Identifying climate-resistant vernal pools: Hydrologic refugia for amphibian reproduction under droughts and climate change
Jennifer M. Cartwright, Toni Lyn Morelli, Evan H. Campbell Grant
2022, Ecohydrology (15)
Vernal pools of the northeastern United States provide important breeding habitat for amphibians but may be sensitive to droughts and climate change. These seasonal wetlands typically fill by early spring and dry by mid-to-late summer. Because climate change may produce earlier and stronger growing-season evapotranspiration combined...
Diffuse deformation and surface faulting distribution from sub-metric image correlation along the 2019 Ridgecrest ruptures (California, USA)
Solene L. Antoine, Yann Klinger, Arthur Delorme, Kang Wang, Roland Burgmann, Ryan D. Gold
2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (111) 2275-2302
The 2019 Mw">Mw 6.4 and 7.1 Ridgecrest, California, earthquake sequence (July 2019) ruptured consecutively a system of high‐angle strike‐slip cross faults (northeast‐ and northwest‐trending) within 34 hr. The complex rupture mechanism was illuminated by seismological and geodetic...
Risk-based wellhead protection decision support: A repeatable workflow approach
Michael N. Fienen, Nicholas Corson-Dosch, Jeremy T. White, Andrew T. Leaf, Randall J. Hunt
2022, Groundwater (60) 71-86
Environmental water management often benefits from a risk-based approach where information on the area of interest is characterized, assembled, and incorporated into a decision model considering uncertainty. This includes prior information from literature, field measurements, professional interpretation, and data assimilation resulting in a decision tool with...
A big problem for small earthquakes: Benchmarking routine magnitudes and conversion relationships with coda-envelope-derived Mw in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma
David R. Shelly, Kevin Mayeda, Justin Barno, Katherine M. Whidden, Morgan P. Moschetti, Andrea L. Llenos, Justin Rubinstein, William L. Yeck, Paul S. Earle, Rengin Gok, William R. Walter
2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) (112) 210-225
Earthquake magnitudes are widely relied upon measures of earthquake size. Although moment magnitude (Mw">MwMw) has become the established standard for moderate and large earthquakes, difficulty in reliably measuring seismic moments for...
Factors affecting nest success of colonial nesting waterbirds in southwest Louisiana
K. Ritenour, Sammy L. King, S. M. Collins, M.D. Kaller
2022, Estuaries and Coasts (45) 897-912
Subsidence and accelerated sea level rise impact nesting area availability and flood probabilities of breeding islands for colonial nesting waterbirds. In 2017 and 2018, we monitored 855 nests of four species of colonial nesting waterbirds on Rabbit Island, LA, to determine factors affecting nest and chick...
Basin and site effects in the U.S. Pacific Northwest estimated from small‐magnitude earthquakes
John Rekoske, Morgan P. Moschetti, Eric M. Thompson
2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (112) 438-456
Earthquake hazards in the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW) are increased by the presence of deep sedimentary basins that amplify and prolong ground shaking. To better understand basin and site effects on ground motions, we compile a database of recordings from crustal and intraslab earthquakes. We...
Physiological and nutritional constraints on zooplankton productivity due to eutrophication and climate change predicted using a resource-based modeling approach
Chen Zhang, Michael T. Brett, Jens M Nielsen, George B Arhonditsis, Ashley P Ballantyne, Jackie L Carter, Jacob Kann, Dorthe C Muller-Navarra, Daniel E. Schindler, Jason D. Stockwell, Monika Winder, David Beauchamp
2022, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (79) 472-486
Emerging evidence suggests that zooplankton production is affected by physiological and nutritional constraints due to climate change and eutrophication, which in turn could have broad implications for food-web dynamics and fisheries production. In this study, we developed a resource-based zooplankton production dynamics model that causally links freshwater cladoceran...
Connecting regional-scale tree distribution models with seed dispersal kernels
Ram C. Neupane, James A. Powell, Thomas C. Edwards Jr.
2022, Applied Mathematics and Computation (412)
Regional scale forest distribution models are important tools for biogeography and understanding the structure of forest communities in space. These models take climate and geographic variables as input and are therefore helpful for long-term decision support and climate adaptation planning. Generally, local processes of tree germination and seedling survival are...
Solutions in microbiome engineering: Prioritizing barriers to organism establishment
Michaeline B.N. Albright, Stilianos Louca, Daniel E. Winkler, Kelli L. Feeser, Sarah-Jane Haig, Katrine L. Whiteson, Joanne B. Emerson, John M. Dunbar
2022, The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology (16) 331-338
Microbiome engineering is increasingly being employed as a solution to challenges in health, agriculture, and climate. Often manipulation involves inoculation of new microbes designed to improve function into a preexisting microbial community. Despite, increased efforts in microbiome engineering inoculants frequently fail to establish and/or confer long-lasting...
