Accuracies achieved in classifying five leading world crop types and their growth stages using optimal Earth Observing-1 Hyperion hyperspectral narrowbands on Google Earth Engine
Itiya Aneece, Prasad S. Thenkabail
2018, Remote Sensing (10) 1-29
As the global population increases, we face increasing demand for food and nutrition. Remote sensing can help monitor food availability to assess global food security rapidly and accurately enough to inform decision-making. However, advances in remote sensing technology are still often limited to multispectral broadband sensors. Although these sensors have...
Indicators of ecosystem structure and function for the Upper Mississippi River System
Nathan R. De Jager, James T. Rogala, Jason J. Rohweder, Molly Van Appledorn, Kristen L. Bouska, Jeffrey N. Houser, Kathi Jo Jankowski
2018, Open-File Report 2018-1143
This report documents the development of quantitative measures (indicators) of ecosystem structure and function for use in a Habitat Needs Assessment (HNA) for the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). HNAs are led periodically by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR) Program, which is the primary...
Best practices for elevation-based assessments of sea-level rise and coastal flooding exposure
Dean B. Gesch
2018, Frontiers in Earth Science (6) 1-19
Elevation data are critical for assessments of sea-level rise (SLR) and coastal flooding exposure. Previous research has demonstrated that the quality of data used in elevation-based assessments must be well understood and applied to properly model potential impacts. The cumulative vertical uncertainty of the input elevation data substantially controls the...
Communicating information on nature-related topics: Preferred information channels and trust in sources
Emily J. Wilkins, Holly M. Miller, Elizabeth Tilak, Rudy Schuster
2018, PLoS ONE (13)
How information is communicated influences the public’s environmental perceptions and behaviors. Information channels and sources both play an important role in the dissemination of information. Trust in a source is often used as a proxy for whether a particular piece of information is credible. To determine...
Identification of bees in southwest Idaho—A guide for beginners
Emily R. Sun, David S. Pilliod
2018, Circular 1448
This document was prepared to help scientists and the public, both of whom may not be familiar with bee taxonomy, learn how to practically identify bees in sagebrush steppe and shrubland habitats in southwest Idaho. We provide information to identify bees to the level of family and genus. A tentative...
Observer-free experimental evaluation of habitat and distance effects on the detection of anuran and bird vocalizations
Andrew R. MacLaren, Paul S. Crump, J. Andrew Royle, Michael R. J. Forstner
2018, Ecology and Evolution (8) 12991-13003
Acoustic surveys of vocalizing animals are conducted to determine density, distribution, and diversity. Acoustic surveys are traditionally performed by human listeners, but automated recording devices (ARD) are becoming increasingly popular. Signal strength decays, or attenuates, with increasing distance between source and receiver and some habitat types may differentially increase attenuation...
The metabolic regimes of 356 rivers in the United States
Alison P. Appling, Jordan S. Read, Luke A. Winslow, Maite Arroita, Emily S. Bernhardt, Natalie A. Griffiths, Robert O. Hall Jr., Judson W. Harvey, James B. Heffernan, Emily H. Stanley, Edward G. Stets, Charles B. Yackulic
2018, Scientific Data (5)
A national-scale quantification of metabolic energy flow in streams and rivers can improve understanding of the temporal dynamics of in-stream activity, links between energy cycling and ecosystem services, and the effects of human activities on aquatic metabolism. The two dominant terms in aquatic metabolism, gross primary production (GPP) and aerobic...
Crop water productivity estimation with hyperspectral remote sensing
Michael Marshall, Itiya P. Aneece, Daniel Foley, Cai Xueliang, Trent Biggs
2018, Book chapter, Hyperspectral remote sensing of vegetation: Advanced applications in remote Sensing of agricultural crops and natural vegetation
Crop water productivity (CWP) is the ratio of accumulated crop biomass or yield (Y) to the water utilized to produce it, which is typically estimated using transpiration (ETC). CWP is an important metric to test and monitor water-saving strategies in agroecosystems across the globe. Red and near-infrared broadbands have been...
Agricultural conservation practice implementation in the Chesapeake Bay watershed supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
W. Dean Hively, Olivia H. Devereux, Jennifer L. D. Keisman
2018, Data Series 1102
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides cost-share funding and technical assistance to support the implementation of agricultural conservation practices on farms throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Conservation implementation has been substantial in the time period for which digital records are available (from 2007 through 2017). Farmer participation in USDA...
