Water availability drives instream conditions and life-history of an imperiled desert fish: A case study to inform water management
Robert K. Al-Chokhachy, Roger Peka, Erik Horgen, Daniel J. Kaus, Tim Loux, Lisa Heki
2022, Science of the Total Environment (832)
In arid ecosystems, available water is a critical, yet limited resource for human consumption, agricultural use, and ecosystem processes—highlighting the importance of developing management strategies to meet the needs of multiple users. Here, we evaluated how water availability influences stream thermal regimes and life-history expressions of...
Working with dynamic earthquake rupture models: A practical guide
Marlon D. Ramos, Prithvi Thakur, Yihe Huang, Ruth A. Harris, Kenny J. Ryan
2022, Seismological Research Letters (93) 2096-2110
Dynamic rupture models are physics‐based simulations that couple fracture mechanics to wave propagation and are used to explain specific earthquake observations or to generate a suite of predictions to understand the influence of frictional, geometrical, stress, and material parameters. These simulations can model single...
Soil depth and precipitation moderate soil textural effects on seedling survival of a foundation shrub species
Kari E. Veblen, Kyle C. Nehring, Michael C. Duniway, Anna C. Knight, Thomas A. Monaco, Eugene W. Schupp, Janis L Boettinger, Juan J Villalba, Steven Fick, Colby C. Brungard, Eric Thacker
2022, Restoration Ecology (30)
In drylands, there is a need for controlled experiments over multiple planting years to examine how woody seedlings respond to soil texture and the potentially interactive effects of soil depth and precipitation. Understanding how multiple environmental factors interactively influence plant establishment is critical to restoration ecology and in this case...
Seed menus: An integrated decision-support framework for native plant restoration in the Mojave Desert
Daniel F. Shryock, Lesley A. DeFalco, Todd Esque
2022, Ecology and Evolution (12)
The combination of ecosystem stressors, rapid climate change, and increasing landscape-scale development has necessitated active restoration across large tracts of disturbed habitats in the arid southwestern United States. In this context, programmatic directives such as the National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration have increasingly emphasized improved restoration practices that...
Global genetic diversity status and trends: Towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition
Sean M. Hoban, Frederick I. Archer, Laura D. Bertola, Jason G. Bragg, Martin F. Breed, Michael W. Bruford, Melinda A. Coleman, Robert Ekblom, W. Chris Funk, Catherine E. Grueber, Brian K. Hand, Rodolfo Jaffé, Evelyn Jensen, Jeremy S. Johnson, Francine Kershaw, Libby Liggins, Anna J. MacDonald, Joachim Mergeay, Joshua M. Miller, Frank Muller-Karger, David O'Brien, Ivan Paz-Vinas, Kevin M. Potter, Orly Razgour, Cristiano Vernesi, Margaret Hunter
2022, Biological Reviews (97) 1511-1538
Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies, and human well-being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under anthropogenic stressors and global environmental change will require new ways of deriving and applying biodiversity data. A major challenge is that biodiversity data and knowledge are scattered, biased, collected...
The potential of using fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) in earthquake early warning applications
Noha Farghal, Jessie Kate Saunders, Grace Alexandra Parker
2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (112) 1416-1435
As the seismological community embraces fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), DAS arrays are becoming a logical, scalable option to obtain strain and ground‐motion data for which the installation of seismometers is not easy or cheap, such as in dense offshore arrays. The potential...
Groundwater resources of the Harney Basin, southeastern Oregon
Stephen B. Gingerich, Henry M. Johnson, Darrick E. Boschmann, Gerald H. Grondin, C. Amanda Garcia
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5103
Groundwater development has increased substantially in southeastern Oregon’s Harney Basin since 2010, mainly for the purpose of large-scale irrigation. Concurrently, some areas of the basin experienced groundwater-level declines of more than 100 feet, and some shallow wells have gone dry. The Oregon Water Resources Department has limited new groundwater...
Hydrologic budget of the Harney Basin groundwater system, southeastern Oregon
C. Amanda Garcia, Nicholas T. Corson-Dosch, Jordan P. Beamer, Stephen B. Gingerich, Gerald H. Grondin, Brandon T. Overstreet, Jonathan V. Haynes, Mellony D. Hoskinson
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5128
Groundwater-level declines and limited quantitative knowledge of the groundwater-flow system in the Harney Basin prompted a cooperative study between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Oregon Water Resources Department to evaluate the groundwater-flow system and budget. This report provides a hydrologic budget of the Harney Basin groundwater system that...
