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

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2016

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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

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MODELING THE EFFECTS OF TILE DRAIN PLACEMENT ON THE HYDROLOGIC FUNCTION OF FARMED PRAIRIE WETLANDS1, Brett Werner, John Tracy, W. Carter Johnson, Richard A. Voldseth, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, and Bruce Millett

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MODELING THE EFFECTS OF TILE DRAIN PLACEMENT ON THE HYDROLOGIC FUNCTION OF FARMED PRAIRIE WETLANDS1, Brett Werner, John Tracy, W. Carter Johnson, Richard A. Voldseth, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, and Bruce Millett

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Endangered Species Research in the Caribbean, James W. Wiley

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Pranked by Audubon: Constantine S. Rafinesque’s description of John James Audubon’s imaginary Kentucky mammals, Neal Woodman

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Pranked by Audubon: Constantine S. Rafinesque’s description of John James Audubon’s imaginary Kentucky mammals, Neal Woodman

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Gross and Microscopic Lesions in Corals from Micronesia, T. M. Work, G. S. Aeby, and K. A. Hughen

2015

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On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene, Craig D. Allen, David D. Breshears, and Nate G. McDowell

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A Simple Web-Based Tool to Compare Freshwater Fish Data Collected Using AFS Standard Methods, Scott A. Bonar, Norman Mercado-Silva, Matt Rahr, Yuta T. Torrey, and Averill Cate Jr.

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Estimating Relative Sea-Level Rise and Submergence Potential at a Coastal Wetland, Donald R. Cahoon

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Linking thermodynamic modelling, Lu–Hf geochronology and trace elements in garnet: new P–T–t paths from the Sevier hinterland, A. M. Cruz-Uribe, T. D. Hoisch, M. L. Wells, J. D. Vervoort, and F. K. Mazdab

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Investigating Endocrine and Physiological Parameters of Captive American Kestrels Exposed by Diet to Selected Organophosphate Flame Retardants, Kimberly J. Fernie, Vince Palace, Lisa E. Peters, Nil Basu, Robert J. Letcher, Natalie K. Karouna-Renier, Sandra L. Schultz, Rebecca S. Lazarus, and Barnett A. Rattner

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Metamodels to Bridge the Gap Between Modeling and Decision Support, Michael N. Fienen, Bernard T. Nolan, Daniel T. Feinstein, and J. Jeffrey Starn

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Bioaccumulation of Stentorin, the Probable Causative Agent for Discolored (“Purple”) Eggs and Ovaries in Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) from Eufaula Lake, Oklahoma, USA, Robert W. Gale, Diana M. Papoulias, and Christopher J. Schmitt

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Another possible source of archeological maize found in Chaco Canyon, NM: The Tohatchi Flats area, NM, USA, Deanna Grimstead, Sharon M. Buck, Bradley J. Vierra, and Larry V. Benson

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Developing a 30-m grassland productivity estimation map for central Nebraska using 250-m MODIS and 30-m Landsat-8 observations, Yingxin Gu and Bruce K. Wylie

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NUTRIENT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ALLUVIAL SOILS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RESTORATION OF SHALLOW WATER HABITAT IN THE LOWER MISSOURI RIVER, D C. Heimann, D M. Morris, and T R. Gemeinhardt

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Examining spectral variations in localized lunar dark mantle deposits, Erica R. Jawin, Sebastien Besse, Lisa R. Gaddis, Jessica M. Sunshine, James W. Head, and Sara Mazrouei

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Global change and conservation triage on National Wildlife Refuges, Fred Johnson, Mitchell J. Eaton, Gerard McMahon, Raye Nilius, Michael R. Bryant, Dave Case, Julien Martin, Nathan J. Wood, and Laura Taylor

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Global change and conservation triage on National Wildlife Refuges, Fred Johnson, Mitchell J. Eaton, Gerard McMahon, Raye Nilius, Michael R. Bryant, Dave Case, Julien Martin, Nathan Wood, and Laura Taylor

