Publications

11 results for "bird":

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  Foundational Science in Flight: USGS Bird Programs Support Conservation, Culture, and a Thriving U.S. Economy

  Foundational Science in Flight: USGS Bird Programs Support Conservation, Culture, and a Thriving U.S. Economy ... Birds are vital to our economy, ecosystems, and cultural heritage. Investing in bird conservation benefits communities, busine...
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  Western Lake Erie 1st Report Card

  ...orld. The lake and surrounding areas provide many recreational opportunities, such as camping, kayaking, boating, hiking, birding, and fishing, and are vital to the economy of the region. Overall the Western Lake Erie watershed and basin were found...
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  Texas Coast Ecosystem Health Report Card 2019

  ...ly good ecosystem health. The report card breaks its indicators into five different categories: water quality, fisheries, birds, oysters and seagrasses. It also displays the performance of each of these categories along a regional breakdown of the...
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  Fort Monroe National Historical Park Natural Resource Condition Assessment

  ...5-acre park boundary include an ecologically diverse and productive saltmarsh cordgrass wetlands within Mill Creek. Marsh birds, shorebirds, songbirds, and other bird species can be observed in the park in greater abundance and diversity than any o...
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  Fertilization Changes Seagrass Community Structure but not Blue Carbon Storage: Results from a 30-Year Field Experiment

  ...sition by revisiting meadows experimentally altered by 30 years of consistent nutrient fertilization provided by roosting birds. While the benthos beneath experimental perches has maintained dense, Halodule wrightii-dominated communities compared t...
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  Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Natural Resource Condition Assessment

  ... park was designated as the first national park for the performing arts. The park provides a natural sanctuary for native bird, plants, and animal species in a developing region. The natural resources of Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing A...
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  Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Newsletter

  ...The Reserve takes its name from the mangrove rookery islands that serve as a roost and nesting site for dozens of coastal birds. Learn more about the Rookery Bay Reserve and its ecosystems in this newsletter! Produced in collaboration with Rookery...
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  A vision for the Gulf of Mexico Report Card

  ...standable by policy-makers, stakeholders, scientists, and, most importantly, the general public. The vision document uses birds and seagrass ecosystems as prototypes for two components of the report card. The Report Card prototype was unveiled on D...
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  Nitrogen ecophysiology of Heron Island, a subtropical coral cay of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

  ...rrier Reef, Australia ... Coral cays form part of the Australian Great Barrier Reef. Coral cays with high densities of seabirds are areas of extreme nitrogen (N) enrichment with deposition rates of up to 1000 kg N ha(-1) y(-1). The ways in which N...
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  Benthic microalgae in coral reef sediments of the southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia

  ... estuary, atoll ... Adrian Jones ... Ben Longstaff ... Simon Costanzo ... Bill Dennison ... Heil CA, Chaston K, Jones AB, Bird P, Longstaff BJ, Costanzo SD, and Dennison WC...
• Macroalgal habitat preference of ciguatera dinoflagellates at Heron Island, A Coral Cay in the southeastern Great Barrier Reef, Australia

  ...flagellates at Heron Island, A Coral Cay in the southeastern Great Barrier Reef, Australia ... Bill Dennison ... Heil CA, Bird P, and Dennison WC...