A review of the genus Agapetus Curtis (Trichoptera: Glossosomatidae) in eastern and central North America, with description of 12 new species
David A. Etnier, Charles R. Parker, John T. Baxter Jr., Todd M. Long
2010, Insecta Mundi (149)
Twenty-nine species of caddisflies in the genus Agapetus Curtis in eastern and central North America are reviewed. Twelve are described as new species: Agapetus aphallus (known only from females); Agapetus baueri, Agapetus flinti, Agapetus harrisi, Agapetus hesperus, Agapetus ibis, Agapetus kirchneri, Agapetus meridionalis, Agapetus pegram, Agapetus ruiteri, Agapetus stylifer, and...
Wildlife underpasses on U.S. 64 in North Carolina: integrating management and science objectives
Mark D. Jones, Frank T. van Manen, Travis W. Wilson, David R. Cox
2010, Book chapter, Safe Passages: Highways, Wildlife, and Habitat Connectivity
This chapter on wildlife underpasses on U.S. Highway 64 in North Carolina is from a book on highways, wildlife, and habitat connectivity. U.S. 64 is an important route in North Carolina connecting major population centers and highways that underwent a major upgrade from a two-lane rural road to a major...
Agriculture and food availability -- remote sensing of agriculture for food security monitoring in the developing world
Michael E. Budde, James Rowland, Christopher C. Funk
2010, Earthzine
For one-sixth of the world’s population - roughly 1 billion children, women and men - growing, buying or receiving adequate, affordable food to eat is a daily uncertainty. The World Monetary Fund reports that food prices worldwide increased 43 percent in 2007-2008, and unpredictable growing conditions make subsistence farming, on...
Emerging viral diseases of fish and shrimp
James R. Winton, Peter J. Walker
2010, Veterinary Research (41) 51-75
The rise of aquaculture has been one of the most profound changes in global food production of the past 100 years. Driven by population growth, rising demand for seafood and a levelling of production from capture fisheries, the practice of farming aquatic animals has expanded rapidly to become a major...
Quantifying terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics in the Jinsha watershed, Upper Yangtze, China from 1975 to 2000
Shuqing Zhao, Shuguang Liu, Runsheng Yin, Zhengpeng Li, Yulin Deng, Kun Tan, Xiangzheng Deng, David Rothstein, Jiaguo Qi
2010, Environmental Management (45) 466-475
Quantifying the spatial and temporal dynamics of carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems and carbon fluxes between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere is critical to our understanding of regional patterns of carbon budgets. Here we use the General Ensemble biogeochemical Modeling System to simulate the terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics in...
Nodeomics: Pathogen detection in vertebrate lymph nodes using meta-transcriptomics
Nicola E. Wittekindt, Abinash Padhi, Stephan C. Schuster, Ji Qi, Fangqing Zhao, Lynn P. Tomsho, Lindsay R. Kasson, Michael Packard, Paul C. Cross, Mary Poss
2010, PLoS (5) 1-10
The ongoing emergence of human infections originating from wildlife highlights the need for better knowledge of the microbial community in wildlife species where traditional diagnostic approaches are limited. Here we evaluate the microbial biota in healthy mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) by analyses of lymph node meta-transcriptomes. cDNA libraries from five...
Potential economic benefits of adapting agricultural production systems to future climate change
Daniel B. Fagre, Gregory Pederson, Lindsey E. Bengtson, Tony Prato, Zeyuan Qui, Jimmie R. Williams
2010, Environmental Management (45) 577-589
Potential economic impacts of future climate change on crop enterprise net returns and annual net farm income (NFI) are evaluated for small and large representative farms in Flathead Valley in Northwest Montana. Crop enterprise net returns and NFI in an historical climate period (1960–2005) and future climate period (2006–2050) are...
On the resolution of shallow mantle viscosity structure using post-earthquake relaxation data: Application to the 1999 Hector Mine, California, earthquake
Fred F. Pollitz, Wayne R. Thatcher
2010, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth
Most models of lower crust/mantle viscosity inferred from postearthquake relaxation assume one or two uniform-viscosity layers. A few existing models possess apparently significant radially variable viscosity structure in the shallow mantle (e.g., the upper 200 km), but the resolution of such variations is not clear. We use a geophysical inverse...
