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Streamflow, water quality, and constituent loads and yields, Scituate Reservoir drainage area, Rhode Island, water year 2020
As part of a long-term cooperative program to monitor water quality within the Scituate Reservoir drainage area, the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with Providence Water (sometimes known as Providence Water Supply Board) collected streamflow and water-quality data in tributaries to the Scituate Reservoir, Rhode Island. Streamflow and concentrations of chloride and sodium estimated from reco
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Kirk P. Smith
The development of China’s monopoly over cobalt battery materials
While previous resource conflicts have often been linked to fuel minerals such as oil, future resource conflict may revolve around nonfuel minerals that enable strategic emerging technologies. During a 2010 diplomatic dispute, China reportedly blocked exports of rare earth elements to Japan, thereby leveraging China’s near-monopoly to threaten Japanese manufacturers of advanced technologies includ
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Andrew L. Gulley
Microbial diversity, genomics, and phage–host interactions of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms
The occurrence of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) is related to their physical and chemical environment. However, less is known about their associated microbial interactions and processes. In this study, cyanoHABs were analyzed as a microbial ecosystem, using 1 year of 16S rRNA sequencing and 70 metagenomes collected during the bloom season from Lake Okeechobee (Florida, USA). Biog
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Lauren E Krausfeldt, Elizaveta Shmakova, Hyo Won Lee, Viviana Mazzei, Keith Loftin, Robert P Smith, Emily E. Karwacki, Eric Fortman, B.H. Rosen, Hidetoshi Urakawa, Manoj Dadlani, Rita Colwell, Jose V Lopez
Egg mercury concentration and egg size varies with position in the laying sequence in two songbird species
In birds, mercury embryotoxicity can occur through the transfer of mercury from the female to her eggs. Maternal transfer of mercury can vary by egg position in the laying sequence, with first-laid eggs often exhibiting greater mercury concentrations than subsequently laid eggs. We studied egg mercury concentration, mercury burden (total amount of mercury in the egg), and egg morphometrics by egg
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C. Alex Hartman, Josh T. Ackerman, Breanne Cooney, Mark P. Herzog
Climate change scenarios for air and water temperatures in the upper San Francisco Estuary: Implications for thermal regimes and Delta Smelt
Climate projections and their effects in the San Francisco Estuary have been evaluated as part of the US Geological Survey’s CASCaDE2 project. Understanding the ecological effects of climate change can help manage and maintain the ecological health and productivity of the San Francisco Estuary. In this study, we assessed downscaled air temperature data from 10 global climate models (GCMs) under tw
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Brock Huntsman, Larry R. Brown, Marissa L. Wulff, Noah Knowles, R. Wayne Wagner, Frederick V. Feyrer
A circumpolar study unveils a positive non-linear effect of temperature on arctic arthropod availability that may reduce the risk of warming-induced trophic mismatch for breeding shorebirds
Seasonally abundant arthropods are a crucial food source for many migratory birds that breed in the Arctic. In cold environments, the growth and emergence of arthropods are particularly tied to temperature. Thus, the phenology of arthropods is anticipated to undergo a rapid change in response to a warming climate, potentially leading to a trophic mismatch between migratory insectivorous birds and
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Aurélie Chagnon-Lafortune, Éliane Duchesne, Pierre Legagneux, Laura McKinnon, Jeroen Reneerkens, Nicolas Casajus, Kenneth F. Abraham, Élise Bolduc, Glen S. Brown, Stephen C. Brown, H. River Gates, Olivier Gilg, Marie-Andrée Giroux, Kirsty Gurney, Steve Kendall, Eunbi Kwon, Richard B. Lanctot, David B. Lank, Nicolas Lecomte, Maria Leung, Joe Liebezeit, R.I.G. Morrison, Erica Nol, David C. Payer, Donald Reid, Daniel R. Ruthrauff, Sarah T. Saalfeld, Brett K. Sandercock, Paul Smith, Niels Martin Schmidt, Ingrid Tulp, David H. Ward, Toke Thomas Høye, Dominique Berteaux, Joël Bêty
