Landsat-derived rainfed and irrigated-area product for conterminous United States for the year 2020 (LRIP30 CONUS 2020) using supervised and unsupervised machine learning on the cloud
Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla, Prasad Thenkabail, Adam Oliphant, Itiya Aneece, Trent Biggs, Murali Krishna Gumma, Daniel Foley, Richard L McCormick, Neelam Rohitha, Emerson Long, Jake Lawton
2025, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (91) 703-714
Accurate maps of irrigated and rainfed croplands are crucial for assessing global food and water security. Irrigated croplands yield two to four times more grain and biomass than rainfed croplands. To meet rising food demand, the proportion of cropland that is irrigated must be increased globally. Because agriculture uses 80%...
Effects of flow on pesticides in water and zooplankton in the northern Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
James Orlando, Laura Twardochleb, David Bosworth, Michelle L. Hladik, Corey Sanders, Matt De Parsia, Brittany E. Davis
2025, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (23)
Zooplankton are a key food source for juvenile fishes in estuaries worldwide, including California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta (hereafter Delta); both zooplankton quality and quantity are critical to ecosystem health. Zooplankton may be affected by pesticides in water and the food web, and the Delta is known to contain complex pesticide...
A spatiotemporal interrogation of hydrologic drought model performance for machine learning model interpretability
Ali Dadkhah, Scott Douglas Hamshaw, Ryan van der Heijden, Donna M. Rizzo
2025, Water Resources Research (61)
The predictive accuracy of regional hydrologic models often varies across both time and space. Interpreting relationships between watershed characteristics, hydrologic regimes, and model performance can reveal potential areas for model improvement. In this study, we use machine learning to assess model performance of a regional hydrologic model to forecast the...
Comparative life history of mud turtles (genus: Kinosternon) from the North American deserts
Rodrigo Macipríos, Jeffrey E. Lovich
2025, Western North American Naturalist (85) 396-410
The warm deserts of North America are characterized by diverse environments that include the transition zone between tropical and temperate regions on the continent. This vast region includes the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts, which have different precipitation regimes and are composed of different floras and faunas, separated by the Cochise...
Climatological effects on survival, recruitment, and possible extirpation of a Sierra Nevada anuran
Brian J. Halstead, Patrick M. Kleeman, Jonathan P. Rose, Robert L. Grasso, Gary M. Fellers
2025, Climate Change Ecology (10)
The drivers of population dynamics are a primary interest of ecologists, and predicting the consequences of climate variability on wildlife populations benefits from an understanding of how weather causes variation in the vital rates of populations. Given recent and projected extremes in annual precipitation in the Sierra Nevada of California,...
Movements and survival of hatchery reared juvenile cisco (Coregonus artedi) in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron
Todd Hayden, Christopher M. Holbrook, Thomas R. Binder, Andrew Edgar Honsey, Roger Gordon, Kevin McDonnell, David G. Fielder, Aaron T. Fisk
2025, Animal Biotelemetry (13)
BackgroundCisco (Coregonus artedi) were historically abundant throughout Lake Huron, including Saginaw Bay, but only a few remnant populations remain in northern Lake Huron today. Reestablishment of cisco is an important component of management plans to restore sustainable fisheries in Lake Huron. Cisco restoration efforts have focused on the...
Seasonal increases in global dryland gross primary production are modulated by root soil moisture and temperature
Lihua Lan, Seth M. Munson, Kailiang Yu, Zhongxiang Fang, Xiuzhi Chen, Weiguang Zhao, Siao Sun, Zhenbo Wang, Fei He, Yuan Liang
2025, Global and Planetary Change (255)
Dryland ecosystems, which are highly sensitive to environmental variability across space and through time, play a critical role in the global carbon cycle. To understand the carbon sink role of drylands, this study used different sources of global dryland gross primary productivity (GPP) and evaluated the spatiotemporal...
Practical pathways for protecting headwater streams in urbanizing areas
Belinda Hatt, Chamantha Athapaththu, Jonathan Behrens, Sally Boer, Matthew J. Burns, Ryan Burrows, Riley de Jong, Caroline Elsner, Vaughn Grey, Moss Imberger, Brianna Williams, Rhys Coleman
2025, Freshwater Science (44) 546-567
Headwater streams are diverse ecosystems and important sources of water and dissolved and particulate resources to the downstream river network. However, across the world, they are rapidly being degraded or lost through human activities, particularly urban development. This degradation and loss have negative consequences for the structure and function of...
Fish-assemblage and water-quality recovery with declining acidic deposition in Adirondack mountain streams, New York, USA
Barry P. Baldigo, Scott D. George, Gregory B. Lawrence
2025, Freshwater Science (44) 443-462
Long-term records of air-pollutant emissions and atmospheric deposition, as well as water quality in streams of the Adirondack Mountains of New York, USA, indicate that chemical recovery from acidic deposition is progressing. Although Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill, 1814) have recently repopulated several lakes, the degree to which fish...
