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Using Demography and Movement Behavior to Predict Range Expansion of the Southern Sea Otter

Management agencies are interested in the development of a realistic predictive model of the southern sea otter population recovery and range expansion into southern California, as this would facilitate the informed assessment of potential impacts of sea otters on important industries (e.g., fisheries, eco-tourism), potential negative effects of More...

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Sea otter population status and changes in Alaska

A web page to introduce research by the USGS Alaska Science Center on sea otter population status and changes in Alaska. Provides some background on why the research is needed, research objectives, and a listing of publications by project staff.

  • full body view of sea otter under water

Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles....An Imperiled Species

Following the Kemp's Ridley on their perilous trek from Padre Island National Seashore, TX, where they are establishing a secondary nesting colony, to the Gulf of Mexico, is tricky business. Satellite transmitters are attached to a select number of females returning to the sea after laying eggs, their movements tracked by receivers picking up the More...

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Estimating Survival Estimates for Migrant Juvenile Salmonids Passing Through the Dalles Dam Using Radio-telemetry

As anadromous juvenile salmonids migrate from freshwater rearing habitats to the ocean, they are vulnerable to a host of factors that affect their survival. Direct effects associated with dam passage (e.g., instantaneous mortality, injury, loss of equilibrium, etc.) and indirect effects (e.g., predation, disease, and physiological stress) More...

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Evaluating Survival Estimates for Migrant Juvenile Salmonids Passing Through the John Day Dam Using Radio-telemetry

As anadromous juvenile salmonids migrate from freshwater rearing habitats to the ocean, they are vulnerable to a host of factors that affect their survival. Direct effects associated with dam passage (e.g., instantaneous mortality, injury, loss of equilibrium, etc.) and indirect effects (e.g., predation, disease, and physiological stress) More...

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Life History of Bristle-thighed Curlews

This resource is a life history profile of the Bristle-thighed Curlew (Numenius tahitiensis). The Bristle-thighed Curlew (Numenius tahitiensis) breeds only in North America. Its adult population numbers about 7,000 individuals, making it the rarest of the New World curlews and godwits. It is similar in appearance to the Whimbrel (N. phaeopus). More...

  • Image of the Bristle-thighed Curlew (Numenius tahitiensis)

Polar Bear Research at the Alaska Science Center - Abundance and Vital Rates Projects

This web page links to resources related to the abundance and vital rates of polar bears. It includes Polar bear population status in the southern Beaufort Sea, and Survival and population size of polar bears in relation to earlier sea ice breakup. The site also links to resources that deal with tracking polar bears via satellite, polar bear-sea More...

  • Male polar bear (Ursus maritimus)

USGS DISCOVRE Expedition: Diversity, Systematics, and Connectivity of Vulnerable Reef Ecosystems

This 4-year multidisciplinary research program will focus on understanding the physical oceanography, biology, ecology, genetic connectivity, and trophodynamics of deep coral environments in the Gulf of Mexico (300-1000 m depths), both within natural and artificial (shipwreck) sites. A combination of traditional techniques (for example, More...

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Community Structure and Adaptive Strategies of Fungi in Geothermal Soils

There are approximately 500,000 abandoned mines in the western US. Collectively, these mines pollute rivers, streams, and western reservoirs with millions of tons of metals annually that degrade aquatic habitat and water used by humans for drinking, recreation, and irrigation. However, there is great potential in decreasing or eliminating the flow More...

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