Toxicity of a management bait for grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) incorporated with Antimycin A
James J. Wamboldt, J. Nolan Steiner, Blake W. Sauey, Bryan Lada, Joel G. Putnam, Brianne Marjorie Korducki, Gavin N. Saari
2024, Ecotoxicology (33) 984-995
No current technology can specifically target grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) for control within aquatic ecosystems. Rotenone and Carbon Dioxide-Carp are currently the only available registered pesticides for grass carp; they are nonselective and typically applied throughout the water, equally exposing target and native species. A more...
Low-flow statistics for selected streams in New York, excluding Long Island
Timothy J. Stagnitta, Alexander P. Graziano, Joshua Woda, Robin L. Glas, Christopher L. Gazoorian
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5055
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, updated low-streamflow statistics for New York, excluding Long Island and including hydrologically connected watersheds in bordering States, for the first time since 1972. Historical daily streamflow data for active and inactive gages were considered for...
Clustering and unconstrained ordination with Dirichlet process mixture models
Christian Stratton, Andrew Hoegh, Thomas Rodhouse, Jennifer L. Green, Katharine M. Banner, Kathryn Irvine
2024, Methods in Ecology and Evolution (15) 1720-1732
Assessment of similarity in species composition or abundance across sampled locations is a common goal in multi-species monitoring programs. Existing ordination techniques provide a framework for clustering sample locations based on species composition by projecting high-dimensional community data into a low-dimensional, latent ecological gradient representing species composition. However, these...
Current advances in coastal wetland elevation dynamics: Introduction to the special issue
Donald Cahoon, Glenn R. Guntenspergen
2024, Estuaries and Coasts (47) 1703-1707
The thematic issue entitled, “Current Advances in Coastal Wetland Elevation Dynamics,” draws on topics from two special sessions at the CERF 2021 conference plus additional recent research describing scientific insights gained from the Surface Elevation Table–Marker Horizon (SET–MH) method and its application across the globe to quantify and understand subsurface...
Wide-ranging migration of post-nesting hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) from the Caribbean island of Nevis
Daniel R. Evans, Lemuel Pemberton, Raymond Carthy
2024, Marine Biology (171)
Little is known about the post-nesting migration and foraging areas of hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) nesting on St. Kitts and Nevis, an important nesting site for hawksbills in the eastern Caribbean. To elucidate internesting, migration and foraging patterns of hawksbills from Nevis, we satellite tagged 28 post-nesting turtles between 2006 and...
Evaluation of techniques for estimating the age and growth of known‐age White Sturgeon
Courtnie Ghere, Ryan S. Hardy, Sean Wilson, Michael Quist
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 880-889
Objective Successful conservation and management of fishes require an understanding of their age and growth. However, methods for estimating the age and growth of long-lived fish species are difficult to validate. The Kootenai River basin has a decades-long mark–recapture program for endangered White Sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus. The mark–recapture history information for...
Environmental drivers and spatial patterns of antibiotic-resistant, enteric coliforms across a forest–urban riverscape
Angela M Klock, Christian E. Torgersen, Marilyn C Roberts, Daniel J Vogt, Kristiina A Vogt
2024, Freshwater Science (43) 231-249
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are prevalent environmental contaminants in freshwaters, and antibiotic resistance genes circulate throughout the urban water cycle. The increase of antibiotic resistant pathogens threatens public health through direct and indirect exposure, and natural resource managers need information on the spatial...
Peri-Gondwanan sediment in the Arkoma Basin derived from the north: The detrital zircon record of a uniquely concentrated non-Laurentian source signal in the late Paleozoic
Tyson Michael Smith, Marieke Dechesne, Jaime Ann Megumi Hirtz, Glenn R. Sharman, Mark R. Hudson, Brandon Michael Lutz, Neil Patrick Griffis
2024, Geosphere (20) 1286-1314
During the assembly of Pangea, peri-Gondwanan terranes collided with the eastern and southern margins of Laurentia and brought with them unique detrital zircon U-Pb signatures. Discriminating between individual peri-Gondwanan terranes in the detrital record is difficult due to their similar geologic histories. However,...
Geochemistry of Archean komatiitic greenstone terranes of the Wyoming Province: Implications for geodynamic setting and mineralization
Lisa Joanne Zieman, Jacob Evan Poletti, Michael Jenkins
2024, Conference Paper
No abstract available....
