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Using transcriptomic analysis we identified enhanced biological processes including immune response, viral defense, and response to stress in polar bears with alopecia. Our results support an alternative mechanism of investigation into the causative agents that, when used proactively, could serve as an early indicator for populations and species at risk. We suggest that current or classical methods for investigation into events of unusual morbidity and mortality can be costly, sometimes unfocused, and often inconclusive. Advances in technology allow for implementation of a holistic system of surveillance and investigation that could provide early warning of health concerns in wildlife species important to humans.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"Elsevier Pub. 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However, for the technique to reach its full potential in oceanographic research, fully unsupervised (automated) methods are required for focusing, segmentation, sizing and classification of particles. These computational challenges are the subject of this paper, in which we draw upon data collected using a variety of holographic systems developed at Plymouth University, UK, from a significant range of particle types, sizes and shapes. A new method for noise reduction in reconstructed planes is found to be successful in aiding particle segmentation and sizing. The performance of an automated routine for deriving particle characteristics (and subsequent size distributions) is evaluated against equivalent size metrics obtained by a trained operative measuring grain axes on screen. The unsupervised method is found to be reliable, despite some errors resulting from over-segmentation of particles. A simple unsupervised particle classification system is developed, and is capable of successfully differentiating sand grains, bubbles and diatoms from within the surf-zone. Avoiding miscounting bubbles and biological particles as sand grains enables more accurate estimates of sand concentrations, and is especially important in deployments of particle monitoring instrumentation in aerated water. Perhaps the greatest potential for further development in the computational aspects of particle holography is in the area of unsupervised particle classification. The simple method proposed here provides a foundation upon which further development could lead to reliable identification of more complex particle populations, such as those containing phytoplankton, zooplankton, flocculated cohesive sediments and oil droplets.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"American Meteorological Society","publisherLocation":"Boston, MA","doi":"10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00157.1","usgsCitation":"Davies, E.J., Buscombe, D.D., Graham, G.W., and Nimmo-Smith, W.A., 2015, Evaluating unsupervised methods to size and classify suspended particles using digital in-line holography: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, v. 32, no. 6, p. 1241-1256, https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00157.1.","productDescription":"16 p.","startPage":"1241","endPage":"1256","numberOfPages":"16","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-059230","costCenters":[{"id":568,"text":"Southwest Biological Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":488748,"rank":0,"type":{"id":41,"text":"Open Access External Repository Page"},"url":"http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3758","text":"External Repository"},{"id":301400,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"32","issue":"6","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":14,"text":"Menlo Park PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"558931bee4b0b6d21dd61bdc","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Davies, Emlyn J.","contributorId":141257,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Davies","given":"Emlyn","email":"","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[{"id":13725,"text":"Dept. of Environmental Technology, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Norway","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":549098,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Buscombe, Daniel D. 0000-0001-6217-5584 dbuscombe@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6217-5584","contributorId":5020,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Buscombe","given":"Daniel","email":"dbuscombe@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"D.","affiliations":[{"id":568,"text":"Southwest Biological Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":549097,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Graham, George W.","contributorId":141258,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Graham","given":"George","email":"","middleInitial":"W.","affiliations":[{"id":13726,"text":"Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, Plymouth UK","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":549099,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Nimmo-Smith, W. 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For example, salinity reduction has been a goal for restoring and managing former salt evaporation ponds to support waterbirds in the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project in San Francisco Bay, California, USA. Here, we describe a case study of unexpected consequences of a low-dissolved oxygen (DO) event on trophic interactions in a salt pond system following management actions to reduce salinity concentrations. We document the ramifications of an anoxic event in water quality including salinity, DO, and temperature, and in the response of the biota including prey fish biomass, numerical response by California Gulls (Larus californicus), and chick survival of Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri). Management actions intended to protect receiving waters resulted in decreased DO concentrations that collapsed to zero for &ge; 4 consecutive days, resulting in an extensive fish kill. DO depletion likely resulted from an algal bloom that arose following transition of the pond system from high to low salinity as respiration and decomposition outpaced photosynthetic production. We measured a &ge; 6-fold increase in biomass of fish dropped on the levee by foraging avian predators compared with weeks prior to and following the low-DO event. California Gulls rapidly responded to the availability of aerobically-stressed and vulnerable fish and increased in abundance by two orders of magnitude. Mark-recapture analysis of 254 Forster's Tern chicks indicated that their survival declined substantially following the increase in gull abundance. 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,{"id":70148554,"text":"70148554 - 2015 - Computational fluid dynamics-habitat suitability index (CFD-HSI) modelling as an exploratory tool for assessing passability of riverine migratory challenge zones for fish","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2015-06-12T09:17:06","indexId":"70148554","displayToPublicDate":"2015-06-01T10:15:00","publicationYear":"2015","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3301,"text":"River Research and Applications","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Computational fluid dynamics-habitat suitability index (CFD-HSI) modelling as an exploratory tool for assessing passability of riverine migratory challenge zones for fish","docAbstract":"<p>We developed two-dimensional computational fluid hydraulics-habitat suitability index (CFD-HSI) models to identify and qualitatively assess potential zones of shallow water depth and high water velocity that may present passage challenges for five major anadromous fish species in a 2.63-km reach of the main stem Penobscot River, Maine, as a result of a dam removal downstream of the reach. Suitability parameters were based on distribution of fish lengths and body depths and transformed to cruising, maximum sustained and sprint swimming speeds. Zones of potential depth and velocity challenges were calculated based on the hydraulic models; ability of fish to pass a challenge zone was based on the percent of river channel that the contiguous zone spanned and its maximum along-current length. Three river flows (low: 99.1 m<sup>3</sup> sec<sup>-1</sup>; normal: 344.9 m<sup>3</sup> sec<sup>-1</sup>; and high: 792.9 m<sup>3</sup> sec<sup>-1</sup>) were modelled to simulate existing hydraulic conditions and hydraulic conditions simulating removal of a dam at the downstream boundary of the reach. Potential depth challenge zones were nonexistent for all low-flow simulations of existing conditions for deeper-bodied fishes. Increasing flows for existing conditions and removal of the dam under all flow conditions increased the number and size of potential velocity challenge zones, with the effects of zones being more pronounced for smaller species. The two-dimensional CFD-HSI model has utility in demonstrating gross effects of flow and hydraulic alteration, but may not be as precise a predictive tool as a three-dimensional model. Passability of the potential challenge zones cannot be precisely quantified for two-dimensional or three-dimensional models due to untested assumptions and incomplete data on fish swimming performance and behaviours.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"John Wiley & Sons","publisherLocation":"Chichester, West Sussex, UK","doi":"10.1002/rra.2911","usgsCitation":"Haro, A.J., Chelminski, M., and Dudley, R.W., 2015, Computational fluid dynamics-habitat suitability index (CFD-HSI) modelling as an exploratory tool for assessing passability of riverine migratory challenge zones for fish: River Research and Applications, v. 31, no. 5, p. 526-537, https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.2911.","productDescription":"12 p.","startPage":"526","endPage":"537","numberOfPages":"12","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-049212","costCenters":[{"id":365,"text":"Leetown Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":301180,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"31","issue":"5","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":10,"text":"Baltimore PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2015-06-08","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"557c02c5e4b023124e8edf09","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Haro, Alexander J. 0000-0002-7188-9172 aharo@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7188-9172","contributorId":2917,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Haro","given":"Alexander","email":"aharo@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[{"id":365,"text":"Leetown Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":false,"id":548605,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Chelminski, Michael","contributorId":9532,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Chelminski","given":"Michael","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":548606,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Dudley, Robert W. 0000-0002-0934-0568 rwdudley@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0934-0568","contributorId":2223,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Dudley","given":"Robert","email":"rwdudley@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"W.","affiliations":[{"id":466,"text":"New England Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":371,"text":"Maine Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":548607,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3}]}}
