Feedbacks: A new synthesis of causal loops across ecology
Donald L. DeAngelis, Linhao Xu
2024, Ecography (2024)
Feedbacks are the basic linkages of living systems. In organisms, they regulate the processes of growth and homeostasis, as well as their interactions with their world. Feedback, which Judson (1980) called ‘one of the chief themes of scientific understanding,' is equally important in ecological systems. The ecological literature is rich...
Predictor importance in habitat suitability models for invasive terrestrial plants
Demetra A. Williams, Keana S. Shadwell, Ian Pearse, Janet S. Prevey, Peder Engelstad, Grace Henderson, Catherine S. Jarnevich
2024, Diversity and Distributions (30)
AimDue to the socioeconomic and environmental damages caused by invasive species, predicting the distribution of invasive plants is fundamental for effectively targeting management efforts. A habitat suitability model (HSM) is a powerful tool to predict potential habitat of invasive species to help guide the early detection of...
Utilization of stochastic ground motion simulations for scenario-based performance assessment of geo-structures
M. Amin Hariri-Ardebili, Sanaz Rezaeian
2024, Reliability Engineering and System Safety (RESS) (251)
Probabilistic seismic performance assessments of engineered structures can be highly sensitive to the seismic input excitation and its variability. In the present study, the scenario-based performance assessment recommended by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) P-58 guidelines is adopted to estimate seismic fragility of concrete dams for various seismic hazard scenarios....
Spatio-temporal ecological models via physics-informed neural networks for studying chronic wasting disease
Juan Francisco Mandujano Reyes, Ting Fung Ma, Ian P. McGahan, Daniel J. Storm, Daniel P. Walsh, Jun Zhu
2024, Spatial Statistics (62)
To mitigate the negative effects of emerging wildlife diseases in biodiversity and public health it is critical to accurately forecast pathogen dissemination while incorporating relevant spatio-temporal covariates. Forecasting spatio-temporal processes can often be improved by incorporating scientific knowledge about the dynamics of the process using physical models. Ecological diffusion equations...
Influence of dams on sauger population structure and hybridization with introduced walleye
William C. Rosenthal, Elizabeth G. Mandeville, Ashleigh Pilkerton, Paul C. Gerrity, Joseph A. Skorupski, Annika W. Walters, Catherine E. Wagner
2024, Article
Dams have negatively affected freshwater biodiversity throughout the world. These negative effects tend to be exacerbated for aquatic taxa with migratory life histories, and for taxa whose habitat is fundamentally altered by the formation of large reservoirs. Sauger (Sander candadensis; Percidae), large-bodied migratory fishes native to North America, have seen...
Experimental assessment of egg mat gear retention and collection efficacy
Madeline Grace Tomczak, Robin L. DeBruyne, Brian Schmidt, Dustin Bowser, Jason L. Fischer, Gregory W. Kennedy, Nicole R. King, Christine M. Mayer, Edward F. Roseman
2024, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (15) 289-299
Assessment of egg deposition is widely used to provide an index of spawning efforts for lithophilic spawning fishes. However, little is known about the collection efficacy and bias of fish egg collection methods. We conducted a two-phased study consisting of a simulated-river...
Multi-decadal vegetation transformations of a New Mexico ponderosa pine landscape after severe fires and aerial seeding
Andreas Paul Wion, Jens T. Stevens, Kay Beeley, Rebecca Oertel, Ellis Margolis, Craig D. Allen
2024, Ecological Applications (34)
Wildfires and climate change are having transformative effects on vegetation composition and structure, and post-fire management may have long-lasting impacts on ecosystem reorganization. Post-fire aerial seeding treatments are commonly used to reduce runoff and soil erosion, but little is known about how seeding treatments affect native vegetation recovery over long...
Post-fire sediment yield from a central California watershed: Field measurements and validation of the WEPP model
Amy E. East, Joshua B. Logan, Helen Willemien Dow, Douglas P. Smith, Pat Iampietro, Jonathan A. Warrick, Thomas Lorenson, Leticia Hallas, Benjamin Kozlowicz
2024, Earth and Space Science (11)
In a warming climate, an intensifying fire regime and higher likelihood of extreme rain are expected to increase watershed sediment yield in many regions. Understanding regional variability in landscape response to fire and post-fire rainfall is essential for managing water resources and infrastructure. We measured sediment yield...
The influence of vesicularity on grain morphology in basaltic pyroclasts from Mauna Loa and Kīlauea volcanoes
Kira van Helden, Johanne Schmith, Drew T. Downs
2024, Journal of Applied Volcanology (13)
Vesicularity of individual pyroclasts from airfall tephra deposits is an important parameter that is commonly measured at basaltic volcanoes. Conventional methods used to determine pyroclast vesicularity on a large number of clasts has the potential to be time consuming, particularly when rapid analysis is required. Here...