Using spatial, seasonal, and diel drift patterns of larval Lost River suckers Deltistes luxatus (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae) and shortnose suckers Chasmistes brevirostris (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae) to help identify a site for a water withdrawal structure on the Williamson River, Oregon
Craig M. Ellsworth, Torrey J. Tyler, Scott P. VanderKooi
2010, Environmental Biology of Fishes (89) 47-57
A small irrigation diversion dam near Chiloquin, Oregon, was removed and replaced with a pump station to improve fish passage for Lost River suckers (Deltistes luxatus) and shortnose suckers (Chasmistes brevirostris) entering the Sprague River on their spawning migrations. During the developmental phase of the pump station, a need was...
Caution on the use of liquid nitrogen traps in stable hydrogen isotope-ratio mass spectrometry
Tyler B. Coplen, Haiping Qi
2010, Analytical Chemistry (82) 7849-7851
An anomalous stable hydrogen isotopic fractionation of 4 ‰ in gaseous hydrogen has been correlated with the process of adding liquid nitrogen (LN2) to top off the dewar of a stainless-steel water trap on a gaseous hydrogen-water platinum equilibration system. Although the cause of this isotopic fractionation is unknown, its...
Introduction: Tagging, telemetry, and marking compendium project
Keith S. Wolf, Stephen M. Waste
2010, PNAMP Report Series 2010-002-1
Goal and Objectives of the Compendium The goal of this compendium is to integrate profiles of on-going, individual, disparate efforts implementing the science of tagging, telemetry, and marking (TTM) into a compilation of experience to inform the development of fish population monitoring. This is accomplished by meeting the following objectives: • Provide...
Pathological and immunological responses associated with differential survival of Chinook salmon following Renibacterium salmoninarum challenge
David C. Metzger, Diane G. Elliott, Andrew Wargo, Linda K. Park, Maureen K. Purcell
2010, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (90) 31-41
Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha are highly susceptible to Renibacterium salmoninarum, the causative agent of bacterial kidney disease (BKD). Previously we demonstrated that introduced Chinook salmon from Lake Michigan, Wisconsin (WI), USA, have higher survival following R. salmoninarum challenge relative to the progenitor stock from Green River, Washington, USA. In the...
Passage and behavior of radio-tagged adult Pacific lampreys (Entosphenus tridentatus) at the Willamette Falls Project, Oregon.
Matthew G. Mesa, Robert J. Magie, Elizabeth S. Copeland
2010, Northwest Science (84) 233-242
Populations of Pacific lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus) in the Columbia River basin have declined and passage problems at dams are a contributing factor. We used radio telemetry to monitor the passage of adult Pacific lampreys at the Willamette Falls Project (a hydroelectric dam integrated into a natural falls) on the Willamette...
National Wildlife Health Center's quarterly wildlife mortality report
Anne Ballman, C. LeAnn White, Krysten Schuler, Jennifer Bradsby
2010, Wildlife Disease Association Newsletter 9-13
No abstract available....
Radiative forcing over the conterminous United States due to contemporary land cover land use change and sensitivity to snow and interannual albedo variability
Christopher A. Barnes, David P. Roy
2010, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (115) 1-14
Satellite-derived land cover land use (LCLU), snow and albedo data, and incoming surface solar radiation reanalysis data were used to study the impact of LCLU change from 1973 to 2000 on surface albedo and radiative forcing for 58 ecoregions covering 69% of the conterminous United States. A net positive surface...
Wind River water restoration, Annual report November 2008 to October 2009.
P.J. Connolly, I.G. Jezorek, C.S. Munz
2010, Report
This report summarizes work completed by U.S. Geological Survey’s Columbia River Research Laboratory (USGS-CRRL) in the Wind River subbasin during the period November 2008 through October 2009 under Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) contract 41038. Long term research in the Wind River has focused on assessments of steelhead/rainbow trout Oncorhynchus...