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Determining how and when different subpopulations intermingle during different phases of the annual cycle can help identify important geographical regions or features as targets for conservation efforts and can help inform our understanding of continental-scale disease transmission. In this study, stable isotopes of hydrogen and carbon in contour feathers were used to assess the degree of molt-site fidelity among Bar-headed Geese (<i>Anser indicus</i>) captured in north-central Mongolia. Samples were collected from actively molting Bar-headed Geese (<i>n</i> = 61), and some individual samples included both a newly grown feather (still in sheath) and an old, worn feather from the bird's previous molt (<i>n</i> = 21). Although there was no difference in mean hydrogen isotope ratios for the old and new feathers, the isotopic variance in old feathers was approximately three times higher than that of the new feathers, which suggests that these birds use different and geographically distant molting locations from year to year. To further test this conclusion, online data and modeling tools from the isoMAP website were used to generate probability landscapes for the origin of each feather. Likely molting locations were much more widespread for old feathers than for new feathers, which supports the prospect of low molt-site fidelity. 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Lake whitefish have been a staple food source for thousands of years and, since 1980, have supported the most economically valuable (annual catch value</span><span>&nbsp;</span><span>≈</span><span>&nbsp;</span><span>US$16.6 million) and productive (annual harvest</span><span>&nbsp;</span><span>≈</span><span>&nbsp;</span><span>7 million kg) commercial fishery in the upper Great Lakes (Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior). Climate changes, specifically changes in temperature, wind, and ice cover, are expected to impact the ecology, production dynamics, and value of this fishery because the success of recruitment to the fishery has been linked with these climatic variables. We used linear regression to determine the relationship between fall and spring air temperature indices, fall wind speed, winter ice cover, and lake whitefish recruitment in 13 management units located in the 1836 Treaty Waters of the Upper Great Lakes ceded by the Ottawa and Chippewa nations, a culturally and commercially important region for the lake whitefish fishery. In eight of the 13 management units evaluated, models including one or more climate variables (temperature, wind, ice cover) explained significantly more variation in recruitment than models with only the stock–recruitment relationship, using corrected Akaike's Information Criterion comparisons (ΔAICc</span><span>&nbsp;</span><span>&gt;</span><span>&nbsp;</span><span>3). Isolating the climate–recruitment relationship and projecting recruitment with the Coupled Hydrosphere-Atmosphere Research Model (CHARM) indicated the potential for increased lake whitefish recruitment in the majority of the 1836 Treaty Waters management units. 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Restoration of desert river systems could aid in biodiversity conservation, but poses formidable challenges due to multiple threats and the infeasibility of recovery to pre-development conditions. The challenges faced in restoring desert rivers can be addressed by incorporating scientific recommendations into restoration planning efforts at multiple stages, as demonstrated here through an example restoration project. In particular, use of a watershed-scale planning process can identify data gaps and irreversible constraints, which aid in developing achievable restoration goals and objectives. Site-prioritization focuses limited the resources for restoration on areas with the greatest potential to improve populations of target organisms. Investment in research to understand causes of degradation, coupled with adoption of a guiding vision is critical for identifying feasible restoration actions that can enhance river processes. Setting monitoring as a project goal, developing hypotheses for expected outcomes, and implementing restoration as an experimental design will facilitate adaptive management and learning from project implementation. Involvement of scientists and managers during all planning stages is critical for developing process-based restoration actions and an implementation plan to maximize learning. 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Recent evidence suggests that suburban landscapes harbor amphibian populations exhibiting similar levels of endocrine disruption; however the endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) sources are unknown. Here, we show that sex ratios of metamorphosing frogs become increasingly female-dominated along a suburbanization gradient. We further show that suburban ponds are frequently contaminated by the classical estrogen estrone and a variety of EDCs produced by plants (phytoestrogens), and that the diversity of organic EDCs is correlated with the extent of developed land use and cultivated lawn and gardens around a pond. Our work also raises the possibility that trace-element contamination associated with human land use around suburban ponds may be contributing to the estrogenic load within suburban freshwaters and constitutes another source of estrogenic exposure for wildlife. These data suggest novel, unexplored pathways of EDC contamination in human-altered environments. In particular, we propose that vegetation changes associated with suburban neighborhoods (e.g., from forests to lawns and ornamental plants) increase the distribution of phytoestrogens in surface waters. The result of frog sex ratios varying as a function of human land use implicates a role for environmental modulation of sexual differentiation in amphibians, which are assumed to only have genetic sex determination. Overall, we show that endocrine disruption is widespread in suburban frog populations and that the causes are likely diverse.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"PNAS","doi":"10.1073/pnas.1501065112","usgsCitation":"Lambert, M.R., Giller, G.S., Barber, L.B., Fitzgerald, K.C., and Skelly, D.K., 2015, Suburbanization, estrogen contamination, and sex ratio in wild amphibian populations: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 112, no. 38, p. 11881-11886, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1501065112.","productDescription":"6 p.","startPage":"11881","endPage":"11886","ipdsId":"IP-062730","costCenters":[{"id":589,"text":"Toxic Substances Hydrology Program","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":5044,"text":"National Research Program - Central Branch","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":472068,"rank":0,"type":{"id":41,"text":"Open Access External Repository Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1501065112","text":"External Repository"},{"id":335838,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"112","issue":"38","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":2,"text":"Denver PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2015-09-08","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"58ac0e2ee4b0ce4410e7d5fa","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Lambert, Max R.","contributorId":181897,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Lambert","given":"Max","email":"","middleInitial":"R.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":669920,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Giller, Geoffrey S. 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,{"id":70136073,"text":"70136073 - 2015 - A multi-proxy record of hydroclimate, vegetation, fire, and post-settlement impacts for a subalpine plateau, Central Rocky Mountains U.S.A","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-07-08T11:48:00","indexId":"70136073","displayToPublicDate":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2015","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3562,"text":"The Holocene","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"A multi-proxy record of hydroclimate, vegetation, fire, and post-settlement impacts for a subalpine plateau, Central Rocky Mountains U.S.A","docAbstract":"<p><span>Apparent changes in vegetation distribution, fire, and other disturbance regimes throughout western North America have prompted investigations of the relative importance of human activities and climate change as potential causal mechanisms. Assessing the effects of Euro-American settlement is difficult because climate changes occur on multi-decadal to centennial time scales and require longer time perspectives than historic observations can provide. Here, we report vegetation and environmental changes over the past ~13,000&thinsp;years as recorded in a sediment record from Bison Lake, a subalpine lake on a high plateau in northwestern Colorado. Results are based on multiple independent proxies, which include pollen, charcoal, and elemental geochemistry, and are compared with previously reported interpretations of hydroclimatic changes from oxygen isotope ratios. The pollen data indicate a slowly changing vegetation sequence from sagebrush steppe during the late glacial to coniferous forest through the late Holocene. The most dramatic vegetation changes of the Holocene occurred during the &lsquo;Medieval Climate Anomaly&rsquo; (MCA) and &lsquo;Little Ice Age&rsquo; (LIA) with rapid replacement of conifer forest by grassland followed by an equally rapid return to conifer forest. Late Holocene vegetation responses are mirrored by changes in fire, lake biological productivity, and watershed erosion. These combined records indicate that subsequent disturbance related to Euro-American settlement, although perhaps significant, had acted upon a landscape that was already responding to MCA-LIA hydroclimatic change. Results document both rapid and long-term subalpine grassland ecosystem dynamics driven by agents of change that can be anticipated in the future and simulated by ecosystem models.