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Brazos Field Research Station

The BFRS works cooperatively with team members from CERC and with faculty and graduate students of Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A&M University in research areas represented by the branch structure of the CERC including toxicology, ecology, biochemistry and physiology, environmental chemistry, ecogeography, and information More...

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Environmental Endocrine Disrupters: Effects and Possible Mechanism(s) in Young Male River Otters

The river otter (Lontra canadensis) is a top predator of most aquatic food chains. The goal of this study is to further evaluate the relationship among the contaminants and observed reproductive organ hypoplasia in young male river otters, their occurrence, and mode of action or mechanism that causes hypoplasia with a larger series of data from More...

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Manatee Research (Sirenia Project)

Web page for the Sirenia Project, a USGS Florida Integrated Science Center project that conducts studies on the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus). Includes links to manatee research in the news, international research, publications and presentations, and project staff contact information.

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Evaluation of Water Level Reduction as a Habitat Management Tool for the Upper Mississippi River

The diversity of habitat types, plants, and animals in the Upper Mississippi River has declined considerably over the last 50 years, creating loss of aquatic vegetation, loss of islands and side channels behind dams, and changes in river sediments, potentially caused by the method of managing water levels, which maintains artificially high water More...

  • Pool 8 - Reach 1 - Upper Mississippi River