Infectivity of wild-bird origin Influenza A viruses in Minnesota wetlands across seasons
Rebecca L. Poulson, Andrew B. Reeves, Christina Ahlstrom, Laura Celeste Scott, Laura E. Hubbard, Alinde Fojtik, Deborah L. Carter, David E. Stallknecht, Andrew M. Ramey
2024, Pathogens (13)
The environmental tenacity of influenza A viruses (IAVs) in the environment likely plays a role in their transmission; IAVs are able to remain infectious in aquatic habitats and may have the capacity to seed outbreaks when susceptible wild bird hosts utilize these same environments months or even seasons later....
Modeling forest snow using relative canopy structure metrics
C. David Moeser, Graham A. Sexstone, Jake Kurzweil
2024, Water (16)
Snow and watershed models typically do not account for forest structure and shading; therefore, they display substantial uncertainty when attempting to account for forest change or when comparing hydrological response between forests with varying characteristics. This study collected snow water equivalent (SWE) measurements in a snow-dominated forest in Colorado,...
A two-dimensional, reach-scale implementation of space-time image velocimetry (STIV) and comparison to particle image velocimetry (PIV)
Carl J. Legleiter, Paul J. Kinzel, Frank L. Engel, Lee R. Harrison, Gregory Hewitt
2024, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (10) 3093-3114
Image-based algorithms have become a powerful tool for estimating flow velocities in rivers. In this study, we generalize the space-time image velocimetry (STIV) framework for reach-scale application rather than along a cross section. The new algorithm provides information on both the magnitude and orientation...
A model for evaluation of sediment exposure and burial for freshwater mussels from heavy particle sedimentation
Bin Wang, Brandon James Sansom, Wenyu Zhu, James L. Kunz, M. Christopher Barnhart, Henry Brown, Stephen E. McMurray, Andrew D Roberts, Christopher Shulse, Caleb Knerr, Kathleen Trauth, Jeffery A. Steevens, Baolin Deng
2024, Ecological Modelling (493)
Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) are an ecologically important faunal group. Excessive sediments, both in suspended and deposited formats, are believed to have negative effects on survival of freshwater mussels. However, there is a lack of quantitative tools for assessing the impact of abrupt and excessive sedimentation on freshwater mussel habitats....
Evidence on the ecological and physical effects of built structures in shallow, tropical coral reefs: A systematic map
Avery Paxton, Iris Foxfoot, Christina Cutshaw, D’amy Steward, Leanne Poussard, Trevor Riley, Todd Swannack, Candice Piercy, Safra Altman, Brandon Puckett, Curt D. Storlazzi, Shay Viehman
2024, Environmental Evidence (13)
Shallow, tropical coral reefs face compounding threats from climate change, habitat degradation due to coastal development and pollution, impacts from storms and sea-level rise, and pulse disturbances like blast fishing, mining, dredging, and ship groundings that reduce reef height and complexity. One approach toward restoring coral reef physical structure from...
Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) best practices for remote sensing system evaluation and reporting
Simon J. Cantrell, Jon B. Christopherson
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1023
Executive SummaryThe Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) partnership consists of six agencies representing the U.S. Government’s commitment to promoting the use of high-quality remotely sensed data to meet scientific and other Federal needs. These agencies are large consumers of remotely sensed data and bring extensive experience in the assessment...
Duckling survival increased with availability of flooded wetland habitat and decreased with salinity concentrations in a brackish marsh
Sarah H. Peterson, Josh T. Ackerman, C. Alex Hartman, Andrew C. Greenawalt, Michael L. Casazza, Mark P. Herzog
2024, Ornithological Applications (126)
Waterfowl population recruitment is sensitive to duckling survival. We quantified predator types and survival rates for Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) and Mareca strepera (Gadwall) ducklings in one of the largest brackish water marshes in western North America (Suisun Marsh, California) using 556 radio-tagged ducklings from 284 broods tracked during the 2016 to 2019 breeding seasons....
Unexpected effect of geographic origin on post-translocation survival in a long-lived reptile, the gopher tortoise
Kevin J. Loope, Rebecca A. Cozad, Derek. B. Breakfield, Matthew J. Aresco, Elizabeth Ann Hunter
2024, Animal Conservation (27) 685-697
Mitigation translocations move wildlife from specific areas due to conflict with humans over land use at the site. A critical decision when carrying out mitigation translocation is the acceptable distance across which animals can be moved. This decision trades off logistical expediency of unrestricted translocation with the risk of reducing...