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Sage Journals","doi":"10.1177/0959683615574583","usgsCitation":"Anderson, L., Brunelle, A., and Thompson, R.S., 2015, A multi-proxy record of hydroclimate, vegetation, fire, and post-settlement impacts for a subalpine plateau, Central Rocky Mountains U.S.A: The Holocene, v. 25, no. 6, p. 932-943, https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615574583.","productDescription":"12 p.","startPage":"932","endPage":"943","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-058200","costCenters":[{"id":318,"text":"Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":324911,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"otherGeospatial":"Rocky Mountains","volume":"25","issue":"6","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2015-03-16","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5780ceaee4b0811616822299","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Anderson, Lesleigh 0000-0002-5264-089X land@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5264-089X","contributorId":436,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Anderson","given":"Lesleigh","email":"land@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":318,"text":"Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":537111,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Brunelle, Andrea","contributorId":131053,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Brunelle","given":"Andrea","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":7215,"text":"University of Utah Dept. of Geography","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":537112,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Thompson, Robert S. 0000-0001-9287-2954 rthompson@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9287-2954","contributorId":891,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Thompson","given":"Robert","email":"rthompson@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"S.","affiliations":[{"id":318,"text":"Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":537113,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3}]}}
,{"id":70178268,"text":"70178268 - 2015 - Biogeochemical aspects of uranium mineralization, mining, milling, and remediation","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-09-18T16:14:31","indexId":"70178268","displayToPublicDate":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2015","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":835,"text":"Applied Geochemistry","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Biogeochemical aspects of uranium mineralization, mining, milling, and remediation","docAbstract":"<p id=\"sp0010\">Natural uranium (U) occurs as a mixture of three radioactive isotopes: <sup>238</sup>U, <sup>235</sup>U, and <sup>234</sup>U. Only <sup>235</sup>U is fissionable and makes up about 0.7% of natural U, while <sup>238</sup>U is overwhelmingly the most abundant at greater than 99% of the total mass of U. Prior to the 1940s, U was predominantly used as a coloring agent, and U-bearing ores were mined mainly for their radium (Ra) and/or vanadium (V) content; the bulk of the U was discarded with the tailings (Finch et al., 1972). Once nuclear fission was discovered, the economic importance of U increased greatly. The mining and milling of U-bearing ores is the first step in the nuclear fuel cycle, and the contact of residual waste with natural water is a potential source of contamination of U and associated elements to the environment. Uranium is mined by three basic methods: surface (open pit), underground, and solution mining (in situ leaching or in situ recovery), depending on the deposit grade, size, location, geology and economic considerations (Abdelouas, 2006). Solid wastes at U mill tailings (UMT) sites can include both standard tailings (i.e., leached ore rock residues) and solids generated on site by waste treatment processes. The latter can include sludge or “mud” from neutralization of acidic mine/mill effluents, containing Fe and a range of coprecipitated constituents, or barium sulfate precipitates that selectively remove Ra (e.g., Carvalho et al., 2007). In this chapter, we review the hydrometallurgical processes by which U is extracted from ore, the biogeochemical processes that can affect the fate and transport of U and associated elements in the environment, and possible remediation strategies for site closure and aquifer restoration.</p><p id=\"sp0015\">This paper represents the fourth in a series of review papers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on geochemical aspects of UMT management that span more than three decades. The first paper (Landa, 1980) in this series is a primer on the nature of tailings and radionuclide mobilization from them. The second paper (Landa, 1999) includes coverage of research carried out under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program (UMTRA). The third paper (Landa, 2004) reflects the increased focus of researchers on biotic effects in UMT environs. This paper expands the focus to U mining, milling, and remedial actions, and includes extensive coverage of the increasingly important alkaline in situ recovery and groundwater restoration.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"Elsevier","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeochem.2014.07.022","usgsCitation":"Campbell, K.M., Gallegos, T.J., and Landa, E.R., 2015, Biogeochemical aspects of uranium mineralization, mining, milling, and remediation: Applied Geochemistry, v. 57, p. 206-235, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2014.07.022.","productDescription":"30 p.","startPage":"206","endPage":"235","ipdsId":"IP-053469","costCenters":[{"id":589,"text":"Toxic Substances Hydrology Program","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":5044,"text":"National Research Program - Central Branch","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":331114,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"57","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":2,"text":"Denver PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"582ecff0e4b04d580bd43534","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Campbell, Kate M. 0000-0002-8715-5544 kcampbell@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8715-5544","contributorId":1441,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Campbell","given":"Kate","email":"kcampbell@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":5044,"text":"National Research Program - Central Branch","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":653459,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Gallegos, Tanya J. 0000-0003-3350-6473 tgallegos@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3350-6473","contributorId":2206,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Gallegos","given":"Tanya","email":"tgallegos@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[{"id":436,"text":"National Research Program - Eastern Branch","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":241,"text":"Eastern Energy Resources Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":654048,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Landa, Edward R. erlanda@usgs.gov","contributorId":2112,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Landa","given":"Edward","email":"erlanda@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"R.","affiliations":[],"preferred":true,"id":654049,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3}]}}
,{"id":70154809,"text":"70154809 - 2015 - Dynamic hypoxic zones in Lake Erie compress fish habitat, altering vulnerability to fishing gears","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2015-07-08T13:42:30","indexId":"70154809","displayToPublicDate":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2015","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1169,"text":"Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Dynamic hypoxic zones in Lake Erie compress fish habitat, altering vulnerability to fishing gears","docAbstract":"<p><span>Seasonal degradation of aquatic habitats from hypoxia occurs in numerous freshwater and coastal marine systems and can result in direct mortality or displacement of fish. Yet, fishery landings from these systems are frequently unresponsive to changes in the severity and extent of hypoxia, and population-scale effects have been difficult to measure except in extreme hypoxic conditions with hypoxia-sensitive species. We investigated fine-scale temporal and spatial variability in dissolved oxygen in Lake Erie as it related to fish distribution and catch efficiencies of both active (bottom trawls) and passive (trap nets) fishing gears. Temperature and dissolved oxygen loggers placed near the edge of the hypolimnion exhibited much higher than expected variability. Hypoxic episodes of variable durations were frequently punctuated by periods of normoxia, consistent with high-frequency internal waves. High-resolution interpolations of water quality and hydroacoustic surveys suggest that fish habitat is compressed during hypoxic episodes, resulting in higher fish densities near the edges of hypoxia. At fixed locations with passive commercial fishing gear, catches with the highest values occurred when bottom waters were hypoxic for intermediate proportions of time. Proximity to hypoxia explained significant variation in bottom trawl catches, with higher catch rates near the edge of hypoxia. These results emphasize how hypoxia may elevate catch rates in various types of fishing gears, leading to a lack of association between indices of hypoxia and fishery landings. Increased catch rates of fish at the edges of hypoxia have important implications for stock assessment models that assume catchability is spatially homogeneous.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"NRC Research Press","doi":"10.1139/cjfas-2014-0517","usgsCitation":"Kraus, R.T., Knight, C.T., Farmer, T.M., Gorman, A.M., Collingsworth, P.D., Warren, G.J., Kocovsky, P.M., and Conroy, J.D., 2015, Dynamic hypoxic zones in Lake Erie compress fish habitat, altering vulnerability to fishing gears: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, v. 72, no. 6, p. 797-806, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2014-0517.","productDescription":"10 p.","startPage":"797","endPage":"806","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-060963","costCenters":[{"id":324,"text":"Great Lakes Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":305617,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Ohio","city":"Fairport Harbor","otherGeospatial":"Lake Erie","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -81.31805419921875,\n              41.740577910570785\n            ],\n            [\n              -81.31805419921875,\n              41.78052894057897\n            ],\n            [\n              -81.23222351074219,\n              41.78052894057897\n            ],\n            [\n              -81.23222351074219,\n              41.740577910570785\n            ],\n            [\n              -81.31805419921875,\n              41.740577910570785\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"72","issue":"6","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":6,"text":"Columbus PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"559e49aae4b0b94a64018f63","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Kraus, Richard T. 0000-0003-4494-1841 rkraus@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4494-1841","contributorId":2609,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Kraus","given":"Richard","email":"rkraus@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"T.","affiliations":[{"id":324,"text":"Great Lakes Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":564223,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Knight, Carey T.","contributorId":56529,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Knight","given":"Carey","email":"","middleInitial":"T.