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- ecological and evolutionary genetics
- zooplankton
- freshwater springs
- art and the environment.
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- trace elements
- biogeography
- X-ray spectrometry
- arid lands
- climatology
- meteorology
- sedimentology
- geomorphology
- environmental health
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Date: March 13, 2018
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The work of faculty and students from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has yielded the first evidence of how waterborne microinvertebrates move across vast expanses of arid desert. An article published March 13, 2018 in Limnology and Oceanography Letters, a publication of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, details for the first time how high desert winds disperse small invertebrates and how they colonize hydrologically disconnected basins throughout the region....
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