Monitoring and assessment of urban stormwater best management practices at selected Chicago public schools in Chicago, Illinois, from September 1, 2016, to July 1, 2017
Clinton R. Bailey, Carolyn M. Soderstrom, James J. Duncker
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5036
The Space to Grow program helps transform aging and neglected schoolyards of Chicago Public Schools into outdoor community spaces with the goal of promoting health and learning while addressing neighborhood flooding issues. Virgil I. Grissom Elementary School and Donald L. Morrill Math and Science School were selected in 2014 for...
Final report to the Gulf Coast Joint Venture: Black Skimmer and Gull-billed Tern
James P. Cronin, William Vermillion, Barry C Wilson
2024, Report
Many bird species are of conservation concern across the Northern Gulf of Mexico from stressors such as human disturbance, predation, and habitat loss due to directional environmental change (e.g., increased sea-level rise and storm frequency and intensity, human infrastructure, changes in land use). Consequently, managers need decision-support tools that can help...
Impacts of artificial rearing on cisco Coregonus artedi morphology, including pugheadedness
Andrew Edgar Honsey, Katie Victoria Anweiler, David Bunnell, Cory Brant, Georgia Wende Hoffman, Brian O’Malley, Kevin Keeler, Chris Olds, Jeremy Kraus, Yu-Chun Kao, Wendylee Stott
2024, Canadian Journal of Zoology (102) 586-599
Cisco (Coregonus artedi Lesueur, 1818) in the Laurentian Great Lakes declined throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Managers are attempting to restore Great Lakes cisco and other coregonines using multiple approaches, including stocking. A potential obstacle to these efforts is that artificially reared coregonines can display deformities and...
Early pandemic recreational fishing patterns across the urban-to-rural gradient in the U.S.
Anna L. Kaz, Michael D. Kaller, Abigail Lynch, Stephen R. Midway
2024, Fisheries Research (276)
In 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted individual and social behaviors and norms, including outdoor activities. A recreational angling survey of 18,000 licensed anglers from 10 states (AR, CT, FL, IA, MO, NC, SC, TX, UT, WY) was conducted in...
Inland recreational fisheries contribute nutritional benefits and economic value but are vulnerable to climate change
Abigail Lynch, Holly Susan Embke, Elizabeth A. Nyboer, Louisa E. Wood, Andy Thorpe, Sui C. Phang, Daniel F. Viana, Christopher D. Golden, Marco Milardi, Robert Arlinghaus, Claudio Baigun, T. Douglas Beard Jr., Steve J. Cooke, Ian G. Cowx, John D. Koehn, Roman Lyach, Warren M. Potts, Ashley Robertson, Josef Schmidhuber, Olaf L. F. Weyl
2024, Nature Food (5) 433-443
Inland recreational fishing is primarily considered a leisure-driven activity in freshwaters, yet its harvest can contribute to food systems. Here we estimate that the harvest from inland recreational fishing equates to just over one-tenth of all reported inland fisheries catch globally. The estimated total consumptive use...
Common use herbicides increase wetland greenhouse gas emissions
Christine Cornish, Olivia Johnson, Sheel Bansal, Jacob Meier, Ted D. Harris, Jon Sweetman
2024, Science of the Total Environment (933)
Wetlands play a disproportionate role in the global climate as major sources and sinks of greenhouse gases. Herbicides are the most heavily used agrochemicals and are frequently detected in aquatic ecosystems, with glyphosate and 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), representing the two most commonly used worldwide....
Benthic macroinvertebrate response to estuarine emergent marsh restoration across a delta-wide environmental gradient
Stephen P. Rubin, Melanie J. Davis, Eric E. Grossman, Isa Woo, Susan E.W. De La Cruz, Glynnis Nakai, John Y. Takekawa
2024, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (12)
Benthic invertebrates play vital roles in estuarine ecosystems, but like other taxa they have been excluded from former marshlands by diking and land use conversion. Dike removal is one way of restoring marsh, but the response of benthic invertebrates has been little studied. Also understudied is variation in benthic invertebrate...
Geochemical and geochronologic evidence for a contiguous northeastern Wyoming Province
Ian William Hillenbrand, Amy K. Gilmer, Amanda Souders, Ilya N. Bindeman
2024, Precambrian Research (407)
The extent and nature of the Wyoming Province, an Archean craton in southwestern Laurentia, are poorly understood due to limited exposure between spatially isolated basement-cored uplifts. This lack of exposure has led to debate about whether the northeastern Wyoming Province is underlain by contiguous Archean crust or Proterozoic rocks and...
