Comparison of magnetic bead and rapid swab RNA extraction methods for detecting rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus 2 in rabbit liver samples
Erik K. Hofmeister, Kathryn M. Griffin, Hon S. Ip
2023, BioTechniques (74) 156-157
We compared a bead RNA extraction method with a one-tube method that required only a heat block and ice. RNA was first extracted from liver samples from nine rabbits dying from rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus 2 (RHDV2) using magnetic beads, and RT-PCR was used to detect RHDV2...
Genetic mark–recapture analysis reveals large annual variation in pre-breeding sex ratio of greater sage-grouse
Jessica E. Shyvers, Brett L Walker, Sara J. Oyler-McCance, Jennifer A. Fike, Barry R. Noon
2023, Wildlife Biology (2023)
Sex ratio, and the extent to which it varies over time, is an important factor in the demography, management, and conservation of wildlife populations. Greater sage-grouse Centrocercus urophasianus populations in western North America are monitored using counts of males at leks in spring. Population estimates derived from...
Assessment of lunar resource exploration in 2022
Laszlo P. Keszthelyi, Joshua A. Coyan, Kristen A. Bennett, Lillian R. Ostrach, Lisa R. Gaddis, Travis S.J. Gabriel, Justin Hagerty
2023, Circular 1507
The idea of mining the Moon, once purely science-fiction, is now on the verge of becoming reality. Taking advantage of the resources on the Moon is part of the plans of many nations and some enterprising commercial entities; demonstrating in-situ (in place) resource utilization near the lunar south pole is...
Linking vocal behaviours to habitat structure to create behavioural landscapes
Erin C Netoskie, Kristina L. Paxton, Eben H. Paxton, Gregory P. Asner, Patrick J. Hart
2023, Animal Behaviour (201) 1-11 p.
The recent development of animal-borne sensors coupled with location data can provide insights into how individuals modify their behaviour with respect to specific habitat features. Animals can express a diverse array of behaviours as they navigate heterogenous landscapes, yet few studies have specifically evaluated the interaction of behaviours with habitat characteristics. We...
Geology along the Yuba Pass and Highway 70 corridors: A complex history of tectonics and magmatism in the northern Sierra Nevada
Michelle Roberts, Victoria Langenheim, Richard A. Schweickert, Richard E. Hanson
2023, Book chapter, Field excursions to the northern Sierra Nevada of California, the mining districts of the Sierra Nevada, and Cretaceous and Paleocene sediments in Maryland, USA
This field trip traverses a cross section of northern Sierra Nevada geology and landscape along two major corridors, Highway 49 (Yuba Pass) and Highway 70. These highways, and adjacent roadways, offer roadcuts, outcrops, and overviews through diverse pre-Cenozoic metamorphic rocks along the Laurentian margin, Mesozoic batholithic rocks, and Miocene volcanic...
Spawning locations, movements, and potential for stock mixing of walleye in Green Bay, Lake Michigan
Lisa K. Izzo, Daniel Dembkowski, Todd Hayden, Tom Binder, Christopher Vandergoot, Steven Hogler, Michael Donofrio, Troy Zorn, Charles Krueger, Daniel A. Isermann
2023, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (43) 695-714
Effective fishery management in large systems relies on understanding how individual stocks contribute to a fishery over spatial and temporal scales. The current conceptual model for management of Walleye Sander vitreus in Green Bay designates Walleye in the northern and southern parts of the bay as distinct stocks, with little mixing between...
Phenotypic trait differences between Iris pseudacorus in native and introduced ranges support greater capacity of invasive populations to withstand sea level rise
Brenda J. Grewell, Blanca Gallego-Tevar, Gael Barcenas-Moreno, Christine R. Whitcraft, Karen M. Thorne, Kevin Buffington, Jesus M. Castillo
2023, Diversity and Distributions (29) 834-848
AimTidal wetlands are greatly impacted by climate change, and by the invasion of alien plant species that are being exposed to salinity changes and longer inundation periods resulting from sea level rise. To explore the capacity for the invasion of Iris pseudacorus to persist with sea level rise, we...