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":564487,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Farmer, Troy M.","contributorId":69893,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Farmer","given":"Troy","email":"","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":564488,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Gorman, Ann Marie","contributorId":145525,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Gorman","given":"Ann","email":"","middleInitial":"Marie","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":564489,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Collingsworth, Paris D.","contributorId":145526,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Collingsworth","given":"Paris","email":"","middleInitial":"D.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":564490,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Warren, Glenn J.","contributorId":79407,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Warren","given":"Glenn","email":"","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":564491,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":6},{"text":"Kocovsky, Patrick M. 0000-0003-4325-4265 pkocovsky@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4325-4265","contributorId":3429,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Kocovsky","given":"Patrick","email":"pkocovsky@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":251,"text":"Ecosystems Mission Area","active":false,"usgs":true},{"id":324,"text":"Great Lakes Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":564492,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":7},{"text":"Conroy, Joseph D.","contributorId":145527,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Conroy","given":"Joseph","email":"","middleInitial":"D.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":564493,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":8}]}}
,{"id":70155075,"text":"70155075 - 2015 - Effects of the light goose conservation order on non-target waterfowl distribution during spring migration","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2015-08-18T15:31:40","indexId":"70155075","displayToPublicDate":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2015","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3766,"text":"Wildlife Biology","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Effects of the light goose conservation order on non-target waterfowl distribution during spring migration","docAbstract":"<p><span>The Light Goose Conservation Order (LGCO) was initiated in 1999 to reduce mid-continent populations of light geese (lesser snow geese&nbsp;</span><i>Chen caerulescens</i><span>&nbsp;and Ross's geese&nbsp;</span><i>C. rossi)</i><span>. However, concern about potential for LGCO activities (i.e. hunting activities) to negatively impact non-target waterfowl species during spring migration in the Rainwater Basin (RWB) of Nebraska prompted agency personnel to limit the number of hunt days each week and close multiple public wetlands to LGCO activities entirely. To evaluate the effects of the LGCO in the RWB, we quantified waterfowl density at wetlands open and closed to LGCO hunting and recorded all hunter encounters during springs 2011 and 2012. We encountered a total of 70 hunting parties on 22 study wetlands, with over 90% of these encounters occurring during early season when the majority of waterfowl used the RWB region. We detected greater overall densities of dabbling ducks Anas spp., as well as for mallards&nbsp;</span><i>A. platyrhynchos</i><span>&nbsp;and northern pintails&nbsp;</span><i>A. acuta</i><span>&nbsp;on wetlands closed to the LGCO. We detected no effects of hunt day in the analyses of dabbling duck densities. We detected no differences in mean weekly dabbling duck densities among wetlands open to hunting, regardless of weekly or cumulative hunting encounter frequency throughout early season. Additionally, hunting category was not a predictor for the presence of greater white-fronted geese&nbsp;</span><i>Anser albifrons</i><span>in a logistic regression model. Given that dabbling duck densities were greater on wetlands closed to hunting, providing wetlands free from hunting disturbance as refugia during the LGCO remains an important management strategy at migration stopover sites. However, given that we did not detect an effect of hunt day or hunting frequency on dabbling duck density, our results suggest increased hunting frequency at sites already open to hunting would likely have minimal impacts on the distribution of non-target waterfowl species using the region for spring staging.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Nordic Board for Wildlife Research","publisherLocation":"Lund, Sweden","doi":"10.2981/wlb.00063","usgsCitation":"Dinges, A.J., Webb, E.B., and Vrtiska, M.P., 2015, Effects of the light goose conservation order on non-target waterfowl distribution during spring migration: Wildlife Biology, v. 21, no. 2, p. 88-97, https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00063.","productDescription":"10 p.","startPage":"88","endPage":"97","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","temporalStart":"2011-01-01","temporalEnd":"2012-03-31","ipdsId":"IP-053124","costCenters":[{"id":198,"text":"Coop Res Unit Atlanta","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":472063,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00063","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":306891,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Nebraska","otherGeospatial":"Rainwater Basin","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -96.910400390625,\n              41.47977575214487\n            ],\n            [\n              -96.9158935546875,\n              40.006579667838636\n            ],\n            [\n              -100.5743408203125,\n              40.006579667838636\n            ],\n            [\n              -100.535888671875,\n              41.054501963290505\n            ],\n            [\n              -99.7064208984375,\n              40.6723059714534\n            ],\n            [\n              -98.953857421875,\n              40.622291783092706\n            ],\n            [\n              -98.470458984375,\n              40.751418432997454\n            ],\n            [\n              -98.6572265625,\n              40.971603532799115\n            ],\n            [\n              -98.316650390625,\n              41.14970617453726\n            ],\n            [\n              -98.0255126953125,\n              40.9840449469281\n            ],\n            [\n              -97.66845703124999,\n              41.25716209782705\n            ],\n            [\n              -97.31689453125,\n              41.35619553438905\n            ],\n            [\n              -96.910400390625,\n              41.47977575214487\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"21","issue":"2","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":8,"text":"Raleigh PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"55d45730e4b0518e354694be","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Dinges, Andrew J.","contributorId":145935,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Dinges","given":"Andrew","email":"","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":566709,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Webb, Elisabeth B. 0000-0003-3851-6056 ewebb@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3851-6056","contributorId":3981,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Webb","given":"Elisabeth","email":"ewebb@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"B.","affiliations":[{"id":199,"text":"Coop Res Unit Leetown","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":564769,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Vrtiska, Mark P.","contributorId":54008,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Vrtiska","given":"Mark","email":"","middleInitial":"P.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":566710,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3}]}}
,{"id":70159048,"text":"70159048 - 2015 - Hydrology: The interdisciplinary science of water","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2015-10-15T09:08:54","indexId":"70159048","displayToPublicDate":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2015","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3722,"text":"Water Resources Research","onlineIssn":"1944-7973","printIssn":"0043-1397","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Hydrology: The interdisciplinary science of water","docAbstract":"<p>We live in a world where biophysical and social processes are tightly coupled. Hydrologic systems change in response to a variety of natural and human forces such as climate variability and change, water use and water infrastructure, and land cover change. In turn, changes in hydrologic systems impact socioeconomic, ecological, and climate systems at a number of scales, leading to a coevolution of these interlinked systems. The Harvard Water Program, Hydrosociology, Integrated Water Resources Management, Ecohydrology, Hydromorphology, and Sociohydrology were all introduced to provide distinct, interdisciplinary perspectives on water problems to address the contemporary dynamics of human interaction with the hydrosphere and the evolution of the Earth&rsquo;s hydrologic systems. Each of them addresses scientific, social, and engineering challenges related to how humans influence water systems and vice versa. There are now numerous examples in the literature of how holistic approaches can provide a structure and vision of the future of hydrology. We review selected examples, which taken together, describe the type of theoretical and applied integrated hydrologic analyses and associated curricular content required to address the societal issue of water resources sustainability. We describe a modern interdisciplinary science of hydrology needed to develop an in-depth understanding of the dynamics of the connectedness between human and natural systems and to determine effective solutions to resolve the complex water problems that the world faces today. Nearly, every theoretical hydrologic model introduced previously is in need of revision to accommodate how climate, land, vegetation, and socioeconomic factors interact, change, and evolve over time.