Patterns and controls of mercury accumulation in sediments from three thermokarst lakes on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska
Samantha M. Burke, Christian E. Zimmerman, Brian A. Branfireun, Joshua C. Koch, Heidi K. Swanson
2018, Aquatic Sciences (80) 1-15
The biogeochemical cycle of mercury will be influenced by climate change, particularly at higher latitudes. Investigations of historical mercury accumulation in lake sediments inform future predictions as to how climate change might affect mercury biogeochemistry; however, in regions with a paucity of data, such as the thermokarst-rich Arctic Coastal Plain...
Ecotypic variation in population dynamics of reintroduced bighorn sheep
Vernon C. Bleich, Glen A. Sargeant, Brett P. Wiedmann
2018, Journal of Wildlife Management (82) 8-18
Selection of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) for translocation historically has been motivated by preservation of subspecific purity rather than by adaptation of source stocks to similar environments. Our objective was to estimate cause‐specific, annual, and age‐specific mortality of introduced bighorn sheep that originated at low elevations in southern British Columbia,...
Demography of the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) in a changing Arctic
Rebecca L. Taylor, Mark S. Udevitz, Chadwick V. Jay, John J. Citta, Lori T. Quakenbush, Patrick R. Lemons, Jonathan A. Snyder
2018, Marine Mammal Science (34) 54-86
The Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) is a candidate to be listed as an endangered species under United States law, in part, because of climate change‐related concerns. While the population was known to be declining in the 1980s and 1990s, its recent status has not been determined. We developed Bayesian...
Strain partitioning in southeastern Alaska: Is the Chatham Strait Fault active?
Daniel S. Brothers, Julie L. Elliott, James E. Conrad, Peter J. Haeussler, Jared W. Kluesner
2018, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (481) 362-371
A 1200 km-long transform plate boundary passes through southeastern Alaska and northwestern British Columbia and represents one of the most seismically active, but poorly understood continental margins of North America. Although most of the plate motion is accommodated by the right-lateral Queen Charlotte–Fairweather Fault (QCFF) System, which has produced at least...
Environmental and ecological conditions at Arctic breeding sites have limited effects on true survival rates of adult shorebirds
Emily L. Weiser, Richard B. Lanctot, Stephen C. Brown, H. River Gates, Rebecca L. Bentzen, Joel Bety, Megan L. Boldenow, Willow B. English, Samantha E. Franks, Laura Koloski, Eunbi Kwon, Jean-François Lamarre, David B. Lank, Joseph R. Liebezeit, Laura McKinnon, Erica Nol, Jennie Rausch, Sarah T. Saalfeld, Nathan R. Senner, David H. Ward, Paul F. Wood, Brett K. Sandercock
2018, The Auk (135) 29-43
Many Arctic shorebird populations are declining, and quantifying adult survival and the effects of anthropogenic factors is a crucial step toward a better understanding of population dynamics. We used a recently developed, spatially explicit Cormack–Jolly–Seber model in a Bayesian framework to obtain broad-scale estimates of true annual survival rates for...
Adding value to monitoring efforts with environmental DNA
Adam J. Sepulveda, Andrew M. Ray, Anna M. McKee
2018, Wildlife Society Newsletter (7) 2-7
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Serologic surveillance of wild and pen-reared ring-necked pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) as a method of understanding disease reservoirs
Ian Dwight, Peter S. Coates, Simone T. Stoute, C. Gabriel Senties-Cue, Radhika V. Gharpure, Maurice E. Pitesky
2018, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (54)-414
We investigated exposure to infectious diseases in wild (n=33) and pen-reared (n=12) Ring-necked Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) in the Central Valley of California during 2014 and 2015. Serologic tests were positive for antibodies against hemorrhagic enteritis (HE), infectious bursal disease (IBD), and Newcastle disease (ND) viruses in both wild and pen-reared...
Implementing the 2012 North American Waterfowl Management Plan revision: Populations, habitat, and people
Dale D. Humburg, Michael G. Anderson, Michael G. Brasher, Michael F. Carter, John M. Eadie, David C. Fulton, Fred A. Johnson, Michael C. Runge, Mark P. Vrtiska
2018, Journal of Wildlife Management (82) 275-286
The North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP) has established a model for wildlife conservation planning over the last 3 decades. Management at a continental scale, leveraged funding, regional partnerships, and a strong science basis have been notable features. Periodic updates to the NAWMP occurred since implementation in 1986; however, a...
Long-Term Movement and Estimated Age of a Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) in the Arkansas River Basin of Oklahoma
James M. Long
2018, Southwestern Naturalist (62) 212-215
We report the age and distance moved for an individual paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) that was tagged March 1998 in the Cimarron River Arm of Keystone Lake, Oklahoma, and snagged by an angler in April 2016 downstream of Eufaula Dam, Oklahoma. The fish was part of a cohort spawned in 1995....
