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Reproducing age variability in grass carp egg samples from the lower Sandusky River, Ohio, USA, using an egg-drift model
Accuracy assessment of three-dimensional point cloud data collected with a scanning total station on Shinnecock Nation Tribal lands in Suffolk County, New York
Groundwater, surface-water, and water-chemistry data, Black Mesa area, northeastern Arizona—2019–2021
Yellowstone Volcano Observatory 2023 annual report
National Aquatic Environmental DNA Strategy
Evaluation of coal mine drainage and associated precipitates for radium and rare earth element concentrations
The U.S. Geological Survey Ohio Water Microbiology Laboratory
Bees of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge—A preliminary report on a bee survey in a vulnerable semi-desert grassland of the Sonoran Desert
Pollinators are vital to the continued existence and seed production of about 87.5 percent of all flowering plants (Ollerton and others, 2011). In the semi-desert grasslands of Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, in the Sonoran Desert of the United States, flowering forbs provide seed vital to the food base of wildlife, including the 136 species of resident and migratory birds using the Refuge’