A biological condition gradient for Caribbean coral reefs: Part II. Numeric rules using sessile benthic organisms
Deborah L Santavy, Susan K Jackson, Benjamin Jessup, Christina Horstmann, Caroline Rogers, Ernesto Weil, Alina Szmant, David Cuevas Miranda, Brian K Walker, Christopher F.G. Jeffrey, David Ballantine, William S. Fisher, Randy Clark, Hector Ruiz Torres, Brandi Todd, Sandy Raimondo
2022, Ecological Indicators (135)
The Biological Condition Gradient (BCG) is a conceptual model used to describe incremental changes in biological condition along a gradient of increasing anthropogenic stress. As coral reefs collapse globally, scientists and managers are focused on how to sustain the crucial structure...
hical—The HiRISE radiometric calibration software developed within the ISIS3 planetary image processing suite
Kris J. Becker, Moses P. Milazzo, W. Alan Delamere, Kenneth E. Herkenhoff, Eric M. Eliason, Patrick S. Russell, Laszlo P. Keszthelyi, Alfred S. McEwen
2022, Techniques and Methods 7-C27
IntroductionThis report summarizes the software and algorithms that are used to calibrate images returned by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft. The instrument design and data processing methods are summarized below, followed by a description of relevant calibration data and details...
Geology and hydrogeology of the Yucaipa groundwater subbasin, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California
Geoffrey Cromwell, Jonathan C. Matti
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5129
The Yucaipa groundwater subbasin (referred to in this report as the Yucaipa subbasin) is located about 75 miles (mi) east of of Los Angeles and about 12 mi southeast of the City of San Bernardino. In the Yucaipa subbasin, as in much of southern California, limited annual rainfall and large...
Perils of life on the edge: Climatic threats to global diversity patterns of wetland macroinvertebrates
Luis B. Epele, Marta G. Grech, Emilio A. Williams-Subiza, Cristina Stenert, Kyle McLean, Hamish S. Greig, Leonardo Maltchik, Mateus M. Pires, Matthew S. Bird, Aurelie Boissezon, Dani Boix, Eliane Demierre, Patricia E. García, Stephanie Gascón, Michael Jeffries, Jamie M. Kneitel, Olga Loskutov, Luz M. Manzo, Gabriela Mataloni, Musa C. Mlambo, Beat Oertli, Jordi Sala, Erica E. Scheibler, Haitao Wu, Scott A Wissinger, Darold P. Batzer
2022, Science of the Total Environment (820)
Climate change is rapidly driving global biodiversity declines. How wetland macroinvertebrate assemblages are responding is unclear, a concern given their vital function in these ecosystems. Using a data set from 769 minimally impacted depressional wetlands across the globe (467 temporary and 302 permanent), we evaluated how temperature and precipitation (average,...
Experimental inoculation trial to determine the effects of temperature and humidity on White-nose Syndrome in hibernating bats
Winifred F. Frick, Emily R. Johnson, Tina L. Cheng, Julia S. Lankton, Robin Warne, Jason Dallas, Katy L. Parise, Jeffrey T. Foster, Justin G. Boyles, Liam P. McGuire
2022, Scientific Reports (12)
Disease results from interactions among the host, pathogen, and environment. Inoculation trials can quantify interactions among these players and explain aspects of disease ecology to inform management in variable and dynamic natural environments. White-nose Syndrome, a disease caused by the fungal pathogen, Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), has caused severe population declines of several...
Shifting precipitation regimes alter the phenology and population dynamics of low latitude ectotherms
Erica H Henry, Adam Terando, William F. Morris, Jaret C. Daniels, Nick M. Haddad
2022, Climate Change Ecology (3)
Predicting how species respond to changes in climate is critical to conserving biodiversity. Modeling efforts to date have largely centered on predicting the effects of warming temperatures on temperate species phenology. In and near the tropics, the effects of a warming planet on species phenology are more likely to be driven...
Sediment sources and sealed-pavement area drive polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and metal occurrence in urban streams
Peter C. Van Metre, Barbara Mahler, Sharon L. Qi, Allen C. Gellis, Christopher C. Fuller, Travis S. Schmidt
2022, Environmental Science and Technology (56) 1615-1626
Metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are common pollutants in urban streambed sediment, yet their occurrence is highly variable and difficult to predict. To investigate sources of PAHs and metals to streambed sediment, we sampled pavement dust, soil, and streambed sediment in 10 urban watersheds in three regions of the...
Soil moisture response to seasonal drought conditions and post-thinning forest structure
Adam Belmonte, Temuulen T. Sankey, Joel Biedermann, John B. Bradford, Thomas Kolb
2022, Ecohydrology (15)
Prolonged drought conditions in semi-arid forests can lead to widespread vegetation stress and mortality. However, the distribution of these effects is not spatially uniform. We measured soil water potential at high spatial and temporal resolution using 112 sensors distributed across a ponderosa pine forest in northern...