Soft pressure sensor for underwater sea lamprey detection
Hongyang Shi, Ian Gonzalez-Afanador, Christopher M. Holbrook, Nelson Sepulveda, Xiaobo Tan
2022, IEEE Sensors Journal (22) 9932-9944
In this paper, an economical and effective soft pressure sensor for underwater sea lamprey detection is proposed, which consists of an array of piezoresistive elements between two layers of perpendicular copper tape electrodes, forming a passive resistor network. With multiplexers, the apparent resistance corresponding to each pixel of the sensing...
Balancing model generality and specificity in management-focused habitat selection models for Gunnison sage-grouse
Dorothy Saher, Michael S. O’Donnell, Cameron L. Aldridge, Julie A. Heinrichs
2022, Global Ecology and Conservation (35)
Identifying, protecting, and restoring habitats for declining wildlife populations is foundational to conservation and recovery planning for any species at risk of decline. Resource selection analysis is a key tool to assess habitat and prescribe management actions. Yet, it can be challenging...
Annual summer submersed macrophyte standing stocks estimated from long-term monitoring data in the Upper Mississippi River
Deanne C. Drake, Eric M. Lund, Rebecca M. Kreiling
2022, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (13) 205-222
System-scale restoration efforts within the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge have included annual monitoring of submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV) since 1998 in four representative reaches spanning ∼ 440 river kilometers. We developed predictive models relating monitoring data (site-scale SAV abundance indices)...
Planetary Aeolian landforms: An introduction to the Fifth Planetary Dunes Workshop Special Issue
Simone Silvestro, Timothy N. Titus
2022, JGR Planets (127)
Aeolian landforms are widespread in our solar system. Understanding the exact nature and processes of formation of these features are challenging tasks necessitating a strong collaboration between scientists with different skills and scientific backgrounds. This paper describes the special issue for the 5th International Planetary Dunes Workshop, which...
Life and death in a dynamic environment: Invasive trout, floods, and intraspecific drivers of translocated populations
Brian D Healy, Phaedra E. Budy, Mary M. Conner, Emily C. Omana Smith
2022, Ecological Applications (32)
Understanding the relative strengths of intrinsic and extrinsic factors regulating populations is a long-standing focus of ecology and critical to advancing conservation programs for imperiled species. Conservation could benefit from an increased understanding of factors influencing vital rates (somatic growth, recruitment, survival) in small, translocated populations,...
Food web perspectives and methods for riverine fish conservation
Sean M. Naman, Seth M. White, J. Ryan Bellmore, Peter A. McHugh, Matthew J. Kaylor, Colden V. Baxter, Robert J. Danehy, Robert J. Naiman, Amy L. Puls
2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Water (9)
Food web analyses offer useful insights into understanding how species interactions, trophic relationships, and energy flow underpin important demographic parameters of fish populations such as survival, growth, and reproduction. However, the vast amount of food web literature and the diversity of approaches can be a deterrent to fisheries practitioners engaged...
Redear Sunfish occurrence, abundance, growth, and size structure as related to abiotic and biotic factors in Florida lakes
Andrew Kenneth Carlson, Mark V. Hoyer
2022, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (42) 775-786
Panfish support popular, socioeconomically valuable fisheries across the United States. Whereas Bluegill Lepomis macrochirus and Black Crappie Pomoxis nigromaculatus receive considerable research attention, Redear Sunfish L. microlophus are seldom studied despite their wide distribution, large size, socioeconomic contributions, and invasion potential in parts of their introduced range. We evaluated Redear Sunfish occurrence, density, relative abundance, growth, and...
Optimizing management of invasions in an uncertain world using dynamic spatial models
Kim M. Pepin, Amy J. Davis, Rebecca S. Epanchin-Niell, Andrew M. Gormley, Joslin L. Moore, Timothy J. Smyser, H. Bradley Shaffer, William L. Kendall, Katriona Shea, Michael C. Runge, Sophie McKee
2022, Ecological Applications (32)
Dispersal drives invasion dynamics of nonnative species and pathogens. Applying knowledge of dispersal to optimize the management of invasions can mean the difference between a failed and a successful control program and dramatically improve the return on investment of control efforts. A common approach to identifying optimal management solutions for...
Environmental drivers of biseasonal anthrax outbreak dynamics in two multihost savanna systems
Yen-Hua Huang, Kyrre Kausrud, Ayesha Hassim, Sunday O. Ochai, O. Louis van Schalkwyk, Edgar H. Dekker, Alexander Buyantuev, Claudine C. Cloete, J. Werner Kilian, John K.E. Mfune, Pauline L. Kamath, Henriette van Heerden, Wendy Christine Turner
2022, Ecological Monographs (92)
Environmental factors are common forces driving infectious disease dynamics. We compared interannual and seasonal patterns of anthrax infections in two multihost systems in southern Africa: Etosha National Park, Namibia, and Kruger National Park, South Africa. Using several decades of mortality data from each system, we assessed possible transmission mechanisms behind...
