Potentiometric Surfaces and Changes in Groundwater Levels in Selected Bedrock Aquifers in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, March-August 2008 and 1988-2008
Christopher A. Sanocki, Susan K. Langer, Jason C. Menard
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5226
This report depicts potentiometric surfaces and groundwater- level changes in three aquifers that underlie the seven-county Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Approximately 350 groundwater levels were measured in wells from the three aquifers-the Prairie du Chien-Jordan, the Franconia-Ironton-Galesville, and the Mount Simon-Hinckley aquifers-in March and August of 2008. The report presents...
Population dynamics of the Concho water snake in rivers and reservoirs
M.J. Whiting, J.R. Dixon, B.D. Greene, J.M. Mueller, O.W. Thornton Jr., Jeff S. Hatfield, J.D. Nichols, J.E. Hines
2008, Copeia (2008) 438-445
The Concho Water Snake (Nerodia harteri paucimaculata) is confined to the Concho–Colorado River valley of central Texas, thereby occupying one of the smallest geographic ranges of any North American snake. In 1986, N. h. paucimaculata was designated as a federally threatened species, in large part because of reservoir projects that...
Electrical characterization of non‐Fickian transport in groundwater and hyporheic systems
Kamini Singha, Adam Pidlisecky, Frederick D. Day-Lewis, Michael N. Gooseff
2008, Water Resources Research (44)
Recent work indicates that processes controlling solute mass transfer between mobile and less mobile domains in porous media may be quantified by combining electrical geophysical methods and electrically conductive tracers. Whereas direct geochemical measurements of solute preferentially sample the mobile domain, electrical geophysical methods are sensitive to changes in bulk...
Digital Mapping Techniques '07 - Workshop Proceedings
David R. Soller
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1385
The Digital Mapping Techniques '07 (DMT'07) workshop was attended by 85 technical experts from 49 agencies, universities, and private companies, including representatives from 27 state geological surveys. This year's meeting, the tenth in the annual series, was hosted by the South Carolina Geological Survey, from May 20-23, 2007,...
Ecotoxicology: Lead
A.M. Scheuhammer, W. N. Beyer, C. J. Schmitt
Sven Erik Jorgensen, Brian D. Fath, editor(s)
2008, Book chapter, Encyclopedia of Ecology v. 3
Lead (Pb) is a naturally occurring metallic element; trace concentrations are found in all environmental media and in all living things. However, certain human activities, especially base metal mining and smelting; combustion of leaded gasoline; the use of Pb in hunting, target shooting, and recreational angling; the use of Pb-based...
Coordinating across scales: Building a regional marsh bird monitoring program from national and state Initiatives
G.W. Shriver, J.R. Sauer
2008, Book chapter, Tundra to Tropics: Connecting Birds, Habitats and People: 4th International Partners in Flight Conference, 13-16 February 2008, McAllen, Texas: Abstracts
Salt marsh breeding bird populations (rails, bitterns, sparrows, etc.) in eastern North America are high conservation priorities in need of site specific and regional monitoring designed to detect population changes over time. The present status and trends of these species are unknown but anecdotal evidence of declines in many...
Bird response to silviculture induced change in forest structure within bottomland hardwood forests
D.J. Twedt, S.G. Somershoe
2008, Book chapter, Tundra to Tropics: Connecting Birds, Habitats and People: 4th International Partners in Flight Conference, 13-16 February 2008, McAllen, Texas: Abstracts
Silvicultural treatments prescribed to encourage development of desired stand structure (i.e., wildlife-forestry) should result in increased abundance of many bird species of management concern, especially species using dense understory habitat. Desired forest conditions within bottomland vary among sites, but average 60-70% overstory canopy that is heterogeneously distributed with >5...
Ticks
H. S. Ginsberg, M.K. Faulde
2008, Book chapter, Public Health Significance of Urban Pests
The most common vector-borne diseases in both Europe and North America are transmitted by ticks. Lyme borreliosis (LB), a tick-borne bacterial zoonosis, is the most highly prevalent. Other important tick-borne diseases include TBE (tick-borne encephalitis) and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Europe, Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) in North...