Diverse migratory portfolios drive inter-annual switching behavior of elk across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Gabriel R. Zuckerman, Kristin J. Barker, Laura C. Gigliotti, Eric K. Cole, Justin A. Gude, Mark A. Hurley, Matthew Kauffman, Daryl Lutz, Daniel R. MacNulty, Eric J. Maichak, Doug McWhirter, Tony W. Mong, Kelly Proffitt, Brandon M. Scurlock, Daniel R. Stahler, Ben Wise, Arthur D. Middleton
2023, Ecosphere (14)
A growing body of evidence shows that some ungulates alternate between migratory and nonmigratory behaviors over time. Yet it remains unclear whether such short-term behavioral changes can help explain reported declines in ungulate migration worldwide, as opposed to long-term demographic changes. Furthermore, advances in...
The Toolbox for River Velocimetry using Images from Aircraft (TRiVIA)
Carl J. Legleiter, Paul J. Kinzel
2023, River Research and Applications (39) 1457-1468
Accurate knowledge of the speed at which water moves along a river is essential for understanding ecohydraulic processes and managing natural resources. Measuring flow velocity via remote sensing can be more efficient than conventional field methods, and powerful computational techniques for inferring velocity fields from...
Seasonal shifts in diel vertical migrations by lake-dwelling coastal cutthroat trout, Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii, reflect thermal regimes and prey distributions
Zachary R. Thomas, David Beauchamp, Casey P. Clark, Thomas P. Quinn
2023, Ecology of Freshwater Fish (32) 842-851
Lakes provide important habitat for salmonids that may use them as a primary feeding area between periods of reproduction. The seasonal changes in vertical thermal structure in lakes can affect the distribution of salmonids on seasonal and diel time scales as they search for,...
Volcanic earthquake catalog enhancement using integrated detection, matched-filtering, and relocation tools
Darren Tan, David Fee, Alicia J. Hotovec-Ellis, J.D. Pesicek, Matthew M. Haney, John Power, T. Girona
2023, Frontiers in Earth Science (11)
Volcanic earthquake catalogs are an essential data product used to interpret subsurface volcanic activity and forecast eruptions. Advances in detection techniques (e.g., matched-filtering, machine learning) and relative relocation tools have improved catalog completeness and refined event locations. However, most volcano observatories have yet to incorporate these techniques into...
Linked foraging and bioenergetics modeling may inform fish parasite infection dynamics
Christina Amy Murphy, Amanda Pollock, Sherri L Johnson, Ivan Arismendi
2023, Environmental Biology of Fishes (106) 1345-1356
The parasitic copepod Salmincola californiensis infects Pacific salmon and trout (Oncorhynchus spp.) and often reaches high prevalence and intensity in reservoirs compared to stream systems. Recent research indicates that temperature plays a fundamental role in copepod development and fish susceptibility. Here, we expand a linked foraging and bioenergetics model to simulate infection risk....
Development of an integrated hydrologic flow model of the Rio San Jose Basin and surrounding areas, New Mexico
Andre B. Ritchie, Shaleene B. Chavarria, Amy E. Galanter, Allison K. Flickinger, Andrew J. Robertson, Donald S. Sweetkind
2023, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5028
The Rio San Jose Integrated Hydrologic Model (RSJIHM) was developed to provide a tool for analyzing the hydrologic system response to historical water use and potential changes in water supplies and demands in the Rio San Jose Basin. The study area encompasses about 6,300 square miles in west-central New Mexico...
Rivers of the Lower Mississippi Basin
C. Ochs, J.J. Baustian, A. Harrison, P. Hartfield, C.S. Johnston, Catherine A. Justis, D. Larsen, A. Mickelson, B. Piazza, Jonathan J. Spurgeon
2023, Book chapter, Rivers of North America (second edition)
Discussed in this chapter are seven significant tributaries of the Lower Mississippi River and its major distributary. As a group, these eight rivers and their basins encompass substantial variation in physical form, hydrology, biota, ecology, and human impacts. The Current River, Ouachita River, and Saline River, flow to the Mississippi out...
Bottom trawl assessment of Lake Ontario's benthic preyfish community, 2022
Brian O’Malley, Scott P. Minihkeim, James McKenna, Jessica A. Goretzke, Jeremy P. Holden
2023, Report
Since 1978, surveys of Lake Ontario preyfish communities have provided information on the status and trends of the benthic preyfish community related to Fish Community Objectives that includes understanding preyfish population dynamics and community diversity. Beginning in 2015, the benthic preyfish survey expanded from US-only to incorporate Canadian sites, increasing...