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1002/2015WR017049","usgsCitation":"Vogel, R.M., Lall, U., Cai, X., Rajagopalan, B., Weiskel, P.K., Hooper, R.P., and Matalas, N.C., 2015, Hydrology: The interdisciplinary science of water: Water Resources Research, v. 51, no. 6, p. 4409-4430, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017049.","productDescription":"22 p.","startPage":"4409","endPage":"4430","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-065855","costCenters":[{"id":376,"text":"Massachusetts Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":472065,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/2015wr017049","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":309897,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"51","issue":"6","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":11,"text":"Pembroke PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2015-06-21","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5620ce77e4b06217fc478aee","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Vogel, Richard M.","contributorId":66811,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Vogel","given":"Richard","email":"","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":577535,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Lall, Upmanu","contributorId":101172,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Lall","given":"Upmanu","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":577536,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Cai, Ximing","contributorId":149230,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Cai","given":"Ximing","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":17685,"text":"University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":577537,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Rajagopalan, Balaji","contributorId":145813,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Rajagopalan","given":"Balaji","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":16240,"text":"U of Colorado, Boulder","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":577538,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Weiskel, Peter K. pweiskel@usgs.gov","contributorId":1099,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Weiskel","given":"Peter","email":"pweiskel@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"K.","affiliations":[{"id":376,"text":"Massachusetts Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":466,"text":"New England Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":577534,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Hooper, Richard P.","contributorId":19144,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Hooper","given":"Richard","email":"","middleInitial":"P.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":577539,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":6},{"text":"Matalas, Nicholas C.","contributorId":34535,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Matalas","given":"Nicholas","email":"","middleInitial":"C.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":577540,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":7}]}}
,{"id":70159219,"text":"70159219 - 2015 - The changing strength and nature of fire-climate relationships in the northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., 1902-2008","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-04-24T13:45:44","indexId":"70159219","displayToPublicDate":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2015","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":2980,"text":"PLoS ONE","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"The changing strength and nature of fire-climate relationships in the northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., 1902-2008","docAbstract":"<p><span>Time-varying fire-climate relationships may represent an important component of fire-regime variability, relevant for understanding the controls of fire and projecting fire activity under global-change scenarios. We used time-varying statistical models to evaluate if and how fire-climate relationships varied from 1902-2008, in one of the most flammable forested regions of the western U.S.A. Fire-danger and water-balance metrics yielded the best combination of calibration accuracy and predictive skill in modeling annual area burned. The strength of fire-climate relationships varied markedly at multi-decadal scales, with models explaining &lt; 40% to 88% of the variation in annual area burned. The early 20th century (1902-1942) and the most recent two decades (1985-2008) exhibited strong fire-climate relationships, with weaker relationships for much of the mid 20th century (1943-1984), coincident with diminished burning, less fire-conducive climate, and the initiation of modern fire fighting. Area burned and the strength of fire-climate relationships increased sharply in the mid 1980s, associated with increased temperatures and longer potential fire seasons. Unlike decades with high burning in the early 20th century, models developed using fire-climate relationships from recent decades overpredicted area burned when applied to earlier periods. This amplified response of fire to climate is a signature of altered fire-climate-relationships, and it implicates non-climatic factors in this recent shift. Changes in fuel structure and availability following 40+ yr of unusually low fire activity, and possibly land use, may have resulted in increased fire vulnerability beyond expectations from climatic factors alone. Our results highlight the potential for non-climatic factors to alter fire-climate relationships, and the need to account for such dynamics, through adaptable statistical or processes-based models, for accurately predicting future fire activity.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"PLOS","doi":"10.1371/journal.pone.0127563","usgsCitation":"Littell, J.S., 2015, The changing strength and nature of fire-climate relationships in the northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., 1902-2008: PLoS ONE, v. 10, no. 6, e0127563: 21 p., https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127563.","productDescription":"e0127563: 21 p.","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-063794","costCenters":[{"id":411,"text":"National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":36940,"text":"National Climate Adaptation Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":472062,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127563","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":310399,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Idaho, Montana","otherGeospatial":"Rocky Mountains","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -113.35693359375,\n              48.980216985374994\n            ],\n            [\n              -113.02734374999999,\n              48.58932584966972\n            ],\n            [\n              -112.67578124999999,\n              48.1367666796927\n            ],\n            [\n              -111.6650390625,\n              47.27922900257082\n            ],\n            [\n              -109.9072265625,\n              46.965259400349275\n            ],\n            [\n              -109.9072265625,\n              46.07323062540838\n            ],\n            [\n              -109.57763671875,\n              45.644768217751924\n            ],\n            [\n              -110.76416015625,\n              45.73685954736049\n            ],\n            [\n              -111.07177734375,\n              45.24395342262324\n            ],\n            [\n              -111.1376953125,\n              44.465151013519616\n            ],\n            [\n              -111.533203125,\n              44.18220395771566\n            ],\n            [\n              -112.8955078125,\n              43.83452678223684\n            ],\n            [\n              -113.818359375,\n              43.34116005412307\n            ],\n            [\n              -115.83984375,\n              43.26120612479979\n            ],\n            [\n              -116.38916015624999,\n              43.94537239244209\n            ],\n            [\n              -116.78466796875,\n              44.213709909702054\n            ],\n            [\n              -117.1142578125,\n              44.54350521320822\n            ],\n            [\n              -116.69677734375,\n              45.02695045318546\n            ],\n            [\n              -116.16943359374999,\n              45.78284835197676\n            ],\n            [\n              -116.01562499999999,\n              46.14939437647686\n            ],\n            [\n              -116.54296874999999,\n              46.78501604269254\n            ],\n            [\n              -116.89453125,\n              47.517200697839414\n            ],\n            [\n              -116.8505859375,\n              48.019324184801185\n            ],\n            [\n              -116.630859375,\n              48.32703913063476\n            ],\n            [\n              -116.91650390625,\n              48.79239019646406\n            ],\n            [\n              -117.04833984375001,\n              48.99463598353408\n            ],\n            [\n              -113.35693359375,\n              48.980216985374994\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"10","issue":"6","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":9,"text":"Reston PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2015-06-26","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"562a08f5e4b011227bf1fdeb","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Littell, Jeremy S. 0000-0002-5302-8280 jlittell@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5302-8280","contributorId":4428,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Littell","given":"Jeremy","email":"jlittell@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"S.","affiliations":[{"id":107,"text":"Alaska Climate Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":411,"text":"National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":577858,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}}