Integrating depth measurements from gaging stations with image archives for spectrally based remote sensing of river bathymetry
Carl J. Legleiter, Brandon Overstreet, Paul J. Kinzel
2024, Water Resources Research (60)
Remote sensing can be an effective tool for mapping river bathymetry, but the need for direct measurements to calibrate image-derived depth estimates impedes broader application of this approach. One way to circumvent the need for field campaigns dedicated to calibration is to capitalize upon existing data. In...
A predictive analysis of water use for Providence, Rhode Island
Catherine A. Chamberlin
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5052
To explain the drivers of historical water use in the public water systems (PWSs) that serve populations in Providence, Rhode Island, and surrounding areas, and to forecast future water use, a machine-learning model (cubist regression) was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with Providence Water to model daily...
A global assessment of SAOCOM-1 L-band stripmap data for InSAR characterization of volcanic, tectonic, cryospheric, and anthropogenic deformation
Francisco Delgado, Tara Shreve, Sven Borgstrom, Pablo Le’on-Ibanez, Joaqu’in Castillo, Michael P. Poland
2024, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (62)
SAOCOM-1 is an L-band (23.5 cm) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation made up of two satellites launched in 2018 and 2020 by Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE, Argentina). In this contribution, we present a global summary of interferometric SAR (InSAR) observations of ground deformation with SAOCOM-1 stripmap data for...
Control of introduced American bullfrogs and support of Chiricahua leopard frog conservation in southeast Arizona
Javan Mathias Bauder, Chris L. Prewitt
2024, Cooperator Science Series CSS-156-2024
1. This report summaries field surveys conducted during July 2023 through April 2024 to control introduced American bullfrogs (Lithobates [Rana] catesbeianus; hereafter bullfrog) and support Chiricahua leopard frog (Lithobates [Rana] chiricahuensis) conservation in southeast Arizona. We conducted 394 field surveys across 141 sites in Chiricahua leopard frog Recovery Units 1...
Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false-positive N-mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends
Bradley James Udell, Bethany Straw, Susan C. Loeb, Kathryn Irvine, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Cori Lausen, Jonathan D. Reichard, Jeremy T.H. Coleman, Paul M. Cryan, Winifred F. Frick, Brian Reichert
2024, Ecological Monographs (94)
Estimating the abundance of unmarked animal populations from acoustic data is challenging due to the inability to identify individuals and the need to adjust for observation biases including detectability (false negatives), species misclassification (false positives), and sampling exposure. Acoustic surveys conducted along mobile transects were designed to avoid counting individuals...
The effects of flow extremes on native and non-native stream fishes in Puerto Rico
B. J. E. Myers, A. C. Engman, A. Ramírez, A. Torres-Molinari, Abigail Lynch, Mitchell J. Eaton, P. B. Cooney, T. J. Kwak
2024, Freshwater Biology (69) 1292-1306
Globally, freshwater fishes are among the taxa most vulnerable to climate change but are generally understudied in tropical island ecosystems where climate change is predicted to alter the intensity, frequency and duration of extreme flow events. These changes may impact stream ecosystems and native and non-native biota in complex...
Connecting conservation practices to local stream health in the Chesapeake Bay watershed
Gregory E. Noe, Paul L. Angermeier, Larry B. Barber, Joe Buckwalter, Matthew J. Cashman, Olivia Devereux, Thomas Rossiter Doody, Sally Entrekin, Rosemary Margaret Fanelli, Nathaniel P. Hitt, Molly Elizabeth Huber, Jeramy Roland Jasmann, Kelly O. Maloney, Tristan Gregory Mohs, Sergio Sabat-Bonilla, Kelly Smalling, Tyler Wagner, John C. Wolf, Kenneth Hyer
2024, Fact Sheet 2024-3030
The Chesapeake Bay Partnership is implementing conservation practices (CPs) throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed to reduce nutrient and sediment delivery to the Bay. This study intends to provide an integrated and detailed understanding of how local streams respond to these CP-driven management efforts.Key issue: To what extent do CPs positively...
Sixty-fifth supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s check-list of North American birds
R. Terry Chesser, Shawn Billerman, Kevin J Burns, Carla Cicero, Jon L. Dunn, Blanca Hernandez-Banos, Rosa Alicia Jimenez, Oscar W. Johnson, Andrew W. Kratter, Nicholas Mason, Pamela Ramussen, J.V. Remsen Jr.
2024, Ornithology (141)
This is the 24th supplement since publication of the 7th edition of the Check-list of North American Birds (American Ornithologists’ Union [AOU] 1998). It summarizes decisions made between April 25, 2023 and April 30, 2024 by the American Ornithological Society’s (formerly American Ornithologists’ Union)...
Tire-derived contaminants 6PPD and 6PPD-Q: Analysis, sample handling, and reconnaissance of United States stream exposures
Rachael F. Lane, Kelly Smalling, Paul M. Bradley, Justin Blaine Greer, Stephanie E. Gordon, John Hansen, Dana W. Kolpin, Andrew R. Spanjer, Jason R. Masoner
2024, Chemosphere (363)
The environmental ubiquity of tire and road wear particles (TRWP) underscores the need to understand the occurrence, persistence, and environmental effects of tire-related chemicals in aquatic ecosystems. One such chemical is 6PPD-quinone (6PPD-Q), a transformation product of the tire antioxidant 6PPD. In urban stormwater runoff 6PPD-Q can exceed acute toxicity thresholds for several salmonid species and is being implicated...
