Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (PWRC, Laurel) | Format: URL
www.pwrc.usgs.gov — BEST Large River Fish Health Data Query Tool provides a simplified portal for accessing database that serves fish health endpoints measured through the Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) Project's Large River Monitoring Network (LRMN). The tool allows the user to search the database by species, chemical, river basin, sampling More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (FRESC, Corvallis) | Format: URL
ris.wr.usgs.gov — The Raptor Information System (RIS) is a computerized literature retrieval system that focuses on raptor management, human impacts on raptors, the mitigation of adverse impacts, and basic raptor biology (with an emphasis on population dynamics and predation). The raptor contaminants database is a subset of RIS that includes references with More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC, Columbia) | Format: URL
www.cerc.usgs.gov — The primary goal of the proposed research is to evaluate selenium and atrazine exposure and effects to fish, amphibians, and waterfowl that utilize the Refuge. The following subordinate objectives will be met to investigate selenium exposure and effects to wildlife on the Refuge: 1.Measure selenium concentrations and total organic content in More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Western Ecological Research Center (WERC, Sacramento) | Format: URL
www.werc.usgs.gov — The Aleutian archipelago of Alaska, which separates the North Pacific Ocean from the Bering Sea, supports a diverse and abundant community of resident and migratory seabirds, comprising over 26 species and 10 million birds. However, comparatively little data exist on sources of environmental contaminants for this community despite extensive More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (PWRC, Laurel) | Format: URL
www.pwrc.usgs.gov — Written summaries of biological characteristics and contaminant exposure and effects data for 38 coastal and estuarine terrestrial vertebrates are available. Species were selected based on their previous use in contaminant monitoring, their status as valued natural resources, or as representatives of taxonomic groups. Characterizations were More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Contaminant Biology | Format: URL
biology.usgs.gov — This web page lists databases related to contaminant research across government agencies and partnerships. Many of the links include access to documented trends in the occurrence of persistent toxic chemicals that may threaten fish and wildlife resources, summaries of the results from aquatic acute toxicity tests, Avian Incident Monitoring, More...