Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC, Columbia) | Format: URL
www.cerc.usgs.gov — This research project focuses on the endemic nature of the Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) and shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) and their reproductive status. Its objectives are to develop methods to use endoscopy and ultrasonic imagery to visually observe the gonads of adult and immature shovelnose and pallid sturgeon, as More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (NPWRC, Jamestown) | Format: URL
www.npwrc.usgs.gov — This research project evaluates the effects of prescribed fire on the biological control of an invasive species, leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula). This project evaluates the effect of prerelease burning on establishment of flea beetle (Aphthona nigriscutis) colonies and the ability of established colonies to survive prescribed fire.
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (PWRC, Laurel) | Format: URL
www.pwrc.usgs.gov — Information about ecotoxicological exposure and its effects on terrestrial vertebrates residing in estuarine and coastal habitats like the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Coasts, Alaska and Hawaii, as well as the Great Lakes. These vertebrates include birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles. The data is a compilation of results from computerized More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC, LaCrosse) | Format: URL
www.umesc.usgs.gov — This web resource provides decision makers with the information needed to maintain the Upper Mississippi River System as a viable multiple-use large river ecosystem. This resource also includes Data and sampling information, publication links, reports, other related documents and statistics, as well as links to field stations and other projects More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC, LaCrosse) | Format: URL
www.umesc.usgs.gov — Presently, the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP) conducts annual monitoring of vegetation using a stratified random sampling method (Yin et al. 2000) in five study reaches of the Upper Mississippi River System: Navigation Pools 4, 8, 13, and 26 on the Mississippi River; and La Grange Pool on the Illinois River. The LTRMP will continue More...
2006 | Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC, LaCrosse) | Format: URL
www.umesc.usgs.gov — The Sediment-Contaminant Database for the Upper Mississippi River System (version 2) contains reliable sediment-contaminant data from a total of 3950 analyzed sediment samples collected from 1974 through 2000 from the Upper Mississippi River, the Illinois River, and selected tributary streams. Groups of contaminants represented in the database More...
2006 | Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Fort Collins Science Center (FORT, Ft. Collins) | Format: URL
www.fort.usgs.gov — Although the monitoring of black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) populations following reintroductions has not been haphazard, several ferret recovery groups since 1994 have recommended development of uniform standards prescribing minimum methods, intensities, and frequencies of monitoring that would provide data on population size, mortality More...
June 2001 | Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC, LaCrosse) | Format: URL
www.umesc.usgs.gov — This report describes an electronic database containing 474 annotated citations that are relevant to fish passage through dams in large temperate floodplain rivers. The goal of this project was to survey the literature to help define the potential ecological consequences of restricted fish passage through dams in the Upper Mississippi River System More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC, LaCrosse) | Format: URL
www.umesc.usgs.gov — The moose population in northwestern Minnesota has been declining for over 25 years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has identified a need to determine whether the moose decline is a result of nutrition, parasites, disease, contaminants, or a combination of those factors. In an attempt to determine the cause of death for moose in northwestern More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC, LaCrosse) | Format: URL
www.umesc.usgs.gov — To manage the aquatic resources of the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) for multiple uses, decision makers and river managers need scientifically sound information about the ecological conditions and trends within the system. As part of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP), the fish component is charged, in part, with annual More...
Publisher: USGS | Format: URL
pubs.usgs.gov — The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with the USDA Farm Service Agency and Natural Resources Conservation Service, initiated a study to develop and apply approaches to quantify changes in ecosystem services resulting from wetland restoration activities funded by the USDA. Surveys from this study included catchments with seasonal and More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC, LaCrosse) | Format: URL
www.umesc.usgs.gov — Zebra mussels have caused drastic declines in native clam and mussel populations in some locations. Zebra mussels compete with other invertebrates and young fish for plankton, the primary food source for these groups. UMESC scientists are investigating the effects zebra mussels are having on the riverine ecosystem. This study examines the effects More...