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We examined roost use and selection by Rafinesque's big-eared bat at the tree, stand, and landscape scales during the maternity season in pristine old-growth habitat in the Coastal Plain of South Carolina. We located 43 roosts (14 maternity, 29 solitary) through cavity searches and radio-telemetry. Maternity colonies and solitary individuals selected roosts based on similar characteristics. The best model explaining roost selection by all bats included tree and stand characteristics; landscape factors had little influence on roost use. Bats selected large diameter trees in areas with a high density of trees with cavities in the surrounding area. Most roosts (67.4%) were in water tupelo (</span><i>Nyssa aquatica</i><span>) in semi-permanently flooded and saturated areas. Half of maternity roost cavities had upper bole openings whereas only 25.8% of solitary roosts had upper bole openings. Bats that roosted with maternity groups stayed in roosts for significantly shorter periods of time (1.3 &plusmn; 0.1 days) and used significantly more roost trees (5.0 &plusmn; 0.6 roosts) than adult males (3.8 &plusmn; 1.10 days, 2.3 &plusmn; 0.4 roosts, respectively). Maternity colony use of cavities with upper bole openings and shorter residency times suggest that predator avoidance may have been an important factor governing roosting behavior of maternity colonies in this area. Our results suggest that retention of large diameter, hollow trees in wetland areas will benefit Rafinesque's big-eared bat individuals and maternity colonies in this area.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences","doi":"10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.1.011","usgsCitation":"Lucas, J.S., Loeb, S.C., and Jodice, P.G., 2015, Roost selection by Rafinesque’s big-eared bats (<i>Corynorhinus rafinesquii</i>) in a pristine habitat at three spatial scales: Acta Chiropterologica, v. 17, no. 1, p. 131-141, https://doi.org/10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.1.011.","productDescription":"11 p.","startPage":"131","endPage":"141","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-044521","costCenters":[{"id":198,"text":"Coop Res Unit Atlanta","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":306839,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"South Carolina","otherGeospatial":"Congaree National Park","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -80.89645385742188,\n              33.754031498216385\n            ],\n            [\n              -80.89645385742188,\n              33.86243347149935\n            ],\n            [\n              -80.66299438476562,\n              33.86243347149935\n            ],\n            [\n              -80.66299438476562,\n              33.754031498216385\n            ],\n            [\n              -80.89645385742188,\n              33.754031498216385\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"17","issue":"1","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":8,"text":"Raleigh PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"55d45734e4b0518e354694ea","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Lucas, Jessica S.","contributorId":146586,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Lucas","given":"Jessica","email":"","middleInitial":"S.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":568365,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Loeb, Susan C.","contributorId":138944,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Loeb","given":"Susan","email":"","middleInitial":"C.","affiliations":[{"id":6762,"text":"U.S. Forest Service, La Grande, Oregon","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":568366,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Jodice, Patrick G.R. 0000-0001-8716-120X pjodice@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8716-120X","contributorId":1119,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Jodice","given":"Patrick","email":"pjodice@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"G.R.","affiliations":[{"id":198,"text":"Coop Res Unit Atlanta","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":false,"id":564464,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3}]}}
,{"id":70154749,"text":"70154749 - 2015 - Linking carbon and water limitations to drought-induced mortality of Pinus flexilis seedlings","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-09-04T15:43:43","indexId":"70154749","displayToPublicDate":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2015","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3649,"text":"Tree Physiology","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"displayTitle":"Linking carbon and water limitations to drought-induced mortality of <i>Pinus flexilis</i> seedlings","title":"Linking carbon and water limitations to drought-induced mortality of Pinus flexilis seedlings","docAbstract":"<p><span>Survival of tree seedlings at high elevations has been shown to be limited by thermal constraints on carbon balance, but it is unknown if carbon relations also limit seedling survival at lower elevations, where water relations may be more important. We measured and modeled carbon fluxes and water relations in first-year&nbsp;</span><i>Pinus flexilis</i><span>&nbsp;seedlings in garden plots just beyond the warm edge of their natural range, and compared these with dry-mass gain and survival across two summers. We hypothesized that mortality in these seedlings would be associated with declines in water relations, more so than with carbon-balance limitations. Rather than gradual declines in survivorship across growing seasons, we observed sharp, large-scale mortality episodes that occurred once volumetric soil-moisture content dropped below 10%. By this point, seedling water potentials had decreased below &minus;5 MPa, seedling hydraulic conductivity had decreased by 90% and seedling hydraulic resistance had increased by &gt;900%. Additionally, non-structural carbohydrates accumulated in aboveground tissues at the end of both summers, suggesting impairments in phloem-transport from needles to roots. This resulted in low carbohydrate concentrations in roots, which likely impaired root growth and water uptake at the time of critically low soil moisture. While photosynthesis and respiration on a leaf area basis remained high until critical hydraulic thresholds were exceeded, modeled seedling gross primary productivity declined steadily throughout the summers. At the time of mortality, modeled productivity was insufficient to support seedling biomass-gain rates, metabolism and secondary costs. Thus the large-scale mortality events that we observed near the end of each summer were most directly linked with acute, episodic declines in plant hydraulic function that were linked with important changes in whole-seedling carbon relations.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Oxford Journals","doi":"10.1093/treephys/tpv045","usgsCitation":"Reinhardt, K., Germino, M.J., Kueppers, L.M., Domec, J., and Mitton, J., 2015, Linking carbon and water limitations to drought-induced mortality of Pinus flexilis seedlings: Tree Physiology, v. 35, no. 7, p. 771-782, https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpv045.","productDescription":"12 p.","startPage":"771","endPage":"782","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-059360","costCenters":[{"id":290,"text":"Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center","active":false,"usgs":true},{"id":34983,"text":"Contaminant Biology Program","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":306628,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"35","issue":"7","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":12,"text":"Tacoma PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2015-06-27","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"55cdbfb7e4b08400b1fe1411","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Reinhardt, Keith","contributorId":11949,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Reinhardt","given":"Keith","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":563947,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Germino, Matthew J. 0000-0001-6326-7579 mgermino@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6326-7579","contributorId":3298,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Germino","given":"Matthew","email":"mgermino@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[{"id":289,"text":"Forest and Rangeland Ecosys Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":false,"id":563946,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Kueppers, Lara M.","contributorId":89778,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Kueppers","given":"Lara","email":"","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":16805,"text":"University of California, Merced","active":true,"usgs":false},{"id":6670,"text":"Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":563949,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Domec, Jean-Christophe","contributorId":146460,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Domec","given":"Jean-Christophe","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":567957,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Mitton, Jeffry","contributorId":145421,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Mitton","given":"Jeffry","affiliations":[{"id":12502,"text":"University of Colorado - Boulder","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":563948,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5}]}}
,{"id":70191256,"text":"70191256 - 2015 - Applied Geochemistry Special Issue on Environmental geochemistry of modern mining","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-03-10T14:38:56","indexId":"70191256","displayToPublicDate":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2015","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":835,"text":"Applied Geochemistry","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Applied Geochemistry Special Issue on Environmental geochemistry of modern mining","docAbstract":"<p id=\"p0005\">Environmental geochemistry is an integral part of the mine-life cycle, particularly for modern mining. The critical importance of environmental geochemistry begins with pre-mining baseline characterization and the assessment of environmental risks related to mining, continues through active mining especially in water and waste management practices, and culminates in mine closure. The enhanced significance of environmental geochemistry to modern mining has arisen from an increased knowledge of the impacts that historical and active mining can have on the environment, and from new regulations meant to guard against these impacts. New regulations are commonly motivated by advances in the scientific understanding of the environmental impacts of past mining. The impacts can be physical, chemical, and biological in nature. The physical challenges typically fall within the purview of engineers, whereas the chemical and biological challenges typically require a multidisciplinary array of expertise including geologists, geochemists, hydrologists, microbiologists, and biologists. The modern mine-permitting process throughout most of the world now requires that potential risks be assessed prior to the start of mining. The strategies for this risk assessment include a thorough characterization of pre-mining baseline conditions and the identification of risks specifically related to the manner in which the ore will be mined and processed, how water and waste products will be managed, and what the final configuration of the post-mining landscape will be.</p><p id=\"p0010\">In the Fall 2010, the Society of Economic Geologists held a short course in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver, Colorado (USA) to examine the environmental geochemistry of modern mining. The intent was to focus on issues that are pertinent to current and future mines, as opposed to abandoned mines, which have been the focus of numerous previous short courses. The geochemical challenges of current and future mines share similarities with abandoned mines, but differences also exist. Mining and ore processing techniques have changed; the environmental footprint of waste materials has changed; environmental protection has become a more integral part of the mine planning process; and most historical mining was done with limited regard for the environment. The 17 papers in this special issue evolved from the Society of Economic Geologists’ short course.