Importance of floodplain connectivity to fish populations in the Apalachicola River, Florida
O.T. Burgess, William E. Pine III, S. J. Walsh
2013, River Research and Applications (29) 718-733
Floodplain habitats provide critical spawning and rearing habitats for many large-river fishes. The paradigm that floodplains are essential habitats is often a key reason for restoring altered rivers to natural flow regimes. However, few studies have documented spatial and temporal utilization of floodplain habitats by adult fish of sport or...
Seafloor off Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz, California
Curt D. Storlazzi, Nadine E. Golden, Helen Gibbons
2013, General Information Product 154
The seafloor off Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz, California, is extremely varied, with sandy flats, boulder fields, faults, and complex bedrock ridges. These ridges support rich marine ecosystems; some of them form the "reefs" that produce world-class surf breaks. Colors indicate seafloor depth, from red-orange (about 2 meters or...
Dispersal of fine sediment in nearshore coastal waters
Jonathan A. Warrick
2013, Journal of Coastal Research (29) 579-596
Fine sediment (silt and clay) plays an important role in the physical, ecological, and environmental conditions of coastal systems, yet little is known about the dispersal and fate of fine sediment across coastal margin settings outside of river mouths. Here I provide simple physical scaling and detailed monitoring of a...
Vegetation projections for Wind Cave National Park with three future climate scenarios: Final report in completion of Task Agreement J8W07100052
David A. King, Dominique M. Bachelet, Amy J. Symstad
2013, National Park Service Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/WICA/NRTRT--2013/681
Introduction The effects of climate change on the natural resources protected by Parks will likely be substantial, but geographically variable, due to local variation in climate trajectories and differences among ecosystems in their vulnerability to climate change. The projections of general circulation models (GCMs) indicate the possible magnitude and direction of...
Coral diseases cause reef decline
Caroline S. Rogers, Jeff Miller
2013, Science (340) 1522-1522
Mount Rainier National Park and Olympic National Park elk monitoring program annual report 2011
Patricia J. Happe, Mason Reid, Paul C. Griffin, Kurt J. Jenkins, David J. Vales, Barbara J. Moeller, Michelle Tirhi, Scott McCorquodale
2013, Natural Resource Data Series NPS/NCCN/NRDS-2013/437
Fiscal year 2011 was the first year of implementing an approved elk monitoring protocol in Mount Rainier (MORA) and Olympic (OLYM) National Parks in the North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN) (Griffin et al. 2012). However, it was the fourth and second year of gathering data according to protocol in...
Identification of metrics to monitor salt marsh integrity on National Wildlife Refuges in relation to conservation and management objectives
Hilary A. Neckles, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, W. George Shriver, Nicholas P. Danz, Whitney A. Wiest, Jessica L. Nagel, Jennifer H. Olker
2013, Report
Executive Summary Most salt marshes in the US have been degraded by human activities, and threats from physical alterations, surrounding land-use, species invasions, and global climate change persist. Salt marshes are unique and highly productive ecosystems with high intrinsic value to wildlife, and many National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) have been established...
Seafloor off Lighthouse Point Park, Santa Cruz, California
Curt D. Storlazzi, Nadine E. Golden, Helen Gibbons
2013, General Information Product 153
The seafloor off Lighthouse Point Park, Santa Cruz, California, is extremely varied, with sandy flats, boulder fields, faults, and complex bedrock ridges. These ridges support rich marine ecosystems; some of them form the "reefs" that produce world-class surf breaks. Colors indicate seafloor depth, from red-orange (about 2 meters or 7...
GEM Building Taxonomy (Version 2.0)
S. Brzev, C. Scawthorn, A.W. Charleson, L. Allen, M. Greene, Kishor Jaiswal, V. Silva
2013, GEM Technical Report 2013-02
This report documents the development and applications of the Building Taxonomy for the Global Earthquake Model (GEM). The purpose of the GEM Building Taxonomy is to describe and classify buildings in a uniform manner as a key step towards assessing their seismic risk, Criteria for development of the GEM Building...
Use and interpretation of climate envelope models: a practical guide
James I. Watling, Laura A. Brandt, Frank J. Mazzotti, Stephanie S. Romañach
2013, Report
This guidebook is intended to provide a practical overview of climate envelope modeling for conservation professionals and natural resource managers. The material is intended for people with little background or experience in climate envelope modeling who want to better understand and interpret models developed by others and the results generated...
Metadata for selecting or submitting generic seismic vulnerability functions via GEM's vulnerability database
Kishor Jaiswal
2013, Report
This memo lays out a procedure for the GEM software to offer an available vulnerability function for any acceptable set of attributes that the user specifies for a particular building category. The memo also provides general guidelines on how to submit the vulnerability or fragility functions to the GEM vulnerability...
Adaptive harvest management for the Svalbard population of pink-footed geese: briefing summary
Fred A. Johnson
2013, Report
The African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA; http://www.unep-aewa.org/) calls for means to manage populations which cause conflicts with certain human economic activities. The Svalbard population of the pink-footed goose has been selected as the first test case for such an international species management plan to be developed. This document describes progress to...
Status and trends monitoring of the mainstem Columbia River: sample frame development and review of programs relevant to the development of an integrated approach to monitoring
Timothy D. Counihan, Jill M. Hardiman, Stephen Waste
2013, PNAMP Report Series 2013-003
Implementing an Integrated Status and Trends Monitoring program (ISTM) for the mainstem Columbia River will help identify trends in important natural resources and help us understand the long-term collective effects of management actions. In this report, we present progress towards the completion of a stepwise process that will facilitate the...
