The tire additive transformation product N-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-N’-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine-quinone (6PPD-quinone) has recently garnered global attention due to its acute toxicity to some salmonids, such as coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), and its ubiquitous presence in urban stormwater systems. In the present study, we developed and compared the extraction efficiency of two sample preparation methodologies for quantification of 6PPD-quinone among two fish tissue sample types that included fillet of smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) and whole-body samples of O. kisutch fry subjected to in vivo exposure tests with 6PPD-quinone. The two sample preparation methods tested included an accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) approach and a sonication extraction approach. Both sample preparation methods included identical purification steps for the crude sample extracts with enhanced matrix removal cartridges. The purified sample extracts were subjected to targeted analysis of 6PPD-quinone using ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS). The results showed that extractions made with the reported ASE method demonstrated significantly higher absolute recovery (80–96%) of the extracted internal standard, [13C6]-6PPD-quinone, than sonication-based extractions (74–80%) in both fish tissue sample types. The proposed ASE method shows acceptable limits of quantification (0.37–0.67 ng g−1), linearity (R2 > 0.996), and repeatability (RSD ≤ 9%). This work advances research capabilities for investigations on the toxicokinetic processes of 6PPD-quinone in biological samples.
","language":"English","publisher":"Oxford Academic","doi":"10.1093/etojnl/vgaf151","usgsCitation":"Moody, A.H., Soucek, D.J., and Alvarez, D.A., 2025, Targeted quantitation of 6ppd-quinone in fish tissue samples with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, v. 44, no. 10, p. 2807-2817, https://doi.org/10.1093/etojnl/vgaf151.","productDescription":"11 p.","startPage":"2807","endPage":"2817","ipdsId":"IP-173953","costCenters":[{"id":192,"text":"Columbia Environmental Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":492074,"rank":1,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/etojnl/vgaf151","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":491845,"rank":2,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"44","issue":"10","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Moody, Adam H. 0000-0001-6160-7920","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6160-7920","contributorId":302592,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Moody","given":"Adam","email":"","middleInitial":"H.","affiliations":[{"id":192,"text":"Columbia Environmental Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":941928,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Soucek, David J. 0000-0002-7741-0193 drieckssoucek@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7741-0193","contributorId":295408,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Soucek","given":"David","email":"drieckssoucek@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[{"id":192,"text":"Columbia Environmental Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":941929,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Alvarez, David A. 0000-0002-6918-2709","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6918-2709","contributorId":220763,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Alvarez","given":"David","middleInitial":"A.","affiliations":[{"id":192,"text":"Columbia Environmental Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":941930,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3}]}} ,{"id":70268302,"text":"70268302 - 2025 - Human perturbations to mercury in global rivers","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2025-06-20T15:03:57.600684","indexId":"70268302","displayToPublicDate":"2025-06-11T10:03:31","publicationYear":"2025","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":5010,"text":"Science Advances","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Human perturbations to mercury in global rivers","docAbstract":"Mercury compounds are potent neurotoxins that pose threats to human health, primarily through fish consumption. Rivers, critical for drinking water and food supply, have seen rapid increases in mercury concentrations and export to coastal margins since the Industrial Revolution (~1850). However, patterns of these changes remain understudied, limiting assessments of environmental policies. Here, we develop a global model to simulate preindustrial riverine total mercury and assess human perturbations by comparing it to present-day conditions. We find that global rivers transported ~390 megagrams annually of mercury to the oceans in the preindustrial era, with spatial variability. Human activities have elevated riverine mercury budgets by two to three times in the present day. Establishing a baseline riverine mercury level, our findings reveal rapid responses of riverine mercury to human perturbations and could be used to inform targets for global riverine mercury restoration. Total riverine mercury concentrations could also be used as indicators to comprehensively understand the effectiveness of mercury pollution governance.
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We analyzed adult Gulf Sturgeon capture–recapture data from 1990 to 2022 across seven Gulf of Mexico river systems. Using temporal symmetry models and fixed estimates of adult survival from a companion study, we estimated seniority probability (γi + 1), capture probability (p), recruitment (f), and population growth rate (λ) for adult fish. Models were compared using Akaike information criterion adjusted for small sample sizes, and parameter estimates were derived at both river-specific and rangewide scales.
