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Agave
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Apple
Apricot
Arboreta and botanical gardens
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Banana
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Bedding/garden plants
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Bees, honey, and other pollinators, general
Berries and cane fruits, other
Biological Cell Systems
Blueberry
Broadleaf forests of the North
Broadleaf forests of the South
Canola
Carrot
Catfish
Cheese
Chemurgic Crops
Cherry
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Cocoa
Coffee
Cole crops (includes cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower,
Conifer forests of the South
Conifer forests of the West
Cool season perennial grasses (includes bluegrass, bromegrass, fescue)
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cranberry
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Cucumber
Cucurbits, other (includes pumpkin, squash, gourd)
Cut flowers, foliage, and greens
Dairy cattle, general/other
Dairy cattle, live animal
Date
Deciduous and small fruits, general/other
Deciduous tree fruits, other
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Drainage and irrigation facilities and systems
Duck and goose, live animal
Durum wheat
Economy, general/other
Edible tree nuts, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Eggplant
Eggs
Endangered species
Experimental design and statistical methods
Feed and feed additives
Fertilizers
Fiber crops, general/other
Filbert
Finfish
Fish habitats
Florist crops, other
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Forage legumes, other
Fungi (includes yeast)
General Commodity
General technology
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Grapefruit
Grapes, other
Grasslands, other
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Ground covers
Guayule
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hard white wheat
Hemp
Herbaceous perennials and decorative greens
Herbs and spices
Honey bees
Hops
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Kenaf
Kiwi
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lemon
Lentil
Lesquerella
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Mango
Marine shrimp
Meat, beef cattle
Meat, dairy cattle
Meat, sheep
Meat, swine
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Melons (includes cantaloupe, muskmelon, watermelon)
Microorganisms, general/other
Milk
Mint
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Mixed conifer-broadleaf forests
Mountain grasslands, meadow, and alpine
Mushrooms and other edible fungi
Narcotic plants
Nectarine
Nematodes
Noncrop plant research
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Onion, garlic, leek, shallot
Orange
Ornamental trees and shrubs
Ornamentals and turf, general/other (includes cacti)
Other animals, general
Other beef cattle products
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other cultured finfish
Other dairy cattle products
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Other Pollinators
Other poultry products
Other swine products
Oysters
Papaya
Paper and pulp derived products
Parks and urban green space
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peach
Peanut
Pear
Peas (dry)
Peas (fresh, fresh-processed)
Pecan
People and communities, general/other
Peppers
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Pineapple
Pinyon-juniper
Plant research, general
Plum
Potato
Potted plants
Poultry meat
Poultry, general/other
Raisin grapes
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Raspberry
Red clover
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Research equipment and methods, general/other
Research on research management (not research management per se)
Rhizomes, tubers, bulbs, and root crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Rice
River basins
Rubber, gum, and resin plants, other
Rye
Salmon
Seeds and other plant propagules
Sewage and waste disposal facilities and systems
Sheep and wool, general/other
Sheep, live animal
Shellfish
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solanaceous and related crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Strawberry
Striped bass
Sugar beet
Sugar cane
Sugar crops, general/other
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sunflower
Sweet potato
Sweet sorghum
Sweetcorn
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
Table grapes
Taro
Tea
The family and its members
The farm as an enterprise
Tilapia
Tomato
Trees, forests, and forest products, general
Tropical/subtropical fruit, general/other
Trout
Tung
Turf (includes bentgrass, bermudagrass, bluegrass, dichondra, fescue)
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viroids, mycoplasmas, spiroplasmas, etc.