Analyzing debris flows with the statistically calibrated empirical model LAHARZ in southeastern Arizona, USA
Christopher S. Magirl, Peter G. Griffiths, Robert H. Webb
2010, Geomorphology (119) 111-124
Hazard-zone delineation for extreme events is essential for floodplain management near mountain fronts in arid and semiarid regions. On 31 July 2006, unprecedented debris flows occurred in the Santa Catalina Mountains of southeastern Arizona following extreme multiday precipitation (recurrence interval > 1000 years for 4-day precipitation). Most mobilized sediment contributing to debris...
Protocol for statistical analysis of vegetation changes at Catoctin Mountain Park
Jeff S. Hatfield, Cairn Krafft
2010, Natural Resource Report NPS/NCR/NCRO/NRTR2010/001
Vegetation data collected at Catoctin Mountain Park, Maryland, in a split-panel rotation design during 2004-2009 were analyzed for differences among three regions within the park and among years. Six plots were paired with plots fenced to exclude white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), and differences between open and exclosed plots were...
Isotope reference materials
Tyler B. Coplen
2010, Book chapter, The encyclopedia of mass spectrometry
Measurement of the same isotopically homogeneous sample by any laboratory worldwide should yield the same isotopic composition within analytical uncertainty. International distribution of light element isotopic reference materials by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology enable laboratories to achieve this goal....
Intensity, magnitude, location and attenuation in India for felt earthquakes since 1762
Walter Szeliga, Susan Hough, Stacey Martin, Roger G. Bilham
2010, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (100) 570-584
A comprehensive, consistently interpreted new catalog of felt intensities for India (Martin and Szeliga, 2010, this issue) includes intensities for 570 earthquakes; instrumental magnitudes and locations are available for 100 of these events. We use the intensity values for 29 of the instrumentally recorded events to develop new intensity versus...
Using the Sonoran and Libyan Desert test sites to monitor the temporal stability of reflective solar bands for Landsat 7 enhanced thematic mapper plus and Terra moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer sensors
Amit Angal, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Tae-young Choi, Gyanesh Chander, Aisheng Wu
2010, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (4)
Remote sensing imagery is effective for monitoring environmental and climatic changes because of the extent of the global coverage and long time scale of the observations. Radiometric calibration of remote sensing sensors is essential for quantitative & qualitative science and applications. Pseudo-invariant ground targets have been extensively used to monitor...
Resistance and Protective Immunity in Redfish Lake Sockeye Salmon Exposed to M Type Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHNV)
Gael Kurath, Kyle Garver, Maureen K. Purcell, Scott E. LaPatra
2010, Journal of Aquatic Animal Health (22) 129-139
Differential virulence of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) isolates from the U and M phylogenetic subgroups is clearly evident in the Redfish Lake (RFL) strain of sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka. In these fish, experimental immersion challenges with U isolates cause extremely high mortality and M isolates cause low or no...
Studies from the history of soil science and geology
Edward R. Landa, Benjamin R. Cohen
2010, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C (35) 849-850
The United Nations proclaimed the year 2008 as the official International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE), with science and outreach activities spanning 2007–2009. IYPE-sponsored outreach helped focus the attention of the general public on topics such as human health and the environment; ocean and natural resources sustainability; mitigating natural hazards...
Juvenile Salmonid survival, passage, and egress at McNary Dam during tests of temporary spillway weirs, 2009
N.S. Adams, T.L. Liedtke
2010, Report
We evaluated behavior, passage, and survival of juvenile salmonids at McNary Dam in relation to the temporary spillway weirs (TSWs) using acoustic telemetry during 2009. The TSWs were located in spill bays 4 and 20 during spring and in spill bays 19 and 20 during summer. Our objectives were to...
Mapping brucellosis increases relative to elk density using hierarchical Bayesian models
Paul C. Cross, Dennis M. Heisey, Brandon M. Scurlock, William H. Edwards, Angela Brennan, Michael R. Ebinger
2010, PLoS ONE (5) 1-9
The relationship between host density and parasite transmission is central to the effectiveness of many disease management strategies. Few studies, however, have empirically estimated this relationship particularly in large mammals. We applied hierarchical Bayesian methods to a 19-year dataset of over 6400 brucellosis tests of adult female elk (Cervus elaphus)...