Vulnerability assessment of groundwater influenced ecosystems in the Northeastern United States
Shawn D. Snyder, Cyndy Loftin, Andrew S. Reeve
2024, Water (16)
Groundwater-influenced ecosystems (GIEs) are increasingly vulnerable due to groundwater extraction, land-use practices, and climate change. These ecosystems receive groundwater inflow as a portion of their baseflow or water budget, which can maintain water levels, water temperature, and chemistry necessary to sustain the biodiversity that they support. In some systems (e.g.,...
Elastic stress coupling between supraglacial lakes
L. Stevens, S. Das, M. D. Behn, Jeffrey J. McGuire, Ching-Yao Lai, I. Joughin, S LaRochelle, M. Nettles
2024, JGR Earth Surface
Supraglacial lakes have been observed to drain within hours of each other, leading to the hypothesis that stress transmission following one drainage may be sufficient to induce hydro-fracture-driven drainages of other nearby lakes. However, available observations characterizing drainage-induced stress perturbations have been insufficient to evaluate this hypothesis. Here, we use...
Pulsing in the Ahu‘ailaʻau pond-spillway system during the 2018 Kilauea Eruption: A dynamical systems perspective
David M.R. Hyman, Roger P. Denlinger, Hannah R. Dietterich, Matthew R. Patrick
2024, Journal of Fluid Mechanics (986)
During the 2018 Kī">īīlauea lower East Rift Zone eruption, lava from 24 fissures inundated more than 8000 acres of land, destroying more than 700 structures over three months. Eruptive activity eventually focused...
Leveraging relationships between species abundances to improve predictions and inform conservation
C. Lane Scher, Sarah M. Robertson, Kevin P. Krause, James S. Clark
2024, Journal of Applied Ecology (61) 1662-1672
Many management and conservation contexts can benefit from understanding relationships between species abundances, which can be used to improve predictions of species occurrence and abundance.We present conditional prediction as a tool to capture information about species abundances via residual covariance between species. From a fitted joint species distribution model,...
Anaerobic biodegradation of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and microbial community composition in soil amended with a dechlorinating culture and chlorinated solvents
Michelle Lorah, Ke He, Lee Blaney, Denise M. Akob, Cassandra Rashan Harris, Andrea K. Tokranov, Zachary Ryan Hopkins, Brian Shedd
2024, Science of the Total Environment (932)
Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), one of the most frequently detected per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) occurring in soil, surface water, and groundwater near sites contaminated with aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF), has proven to be recalcitrant to many destructive remedies, including chemical oxidation. We investigated the potential...
Earthquake-triggered ground-failure inventory associated with the M7.1 2018 Southcentral Alaska earthquake
Sabrina N. Martinez, Kate E. Allstadt, Eric M. Thompson, Sonia Ellison, Lauren N. Schaefer, Kelli Wadsworth Baxstrom
2024, Earthquake Spectra (40) 2161-2178
The 30 November 2018, magnitude (Mw) 7.1 earthquake in Southcentral Alaska triggered substantial landslides, liquefaction, and ground cracking throughout the region, resulting in widespread geotechnical damage to buildings and infrastructure. Despite a challenging reconnaissance and remote-sensing environment, we constructed a detailed digital inventory of ground failure associated...
Local environmental conditions structured discrete fish assemblages in Arctic lagoons
Sarah M. Laske, Vanessa R. von Biela, Ashley E. Stanek, Kenneth H. Dunton
2024, Polar Biology (47) 551-568
Rapid changes in sea ice extent and changes in freshwater inputs from land are rapidly changing the nature of Arctic estuarine ecosystems. In the Beaufort Sea, these nearshore habitats are known for their high productivity and mix of marine resident and diadromous fishes that have great...
On the provenance of field reports of the 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake: A seismo-historical whodunnit
Susan E. Hough, Roger Bilham
2024, Seismological Research Letters (95) 2527-2537
Much of what is known about the effects of the 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake throughout the epicentral region can be attributed to meticulous field investigations by an individual with training in geology and engineering, Earle Sloan (Clendenin, 1926). In a recent study, <a class="link link-ref xref-bibr"...
Homogenization of soil seed bank communities by fire and invasive species in the Mojave Desert
Steven R. Lee, Robert C. Klinger, Matthew L. Brooks, Scott Ferrenberg
2024, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (12)
Soil seed banks help maintain species diversity through temporal storage effects and function as germination pools that can optimize fitness across varying environmental conditions. These characteristics promote the persistence of native plant communities, yet disturbances such as fire and associated invasions by non-native species can disrupt these reserves, fundamentally...