Taking heat (downstream): Simulating groundwater and thermal equilibrium controls on annual paired air–water temperature signal transport in headwater streams
Headwater stream temperature often exhibits spatial variation at the kilometer-scale, but the relative importance of the underlying hydrogeological processes and riverine perturbations remains poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the relative importance of groundwater (GW) and other processes on downstream annual stream temperature signal characteristics using deterministic heat budge
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Zachary Johnson, Martin Briggs, Craig D. Snyder, Brittany G. Johnson, Nathaniel P. Hitt
Rainfall intensification amplifies exposure of American Southwest to conditions that trigger postfire debris flows
Short-duration, high-intensity rainfall can initiate deadly and destructive debris flows after wildfire. Methods to estimate the conditions that can trigger debris flows exist and guidance to determine how often those thresholds will be exceeded under the present climate are available. However, the limited spatiotemporal resolution of climate models has hampered efforts to characterize how rainfal
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Matthew A. Thomas, Allison C. Michaelis, Nina S. Oakley, Jason W. Kean, Victor A. Gensini, Walker S. Ashley
Systematic assessment of long-read RNA-seq methods for transcript identification and quantification
The Long-read RNA-Seq Genome Annotation Assessment Project Consortium was formed to evaluate the effectiveness of long-read approaches for transcriptome analysis. Using different protocols and sequencing platforms, the consortium generated over 427 million long-read sequences from complementary DNA and direct RNA datasets, encompassing human, mouse and manatee species. Developers utilized these da
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Francisco J. Pardo-Palacios, Dingjie Wang, Fairlie Reese, Mark Diekhans, Sílvia Carbonell-Sala, Brian Williams, Jane E. Loveland, Maite De María, Matthew S. Adams, Gabriela Balderrama-Gutierrez, Amit K. Behera, Jose M. Gonzalez Martinez, Toby Hunt, Julien Lagarde, Cindy E. Liang, Haoran Li, Marcus Jerryd Meade, David A. Moraga Amador, Andrey D. Prjibelski, Inanc Birol, Hamed Bostan, Ashley M. Brooks, Muhammed Hasan Çelik, Ying Chen, Mei R.M. Du, Colette Felton, Jonathan Göke, Saber Hafezqorani, Ralf Herwig, Hideya Kawaji, Joseph Lee, Jian-Liang Li, Matthias Lienhard, Alla Mikheenko, Dennis Mulligan, Ka Ming Nip, Mihaela Pertea, Matthew E. Ritchie, Andre D. Sim, Alison D. Tang, Yuk Kei Wan, Changqing Wang, Brandon Y. Wong, Chen Yang, If Barnes, Andrew E. Berry, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez, Alyssa Cousineau, Namrita Dhillon, Jose M. Fernandez-Gonzalez, Luis Ferrández-Peral, Natàlia Garcia-Reyero, Stefan Götz, Carles Hernández-Ferrer, Liudmyla Kondratova, Tianyuan Liu, Alessandra Martinez-Martin, Carlos Menor, Jorge Mestre-Tomás, Jonathan M. Mudge, Nedka G. Panayotova, Alejandro Paniagua, Dmitry Repchevsky, Xingjie Ren, Eric Rouchka, Brandon Saint-John, Enrique Sapena, Leon Sheynkman, Melissa Laird Smith, Marie-Marthe Suner, Hazuki Takahashi, Ingrid A. Youngworth, Piero Carninci, Nancy D. Denslow, Roderic Guigó, Margaret Hunter, Rene Maehr, Yin Shen, Hagen U. Tilgner, Barbara J. Wold, Christopher Vollmers, Adam Frankish, Kin Fai Au, Gloria M. Sheynkman, Ali Mortazavi, Ana Conesa, Angela N. Brooks
Earthquake scenario development in conjunction with the 2023 USGS National Seismic Hazard Model
We present earthquake scenarios developed to accompany the release of the 2023 update to the US Geological Survey National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM). Scenarios can serve a range of local and regional needs, from developing proactive-targeted mitigation strategies for minimizing impending risk to aiding emergency management planning. These deterministic scenarios can also be used to communicate s
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Robert Edward Chase, Kishor S. Jaiswal, Mark D. Petersen
Bornean Wren-Babbler Ptilocichla leucogrammica
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Ryan C. Burner, Guy M. Kirwan, Peter Pyle, Nigel J. Collar, Craig Robson
Bare-headed Laughingthrush Melanocichla calva
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Ryan C. Burner, Guy M. Kirwan, Peter Pyle, Nigel J. Collar, Craig Robson