Thunderstorms and flooding of August 17, 2007, with a context provided by a history of other large storm and flood events in the Black Hills area of South Dakota
Daniel G. Driscoll, Matthew J. Bunkers, Janet M. Carter, John F. Stamm, Joyce E. Williamson
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5187
The Black Hills area of western South Dakota has a history of damaging flash floods that have resulted primarily from exceptionally strong rain-producing thunderstorms. The best known example is the catastrophic storm system of June 9-10, 1972, which caused severe flooding in several major drainages near Rapid City and resulted...
The effects of raking on sugar pine mortality following prescribed fire in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California, USA
Jonathan C. B. Nesmith, Kevin L. O’Hara, Phillip J. van Mantgem, Perry de Valpine
2010, Fire Ecology (6) 97-116
Prescribed fire is an important tool for fuel reduction, the control of competing vegetation, and forest restoration. The accumulated fuels associated with historical fire exclusion can cause undesirably high tree mortality rates following prescribed fires and wildfires. This is especially true for sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana Douglas), which is already negatively...
Summer microhabitat use by adult and young-of-year snail darters (Percina tanasi) in two rivers
M. J. Ashton, James B. Layzer
2010, Ecology of Freshwater Fish (19) 609-617
We characterised microhabitat availability and use by adult and young‐of‐year (YOY) snail darters (Percina tanasi Etnier 1976) while snorkelling in the French Broad and Hiwassee rivers, TN, USA. Both age groups of snail darters disproportionately used most microhabitat variables compared to their availability. Snail...
Invasion biology and parasitic infections
Sarah Perkins, Sonia Altizer, Ottar Bjornstad, Jeremy J. Burdon, Keith Clay, Lorena Gomez-Aparicio, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Pieter T. J. Johnson, Kevin D. Lafferty, Carolyn M. Malmstrom, Patrick Martin, Alison Power, David L. Strayer, Peter H. Thrall, Maria Uriarte
Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing, Valerie T. Eviner, editor(s)
2010, Book chapter, Infectious disease ecology: Effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems
No abstract available....
Seasonal ice and hydrologic controls on dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen concentrations in a boreal-rich fen
Evan S. Kane, Merritt R. Turetsky, Jennifer W. Harden, A. David McGuire, James Michael Waddington
2010, Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences (115)
[1] Boreal wetland carbon cycling is vulnerable to climate change in part because hydrology and the extent of frozen ground have strong influences on plant and microbial functions. We examined the response of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) across an experimental manipulation of water table position...
Characterization of ten microsatellite loci in midget faded rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus concolor)
Sara J. Oyler-McCance, Joshua M. Parker
2010, Conservation Genetics Resources (2) 123-125
Primers for 10 microsatellite loci were developed for midget faded rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus concolor), a small bodied subspecies of the Western Rattlesnake, which is found in the Colorado Plateau of eastern Utah, western Colorado and southwestern Wyoming. In a screen of 23 individuals from the most northern portion of the...
Great Plains regional roadmap
Larry L. Tieszen, Vance Owens, Rob Mitchell, Robin Jenkins, Tom Gerik, Alan J. Franzluebbers, John Ferrell, Jim Doolittle, Norman B. Bliss, D. Archer
2010, Conference Paper, Sustainable alternative fuel feedstock opportunities, challenges and roadmaps for six U.S. regions: Proceedings of the sustainable feedstocks for advance biofuels workshop
No abstract available....
A river system to watch: documenting the effects of saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) biocontrol in the Virgin River valley
Heather L. Bateman, Tom L. Dudley, Dan W. Bean, Steven M. Ostoja, Kevin R. Hultine, Michael J. Kuehn
2010, Ecological Restoration (28) 405-410
Throughout riparian areas of the southwestern United States, non-native saltcedar (also known as tamarisk; Tamarix spp.) can form dense, monotypic stands and is often reported to have detrimental effects on native plants and habitat quality (Everitt 1980; Shafroth et al. 2005). Natural resource managers of these riparian areas spend considerable...
