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Om Prakash Sharma, Narayanan Kannan, Scott Cook, Bijay Kumar Pokhrel and Cameron McKenzie
Most of the recent studies on the consequences of extreme weather events on crop yields are focused on droughts and warming climate. The knowledge of the consequences of excess precipitation on the crop yield is lacking. We attempted to fill this gap by ...
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Sophie C. McKee, John J. Mayer and Stephanie A. Shwiff
Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) cause damage to agricultural crops in their native range as well as in the portions of the globe where they have been introduced. In the US, states with the highest introduced wild pig populations are Alabama, Arkansas, California,...
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Xiaobiao Xu, Eric P. Chassignet, Philippe Miron and Olmo Zavala-Romero
The persistent increase in marine plastic litter has become a major global concern, with one of the highest plastic concentrations in the world?s oceans found in the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR). In this study, we use marine plastic litter tracking simul...
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Miriam Calderon, Chuanyu Yang and Veronica Ancona
Irrigation is important in many crop production systems. However, irrigation water can be a carrier of plant pathogens that can enter the system and spread to fields, resulting in crop damage and yield losses. The Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas i...
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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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Angélica Romero-Arteaga, Amaia Ruiz de Alegría-Arzaburu and Bernardo Esquivel-Trava
Extreme weather events such as hurricanes are expected to become more severe with the human-induced increase in average global temperatures, exacerbating the risk of major damage. Efforts to predict these events typically require detailed hydrodynamic da...
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E. Dave Thomas, Kartik Venkataraman, Victoria Chraibi and Narayanan Kannan
Reliable water sources are central to human and environmental health. In south Texas, USA, the Nueces River Basin (NRB) directly or indirectly plays that important role for many counties. Several NRB stream segments are designated as ecologically signifi...
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Xiaoxuan Li, Anthony R. Cummings, Ali Rashed Alruzuq, Corene J. Matyas and Amobichukwu Chukwudi Amanambu
Tropical cyclones are incredibly destructive and deadly, inflicting immense losses to coastal properties and infrastructure. Hurricane-induced coastal floods are often the biggest threat to life and the coastal environment. A quick and accurate estimatio...
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Eric N. Jellen,David E. Jarvis,Spencer P. Hunt,Hayley H. Mangelsen,Peter J. Maughan
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Pitseed goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri) is an ecologically diverse wild/weedy North American species within the primary gene pool for improving South American quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa). Both taxa are 36-chromosome allotetraploids with sub...
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Ahmed Ahmouda, Hartwig H. Hochmair and Sreten Cvetojevic
Understanding human mobility patterns becomes essential in crisis management and response. This study analyzes the effect of two hurricanes in the United States on human mobility patterns, more specifically on trip distance (displacement), radius of gyra...
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