Viruses
Walnut
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wetland and riparian systems
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other
Wildlife habitats
Wine grapes
Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover)
Wood and wood products
Wool fiber
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
item A Systems Approach to Restoring Invaded Sagebrush Steppe
item Adaptive Livestock Scenarios in an Arid Environment
item Adaptive Management Case Studies
item Airfield Vegetation Research at the Salt Lake City International Airport
item AmeriFlux Management Project Core Site - Walnut Gulch/Santa Rita
item AmeriFlux Management Project Core Site - Walnut Gulch/Santa Rita
item Application of Assessment and Monitoring Tools for Adaptive Management of Large Ranch Landscapes
item Applying Rangeland Hydrology & Erosion Models on Pastures and Annual Grasslands
item Assessing Benefits of Conservation Practices on Rangelands and Pastures with the Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model
item Assessing Sustainable Rangeland Livestock Production Systems in Kazakhstan
item Assessing the Utility of Soil Albedo as an Integrated Predictor of Aeolian Sediment Transport Potential
item Assessing Wind and Water Erosion on Western Rangelands
item Assessment and Mitigation of Disturbed Sagebrush-Steppe Ecosystems
item Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring Database Enhancements
item Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) tool
item Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) Tool
item Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment to Aid Military Mission and Training – Phase 9
item Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment to Aid Military Mission and Training – Phase 9
item Big Data for ARS Models to Assess Historical Hydro-Climatic Trends and Projected Climate Impacts at LTAR Locations-Phase 2
item Biological Control of Cactus Moth
item Biological Control of Invasive Pests from South America
item Biological Control of Latin American Weeds and Insects
item Biological Control of the Harrisia Cactus Mealybug in Puerto Rico
item BLM ARS Monitoring Effects of Invasive Annual Grass Removal on Native Vegetation
item BLM/ARS Targeted Grazing Demonstration Monitoring Project
item Brush Management and Ecosystem Services: a Quantification of Trade-offs on Western Rangelands in Support of the LTAR Network
item Carcass Traits and Muscle-Fiber Types of Lambs Managed in Traditional-Range and Artificial-Rearing Systems
item Cattle Grazing Larkspur
item Causal Factors of Exotic Annual Grass Invasion Across the Great Basin Sagebrush Ecosystem
item CEAP-Grazing Lands Modeling
item CEAP-Grazing Lands Remote Sensing of Woody Vegetation
item CEAP-Grazing Lands Wind Erosion, Economics & Modeling Project
item Central Great Plains Ecosystem Service Economics and Index Valuation Project
item Changing Relationships Between Snowpack and Surface Climate in the Upper Rio Grande Basin
item Channel and Landscape Evolution as a Function of Spatial Scale in Semiarid Watersheds
item Collaboration on Development of State-and-Transition Models to Guide Sustainable Land Management in the Americas
item Collaborative Animal Research between New Mexico State University (NMSU) and ARS
item Collaborative Outcome-Based Land Management through Shared Science
item Collaborative Research in Atmospheric Characterization, Modeling and Sensing
item Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Watersheds 2019
item Conservation Planning and Interpretations: Mobile App Delivery
item Continued Development of a National Modeling Framework to Support the Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP)
item Cooperative Management of the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail in Montana and Idaho
item Data Science Technical Support for the Landscape Data Commons
item Defining the Relationship of Productivity With Water Availability Across the Semiarid Western U.S.
item Design, Implementation, Integration, and Analysis for the BLM Landscape Monitoring Framework
item Develop a Long-term Perspective of Vegetation Change in Reponse to Different Grazing Regimes, Seeding, and Shrub Reduction in Sagebrush Rangelands
item Developing Biological Control to Mitigate the Harrisia Cactus Mealybug Damage in Puerto Rico
item Developing Remote Sensing Tools for Rangeland Vegetation Inventory and Assessment
item Development and Knowledge of a Land-Potential System (LandPKS)
item Development of a National Dataset of Stream Channel Properties
item Development of an All-lands Wind Erosion Model
item Development of Plant Materials to Diversify Rangeland Revegetation in the Intermountain West
item Discovery, Description and Evaluation of Eriophyoid Mites as Biological Control Agents of Invasive Annual Grasses
item Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Heifer Development Strategies in Pasture-Based Organic Dairy Systems
item Economic Assessment for Rangeland, Pasture, & Turf Landscapes using Improved Plant Materials & Technologies developed by ARS, Forage Range Research
item Economic Assessment of Exceptional Drought
item Economic Impacts of Exceptional Drought on Agriculture and STEM Education
item Ecosystem Water and Carbon Cycling Across the Semiarid Western U.S.
