Guidelines for using the Climate Change Vulnerability Index 2024 release 4.0
Marta P. Lyons, John Raymond Stevenson, Lindsey Thurman, Bruce Young
2024, Report
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Bottom trawl assessment of Lake Ontario's benthic preyfish community, 2023
Brian O’Malley, Scott P. Minihkeim, Olivia Margaret Mitchinson, Scott David Stahl, Jessica A Goretzke, Jeremy P. Holden
2024, Report
Since 1978, surveys of Lake Ontario preyfish communities have provided information on the status and trends of the benthic preyfish community related to Fish Community Objectives that includes understanding preyfish population dynamics and community diversity. Beginning in 2015, the benthic preyfish survey expanded from US-only to incorporate Canadian sites, increasing...
Methods for computing water-quality concentrations and loads at sites operated by the U.S. Geological Survey Kansas Water Science Center
Mandy L. Stone, Casey J. Lee, Teresa J. Rasmussen, Thomas J. Williams, Ariele R. Kramer, Brian J. Klager
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1049
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Kansas Water Science Center (KSWSC) has published time-series computations of water-quality concentrations and loads based on in situ sensor data since 1995. Water-quality constituent concentrations or densities are computed using regression models that relate in situ sensor values to laboratory analyses of periodically collected samples....
Geolocators, stable isotopes, and citizen science identify migratory timing, route, and spring molt of Smith’s Longspurs
Alexis Will, Heather McFarland, Christopher Latty, Abby Powell
2024, Avian Conservation and Ecology (19)
Climate change is having a disproportionate impact on the Arctic. For Arctic breeding birds, basic knowledge of their annual cycle, specifically the timing, route, and movement behavior of migration, is needed to understand when and where populations may experience threats. We used a combination of geolocators and stable isotope analysis...
Boom and bust: The effects of masting on seed predator range dynamics and trophic cascades
Michael T. Hallworth, Alexej Sirén, William DeLuca, Timothy Duclos, Kent P. McFarland, Jason M. Hill, Christopher C. Rimmer, Toni Lyn Morelli
2024, Diversity and Distributions (30)
AimSpatiotemporal variation in resource availability is a strong driver of animal distributions. In the northern hardwood and boreal forests of the northeastern United States, tree mast events provide resource pulses that drive the population dynamics of small mammals, including the American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus), a primary songbird nest predator....
Identifying transportation data and system needs for a Federal lands transportation data platform
Daniel Manier, Nicholas Grisham, Amit Armstrong, Elijah Henley, Jason Doolittle, Richard D. Inman
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1038
Executive SummaryModern transportation and land-use planning efforts include information from many sources to address topics such as safety, efficiency, commercial, and social needs. This wide breadth of topics provides opportunities for collaboration and development of common tools for diverse users. In many cases, different information systems provide the spatial data...
Assessment of conventional and continuous oil and gas resources in the Lewis Shale in the Southwestern Wyoming Province, Wyoming and Colorado, 2023
Jane S. Hearon, Christopher J. Schenk, Thomas M. Finn, Benjamin G. Johnson, Sarah E. Gelman, Jenny H. Lagesse, Cheryl A. Woodall, Tracey J. Mercier, Heidi M. Leathers-Miller, Kira K. Timm, Ronald M. Drake II, Andrea D. Cicero, Geoffrey S. Ellis, Michael H. Gardner, Phuong A. Le, Scott S. Young
2024, Fact Sheet 2024-3025
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated undiscovered, technically recoverable mean conventional and continuous resources of 294 million barrels of oil and 11 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Lewis Shale in the Southwestern Wyoming Province, Wyoming and Colorado....
Incorporating measurements of vertical land motion in wetland surface elevation change analyses
P. Hensel, Donald Cahoon, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, L. G. Mitchell, M. Whitbeck, Galen Scott
2024, Estuaries and Coasts (47) 2094-2105
We compared elevation trajectories from 14 rod surface elevation table (RSET) stations and 60 real-time kinematic (RTK) global positioning system (GPS) transects within the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (BNWR) from 2010–2013. The results were similar, 7.3 ± 0.9 (mean ± standard error; RSET) versus 6.2 ± 0.6 mm year−1 (RTK) (P = 0.216), and were greater than relative sea level rise...
