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Loess records
Loess is aeolian sediment, dominated by silt-sized particles, that is identifiable in the field as a distinct sedimentary body. It covers a significant portion of the land surface of the Earth and as such constitutes one of the most important archives of long-term dust deposition. Large tracts of loess cover Europe, Asia, South America, and North America, and smaller loess bodies are found coverin
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Daniel R. Muhs, Stephen R. Cattle, Onn Crouvi, Denis-Didier Rousseau, Jiimin Sun, Marcelo A. Zárate
Home range and movements of North American tortoises
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Joan E. Berish, Phil A. Medica
Groundwater Dating with Atmospheric Halogenated Compounds
"Atmospheric environmental releases refer to the emission of stable, long-lived compounds of solely anthropogenic origin into the atmosphere and the use of the compounds to estimate dates of their incorporation into groundwater."
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Karl B. Haase, Eurybiades Busenberg
The impact of climate change on coastal ecosystems
In this chapter we stress two important features of coasts and coastal ecosystems. First, these are dynamic systems which continually undergo adjustments, especially through erosion and re-deposition, in response to a range of processes. Many coastal ecosystems adjust naturally at a range of time scales and their potential for response is examined partly by reconstructing how such systems have cop
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Colin D. Woodroffe, Robert J. Nicholls, Virginia Burkett, Donald L. Forbes
Intraplate seismic hazard: evidence for distributed strain and implications for seismic hazard
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Susan E. Hough
Evaluating a slope-stability model for shallow rain-induced landslides using gage and satellite data
Improving prediction of landslide early warning systems requires accurate estimation of the conditions that trigger slope failures. This study tested a slope-stability model for shallow rainfall-induced landslides by utilizing rainfall information from gauge and satellite records. We used the TRIGRS model (Transient Rainfall Infiltration and Grid-based Regional Slope-stability analysis) for simula
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S. Yatheendradas, D. Kirschbaum, Rex L. Baum, Jonathan W. Godt
Neotectonics and geomorphic evolution of the northwestern arm of the Yellowstone Tectonic Parabola: Controls on intra-cratonic extensional regimes, southwest Montana
The catastrophic Hebgen Lake earthquake of 18 August 1959 (MW 7.3) led many geoscientists to develop new methods to better understand active tectonics in extensional tectonic regimes that address seismic hazards. The Madison Range fault system and adjacent Hebgen Lake–Red Canyon fault system provide an intermountain active tectonic analog for regional analyses of extensional crustal deformation. T
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Chester A. Ruleman, Mort Larsen, Michael C. Stickney
The effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity
This chapter reports the findings of a Working Group on how atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition affects both terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity. Regional and global scale impacts on biodiversity are addressed, together with potential indicators. Key conclusions are that: the rates of loss in biodiversity are greatest at the lowest and initial stages of N deposition increase; changes in specie
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Jill Baron, Mary C. Barber, Mark Adams, Julius I. Agboola, Edith B. Allen, William J. Bealey, Roland Bobbink, Maxim V. Bobrovsky, William D. Bowman, Cristina Branquinho, Mercedes M. C. Bustamente, Christopher L. Clark, Edward C. Cocking, Cristina Cruz, Eric A. Davidson, O. Tom Denmead, Teresa Dias, Nancy B. Dise, Alan Feest, James N. Galloway, Linda H. Geiser, Frank S. Gilliam, Ian J. Harrison, Larisa G. Khanina, Xiankai Lu, Esteban Manrique, Raul Ochoa-Hueso, Jean P. H. B. Ometto, Richard Payne, Thomas Scheuschner, Lucy J. Sheppard, Gavin L. Simpson, Y. V. Singh, Carly J. Stevens, Ian Strachan, Harald Sverdrup, Naoko Tokuchi, Hans van Dobben, Sarah Woodin
Status and trends of pelagic prey fish in Lake Huron, 2013
The USGS Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC) conducted acoustic and midwater trawl surveys
of Lake Huron during 1997 and annually during 2004-2013. The 2013 survey was conducted
during September and October and included transects in Lake Huron’s main basin, Georgian
Bay, and North Channel. Pelagic fish density was 1,033 fish/ha in 2013 and increased 62% over
the 2012 estimate. Total biomass in 2
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Timothy P. O'Brien, David M. Warner, Steve A. Farha, Darryl W. Hondorp, Lisa A. Kaulfersch, Nicole M. Watson
Making One Health a reality: Crossing bureaucratic boundaries
A One Health approach that achieves optimal outcomes requires that nontraditional partners come to a common table to identify solutions that transcend organization-specific mandates. This collaboration requires individuals to go beyond their accustomed comfort zones and function on teams with partners who very likely come from unfamiliar organizational, disciplinary, and even national cultures. Ea
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Carol Rubin, Bernadette Dunham, Jonathan Sleeman
Vaccination against bacterial kidney disease
Bacterial kidney disease (BKD) of salmonid fishes, caused by Renibacterium salmoninarum, has been recognized as a serious disease in salmonid fishes since the 1930s. This chapter discusses the occurrence and significance, etiology, and pathogenesis of BKD. It then describes the different vaccination procedures and the effects and side-effects of vaccination. Despite years of research, however, onl
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Diane G. Elliott, Gregory D. Wiens, K. Larry Hammell, Linda D. Rhodes