Asynchronous movement patterns between breeding and stopover locations in a long-distance migratory songbird
Theodore J. Zenzal Jr., Andrea Contina, Hannah B. Vander Zanden, Leanne K. Kuwahara, Daniel C. Allen, Kristen M. Covino
2024, Avian Conservation and Ecology (19)
The species-specific migratory patterns and strategies of many songbirds remain unknown or understudied, as research in animal ecology is biased toward the breeding period, with the fewest studies on the migratory period across taxa. Identifying large-scale spatiotemporal migratory patterns is challenging, as individuals within a species may vary in their...
A multi-methodological approach: Combining textural observations and geochronology to study the J-M Reef Package and its Hanging Wall, Stillwater Complex, Montana
Michael Jenkins, Sam R. Corson, Ennis Geraghty, S.L. Kamo, Heather A. Lowers, James E. Mungall
2024, Conference Paper
No abstract available....
Capelin on the rebound: Using seabird diets to track trends in forage fish populations
Mayumi L. Arimitsu, Caitlin Elizabeth Marsteller, John F. Piatt, Scott Hatch, Shannon Wheland
2024, Newsletter
Capelin are cold-water forage fish that respond rapidly to fluctuating ocean temperatures. They are prized food for seabirds and other marine predators in Alaska. Researchers have monitored seabird diets at Middleton Island for decades to make connections between changes in abundance of predators and their prey. During a prolonged marine...
Observing systems, modeling, and forecasting
Keith Bouma-Gregson, Gregory Doucette, Jennifer L. Graham, Raphael Kudela, Beth Stauffer, Clarissa Anderson, John F. Bratton, Benjamin M. Holcomb, Kate Hubbard, Tenaya Norris, Tom Stiles, Peter J. Tango, Heather Raymond, Vanessa Zubkousky
2024, Report, Harmful algal research & response: A national environmental science strategy (HARRNESS), 2024-2034
Predicting harmful algal blooms (HABs) requires integrating physical, chemical, and biological data collected from observing networks and then assimilating these data into models, which are used to generate forecasts. In 2005, the Harmful Algal Research and Response: A National Environmental Science Strategy 2005-2015 (HARRNESS, 2005) made recommendations on how to...
Annual migratory movement, apparent molt-migration, migration schedule, and diffuse migratory connectivity of Hermit Warblers
Hankyu Kim, Rodney Siegel, Jaime L Stephens, Joan Hagar, Brett Furnas, Min-Su Jeong, Brenda C McComb, Matthew G. Betts
2024, Avian Conservation and Ecology (19)
Quantifying migratory connectivity and annual movement is key to sound conservation planning for migratory species. Hermit Warblers (Setophaga occidentalis) are an endemic-breeding species in the Pacific Northwest that winters in Mexico and the Central Americas. This species faces threats from mature forest loss and climate change throughout its range, but...
Abundance and distribution of white-tailed deer on First State National Historical Park and surrounding lands
H. Brian Underwood, Madison R. Hand, Donald J. Leopold
2024, Science Report NPS/SR—2024/176
We estimated both abundance and distribution of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on the Brandywine Valley unit of First State National Historical Park (FRST) and the Brandywine Creek State Park (BCSP) during 2020 and 2021 with two widely used field methods — a road-based count and a network of camera traps....
Synthesizing professional opinion of Lake Whitefish and Cisco recruitment drivers across the Great Lakes
Taylor A. Brown, Lars G. Rudstam, Suresh A. Sethi, Chris Hessell, Erik Olsen, Jory L. Jonas, Benjamin J. Rook, Steven A. Pothoven, Sarah J.H. Beech, Erin S. Dunlop, Stephen James, Jason B. Smith, Zach Amidon, Dray D. Carl, David Bunnell, Ralph W. Tingley III, Brian Weidel, Andrew Edgar Honsey
2024, The Laurentian (2024) 1-41
Disentangling the suite of ecological drivers that explain recruitment variability for Lake Whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis and Cisco C. artedi is of critical importance for their conservation, management, and stewardship in the Laurentian Great Lakes. However, recruitment is inherently variable and can be regulated by many interacting processes, the relative importance of which can vary...
Joint pilot fish habitat framework
Hannah Nisonson, Alexander H. Kiser, Benjamin P. Gressler, A.K. Leight, John A. Young
2024, Report
This story map will take you through the process of exploring and testing methods necessary for a higher resolution, seamless fish habitat assessment across both inland and estuarine waters through the lens of our...
