Iceberg calving as a primary source of regional‐scale glacier‐generated seismicity in the St. Elias Mountains, Alaska
Shad O’Neel, Christopher F. Larsen, Natalia Rupert, Roger Hansen
2010, Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface (115)
Since the installation of the Alaska Regional Seismic Network in the 1970s, data analysts have noted nontectonic seismic events thought to be related to glacier dynamics. While loose associations with the glaciers of the St. Elias Mountains have been made, no detailed study of the source locations has been undertaken....
Evidence of mating readiness in certain bats killed by wind turbines
Paul M. Cryan, Joel W. Jameson, Erin F. Baerwald, Craig K. R. Willis, Robert M.R. Barclay, Elise A. Snider, Elizabeth G. Crichton
2010, Conference Paper, North American Symposium on Bat Research: 40th Annual Meeting
Bats consistently die at wind turbines during late-summer and autumn. Migratory, tree-roosting species show increased susceptibility compared to other bats, yet the exact causes remain unknown. A hypothesized cause with strong conservation implications is that migratory tree bats die at turbines while seeking mates around tall tree like structures. In this...
Ospreys of the gulf of California: Ecology and conservation status
Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Daniel W. Anderson, Charles J. Henny, Roberto Carmona
R.C. Brusca, editor(s)
2010, Book chapter, The Gulf of California: Biodiversity and conservation
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Impact of harvest on survival of a heavily hunted game bird population
Virginie Rolland, J. A. Hostetler, Tommy C. Hines, H. Franklin Percival, Madan K. Oli
2010, Wildlife Research (37) 392-400
Context. Despite their economic importance and intensive management, many game bird species, including the northern bobwhite Colinus virginianus, are in decline. Declines may be explained, at least in part, by low survival due perhaps to poor habitat quality, high predation or excessive hunting pressure.Aims. This study sought to estimate and...
Recent advancements in amphibian ecotoxicology
Donald Sparling, Greg Linder, Christine A. Bishop, Sherry K. Krest
Donald W. Sparling, Greg Linder, Christine A. Bishop, Sherry K. Krest, editor(s)
2010, Book chapter, Ecotoxicology of amphibians and reptiles
When the first edition of Ecotoxicology of Amphibians and Reptiles was published in 2000, I reviewed the state of the literature from 1972 through 1998 (Sparling et al. 2000). That review covered 11 271 contaminant citations listed in Wildlife Review and Sports Fisheries Abstracts published by the US Fish and...
Status and trends of native birds in the Keauhou and Kilauea forest, Hawai`i Island
Richard J. Camp, James D. Jacobi, Thane K. Pratt, P. Marcos Gorresen, Tanya Rubenstein
2010, Technical Report HCSU-016
A Safe Harbor Agreement (SHA) is a voluntary arrangement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and non-Federal landowners to promote the protection, conservation, and recovery of listed species without imposing further land use restrictions on the landowners. Kamehameha Schools is considering entering into a SHA for their Keauhou and...
Persistent organic pollutants in the blood of free-ranging sea otters (Enhydra lutris ssp.) in Alaska and California
David A. Jessup, Christine K. Johnson, James Estes, Daphne Carlson-Bremer, Walter M. Jarman, Stacey Reese, Erin Dodd, M. T. Tinker, Michael H. Ziccardi
2010, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (46) 1214-1233
As part of tagging and ecologic research efforts in 1997 and 1998, apparently healthy sea otters of four age-sex classes in six locations in Alaska and three in California were sampled for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and other chemicals of ecologic or environmental concern (COECs). Published techniques for the detection...
Comparative analysis of the geological evolution of the northern and southern Appalachian orogen: Late Ordovician-Permian
J.P. Hibbard, C.R. van Staal, D.W. Rankin
2010, Memoir of the Geological Society of America (206) 51-69
Review of the major post-Middle Ordovician lithotectonic elements of the Appalachian orogen indicates that the middle to late Paleozoic geologic evolution of the Appalachian margin was less uniform than that of the early Paleozoic. Evolutionary divergence betweenthe northern and southern segments of the orogen started in the Late Ordovician to...
Conserving migratory land birds in the New World: Do we know enough?
John Faaborg, Richard T. Holmes, A.D. Anders, K.L. Bildstein, K.M. Dugger, S.A. Gauthreaux Jr., P. Heglund, K.A. Hobson, A.E. Jahn, Douglas H. Johnson, S.C. Latta, D.J. Levey, P.P. Marra, C.L. Merkord, E. Nol, S.I. Rothstein, T.W. Sherry, Sillett T. Scott, F. R. Thompson III, N. Warnock
2010, Ecological Applications (20) 398-418
Migratory bird needs must be met during four phases of the year: breeding season, fall migration, wintering, and spring migration; thus, management may be needed during all four phases. The bulk of research and management has focused on the breeding season, although several issues remain unsettled, including the spatial extent...
