Weather events influence survival and recruitment of Coereba flaveola (Bananaquit) in the Caribbean
Clint W. Boal, Brent D. Bibles
2025, Ornithology (142)
The West Indies is considered a biodiversity hotspot and a priority for ecological conservation efforts. Understanding how environmental conditions influence the survival of resident avifauna is an important information need given the predicted increases in drought and the frequency and intensity of severe storms in the region. Throughout much of...
EthoCRED: A framework to guide reporting and evaluation of the relevance and reliability of behavioural ecotoxicity studies
Michael G. Bertram, Marlene Agerstrand, Eli S.J. Thore, Joel Allen, Sigal Balshine, Jack A. Brand, Bryan W. Brooks, ZhiChao Dang, Sabine Duquesne, Alex T. Ford, Frauke Hoffmann, Henner Hollert, Stefanie Jacob, Werner Kloas, Nils Kluver, Jim Lazorchak, Mariana Ledesma, Gerd Maack, Erin L. Macartney, Jake M. Martin, Steven D. Melvin, Marcus Michelangeli, Silvia Mohr, Stephanie Padilla, Gregory G. Pyle, Minna Saaristo, Rene Sahm, Els Smit, Jeffery A. Steevens, Sanne van den Berg, Laura E. Vossen, Donald Wlodkowic, Bob B.M. Wong, Michael Ziegler, Tomas Brodin
2025, Biological Reviews (100) 556-585
Behavioural analysis has been attracting significant attention as a broad indicator of sub-lethal toxicity and has secured a place as an important subdiscipline in ecotoxicology. Among the most notable characteristics of behavioural research, compared to other established approaches in sub-lethal ecotoxicology (e.g. reproductive and developmental bioassays), are the wide range...
Multiscale processes drive formation of logjam habitats and use by juvenile Chinook salmon across a boreal stream network in Alaska
Charles N. Cathcart, Jeffrey A. Falke, Jimmy Fox, Robert Henszey, Katherine Lininger
2025, River Research and Applications (41) 593-608
Boreal forest streams are characterized by large volumes of instream wood, yet the relationship between logjams and Pacific salmon productivity remains underqualified. We located logjams (n = 427) within the distribution of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the Chena River, Alaska (Yukon River tributary) and measured dimensions, classified formative process, and snorkel-sampled...
Geologic input databases for the 2025 Puerto Rico – U.S. Virgin Islands National Seismic Hazard Model update: Crustal faults component
Jessica Ann Thompson Jobe, Richard W. Briggs, Uri S. ten Brink, Thomas L. Pratt, K. Stephen Hughes, Alexandra Elise Hatem, Christopher DuRoss, Nadine G. Reitman, Julie A. Herrick, Sylvia R. Nicovich, Camille Collett, Katherine M. Scharer, Stephen B. DeLong
2025, Seismological Research Letters (96) 1018-1044
The last National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (PRVI) was published in 2003. In advance of the 2025 PRVI NSHM update, we created three geologic input databases to summarize new onshore and offshore fault source information in the northern Caribbean region between 62°–70°...
Evaluation of an open earthquake early warning system in Mexico, and laboratory tests of their sensors
Vaclav Kuna, Adam T. Ringler, Diego Melgar
2025, Seismological Research Letters (96) 980-989
Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) accelerometers are useful for seismological and engineering applications because of their ability to record unsaturated large seismic signals. Recent advances in MEMS technologies enable the design of instruments with improved capabilities that also allow the recording of small signals....
Implementation of controlled floods for sediment management on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon under aridification
Paul E. Grams, David J. Topping, Gerard Lewis Salter, Katherine Anne Chapman, Robert B. Tusso, Erich R. Mueller
2025, River Research and Applications (41) 334-348
In addition to supplying water for agriculture, cities, and industry, the Colorado River traverses the Colorado Plateau, including several of the most unique and valued National Parks and Recreation Areas in the United States. Although the water needs of these landscapes were not considered...
Archive of morphological data for the Coregonus artedi species complex of the Great Lakes, Lake Nipigon and Great Slave Lake
Randy L. Eshenroder, Jonah Pollens-Dempsey, Thomas C. Pratt, Nicholas E. Mandrak, Thomas N. Todd, Timothy P. O’Brien, Scott M. Reid, Chris M. Olds, Whitney M. Woelmer, Yu-Chun Kao, Daniel L. Yule, Brian O’Malley, Paul Vecsei, Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Andrew M. Muir
2025, Laurentian
This publication is a user guide for an archive of morphological data recorded by various authors from North American ciscoes of the Coregonus artedi species complex (subfamily Coregoninae). The archive is accessible from the Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s (GLFC) server, is open access, and contains data for the Laurentian Great Lakes; Lake Nipigon,...
