A case for improved global coordination of volcano observatories
Jacob B. Lowenstern
2024, Annals of Geophysics (67)
The distribution of volcano monitoring networks and volcano expertise does not correlate well with the global distribution of volcanic risk. All countries have cultural, financial, bureaucratic, political, and logistical barriers to effective risk reduction. The lack of parity amongst volcano observatories jeopardizes public safety and curtails scientific research and understanding....
Assessment of pollution and other impairments of US reservoirs based on expert opinion
Leandro E. Miranda, D.J. Shoemaker, R. M. Krogman
2024, Frontiers in Enviornmental Science (12)
A comprehensive understanding of the prevailing pollution and other impairments to reservoirs is necessary at the national level to analyze patterns and causes as well as allocate national resources effectively. Most of these impairments are associated with sedimentation, nutrient contamination, and other pollution factors. The costs involved in conducting on-site...
Effect of oxygenation and location on survival and growth of endangered Lost River Suckers in net pens
Nathan V Banet, Summer M. Burdick, Ryan J Bart, Alta C. Harris, Jacob Richard Krause
2024, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (15) 361-379
Acclimation of captively reared fishes to their release environment through soft releases and cage culture can improve survival. Recovery strategies for imperiled Lost River Suckers Deltistes luxatus includes soft releases of captive reared juveniles in net pens in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon. However, intermittent and sometimes extreme hypoxia in the lake can...
Predictions of groundwater PFAS occurrence at drinking water supply depths in the United States
Andrea K. Tokranov, Katherine Marie Ransom, Laura M. Bexfield, Bruce D. Lindsey, Elise Watson, Danielle Dupuy, Paul Stackelberg, Miranda S. Fram, Stefan Voss, James A. Kingsbury, Bryant Jurgens, Kelly Smalling, Paul M. Bradley
2024, Science (386) 748-755
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known colloquially as “forever chemicals”, have been associated with adverse human health effects and have contaminated drinking water supplies across the United States owing to their long-term and widespread use. People in the United States may unknowingly be drinking water that contains PFAS because of...
Climate-smart invasive species management for 21st century global change challenges
Eva M. Colberg, Bethany Bradley, Toni Lyn Morelli, Carrie J. Brown-Lima
2024, Global Change Biology (30)
Addressing the global challenges of climate change and biotic invasions requires understanding their interactions and implications for natural resource management. To facilitate and support invasive species management in a changing climate, we review how climate change and invasions interact to impact the planning, action, and outcomes of invasive species management....
Direct measurements of sediment geoacoustic properties in the New England Mud Patch and shelf break
Megan S. Ballard, Dante D. Garcia, Kevin M. Lee, Gabriel R. Venegas, Andrew R. McNeese, Preston S. Wilson, Jason Chaytor
2024, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (156) 2889-2902
This paper reports on an original set of direct sound speed measurements collected with the acoustic coring system in the New England Mud Patch (NEMP) and shelf break area to the south. Cores collected within the NEMP show range-dependence of the mud with slower sound speed and lower attenuation on...
Understanding gaps in early detection of and rapid response to invasive species in the United States: A literature review and bibliometric analysis
Amy Kristine Wray, Aimee Christine Agnew, Mary Brown, Emily Marie Dean, Nicole D Hernandez, Audrey Jordon, Cayla Morningstar, Sara Elizabeth Piccolomini, Harrison Alexander Pickett, Wesley Daniel, Brian Reichert
2024, Ecological Informatics (84)
While concepts regarding invasive species establishment patterns and eradication possibilities have long been a topic of invasion biology, the specific terminology referring to early detection of and rapid response to (EDRR) invasive species emerged in scientific literature during the early 2000s. Since then, the EDRR approach has expanded to include...
Planktonic to sessile: Drivers of spatial and temporal variability across barnacle life stages and indirect effects of the Pacific Marine Heatwave
Sarah Beth Traiger, James L. Bodkin, Rob Campbell, Heather Coletti, Daniel Esler, Kris Holderied, Katrin Iken, Brenda Konar, Caitlin McKinstry, Daniel Monson, Jessica Pretty, Martin Renner, Brian H. Robinson, Robert M. Suryan, Benjamin P Weitzman
2024, Journal of Plankton Research
Barnacles are a foundation species in intertidal habitats. During the Pacific Marine Heatwave (PMH), intertidal barnacle cover increased in the northern Gulf of Alaska (GoA); however, the role of pelagic larval supply in this increase was unknown. Using long-term monitoring data on intertidal benthic (percent cover) and pelagic larval...