Coordination of space data acquisition in support of geo forest carbon tracking
Frank M. Siefert, Hugo Costa, Ake Rosenqvist, Tom Holm
2010, Conference Paper, Proceedings of ESA living planet symposium
The Group on Earth Observation (GEO) required for their Forest Carbon Tracking (FCT) task the assistance of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) space agencies to implement coordinated data acquisition strategies from Earth Observation (EO) over key areas of interest to demonstrate the value of linking coordinated acquisition of...
Amphibian declines: promising directions in understanding the role of disease
Erin Muths, J.-M. Hero
2010, Animal Conservation (13) 33-35
No abstract available....
Magma flux at Okmok Volcano, Alaska, from a joint inversion of continuous GPS, campaign GPS, and interferometric synthetic aperture radar
Juliet Biggs, Zhong Lu, T. Fournier, Jeffrey T. Freymueller
2010, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (115)
Volcano deformation is usually measured using satellite geodetic techniques including interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), campaign GPS, and continuous GPS. Differences in the spatial and temporal sampling of each system mean that most appropriate inversion scheme to determine the source parameters from each data set is different. Most studies either...
Water-quality data from storm runoff after the 2007 fires, San Diego County, California
Gregory O. Mendez
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1234
The U.S. Geological Survey collected water-quality samples during the first two storms after the Witch and Harris Fires (October 2007) in southern California. The sampling locations represent an urban area (two residential sites in Rancho Bernardo that were affected by the Witch Fire; a drainage ditch and a storm drain)...
Quality of stormwater runoff discharged from Massachusetts highways, 2005-07
Kirk P. Smith, Gregory E. Granato
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5269
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, conducted a field study from September 2005 through September 2007 to characterize the quality of highway runoff for a wide range of constituents. The highways studied had annual average...
Mineral facilities of Asia and the Pacific
Michael S. Baker, Nurudeen Elias, Eric Guzman, Yadira Soto-Viruet
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1254
This map displays over 1,500 records of mineral facilities throughout the continent of Asia and the countries of the Pacific Ocean. Each record represents one commodity and one facility type at a single geographic location. Facility types include mines, oil and gas fields, and plants, such as refineries, smelters,...
A generalized watershed disturbance-invertebrate relation applicable in a range of environmental settings across the continental United States
Jeffrey J. Steuer
2010, Urban Ecosystems (13) 415-424
It is widely recognized that urbanization can affect ecological conditions in aquatic systems; numerous studies have identified impervious surface cover as an indicator of urban intensity and as an index of development at the watershed, regional, and national scale. Watershed percent imperviousness, a commonly understood urban metric was used as...
Colonial nesting Yellow-crowned Night Herons on the San Antonio River Walk
Clint W. Boal
2010, Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society (43) 45-48
Yellow-crowned Night Herons (Nyctinassa violacea) typically nest as single pairs or in small colonies of about four pairs with high internest distances. They are also reported as susceptible to disturbance and to avoid habitat with high human use. However, some Yellowcrowned Night Herons habituate to human-dominated landscapes and nest in...
Emerging dragonfly diversity at small Rhode Island (U.S.A.) wetlands along an urbanization gradient
Maria A. Aliberti Lubertazzi, Howard S. Ginsberg
2010, Urban Ecosystems (13) 517-533
Natal habitat use by dragonflies was assessed on an urban to rural land-use gradient at a set of 21 wetlands, during two emergence seasons (2004, 2005). The wetlands were characterized for urbanization level by using the first factor from a principal components analysis combining chloride concentration in the wetland and...
Mineral facilities of Northern and Central Eurasia
Michael S. Baker, Nurudeen Elias, Eric Guzman, Yadira Soto-Viruet
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1255
This map displays almost 900 records of mineral facilities within the countries that formerly constituted the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Each record represents one commodity and one facility type at a single geographic location. Facility types include mines, oil and gas fields, and plants, such as refineries, smelters,...