Root endophytes and invasiveness: no difference between native and non‐native Phragmites in the Great Lakes Region
Wesley A. Bickford, Deborah E. Goldberg, Kurt P. Kowalski, Donald R. Zak
2018, Ecosphere (9) 1-14
Microbial interactions could play an important role in plant invasions. If invasive plants associate with relatively more mutualists or fewer pathogens than their native counterparts, then microbial communities could foster plant invasiveness. Studies examining the effects of microbes on invasive plants commonly focus on a single microbial group (e.g., bacteria)...
U-Pb geochronology and tectonic implications of a Silurian ash in the Farewell Terrane, Alaska
Dwight Bradley, Julie A. Dumoulin, Dan B. Bradley
Julie A. Dumoulin, editor(s)
2018, Professional Paper 1814-F
The Farewell terrane is an exotic continental fragment in interior Alaska that during the early Paleozoic was the site of a passive margin. We report a 238U/206Pb zircon age of 432.9±3.0 Ma from a Farewell terrane ash in Mt. McKinley quadrangle, Alaska. This age overlaps with prominent detrital zircon age...
Analysis ready data: Enabling analysis of the Landsat archive
John L. Dwyer, David P. Roy, Brian Sauer, Calli B. Jenkerson, Hankui K. Zhang, Leo Lymburner
2018, Remote Sensing (10)
Data that have been processed to allow analysis with a minimum of additional user effort are often referred to as Analysis Ready Data (ARD). The ability...
Building back bigger in hurricane strike zones
Eli D. Lazarus, Patrick W. Limber, Evan B. Goldstein, Rosie Dodd, Scott B. Armstrong
2018, Nature Sustainability (1) 759-762
Despite decades of regulatory efforts in the United States to decrease vulnerability in developed coastal zones, exposure of residential assets to hurricane damage is increasing — even in places where hurricanes have struck before. Comparing plan-view footprints of individual residential buildings before and long after major hurricane strikes, we find...
Wildlife underpass use and environmental impact assessment: A southern California case study
Travis Longcore, Lindsay Almaleh, Brittany Chetty, Kathryn Francis, Robert Freidin, Ching-Sheng Huang, Brooke Pickett, Diane Schreck, Brooke Scruggs, Elise Shulman, Alissa Swauger, Alison Tashnek, Michael Wright, Erin E. Boydston
2018, Cities and the Environment (11)
Environmental planners often rely on transportation structures (i.e., underpasses, bridges) to provide connectivity for animals across developed landscapes. Environmental assessments of predicted environmental impacts from proposed developments often rely on literature reviews or other indirect measures to establish the importance of wildlife crossings. Literature-based evaluations of wildlife crossings may not...
Canid vs. canid: Insights into coyote–dog encounters from social media
Erin E. Boydston, Eric S. Abelson, Ari Kazanjian, Daniel T. Blumstein
2018, Human-Wildlife Interactions (12) 233-242
While the relationship between coyotes (Canis latrans) and house cats (Felis catus) may be characterized as one between predators and their prey, coyote interactions with domestic dogs (C. lupus familiaris) appear to be more varied and may include behaviors associated with canid sociality. While encounters between coyotes and dogs are...
Eco‐evolutionary rescue promotes host–pathogen coexistence
Graziella V. DiRenzo, Elise F. Zipkin, Evan H. Campbell Grant, J. Andrew Royle, Ana V. Longo, Kelly R. Zamudio, Karen R. Lips
2018, Ecological Applications (28) 1948-1962
Emerging infectious pathogens are responsible for some of the most severe host mass mortality events in wild populations. Yet, effective pathogen control strategies are notoriously difficult to identify, in part because quantifying and forecasting pathogen spread and disease dynamics is challenging. Following an outbreak, hosts must cope with the presence...
Raptor selection of captive reared and released Galliform birds
R. Perkins, Clint W. Boal, C.B. Dabbert
2018, Wildlife Society Bulletin (42) 713-715
Captive rearing and release of birds in the order Galliformes remains a popular management tactic despite low survival rates. We investigated avian predator selection of captive‐reared northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) as a potential driver of their high mortality. We simulated avian predator hunts on a flushing pair of bobwhites during...
Will increased storm surge frequency impact food availability for Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) at the beginning of fall migration?
R.T. Churchwell, S. Kendall, S.C. Brown, Abby Powell
2018, Wader Study (125) 195-204
Hatch-year Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) use river deltas along the Beaufort Sea as their first stops during fall migration. However, these sites are subject to extreme changes in water levels that affect available foraging habitat. We examined relationships between timing of fall migration and storm surges, with respect to forage...