Assessment of the sensitivity of Percina caprodes (logperch) to the pesticide 4-nitro-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenol
Courtney Kirkeeng, James A. Luoma, Nicholas Schloesser, Justin Schueller, Cheryl Kaye
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1064
A continuous-flow streamside toxicity test was completed to evaluate the risk posed by the use of 4-nitro-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenol (TFM), used to control Petromyzon marinus (sea lamprey), to Percina caprodes (logperch). Logperch are a host fish to the parasitic glochidia life stage of the federally endangered Epioblasma triquetra (snuffbox mussel). Streams with...
Dynamics and detection of pulsed tremor at Whakaari (White Island), Aotearoa New Zealand
B. Steinke, A.D. Jolly, T. Girona, C. Caudron, L.A. Bramwell, S.J. Cronin, F. Illsley-Kemp, E.C. Hughes
2024, Geophysical Research Letters (51)
Volcanic tremor is a crucial indicator for assessing the state and hazard potential of volcanic systems. At Whakaari (White Island volcano, Aotearoa New Zealand), a pulsed tremor signal emerged after a hydrothermal explosion in August 2012. The tremor accompanied the extrusion of a lava dome, before gradually disappearing prior to...
Increased pathogen exposure of a marine apex predator over three decades
Karyn D. Rode, Caroline R. Van Hemert, Ryan R. Wilson, Susannah P. Woodruff, Kristy Pabilonia, Lora Ballweber, Oliver C. Kwok, Jitender P Dubey
2024, PLoS ONE (19)
Environmental changes associated with global warming create new opportunities for pathogen and parasite transmission in Arctic wildlife. As an apex predator ranging over large, remote areas, changes in pathogens and parasites in polar bears are a useful indicator of changing transmission dynamics in Arctic ecosystems. We examined prevalence and risk...
A habitat suitability model for testing and refining the range of Zuni fleabane, a threatened plant species
Catherine S. Jarnevich, Sarah K. Carter, Andrea N. Chavez, Paige E. Handley, Brandon Hayes, Charles L. Hayes, Cameron Joseph Reimer, Samantha L. Reiss, Erika R. Rowe, Katie L. Sandbom, Sarah E. Whipple
2024, Preprint
Land managers and conservation practitioners need practical tools to protect rare species in light of rapidly changing climate and land use patterns. Habitat suitability models are tools that can inform multiple-use land management decisions and target conservation actions. The narrow endemic Zuni fleabane, Erigeron rhizomatus, occurs on lands managed for...
Defining the pathobiomes associated with drippy blight in Colorado and drippy nut in California
Hope Raymond, Rachael Sitz, Ian S. Pearse, Jorge Caballero Ibarra, Brad Lalande, Jane Stewart
2024, PhytoFrontiers (4) 734-745
Drippy blight, an emergent bacterial disease of oaks, was described recently from urban oaks in the Front Range of Colorado, U.S.A. This disease, which causes branch dieback and oozing of bacterial exudates from cankers, is caused by Lonsdalea quercina and primarily affects red oaks,...
Software application for spectral mixture analysis for surveillance of harmful algal blooms (SMASH): A tool for identifying cyanobacteria genera from remotely sensed data
Carl J. Legleiter, Tyler V. King
2024, Journal of Open Research Software (JORS) (12)
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Lidar estimation of storage capacity for managed water resources used by Desert Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) at Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona
Joel B. Sankey, Joshua Caster, Nathaniel Bransky, Stephanie Fuest, Steven Sesnie, Ashton Bedford
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1046
In cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Biological Science Center employed ground-based light detection and ranging (lidar) during February 2022 to help meet two resource management objectives at the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge (CPNWR), Arizona. The two objectives are (1) characterize the...
Thinking beyond the closure assumption: Designing surveys for estimating biological truth with occupancy models
Jonathon Joseph Valente, Vitek Jirinec, Matthias Leu
2024, Methods in Ecology and Evolution (15) 2289-2300
Occupancy models estimate distributions of imperfectly detected species, but violations of the closure assumption can bias results. However, researchers working with mobile animals may find it impossible to eliminate such violations. Here, we tested the hypothesis that occupancy models fit to realistic sampling data can generate unbiased occupancy estimates...
