenticide incidents of exposure and adverse effects on non-raptor birds, Nimish B. Vyas

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Smartphone Technologies and Bayesian Networks to Assess Shorebird Habitat Selection, Sara L. Zeigler, E. Robert Thieler, Benjamin T. Gutierrez, Nathaniel G. Plant, Megan Hines, James D. Fraser, and Daniel H. Catlin

2016

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Elevation dynamics in a restored versus a submerging salt marsh in Long Island Sound, Shimon C. Anisfeld, Troy D. Hill, and Daonald R. Cahoon

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A spatio-temporal comparison of avian migration phenology using Citizen Science data, Ali Arab, Jason R. Courter, and Jessica Zelt

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A spatio-temporal comparison of avian migration phenology using Citizen Science data, Ali Arab, Jason R. Courter, and Jessica Zelt

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Fishing diseased abalone to promote yield and conservation, Tal Ben-Horin, Kevin D. Lafferty, Gorka Bidegain, and Hunter S. Lenihan

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Deep subsurface drip irrigation using coal-bed sodic water: Part II. Geochemistry, Carleton R. Bern, George N. Breit, Richard W. Healy, and John W. Zupancic

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Bioaccessibility Tests Accurately Estimate Bioavailability Of Lead To Quail, W. Nelson Beyer, Nicholas T. Basta, Rufus L. Chaney, Paula F.P. Henry, David E. Mosby, Barnett A. Rattner, Kirk G. Scheckel, Daniel T. Sprague, and John S. Weber

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POLARIS: A 30-meter probabilistic soil series map of the contiguous United States, Nathaniel W. Chaney, Eric F. Wood, Alexander B. McBratney, Jonathan W. Hempel, Travis W. Nauman, Colby W. Brungard, and Nathan P. Odgers

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The Migratory Bird and Habitat Research Laboratory and the Accelerated Research Program, Richard A. Coon

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In-air hearing of a diving duck: A comparison of psychoacoustic and auditory brainstem response thresholds, Sara E. Crowell, Alicia M. Wells-Berlin, Ronald E. Therrien, Sally E. Yannuzzi, and Catherine E. Carr

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In-air hearing of a diving duck: A comparison of psychoacoustic and auditory brainstem response thresholds, Sara E. Crowell, Alicia M. Wells-Berlin, Ronald E. Therrien, Sally E. Yannuzzi, and Catherine E. Carr

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Paying the Pipers: Mitigating the Impact of Anticoagulant Rodenticides on Predators and Scavengers, John E. Elliott, Barnett A. Rattner, Richard F. Shore, and Nico W. van den Brink

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Urban sprawl as a risk factor in motor vehicle crashes, Reid Ewing, Shima Hamidi, and James B. Grace

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Immunoglobulin detection inwild birds: effectiveness of three secondary anti-avian IgY antibodies in direct ELISAs in 41 avian species, Carol A. Fassbinder-Orth, Travis E. Wilcoxen, Tiffany Tran, Raoul K. Boughton, Jeanne M. Fair, Erik K. Hofmeister, Jennifer L. Grindstaff, and Jen C. Owen

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EVALUATING METHODS TO ESTABLISH HABITAT SUITABILITY CRITERIA: A CASE STUDY IN THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER BASIN, USA, H. S. Galbraith, C. J. Blakeslee, J. C. Cole, C. A. Talbert, and K. O. Maloney

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An association between a cusk eel (Bassozetus sp.) and a black coral (Schizopathes sp.) in the deep western Indian Ocean, Andrew R. Gates, Kirsty J. Morris, Daniel O. Jones, and Kenneth J. Sulak

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Mapping marginal croplands suitable for cellulosic feedstock crops in the Great Plains, United States, Yingxin Gu and Bruce K. Wylie

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Using satellite vegetation and compound topographic indices to maphighly erodible cropland buffers for cellulosic biofuel cropdevelopments in eastern Nebraska, USA, Yingxin Gu and Bruce K. Wylie

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Amino Acid Specific Stable Nitrogen Isotope Values in Avian Tissues: Insights from Captive American Kestrels and Wild Herring Gulls, C.E. Hebert, B.N. Popp, K.J. Fernie, C. Ka’apu-Lyons, B.A. Rattner, and N. Wallsgrove

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Amino Acid Specific Stable Nitrogen Isotope Values in Avian Tissues: Insights from Captive American Kestrels and Wild Herring Gulls, C.E. Hebert, B.N. Popp, K.J. Fernie, C. Ka’apu-Lyons, B.A. Rattner, and N. Wallsgrove

