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Aavudai Anandhi, Raveendranpillai Deepa, Amit Bhardwaj and Vasubandhu Misra
The Ogallala Aquifer is one of the most productive agricultural regions and is referred to as the ?breadbasket of the world?. It covers approximately 225,000 square miles beneath the Great Plains region spanning the states of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma,...
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Joshua Jerome Meisel, Stephen L. Egbert, Joseph P. Brewer II and Xingong Li
The General Allotment Act of 1887, also known as the Dawes Act, established the legal basis for the United States government to break up remaining tribally-owned reservation lands in the U.S. by allotting individual parcels to tribal members and selling ...
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Denver Fowler
The Upper Maastrichtian fluvial Hell Creek Formation of the Fort Peck Lake area, Montana (and regional equivalents) is notable for its vertebrate fossils and for the K-Pg mass extinction at or near its upper contact. Despite intense study, internal strat...
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Alex Boger and Laurent Ahiablame
Roadside ditches play an important role in the quantity and quality of receiving waters. Very little, however, is known about the fate and transport of nutrients and trace metals in roadside ditches, especially their leaching to shallow groundwater. This...
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Darren R. Clabo
A recent wildland fire history and climate database was compiled for South Dakota, USA (SD). Wildfires are generally a warm season phenomenon across central and western SD while eastern SD exhibits a spring peak in annual wildfire activity. It is hypothe...
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Ashley M. Hand and John C. Tyndall
Bioenergy produced from perennial feedstocks such as woody biomass could serve as an opportunity to strengthen local and regional economies and also jointly produce various environmental services. In order to assess the potential for biomass-based bioene...
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Justin P. Ziegler, Chad M. Hoffman, Paula J. Fornwalt, Carolyn H. Sieg, Mike A. Battaglia, Marin E. Chambers and Jose M. Iniguez
Shifting fire regimes alter forest structure assembly in ponderosa pine forests and may produce structural heterogeneity following stand-replacing fire due, in part, to fine-scale variability in growing environments. We mapped tree regeneration in eighte...
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Kul Khand, Jeppe Kjaersgaard, Christopher Hay and Xinhua Jia
Agricultural subsurface drainage changes the field hydrology and potentially the amount of water available to the crop by altering the flow path and the rate and timing of water removal. Evapotranspiration (ET) is normally among the largest components of...
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Karishma Niloy Kibria, Laurent Ahiablame, Christopher Hay and Gemechis Djira
Trends in high, moderate, and low streamflow conditions from United States Geological Survey (USGS) gauging stations were evaluated for a period of 1951?2013 for 18 selected watersheds in South Dakota (SD) using a modified Mann-Kendall test. Rainfall tre...
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