Environmental transmission of Pseudogymnoascus destructans to hibernating little brown bats
Alan C. Hicks, Scott Darling, Joel Flewelling, Ryan von Linden, Carol Meteyer, Dave Redell, J. Paul White, Jennifer A. Redell, Ryan Smith, David S. Blehert, Noelle L. Rayman-Metcalf, Joseph R. Hoyt, Joseph C. Okoniewski, Kate E. Langwig
2023, Nature (13)
Pathogens with persistent environmental stages can have devastating effects on wildlife communities. White-nose syndrome (WNS), caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, has caused widespread declines in bat populations of North America. In 2009, during the early stages of the WNS investigation and before molecular techniques had been developed to readily detect P. destructans in...
Evolving radon diffusion through earthen barriers at uranium waste disposal sites
Mark Fuhrmann, Todd Caldwell, William J. Likos, W. Jodi Waugh, Morgan M. Williams, Craig H. Benson
2023, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity (262)
Field measurements of Rn-222 fluxes from the tops and bottoms of compacted clay radon barriers were used to calculate effective Rn diffusion coefficients (DRn) at four uranium waste disposal sites in the western United States to assess cover performance after more than 20 years of service. Values of DRn ranged from...
Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of snow refugia in the rain-snow transition zone of north-central Idaho
Kaitlyn M. Strickfaden, Adrienne M. Marshall, Leona K. Svancara, Katie Dugger, Timothy E. Link
2023, Environmental Research Letters (18)
Knowledge of snow cover distribution and disappearance dates over a wide range of scales is imperative for understanding hydrological dynamics and for habitat management of wildlife species that rely on snow cover. Identification of snow refugia, or places with relatively late snow disappearance dates (SDDs) compared to...
Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America
Peter Dunn, Insiyaa Ahmed, Elise Armstrong, Natasha Barlow, Malcolm Barnard, Marc Belisle, T.J. Benson, Lisha Berzins, Chloe Boynton, T. Anders Brown, Melissa Cady, Kyle Cameron, Xuan Chen, Bob Clark, Ethan Clotfelter, Kara Cromwell, Russ Dawson, Elsie Denton, Andrew Forbes, Kendrick Fowler, Kamal J.K. Gandhi, Dany Garant, Megan Hiebert, Claire Houchen, Jennifer Houtz, Tara Imlay, Brian Inouye, David Inouye, Michelle Jackson, Andrew Jacobson, Kristen Jayd, Christy Juteau, Andrea Kautz, Caroline Killian, Kimberly J Komatsu, Kirk Larsen, Andrew Laughlin, Valerie Levesque-Beaudin, Ryan Leys, Elizabeth Long, Stephen Lougheed, Stu Mackenzie, Jen Marangelo, Colleen Miller, Brenda Molano-Flores, Christy Morrissey, Emony Nicholls, Jessica Orlofske, Ian Pearse, Kristen Peck, Fanie Pelletier, Amber Pitt, Joe Poston, Danielle Racke, Jeannie A. Randall, Matthew Richardson, Olivia Rooney, A. Rose Ruegg, Scott Rush, Sadie Ryan, Mitchell Sadowski, Ivana Schoepf, Lindsay Schulz, Brenna Shea, Tom Sheehan, Lynn Siefferman, Derek Sikes, Mark Stanback, Jennifer Styrsky, John Styrsky, Conor Taff, Jennifer Uehling, Kit Uvino, Thomas Wassmer, Katie Weglarz, Megan Weinberger, John Wenzel, Linda A Whittingham
2023, Ecology (104)
Climate change models often assume similar responses to temperatures across the range of a species, but local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity can lead plants and animals to respond differently to temperature in different parts of their range. To date, there have been few tests...
Integrating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to constrain estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange
Joan Casas-Ruiz, Pascal Bodmer, Kelly Ann Bona, David Butman, Mathilde Couturier, Erik J.S. Emilson, Kerri Finlay, Helene Genet, Daniel B. Hayes, Jan Karlsson, David Paré, Changhui Peng, Robert G. Striegl, Jackie Webb, Xinyuan Wei, Sue Ziegler, Paul Del Giorgio
2023, Nature Communications (14)
In this Perspective, we put forward an integrative framework to improve estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange based on the accumulation of carbon in the landscape as constrained by its lateral export through rivers. The framework uses the watershed as the fundamental spatial unit and integrates all...
Prolonged influence of urbanization on landslide susceptibility
Tyler Rohan, Eitan Shelef, Benjamin B. Mirus, Tim Coleman
2023, Landslides (20) 1433-1447
Landslides pose a threat to life and infrastructure and are influenced by anthropogenic modifications associated with land development. These modifications can affect susceptibility to landslides, and thus quantifying their influence on landslide occurrence can help design sustainable development efforts. Although landslide susceptibility has been shown to...