Food habits of stunted and non-stunted white perch (Morone americana)
N.J.C. Gosch, J.R. Stittie, K.L. Pope
2010, Journal of Freshwater Ecology (25) 31-39
We studied food habits of white perch (Morone americana) from two populations with different stable states (stunted [Branched Oak Lake, Nebraska] and non-stunted [Pawnee Lake, Nebraska]) to determine if change in food habits of white perch is likely to occur in situations where a stunted white perch population is altered...
Fuel buildup and potential fire behavior after stand-replacing fires, logging fire-killed trees and herbicide shrub removal in Sierra Nevada forests
Thomas W. McGinnis, Jon E. Keeley, Scott L. Stephens, Gary B. Roller
2010, Forest Ecology and Management (260) 22-35
Typically, after large stand-replacing fires in mid-elevation Sierra Nevada forests, dense shrub fields occupy sites formerly occupied by mature conifers, until eventually conifers overtop and shade out shrubs. Attempting to reduce fuel loads and expedite forest regeneration in these areas, the USDA Forest Service often disrupts this cycle by the...
Headwater streams and forest management: does ecoregional context influence logging effects on benthic communities?
R. Bruce Medhurst, Mark S. Wipfli, Chris Binckley, Karl Polivka, Paul F. Hessburg, R. Brion Salter
2010, Hydrobiologia (641) 71-83
Effects of forest management on stream communities have been widely documented, but the role that climate plays in the disturbance outcomes is not understood. In order to determine whether the effect of disturbance from forest management on headwater stream communities varies by climate, we evaluated benthic macroinvertebrate communities in 24...
Fire, flow and dynamic equilibrium in stream macroinvertebrate communities
R.S. Arkle, D. S. Pilliod, K. Strickler
2010, Freshwater Biology (55) 299-314
The complex effects of disturbances on ecological communities can be further complicated by subsequent perturbations within an ecosystem. We investigated how wildfire interacts with annual variations in peak streamflow to affect the stability of stream macroinvertebrate communities in a central Idaho wilderness, USA. We conducted a 4-year retrospective analysis of...
Post-construction monitoring of a Core-Loc™ breakwater using tripod-based LiDAR
Jessica H. Podoski, Gerald W. Bawden, Sandra Bond, Thomas D. Smith, James Foster
2010, Book chapter, Coasts, marine structures and breakwaters: Adapting to change
The goal of the technology application described herein is to determine whether breakwater monitoring data collected using Tripod (or Terrestrial) Light Detection and Ranging (T-LiDAR) can give insight into processes such as how Core-Loc™ concrete armour units nest following construction, and in turn how settlement affects armour layer stability, concrete...
A shallow subsurface controlled release facility in Bozeman, Montana, USA, for testing near surface CO2 detection techniques and transport models
L.H. Spangler, L.M. Dobeck, K.S. Repasky, A.R. Nehrir, S.D. Humphries, C.J. Keith, J.A. Shaw, J.H. Rouse, A.B. Cunningham, S.M. Benson, C.M. Oldenburg, J.L. Lewicki, A.W. Wells, J.R. Diehl, B.R. Strazisar, J.E. Fessenden, T.A. Rahn, J.E. Amonette, J.L. Barr, W.L. Pickles, J.D. Jacobson, E. A. Silver, E.J. Male, H.W. Rauch, K.S. Gullickson, R. Trautz, Yousif K. Kharaka, J. Birkholzer, L. Wielopolski
2010, Environmental Earth Sciences (60) 227-239
A controlled field pilot has been developed in Bozeman, Montana, USA, to study near surface CO2 transport and detection technologies. A slotted horizontal well divided into six zones was installed in the shallow subsurface. The scale and CO2 release rates were chosen to be relevant to developing monitoring strategies for...
Color imaging of Mars by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)
W. Alan Delamere, Livio L. Tornabene, Alfred S. McEwen, Kris J. Becker, James W. Bergstrom, Nathan T. Bridges, Eric M. Eliason, Dennis Gallagher, Kenneth E. Herkenhoff, Laszlo P. Keszthelyi, Sarah Mattson, Guy K. McArthur, Michael T. Mellon, Moses P. Milazzo, Patrick S. Russell, Nicolas Thomas
2010, Icarus (205) 38-52
HiRISE has been producing a large number of scientifically useful color products of Mars and other planetary objects. The three broad spectral bands, coupled with the highly sensitive 14 bit detectors and time delay integration, enable detection of subtle color differences. The very high spatial resolution of HiRISE can augment...