Assessing habitat use and population dynamics of fisheries resources at Kaloko Fishpond
Timothy B. Grabowski, Ricky Tabandera, Nathaniel Greenwald, Annie Larson
2024, Hawai’i Cooperative Fishery Research Unit Technical Report Series HCFRU-003
Throughout Hawai'i, fishponds are considered by their local communities as important cultural touchstones, a source of local, sustainably produced food, and an important component to the development of community-based management for nearshore fisheries. Within Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park, the restoration of Kaloko Fishpond for traditional aquaculture management is a goal...
USGS adds 100K Topo scale to OnDemand map products
Ariel T. Doumbouya
2024, GIS Tips & Tricks 389-390
OnDemand Topo map users now have more map scale options available to them with debut of the 100K Topo or 1:100,000-scale mapping capability within the free topoBuilder application....
Toward a set of essential biodiversity variables for assessing change in mountains globally
Dirk Schmeller, James Thornton, Davnah Urbach, Jake Alexander, Walter Jetz, Aino Kulonen, Robert Mills, Claudia Notornicola, Elisa Pallazi, Harald Pauli, Christophe Randin, Sergey Rosbakh, Roger Sayre, Nasrin Tehrani, William Verbiest, Tom Walker, Sonja Wipf, Carolina Adler
2024, BioScience (74) 539-551
Mountain regions harbor unique and rich biodiversity, forming an important part of our global life support system. This rich biodiversity underpins the ecological intactness and functioning of mountain ecosystems, which are imperative for the provision of key ecosystem services. A considerable amount of data are required to assess ecological intactness...
Effective field sampling of rectoanal mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue for antemortem chronic wasting disease testing in white-tailed deer
Marie L. J. Gilbertson, Lindsey J. Long, Heather N. Inzalaco, Wendy Christine Turner, Daniel J. Storm
2024, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (60) 996-1003
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal prion disease of cervids that has spread across much of North America. Although gold standard CWD diagnostics involve postmortem testing of medial retropharyngeal lymph nodes or obex (brain stem), a key tissue sample for antemortem testing is rectoanal mucosa–associated lymphoid tissue (RAMALT). However,...
Low-flow period seasonality, trends, and climate linkages across the United States
Caelan Simeone, Gregory J. McCabe, Jory Seth Hecht, John C. Hammond, Glenn A. Hodgkins, Carolyn G. Olson, Michael Wieczorek, David M. Wolock
2024, Hydrological Sciences Journal (69) 1387-1398
Low-flow period properties, including timing, magnitude, and duration, influence many key processes for water resource managers and ecosystems. We computed annual low-flow period duration and timing metrics from 1951 to 2020 for 1032 conterminous United States (CONUS) streamgages and analyzed spatial patterns, trends through time, and relationships to climate. Results...
Movement behavior in a dominant ungulate underlies successful adjustment to a rapidly changing landscape following megafire
Kendall L. Calhoun, Thomas Connor, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Amy Van Scoyoc, Michael C Mcinturff, Samantha E.S. Kreling, Justin S. Brashares
2024, Movement Ecology (12)
BackgroundMovement plays a key role in allowing animal species to adapt to sudden environmental shifts. Anthropogenic climate and land use change have accelerated the frequency of some of these extreme disturbances, including megafire. These megafires dramatically alter ecosystems and challenge the capacity of several species to adjust to...
Forecasting inundation of catastrophic landslides from precursory creep
Yuankun Xu, R. Burgmann, David L. George, E..J. Fielding, G.X. Solis-Gordillo, D.B. Yanez-Borja
2024, Geophysical Research Letters (51)
Forecasting landslide inundation upon catastrophic failure is crucial for reducing casualties, yet it remains a long-standing challenge owing to the complex nature of landslides. Recent global studies indicate that catastrophic hillslope failures are commonly preceded by a period of precursory creep, motivating a novel scheme to foresee...
Movement patterns of a small-bodied minnow suggest nomadism in a fragmented, desert river
Martinique J. Chavez, Phaedra E. Budy, Casey A. Pennock, Thomas P. Archdeacon, Peter D. MacKinnon
2024, Movement Ecology (12)
BackgroundUnfettered movement among habitats is crucial for fish to access patchily distributed resources and complete their life cycle, but many riverscapes in the American Southwest are fragmented by dams. The federally endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow (Hybognathus amarus, RGSM) persists in a fragmented remnant of its former range (ca. 95%...