Classifying freshwater salinity regimes in central and western U.S. streams and rivers
Lauren Bolotin, Betsy Summers, Philip Savoy, Joanna Blaszczak
2023, Limnology and Oceanography Letters (8) 103-111
Freshwater salinization of rivers is occurring across the globe because of nonpoint source loading of salts from anthropogenic activities such as agriculture, urbanization, and resource extraction that accelerate weathering and release salts. Multidecadal trends in river salinity are well characterized, yet our understanding of annual regimes...
Extracting exotic annual grass phenology and climate relations in western U.S. rangeland ecoregions
Trenton D Benedict, Stephen P. Boyte, Devendra Dahal, Dinesh Shrestha, Sujan Parajuli, Logan J. Megard
2023, Biological Invasions (25) 2023-2041
This research builds upon the extensive body of work to model exotic annual grass (EAG) characteristics and invasion. EAGs increase wildland fire risk and intensifies wildland fire behavior in western U.S. rangelands. Therefore, understanding characteristics of EAG growth increases understanding of its dynamics and can inform rangeland management decisions. To...
Invasive Round Goby in the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers: What’s the latest?
Scott D. George, Barry P. Baldigo, Christopher B. Rees, Meredith L. Bartron, Richard M. Pendleton, Steven Pearson
2023, Conference Paper, Mohawk Watershed Symposium 2023 abstracts and program
The Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) is an invasive benthic fish indigenous to the Ponto-Caspian region of Eurasia. It recently colonized the Great Lakes and has expanded eastward through the New York State Canal System over the past decade. The species was first documented in the Mohawk River watershed in 2014...
The Associate Editor in the peer review process—what's that?
Kerry Nicholson, Cynthia Paszkowski, Amy Kuenzi, Kathryn A. Schoenecker, Evelyn Merrill
2023, Journal of Wildlife Management (87)
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A targeted annual warning system developed for the conservation of a sagebrush indicator species
Brian G. Prochazka, Peter S. Coates, Michael O'Donnell, David R. Edmunds, Adrian P. Monroe, Mark A. Ricca, Gregory T. Wann, Steve E. Hanser, Lief A. Wiechman, Kevin E. Doherty, Michael P. Chenaille, Cameron L. Aldridge
2023, Ecological Indicators (148)
A fundamental goal of population ecologists is to identify drivers responsible for temporal variation in abundance. Understanding whether variation is associated with environmental stochasticity or anthropogenic disturbances, which are more amenable to management action, is crucial yet difficult to achieve. Here,...
Stream restoration produces transitory, not permanent, changes to fish assemblages at compensatory mitigation sites
Edward S. Stowe, Kelly N. Petersen, Shishir Rao, Eric J. Walther, Mary Freeman, Seth J. Wenger
2023, Restoration Ecology (31)
There is inconsistent evidence that stream restoration projects lead to recovery of ecosystem attributes, especially stream biota. While some assessments have documented desired changes in fish community metrics in the first years following restoration, longer-term studies have not always corroborated these findings. In this...
Above- and belowground biomass carbon stock and net primary productivity maps for tidal herbaceous marshes of the United States
Victoria Woltz, Camille Stagg, Kristin B. Byrd, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Andre S. Rovai, Zhiliang Zhu
2023, Remote Sensing (15)
Accurate assessments of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration in natural ecosystems are necessary to develop climate mitigation strategies. Regional and national-level assessments of carbon sequestration require high-resolution data to be available for large areas, increasing the need for remote sensing products that quantify carbon stocks and fluxes. The...
Advances in transboundary aquifer assessment
Anne-Marie Matherne, Sharon B. Megdal
2023, Water (15)
This Special Issue is intended to highlight both recent work to advance the physical understanding of transboundary aquifers and factors relevant in successful collaboration on transboundary groundwater resource use. The collected papers address: (1) the identification and prioritization of the needs and strategies for sustainable groundwater development and use,...
Aquatic vegetation types identified during early and late phases of vegetation recovery in the Upper Mississippi River
Danelle M. Larson, Alicia Carhart, Eric Lund
2023, Ecosphere (14)
Assemblage patterns and processes of aquatic vegetation in most large floodplain rivers are not well understood, particularly after plant recovery. Identifying vegetation types, which are recurring plant groupings based on species composition, diversity, and abundances, can describe plant assembly patterns and environmental drivers that aid conservation planning and management. We...
Assessing potential effects of climate change on highway-runoff flows and loads in southern New England by using planning-level space-for-time analyses
Lillian C. Jeznach, Gregory E. Granato, Daniel Sharar-Salgado, Susan C. Jones, Daniel Imig
2023, Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board. (2677) 570-581
Transportation agencies need information about the potential effects of climate change on the volume, quality, and treatment of stormwater to mitigate potential effects of runoff on receiving waters. To address these concerns, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Federal Highway Administration used the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project...
Climate change mitigation potential of Louisiana's coastal area: Current estimates and future projections
Melissa Millman Baustian, Bingqing Liu, Leland C. Moss, Alyssa Dausman, James W. Pahl
2023, Ecological Applications (23)
Coastal habitats can play an important role in climate change mitigation. As Louisiana implements its climate action plan and the restoration and risk-reduction projects outlined in its 2017 Louisiana Coastal Master Plan, it is critical to consider potential greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in coastal habitats. This study estimated the potential...