Integrating distance sampling survey data with population indices to separate trends in abundance and temporary immigration
Joshua H. Schmidt, Tammy L. Wilson, William L. Thompson, Buck A. Mangipane
2022, Journal of Wildlife Management (86)
Managers rely on accurate estimators of wildlife abundance and trends for management decisions. Despite the focus of contemporary wildlife science on developing methods to improve inference from wildlife surveys, legacy datasets often rely on index counts that lack information about the detection process. Data integration can be a useful tool...
Distribution and abundance of Least Bell’s Vireos (Vireo bellii pusillus) and Southwestern Willow Flycatchers (Empidonax traillii extimus) at the San Antonio Dam, Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties, California—2021 Data summary
Scarlett L. Howell, Barbara E. Kus
2022, Data Report 1148
Executive SummaryWe surveyed for Least Bell’s Vireos (Vireo bellii pusillus; vireo) and Southwestern Willow Flycatchers (Empidonax traillii extimus; flycatcher) at the San Antonio Dam near Upland, California, in 2021. Four vireo surveys were conducted between April 16 and July 15, 2021, and three flycatcher surveys were conducted between May 27...
Understanding sources and distribution of Escherichia coli at Lake St. Clair Metropark Beach, Macomb County, Michigan
Lisa R. Fogarty, Jessica A. Maurer, Ian M. Hyslop, Alexander R. Totten, Christopher M. Kephart, Angela K. Brennan
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5089
Lake St. Clair Metropark Beach (LSCMB) in Michigan is a public beach near the mouth of the Clinton River that has a history of beach closures for public health concerns. The Clinton River is designated as a Great Lakes Area of Concern, and the park has a Beneficial Use Impairment...
Eruption dynamics leading to a volcanic thunderstorm— The January 2020 eruption of Taal volcano, Philippines
Alexa R. Van Eaton, Cassandra M Smith, Michael J. Pavolonis, Ryan Said
2022, Geology (50) 491-495
Advances in global lightning detection have provided novel ways to characterize explosive volcanism. However, researchers are still at the early stages of understanding how volcanic plumes become electrified on different spatial and temporal scales. We deconstructed the phreatomagmatic eruption of Taal volcano (Philippines) on 12 January 2020 to investigate the...
No evidence for tephra in Greenland from the historic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE: Implications for geochronology and paleoclimatology
Gill Plunkett, Michael Sigl, Hans Schwaiger, Emma Tomlinson, Matt Toohey, Joseph R. McConnell, Jonathan R. Pilcher, Takeshi Hasegawa, Claus Siebe
2022, Climate of the Past (18) 45-65
Volcanic fallout in polar ice sheets provides important opportunities to date and correlate ice-core records as well as to investigate the environmental impacts of eruptions. Only the geochemical characterization of volcanic ash (tephra) embedded in the ice strata can confirm the source of the eruption, however, and is a requisite...
Characterization of ambient groundwater quality within a statewide, fixed-station monitoring network in Pennsylvania, 2015–19
Matthew D. Conlon, Joseph W. Duris
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5119
Pennsylvania leads the Nation in the number of individuals that use groundwater for private domestic water supply; more than 3 million rural and suburban Pennsylvania residents rely on private domestic supplies for drinking water. These supplies are not regulated nor routinely monitored; thus relevant groundwater-quality information is not widely available....
A pilot study to assess the influence of infiltrated stormwater on groundwater: Hydrology and trace organic contaminants
Sarah M. Elliott, Richard L. Kiesling, Andrew M. Berg, Heiko L. Schoenfuss
2022, Water Environment Research (94)
Underground infiltration basins (UIBs) mimic the natural hydrologic cycle by allowing stormwater to recharge local groundwater aquifers. However, little is known about the potential transport of organic contaminants to receiving groundwater. We conducted a pilot study in which we collected paired grab samples of stormwater runoff flowing into two UIBs...
Seismic background noise levels across the continental United States from USArray Transportable Array: The influence of geology and geography
Robert E. Anthony, Adam T. Ringler, David C. Wilson
2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (112) 646-668
Since 2004, the most complete estimate of background noise levels across the continental U.S. was attained using 61 broadband seismic stations to calculate power spectral density (PSD) probability density functions. To improve seismic noise estimates across the U.S., we examine vertical component seismic data from the EarthScope USArray Transportable Array...
