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EcoNews is a quarterly newsletter highlighting ecosystems science and activities coming out of our Science Centers, Cooperative Research Units, and Climate Adaptation Science Centers across the Nation.
Programs and Science Centers within the Ecosystems Mission Area are publishing a diverse set of topical newsletters. Subscribe to keep up with the latest USGS ecosystems science.
From sagebrush to trout, USGS bolsters conservation efforts through data, collaboration
USGS scientists, working with scientists and resource managers from multiple U.S. Department of Interior Bureaus and other government agencies, have...
New study from FORT social scientists and collaborators describes perceived constraints of the U.S. public to participating in wildlife-related recreation
A new paper out in the Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism describes the self-determined constraints of the U.S. public to participating in...
FORT Updates: From Plains to Peaks - Vol. 1 | Issue 4
In our last issue of the year, we feature a review of all the science completed by FORT researchers in 2023, along with the following: an article from...
Incorporating Human Reactions into Flood Risk Assessments
Southeast CASC researchers updated a land change model to consider the interactions between urban growth, climate change-induced flooding, and human...
Research Ecologist Jill Baron coauthors study finding no effect of road proximity on nitrogen deposition in a complex, mountainous terrain
Excess reactive nitrogen from vehicle emissions has the potential to negatively impact ecosystems, through increased soil acidification, biodiversity...
USGS ecologist forges the key to unlocking a long-standing scientific debate about habitat fragmentation
Jonathon Valente didn’t set out to be a mediator for scientists or science, but to help his field of landscape ecology out of a rut, that’s just what...