Managing inherent complexity for sustainable Walleye fisheries in Lake Erie
Edward F. Roseman, Richard Drouin, Marc Gaden, Roger L. Knight, Jeffrey Tyson, Zhao Yingming
2013, Book chapter, Great Lakes Fisheries Policy and Management: A Binational Perspective
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Seafloor off Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz County, California
Curt D. Storlazzi, Nadine E. Golden, Helen Gibbons
2013, General Information Product 152
The seafloor off Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz County, California, is extremely varied, with sandy flats, boulder fields, faults, and complex bedrock ridges. These ridges support rich marine ecosystems; some of them form the "reefs" that produce world-class surf breaks. Colors indicate seafloor depth, from red-orange (about 2 meters or 7...
Biogeographic perspective of speciation among desert tortoises in the genus Gopherus: a preliminary evaluation
Taylor Edwards, Mercy Vaughn, Cristina Melendez Torres, Alice E. Karl, Philip C. Rosen, Kristin H. Berry, Robert W. Murph
2013, Proceedings RMRS-P-67
The enduring processes of time, climate, and adaptation have sculpted the distribution of organisms we observe in the Sonoran Desert. One such organism is Morafka’s desert tortoise, Gopherus morafkai. We apply a genomic approach to identify the evolutionary processes driving diversity in this species and present preliminary findings and emerging...
Emergent wetlands status and trends in the northern Gulf of Mexico: 1950-2010
2013, Conference Paper
Throughout the past century, emergent wetlands have been declining across the Gulf of Mexico. Emergent wetland ecosystems provide many resources, including plant and wildlife habitat, commercial and recreational economic activity, water quality, and natural barriers against storms. As emergent wetland losses increase, so does the need for information on the...
Movement and longevity of imperiled Okaloosa Darters (Etheostoma okaloosae)
Daniel E. Holt, Howard L. Jelks, Frank Jordan
2013, Copeia (2013) 653-659
Movement and longevity studies inform management and conservation plans for imperiled organisms. We used a mark–recapture study to reveal information about these key biological characteristics for imperiled Okaloosa Darters (Etheostoma okaloosae). Okaloosa Darters were captured from 20 m reaches at six separate streams, marked with VIE on the left or...
Unpaved road dust management, a successful practitioner’s handbook
David Jones, Angela Kociolek, Roger Surdahl, Peter Bolander, Bruce Drewes, Matthew Duran, Laura Fay, George Huntington, David James, Clark Milne, Mark Nahra, Andrew Scott, Bob Vitale, Bethany Williams
2013, Report
This handbook provides broad programmatic aspects of unpaved road management. It is based on observations made during a national scan tour and provides useful and insightful excerpts of realworld examples and includes practical how-to instructions for determining what type of treatment may be needed for different situations. It ultimately strives...
Application of ground-truth for classification and quantification of bird movements on migratory bird habitat initiative sites in southwest Louisiana: final report
Wylie C. Barrow, Michael J. Baldwin, Lori A. Randall, John Pitre, Kyle J. Dudley
2013, Report
This project was initiated to assess migrating and wintering bird use of lands enrolled in the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s (NRCS) Migratory Bird Habitat Initiative (MBHI). The MBHI program was developed in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, with the goal of improving/creating habitat for waterbirds affected...
Baseline Inventory of amphibians and reptiles of Kurupukari, Guyana
Ross D. MacCulloch, Robert P. Reynolds
2013, Check List (9) 1378-1382
The habitat in the vicinity of Kurupukari, on the Essequibo River in central Guyana, is tall evergreen lowland forest. The area has suffered some human disturbance from agriculture, road construction and ferry activity. The area was sampled for 10 days in 1990 and 12 days in 1997; seven days in...
Residency times and patterns of movement of postbreeding dunlin on a subarctic staging area in Alaska
Nils Warnock, Colleen M. Handel, Robert E. Gill Jr., Brian J. McCaffery
2013, Arctic (66) 407-416
Understanding how individuals use key resources is critical for effective conservation of a population. The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (YKD) in western Alaska is the most important postbreeding staging area for shorebirds in the subarctic North Pacific, yet little is known about movements of shorebirds there during the postbreeding period. To address...
Are captive tortoises a reservoir for conservation? An assessment of genealogical affiliation of captive Gopherus agassizii to local, wild populations
Kristin H. Berry, Taylor Edwards
2013, Conservation Genetics (14) 649-659
The conservation of tortoises poses a unique situation because several threatened species are commonly kept as pets within their native ranges. Thus, there is potential for captive populations to be a reservoir for repatriation efforts. We assess the utility of captive populations of the threatened Agassiz’s desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii)...
User's guide and metadata for WestuRe: U.S. Pacific Coast estuary/watershed data and R tools
M.R. Frazier, D.A. Reusser, H. Lee II, L.M. McCoy, C. Brown, W. Nelson
2013, Report
Overview There are about 350 estuaries along the U.S. Pacific Coast (U.S. Fish andWildlife 2011). Basic descriptive data for these estuaries, such as their size and watershed area, are important for coastal-scale research and conservation planning. However, this information is spread among many sources, making it difficult to find and standardize....
Extent of endocrine disruption in fish of western and Alaskan National Parks
Carl B. Schreck, Michael Kent
2013, Report
In 2008 2009, 998 fish were collected from 43 water bodies across 11 western Alaskan national parks and analyzed for reproductive abnormalities. Exposure to estrogenic substances such as pesticides can induce abnormalities like intersex. Results suggest there is a greater propensity for male intersex fish collected from parks located in...