Macroinvertebrate community responses to disturbance in a fragmented river with contrasting legacies of alteration
Karen A. Baumann, Eric Arthur Scholl, Heidi M. Rantala, Matt R. Whiles
2025, River Research and Applications (41) 638-651
Flow is a critical factor determining the riverine ecosystem structure and function. Widespread hydrologic alteration, however, has impacted the ecological integrity of rivers in ways that are not well understood, including responses of biological communities to increasingly frequent and severe climatic disturbances. Our study...
Marshes to mangroves: Residential surveys reveal perceived wetland trade-offs for ecosystem services
Savannah H. Swinea, A. Randall Hughes, Michael Osland, Christine C. Shepard, Kalaina B. Thorne, Jahson B. Alemu I, Remi Bardou, Steven B. Scyphers
2025, Landscape and Urban Planning (253)
Coastal landscapes are rapidly changing due to both climate change and the decisions of waterfront landowners. For instance, the climate-driven encroachment of woody mangrove species into grassy marshland areas is predicted to impact coastal ecosystems, with consequences for the ecosystem services...
Loess records
Onn Crouvi, Jimin Sun, Denis-Didier Rousseau, Daniel R. Muhs, Marcelo Zarate, Samuel Marx
Scott A. Elias, editor(s)
2025, Book chapter, Encyclopedia of Quaternary sciences, 3rd edition
Loess is an eolian deposit, composed mainly of silt grains, which can be identified in the field as a distinct sedimentary body. It covers a significant portion of the land surface of the Earth and is one of the most important terrestrial archives of long-term dust deposition. Loess appears on almost...
Food for fish: Challenges and opportunities for quantifying foodscapes in river networks
Valerie Ouellet, Aimee H. Fullerton, Matthew J. Kaylor, Sean M. Naman, Ryan Bellmore, Jordan Rosenfeld, Gabriel Rossi, Seth White, Suzanne Rhoades, David Beauchamp, Martin C. Liermann, Peter Kiffney, Beth Sanderson
2025, WIREs Water (12)
Riverine fishes face many challenges including habitat degradation and climate change, which alter the productivity of the riverscapes in which fish live, reproduce, and feed. Understanding the watershed portfolio of foraging and growth opportunities that sustain productive and resilient fish populations is important for prioritizing conservation and restoration. However, the...
Enhanced microplastic fragmentation along human built structures in an urban waterway
Elisha Kelly Moore, Liam Pittman, Megan Heminghaus, Daniel Heintzelman, Amber Hatter
2025, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (22) 6401-6414
Plastic pollution and microplastic (MP, 1 µm to 5 mm) generation are growing problems affecting the global community and a wide range of natural and disturbed environments. Urban and suburban waterways are directly impacted by plastic pollution due to their proximity to population centers and many different types single use plastic waste...
Reply to “comment on ‘an evaluation of the timing accuracy of global and regional seismic stations and networks’ by Yang et al. (2021)” by Xin Zhang and Lianxing Wen
Yi Yang, Xiaodong Song, Adam T. Ringler
2025, Seismological Research Letters (96) 611-619
The finding of Yang et al. (2021; hereafter, YSR21) casts fundamental doubts on all the previous studies on the temporal changes of the inner core (IC) surface that are based on absolute arrival times, including Wen (2006; hereafter, WEN06) and its follow‐up studies. The reports of small...
Developing a range-wide sampling framework for endangered species: A case study with light-footed Ridgway’s rail
Bryan S. Stevens, Courtney J. Conway, Kimberley A. Sawyer, Lauren Kershek, Giselle Block, Sandra E. Hamilton, Rebecca Kolstrom
2025, Biodiversity and Conservation (33) 3703-3726
Monitoring provides the foundation for evaluating recovery of endangered species, yet many species lack monitoring programs designed to integrate a species’ unique attributes, specific monitoring objectives, and principles of statistical sampling theory. We developed a framework for monitoring and assessment of endangered light-footed Ridgway’s rails (Rallus obsoletus levipes) across their...
Quantitative support for the benefits of proactive management for wildlife disease control
Molly Bletz, Evan H. Campbell Grant, Graziella Vittoria DiRenzo
2025, Conservation Biology (39)
Finding effective pathogen mitigation strategies is one of the biggest challenges humans face today. In the context of wildlife, emerging infectious diseases have repeatedly caused widespread host morbidity and population declines of numerous taxa. In areas yet unaffected by a pathogen, a proactive management approach has the potential to minimize...
The impact of source time function complexity on stress drop estimates
James S. Neely, Sunyoung Park, Annemarie S. Baltay Sundstrom
2025, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (115) 1149-1161
Earthquake stress drop—a key parameter for describing the energetics of earthquake rupture—can be estimated in several different, but theoretically equivalent, ways. However, independent estimates for the same earthquakes sometimes differ significantly. We find that earthquake source complexity plays a significant role in...
