Biology

Shannon Meppelink and Kendra Markland attended the biannual Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) meeting on Thursday, October 24th to provide an update on the USGS-NPS Partnership project at Effigy Mounds […]

Pre-emergent herbicides applied to soil are a primary tool for reducing exotic annual grasses, such as cheatgrass, in sagebrush steppe rangelands. Effective herbicide application can allow existing perennials to grow

Ecological disturbance can affect carbon storage and stability and is a key consideration for managing lands to preserve or increase ecosystem carbon to ameliorate the global greenhouse gas problem. Dryland

The USGS has cooperated with federal, state, and tribal partners to conduct research on Avian Influenza (AI) viruses and to assist with response to outbreaks of highly pathogenic AI (HPAI)

Studying the thermal sensitivity of animals that live in environments with variable temperatures–such as mountain streams with water temperatures that change over time and space–sheds light on how climate variability

This is a video of a parasite, commonly known as eye flukes, swimming in the eye of a sucker in our lab. The eye fluke has a complex three-host life

Scientific information is fundamental to understanding how proposed actions on public lands may impact the environment. Development of new science is occurring at rates that can make it challenging for