Mineral facilities of Europe
Francisco Almanzar, Michael S. Baker, Nurudeen Elias, Eric Guzman
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1257
This map displays over 1,700 records of mineral facilities within the countries of Europe and western Eurasia. Each record represents one commodity and one facility type at a single geographic location. Facility types include mines, oil and gas fields, and plants, such as refineries, smelters, and mills. Common commodities of...
Progression of stream bank erosion dudring a large flood, Rio Puerco, New Mexico
Eleanor R. Griffin, J. Dungan Smith, Jonathan M. Friedman, Kirk R. Vincent
2010, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 2nd Joint Federal Interagency Conference
In August 2006, a large flood following saltcedar control efforts through a 12-km long segment of the Rio Puerco arroyo resulted in extensive lateral erosion of the streambanks. Almost all woody vegetation on the floodplain and channel banks had been killed by aerial spraying with herbicide in September 2003. During...
Parental attendance and brood success in American Oystercatchers in South Carolina
Janet M. Thibault, Felicia J. Sanders, Patrick G.R. Jodice
2010, Waterbirds (33) 511-517
Research on breeding American Oystercatchers has focused on identifying factors that affect reproductive success but little attention has been paid to parent behavior during chick-rearing. Parental attendance of American Oystercatchers was measured in Bulls Bay and along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (Waterway) within the Cape Romain Region, South Carolina, USA,...
Distribution of the non-native gastropod Melanoides tuberculatus in Biscayne National Park, Florida
James B. Murray, G. Lynn Wingard, Emily C. Phillips
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1126
Introduction Melanoides tuberculatus (fig. 1), a gastropod that is not native to South Florida, was identified in Biscayne National Park (BNP) while researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey were conducting other studies around the Black Point canals in the summer of 2003. A study to determine the distribution, genetics, and...
Invasive reptiles and amphibians: global perspectives and local solutions
R.N. Reed, F. Kraus
2010, Animal Conservation (13) 3-4
In the annals of invasive species biology, higher taxa such asmammals, plants and insects have received the lion’s shareof research attention, largely because many of these invadershave demonstrated a remarkable ability to degrade ecosys-tems and cause economic harm. Interest in invasive reptilesand amphibians (collectively ‘herpetofauna’, colloquially‘herps’) has historically lagged but...
A method for assessing carbon stocks, carbon sequestration, and greenhouse-gas fluxes in ecosystems of the United States under present conditions and future scenarios
Brian A. Bergamaschi, Richard Bernknopf, David Clow, Dennis Dye, Stephen Faulkner, William Forney, Robert Gleason, Todd Hawbaker, Jinxun Liu, Shu-Guang Liu, Stephen Prisley, Bradley Reed, Matthew Reeves, Matthew Rollins, Benjamin Sleeter, Terry Sohl, Sarah Stackpoole, Stephen Stehman, Robert G. Striegl, Anne Wein, Zhi-Liang Zhu
Zhi-Liang Zhu, editor(s)
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5233
he Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), Section 712, mandates the U.S. Department of the Interior to develop a methodology and conduct an assessment of the Nation’s ecosystems, focusing on carbon stocks, carbon sequestration, and emissions of three greenhouse gases (GHGs): carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The...
Simulation of streamflow in the McTier Creek watershed, South Carolina
Toby D. Feaster, Heather E. Golden, Kenneth R. Odom, Mark A. Lowery, Paul Conrads, Paul M. Bradley
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5202
The McTier Creek watershed is located in the Sand Hills ecoregion of South Carolina and is a small catchment within the Edisto River Basin. Two watershed hydrology models were applied to the McTier Creek watershed as part of a larger scientific investigation to expand the understanding of relations among hydrologic,...
