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ESA and USGS Partner to Hold a Chesapeake Bay Roundtable Discussion on Capitol Hill

On June 19, 2018, ESA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) held a Capitol Hill roundtable discussion hosted by Congressmen Rob Wittman (R-VA) and John Sarbanes (D-MD) highlighting science used to inform Chesapeake Bay restoration and management. Bipartisan staffers and policymakers crowded into a conference room on the Capitol Hill to hear scientists talk about the USGS’s role in providing…

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Bold lizards of all sizes have higher mating success, scientists find, in rare field study of behavior

Thursday, 24 May 2018 For Immediate Release Contact: Alison Mize, 202-833-8773 ext. 205, gro.asenull@nosila   Boldness correlates with the mating success, but not body size or sex, of yellow-spotted monitor lizards roaming the remote Oombulgurri floodplains of tropical Western Australia, ecologists report in the Ecological Society of America’s open access journal Ecosphere. But boldness has a cost: bold individuals expose…

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