Linking bathythermal habitat selection to management of a migratory freshwater fish
Richard Kraus, Matthew Faust, Scott F. Colborne, Christopher Vandergoot
2025, Movement Ecology (13)
BackgroundFor migratory fishes, habitat selection in dimensions of temperature and depth may be jointly used to define the bathythermal niche. Seasonal and long-term changes in the availability of bathythermal habitat can cause behavioral responses that have consequences for managing interjurisdictional fisheries that target migratory fishes. Management of such...
Greenhouse gas emissions from ditches in oil palm plantations on tropical peatlands in Malaysia
Kuno Kasak, Iryna Dronova, Kaido Soosaar, Lulie Melling, Wong Guan Xhuan, Faustina Sangok, Reti Ranniku, Jorge A. Villa, Sheel Bansal, Michael Peacock, Ülo Mander
2025, Scientific Reports (15)
Tropical peatlands, which store 20% of global peat carbon, are increasingly threatened by conversion to alternative land-uses such as oil palm plantations, pulp wood plantations, crop growth or other economic activities. This transformation involves peatland drainage, which lowers water tables, exposes peat to oxygen, and alters greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions:...
An approach to urban waterway assessment using holistic values and reciprocity
Mateo Scoggins, Isabelle C. Barrett, Belinda I. Margetts, Eugenia Martí, Brian M. Murphy, Allison H. Roy, Ruth I. Shear, Sergia S. Sabat-Bonilla, Natalie A. Griffiths, Vinitha Nanjappa, Kate Mussett, Kasey M. Stirling, Susan Chiblow, Shayenna Nolan
2025, Freshwater Science (44) 633-659
Current aquatic ecosystem assessment methods and tools often focus on physical, chemical, and biological indicators of ecosystem health. This approach to ecosystem assessment is not always straightforward to execute in urban environments and ignores potential connectivity between social and environmental outcomes. During a workshop at the Symposium...
Cyanotoxin production in shallow subtropical lakes is driven by nutrient enrichment and primary producer abundance on the millennial scale
Savvas Paradeisis-Stathis, Matthew N. Waters, Debra A. Willard, Sophia Foliano, Richard S. Vachula
2025, Harmful Algae (151)
Increased cyanotoxin concentrations from harmful algal blooms (HABs) in lake systems pose a global challenge to water quality. Although progress has been made in monitoring cyanotoxins in modern environments over recent decades, identifying the triggers of cyanotoxin release by cyanobacteria has yielded mixed results from experimental and analytical studies. Paleolimnological...
Satellite assessment of winter cover crop and conservation tillage outcomes to support adaptive management in working landscapes
W. Dean Hively, Feng Gao, Gregory W. McCarty, Craig S.T. Daughtry, Xuesong Zhang, Jyoti Jennewein, Alison Thieme, Brian T. Lamb, Jason Keppler, Cathleen J. Hapeman, Michael Cosh, Steven B. Mirsky
2025, Journal of Environmental Quality (54) 1548-1571
The use of winter cover crops and conservation tillage are agricultural practices promoted to reduce nutrient and sediment loss from cropland, improve soil health, increase infiltration, and support farm nutrient cycling and ecosystem services. However, environmental performance of these practices is variable in the working farm landscape. The Lower Chesapeake...
GlASS - Global Aggregation of Stream Silica
Kathi Jo Jankowski, Keira Johnson, Nicholas Lyon, Sidney A. Bush, Paul Julian, Lienne R. Sethna, Diane M. McKnight, William H. McDowell, Adam S. Wymore, Pirkko Kortelainen, Hjalmar Laudon, Ruth C. Heindel, Amanda Poste, Arial J. Shogren, Fred Worrall, Luke Mosley, Pamela L. Sullivan, Joanna C. Carey
2025, Scientific Data (12)
Riverine silicon (Si) plays a vital role in governing primary production, water quality, and carbon cycling. Climate and land cover change have altered how dissolved Si (DSi) is processed on land, transported to rivers, and cycled through aquatic ecosystems. The Global Aggregation of Stream Silica (GlASS) database was constructed to...
Land application of biosolid, livestock, and drilling wastes to US farmland: A potential pathway for the redistribution of contaminants in the environment
Jason R. Masoner, Dana W. Kolpin, Isabelle M. Cozzarelli, Denise M. Akob, Christopher H. Conaway, Carrie E. Givens, Michelle L. Hladik, Laura E. Hubbard, Rachael F. Lane, R. Blaine McCleskey, Todd M. Preston, Clayton D. Raines, Matthew S. Varonka, Michaelah C. Wilson
2025, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (27) 3372-3402
In the United States (U.S.), waste byproducts generated from the treatment of municipal waste (biosolids), production of livestock (livestock waste), and drilling of oil and gas wells (drilling waste) are commonly applied to agricultural lands. Although this can be a cost-effective reuse/disposal practice, there is limited research on the potential...
Rare earth element-mineralized carbonatite in the Bear Lodge Alkaline Complex, USA—Ore genesis implications from fluid inclusion characterization
Allen K. Andersen, Danielle A. Olinger, Mitchell M. Bennett
2025, American Journal of Science (325)
Rare earth element (REE) resources of the Bear Lodge Alkaline Complex, Wyoming, are hosted in variably leached carbonatite spatially related to diatreme breccia pipes. We investigated the genesis of REE and lesser-known gold resources through fluid inclusion analysis of carbonatite, fluorite breccia, and smoky quartz vein samples. Physicochemical characteristics of...