</p><p id=\"p0015\">The relevant geochemical processes encompass the source, transport, and fate of contaminants related to the life cycle of a mine. Contaminants include metals and other inorganic species derived from geologic sources such as ore and solid mine waste, and substances brought to the site for ore processing, such as cyanide to leach gold. Factors, such as mine-waste mineralogy, hydrologic setting, mine-drainage chemistry, and microbial activity, that affect the hydrochemical risks from mining are reviewed by Nordstrom et al. In another paper, Nordstrom discusses baseline characterization at mine sites in a regulatory framework, and emphasizes the influence of mineral deposits in producing naturally elevated concentrations of many trace elements in surface water and groundwater. Surface water quality in mineralized watersheds is influenced by a number of processes that act on daily (diel) cycles and can produce dramatic variations in trace element concentrations as described by Gammons et al. Pre-mining baseline characterization studies should strive to capture the magnitude of these diel variations. Desbarats et al., using a case study of mine drainage from a gold mine, illustrate how elements that commonly occur as negatively charged species (anions) in solution, such as arsenic as arsenate, behave in an opposite fashion than most metals, which occur as positively charged species (cations). Significant improvement in the understanding of factors that influence the toxicity of metals to aquatic organisms in surface water has highlighted the importance of aqueous chemistry, particularly dissolved organic carbon, as described by Smith et al. Stream sediment contamination is another important pathway for affecting aquatic organisms, as reviewed by Besser et al. Understanding and predicting environmental consequences from mining begins with knowing the mineralogy and mineral reactivity of the ore, the wastes, and of secondary minerals formed later. Jamieson et al. review the importance of mineralogical studies in mine planning and remediation. A number of types of site-specific studies are needed to identify environmental risks related to individual mines. Lapakko reviews the general framework of mine waste characterization studies that are integral to the mine planning process. Hageman et al. present a comparative study of several static tests commonly used to characterize mine waste.</p><p id=\"p0020\">The mining and ore processing practices employed at a specific mine site will vary on the basis of the commodities being targeted, the geology of the deposit, the geometry of the deposit, and the mining and ore processing methods used. Thus, these factors, in addition to the waste management practices used, can result in a variety of end-member mine waste features, each of which has its own set of challenges. Open pit mines and underground mines require waste rock to be removed to access ore. Waste rock presents unique problems because the rock is commonly mineralized at sub-economic grades and has not been processed to remove potentially problematic minerals, such as pyrite. Amos et al. examine the salient aspects of the geochemistry of waste rock. Mill tailings – the waste material after ore minerals have been removed – are a volumetrically important solid waste at many mine sites. Their fine grain size and the options for their management make their behavior in the environment distinct from that of waste rock. Lindsay et al. describe some of these differences through three case-study examples. Subaqueous disposal of tailings is another option described by Moncur et al. Cyanide leaching for gold extraction is a common method throughout the world. Johnson describes environmental aspects of cyanidation. Uranium mining presents unique environmental challenges, particularly since in-situ recovery has seen widespread use. Campbell et al. review the environmental geochemistry of uranium mining and current research on bioremediation. Ore concentrates from many types of metal mining undergo a pyrometallurgical technique known as smelting to extract the metal. Slag is the result of smelting, and it may be an environmental liability or a valuable byproduct, as described by Piatak et al. Finally, the open pits that result from surface mining commonly reach below the water table. At the end of mining, these pits may fill to form lakes that become part of the legacy of the mine. Castendyk et al., in two papers, review theoretical aspects of the environmental limnology of pit lakes. They also describe approaches that have been used to model pit lake water balance, wall-rock contributions to pit lake chemistry, pit lake water quality, and limnological processes, such as vertical mixing, through the use of three case studies.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"Elsevier","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeochem.2015.04.019","usgsCitation":"Seal, R., and Nordstrom, D.K., 2015, Applied Geochemistry Special Issue on Environmental geochemistry of modern mining: Applied Geochemistry, v. 57, p. 1-2, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2015.04.019.","productDescription":"2 p.","startPage":"1","endPage":"2","ipdsId":"IP-063499","costCenters":[{"id":245,"text":"Eastern Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":346319,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"57","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":9,"text":"Reston PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"59d3502ae4b05fe04cc34d6f","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Seal, Robert R. 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,{"id":70182182,"text":"70182182 - 2015 - Aspect-dependent soil saturation and insight into debris-flow initiation during extreme rainfall in the Colorado Front Range","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2017-02-20T11:35:54","indexId":"70182182","displayToPublicDate":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2015","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1796,"text":"Geology","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Aspect-dependent soil saturation and insight into debris-flow initiation during extreme rainfall in the Colorado Front Range","docAbstract":"<p><span>Hydrologic processes during extreme rainfall events are poorly characterized because of the rarity of measurements. Improved understanding of hydrologic controls on natural hazards is needed because of the potential for substantial risk during extreme precipitation events. We present field measurements of the degree of soil saturation and estimates of available soil-water storage during the September 2013 Colorado extreme rainfall event at burned (wildfire in 2010) and unburned hillslopes with north- and south-facing slope aspects. Soil saturation was more strongly correlated with slope aspect than with recent fire history; south-facing hillslopes became fully saturated while north-facing hillslopes did not. Our results suggest multiple explanations for why aspect-dependent hydrologic controls favor saturation development on south-facing slopes, causing reductions in effective stress and triggering of slope failures during extreme rainfall. Aspect-dependent hydrologic behavior may result from (1) a larger gravel and stone fraction, and hence lower soil-water storage capacity, on south-facing slopes, and (2) lower weathered-bedrock permeability on south-facing slopes, because of lower tree density and associated deep roots penetrating bedrock as well as less intense weathering, inhibiting soil drainage.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Geological Society of America","doi":"10.1130/G36741.1","usgsCitation":"Ebel, B.A., Rengers, F., and Tucker, G.E., 2015, Aspect-dependent soil saturation and insight into debris-flow initiation during extreme rainfall in the Colorado Front Range: Geology, v. 43, no. 8, p. 659-662, https://doi.org/10.1130/G36741.1.","productDescription":"4 p.","startPage":"659","endPage":"662","ipdsId":"IP-065569","costCenters":[{"id":5044,"text":"National Research Program - Central Branch","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":335827,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"43","issue":"8","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":2,"text":"Denver PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2015-06-23","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"58ac0e2fe4b0ce4410e7d5fc","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Ebel, Brian A. 0000-0002-5413-3963 bebel@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5413-3963","contributorId":2557,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Ebel","given":"Brian","email":"bebel@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"A.","affiliations":[{"id":5044,"text":"National Research Program - Central Branch","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":438,"text":"National Research Program - Western Branch","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":669910,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Rengers, Francis K.","contributorId":181893,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Rengers","given":"Francis K.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":669911,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Tucker, Gregory E.","contributorId":177811,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Tucker","given":"Gregory","email":"","middleInitial":"E.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":669912,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3}]}}