Rivers of Arctic North America
Jennifer Lento, Sarah M. Laske, Eric Luiker, Joseph M. Culp, Leslie Jones, Christian E. Zimmerman, Wendy Monk
2023, Book chapter, Rivers of North America
This chapter describes the geomorphology, hydrology, chemistry, biodiversity, and ecology of rivers in the North American Arctic. The history, physiography, climate, and land use of the Arctic regions are also described. The chapter includes details on the Kobuk and Colville...
Body size predicts the rate of contemporary morphological change in birds
Marketa Zimova, Brian Weeks, David E. Willard, Sean T Giery, Vitek Jirinec, Ryan C. Burner, Benjamin M Winger
2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (120)
Across the globe, bird morphology is changing rapidly. Although trajectories of change are frequently consistent across studies, rates of change among species vary in magnitude—a phenomenon that remains unexplained. By analyzing two independently collected datasets demonstrating consistent changes in morphology in 129 species, we show that rates of phenotypic change...
The weight of New York City: Possible contributions to subsidence from anthropogenic sources
Thomas E. Parsons, Pei-Chin Wu, Meng Wei, Steven D’Hondt
2023, Earth's Future (11)
New York City faces accelerating inundation risk from sea level rise, subsidence, and increasing storm intensity from natural and anthropogenic causes. Here we calculate a previously unquantified contribution to subsidence from the cumulative mass and downward pressure exerted by the built environment of the city. We enforce...
Spawning locations of pallid sturgeon in the Missouri River corroborate the mechanism for recruitment failure
Tanner L. Cox, Christopher S. Guy, Luke M. Holmquist, Molly A. H Webb
2023, Fishes (8)
Conservation propagation of pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) upstream of Fort Peck Reservoir, Montana, USA has successfully recruited a new generation of spawning-capable pallid sturgeon where there would otherwise be fewer than 30 remaining wild reproductively mature pallid sturgeon. Successful recovery of pallid sturgeon will now rely on the behavior of...
Using eDNA metabarcoding to establish targets for freshwater fish composition following river restoration
Ito, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Miwa Shigeyoshi, Kousuke Ashino, Chie Yonashiro, Maki Asami, Yuko Goto, Jeffrey J. Duda, Hiroki Yamanaka
2023, Ecological Engineering (43)
Establishing realistic targets for fish community composition is needed to assess the effectiveness of river restoration projects. We used environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding with MiFish primers to obtain estimates of fish community composition across 17 sites upstream, downstream and within a...
Garnet stability in arc basalt, andesite, and dacite—An experimental study
Dawnika L. Blatter, Thomas W. Sisson, W. Ben Hankins
2023, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (178)
Garnet’s stability in arc magmas and its influences on their differentiation were explored experimentally in a typical basalt, andesite, and dacite at conditions of 0.9–1.67 GPa, 800–1300 °C, with 2–9 wt.% added H2O, and with oxygen fugacity buffered near Re + O2 = ReO2 (~ Ni-NiO + 1.7 log10 bars). Garnet did not grow at 0.9 GPa in any of...
Aeromagnetic expression of the central Nagssugtoqidian Orogen, South-East Greenland
Benjamin J. Drenth, Bjorn H. Heincke, Thomas F. Kokfelt
2023, Precambrian Research (391)
The Paleoproterozoic Nagssugtoqidian Orogen is one of the principal tectonic features related to the assembly of Nuna, extending across Greenland from east to west and forming an orogenic belt separating the North Atlantic Craton on the south from the Rae Craton on the north. In South-East Greenland,...
Precipitation, submarine groundwater discharge of nitrogen, and red tides along the southwest Florida Gulf coast
Bruce E. Kurtz, James E. Landmeyer, James K. Culter
2023, Heliyon (9)
Blooms of the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis occur almost every year along the southwest Florida Gulf coast. Long-duration blooms with especially high concentrations of K. brevis, known as red tides, destroy marine life through production of neurotoxins. Current hypotheses are that red tides originate...
The 3D Elevation Program—Supporting Washington's economy
Tom Carlson
2023, Fact Sheet 2022-3075
Washington State has a geographically diverse and spectacular landscape that is divided to the east and west by the largely volcanic mountains of the Cascade Range. Approximately 88 percent of the population lives in western Washington, mostly in urban areas. The climate is varied, with high precipitation and seasonal flooding...
Watershed selection to support freshwater mussel restoration: An open-loop decision guide
Ayla J. Skorupa, David Perkins, Allison H. Roy, Jennifer E. Ryan
2023, Cooperator Science Series 149-2023
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