Adult survival (φ) was the primary driver of λ across the species’ range, with γ consistently >0.5 in most rivers and time periods. While rangewide λ suggested stable or slightly increasing adult populations, river-level trends varied. Recent declines in λ and f were observed in the Escambia, Apalachicola, and Suwannee rivers—systems affected by red tide, hurricanes, or oil exposure following the Deepwater Horizon spill. Capture probabilities remained low across rivers and time periods.
Long-term recovery of Gulf Sturgeon is likely more sensitive to adult survival than recruitment to the adult population. Population trajectories differ across rivers and may reflect both demographic changes and inconsistencies in monitoring. Restoring consistent, standardized adult monitoring in select rivers will improve the ability to detect meaningful trends and guide conservation efforts focused on minimizing adult mortality.
Most previous research has used an individual water quality parameter, such as calcium, to predict likelihood of zebra mussel establishment in lakes; we employed two multiple-factor methods, our own susceptibility index for zebra mussels in lakes (SIZL) and aragonite saturation state, to evaluate the risk of mussel establishment. Thirty sites in Voyageurs National Park (VNP) were sampled in 2023 for water quality conditions, including those that play a key role in mussel survivability. These results were combined with existing data sets to determine which lakes, and which locations within the larger lakes, are at greatest risk for zebra mussel establishment. Results for VNP indicate that physical lake characteristics and water quality conditions (both single- and multiple-factor methods) put the large, interconnected lakes in VNP at greater risk of zebra mussel establishment than the smaller interior lakes. All sampled interior lakes had alkalinity and calcium concentrations below thresholds conducive to zebra mussel establishment, although Mukooda and O’Leary lakes were identified as the most at-risk interior lakes. The area in the large lakes most at risk was Sullivan Bay in Kabetogama Lake, where water quality conditions were found to be conducive to zebra mussel establishment. Results from this study could be used by resource managers to focus additional inspections, decontaminations, and regulations to protect the most at-risk lakes. These multiple-factor methods may be useful in determining the risk of zebra mussel infestation in other water bodies.
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2025 - High-pass corner frequency selection and review tool for use in ground-motion processing","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2025-09-09T14:38:21.181387","indexId":"70268116","displayToPublicDate":"2025-06-11T08:49:27","publicationYear":"2025","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3372,"text":"Seismological Research Letters","onlineIssn":"1938-2057","printIssn":"0895-0695","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"High-pass corner frequency selection and review tool for use in ground-motion processing","docAbstract":"Raw seismological waveform data contain noise from the instrument’s surroundings and the instrument itself that can dominate recordings at low and high frequencies. To use these data in ground‐motion modeling, the effects of noise on the signals must be reduced and the signals’ usable frequency range identified. We present automated procedures to efficiently reduce low‐frequency noise that are implemented in the software package gmprocess. These procedures check for, and as needed remove, low‐frequency artifacts in the displacement record using polynomial fits, which can be used in combination with existing signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR)‐based corner‐frequency selection procedures. The automated selections are then efficiently verified and refined using a graphical user interface (GUI) that plots relevant ground‐motion time series and spectra and tracks modifications to signal processing parameters. We demonstrate these procedures using recordings from the 2020 M 5.1 Sparta, North Carolina, and the 2013 M 4.7 southern Ontario earthquakes. Data processed with the SNR‐only and polynomial criteria for these events contain displacement artifacts in 37% and 23% of processed traces, respectively. Records with remaining artifacts are corrected manually using the GUI. 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We studied selenium throughout components of the aquatic food webs at geomorphically distinct locations along the oligotrophic Kootenai River (Montana and Idaho, USA), a river with moderately elevated dissolved selenium concentrations (~ 1 µg/L). Components included water, sediment, freshly accrued biofilms, in-situ periphyton, sestonic detritus, aquatic invertebrates, and fish, with spring and fall sampling. Selenium concentrations were similar among the sediment, biofilm, periphyton, and detritus samples with most concentrations ranging between 0.5 to 2.0 (mg/kg dry weight (dw)). Among the aquatic invertebrates, the highest selenium concentrations were observed in Paraleptophlebia sp. mayflies (>15 mg/kg dw) and oligochaetes (>30 mg/kg dw). Selenium in chironomids was higher in the spring than fall, but otherwise, no consistent concentration patterns with season or feeding traits were observed. Fish tissue selenium concentrations were highly variable among species and tissue type. Selenium in fish tissues tended to be highest in livers of rainbow trout and mountain whitefish relative to egg/ovary, muscle, and carcass tissue. With northern pikeminnow, redside shiner, and slimy sculpin, selenium concentrations tended to be highest in ovary tissues. For example, selenium in rainbow trout livers ranged from an average (range) of 37 (4.5 to 151) compared to 8.7 (2.7 to 12.3) in northern pikeminnow livers. Egg/ovary concentrations ranged from a high of 26 (10.7 to 64) in redside shiner in contrast to 12.2 (6.9 to 17) mg/kg dw in slimy sculpin. A drawback of the fish-tissue approach to monitoring and managing selenium risks in freshwaters is the need to kill multiple fish per site and event. 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Agrivoltaics—the co-location of solar energy and agricultural production—may reduce land-use competition and boost revenues for landowners. Sheep grazing in solar facilities (i.e., solar grazing/agrivoltaic grazing systems) is increasingly common in agricultural areas. Solar grazing can provide land access to flock owners and support agricultural viability via payments for vegetation management. However, there is a need for more data on how co-location of sheep grazing and solar energy production affects flock health, stocking rates, and feedback loops for maintenance of vegetation in solar facilities across regions.