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Training Conservation Practitioners to be Better Decision Makers, Fred Johnson, Mitchell J. Eaton, James H. Williams, Gitte H. Jensen, and Jesper Madsen

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Training Conservation Practitioners to be Better Decision Makers, Fred Johnson, Mitchell J. Eaton, James H. Williams, Gitte H. Jensen, and Jesper Madsen

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Short-term Response of Holcus lanatus L. (Common Velvetgrass) to Chemical and Manual Control at Yosemite National Park, USA, Laura J. Jones, Steven M. Ostoja, Matthew L. Brooks, and Martin Hutten

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A Bird’s- Eye View of the USA National Phenology Network: an off-the-shelf monitoring program, Jherime Kellerman, Caroline A. F. Enquist, Diana L. Humple, Nathaniel E. Seavy, Alyssa Rosemartin, Renée L. Cormier, and LoriAnne Barnett

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Aquatic pollution increases use of terrestrial prey subsidies by stream fish, Johanna M. Kraus, Justin F. Pomeranz, Andrew S. Todd, David M. Walters, Travis S. Schmidt, and Richard B. Wanty

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Decadal re-evaluation of contaminant exposure and productivity of ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) nesting in Chesapeake Bay Regions of Concern, Rebecca S. Lazarus, Barnett A. Rattner, Peter C. McGowan, Robert C. Hale, Sandra L. Schultz, Natalie K. Karouna-Renier, and Mary Ann Ottinger

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Sea level and turbidity controls on mangrove soil surface elevation change, Catherine E. Lovelock, Maria Fernanda Adame, Vicki Bennion, Matthew Hayes, Ruth Reef, Nadia Santini, and Donald R. Cahoon

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The vulnerability of Indo-Pacific mangrove forests to sea-level rise, Catherine E. Lovelock, Donald R. Cahoon, Daniel A. Friess, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, Ken W. Krauss, Ruth Reef, Kerrylee Rogers, Megan L. Saunders, Frida Sidik, Andrew Swales, Neil Saintilan, Le Xuan Thuyen, and Tran Triet

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Dynamic rupture models of earthquakes on the Bartlett Springs Fault, Northern California, Julian C. Lozos, Ruth A. Harris, Jessica R. Murray, and James J. Lienkaemper

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Sediment and discharge yields within a minimally disturbed, headwater watershed in North Central Pennsylvania, USA, with an emphasis on Superstorm Sandy, Kelly O. Maloney and Dustin R. Shull

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End-of-winter snow depth variability on glaciers in Alaska, Daniel McGrath, Louis Sass, Shad O/Neel, Anthony Arendt, Gabriel Wolken, Alessio Gusmeroli, Christian Kienholz, and Christopher McNeil

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At-grade stabilization structure impact on surface water quality of an agricultural watershed, Kyle R. Minks, Matthew D. Ruark, Birl Lowery, Fred W. Madison, Dennis Frame, Todd D. Stuntebeck, Matthew J. Komiskey, and George J. Kraft

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Late Quaternary sea-level history and the antiquity of mammoths (Mammuthus exilis and Mammuthus columbi), Channel Islands National Park, California, USA, Daniel R. Muhs, Kathleen R. Simmons, Lindsey T. Groves, John McGeehin, R. Randall Schumann, and Larry D. Agenbroad

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Uranium-series ages of fossil corals from Mallorca, Spain: The “Neotyrrhenian” high stand of the Mediterranean Sea revisited, Daniel R. Muhs, Kathleen R. Simmons, Joaquín Meco, and Naomi Porat

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Sea level, paleogeography, and archeology on California's Northern Channel Islands, Leslie Reeder- Myers, Jon Erlandson, Daniel R. Muhs, and Torben Rick

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Underpressure in Mesozoic and Paleozoic rock units in the Midcontinent of the United States, Philip H. Nelson, Nicholas J. Gianoutsos, and Ronald M. Drake