Projected changes in climate and physical processes
Patricia R. Butler-Leopold, Louis R. Iverson, Frank R. Thompson III, Leslie A. Brandt, Stephen D. Handler, Maria K. Janowiak, P. Danielle Shannon, Christopher W. Swanston, Scott Bearer, Alexander Bryan, Kenneth L. Clark, Greg Czarnecki, Philip DeSenze, William D. Dijak, Jacob S. Fraser, Paul F. Gugger, Andrea Hille, Justin Hynicka, Claire A. Jantz, Matthew C. Kelly, Katrina M. Krause, Inga P. La Puma, Deborah Landau, Richard G. Lathrop Jr., Laura P. Leites, Evan Madlinger, Stephen N. Matthews, Gulnihal Ozbay, Matthew P. Peters, Anantha Prasad, David A. Schmit, Collin Shephard, Rebecca Shirer, Nicholas S. Skowronski, Al Steele, Susan Stout, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, John Thompson, Richard M. Turcotte, David A. Weinstein, Alfonso Yanez
2018, Book chapter, General Technical Report NRS-181, Mid-Atlantic forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: A report from the Mid-Atlantic Climate Change Response Framework project
In Chapter 3, we examined how climate has changed in the Mid-Atlantic region during the past century. This chapter examines how climate is expected to change during the 21st century, including changes in extreme weather events and other climaterelated processes. General circulation models, also called global climate models (GCMs), are...
On the intensity of the magnetic superstorm of September 1909
Jeffrey J. Love, Hisashi Hayakawa, Edward W. Cliver
2018, Space Weather (17) 37-45
Analysis is made of solar observations and ground‐based magnetometer data recording space weather before and during the magnetic superstorm of 25 September 1909. From these data, it is inferred that the storm was initiated by an interplanetary coronal‐mass ejection having a mean Sun‐to‐Earth velocity of ~1,679 km/s. The...
IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements and Isotopes (IPTEI) for the education community (IUPAC Technical Report)
Norman E. Holden, Tyler B. Coplen, J.K. Bohlke, Lauren V. Tarbox, Jacqueline Benefield, John R. de Laeter, Peter G. Mahaffy, Glenda O’Connor nee Singleton, Etienne Roth, Dorothy Tepper, Thomas Walczyk, Michael E. Wieser, Shigekazu Yoneda
2018, Pure and Applied Chemistry (90) 1833-2092
The IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) Periodic Table of the Elements and Isotopes (IPTEI) was created to familiarize students, teachers, and non-professionals with the existence and importance of isotopes of the chemical elements. The IPTEI is modeled on the familiar Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements. The...
Evaluation of whole-water churn splitters for suspended-sediment sample collection and analysis
Miya N. Barr
2018, Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5126
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects a wide range of whole-water samples to test for the many physical and chemical constituents that represent stream conditions at the time of sampling to assess the quality of the Nation’s waters. During sampling efforts, in which a suspended-sediment concentration is one result among...
An integrated population model for greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in the bi-state distinct population segment, California and Nevada, 2003–17
Steven R. Mathews, Peter S. Coates, Brian G. Prochazka, Mark A. Ricca, Mary B. Meyerpeter, Shawn P. Espinosa, Sherri Lisius, Scott C. Gardner, David J. Delehanty
2018, Open-File Report 2018-1177
The Bi-State Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus, hereinafter “sage-grouse”) occupies parts of Alpine, Mono, and Inyo Counties in California, and parts of Douglas, Esmeralda, Lyon, Carson City, and Mineral Counties in Nevada and was proposed for listing as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by...
Characterizing toxicity of metal‐contaminated sediments from the Upper Columbia River, Washington, USA, to benthic invertebrates
John M. Besser, Jeffery A. Steevens, James L. Kunz, William G. Brumbaugh, Christopher G. Ingersoll, Stephen E. Cox, Christopher A. Mebane, Laurie S. Balistrieri, Jesse A. Sinclair, Donald D. MacDonald
2018, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (37) 3102-3114
Sediments from the Upper Columbia River, Washington, USA, are contaminated with metals from smelting operations. We conducted short‐term and long‐term tests with the midge Chironomus dilutus and the amphipod Hyalella azteca and short‐term tests with the freshwater mussel Lampsilis siliquoidea with 54 sediments from the Upper Columbia River to characterize thresholds for toxicity of metals to...
Population viability analyses for three Macrhybopsis spp. of the Lower Missouri River
Janice L. Albers, Mark L. Wildhaber, Nicholas S. Green
2018, Journal of Applied Ichthyology (34) 1285-1292
Recent declines in three species of chubs that inhabit the lower Missouri River (shoal chub M. hyostoma, sicklefin chub M. meeki and sturgeon chub M. gelida) have become a concern in the management of their own populations and the endangered pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) that feeds on them. These chub populations encounter threats from...