OBJECTIVE
Our objective was to better understand synergies and tradeoffs associated with agrivoltaic grazing systems by investigating applied grazing management questions as well as questions regarding agrotechnological co-benefits related to simultaneous flock health and vegetation management in solar facilities.
METHODS
We tested effects of sheep stocking rates (0 to 10 sheep per ha–1), site preparation (fallow vs. legume seed-mix planting), and microclimate (panel-shaded areas vs. panel interspaces) on herbage yield and nutritional quality, flock health and condition, and a vegetation management success index. We collected these data across two grazing seasons in an operational, 21.85-ha photovoltaic solar facility (18 MW) established on a previous old field in New York State, USA.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS
Shade from solar panels negatively affected herbage yield. We detected no significant differences in herbage yield or vegetation management outcomes between fallow and planted legume plots, suggesting that regrowth from native seed banks in solar facilities on previous old fields may be an economical alternative to seeding for sheep forage relative. Sheep stocking rates affected flock health and condition; we identified an optimal stocking rate of 8 sheep per ha–1 for achieving sufficient herbage yield and quality, maintaining flock health, and preventing vegetation overgrowth from shading solar panels at our study site. Solar grazing can yield an agrotechnological synergy supporting healthy forage, healthy sheep, and vegetation management in community-scale (i.e., <25 MW) solar facilities without mowing. In a well-managed solar grazing system, high herbage yield and quality promote high flock health and condition, and the healthy flock suppresses vegetation enough to prevent panel shading. SIGNIFICANCE Our study highlights the potential for sheep grazing in solar facilities to simultaneously benefit sheep and solar energy production systems. Solar grazing can present a “win-win” scenario for solar developers and sheep producers in the northeastern U.S.
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The purpose of this report is to provide the Marine Corps with an annual summary of the distribution, abundance, and breeding activity of the endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus; flycatcher) at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton (MCBCP or “Base”). Surveys for the flycatcher were conducted on Base between May 8 and July 24, 2024. All of MCBCP’s historically occupied riparian habitat (core survey area) was surveyed for flycatchers in 2024. None of the non-core survey areas were surveyed in 2024.
Three transient Willow Flycatchers of unknown subspecies were observed on two of the five drainages surveyed in 2024, the Santa Margarita River and San Mateo Creek. No Willow Flycatchers were detected at Fallbrook, Las Flores, or Pilgrim Creeks. Transients in 2024 occurred in riparian scrub habitat, dominated by mule fat (Baccharis salicifolia). Exotic vegetation, primarily poison hemlock (Conium maculatum), was present in all flycatcher locations. None of the transient flycatchers were banded.
In 2024, the resident Southwestern Willow Flycatcher population on Base consisted of one unpaired female occupying one territory in the Air Station breeding area along the Santa Margarita River. No territorial males were observed in 2024. The resident flycatcher territory was located in mixed willow riparian habitat, dominated by arroyo or red willow (Salix lasiolepis or S. laevigata). The female flycatcher was originally banded as a nestling in 2020 at MCBCP, making her 4 years old in 2024.
The resident female flycatcher returned to the same breeding area and territory she occupied in 2023. Nesting was initiated in late May and continued into early August. Three nesting attempts were documented; all were unsuccessful as a result of depredation and presumed infertile eggs. No instances of Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) parasitism were observed. The flycatcher nests were placed in two native plants, sandbar willow (S. exigua) and stinging nettle (Urtica dioica).
