Toward scoping reviews of individual bird species
Christopher J W McClure, Zackery Szymczycha, David L Anderson, Francisca Helena Aguiar-Silva, Sarah Schulwitz, Leah Dunn, MIchael T Henderson, Leticia Camacho, Jose de Jesus Vargas Gonzalez, Chris N. Parish, Evan R. Buechley, Jesse D’Elia, Sanford Wilbur, Kenneth Johansen, Devin L Johnson, Soren Moller, Ivan Pokrovsky, Todd E. Katzner
2022, Ibis (164) 835-845
Scoping reviews, in which the literature on a given topic is systematically collated and summarized, aid literature searches and highlight knowledge gaps on a given topic, thus hastening scientific progress and informing conservation efforts. Because much research and conservation is targeted at the species level, ornithology...
INHABIT: A web-based decision support tool for invasive plant species habitat visualization and assessment across the contiguous United States
Peder Engelstad, Catherine S. Jarnevich, Terri Hogan, Helen Sofaer, Ian S. Pearse, Jennifer Sieracki, Neil Frakes, Julia Sullivan, Nicholas E. Young, Janet S. Prevey, Pairsa Nicole Belamaric, Jillian Marie Laroe
Daniel de Paiva Silva, editor(s)
2022, PLoSOne (17) 1-15
Narrowing the communication and knowledge gap between producers and users of scientific data is a longstanding problem in ecological conservation and land management. Decision support tools (DSTs), including websites or interactive web applications, provide platforms that can help bridge this gap. DSTs can most effectively disseminate and translate research results...
Volcano geodesy using InSAR in 2020: The past and next decades
Michael Poland, Howard Zebker
2022, Bulletin of Volcanology (84)
The study of volcano deformation has grown significantly through they year 2020 since the development of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) in the 1990s. This relatively new data source, which provides evidence of changes in subsurface magma storage and pressure without the need for ground-based equipment, has matured during the past...
Permeability measurement and prediction with nuclear magnetic resonance analysis of gas hydrate-bearing sediments recovered from Alaska North Slope 2018 Hydrate-01 Stratigraphic Test Well
Jun Yoneda, Kiyofumi Suzuki, Yusuke Jin, Satoshi Ohtsuki, Timothy S. Collett, Ray Boswell, Yuki Maehara, Norihiro Okinaka
2022, Energy and Fuels Journal (36) 2515-2529
Permeability of porous media, such as oil and gas reservoirs, is the crucial material parameter for predicting their hydraulic behavior. A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analyzer is widely used as a powerful tool to predict permeability of various media. NMR T2 (transverse or spin–spin) relaxation time distribution, which...
Validating predicted site response in sedimentary basins from 3D ground motion simulations
Chukwuebuka C Nweke, Jonathan P. Stewart, Robert Graves, Christine A. Goulet, Scott J Brandenberg
2022, Earthquake Spectra (38) 2135-2161
We introduce procedures to validate site response in sedimentary basins as predicted using ground motion simulations. These procedures aim to isolate contributions of site response to computed intensity measures relative to those from seismic source and path effects. In one of the validation procedures, simulated motions are...
Exploring genetic variation and population structure in a threatened species, Noturus placidus, with whole-genome sequence data
Lynsey K. Whitacre, Mark L. Wildhaber, Gary S. Johnson, Harly J. Durbin, Troy N. Rowan, Peoria Tribe, Robert D. Schnabel, Tendai Mhlanga-Mutangadura, Vernon M. Tabor, Daniel Fenner, Jared E. Decker
2022, G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics (12)
The Neosho madtom (Noturus placidus) is a small catfish, generally less than 3 inches in length, unique to the Neosho-Spring River system within the Arkansas River Basin. It was federally listed as threatened in 1990, largely due to habitat loss. For conservation efforts, we generated whole-genome sequence data from...
Classifying behavior from short-interval biologging data: An example with GPS tracking of birds
Silas Bergen, Manuela Huso, A. Duerr, Missy A Braham, Todd E. Katzner, Sara Schmuecker, Tricia A. Miller
2022, Ecology and Evolution (12)
Recent advances in digital data collection have spurred accumulation of immense quantities of data that have potential to lead to remarkable ecological insight, but that also present analytic challenges. In the case of biologging data from birds, common analytical approaches to classifying movement behaviors are largely inappropriate for these...
Analyzing the effects of land cover change on the water balance for case study watersheds in different forested ecosystems in the USA
Nathan C. Healey, Jennifer Rover
2022, Land (11)
We analyzed impacts of interannual disturbance on the water balance of watersheds in different forested ecosystem case studies across the United States from 1985 to 2016 using a remotely sensed long-term land cover monitoring record (U.S. Geological Survey Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) Collection 1.0 Science products), gridded...
