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Ecosystems Mission Area

Slide 1 - USGS and Virginia Tech scientists captured female northern bats and fitted them with tiny radiotransmitters and numbered armbands. The bats were then released and tracked to determine what roosts they were using.

Bats Keep Social Networks

Slide 2 - Sandhill Cranes fly in close proximity to wind turbines near Horicon National Wildlife Refuge

Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Birds, Bats, and Bugs

Slide 3 - Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, has traveled more than 3 million miles in her lifetime.

Bird Lab Migrates Toward the Future

Slide 4 - Trees in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

The Hills are Alive with Ecosystems Research

Slide 5 - Electron micrograph of the cutthroat trout virus (CTV)

Fish Virus May Help Save Human Lives

The Buzz on Native Bees

The Secret Lives of Mussels - America's Most Endangered Species

Slide 8 - Water-quality data station in the Boulder Basin of Lake Mead near Sentinel Island

Lake Meade Video Documents Healthy Ecosystem

Slide 9 - Jason2 sampling a sea urchin in a deep sea mussel community found near a gas seep on the U.S. outer continental shelf

Life in the Abyss

Slide 10 - The endangered West Indian manatee is a large, plant-eating, slow moving mammal

How do you take a manatee's temperature? Very carefully

Slide 11 - USGS personnel surveying the bathymetry offshore of Crissy Field

Travels with Sediment

Slide 12 - A family of Florida panthers walking in the night

Capturing and Recapturing the Moment: Preserving the Florida Panther

Ecosystems Science

Cooperative Research Units

Supports natural resource management decisions through research, education and technical assistance.

Energy and Wildlife

Photo: Solar panels on public land in BLM California offer a form of renewable energy development. Credit: Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

USGS science can help allow for renewable energy growth while lessening conflicts between renewable energy, ecosystems and wildlife.

Environments

Dan Fagre sets up a repeat photo in Glacier National Park.

Conducts ecosystem science and develops models for restoration and adaptive management.

Priority Ecosystems

Fisheries

Supports management, conservation, and restoration of the Nation's fish and aquatic resources.

Invasive Species

Provides methodologies and information to reduce threats from invasive species.

Wildlife

Family of brown bears from Brooks River. Photo credit: Sara L. Graziano, USGS

Conducts research on wildlife and their habitats.

USA National Phenology Network

Organizes and centralizes monitoring and scientific information to document changing seasonal patterns.

Fish & Wildlife Disease

Sea-otter researchers Michelle Staedler (left) of Monterey Bay Aquarium and Tim Tinker of the USGS work together to locate sea otters for their study of sea-otter diet and behavior. Photograph by Tania Larson, USGS.

Leads all Federal agencies in wildlife disease surveillance and research.

Greater Sage Grouse and Sagebrush Steppe

Conservation and restoration of the sagebrush steppe ecosystem and greater sage grouse.

International

Facilitates international collaboration.

Science and Decisions Center

Decision science focus: adaptive management and structured decision making, ecosystem services, resilience/sustainability.

Status & Trends Program

Monitors the Nation's living resources and their habitats.

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Science from Genes to Landscape

Find out more about where Ecosystems research is concentrated and how this research addresses modern ecological and social issues and the interests of public and private groups in this newly released USGS fact sheet: USGS Factsheet 2015-3057

Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program—2015 Year in Review

Find out more about the 80th anniversary of the Cooperative Research Unit program and the research activities from 2015 in this new USGS Circular USGS Factsheet 2015-3057

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Science Strategy

Ecosystem science is critical to making informed decisions about natural resources that can sustain our Nation’s economic and environmental well-being. More...

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