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Radiocarbon dating of late Quaternary sediments using fossil gastropod shells, Jeffrey S. Pigati, John P. McGeehin, and Daniel R. Muhs

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Interactive Effects of Climate Change with Nutrients, Mercury, and Freshwater Acidification on Key Taxa in the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Region, Alfred E. Pinkney, Charles T. Driscoll, David C. Evers, Michael J. Hooper, Jeffrey Horan, Jess W. Jones, Rebecca S. Lazarus, Harold G. Marshall, Andrew Milliken, Barnett A. Rattner, John Schmerfeld, and Donald W. Sparling

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Toxicity reference values for chlorophacinone and their application for assessing anticoagulant rodenticide risk to raptors, Barnett A. Rattner, Katherine E. Horak, Rebecca S. Lazarus, Sandra L. Schultz, Susan Knowles, Benjamin G. Abbo, and Steven F. Volker

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Drought Monitoring and Assessment: Remote Sensing and Modeling Approaches for the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, G B. Senay, N M. Velpuri, S Bohms, M Budde, C Young, J Rowland, and J P. Verdin

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Possible Tsunami Deposits on the Caribbean Coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, Charles Shaw and Larry Benson

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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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Corn Belt soil carbon and macronutrient budgets with projected sustainable stover harvest, Zhengxi Tan and Shuguang Liu

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Use of Terrestrial Field Studies In the Derivation of Bioaccumulation Potential of Chemicals, Nico W. van den Brink, Jennifer A. Arblaster, Sarah R. Bowman, Jason M. Conder, John E. Elliott, Mark S. Johnson, Derek C.G. Muir, Tiago Natal-da-Luz, Barnett A. Rattner, Bradley E. Sample, and Richard F. Shore

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Relative importance of phosphorus, invasive mussels and climate for patterns in chlorophyll a and primary production in Lakes Michigan and Huron, David M. Warner and Barry M. Lesht

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The distribution of selected elements and minerals in soil of the conterminous United States, Laurel Woodruff, William F. Cannon, David B. Smith, and Federico Solano

2014

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Implementation of a Non-lethal Biopsy Punch Monitoring Program for Mercury in Smallmouth Bass, Micropterus dolomieu Lacepede, from the Eleven Point River, Missouri, J. R. Ackerson, M. J. McKee, C. J. Schmitt, and W. G. Brumbaugh

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Mummy Lake: an unroofed ceremonial structure within a large-scale ritual landscape, L.V. Benson, E.R. Griffin, J.R. Stein, R.A. Friedman, and S.W. Andrae

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Toxicity of Pb‐Contaminated Soil to Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica) and the Use of the Blood–dietary Pb Slope in Risk Assessment, W. Nelson Beyer, Yu Chen, Paula Henry, Thomas May, David Mosby, Barnett A. Rattner, Valerie I. Shearn-Bochsler, Daniel Sprague, and John Weber

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Riverbank filtration potential of pharmaceuticals in a wastewater-impacted stream, Paul M. Bradley, Larry B. Barber, Joesph W. Duris, William T. Foreman, Edward T. Furlong, Laura E. Hubbard, Kasey J. Hutchinson, Steffanie H. Keefe, and Dana W. Kolpin

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Integrating Land Cover Modeling and Adaptive Management to Conserve Endangered Species and Reduce Catastrophic Fire Risk, David Breininger, Brean Duncan, Mitchell J. Eaton, Fred Johnson, and James Nichols

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Integrating Land Cover Modeling and Adaptive Management to Conserve Endangered Species and Reduce Catastrophic Fire Risk, David Breininger, Brean Duncan, Mitchell Eaton, Fred Johnson, and James Nichols

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Merging remote sensing data and national agricultural statistics to model change in irrigated agriculture, Jesslyn F. Brown and Md Shahriar Pervez

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Maintaining Resilience in the Face of Climate Change, Alejandro E. Camacho and T. Douglas Beard

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Biogeochemical aspects of uranium mineralization, mining, milling, and remediation, Kate M. Campbell, Tanya J. Gallegos, and Edward R. Landa