Rainfall triggering of post-fire debris flows over a 28-year period near El Portal, California, USA
Jerome V. De Graff, Dennis M. Staley, Greg M. Stock, Kellen Takenaka, Alan L. Gallegos, Chad K. Neptune
2022, Environmental and Engineering Geoscience (28) 133-145
Wildfires frequently affect the steep hillslopes near El Portal, California (United States), a small community established during the California Gold Rush in the mid-1800s. In addition to the historical significance of El Portal, State Route 140 (SR 140) is a major transportation and economic corridor connecting the San Joaquin Valley...
Detrital zircon provenance of the Cretaceous-Neogene East Coast Basin reveals changing tectonic conditions and drainage reorganization along the Pacific margin of Zealandia
Jared T. Gooley, Nora Maria Nieminski
2022, Geosphere (18) 616-646
The Upper Cretaceous–Pliocene strata of New Zealand record ~100 m.y. of Zealandia’s evolution, including development of the Hikurangi convergent margin and Alpine transform plate boundary. A comprehensive, new detrital zircon U-Pb data set (8315 analyses from 61 samples) was generated along a ~700 km transect of the East Coast Basin...
DSWEmod - The production of high-frequency surface water map composites from daily MODIS images
Christopher E. Soulard, Eric Waller, Jessica J. Walker, Roy E. Petrakis, Britt Windsor Smith
2022, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (58) 248-268
Optical satellite imagery is commonly used for monitoring surface water dynamics, but clouds and cloud shadows present challenges in assembling complete water time series. To test whether the daily revisit rate of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite imagery can reduce cloud obstruction and improve high-frequency...
Peak-flow and low-flow magnitude estimates at defined frequencies and durations for nontidal streams in Delaware
John C. Hammond, Edward J. Doheny, Jonathan J.A. Dillow, Mark R. Nardi, Peter A. Steeves, Daniel L. Warner
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5005
Reliable estimates of the magnitude of peak flows in streams are required for the economical and safe design of transportation and water conveyance structures. In addition, reliable estimates of the magnitude of low flows at defined frequencies and durations are needed for meeting regulatory requirements, quantifying base flows in streams...
Partitioning ground motion uncertainty when conditioned on station data
Davis T. Engler, Charles Worden, Eric M. Thompson, Kishor S. Jaiswal
2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (112) 1060-1079
Rapid estimation of earthquake ground shaking and proper accounting of associated uncertainties in such estimates when conditioned on strong‐motion station data or macroseismic intensity observations are crucial for downstream applications such as ground failure and loss estimation. The U.S. Geological Survey ShakeMap system is called upon to fulfill this objective...
Least Bell's Vireos and Southwestern Willow Flycatchers at the San Luis Rey flood risk management project area in San Diego County, California: Breeding activities and habitat use—2021 Annual report
Alexandra Houston, Lisa D. Allen, Ryan E. Pottinger, Barbara E. Kus
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1012
Executive SummarySurveys and monitoring for the endangered Least Bell’s Vireo (Vireo bellii pusillus; vireo) were done at the San Luis Rey Flood Risk Management Project Area (Project Area) in the city of Oceanside, San Diego County, California, between April 4 and August 4, 2021. We completed four protocol surveys during...
The global environmental agenda urgently needs a semantic web of knowledge
Stefano Balbi, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Ainhoa Magrach, Maria Jose Sanz, Naikoa Aguilar-Amuchastegui, Carlo Guipponi, Ferdinando Villa
2022, Environmental Evidence (11)
Progress in key social-ecological challenges of the global environmental agenda (e.g., climate change, biodiversity conservation, Sustainable Development Goals) is hampered by a lack of integration and synthesis of existing scientific evidence. Facing a fast-increasing volume of data, information remains compartmentalized to pre-defined scales and fields, rarely building its way up...
Effects of weather variation on waterfowl migration: Lessons from a continental-scale generalizable avian movement and energetics model
Kevin Aagaard, Eric V. Lonsdorf, Wayne E. Thogmartin
2022, Ecology and Evolution (12)
We developed a continental energetics-based model of daily mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) movement during the non-breeding period (September to May) to predict year-specific migration and overwinter occurrence. The model approximates movements and stopovers as functions of metabolism and weather, in terms of temperature and frozen precipitation (i.e.,...
Atlantic circulation change still uncertain
K. Halimeda Kilbourne, Alan D. Wanamaker, Paola Moffa-Sanchez, David J. Reynolds, Daniel E. Amrhein, Paul G. Butler, Marlos Goes, Malte Jansen, Christopher M. Little, Madelyn Jean Mette, Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro, Pablo Ortega, Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, Thomas Rossby, James Scourse, Nina M. Whitney
2022, Nature Geoscience (15) 165-167
Deep oceanic overturning circulation in the Atlantic (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)) is projected to decrease in the future in response to anthropogenic warming. Caesar et al.1 argue that an AMOC slowdown started in the nineteenth century and intensified during the mid-twentieth century. Although the argument and selected evidence proposed...