Incorporating climate data into emergency planning and exercises: A primer for emergency management practioners and data developers
Christine M. Albano, Maureen I. McCarthy, Stephanie Anne Mcafee, Anne Wein, Michael D. Dettinger
2024, Report
Climate change has and will continue to sharpen climate-related risks to communities and natural resources in California and elsewhere, as the probabilities of more extreme weather, floods, and fires continue to increase. This poses a problem of novel situations for emergency management. Progress has been made in terms of formally...
Diminishing productivity and hyperstable harvest in northern Wisconsin walleye fisheries
Joseph T. Mrnak, Holly Susan Embke, Max V. Wilkinson, Steph L. Shaw, M. Jake Vander Zanden, Greg G. Sass
2024, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (81) 1650-1665
Managing fisheries in a changing socio-ecological environment may require holistic approaches for identifying and adapting to novel ecosystem dynamics. Using 32 years of Ceded Territory of Wisconsin (CTWI) walleye (Sander vitreus) data, we estimated production (P), biomass (B), biomass turnover (P/B), yield (Y), and yield over production (Y/P) and tested...
Disentangling genetic diversity of Myotis septentrionalis: population structure, demographic history, and effective population size
Jenna R. Grimshaw, Deahn M. Donner, Roger W. Perry, W. Mark Ford, Alex Silvis, Carlos J. Garcia, Richard D. Stevens, David A. Ray
2024, Journal of Mammalogy (105) 854-864
Myotis septentrionalis (Northern Long-eared Bat) has recently suffered a >90% decline in population size in North America due to white-nose syndrome (WNS). We assessed genetic diversity, population structure, current effective population size, and demographic history of M. septentrionalis distributed across the United States to determine baseline levels pre-WNS. We analyzed RADseq data from...
Permafrost history in the sporadic zone as context for recent carbon loss using acryostratigraphy, plant macrofossil, and stable isotope approach
Miriam C. Jones, Lesleigh Anderson, Eva Anne Stephani, Benjamin M. Jones
2024, Conference Paper, 12th International conference on permafrost, proceedings
Permafrost and landscape history, in addition to ground ice content, are increasingly identified as important components in predicting permafrost thaw trajectories. Together with cryostratigraphy, plant remains and stable isotopes can provide useful information about past permafrost aggradation and thaw. We applied these methods with radiocarbon dating on peat and permafrost...
Return rates of GPS-tagged Pacific Golden-Plovers: A controlled study in Hawaii
Oscar W. Johnson, Michael Weber, David R. Bybee, T. Lee Tibbitts, Susan Scott, Joshua Fisher, Wendy A. Kuntz, Susanne Spiessberger, Sigrid Southworth, Elizabeth Maynard, Laura Zoller, Carolyn Smith
2024, Wader Study (131) 152-155
In a study of GPS-tagged Pacific Golden-Plovers wintering at Moorea, French Polynesia, Johnson et al. (2020) raised questions about possible tag-induced mortality. Similar concerns in other species have generated considerable attention in recent years. Of 19 tagged plovers that departed Moorea on northward migration, only one bird (5 %)...
Geophysical characterization of mine influenced groundwater and surface water in the Mayflower section of the Animas River, Bonita Peak Mining District, Silverton Colorado
Dale Werkema, Neil Terry, Brett Trottier
2024, Report
This report details findings from geophysical investigations to identify possible groundwater - surface water interactions near the Mayflower Section of the Animas River in Silverton, Colorado. The Mayflower Section is a mine influenced Superfund Site in Colorado. This investigation utilized electromagnetic induction (EM or EMI), magnetic, and fiber optic distributed...
Living with wildfire in Lake Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington: 2022 Data report
Julia Goolsby, Patricia A. Champ, Suzanne Wittenbrink, Colleen Donovan, Kris King, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, James Meldrum, Christopher M. Barth, Carolyn Wagner, Chiara Forrester
2024, Research Note RMRS-RN-103
Community wildfire readiness includes actions taken by residents, including wildfire risk mitigation at the parcel level and evacuation preparedness. This report presents results from two data collection efforts in the Lake Wenatchee Fire & Rescue service district in Chelan County, Washington: parcel level rapid wildfire risk assessments and household surveys...
Larval coregonine density and diet composition along beaches of northern Lake Michigan
Marissa Cubbage, Tomas O. Hook, David Bunnell, Patricia Dieter, Amanda Susanne Ackiss, Paris D. Collingsworth
2024, Journal of Great Lakes Research (50)
Recent oligotrophication in Lake Michigan has contributed to reduced biomass of spring zooplankton and a shift in the zooplankton assemblage toward more calanoid copepods. These changes have likely altered prey availability for first feeding native fish species that hatch in early spring, including coregonines. While spring zooplankton density and community...
