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Soil carbon consequences of historic hydrologic impairment and recent restoration in coastal wetlands
Recent declines in genetic diversity with limited dispersal among coastal cactus wren populations in San Diego County, California
Give and take: Effects of genetic admixture on mutation load in endangered Florida panthers
Trends analysis of Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) fractional component time series (1985–2020)
Understanding impacts of sea-level rise and land management on critical coastal marsh habitat
Microbial community response to a bioaugmentation test to degrade trichloroethylene in a fractured rock aquifer, Trenton, N.J
Assessing population genomic structure and polyploidy: A crucial step for native plant restoration
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams
Status of water-level altitudes and long-term water-level changes in the Chicot and Evangeline (undifferentiated) and Jasper aquifers, greater Houston area, Texas, 2021
Since the early 1900s, groundwater withdrawn from the primary aquifers that compose the Gulf Coast aquifer system—the Chicot and Evangeline (undifferentiated) and Jasper aquifers—has been the primary source of water in the greater Houston area, Texas. This report, prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District, City of Houston, Fort Bend Subside