Two measures were initiated in recent years to attract and retain breeding flycatchers on MCBCP: a conspecific attraction playback study (initiated in 2018) and an artificial seep study (initiated in 2019); both were repeated annually through 2024. The one resident flycatcher (female) detected in 2024 occupied a territory near an automated playback unit, and nested 5 meters from an artificial seep output.
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Global change is expected to expand and shrink species' distributions in complex ways beyond just retraction at warm edges and expansion at cool ones. Detecting these changes is complicated by the need for robust baseline data for comparison. For instance, gaps in species' distributions may reflect long-standing patterns, recent shifts, or merely insufficient sampling effort. We investigated an apparent gap in the distribution of the American pika, Ochotona princeps, along the North American Sierra Nevada. Historical records from this region are sparse, with ~100 km separating previously documented pika-occupied sites. Surveys during 2014–2023 confirmed that the gap is currently unoccupied by pikas, and evidence of past occurrence indicates that the gap has expanded over time, likely due to contemporary global change. Sites lacking evidence of past pika occurrence were climatically and geographically more distant from sites with signs of recent (former) occurrence and currently occupied sites. Formerly and currently occupied sites were partially climatically distinct, suggesting either metapopulation-like dynamics or an extinction debt that may eventually result in further population losses at the edge of suitable climate space. The Feather River gap aligns with one of several “low points” in the otherwise continuous boreal-like conditions spanning the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada and is coincident with discontinuities in ranges of other mammals. These results highlight the potential for climate-driven fragmentation and range retraction in regions considered climatically and geographically interior to a species' overall distribution.
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This includes three endangered and one threatened species and their habitats. Hakalau’s vast area (155 km2), mostly high elevation (>1500 m) montane forest, provides refuge from avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum) vectored by introduced southern house mosquitoes (Culex quinquefasciatus). However, increases in the seasonal temperatures optimal for disease carrying mosquitoes associated with climate change have coincided with recent downward trends of native species in the closed forest area of the refuge (1450–1750 m), where disease is most likely to occur. Therefore, to inform refuge management with the most updated information on these populations and their trends, we analyzed forest bird survey data collected using point transect distance sampling with new survey data from 2021–2024. We stratified our analysis across management units, including the open forest and pasture since 1987, and the closed forest since 1999, and across four elevation ranges (<1500, 1500–1700, 1700–1900, and >1900 m) since 1999. We used distance sampling to estimate species- and strata-specific abundances and applied log-linear regression to detect trends across the timeseries. We found a continuation of previous trends, wherein most native forest birds declined in the closed forest strata (mostly below 1700 m) and increased in the highest elevation and pasture strata. Patterns were highly species-specific for the three lower elevations and open forest strata. ‘Apapane (Himatione sanguinea) and warbling white-eye (Zosterops japonicus), the most abundant native and introduced bird species, respectively, increased in nearly all strata. ‘I‘iwi (Drepanis coccinea) and Hawai‘i ‘amakihi (Chlorodrepanis virens virens), also common, decreased in closed forest, were stable in open forest, and increased in pasture. Both species were generally stable or increasing across all elevation bands, except Hawaiʻi ʻamakihi decreased in the below 1500 m and the 1500–1700 m elevation bands. All three of the federally endangered forest bird species declined in closed forest. Hawai‘i ‘ākepa (Loxops coccineus) also declined in the open forest and 1700–1900 m band and was the only species to decline overall. ‘Akiapōlā‘au (Hemignathus wilsoni) declined in closed forest but increased overall. ‘Alawī (Loxops mana, also known as Hawai‘i creeper) also decreased in the closed forest, but was stable to increasing in most strata and remained stable overall. Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio (Chasiempis sandwichensis) declined in closed forest, was stable in open forest and most elevation strata, and increased in pasture. ʻŌmaʻo (Myadestes obscurus) was stable in open and closed forest and at middle elevations and increased in the pasture. Introduced red-billedleiothrix (Leiothrix lutea) declined in closed forest, was stable in the open forest and at most elevations, and increased in the pasture. Coinciding with these changes, seasonal conditions for vector occurrence have continued to lengthen in the lower elevation strata through 2024, while Hakalau’s outplanting efforts continued to increase forest cover in the pasture, suggesting that disease-free habitat may have decreased in the closed forest and increased in the pasture. The declines in the closed forest and mixture of trends in the open forest and middle elevations bands suggest emigration into the higher elevation strata from lower elevation strata, and that possible threats have suppressed forest birds even at elevations >1500 m.