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Estimating evapotranspiration and groundwater flow from water-table fluctuations for a general wetland scenario, Martha L. Carlson Mazur, Michael Wiley, and Douglas Wilcox

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Response of a tall building far from the epicenter of the 11 March 2011 M9.0 Great East Japan earthquake and aftershocks, Mehmet Celebi, Izuru Okawa, Toshidate Kashima, Shin Koyama, and Masanori Iiba

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Parameter Estimation for Groundwater Models under Uncertain Irrigation Data, Yonas Demissie, Albert Valocchi, Ximing Cai, Nicholas Brozovic, Gabriel Senay, and Mekonnen Gebremichael

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Comparative responses to endocrine disrupting compounds in earlylife stages of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, T. A. Duffy, L. R. Iwanowics, and S. D. McCormick

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Testing metapopulation concepts: effects of patch characteristics and neighborhood occupancy on the dynamics of an endangered lagomorph, Mitchell J. Eaton, Phillip T. Hughes, James E. Hines, and James D. Nichols

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Testing metapopulation concepts: effects of patch characteristics and neighborhood occupancy on the dynamics of an endangered lagomorph, Mitchell J. Eaton, Phillip T. Hughes, James E. Hines, and James D. Nichols

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Structural equation models of VMT growth in US urbanised areas, Reid Ewing, Shima Hamidi, Frank Gallivan, Arthur C. Nelson, and James B. Grace

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Blind modal identification of structures from spatially sparse seismic, S. F. Ghahari, F. Abazarsa, M. A. Ghannad, M. Celebi, and E. Taciroglu

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Projecting future grassland productivity to assess the sustainability of potential biofuel feedstock areas in the Greater Platte River Basin, Yingxin Gu, Bruce K. Wylie, Stephen Boyte, and Khem Phuyal

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Sex-Biased Gene Flow Among Elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Brian K. Hand, Shanyuan Chen, Neil Anderson, Albano Beja-Pereira, Paul C. Cross, Michael Ebinger, Hank Edwards, Robert A. Garrott, Marty D. Kardos, Matt Kauffman, Erin L. Landguth, Arthur Middleton, Brandon Scurlock, P.J. White, Pete Zager, Michael K. Schwartz, and Gordon Luikart

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Monitoring conterminous United States (CONUS) land cover change with Web-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD), M C. Hansen, A. Egorov, P V. Potapov, S V. Stehman, A Tyukavina, S A. Turubanova, D. P. Roy, S J. Goetz, T R. Loveland, J Ju, A. Kommareddy, V. Kovalskyy, C Forsyth, and T Bents

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Geophysical Advances Triggered by 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake, P. Haussler, W. Leith, D. Wald, J. Filson, C. Wolf, and D. Applegate

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LARGE BIASES IN REGRESSION-BASED CONSTITUENT FLUX ESTIMATES: CAUSES AND DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS, Robert Hirsh

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The behavioural response of adult Petromyzon marinus to damage-released alarm and predator cues, I. Imre, R. T. Di Rocco, C. F. Belanger, G. E. Brown, and N. S. Johnson

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Blocking and guiding adult sea lamprey with pulsed direct currentfrom vertical electrodes, Nicholas Johnson, Henry Thompson, Christopher Holbrook, and John Tix

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Inference of strata separation and gas emission paths in longwall overburden using continuous wavelet transform of well logs and geostatistical simulation, C. Ozgen Karacan and Ricardo A. Olea

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HUSBANDRY REPORTS Hand‐Rearing, Growth, and Development of Common Loon (Gavia Immer) Chicks, Kevin P. Kenow, Melissa S. Meier, Laurie E. McColl, Randy K. Hines, Jimmy Pichner, Laura Johnson, James Lyon, Kellie Kroc Scharold, and Michael Meyer

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Depletion and Capture: Revisiting ‘‘The Source of Water Derived from Wells, L. F. Konikow and S. A. Leake