Automated, near real-time ground-motion processing at the U.S. Geological Survey
Eric M. Thompson, Mike Hearne, Brad T. Aagaard, J.M. Rekoske, Charles Worden, Morgan P. Moschetti, Heather Elizabeth Hunsinger, Gabe C. Ferragut, Grace Alexandra Parker, James Andrew Smith, Kyle Ken Smith, Albert R. Kottke
2025, Seismological Research Letters (96) 538-553
We describe automated ground‐motion processing software named gmprocess that has been developed at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in support of near‐real‐time earthquake hazard products. Because of the open‐source development process, this software has benefitted from the involvement and contributions of a broad community and has been used for a...
Utility of an instantaneous salt dilution method for measuring streamflow in headwater streams
Karli M. Rogers, Jennifer H. Fair, Nathaniel P. Hitt, Karmann G. Kessler, Zachary A. Kelly, Martin A. Briggs
2025, Groundwater (63) 80-92
Streamflow records are biased toward large streams and rivers, yet small headwater streams are often the focus of ecological research in response to climate change. Conventional flow measurement instruments such as acoustic Doppler velocimeters (ADVs) do not perform well during low-flow conditions in small streams, truncating the development of rating...
Common-garden experiment reveals outbreeding depression and region-of-origin effects on reproductive success in a frequently translocated tortoise
Kevin J. Loope, J. Nicole DeSha, Matthew J. Aresco, Kevin T. Shoemaker, Elizabeth Ann Hunter
2025, Animal Conservation (28) 249-261
Human-mediated animal movement can expose wildlife populations to novel environments. Phenotypic plasticity can buffer against the challenges presented by novel environments, while adaptation to local ecosystems may limit resilience in novel ecosystems. Outbreeding depression during the mixing of disparate gene pools can also reduce reproductive success after long-distance movement. Here,...
eZ flow metrics: Using z-scores to estimate deviations from natural flow in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam
Emily C. Palmquist, Bridget Deemer, Anya Metcalfe, Theodore Kennedy, Lucas Bair, Helen C. Fairley, Paul E. Grams, Joel B. Sankey, Charles Yackulic
2025, River Research and Applications (41) 252-267
River flow patterns are primary drivers of lotic ecosystems, and hundreds of metrics have been developed to quantify flow attributes. Although existing metrics have been a powerful tool in designing environmental flows, they are often developed with specific resources in mind and are rarely directly comparable with each other (i.e.,...
Balancing ecology and practicality to rank waterbodies for preventative invasive species management
Caleb Powell Roberts, William E. Grant, Matthew L. Horton, Lindsey A.P. LaBrie, Miranda R. Peterson, Jane S. Rogosch, Hsiao-Hsuan Wang
2025, Ecological Solutions and Evidence (5)
‘Early detection and rapid response’ (EDRR) is the most successful framework for preventative invasive species management, but prioritizing localized EDRR actions with limited resources is challenging. An approach that ranks individual locations, such as waterbodies, for EDRR by combining an invasive species' establishment risk with the practicality of managing...
Climate-Smart Siting for renewable energy expansion
Uzma Ashraf, Toni Lyn Morelli, Adam B. Smith, Rebecca Hernandez
2025, iScience (27)
A massive expansion of renewable energy (RE) is underway to meet the world’s climate goals. Although RE serves to reduce threats from climate change, it can also pose threats to species whose current and future ranges intersect with RE installations. Here, we propose a “Climate-Smart Siting” framework for addressing potential...
How does the onset of offset influence geologic slip rates?
Alexandra Elise Hatem, Richard W. Briggs, Ryan D. Gold
2025, Seismological Research Letters (96) 363-376
Geologic slip rates are typically based on the displacement accrued by a geomorphic or stratigraphic feature and the age of the offset feature. Because slip rates are commonly calculated by dividing the displacement of a faulted marker by its age, they contain two open time intervals: the elapsed time between...
(Re)discovering the seismicity of Antarctica: A new seismic catalog for the southernmost continent
Andres F. Pena Castro, Brandon Schmandt, Jenny Sha Nakai, Richard C. Aster, Julien Chaput
2025, Seismological Research Letters (96) 576-594
We apply a machine learning (ML) earthquake detection technique on over 21 yr of seismic data from on‐continent temporary and long‐term networks to obtain the most complete catalog of seismicity in Antarctica to date. The new catalog contains 60,006 seismic events within the Antarctic continent for 1 January 2000–1 January...
Inconsistent transcriptomic responses to hexabromocyclododecane in Japanese quail: A comparative analysis of results from four different study designs
Paul Béziers, Elena Legrand, Emily Boulanger, Niladri Basu, Jessica Ewald, Paula F. P. Henry, Marcus Hecker, Jianguo Xia, Natalie Karouna-Renier, Doug Crump, Jessica A. Head
2025, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (44) 2524-2534
Efforts to use transcriptomics for toxicity testing have classically relied on the assumption that chemicals consistently produce characteristic transcriptomic signatures that are reflective of their mechanism of action. However, the degree to which transcriptomic responses are conserved across different test methodologies has seldom been explored. With increasing regulatory demand for...