Salvage using electrofishing methods caused minimal mortality of burrowed and emerged larval lampreys in dewatered habitats
Julianne E. Harris, Theresa L. Liedtke, Joseph J. Skalicky, Lisa K. Weiland
2023, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (43) 1553-1566
ObjectiveHuman-induced dewatering of freshwater habitats causes mortality of larval lampreys (family Petromyzontidae). Salvage by electrofishing at dewatering events is assumed to reduce this mortality, but to our knowledge this assumption remains unassessed.<h3 id="nafm10894-sec-2002-title"...
Uses of epistemic uncertainties in the USGS National Seismic Hazard Models
N. Simon Kwong, Kishor S. Jaiswal
2023, Earthquake Spectra (39) 1058-1087
The need for US Geological Survey (USGS) National Seismic Hazard Models (NSHMs) to report estimates of epistemic uncertainties in the hazard (e.g. fractile hazard curves) in all forthcoming releases is increasing. With fractile hazard curves as potential new outputs from the USGS 2023 NSHM, a simultaneous need...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in groundwater from the Great Miami buried-valley aquifer, southwestern Ohio, 2019–20
Paul M. Buszka, Brian E. Mailot, Neal A. Mathes
2023, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5017
Groundwater samples were collected during 2019 and 2020 from 23 wells in the Great Miami buried-valley aquifer (GM-BVA) in southwestern Ohio by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Miami Conservancy District, Dayton, Ohio, to determine concentrations of selected per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The GM-BVA is a glacial...
An assessment of the relation between metal contaminated sediment and freshwater mussel populations in the Big River, Missouri
Andrew D Roberts, John M. Besser, Josh Hundley, Dave Mosby, Amanda E. Rosenberger, Kristen L. Bouska, Bryan Simmons, Stephen E. McMurray, Scott Faiman, Leslie Lueckenhoff
2023, Science of the Total Environment (876)
The Big River in southeast Missouri drains the largest historical lead mining area in the United States. Ongoing releases of metal contaminated sediments into this river are well documented and are suspected of suppressing freshwater mussel populations. We characterized the spatial extent of metal contaminated sediments and evaluated its relationship...
Quantifying stream-loss recovery in a spring using dual-tracer injections in the Snake Creek drainage, Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA
C. Eric Humphrey, Philip M. Gardner, Lawrence E. Spangler, Nora C. Nelson, Laura Toran, D. Kip Solomon
2023, Hydrogeology Journal (31) 1051-1066
Simultaneous short-pulse injections of two tracers (sodium bromide [Br–] and fluorescein dye) were made in a losing reach of Snake Creek in Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA, to evaluate the quantity of stream loss through permeable carbonates that resurfaces at a spring approximately 10 km down drainage. A revised hydrogeologic...
Living with wildfire in Park County, Colorado 2021 data report
Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Patricia A. Champ, Abby Elizabeth McConnell, Jamie Gomez, Christopher M. Barth, James Meldrum, Colleen Donovan, Carolyn Wagner, Julia Goolsby
2023, Report
Wildfire affects many types of communities and is a particular concern for communities in the wildland urban interface (WUI), such as those of Park County, Colorado. The core intent of this project was to provide evidence to support the Platte Canyon Fire Protection District (PCFPD) and Fire Adapted Bailey in...
Fault roughness at seismogenic depths and links to earthquake behavior
Elizabeth S. Cochran, Morgan T. Page, Nicholas van der Elst, Zachary E. Ross, Daniel T. Trugman
2023, The Seismic Record (3) 37-47
Fault geometry affects the initiation, propagation, and cessation of earthquake rupture, as well as, potentially, the statistical behavior of earthquake sequences. We analyze 18,250 (−0.27 < M < 4.4) earthquakes of the 2016–2019 Cahuilla, California, swarm and, for the first time, use these high‐resolution earthquake...
Increasing hypoxia on global coral reefs under ocean warming
Ariel K. Pezner, Travis A. Courtney, Hannah Barkley, Wen-Chen Chou, Hui-Chuan Chu, Samanth M. Clements, Tyler Cyronak, Michael D. DeGrandpre, Samuel A.H. Kekuewa, David I Kline, Yi-Bei Liang, Todd R. Martz, Satoshi Mitarai, Heather N. Page, Max S. Rintoul, Jennifer E. Smith, Keryea Soong, Yuichiro Takeshita, Martin Tresguerres, Yi Wei, Kimberly K. Yates, Andreas J Andersson
2023, Nature Climate Change (13) 403-409
Ocean deoxygenation is predicted to threaten marine ecosystems globally. However, current and future oxygen concentrations and the occurrence of hypoxic events on coral reefs remain underexplored. Here, using autonomous sensor data to explore oxygen variability and hypoxia exposure at 32 representative reef sites, we reveal that hypoxia is already pervasive...