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While the importance of incorporating climate change into invasive species management and policy is increasingly recognized, practitioner experiences and perspectives are often overlooked. Consequently, invasive species research may be misaligned with the needs of managers and the threats of climate change. Here, we compare survey responses from a boundary-spanning organization, the Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (RISCC) Management Network, to identify common priorities and challenges in managing invasive species in a changing climate in the United States. Survey respondents reported that 22% of management and research time is dedicated to emerging invasive species threats. Common barriers to climate-informed invasive species management include limited time, funding, and personnel. Understanding how climate change may impact control strategies was consistently identified as a high priority for invasive species management, followed by identifying resilient ecosystems and range-shifting taxa. These results demonstrate the critical need for stronger researcher-practitioner networks and greater investment in research and policy topics that more closely align with management needs to address the interacting stressors of invasive species and climate change.
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A deeper understanding of how PFOS enters the aquatic food web at the energetic base is needed to better characterize and predict the general patterns of PFAS trophic transfer. Research on bioaccumulation by primary producers remains limited. Because diatoms (Bacillariophyta) are often dominant constituents of aquatic biofilms, we exposed freshwater benthic diatoms (Mayamaea atomus) to a range of PFOS concentrations (0.01–100 μg/L) for 7 days in a controlled laboratory experiment to investigate PFAS bioaccumulation patterns. We quantified PFOS in water and algal matrices using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry and calculated bioconcentration factors (BCFs). Log PFOS concentrations in diatoms increased linearly with log10 exposure concentration, corresponding to a sublinear relationship in arithmetic space. Consequently, BCF values decreased, from 4,831 to 174 L/kg, with increasing PFOS exposure, indicating concentration-dependent bioaccumulation consistent with higher-order organisms (e.g., Crustacea, Mollusca, Chordata). This pattern complicates the use of BCF for predictive purposes and may lead to mis-estimations of risk. Even as PFOS declines in the environment, algae will likely continue to accumulate and transfer PFOS and other PFAS to higher trophic levels.
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The U.S. National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) institutionalized public engagement in environmental review in the belief it would lead to better decisions and more sustainable outcomes. But, 50 years later, NEPA’s public comment process has been criticized as costly and slow, while doing little to change outcomes. Data science now makes it possible to track progress and evaluate the influence of public participation. We examined 108 environmental impact statement (EIS) processes spanning 22 years. Our analysis revealed that public comments resulted in substantive decision alterations in 62% of cases, with 64% showing modifications to alternatives, 42% showing modifications to mitigation plans and 11% leading to the selection of an entirely new preferred alternative. When federal agencies changed project alternatives (78 EISs), 88% of the time (69 of the 78 EISs) they credited public comments as the reason. In 45 of the 108 EISs, agencies modified mitigation plans and credited public comments as the reason 100% of the time. Agencies only occasionally selected a new preferred alternative (21 out of 104 EISs), but when they did, they credited public comments as the reason 100% of the time. As the United States and the 190+ states and countries that have adopted NEPA’s example consider how to address environmental change, it is important to assess the role of public participation in environmental decision making. Our data say public comments matter.
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We seek to constrain both the deformation from island loading around the Hawaiian Ridge and the influence of the oceanic lithosphere, including the Molokaʻi fracture zone (MFZ), on off-axis volcanic emplacement. To examine these processes, we conducted a marine geophysical experiment in 2018 that included the acquisition of eight multichannel seismic reflection lines and used a 6,600 in3 tuned air gun array and an ultra-long hydrophone streamer cable towed behind R/V Marcus G. Langseth across and around the southern Hawaiian Ridge. We image both the top of igneous oceanic crust and the Moho, and we observe significant variations in regional crustal structure and thickness variations, Moho characteristics, the locations of the buried MFZ, and the flexure of the Pacific oceanic lithosphere under the Hawaiian Ridge. 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Lake Sturgeon from the two facilities were surgically implanted with acoustic transmitters; tagged fish (n = 40 per year) were released into the Maumee River in 2018, 2019, and 2021, and their movements were monitored by the Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation System.
Approximately 75% of Lake Sturgeon were detected at 100 d after release and 50% were detected at 200 d after release. We found no differences in tag attrition between the two rearing strategies. Monthly survival estimates for Lake Sturgeon were 0.87 (95% CI = 0.81–0.92) in 2018, 0.97 (95% CI = 0.89–0.99) in 2019, and 0.95 (95% CI = 0.90–0.97) in 2021. No differences in survival between rearing strategies within release years existed. Annual survival estimates ranged from 0.19 to 0.71 among the three release years.