item EDIT Connection
item EDIT Connection
item Educational and Scientific Cooperation between Idaho State University and the USDA Agricultural Research Service
item Educational and Scientific Cooperation between the Boise State University and the USDA Agricultural Research Service
item Enhancing Drought Resilience via Assessment, Collaboration and Coordination
item Enhancing Rangeland Science Diversity in the Northern Great Basin
item Enhancing Sheep Enterprises and Developing Rangeland Management Strategies to Improve Rangeland Health and Conserve Ecology
item Establishing the Texas A&M Texas Water Observatory (TWO) and USDA-ARS Partnership at the Riesel Watersheds
item Establishment of Native Grasses, Legumes, and Forbs in Disturbed Rangelands using Siberian Wheatgrass
item Evaluation of the Turfgrass Potential of Warm-Season grasses in the Northern Mojave Desert
item Examining Best Native Seed Restoration Practices in the Chihuahuan Ecoregion
item Forb Islands: Possible Techniques to Improve Forb Seedling Establishment for Diversifying Sagebrush-Steppe Communities
item Genetic Evaluations for Sheep Longevity, Lifetime Productively, Growth Performance, and Product Quality
item Genetics, Ecology, and Biological Control of Invasive Annual Grasses
item Genome Sequencing and Annotation
item Grass-Birdsfoot Trefoil Mixtures to Improve the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Pasture-Based Organic Dairies in the Western U.S.
item Grass-cast and the Living Labs Framework: Creating a User-driven and Co-developed Product for Working Lands
item Grass-Legume Mixtures to Improve Pasture Productivity and Heifer Growth Performance
item Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit
item Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit NFCA
item Great Basin Research and Management Partnership Memorandum of Understanding
item Harrisia Cactus Mealybug
item Horse Impacts on Sage-Grouse Habitat Structure and Composition on Grazed Rangelands
item Identification of Bermuda Grass and Zoysiagrass with Green Color Retention at Low Temperature
item Identify Factors Associated with Increase Establishment and Persistence of Grasses, Legumes, and Forbs on Conservation Reserve Program Land
item Identify Factors Associated with Increased Establishment and Persistence of Grasses, Legumes, and Forbs on Conservation Reserve Program Land
item Impacts of Agricultural Adaptation on Water Resources in the Upper Rio Grande Basin: Assessment for the Basin Study
item Implementation and Expansion of the BLM’s Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring Strategy to Support Multiple Resource Management Decision Making
item Improved Plant Genetic Resources and Methodologies for Rangelands, Pastures, and Turf Landscapes in the Semiarid Western U.S.
item Improved Plant Genetic Resources and Methodologies for Rangelands, Pastures, and Turf Landscapes in the Semiarid Western U.S.
item Improved Seed and Seeding Technology for Great Basin Rangelands
item Improved Wheatgrass Turf for Limited Irrigation Golf Course Roughs
item Improving Scientific and Local Knowledge for the Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS)
item Increasing Low-Input Turfgrass Adoption Through Breeding, Innovation, and Public Education
item Innovative Infrastructure for Stormwater Capture and Aquifer Recharge in the Arid and Semi-arid Southwest, USA
item Integrating Ecological Process Knowledge into Effective Management of Invasive Plants in Great Basin Rangelands
item Integration of SWAT+/MODFLOW and Inclusion in the Geospatial Modeling Interface
item Integration of SWAT+/MODFLOW and Inclusion in the Geospatial Modeling Interface
item Interagency Agreement for Fire Management
item Livestock Grazing in Rangeland Management Systems
item Livestock Ranching, Rangelands, and Resilience: Ensuring Adaptive Capacity in an Increasingly Variable Climate
item LTAR-NEON Collaboration to Quantify Rangeland Vegetation Production
item LTAR-NEON Collaboration to Quantify Rangeland Vegetation Production - Phase 2
item LTER: Long-Term Research at the Jornada Basin
item Management and Restoration of Rangeland Ecosystems
item Managing Invasive Weeds and Insect Pests Using Biologically-Based Methods
item Martin Fire Seedling Trials
item Monitoring Data and Analysis Technical Support
item National Agroecosystem Model Support for the Long-term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network
item NOAA/NSSL and USDA/ARS Cooperative Investigation of Precipitation and Runoff over the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed
item Northern Great Basin Native Seed Production Cooperative
item Operation of NOAA Mesonet Weather Monitoring Station to Provide Critical Weather Data to Local NOAA Forecasters
item Perennial Forage, Range, and Turf Plant Genomics
item Post-Fire Wind Erosion in the Great Basin
item Precision Application of Conservation in Upper Midwestern Cropping Systems
item Predicting Wildfire and Wildfire Effects on Great Basin Rangelands
item Producing an Operational RaBET for Rangelands in the Western U.S.