Incubating rainbow trout in soft water increased their later sensitivity to cadmium and zinc
Christopher A. Mebane, Daniel P. Hennessy, Frank S. Dillon
2010, Water, Air, & Soil Pollution (205) 245-250
Water hardness is well known to affect the toxicity of some metals; however, reports on the influence of hardness during incubation or acclimation on later toxicity to metals have been conflicting. We incubated rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) near the confluence of two streams, one with soft water and...
A Bayesian approach to identifying structural nonlinearity using free-decay response: Application to damage detection in composites
J.M. Nichols, W.A. Link, K.D. Murphy, C.C. Olson
2010, Journal of Sound and Vibration (329) 2995-3007
This work discusses a Bayesian approach to approximating the distribution of parameters governing nonlinear structural systems. Specifically, we use a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method for sampling the posterior parameter distributions thus producing both point and interval estimates for parameters. The method is first used to identify both linear and...
Eolian transport of geogenic hexavalent chromium to ground water
W.W. Wood, D. Clark, J. L. Imes, T.B. Councell
2010, Ground Water (48) 19-29
A conceptual model of eolian transport is proposed to address the widely distributed, high concentrations of hexavalent chromium (Cr+6) observed in ground water in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Concentrations (30 to more than 1000 μg/L Cr+6) extend over thousands of square kilometers of ground water systems....
Environmental conditions and biotic interactions influence ecosystem structure and function in a drying stream
J.P. Ludlam, D.D. Magoulick
2010, Hydrobiologia (644) 127-137
Benthic consumers influence stream ecosystem structure and function, but these interactions depend on environmental context. We experimentally quantified the effects of central stoneroller minnows (Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque) and Meek's crayfish (Orconectes meeki meeki (Faxon)) on benthic communities using electric exclusion quadrats in Little Mulberry Creek before (June) and during (August)...
Increase in lake trout reproduction in Lake Huron following the collapse of alewife: Relief from thiamine deficiency or larval predation?
J.D. Fitzsimons, S. Brown, L. Brown, D. Honeyfield, J. He, J.E. Johnson
2010, Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management (13) 73-84
In the Great Lakes there is still uncertainty as to the population level effects of a thiamine deficiency on salmonines caused by high consumption of alewives Alosa pseudoharengus. A resurgence of lake trout Salvelinus namaycush reproduction in Lake Huron following the crash of alewife stocks between 2002 and 2004 provided...
Elwha River dam removal: A major opportunity for salmon and steelhead recolonization
George R. Pess, Samuel J. Brenkman, Gary A. Winans, Michael L. McHenry, Jeffrey J. Duda, Timothy J. Beechie
2010, Osprey
In this in-depth paper, authors George R. Pess, Gary A. Winans and Timothy J. Beechie of the NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Samuel J. Brenkman of the National Park Service, Olympic National Park, Michael L. McHenry of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Jeffrey J. Duda of...
Relationship of voluminous ignimbrites to continental arc plutons: Petrology of Jurassic ignimbrites and contemporaneous plutons in southern California
N. K. Fohey-Breting, A. P. Barth, J. L. Wooden, F.K. Mazdab, C.A. Carter, E.R. Schermer
2010, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (189) 1-11
Volcanism was broadly associated in both space and time with Mesozoic plutonism in the Cordillera continental margin arc, but the precise petrogenetic relationships between volcanic rocks and adjacent zoned plutons are not known. Igneous rocks in a tilted crustal section in California include four laterally extensive Jurassic ash flow tuffs...
Rodents and lagomorphs (Mammalia) from the Hemphillian (late Miocene) of Utah
W.W. Korth, D. D. De Blieux
2010, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (30) 226-235
Four species of rodents (two heteromyids and two cricetids) and one lagomorph are identified from the late Tertiary Sevier River Formation of Utah. The heteromyids include a new genus and species of heteromyine, Metaliomys sevierensis, which is intermediate in morphology between the Clarendonian and early Hemphillian Diprionomys Kellogg and the...
The spatial and temporal variability of groundwater recharge in a forested basin in northern Wisconsin
W. R. Dripps, K. R. Bradbury
2010, Hydrological Processes (24) 383-392
Recharge varies spatially and temporally as it depends on a wide variety of factors (e.g. vegetation, precipitation, climate, topography, geology, and soil type), making it one of the most difficult, complex, and uncertain hydrologic parameters to quantify. Despite its inherent variability, groundwater modellers, planners, and policy makers often ignore recharge...