Emerging investigator series: Post-wildfire sediment geochemical characterization reveals manganese reactivity and a potential link to water quality impairment in the Gallinas Creek watershed, New Mexico
Elizabeth Jean Tomaszewski, Sheila F. Murphy, Johanna Blake, Michelle I. Hornberger, Gregory D. Clark
2025, Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts (27) 3551-3571
Water quality post-wildfire is often impaired by increased turbidity and elevated concentrations of elements such as manganese (Mn) and iron (Fe). Precipitation events exacerbate these issues, due in part to increased erosion and transport of sediment from hillslopes to surface water. Both Mn and Fe are major redox-active elements in...
The Southwestern Pond Turtle (Actinemys pallida) in Baja California, Mexico: New localities and persistent threats
Jorge H. Valdez-Villavicencio, Anny Peralta-García, Bradford D. Hollingsworth, Patricia Galina-Tessaro, Robert D. Fisher, Jeff A. Alvarez, R. A. Lara-Resendiz
2025, Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences (124) 67-79
The Southwestern Pond Turtle (Actinemys pallida), the only native freshwater turtle in Baja California, is experiencing alarming population declines, echoing global patterns observed in freshwater turtles. We conducted comprehensive field surveys across the major drainages of northwestern Baja California to delineate the species' current distribution, identify critical threats to its...
Museum records provide unique information about the distribution of the Yellow Lampmussel Lampsilis cariosa (Unionidae)
Jillian Fedarick, Christina Amy Murphy, Sydne Record, Allison H. Roy
2025, Freshwater Science (44) 434-442
Natural history museum records may provide unique information on the distribution of species that can supplement survey data collected by resource managers. However, there can be challenges to using museum data for analyses, such as spurious geographic information, misidentifications, and incorrect labeling. Museum records have been centralized...
Impact of warming and suspended terrigenous sediment on the Hawaiian reef coral Montipora capitata
Alexandra M. Good, Ashleigh Epps, Maile Coberly, Kuʻulei S Rodgers, Nancy G. Prouty, Curt D. Storlazzi, Keisha D. Bahr
2025, Coral Reefs (44) 2065-2081
Coral reefs near high human population areas suffer from sedimentation and increased turbidity due to coastal development. However, there is limited research on how key species respond to turbidity caused by terrigenous sediment and how this response may change with increased water temperatures. This study investigated the effects of ambient...
Re-oligotrophy in the Upper Mississippi River, USA, occurred in just a few years
Killian Davis, Wako Bungula, Danelle M. Larson
2025, Freshwater Science (44) 409-421
Ecological systems can undergo large changes and regime shifts that are either catastrophic, neutral, or desirable. Rivers worldwide have recently undergone desirable regime shifts related to re-oligotrophy, which is a notable and ongoing reduction in concentrations of total suspended solids (TSS), total N, total P, or phytoplankton. For example, the...
Variation in detection distance of Eastern Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis jamaicensis) vocalizations by autonomous recording units
Blake D. Lamb, Heather E. Levy, Elizabeth A. Beilke, Chelsea S. Kross, Peter J. Kappes, Matt J. Sukiennik, James A. Cox, Jennifer K. Wilson, Jarrett O. Woodrow, Matthew J. Butler, Theodore J. Zenzal Jr., Auriel M.V. Fournier, Mark S. Woodrey
2025, Waterbirds (48) 1-12
Autonomous recording units (ARUs) are an emerging technology that allows for passive monitoring of soniferous animals and soundscapes. Over the past decade, ARUs have become a popular tool for monitoring birds for their potential to reduce the labor and costs of traditional in-person sampling procedures. However, uncertainty surrounding factors affecting...
Lake depth and light conditions alter Mysis vertical distributions
Rosaura J. Chapina, Brian O’Malley, Kelly L. Bowen, Martta L.M. Viljanen, Zachary A. Bess, Daniel L. Yule, Jens C. Nejstgaard, Stella A. Berger, Michael D. Rennie, Michael J. Paterson, Steven A. Pothoven, James M. Watkins, Lars G. Rudstam, Sudeep Chandra, Jason D. Stockwell
2025, Journal of Great Lakes Research (51)
Light regulates the vertical migration of many aquatic organisms. Mysis species couple pelagic and benthic habitats in lakes by diel vertical migrations (DVM), transporting energy and nutrients through the water column and food web. Although Mysis are generally assumed to remain on the bottom during the day, some have been observed in the pelagic...
Evaluating effectiveness of flocculation and wave-reduction barriers for restoration of a turbid, terminal lake
Cassandra Smith, Randy Joe Brannan
2025, Wetlands Ecology and Management (33)
Malheur Lake is a freshwater, shallow lake that provides key habitat for birds along the Pacific Flyway in North America. The lake shifted to a turbid state in the 1990s with suspended-sediment concentrations sometimes exceeding 1000 mg/L and minimal light available in the water column for submerged aquatic vegetation. Resource...