Quantitative risk of earthquake disruption to global copper and rhenium supply
Kishor S. Jaiswal, Nico Luco, Emily K. Schnebele, Nedal T. Nassar, Donya Otarod
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1028
Earthquakes have the potential to substantially affect mining operations, potentially leading to supply chain disruptions and adversely affecting the global economy. This study explores the quantification of earthquake risk to copper and rhenium commodity supply by examining the spatial concentration of high earthquake hazard areas and the commodity-specific mining, smelting,...
Assessment of long-term changes in surface-water extent within Klamath Marsh, south-central Oregon, 1985–2021
Joseph J. Kennedy, Henry M. Johnson, Stephen B. Gingerich
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5033
The annual maximum extent of surface water in Klamath Marsh has naturally fluctuated in response to periods of wet and dry conditions in the surrounding basin. Field observations during the 2010s indicate that the annual maximum extent of surface water has been declining and the marsh is not responding to...
Wildfires influence mercury transport, methylation, and bioaccumulation in headwater streams of the Pacific Northwest
Austin K. Baldwin, James Willacker, Branden L. Johnson, Sarah E. Janssen, Collin A. Eagles-Smith
2024, Environmental Science & Technology (58) 14396-14409
The increasing frequency and severity of wildfires are among the most visible impacts of climate change. However, the effects of wildfires on mercury (Hg) transformations and bioaccumulation in stream ecosystems are poorly understood. We sampled soils, water, sediment, in-stream leaf litter, periphyton, and aquatic invertebrates in 36 burned (one-year post...
The LTAR Grazing Land Common Experiment at the Jornada Experimental Range: Old genetics, new precision technologies, and adaptive value chains
Sheri Spiegal, Rick E. Estell, Andres F. Cibils, Andrew Cox, Matthew M. McIntosh, Dawn M. Browning, Michael C. Duniway, Micah Funk, Lara Macon, Sarah E. McCord, Matthew Redd, Cindy Tolle, Santiago A. Utsumi, Jeremy Walker, Nicholas P. Webb, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer
2024, Journal of Environmental Quality (63) 880-892
Rangelands and the supply chains connected to them are central to the agrifood systems of the Southwestern United States. Local ranchers are simultaneously arid lands managers, herd managers, and marketing managers. To stay in business, they must constantly adapt to unpredictable forage resources and markets while conserving soils and vegetation...
Re-evaluating Marine Isotope Stage 5a paleo-sea-level trends from across the Florida Keys reef tract
Scarlette Hsia, Lauren Toth, Richard A. Mortlock, Charles Kerans
2024, Quaternary Science Advances (15)
Unraveling how Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) fluctuated during past warm periods can improve our understanding of linkages between sea-level fluctuations, orbital forcing, and ice-sheet dynamics. Current estimates of GMSL for Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 5a and 5c — two warm intervals following the relatively well-documented MIS 5e — contain...
Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands
Díaz-Martínez Paloma, Fernando T. Maestre, Eduardo Moreno-Jimenez, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, David J. Eldridge, Hugo Saiz, Nicolas Gross, Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Beatriz Gozalo, Victoria Ochoa, Emilio Guirado, Miguel García-Gómez, Enrique Valencia, Sergio Asensio, Miguel Berdugo, Jaime Martinez-Valderrama, Betty J. Mendoza, Juan C. García-Gil, Claudio Zaccone, Marco Panettieri, Pablo García-Palacios, Wei Fan, Iria Benavente-Ferraces, Ana Rey, Nico Eisenhauer, Simone Cesarz, Mehdi Abedi, Rodrigo J. Ahumada, Julio M. Alcantara, Fateh Amghar, Valeria Aramayo, Antonio I. Arroyo, Khadijeh Bahalkeh, Farah Ben Salem, Niels Blaum, Bazartseren Boldgiv, Matthew A. Bowker, Donaldo Bran, Cristina Branquinho, Chongfeng Bu, Yonatan Cáceres, Rafaella Canessa, Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy, Ignacio Castro, Patricio Castro-Quezada, Roukaya Chibani, Abel A. Conceição, Courtney M. Currier, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Balazs Deak, Christopher R. Dickman, David A. Donoso, Andrew J. Dougill, Jorge Duran, Hamid Ejtehadi, Carlos I. Espinosa, Alex Fajardo, Mohammad Farzam, Daniela Ferrante, Lauchlan H. Fraser, Juan J. Gaitan, Elizabeth Gusman Montalván, Rosa M. Hernández-Hernández, Andreas von Hessberg, Norbert Holzel, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Frederic M. Hughes, Oswaldo Jadan-Maza, Katja Geissler, Anke Jentsch, Mengchen Ju, Kudzai F. Kaseke, Liana Kindermann, Jessica E. Koopman, Peter C. le Roux, Pierre Liancourt, Anja Linstadter, Jushan Liu, Michelle A. Louw, Gillian Maggs-Kolling, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Oumarou Malam Issa, Eugene Marais, Pierre Margerie, Antonio J. Mazaneda, Mitchel P. McClaran, Joao Vitor S. Messeder, Juan P. Mora, Gerardo Moreno, Seth M. Munson, Alice Nunes, Gabriel Oliva, Gastón R. Oñatibia, Brooke Osborne, Guadalupe Peter, Yolanda Pueyo, R. Emiliano Quiroga, Sasha C. Reed, Victor M. Reyes, Alexandra Rodriguez, Jan C. Ruppert, Osvaldo E. Sala, Ayman Salah, Julius Sebei, Michael Sloan, Shijirbaatar Solongo, Ilan Stavi, Colton R.A. Stephens, Alberto L. Teixido, Andrew D. Thomas, Heather L. Throop, Katja Tielborger, Samantha K. Travers, James Val, Orsolya Valko, Liesbeth van den Brink, Frederike Velbert, Wanyoike Wamiti, Deli Wang, Lixin Wang, Glenda M. Wardle, Laura Yahdjian, Eli Zaady, Juan M. Zeberio, Yuanming Zhang, Xiaobing Zhou, Cesar Plaza
2024, Nature Climate Change (14) 976-982
Mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC) constitutes a major fraction of global soil carbon and is assumed less sensitive to climate than particulate organic carbon (POC) due to protection by minerals. Despite its importance for long-term carbon storage, the response of MAOC to changing climates in drylands, which cover more than 40%...
Freshwater biogeochemical hotspots: High primary production and ecosystem respiration in shallow waterbodies
Joseph Rabaey, Meredith Holgerson, David Richardson, Mikkel R. Andersen, Sheel Bansal, Lauren E Bortolotti, James Cotner, Daniel Hornbach, Kenneth T. Martinsen, Eric Moody, Olivia F. Schloegel
2024, Geophysical Research Letters (51)
Ponds, wetlands, and shallow lakes (collectively “shallow waterbodies”) are among the most biogeochemically active freshwater ecosystems. Measurements of gross primary production (GPP), respiration (R), and net ecosystem production (NEP) are rare in shallow waterbodies compared to larger and deeper lakes, which can bias our understanding of lentic ecosystem processes. In...
Modeling rare plant habitat together with public land managers using an iterative, coproduced process to inform decision-making on multiple-use public lands
Catherine S. Jarnevich, Sarah K. Carter, Zoe M. Davidson, Nicole D. MacPhee, Patrick J. Alexander, Brandon Hayes, Pairsa N. Belmaric, Benjamin R Harms
2024, Conservation Science and Practice (6)
Public lands across the United States are managed for multiple uses, resources, and values ranging from energy development to rare plant conservation. Intensified energy development and other land use changes across the Southwestern United States have increased the need for proactive management to mitigate impacts to rare plants. Habitat suitability...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) surveillance of the federally threatened Slender Chub (Erimystax cahni) in the Clinch River and Powell River
Robert T.R. Paine, Mark W. Rogers, Amanda E. Rosenberger
2024, Cooperator Science Series CSS-157-2024
The slender chub (Erimystax cahni) is a federally threatened fish native to and geographically restricted to eastern North America. More specifically, the Powell, Clinch, and lower Holston Rivers in Tennessee were historical collection areas. Habitat degradation from multiple sources, including surface mining, agriculture, dams, and urbanization, is associated with the...