Design for a region-wide adaptive search for the ivorybilled woodpecker with the objective of estimating occupancy and related parameters
R.J. Cooper, Rua S. Mordecai, B.G. Mattsson, M.J. Conroy, K. Pacifici, J.T. Peterson, C. T. Moore
2008, Book chapter, Tundra to Tropics: Connecting Birds, Habitats and People: 4th International Partners in Flight Conference, 13-16 February 2008, McAllen, Texas: Abstracts
We describe a survey design and field protocol for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) search effort that will: (1) allow estimation of occupancy, use, and detection probability for habitats at two spatial scales within the bird?s former range, (2) assess relationships between occupancy, use, and habitat characteristics at those scales,...
Anti-tick biological control agents: assessment and future perspectives
M. H. Samish H., H. S. Ginsberg, I. Glazer
Alan. S. Bowman, Patricia A. Nuttall, editor(s)
2008, Book chapter, Ticks : biology, disease and control
Widespread and increasing resistance to most available acaracides threatens both global livestock industries and public health. This necessitates better understanding of ticks and the diseases they transmit in the development of new control strategies. Ticks: Biology, Disease and Control is written by an international collection of experts and covers in-depth...
North American Bird Banding and quantitative population ecology
J.D. Nichols, J. Tautin
William E. Davis Jr., Jerome A. Jackson, John Tautin, editor(s)
2008, Book chapter, Bird Banding in North America: The First Hundred Years
Early bird-banding programs in North America were developed to provide descriptions of bird migration and movement patterns. This initial interest in description quickly evolved into more quantitative interests in two ways. There was (1) interest in quantifying migration and movement patterns, and (2) rapid recognition that re-observations of marked...
Long-term decline and short-term crash of the once abundant Rusty Blackbird
R. Greenberg, P. Blancher, D. Niven, Sam Droege
2008, Book chapter, Tundra to Tropics: Connecting Birds, Habitats and People: 4th International Partners in Flight Conference, 13-16 February 2008, McAllen, Texas: Abstracts
The Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus), a formerly common breeding species of boreal wetlands, has exhibited the most marked decline of any North American landbird. North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) trends in abundance are estimated to be -12.5% / yr over the last 40 years, which is tantamount to...
Environmental contaminant hazards to wildlife at National Capital region and Mid-Atlantic National Park Service units
Barnett A. Rattner, B.K. Ackerson
S. Weber, David Harmon, editor(s)
2008, Book chapter, Rethinking Protected Areas in a Changing World: Proceedings of the 2007 George Wright Society Biennial Conference on parks, protected areas & cultural sites, April 16-20, 2007, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Pollutant data for air, water, soil and biota were compiled from databases and internet sources and by staff interviews at 23 National Park Service (NPS) units in 2005. A metric was derived describing the quality and quantity of data for each park, and in combination with known contaminant threats,...
Amphibians of the Neotropical Realm
F. Bolanos, F. Castro, C. Cortez, I. De la Riva, T. Grant, B. Hedges, R. Heyer, R. Ibañez, E. La Marca, E. Lavilla, D. Leite Silvano, S. Lotters, G. Parra Olea, S. Reichle, R. Reynolds, L. Rodriguez, G. Santos Barrera, N. Scott, C. Ubeda, A. Veloso, M. Wilkinson, B. Young
S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, R.J. Berridge, P. Ramani, B.E. Young, editor(s)
2008, Book chapter, Threatened Amphibians of the World
State of the art in design, modelling and software for tagging studies
W. L. Kendall
Heather Kalb, Alexandra S. Rohde, Kacie Gayheart, Kartik Shanker, editor(s)
2008, Book chapter, Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation : 18 to 22 January 2005, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Behavior comparisons for whooping cranes raised by costumed caregivers and trained for an ultralight-led migration
Glenn H. Olsen
Martin J. Folk, Stephen A. Nesbitt, editor(s)
2008, Book chapter, Proceedings of the Tenth North American Crane Workshop, 7-10 February 2006, Zacatecas City, Zacatecas, Mexico
The successful reintroduction program being run by the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership using whooping cranes (Grus americana) trained to fly behind ultralight aircraft depends on a supply of these trained crane colts each year. The crane colts are hatched from eggs contributed by the various partners and trained to...