Exudation rates and δ13C signatures of tree root soluble organic carbon in a riparian forest
S. W. Gougherty, J. E. Bauer, J. W. Pohlman
2018, Biogeochemistry (137) 237-252
Tree root exudation (TRE) of water soluble organic carbon (WSOC) is an important but under-assessed component of net primary production, and is thought to strongly influence rhizosphere biogeochemistry. Riparian systems in particular are often viewed as biogeochemical hot spots fueled partially by root exudate WSOC. However, TRE rates have not...
Size, growth, and density data for shallow-water sea urchins from Mexico to the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 1956–2016
Thomas A Ebert, Louis Barr, James L. Bodkin, Dirk Burcham, Dominique Bureau, Henry Carson, Nancy Caruso, Jennifer E. Caselle, Jeremy Claisse, Sabrina Clemente, Kathryn Davis, Paul Detwiler, John Dixon, David Duggins, John Engle, James Estes, Scott Groth, Benjamin Grupe, Peter Halmay, Kyle Hebert, Jose Carlos Hernandez, Laura J. Jurgens, Peter Kalvass, Michael C. Kenner, Brenda Konar, David Kushner, Lynn Lee, David Leighton, Gabriela Montano-Moctezuma, Eric Munk, Irma Olguin Espinoza, Ben Weitzman
2018, Ecology (99) 761
Size, growth, and density have been studied for North American Pacific coast sea urchins Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, S. droebachiensis, S. polyacanthus, Mesocentrotus (Strongylocentrotus) franciscanus, Lytechinus pictus, Centrostephanus coronatus, and Arbacia stellata by various workers at diverse sites and for varying lengths of time from 1956 to present. Numerous peer-reviewed publications have used some of these data but some data have...
Ecosystem classification and mapping of the Laurentian Great Lakes
C.M. Riseng, K. Wehrly, L. Wang, E. Rutherford, James E. McKenna Jr., L. Johnson, L. Mason, C. Castiglione, T. Hollenhorst, Beth L. Sparks-Jackson, Scott P. Sowa
2018, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (75) 1693-1712
Owing to the enormity and complexity of the Laurentian Great Lakes, an ecosystem classification is needed to better understand, protect, and manage this largest freshwater ecosystem in the world. Using a combination of statistical analyses, published knowledge, and expert opinion, we identified key driving variables and their ecologically relevant thresholds...
Managing the water-energy-food nexus: Opportunities in Central Asia
Shokhrukh Jaliliv, Saud A. Amer, Frank Ward
2018, Journal of Hydrology (557) 407-425
This article examines impacts of infrastructure development and climate variability on economic outcomes for the Amu Darya Basin in Central Asia. It aims to identify the most economically productive mix of expanded reservoir storage for economic benefit sharing to occur, in...
Constraints on friction, dilatancy, diffusivity, and effective stress from low-frequency earthquake rates on the deep San Andreas Fault
Nicholas M. Beeler, Amanda Thomas, Roland Bürgmann, David R. Shelly
2018, Journal of Geophysical Research (123) 583-605
Families of recurring low-frequency earthquakes (LFEs) within nonvolcanic tremor on the San Andreas Fault in central California are sensitive to tidal stresses. LFEs occur at all levels of the tides, are strongly correlated and in phase with the ~200 Pa shear stresses, and weakly and not systematically correlated with the ~2 kPa...
Using enteric pathogens to assess sources of fecal contamination in the Silurian Dolomite Aquifer: Preliminary results
Maureen A. Muldoon, Mark A. Borchardt, Susan K. Spencer, Randall J. Hunt, David W. Owens
2018, Conference Paper, Karst groundwater contamination and public health
The fractured Silurian dolomite aquifer is an important, but vulnerable, source of drinking water in northeast Wisconsin (Sherrill in Geology and ground water in Door County, Wisconsin, with emphasis on contamination potential in the Silurian dolomite, 1978; Bradbury and Muldoon in Hydrogeology and groundwater monitoring of fractured dolomite in the...
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium controls on the abundances of clumped isotopologues of methane during thermogenic formation in laboratory experiments: Implications for the chemistry of pyrolysis and the origins of natural gases
Yanhua Shuai, Peter M.J. Douglas, Shuichang Zhang, Daniel A. Stolper, Geoffrey S. Ellis, Michael Lawson, Michael Lewan, Michael Formolo, Jingkui Mi, Kun He, Guoyi Hu, John M. Eiler
2018, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (223) 159-174
Multiply isotopically substituted molecules (‘clumped’ isotopologues) can be used as geothermometers because their proportions at isotopic equilibrium relative to a random distribution of isotopes amongst all isotopologues are functions of temperature. This has allowed measurements of clumped-isotope abundances to be used to constrain formation temperatures of several natural materials. However,...