Mg/Ca ratios in ostracode genera Sarsicytheridea and Paracyprideis: A potential paleotemperature proxy for Arctic and subarctic continental shelf and slope waters
Thomas M. Cronin, Gary S. Dwyer, Katherine Keller, Laura Gemery, Jesse R. Farmer
2022, Marine Micropaleontology (174)
We evaluate the potential utility of Mg/Ca ratios in the sublittoral ostracode genera Sarsicytheridea and Paracyprideis as a paleotemperature proxy for continental shelf and upper slope waters of the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas. Using sediment core-top and surface sediment samples, the shells of three species, S. bradii, S. punctillata,...
Incorporating antenna detections into abundance estimates of fish
Maria C. Dzul, Charles Yackulic, William L. Kendall, Dana L. Winkelman, Mary M Conner, Michael D. Yard
2022, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (79) 436-447
Autonomous passive integrated transponder (PIT) tag antennas are commonly used to detect fish marked with PIT tags but cannot detect unmarked fish, creating challenges for abundance estimation. Here we describe an approach to estimate abundance from paired physical capture and antenna detection data in closed and open mark-recapture...
Biotic and abiotic treatments as a bet-hedging approach to restoring plant communities and soil functions
Audrey J Rader, Lindsay P. Chiquoine, James F. Weigand, Judy L. Perkins, Seth M. Munson, Scott R Abella
2022, Restoration Ecology (30)
Two related concepts in restoration ecology include the relative interchangeability of biotic and abiotic restoration treatments for initiating recovery and bet hedging using multiple restoration approaches to increase the likelihood of favorable restoration outcomes. We used these concepts as a framework to implement a factorial experiment...
The US Geological Survey ground failure product: Near-real-time estimates of earthquake-triggered landslides and liquefaction
Kate E. Allstadt, Eric M. Thompson, Randall W. Jibson, David J. Wald, Mike Hearne, Edward J. Hunter, Jeremy Fee, Heather Schovanec, Daniel Slosky, Kirstie Lafon Haynie
2022, Earthquake Spectra (38) 5-36
Since late 2018, the US Geological Survey (USGS) ground failure (GF) earthquake product has provided publicly available spatial estimates of earthquake-triggered landslide and liquefaction hazards, along with the qualitative hazard and population exposure-based alerts for M > 6 earthquakes worldwide and in near real time (within ∼30 min). Earthquake losses...
NGA-subduction global ground motion models with regional adjustment factors
Grace Alexandra Parker, Jonathan P. Stewart, David Boore, Gail M. Atkinson, Behzad Hassani
2022, Earthquake Spectra (38) 456-493
We develop semi-empirical ground motion models (GMMs) for peak ground acceleration, peak ground velocity, and 5%-damped pseudo-spectral accelerations for periods from 0.01 to 10 s, for the median orientation-independent horizontal component of subduction earthquake ground motion. The GMMs are applicable to interface and intraslab subduction earthquakes in Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, Central...
From drought to deluge: Spatiotemporal variation in migration routing, survival, travel time and floodplain use of an endangered migratory fish
Dalton Hance, Russell Perry, Adam Pope, Arnold J. Ammann, Jason L. Hassrick, Gabriel S. Hansen
2022, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (79) 410-428
We developed a novel statistical model to relate the daily survival and migration dynamics of an endangered anadromous fish to river flow and water temperature during both extreme drought and severe flooding in an intensively managed river system. Our Bayesian temporally stratified multistate mark recapture model integrates over...
Integrating ecosystem metabolism and consumer allochthony reveals nonlinear drivers in lake organic matter processing
Meredith A. Holgerson, Rachel A. Hovel, Patrick T. Kelly, Lauren E Bortolotti, Jennifer A. Brentrup, Amber R Bellamy, Samantha K. Oliver, Alexander J Reisenger
2022, Limnology and Oceanography (67) S71-S85
Lakes process both terrestrial and aquatic organic matter, and the relative contribution from each source is often measured via ecosystem metabolism and terrestrial resource use in the food web (i.e., consumer allochthony). Yet, ecosystem metabolism and consumer allochthony are rarely considered together, despite possible interactions and...
Distributions of native and invasive Typha (cattail) throughout the Prairie Pothole Region of North America
Brian Tangen, Sheel Bansal, Joanna R. Freeland, Steven E. Travis, Jen D. Wasko, Terence P. McGonigle, L. Gordon Goldsborough, Keira Gow, Joy E. Marburger, Jacob Meier
2022, Wetlands Ecology and Management (30) 1-17
The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of North America has experienced extreme changes in wetland habitat due to proliferation of invasive plants. Typha × glauca is a highly competitive hybrid between native T. latifolia and non-native T. angustifolia, and it is likely the predominant taxon in PPR wetlands. Genetics-based studies are limited, and distributions are poorly...