,{"id":70156306,"text":"70156306 - 2015 - Plant-plant interactions in a subtropical mangrove-to-marsh transition zone: effects of environmental drivers","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2015-10-19T12:17:40","indexId":"70156306","displayToPublicDate":"2015-06-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2015","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":2490,"text":"Journal of Vegetation Science","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Plant-plant interactions in a subtropical mangrove-to-marsh transition zone: effects of environmental drivers","docAbstract":"<div id=\"jvs12309-sec-0001\" class=\"section\">\n<h4>Questions</h4>\n<div class=\"para\">\n<p>Does the presence of herbaceous vegetation affect the establishment success of mangrove tree species in the transition zone between subtropical coastal mangrove forests and marshes? How do plant&ndash;plant interactions in this transition zone respond to variation in two primary coastal environmental drivers?</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div id=\"jvs12309-sec-0002\" class=\"section\">\n<h4>Location</h4>\n<div class=\"para\">\n<p>Subtropical coastal region of the southern United States.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div id=\"jvs12309-sec-0003\" class=\"section\">\n<h4>Methods</h4>\n<div class=\"para\">\n<p>We conducted a greenhouse study to better understand how abiotic factors affect plant species interactions in the mangrove-to-marsh transition zone, or ecotone. We manipulated salinity (fresh, brackish or salt water) and hydrologic conditions (continuously saturated or 20-cm tidal range) to simulate ecotonal environments. Propagules of the mangroves&nbsp;<i>Avicennia germinans</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i>Laguncularia racemosa</i>&nbsp;were introduced to mesocosms containing an established marsh community. Both mangrove species were also introduced to containers lacking other vegetation. We monitored mangrove establishment success and survival over 22&nbsp;mo. Mangrove growth was measured as stem height and above-ground biomass. Stem height, stem density and above-ground biomass of the dominant marsh species were documented.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div id=\"jvs12309-sec-0004\" class=\"section\">\n<h4>Results</h4>\n<div class=\"para\">\n<p>Establishment success of&nbsp;<i>A.&nbsp;germinans</i>&nbsp;was reduced under saturated saltwater conditions, but establishment of&nbsp;<i>L.&nbsp;racemosa</i>&nbsp;was not affected by experimental treatments. There was complete mortality of&nbsp;<i>A.&nbsp;germinans</i>&nbsp;in mesocosms under freshwater conditions, and very low survival of&nbsp;<i>L.&nbsp;racemosa</i>. In contrast, survival of both species in monoculture under freshwater conditions exceeded 62%. The marsh species&nbsp;<i>Distichlis spicata</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i>Eleocharis cellulosa</i>&nbsp;suppressed growth of both mangroves throughout the experiment, whereas the mangroves did not affect herbaceous species growth. The magnitude of growth suppression by marsh species varied with environmental conditions; suppression was often higher in saturated compared to tidal conditions, and higher in fresh and salt water compared to brackish water.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div id=\"jvs12309-sec-0005\" class=\"section\">\n<h4>Conclusions</h4>\n<div class=\"para\">\n<p>Our results indicate that herbaceous marsh species can suppress mangrove early seedling growth. Depending on species composition and density, marsh plants can slow mangrove landward migration under predicted climate change scenarios as salinity in freshwater and oligohaline wetlands increases with rising sea levels. Change in the relative coverage of mangrove forests and marshes will depend on both the ability of marsh species to migrate further inland as mangroves advance, and the ability of shoreline mangroves to adjust to rising sea level through accretionary processes.</p>\n</div>\n</div>","language":"English","publisher":"Wiley","doi":"10.1111/jvs.12309","usgsCitation":"Howard, R.J., Krauss, K.W., Cormier, N., Day, R.H., Biagas, J.M., and Allain, L.K., 2015, Plant-plant interactions in a subtropical mangrove-to-marsh transition zone: effects of environmental drivers: Journal of Vegetation Science, v. 26, no. 6, p. 1198-1211, https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12309.","productDescription":"14 p.","startPage":"1198","endPage":"1211","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-059915","costCenters":[{"id":455,"text":"National Wetlands Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":306949,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","volume":"26","issue":"6","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":5,"text":"Lafayette PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2015-06-17","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"55d5a8b3e4b0518e3546a4d9","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Howard, Rebecca J. 0000-0001-7264-4364 howardr@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7264-4364","contributorId":2429,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Howard","given":"Rebecca","email":"howardr@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[{"id":17705,"text":"Wetland and Aquatic Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":455,"text":"National Wetlands Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":568616,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Krauss, Ken W. 0000-0003-2195-0729 kraussk@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-0729","contributorId":2017,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Krauss","given":"Ken","email":"kraussk@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"W.","affiliations":[{"id":455,"text":"National Wetlands Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":17705,"text":"Wetland and Aquatic Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":568617,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Cormier, Nicole 0000-0003-2453-9900 cormiern@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2453-9900","contributorId":4262,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Cormier","given":"Nicole","email":"cormiern@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":17705,"text":"Wetland and Aquatic Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":455,"text":"National Wetlands Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":568618,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Day, Richard H. 0000-0002-5959-7054 dayr@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5959-7054","contributorId":2427,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Day","given":"Richard","email":"dayr@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"H.","affiliations":[{"id":17705,"text":"Wetland and Aquatic Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":455,"text":"National Wetlands Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":568619,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Biagas, Janelda M. 0000-0001-5548-1970 biagasj@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5548-1970","contributorId":4613,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Biagas","given":"Janelda","email":"biagasj@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":455,"text":"National Wetlands Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":568620,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Allain, Larry K. 0000-0002-7717-9761 allainl@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7717-9761","contributorId":2414,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Allain","given":"Larry","email":"allainl@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"K.","affiliations":[{"id":455,"text":"National Wetlands Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":17705,"text":"Wetland and Aquatic Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":568621,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":6}]}}
,{"id":70189467,"text":"70189467 - 2015 - Sediment source apportionment in Laurel Hill Creek, PA, using Bayesian chemical mass balance and isotope fingerprinting","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2017-07-13T13:29:57","indexId":"70189467","displayToPublicDate":"2015-05-30T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2015","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1924,"text":"Hydrological Processes","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Sediment source apportionment in Laurel Hill Creek, PA, using Bayesian chemical mass balance and isotope fingerprinting","docAbstract":"<p><span>A Bayesian chemical mass balance (CMB) approach was used to assess the contribution of potential sources for fluvial samples from Laurel Hill Creek in southwest Pennsylvania. The Bayesian approach provides joint probability density functions of the sources' contributions considering the uncertainties due to source and fluvial sample heterogeneity and measurement error. Both elemental profiles of sources and fluvial samples and&nbsp;</span><sup>13</sup><span>C and<span>&nbsp;</span></span><sup>15</sup><span>N isotopes were used for source apportionment. The sources considered include stream bank erosion, forest, roads and agriculture (pasture and cropland). Agriculture was found to have the largest contribution, followed by stream bank erosion. Also, road erosion was found to have a significant contribution in three of the samples collected during lower-intensity rain events. The source apportionment was performed with and without isotopes. The results were largely consistent; however, the use of isotopes was found to slightly increase the uncertainty in most of the cases. The correlation analysis between the contributions of sources shows strong correlations between stream bank and agriculture, whereas roads and forest seem to be less correlated to other sources. Thus, the method was better able to estimate road and forest contributions independently. The hypothesis that the contributions of sources are not seasonally changing was tested by assuming that all ten fluvial samples had the same source contributions. This hypothesis was rejected, demonstrating a significant seasonal variation in the sources of sediments in the stream.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Wiley","doi":"10.1002/hyp.10364","usgsCitation":"Stewart, H., Massoudieh, A., and Gellis, A.C., 2015, Sediment source apportionment in Laurel Hill Creek, PA, using Bayesian chemical mass balance and isotope fingerprinting: Hydrological Processes, v. 29, no. 11, p. 2545-2560, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10364.","productDescription":"16 p.","startPage":"2545","endPage":"2560","ipdsId":"IP-060412","costCenters":[{"id":374,"text":"Maryland Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":343802,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Pennsylvania","otherGeospatial":"Laurel Hill Creek","volume":"29","issue":"11","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-12-03","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"596886a2e4b0d1f9f05f59c1","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Stewart, Heather","contributorId":173199,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Stewart","given":"Heather","affiliations":[{"id":27188,"text":"Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Agriculture","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":704793,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Massoudieh, Arash","contributorId":194625,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Massoudieh","given":"Arash","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":704794,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Gellis, Allen C. 0000-0002-3449-2889 agellis@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3449-2889","contributorId":172245,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Gellis","given":"Allen","email":"agellis@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"C.","affiliations":[{"id":374,"text":"Maryland Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":false,"id":704795,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3}]}}
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