Comparison of land use in black soil regions between China and the United States based on terrain characteristics by YAN Zhuoran, WANG Dongyan, YANG Yuewen, LI Qi, CHENG Hui

“…This study focuses on two black soil regions, namely northeast China and the Mississippi River basin in America, to investigate the variations and patterns of environmental characteristics across different black soil regions. …”
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Incorporating basic and applied approaches to evaluate the effects of invasive Asian Carp on native fishes: A necessary first step for integrated pest management. by Quinton E Phelps, Sara J Tripp, Kyle R Bales, Daniel James, Robert A Hrabik, David P Herzog

“…Numerous studies throughout North America allege deleterious associations among invasive Asian Carp and native fishes; however, no empirical evidence on a system-wide scale exists. We used Mississippi River Basin fish community data collected by the Long Term Resource Monitoring program and the Missouri Department of Conservation to evaluate possible interaction between Asian Carp and native fishes. …”
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Marine modification of terrestrial influences on Gulf hypoxia: Part II

“…This study found that the oceanography of the Gulf minimises the impact of both classes of terrestrial influence from the Mississippi River and its nearby estuaries on Gulf hypoxia. …”
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Rivers of the United States / by 334354 Patrick, Ruth

“…v.2 Chemical and physical characteristics -- v.4, pt. A. The Mississippi River and tributaries north of St. Louis -- v.5, pt. …”

Lake County, Tennessee, in the Heart of the New Madrid Seismic Zone by Taylor Weathers, Roy Van Arsdale

“…A shallow 3-D lithologic model was constructed to illustrate the Quaternary Mississippi River alluvial facies of Lake County in five-foot (1.5 m) thick layers to a depth of 300 feet (91.4 m). …”
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GONE GIRL : A NOVEL / by Flynn, Gillian, 1971-, author 652887

“…Presents are being wrapped and reservations made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. …”

Population structure and gene flow in the Sheepnose mussel (Plethobasus cyphyus) and their implications for conservation by Sara Schwarz, Kevin J. Roe

“…Population structure analyses reveal five populations, three in the Upper Mississippi River Basin and two in the Ohio River Basin. …”
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Iowa stream nitrate and the Gulf of Mexico. by Christopher S Jones, Jacob K Nielsen, Keith E Schilling, Larry J Weber

“…Midwest agricultural state of Iowa's contribution of nitrate-nitrogen to the Mississippi River stream network against the backdrop of the ongoing problem of Gulf of Mexico hypoxia. …”
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Role of the Atchafalaya River Basin in regulating export fluxes of dissolved organic carbon, nutrients, and trace elements to the Louisiana Shelf by DongJoo Joung, Laodong Guo, Alan M. Shiller

“…In the Atchafalaya River, seasonal concentration variations in nutrients, DOC and most TEs were similar to those in the Mississippi River, reflecting a major contribution of water from the Mississippi River. …”
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Invasion genetics of the silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix across North America: Differentiation of fronts, introgression, and eDNA metabarcode detection. by Carol A Stepien, Matthew R Snyder, Anna E Elz

“…In the 1970s, the introduced silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (which is indigenous to eastern Asia) escaped from southern U.S. aquaculture to spread throughout the Mississippi River basin, and since has steadily moved northward. …”
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Success in Competition for Space in Two Invasive Coral Species in the western Atlantic - Tubastraea micranthus and T. coccinea. by Paul W Sammarco, Scott A Porter, Melissa Genazzio, James Sinclair

“…Competitive success in T. micranthus was highest in the NE part of the study area, and lowest in the SW area near the Mississippi River plume. T. coccinea's competitive success peaked in the SW study area. …”
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Assessing Impacts of Flood Diversion on the Ecosystem of Brackish-Water Lakes through Simulation-Optimization Model by Mahdi Sedighkia, Anna Linhoss, Paul Mickle

“…Lake Pontchartrain, located downstream of the Mississippi River, Mississippi, United States, is a brackish-water ecosystem threatened by reducing salinity concentrations due to freshwater pulses from the flood diversion project on the Mississippi River. …”
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Mississippi Delta

“…Due in large part to the Mississippi River, the Delta is an environmentally compelling region. …”
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Writing the River by Leslie Thomas

“…This is the core question posed by Write to the River, a creative writing project that I launched in partnership with the Twin Cities nonprofit Friends of the Mississippi River and photographer Tom Reiter, in spring 2017.…”
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Layers in the Landscape: A Floodplain Forest and the People Who Have Inhabited It

“…The Mississippi River in the Twin Cities region is a truly remarkable landscape corridor. …”
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German-Iowan Strategies in Celebrating the Centennial of Alexander von Humboldt’s Birth by Bill Roba

“…The two largest cities of Eastern Iowa on the shore of the Mississippi River are Dubuque and Davenport. In each city, an elite group of German-Iowan leaders emerged by the late 1850s. …”
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Southern Waters by Simi Kang

“…The South as we have come to know it takes its shape from water-based decisions: New Orleans itself was founded because of its strategic location along three bodies of water—the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River to its south, and Lake Pontchartrain to the north.…”
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An Orphaned River, A Lost Delta by Valsin A. Marmillion

“…Over thousands of years the Mississippi River deposited fresh water, nutrients, and sediment through a vast American territory to form one of the world’s grandest deltas. …”
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Modelling river flows as jump-diffusion processes by Mario Lefebvre

“…An application to the Mississippi River is presented.…”
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Music in Memphis by Allen Tullos

“…The Mid-South city built on a Mississippi River bluff, Memphis sits at the confluence of extraordinary musical streams: Anglo-Celtic upcountry song styles, fiddle bands, and gospel harmonies mingled with Delta blues, African American congregational and quartet singing, and jazz up from New Orleans. …”
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