Evaluation of ELISA for the analysis of imidacloprid in biological matrices: Cross-reactivities, matrix interferences, and comparison to LC-MS/MS
Michael S. Gross, Emily Woodward, Michelle Hladik
2022, Chemosphere (286)
Imidacloprid is among the most used pesticides worldwide and there are toxicity concerns for nontarget organisms. Accurate and sensitive methods are necessary to quantitate imidacloprid concentrations in biological matrices to better understand their fate and effects. Here we evaluated an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit for...
Evaluation of Indoor PM2.5 concentrations in a Native American community: A pilot study
Nan Ji, Ana Rule, Robert Weatherholtz, Lynn M. Crosby, Joseph E. Bunnell, William H. Orem, Raymond R. Reid, Mathuram Santosham, Laura L. Hammitt, Katherine L. O’Brien
2022, Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology (JESEE) (32) 554-562
BackgroundIndoor air pollution is associated with adverse health effects; however, few studies exist studying indoor air pollution on the Navajo Nation in the southwest U.S., a community with high rates of respiratory disease.MethodsIndoor PM2.5 concentration was evaluated in 26 homes on the Navajo...
Understanding the effects of climate change via disturbance on pristine arctic lakes — Multitrophic level response and recovery to a 12-yr, low-level fertilization experiment
Phaedra E. Budy, Casey A. Pennock, Anne E. Giblin, Chris Luecke, D. L. White, George Kling
2022, Limnology and Oceanography (67) S224-S241
Effects of climate change-driven disturbance on lake ecosystems can be subtle; indirect effects include increased nutrient loading that could impact ecosystem function. We designed a low-level fertilization experiment to mimic persistent, climate change-driven disturbances (deeper thaw, greater weathering, or thermokarst failure) delivering nutrients to arctic lakes. We measured responses of...
Trachyandesite of Kennedy Table, its vent complex, and post−9.3 Ma uplift of the central Sierra Nevada
Edward Hildreth, Judith Fierstein, Fred M. Phillips, Andrew T. Calvert
2022, GSA Bulletin (134) 1143-1159
Tectonic interpretation of the central Sierra Nevada—whether the crest of the Sierra Nevada (California, USA) was uplifted in the late Cenozoic or whether the range has undergone continuous down-wearing since the Late Cretaceous—is controversial, since there is no obvious tectonic explanation for renewed uplift. The strongest direct evidence for late...
Potential role for microbial ureolysis in the rapid formation of carbonate tufa mounds
Fernando Medina Ferrer, Michael R. Rosen, Virginia V. Russell, Jayme Feyhl-Buska, Fredrik Sonderholm, Sean Loyd, Russell Shapiro, Blake W. Stamps, Victoria Petryshyn, Cansu Demirel-Floyd, Jake V. Bailey, Hope A Johnson, John R. Spear, Frank A Corsetti
2022, Geobiology (20) 79-97
Modern carbonate tufa towers in the alkaline (~pH 9.5) Big Soda Lake (BSL), Nevada, exhibit rapid precipitation rates (exceeding 3 cm/year) and host diverse microbial communities. Geochemical indicators reveal that carbonate precipitation is, in part, promoted by the mixing of calcium-rich groundwater and carbonate-rich lake water, such...
Piscine predation on juvenile salmon in sub-arctic Alaskan rivers: Associations with season, habitat, predator size and streamflow
Erik R. Schoen, Kristen W. Sellmer, Mark S. Wipfli, Juan A. López, Benjamin E. Meyer, Renae Ivanoff
2022, Ecology of Freshwater Fish (31) 243-259
Predation on anadromous salmon can have important consequences for both predators and prey. Salmon provide large seasonal pulses of energy and nutrients via carcasses, eggs and juveniles to many freshwater consumers, and conversely, predation can represent a significant source of mortality for juvenile salmon. Recent declines of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus...
Modeling morphodynamics of coastal response to extreme events: What shape are we in?
Christopher R. Sherwood, Ap van Dongeren, James Doyle, Christie Hegermiller, T. J. Hsu, Tarandeep S. Kalra, Maitane Olabarrieta, Allison Penko, Yashar Rafati, Dano Roelvink, Marlies van der Lugt, Jay Veeramony, John C. Warner
2022, Annual Review of Marine Science (14) 457-492
This review focuses on recent advances in process-based numerical models of the impact of extreme storms on sandy coasts. Driven by larger-scale models of meteorology and hydrodynamics, these models simulate morphodynamics across the Sallenger storm-impact scale, including swash, collision, overwash, and inundation. Models are becoming both wider (as more processes...
Taxonomic, temporal, and spatial variations in zooplankton fatty acid composition in Puget Sound, WA, USA
Minna Hiltunen, Ursula Strandberg, Michael T. Brett, Amanda K. Winans, David Beauchamp, Miika Kotila, Julie E. Keister
2022, Estuaries and Coasts (45) 567-581
Fatty acid (FA) content and composition of zooplankton in Puget Sound, Washington (USA) was studied to investigate the nutritional quality of diverse zooplankton prey for juvenile salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) in terms of their essential fatty acid (EFA) content. The study focus was on eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), and arachidonic...