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Overall, wetland communities with marsh plants in monoculture and mixed culture maintained high ecosystem C uptake with eCO2 versus freshwater forested wetlands or mudflats, likely from superior plant species photosynthetic adjustment versus leaf area increases. eCO2 promoted greater CO2 uptake by leaves in all communities except mudflats, while promoting CH4 efflux from whole ecosystems only when marsh plants were present. eCO2 is projected to stimulate C gain 2.2-fold for forested wetlands and oligohaline marsh and 2.9-fold for forest-marsh mixture through greater CO2 uptake. However, this comes at a cost of stimulated CH4 flux by 1.4-to-1.7-fold in mixed and marsh communities versus reduced CH4 fluxes with eCO2 by forest and mudflat communities, perhaps through different oxidation pathways. Freshwater forested wetlands limited greenhouse gas emissions compared with transitional habitats, oligohaline marshes, and mudflats as atmospheric CO2 concentrations increased. 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This assessment was based on systematic visual examination and mapping of landslide locations from aerial and satellite imagery, visual and photographic observations from low-level helicopter overflights and conversations with local landslide experts from the North Carolina Geological Survey and Appalachian Landslide Consultants PLLC, and more than 50 years of combined landslide hazard professional experience of the mission-assigned field team. No systematic field investigations were done by the USGS.
While responding to the event, the USGS did not identify any landslides that posed an immediate major threat to recovery personnel in parts of nine counties in North Carolina (Avery, Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Watauga, and Yancey); however, threats from renewed landslide activity may remain heightened in localized areas for months or even years. Known areas of the most abundant landslide occurrence include Bat Cave, Lake Lure, Chimney Rock, Swannanoa, Black Mountain, Fairview, steep areas in Asheville, and the Blue Ridge Parkway. The USGS shared detailed locations of known landslides with the Emergency Operations Centers. The thousands of landslide scars on hillsides and landslide deposits on flatter ground may present some threat to recovery activities. Soil and rocks will continue to erode from newly exposed landslide scars and may pose a threat to people and infrastructure who are immediately nearby. In general, the steeper and taller the landslide scar, the greater the potential threat. This threat is heightened during periods of rainfall and increases with the duration and intensity of rainstorms. Very heavy rainfall, or repeated rainfall events during short periods, could also initiate new landslides on steep slopes. Excavation of landslide deposits, particularly excavation of those deposits directly adjacent to steep slopes, may also pose a threat to nearby people and equipment.
An interagency collaborative mapping effort led by the USGS that informed this assessment identified 1,155 landslide locations by the October 2024 briefings, but that number increased to 2,217 in a final reviewed version of the locations published in January 2025. Locations were mapped from satellite imagery, fixed-wing and helicopter surveys, media and social media, and field reports in the 3 weeks following the passage of the remnants of Hurricane Helene. USGS products outlined in this report are publicly available and include geotagged photographs from aerial reconnaissance, hazard models, an interactive view of mapped landslide locations, and landslide safety and education resources.
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Due to their ecosystem importance, long generation times, and low resilience to disturbance, these hybridizing sister species are increasingly the focus of conservation efforts. Predicting Joshua tree responses to impending climate variability, along with the extent of suitable future habitat and/or climate refugia, is critical to ongoing management planning. Previous modeling efforts have been hampered by incomplete distribution data and are now out-of-date with the most recent global climate projections. We used a high-resolution, field-validated distributional database of nearly complete presence and absence records, along with a simulation of dispersal, to project Joshua tree distributions into future time periods and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) emissions scenarios. Overall, our models predict widespread habitat loss with limited availability of newly suitable habitat. Under the highest emissions scenario (SSP5–8.5), we project that up to 80% of current habitat may become unsuitable by 2100. Even so, our models predict a larger area of potential refugia than some previous efforts, particularly in the southern parts of the range, where we project persistent refugia through 2100. We also found a non-negligible influence of baseline climate period (the period used to represent “current” climate) on predicted future habitat probabilities. Simulations of dispersal based on the Joshua tree's limited capacity suggest that over 25% of suitable future habitat could be inaccessible, while much of the remaining future habitat area consists of refugia within the upper elevations of the species' current range. An increasing frequency of wildfire appears to be the greatest rangewide threat to future suitable habitat for Joshua trees, followed by renewable energy development. 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