Interactive effects of salinity and hydrology on radial growth of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich.) in coastal Louisiana, USA
Richard Day, Andrew From, Darren Johnson, Ken Krauss
2024, Forests (15)
Tidal freshwater forests are usually located at or above the level of mean high water. Some Louisiana coastal forests are below mean high water, especially bald cypress (Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich.) forests because flooding has increased due to the combined effects of global sea level rise and local subsidence. In...
Mitigating risk: Predicting H5N1 avian influenza spread with an empirical model of bird movement
Fiona McDuie, Cory T. Overton, Austen Lorenz, Elliott Matchett, Andrea Mott, Desmond Alexander Mackell, Josh T. Ackerman, Susan E.W. De La Cruz, Vijay P. Patil, Diann Prosser, John Y. Takekawa, Dennis L. Orthmeyer, Maurice E. Pitesky, Samuel L. Diaz-Munoz, Brock M. Riggs, Joseph Gendreau, Eric T. Reed, Mark J. Petrie, Chris K. Williams, Jeffrey J. Buler, Matthew J. Hardy, Brian S. Ladman, Pierre Legagneux, Joel Bety, Philippe J. Thomas, Jean Rodrigue, Josee Lefebvre, Michael L. Casazza
2024, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
Understanding timing and distribution of virus spread is critical to global commercial and wildlife biosecurity management. A highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIv) global panzootic, affecting ~600 bird and mammal species globally and over 83 million birds across North America (Dec 2023), poses a serious global threat to animals and...
Upland Yedoma taliks are an unpredicted source of atmospheric methane
Katey M. Walter Anthony, Nicholas Hasson, Colin W. Edgar, Orit Sivan, Effrat Eliani-Russak, Oded Bergman, Burke J. Minsley, Stephanie R. James, Neal J. Pastick, Alexander Kholodov, Sergey Zimov, Eugenie Euskirchen, Marion S. Bret-Harte, Guido Grosse, Moritz Langer, Jan Nitzbon
2024, Nature Communications (15)
Landscape drying associated with permafrost thaw is expected to enhance microbial methane oxidation in arctic soils. Here we show that ice-rich, Yedoma permafrost deposits, comprising a disproportionately large fraction of pan-arctic soil carbon, present an alternate trajectory. Field and laboratory observations indicate that talik (perennially thawed soils in permafrost) development...
Challenges of implementing a multi-agency monitoring and adaptive management strategy for federally threatened Chinook salmon and steelhead trout during and after dam removal in the Elwha River
Roger J. Peters, Joseph H. Anderson, Jeffrey J. Duda, Michael L. McHenry, George Pess, Samuel J. Brenkman, Jeffery R. Johnson, Martin C. Liermann, Keith Denton, Matthew M. Beirne, Patrick Crain, Heidi A. Connor
2024, Frontiers in Environmental Science (12)
Adaptive management, a process of planning, implementing, and evaluating management strategies, is often recommended for monitoring ecological systems. However, few examples of successful implementation and retrospective case studies exist. We provide a case study of adaptively managing hatchery-assisted protection and recovery for Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and winter steelhead trout...
Discovery of giant and conventional magnetofossils bookending Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2
Courtney L. Wagner, Ioan Lascu, Jean Self-Trail, Tim Gooding, Kenneth J.T. Livi, Gianna Greger, Kristina Frank Gardner, Jody Brae Wycech, Mark F. Dreier, Tom Oliver
2024, Communications Earth & Environment (5)
Conventional magnetofossils are the remains of magnetotactic bacteria and giant magnetofossils are the remains of iron biomineralizing organisms that have not yet been identified. We report the oldest robust conventional and giant magnetofossil records, ~97 Ma, from marine sediments drilled in Holland Park, Virginia, USA. The Holland...
Risk of invasive waterfowl interaction with poultry production: Understanding potential for avian pathogen transmission via species distribution models
Reilly T. Jackson, Percival M. Marshall, Chris Burkhart, Julia Schneck, Grant Kelly, Caleb Powell Roberts
2024, Biological Invasions (14)
Recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have devastated poultry production across the United States, with more than 77 million birds culled in 2022–2024 alone. Wild waterfowl, including various invasive species, host numerous pathogens, including highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV), and have been implicated...
Biodiversity promotes urban ecosystem functioning
Sarah R. Weiskopf, Susannah B. Lerman, Forest Isbell, Toni Lyn Morelli
2024, Ecography (2024)
The proportion of people living in urban areas is growing globally. Understanding how to manage urban biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and ecosystem services is becoming more important. Biodiversity can increase ecosystem functioning in non-urban systems. However, few studies have reviewed the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem...