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Non-linear responses of glaciated prairie wetlands to climate warming, W. Carter Johnson, Brett Werner, and Glenn R. Guntenspergen

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Non-linear responses of glaciated prairie wetlands to climate warming, W. Carter Johnson, Brett Werner, and Glenn R. Guntenspergen

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Component greenhouse gas fluxes and radiative balance from two deltaic marshes in Louisiana: Pairing chamber techniques and eddy covariance, Ken W. Krauss, Guerry O. Holm Jr., Brian C. Perez, David E. McWhorter, Nicole Cormier, Rebecca F. Moss, Darren J. Johnson, Scott C. Neubauer, and Richard C. Raynie

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Chesapeake Bay Fish–Osprey (Pandion Haliaetus) Food Chain: Evaluation Of Contaminant Exposure And Genetic Damage, Rebecca S. Lazarus, Barnett A. Rattner, Peter C. McGowan, Robert C. Hale, Natalie K. Karouna-Renier, Richard A. Erickson, and Mary Ann Ottinger

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Evaluating land cover influences on model uncertainties—A case study of cropland carbon dynamics in the Mid-Continent Intensive Campaign region, Zhengpeng Li, Shuguang Liu, Xuesong Zhang, Tristram O. West, Stephen M. Ogle, and Naijun Zhou

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Patuxent’s American Black Duck Studies from Chesapeake Bay to Maine and Beyond, Jerry R. Longcore

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Patuxent’s Long-Term Research on Wolves, David L. Mech

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Geochemical evidence for seasonal controls on the transportation of Holocene loess, Matanuska Valley, southern Alaska, USA, Daniel R. Muhs, James R. Budahn, Gary Skipp, and John P. McGeehin

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A complex origin for the Kelso Dunes, Mojave National Preserve, California, USA: A case study using a simple geochemical method with global applications, Daniel R. Muhs, Nicholas Lancaster, and Gary L. Skipp

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Groundwater declines are linked to changes in Great Plains stream fish assemblages, Joshuah S. Perkin, Keith B. Gido, Jeffrey A. Falke, Kurt D. Fausch, Harry Crockett, Eric R. Johnson, and John Sanderson

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On the importance of stratigraphic control for vertebrate fossil sites in Channel Islands National Park, California, USA: Examples from new Mammuthus finds on San Miguel Island, Jeffrey S. Pigati, Daniel R. Muhs, and John P. McGeehin

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Retrospective: Adjusting Contaminant Concentrations in Bird Eggs to Account for Moisture and Lipid Loss During Their Incubation, Barnett A. Rattner, Stanley N. Wiemeyer, and Lawrence J. Blus

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Patuxent’s Role in the Development of the North American Breeding Bird Survey, John R. Sauer

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Concentration Trends for Lead and Calcium-Normalized Lead in Fish Fillets from the Big River, a Mining-Contaminated Stream in Southeastern Missouri USA, Christopher J. Schmitt and Michael J. McKee

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Endangered Species Research in Hawaii: The Early Years (1965–87), Michael J. Scott and Cameron B. Kepler

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Late Pleistocene Bays and Reefs: Ancestors to the Modern Caribbean Coast, Yucatán Península, México, Charles Shaw

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Germination and Growth of Native and Invasive Plants on Soil Associated with Biological Control of Tamarisk (Tamarix spp.), Rebecca A. Sherry, Patrick B. Shafroth, Jayne Belnap, Steven Ostoja, and Sasha C. Reed

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Phosphorus retention in a lowland Neotropical stream following an eight-year enrichment experiment, Gaston E. Small, Marcelo Ardón, John H. Duff, Alan P. Jackman, Alonso Ramírez, Frank J. Triska, and Catherine M. Pringle

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Conserving California Condors in the 1980s, Noel F.R. Snyder

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Processes Contributing to Resilience of Coastal Wetlands to Sea-Level Rise, Camille L. Stagg, Ken W. Krauss, Donald R. Cahoon, Nicole Cormier, William H. Conner, and Christopher M. Swarzenski

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Coherent late-Holocene climate-driven shifts in the structure of three Rocky Mountain lakes, Jeffrey R. Stone, Jasmine E. Saros, and Gregory T. Pederson

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Status of scientific knowledge, recovery progress, and future research directions for the Gulf Sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi Vladykov, 1955, K.J. Sulak, F. Parauka, W. T. Slack, R. T. Ruth, M. T. Randall, K. Luke, and M. E. Price

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A Personal Perspective on Searching for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker: A 41-Year Quest, Paul W. Sykes Jr.

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The Bird Banding Laboratory: Support for and Collaboration with Research at Patuxent, John Tautin