Punctuated sediment discharge during early Pliocene birth of the Colorado River: Evidence from regional stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology
Rebecca J. Dorsey, Brennan O’Connell, Kristin McDougall-Reid, Mindy B. Homan
2018, Sedimentary Geology (363) 1-33
The Colorado River in the southwestern U.S. provides an excellent natural laboratory for studying the origins of a continent-scale river system, because deposits that formed prior to and during river initiation are well exposed in the lower river valley and nearby basinal sink. This paper presents a synthesis of...
Are ranger patrols effective in reducing poaching-related threats within protected areas?
Jennnifer F. Moore, Felix Mulindahabi, Michel K. Masozera, James D. Nichols, James E. Hines, Ezechiel Turikunkiko, Madan K. Oli
2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) 99-107
Poaching is one of the greatest threats to wildlife conservation world-wide. However, the spatial and temporal patterns of poaching activities within protected areas, and the effectiveness of ranger patrols and ranger posts in mitigating these threats, are relatively unknown.We used 10 years (2006–2015) of ranger-based monitoring data and...
Erratum: Understanding interaction effects of climate change and fire management on bird distributions through combined process and habitat models
Kevin J. Gutzwiller, Joseph D. White, Wylie C. Barrow Jr., Lori A. Randall
2018, Conservation Biology (32) 258-259
This article corrects: Understanding Interaction Effects of Climate Change and Fire Management on Bird Distributions through Combined Process and Habitat Models Volume 25, Issue 3, 536–546, Article first published online: 28 April 2011...
Integrating continuous stocks and flows into state-and-transition simulation models of landscape change
Colin J. Daniel, Benjamin M. Sleeter, Leonardo Frid, Marie-Josée Fortin
2018, Methods in Ecology and Evolution (9) 1133-1143
State-and-transition simulation models (STSMs) provide a general framework for forecasting landscape dynamics, including projections of both vegetation and land-use/land-cover (LULC) change. The STSM method divides a landscape into spatially-referenced cells and then simulates the state of each cell forward in time, as a discrete-time stochastic process using a Monte Carlo...
Ore-forming adakitic porphyry produced by fractional crystallization of oxidized basaltic magmas in a subcrustal chamber (Jiamate, East Junggar, NW China)
Tao Hong, Xing-Wang Xu, Jungang Gao, Stephen Peters, Di Zhang, Reyaniguli Jielili, Peng Xiang, Hao Li, Chu Wu, Jun You, Jie Liu, Qiang Ke
2018, LITHOS (296-299) 96-112
Adakitic intrusions are supposed to have a close genetic and spatial relationship to porphyry Cu deposits. However, the genesis of adakitic intrusions is still under dispute. Here, we describe newly discovered intrusive complex rocks, which are composed of ore-bearing, layered magnetite-bearing gabbroic and adakitic rocks in Jiamate, East Junggar,...
To reduce the global burden of human schistosomiasis, use ‘old fashioned’ snail control
Susanne H. Sokolow, Chelsea L. Wood, Isabel J. Jones, Kevin D. Lafferty, Armand Kuris, Michael H. Hsieh, Giulio A. De Leo
2018, Trends in Parasitology (34) 23-40
Control strategies to reduce human schistosomiasis have evolved from ‘snail picking’ campaigns, a century ago, to modern wide-scale human treatment campaigns, or preventive chemotherapy. Unfortunately, despite the rise in preventive chemotherapy campaigns, just as many people suffer from schistosomiasis today as they did 50 years ago. Snail control can complement...
Making do with less: Must sparse data preclude informed harvest strategies for European waterbirds?
Fred A. Johnson, Mikko Alhainen, Anthony D. Fox, Jesper Madsen, Matthieu Guillemain
2018, Ecological Applications (28) 427-441
The demography of many European waterbirds is not well understood because most countries have conducted little monitoring and assessment, and coordination among countries on waterbird management has little precedent. Yet intergovernmental treaties now mandate the use of sustainable, adaptive harvest strategies, whose development is challenged by a paucity of demographic...
Parasite spillover: Indirect effects of invasive Burmese pythons
Melissa A. Miller, John M. Kinsella, Ray W. Snow, Malorie M Hayes, Bryan Falk, Robert Reed, Frank J. Mazzotti, Craig Guyer, Christina M. Romagosa
2018, Ecology and Evolution (8) 830-840
Identification of the origin of parasites of nonindigenous species (NIS) can be complex. NIS may introduce parasites from their native range and acquire parasites from within their invaded range. Determination of whether parasites are non-native or native can be complicated when parasite genera occur...
Recreation economics to inform migratory species conservation: Case study of the northern pintail
Brady J. Mattsson, James A. Dubovsky, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Joshua H. Goldstein, John B. Loomis, James E. Diffendorfer, Darius J. Semmens, Ruscena Wiederholt, Laura Lopez-Hoffman
2018, Journal of Environmental Management (206) 971-979
Quantification of the economic value provided by migratory species can aid in targeting management efforts and funding to locations yielding the greatest benefits to society and species conservation. Here we illustrate a key step in this process by estimating hunting and birding values of the northern pintail (Anas acuta) within...