Wildfire probability models calibrated using past human and lightning ignition patterns can inform mitigation of post-fire hydrologic hazards
Miguel L. Villarreal, Laura M. Norman, Erika Yao, Caroline Rose Conrad
2022, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk (13) 568-590
Most wildfires are started by humans, however, geographic variation of potential ignition sources is not often explicitly accounted for in wildfire simulation modelling or risk assessments. In this study, we investigated how patterns of human and lightning ignitions can influence modelled fire simulations and demonstrate how these...
Mapping benthic algae and cyanobacteria in river channels from aerial photographs and satellite images: A proof-of-concept investigation on the Buffalo National River, AR, USA
Carl J. Legleiter, Shawn W Hodges
2022, Remote Sensing (14)
Although rivers are of immense practical, aesthetic, and recreational value, these aquatic habitats are particularly sensitive to environmental changes. Increasingly, changes in streamflow and water quality are resulting in blooms of bottom-attached (benthic) algae, also known as periphyton, which have become widespread in many water bodies of US national parks....
Quantitative meta-analysis reveals no association between mercury contamination and body condition in birds
Alice Carravieri, Orsolya Vincze, Paco Bustamante, Joshua T. Ackerman, Evan M. Adams, Frederic Angelier, Olivier Chastel, Yves Cherel, Olivier Gilg, Elena Golubova, Alexander Kitaysky, Katelyn Luff, Chad L. Seewagen, Hallvard Strom, Alexis P. Will, Glenn Yannic, Mathieu Giraudeau, Jerome Fort
2022, Biological Reviews (97) 1253-1271
Mercury contamination is a major threat to the global environment, and is still increasing in some regions despite international regulations. The methylated form of mercury is hazardous to biota, yet its sublethal effects are difficult to detect in wildlife. Body condition can vary in response to...
Molecular mechanisms of solid bitumen and vitrinite reflectance suppression explored using hydrous pyrolysis of artificial source rock
Margaret M. Sanders, Aaron M. Jubb, Paul C. Hackley, Kenneth E. Peters
2022, Organic Geochemistry (165)
The most commonly used parameter for thermal maturity calibration in basin modelling is mean random vitrinite reflectance (Ro). However, Ro suppression has been noted in samples containing a high proportion of liptinite macerals. This phenomenon has been demonstrated empirically using hydrous...
Integration of vegetation classification with land cover mapping: Lessons from regional mapping efforts in the Americas
Patrick J. Comer, Jon C Hak, Daryn Dockter, Jim Smith
2022, Vegetation Classification and Survey 29-43
Aims: Natural resource management and biodiversity conservation rely on inventories of vegetation that span multiple management or political jurisdictions. However, while remote sensing data and analytical tools have enabled production of maps at increasing spatial resolution and reliability, there are limited examples where national or continental-scaled maps are produced to...
Fishway Entrance Palisade
Kevin Mulligan, Richard Palmer, Brett Towler, Alexander Haro, Bjorn Lake, Marcia Rojas, Elizabeth Lotter
2022, Report
This technical report summarizes the work that was conducted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), along with other project partners, on the Fishway Entrance Palisade (EP), a projected funded through the Department of Energy’s (DOE) funding opportunity titled ‘Innovative Solutions for Fish Passage...
A statistical framework for integrating nonparametric proxy distributions into geological reconstructions of relative sea level
Erica L. Ashe, Nicole S. Khan, Lauren T. Toth, Andrea Dutton, Robert E. Kopp
2022, Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography (8) 1-29
Robust, proxy-based reconstructions of relative sea-level (RSL) change are critical to distinguishing the processes that drive spatial and temporal sea-level variability. The relationships between individual proxies and RSL can be complex and are often poorly represented by traditional methods that assume Gaussian likelihood distributions. We develop a new statistical framework...
Three Mw ≥ 4.7 earthquakes within the Changning (China) shale gas field ruptured shallow faults intersecting with hydraulic fracturing wells
Shuai Wang, Guoyan Jiang, Xinglin Lei, Andrew J. Barbour, Xibin Tan, Caijun Xu, Xiwei Xu
2022, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (127)
From 2017 to 2019, three destructive earthquakes (27 January 2017 Mw 4.7, 16 December 2018 Mw 5.2, and 3 January 2019 Mw 4.8) occurred in the Changning shale gas field in the southwest Sichuan Basin, China. Previous seismological studies attributed these events to hydraulic fracturing (HF), but were unable to...
