USGS science products help achieve sustainable management and conservation of fish and wildlife resources in wild, rural, and urban spaces. This includes programs in climate and environmental change; effects of management actions on communities, lands and waters, and species; and risks and solutions to harmful invasive species, wildlife diseases, and contaminants in the environment.
USGS provides reliable information to answer your questions and provide assistance related to ecosystems science. Training and technology transfer often are integral to the technical assistance provided by USGS international activities.
International studies related to ecosystems are conducted by scientists from throughout USGS on topics including:
- SilvaCarbon global terrestrial carbon monitoring
- ecotoxicity
- bird migration and avian influenza
- decision support tools for natural and socioeconomic resources
- Tribal Nations and indigenous knowledge
- wetlands, mangroves, and corals
- drought, fire, and extreme weather
- fish and wildlife disease
- biosecurity
- paleoclimate
- ecosystem modelling
- snow, glaciers, permafrost
- landscapes, grasslands and plains
- vulnerabilities and adaptation planning
- social science
Latest Science
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Ecosystems We Study: Alaska Bioregions and Arctic
Alaska is simultaneously a landscape of extremes requiring specialized adaptations by plants and animals to survive the winters and a landscape of abundance that supports breeding birds each summer from as far away as Africa. Terrestrial Alaska also supports iconic species such as caribou and muskoxen whose population dynamics, predator/prey relationships and habitat ecology are researched by USGS...
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USGS Wild Bird Avian Influenza Program – Studies from Endemic Regions of Eurasia
This project focuses on tracking wild birds throughout Eurasia via satellite telemetry to better understand their spatiotemporal movement patterns, relationship to domestic birds, and potential role in the spread, persistence, and amplification of avian influenza viruses.
Latest Publications
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Simulated global coastal ecosystem responses to a half-century increase in river nitrogen loads
Coastal ecosystems are increasingly threatened by anthropogenic stressors such as harmful algal blooms and hypoxia projected to intensify through the combined effects of eutrophication and warming. As a major terrestrial nitrogen (N) source to the ocean, rivers play a critical role in shaping both coastal and global biogeochemical cycling. Combining an enhanced-resolution (1/4°), global ocean ph
Up to International Science Theme: Ecosystems
USGS science products help achieve sustainable management and conservation of fish and wildlife resources in wild, rural, and urban spaces. This includes programs in climate and environmental change; effects of management actions on communities, lands and waters, and species; and risks and solutions to harmful invasive species, wildlife diseases, and contaminants in the environment.
USGS provides reliable information to answer your questions and provide assistance related to ecosystems science. Training and technology transfer often are integral to the technical assistance provided by USGS international activities.
International studies related to ecosystems are conducted by scientists from throughout USGS on topics including:
- SilvaCarbon global terrestrial carbon monitoring
- ecotoxicity
- bird migration and avian influenza
- decision support tools for natural and socioeconomic resources
- Tribal Nations and indigenous knowledge
- wetlands, mangroves, and corals
- drought, fire, and extreme weather
- fish and wildlife disease
- biosecurity
- paleoclimate
- ecosystem modelling
- snow, glaciers, permafrost
- landscapes, grasslands and plains
- vulnerabilities and adaptation planning
- social science
Latest Science
-
Ecosystems We Study: Alaska Bioregions and Arctic
Alaska is simultaneously a landscape of extremes requiring specialized adaptations by plants and animals to survive the winters and a landscape of abundance that supports breeding birds each summer from as far away as Africa. Terrestrial Alaska also supports iconic species such as caribou and muskoxen whose population dynamics, predator/prey relationships and habitat ecology are researched by USGS...
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USGS Wild Bird Avian Influenza Program – Studies from Endemic Regions of Eurasia
This project focuses on tracking wild birds throughout Eurasia via satellite telemetry to better understand their spatiotemporal movement patterns, relationship to domestic birds, and potential role in the spread, persistence, and amplification of avian influenza viruses.
Latest Publications
-
Simulated global coastal ecosystem responses to a half-century increase in river nitrogen loads
Coastal ecosystems are increasingly threatened by anthropogenic stressors such as harmful algal blooms and hypoxia projected to intensify through the combined effects of eutrophication and warming. As a major terrestrial nitrogen (N) source to the ocean, rivers play a critical role in shaping both coastal and global biogeochemical cycling. Combining an enhanced-resolution (1/4°), global ocean ph
Up to International Science Theme: Ecosystems