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Quantifying permanent uplift due to lithosphere-hotspot interaction
Working toward a National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network: Vision, progress, and future directions
Water quality of sand and gravel aquifers in McHenry County, Illinois, 2020 and comparisons to conditions in 2010
Causes, responses, and implications of anthropogenic versus natural flow intermittence in river networks
Using landscape genomics to delineate future adaptive potential for climate change in the Yosemite toad (Anaxyrus canorus)
Abundance and distribution of large thecosome pteropods in the northern Gulf of Mexico
The ecological role of large thecosome pteropods in the pelagic ecosystem of the northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM) may be substantial, both in the food web and biogeochemical cycling. We analyzed species abundances, vertical and horizontal distributions of large species with calcareous shells (those collected in 3-mm mesh nets). Pteropod samples were collected following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil
Earth’s upper crust seismically excited by infrasound from the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai eruption, Tonga
Historical Structure from Motion (HSfM): Automated processing of historical aerial photographs for long-term topographic change analysis
Physical controls on the hydrology of perennially ice-covered lakes, Taylor Valley, Antarctica (1996-2013)
Point count offsets for estimating population sizes of north American landbirds
Divergent Serpentoviruses in free-ranging invasive pythons and native colubrids in southern Florida, United States
Climate-modulated range expansion of reef-building coral communities off southeast Florida during the late Holocene
The Holocene reefs off southeast Florida provide unique insights into the biogeographical and ecological response of western Atlantic coral reefs to past climate change that can be used to evaluate future climate impacts. However, previous studies have focused on millennial-scale change during the stable mid-Holocene, making it difficult to make inferences about the impact of shorter-term variabil