Taming the temperature: Sagebrush songbirds modulate microclimate via nest-site selection
Tayler M. Scherr, Anna D. Chalfoun
2022, Ornithology (139)
Understanding species’ responses to temperature via behavior, and the factors affecting the extent of behavioral responses, is a critical and timely endeavor given the rapid pace at which the climate is changing. The young of altricial songbirds are particularly sensitive to temperature, and parents may modulate temperatures at nests via...
Olivine and glass chemistry record cycles of plumbing system recovery after summit collapse events at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai‘i
Kendra J. Lynn, Donald A. Swanson
2022, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (JVGR) (426)
The eruptive activity of Kīlauea Volcano (Hawai‘i) in the past 2500 years has alternated between centuries-long periods dominated either by explosive or effusive eruptions. The onset of explosive periods appears to be marked by caldera collapse events at the volcano's summit accompanied by draining of Kīlauea's magmatic plumbing system. Here...
Ungulate migrations of the western United States, volume 2
Matthew J. Kauffman, Blake Lowrey, Jeffrey L. Beck, Jodi Berg, Scott Bergen, Joel Berger, James W. Cain III, Sarah Dewey, Jennifer Diamond, Orrin Duvuvuei, Fattebert, Jeff Gagnon, Julia Garcia, Evan Greenspan, Embere Hall, Glenn Harper, Stan Harter, Kent Hersey, Pat Hnilicka, Mark Hurley, Lee Knox, Art Lawson, Eric Maichak, James Meacham, Jerod Merkle, Arthur Middleton, Daniel Olson, Lucas Olson, Craig Reddell, Benjamin S. Robb, Gabe Rozman, Hall Sawyer, Cody Schroeder, Brandon Scurlock, Jeff Short, Scott Sprague, Alethea Steingisser, Nicole Tatman
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5008
Migration is widespread across taxonomic groups and increasingly recognized as fundamental to maintaining abundant wildlife populations and communities. Many ungulate herds migrate across the western United States to access food and avoid harsh environmental conditions. With the advent of global positioning system (GPS) collars, researchers can describe and map the...
Historical development of the U.S. Geological Survey hydrological monitoring and investigative programs at the Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho, 2002–2020
Roy C. Bartholomay
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1027
This report summarizes the historical development and operations, from 2002 to 2020, of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) hydrologic monitoring and investigative programs at the Idaho National Laboratory in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy. The report covers the USGS’s programs for water-level monitoring, water-quality sampling, geochemical studies,...
Integrating growth and survival models for flexible estimation of size-dependent survival in a cryptic, endangered snake
Jonathan P. Rose, Richard Kim, Elliot James Schoenig, Patrick C. Lien, Brian J. Halstead
2022, Ecology and Evolution (12)
Estimates of demographic rates for animal populations and individuals have many applications for ecological and conservation research. In many animals, survival is size-dependent, but estimating the form of the size–survival relationship presents challenges. For elusive species with low recapture rates, individuals’ size will be unknown at many points in time....
Climate refugia for Pinus spp. in topographic and bioclimatic environments of the Madrean sky islands of México and the United States
Sandra L. Haire, Miguel L. Villarreal, Citlali Cortes Montano, Aaron D. Flesch, Jose M. Iniguez, Jose Raul Romo-Leon, Jamie S. Sanderlin
2022, Plant Ecology (223) 577-598
Climate refugia, or places where habitats are expected to remain relatively buffered from regional climate extremes, provide an important focus for science and conservation planning. Within high-priority, multi-jurisdictional landscapes like the Madrean sky islands of the United States and México, efforts to identify and manage climate refugia are hindered by...
Reassessing perennial cover as a driver of duck nest survival in the Prairie Pothole Region
Aaron T. Pearse, Michael J. Anteau, Max Post van der Burg, Mark H. Sherfy, Thomas K. Buhl, Terry L. Shaffer
2022, Journal of Wildlife Management (86)
Conservation plans designed to sustain North American duck populations prominently feature a key hypothesis stating that the amount of the landscape in perennial cover surrounding upland duck nests positively influences nest survival rates. Recent conflicting research testing this hypothesis creates ambiguity regarding which management actions to pursue and where to...
Sea-level rise and warming mediate coastal groundwater discharge in the Arctic
Julia Guimond, Aaron Mohammad, Michelle A. Walvoord, Victor F. Bense, Barret L. Kurylyk
2022, Environmental Research Letters (17)
Groundwater discharge is an important mechanism through which fresh water and associated solutes are delivered to the ocean. Permafrost environments have traditionally been considered hydrogeologically inactive, yet with accelerated climate change and permafrost thaw, groundwater flow paths are activating and opening subsurface connections to the coastal zone....