The Coastal Imaging Research Network (CIRN)
Margaret L. Palmsten, Katherine L. Brodie
2022, Remote Sensing (3)
The Coastal Imaging Research Network (CIRN) is an international group of researchers who exploit signatures of phenomena in imagery of coastal, estuarine, and riverine environments. CIRN participants develop and implement new coastal imaging methodologies. The research objective of the group is to use imagery to gain a...
Decision analysis and CO2–Enhanced oil recovery development strategies
E. D. Attanasi, Philip A. Freeman
2022, Natural Resources Research (31) 735-749
This paper analyzes the relationship between actual reservoir conditions and predicted measures of performance of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (CO2–EOR) programs. It then shows how CO2–EOR operators might maximize the value of their projects by approaching implementation using a “flexible selective” pattern development strategy, where...
Estimating allowable take for an increasing bald eagle population in the United States
Guthrie S. Zimmerman, Brian Millsap, Fitsum Abadi, Jay V. Gedir, William L. Kendall, John R. Sauer
2022, Journal of Wildlife Management (86)
Effectively managing take of wildlife resulting from human activities poses a major challenge for applied conservation. Demographic data essential to decisions regarding take are often expensive to collect and are either not available or based on limited studies for many species. Therefore, modeling approaches...
Large-scale fire management restores grassland bird richness for a private lands ecoregion
Caleb Powell Roberts, R. Scholtz, D.T. Fogarty, D. Twidwell, T.L. Walker Jr.
2022, Ecological Solutions and Evidence (3)
Of all terrestrial biomes, grasslands are losing the most biodiversity the most rapidly, so there is a critical need to document and learn from large-scale restoration successes.In the Loess Canyons ecoregion of the Great Plains, USA, an association of private ranchers and natural resource agencies has led a multi-decadal,...
BIOTAS: BIOTelemetry Analysis Software, for the semi-automated removal of false positives from radio telemetry data
Kevin Nebiolo, Theodore R. Castro-Santos
2022, Animal Biotelemetry (10) 1-16
IntroductionRadio telemetry, one of the most widely used techniques for tracking wildlife and fisheries populations, has a false-positive problem. Bias from false-positive detections can affect many important derived metrics, such as home range estimation, site occupation, survival, and migration timing. False-positive removal processes have relied upon simple filters...
Primary deposition and early diagenetic effects on the high saturation accumulation of gas hydrate in a silt dominated reservoir in the Gulf of Mexico
Joel E. Johnson, Douglas R. MacLeod, Stephen C. Phillips, Marcie Phillips Purkey, David L. Divins
2022, Marine Geology (444) 1-22
On continental margins, high saturation gas hydrate systems (>60% pore volume) are common in canyon and channel environments within the gas hydrate stability zone, where reservoirs are dominated by coarse-grained, high porosity sand deposits. Recent studies, including the results presented here,...
Northern Cascadia Margin gas hydrates — Regional geophysical surveying, IODP drilling leg 311, and cabled observatory monitoring
Michael Riedel, Timothy S. Collett, Martin Scherwath, John W. Pohlman, Roy Hyndman, George Spence
Jurgen Mienert, Christian Berndt, Anne M. Trehu, Angelo Camerlenghi, Char-Shine Liu, editor(s)
2022, Book chapter, World atlas of submarine gas hydrates in continental margins
This article reviews extensive geophysical survey data, ocean drilling results and long-term seafloor monitoring that constrain the distribution and concentration of gas hydrates within the accretionary prism of the northern Cascadia subduction margin, located offshore Vancouver Island in Canada. Seismic surveys and geologic studies conducted since the 1980s...
Three scleral ossicles in the West African Denticle herring Denticeps clupeoides (Clupeiformes: Denticipitidae)
Kole M. Kubicek, Ralf Britz, Amanda K. Pinion, Luke Max Bower, Kevin W. Conway
2022, Journal of Fish Biology (100) 852-855
The eyes of teleostean fishes typically exhibit two ossifications, the anterior and posterior sclerotics, both associated with the scleral cartilage. The West African Denticle herring Denticeps clupeoides has three scleral ossifications, including the typical two associated with the scleral cartilage (anterior and posterior sclerotic) and a third ossification (Di Dario's ossicle), spatially...
Alaska North Slope terrestrial gas hydrate systems: Insights from scientific drilling
Timothy S. Collett, Ray M. Boswell, Margarita V. Zyrianova
Jurgen Mienert, Christian Berndt, Anne M. Trehu, Angelo Camerlenghi, Char-Shine Liu, editor(s)
2022, Book chapter, World atlas of submarine gas hydrates in continental margins
A wealth of information has been accumulated regarding the occurrence of gas hydrates in nature, leading to significant advancements in our understanding of the geologic controls on their occurrence in both the terrestrial and marine settings of the Arctic. Gas hydrate accumulations discovered in the Alaska North Slope...