item Quantifying Post-fire Erosion on Rangelands
item Quantitative Assessment of the Impacts of Conservation Practices on U.S. Croplands
item Rangeland Assessment and Beef Livestock Production Value Chain Assessment
item Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model (RHEM) Development and Applications
item Regional Dust Emission Responses to Ecosystem Change
item Rehabilitation Practices in the Mojave Desert
item Research Support for Watershed and Basin Hydrology and Water Quality in the Arid and Semi-arid Southwest, USA
item Resilient Management Systems and Decision Support Tools to Optimize Agricultural Production and Watershed Responses from Field to National Scale
item Restoration and Conservation of Great Basin Ecosystems
item Risk of Soil Erosion by Water Estimated with Remotely-Sensed Rainfall Data, Models, and Weather Generators
item Risk of Soil Erosion by Water Estimated with Remotely-sensed Rainfall Data, Process-based Models and Weather Generators
item Science and Technologies for the Sustainable Management of Rangeland Systems
item Science and Technologies for the Sustainable Management of Western Rangeland Systems
item Scientific Support and Partnership for BLM Renewable Resources Programs in New Mexico
item Seeding Technologies for Post-Fire Restoration
item Selecting and Managing Practices for Agricultural Landscapes
item Socio-economic Assessment of Great Basin Livestock Production Systems
item Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) Modeling Support for the Long-term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network
item Soil, Water and Riparian Monitoring and Research in Nevada
item Strategic Water Research Vision for U.S. Agriculture to 2050
item Streamlining the Use of Monitoring Data in Multiple Resource Decision Making
item Support Climate-Smart Decision Making in Arizona, USDA Southwest Climate Hub
item Support Climate-Smart Decision Making in Hawaii, USDA Southwest Climate Hub
item Support Climate-Smart Decision Making in Nevada, USDA Southwest Climate Hub
item Support Climate-Smart Decision Making in Utah, USDA Southwest Climate Hub
item Support Development and Application of Ecological Site System
item Supporting Climate Smart Decision-Making in the Southwest, USDA Climate Hub
item Sustainable Use of Rangelands and Grasslands Resources for Improved Livelihoods
item Techniques and Improved Efficiency in Next Generation Sequencing
item Terrestrial Observation System of NEON Field and Laboratory Analysis
item Understanding and Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Poisonous Plants on Livestock Production Systems
item Understanding Regional Linkages Between Production Agriculture, Air Quality and Climate
item Understanding Water-Driven Ecohydrologic and Erosion Processes in the Semiarid Southwest to Improve Watershed Management
item USDA Southwest Climate Hub Decision Making in New Mexico
item Using Activated Carbon Pellets to Restore Native Vegetation in Exotic Annual Grass-Invaded Sagebrush Communities
item Using Diversity and Facilitation to Enhance Establishment and Resilience During Restoration of Invaded Sage-Steppe Rangeland
item Wildland Testing of Bluebunch Wheatgrass Plant Materials Under Variable Environmental Conditions