Wildlife values of North American ricelands
J.M. Eadie, C.S. Elphick, K. J. Reinecke, M. R. Miller
Scott W. Manley, editor(s)
2008, Book chapter, Conservation in ricelands of North America
Ricelands have become an indispensable component of waterbird habitat and a leading example of integrating agricultural and natural resource management in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, Gulf Coast, and Central California. Residual rice, weed seeds, and invertebrates provide food for many avian species during fall and winter. In North...
Estimating total population size for adult female sea turtles: Accounting for non-nesters
W. L. Kendall, J.I. Richardson
Alan F. Rees, editor(s)
2008, Book chapter, Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation : 22 to 28 February 2007, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
Assessment of population size and changes therein is important to sea turtle management and population or life history research. Investigators might be interested in testing hypotheses about the effect of current population size or density (number of animals per unit resource) on future population processes. Decision makers might...
Sources and implications of lead ammunition and fishing tackle on natural resources
Barnett A. Rattner, J. Christian Franson, Steven R. Sheffield, Chris I. Goddard, Nancy J. Leonard, Douglas Stang, Paul J. Wingate
2008, Wildlife Society Technical Review 08-01
A technical review of lead sources that originate from hunting, shooting sports, and fishing activities was undertaken by the American Fisheries Society and The Wildlife Society. The report addresses (1) sources of lead that originate from hunting, shooting sports, and fishing activities, (2) the hazard and risk that lead from...
Hierarchical modeling and inference in ecology: The analysis of data from populations, metapopulations and communities
J. Andrew Royle, Robert M. Dorazio
2008, Book
A guide to data collection, modeling and inference strategies for biological survey data using Bayesian and classical statistical methods. This book describes a general and flexible framework for modeling and inference in ecological systems based on hierarchical models, with a strict focus on the use of probability models and parametric...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Region 5) salt marsh study, 2001 to 2006: an assessment of hydrologic alterations on salt marsh ecosystems along the Atlantic Coast
M.J. James-Pirri, R.M. Erwin, D.J. Prosser
2008, Book
Material Use in the United States - Selected Case Studies for Cadmium, Cobalt, Lithium, and Nickel in Rechargeable Batteries
David R. Wilburn
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5141
This report examines the changes that have taken place in the consumer electronic product sector as they relate to (1) the use of cadmium, cobalt, lithium, and nickel contained in batteries that power camcorders, cameras, cell phones, and portable (laptop) computers and (2) the use of nickel in vehicle batteries...
Evaluation of Well-Test Results and the Potential for Basin-Center Gas in the Colulmbia Basin, Central Washington
Matthew Wilson, Thaddeus S. Dyman, Steven M. Condon
2008, Data Series 2184-F-O
Fischer-assays of oil-shale drill cores and rotary cuttings from the greater Green River basin, southwestern Wyoming
U.S. Geological Survey Oil Shale Assessment Team
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1152
Chapter 1 of this CD–ROM is a database of digitized Fischer (shale-oil) assays of cores and cuttings from boreholes drilled in the Eocene Green River oil shale deposits in southwestern Wyoming. Assays of samples from some surface sections are also included. Most of the Fischer assay analyses were made by...
Ground water on tropical Pacific Islands— Understanding a vital resource
Gordon Tribble
2008, Circular 1312
To a casual observer, tropical Pacific islands seem idyllic. Closer scrutiny reveals that their generally small size makes them particularly vulnerable to economic and environmental stresses imposed by rapidly growing populations, increasing economic development, and global climate change. On these islands, freshwater is one of the most precious resources. Ground...