Amphibian monitoring in hardwood forests: Optimizing methods for contaminant‐based compensatory restorations
Bethany K. Kunz, Hardin Waddle, Nicholas S. Green
2024, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (20) 1939-1953
Amphibians such as frogs, toads, and salamanders provide important services in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and have been proposed as useful indicators of progress and success for ecological restoration projects. Limited guidance is available, however, on the costs and benefits of different amphibian monitoring techniques that might be applied to...
Paddlefish movement and dam passage in the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, West Virginia
Stuart A. Welsh, Katherine J. Zipfel, Andrew W. Peters, David C. Hoffman, Cameron M. Layne
2024, Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science (96) 12-19
The Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), a large-bodied and highly migratory species of large river systems, has experienced population declines or extirpation in parts of its native range. As an effort to reestablish a Paddlefish population in the Ohio River of West Virginia, the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources has stocked...
Climatic drought and trophic disruption in an endemic subalpine Hawaiian forest bird
Kyle S. Van Houtan, Tyler O. Gagné, Paul C. Banko, Molly E. Hagemann, Robert W. Peck, Christopher T. Yarnes
2024, Biological Conservation (299)
Overexploitation, habitat conversion, and introduced species have caused unprecedented extinctions and heavily degraded native bird populations in island ecosystems. In the Hawaiian Islands, stemming these losses has proven difficult as the highly specialized avifauna are often impacted – among other...
Predicted occurrence of Eastern Newts (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens) across the northeastern United States
Lindsey Pekurny, Evan H. Campbell Grant, Brittany A. Mosher
2024, Herpetologica (80) 307-313
Effective conservation is becoming more difficult as threats to wildlife increase. Natural resource managers are pressured to make difficult decisions with limited resources, and in many instances, large uncertainty. Scientists and managers tasked with the conservation of a species need tools to help guide efficient decision-making. Often, information for management...
Rappahannock tributary summary: A summary of trends in tidal water quality and associated factors, 1985-2022
Breck Maura Sullivan, Kaylyn Gootman, Alex Gunnerson, Sarah Betts, Cindy Johnson, Christopher A. Mason, Elgin Perry, Gopal Bhatt, Jennifer L. Keisman, James S. Webber, Jon Harcum, Michael F. Lane, Olivia Devereux, Qian Zhang, Rebecca Murphy, Renee Karrh, Thomas Butler, Vanessa Van Note, Angie Wei
2024, Report
The Rappahannock Tributary Summary outlines change over time for a suite of monitored tidal water quality parameters and associated potential drivers of those trends for the period of 1985 to 2022, and provides a brief description of the current state of knowledge explaining these observed changes. Water quality parameters described...
Managing water for birds— A tool for the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Cassandra Smith
2024, Preprint
The “Water for Birds Tool” is an Excel-based model designed for resource managers to assess the spatial extent and types of bird habitats in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The model quantifies the area of open water, partial water, and water depths on a monthly timescale during the irrigation season...
From causes of conflict to solutions: Shifting the lens on human–carnivore coexistence research
Kyle Artelle, Heather E. Johnson, Rebecca McCaffery, Christopher Schell, Tyus Williams, Seth Wilson
2024, Conservation Science and Practice (6)
Human-carnivore conflicts pose significant challenges in the management and conservation of carnivores across the globe. Abundant research has led to generalizable insights into the causes of such conflicts. For example, conflicts predictably occur when carnivores have access to human food resources, particularly when their natural...
Correction to A regime shift in sediment export from a coastal watershed during a record wet winter, California: Implications for landscape response to hydroclimatic extremes
Amy E. East, Andrew W. Stevens, Andrew C. Ritchie, Patrick L. Barnard, Pamela L. Campbell‐Swarzenski, Brian D. Collins, Christopher H. Conaway
2024, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (49) 4881-4882
In the referenced article, the authors would like to correct text in the first paragraph on page 2571, Figure 9 and its caption. The changes reflect an error made in the processing of the rainfall intensity-duration data used to compare storms to published debris flow triggering thresholds. The correctly processed...
White-backed hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus Leuconotus) occurrence in the Oklahoma panhandle
Bailey A. Kleeberg, Robert Charles Lonsinger, W. Sue Fairbanks
2024, Southwestern Naturalist (69) 1-5
The white-backed hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus leuconotus) is an understudied mesocarnivore thought to be declining throughout its range in the southwestern United States. With the exception of a single skull of unknown age, hog-nosed skunks have not been documented in Oklahoma since 1930. We conducted a camera trapping survey in Cimarron...
