Long-term ice phenology records spanning up to 578 years for 78 lakes around the Northern Hemisphere
Sapna Sharma, Alessnadro Filazzola, Thi Nguyen, Mohammad Imrit, Kevin Blagrave, Damien Bouffard, Julia Daly, Harley Feldman, Natalie Feldsine, Harrie-Jan Hendricks-Franssen, Nikolay Granin, Richard Hecock, Jan Henning L'Abee-Lund, Ed Hopkins, Neil Howk, Michael Iacono, Lesley B. Knoll, Johanna Korhonen, Hilmar Malmquist, Woldzimierz Marszelewski, Shin-ichiro S. Matsuzaki, Yuichi Miyabara, Kiyoshi Miyasaka, Alexander Mills, Lolita Olson, Theodore Peters, David Richardson, Dale M. Robertson, Lars G. Rudstam, Danielle Wain, Holly Waterfield, Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer, Brendan Wiltse, Huaxia Yao, Andry Zhdanov, John J. Magnuson
2022, Scientific Data (9)
In recent decades, lakes have experienced unprecedented ice loss with widespread ramifications for winter ecological processes. The rapid loss of ice, resurgence of winter biology, and proliferation of remote sensing technologies, presents a unique opportunity to integrate disciplines to further understand the broad spatial and temporal patterns in ice loss...
A framework for ensemble modelling of climate change impacts on lakes worldwide: The ISIMIP lake sector.
Malgorzata Golub, Wim Thiery, Rafael Marce, Don Pierson, Inne Vanderkelen, Daniel Mercado-Bettin, R. Iestyn Woolway, Luke Grant, Eleanor Jennings, Benjamin Kraemer, Jacob Schewe, Fang Zhao, Katja Frieler, Matthias Mengel, Vasiliy Y. Bogomolov, Damian Bouffard, Marianne Cote, Raoul-Marie Couture, Andrey V. Debolskiy, Bram Droppers, Gideon Gal, Mingyang Guo, Annette B. G. Janssen, Georgiy Kirillin, Robert Ladwig, Madeline Magee, Tadhg Moore, Marjorie Perroud, Sebastiano Piccolroaz, Love Raaman Vinnea, Martin Schmid, Tom Shatwell, Victor M. Stepanenko, Zeli Tan, Bronwyn Woodward, Huaxia Yao, Rita Adrian, Mathew Allan, Orlane Anneville, Lauri Arvola, Karen Atkins, Leon Boegman, Cayelan C. Carey, Kyle Christianson, Elvira de Eyto, Curtis L. DeGasperi, Maria Grechushnikova, Josef Hejzlar, Klaus Joehnk, Ian D. Jones, Alo Laas, Eleanor B. MacKay, Ivan Mammarella, Hampus Markensten, Christopher G. McBride, Deniz Özkundakci, Miguel Potes, Karsten Rinke, Dale M. Robertson, James A. Rusak, Rui Salgado, Leon van der Linden, Piet Verburg, Danielle Wain, Nicole K. Ward, Sabine Wollrab, Galina Zdorovennova
2022, Geoscientific Model Development (15) 4297-4623
Empirical evidence demonstrates that lakes and reservoirs are warming across the globe. Consequently, there is an increased need to project future changes in lake thermal structure and resulting changes in lake biogeochemistry in order to plan for the likely impacts. Previous studies of the impacts of climate change on lakes...
Computed tomography for measuring body fat reserves in threatened Mohave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii)
M A Walden, Rachel Jania, Matthew E Kinney, Anne Devan-Song, K. Kristina Drake, Todd C. Esque, Kevin T. Shoemaker
2022, Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine (53) 412-423
Noninvasive methods for measuring fat reserves in both captive and free-ranging animals are important for monitoring individual and population health, but chelonian anatomy and physiology present challenges to accurate measurements. Standard field-based methods for assessing body condition in Mojave desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) involve the...
Statistical assessment on determining local presence of rare bat species
Kathryn M. Irvine, Katharine M. Banner, Christian Stratton, W. Mark Ford, Brian Reichert
2022, Ecosphere (13)
Surveying cryptic, sparsely distributed taxa using autonomous recording units, although cost-effective, provides imperfect knowledge about species presence. Summertime bat acoustic surveys in North America exemplify the challenges with characterizing sources of uncertainty: observation error, inability to census populations, and natural stochastic variation. Statistical uncertainty, if not...
Remote sensing of field-scale irrigation withdrawals in the central Ogallala aquifer region
Steven S Filippelli, Matthew R Sloggy, Jody C. Vogeler, Dale T Manning, Christopher Goemans, Gabriel B. Senay
2022, Agricultural Water Management (271)
For agricultural areas facing water scarcity, sustainable water use policy relies on irrigation information that is timely and at a high resolution, but existing publicly available water use data are often insufficient for monitoring compliance or understanding the influence of policy on individual farmer decisions. This study attempts to fill...
The consequences of climate change for dryland biogeochemistry
Brooke Bossert Osborne, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Courtney M. Currier, Peter M Homyak, Heather L. Throop, Kristina E Young, Sasha C. Reed
2022, New Phytologist Foundation (236) 15-20
Drylands, which cover more than 40% of Earth’s terrestrial surface, are dominant drivers of global biogeochemical cycling and home to more than one third of the human population. Climate projections predict warming, drought frequency and severity, and evaporative...
Implementation plan of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program strategy — Appalachian Piedmont and Blue Ridge Provinces
Arthur J. Merschat, Mark W. Carter, 2018 Piedmont and Blue Ridge Working Group
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1050
The National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program is publishing a strategic plan titled “Renewing the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program as the Nation’s Authoritative Source for Modern Geologic Knowledge.” The plan provides a vision, mission, and goals for the program for the years 2020–30:Vision: create an integrated, three-dimensional, digital geologic map...
Opportunities to improve alignment with the FAIR Principles for U.S. Geological Survey data
Frances L. Lightsom, Vivian B. Hutchison, Bradley Bishop, Linda M. Debrewer, David L. Govoni, Natalie Latysh, Shelley Stall
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1043
In 2016, an interdisciplinary, international group of 53 scientists introduced a framework named “the FAIR Principles” for addressing 21st century scientific data challenges. The FAIR Principles are increasingly used as a guide for producing digital scientific products that are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), especially to enable use of...
Arkansas and Landsat
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3042
Scenic Arkansas certainly lives up to its nickname, “The Natural State.” The Ozark Plateau and Ouachita Mountains boast stunning views, vast resources, and recreation. Hardwood and pine forests cover one-half of the State. The major rivers—Arkansas, Ouachita, Red, and White—offer recreation and navigation as they drain toward the Mississippi River,...
Bayesian inverse reinforcement learning for collective animal movement
Toryn L. J. Schafer, Christopher K. Wikle, Mevin Hooten
2022, Annals of Applied Statistics (16) 999-1013
Agent-based methods allow for defining simple rules that generate complex group behaviors. The governing rules of such models are typically set a priori, and parameters are tuned from observed behavior trajectories. Instead of making simplifying assumptions across all anticipated scenarios, inverse reinforcement learning provides inference on the short-term...
Resist, accept, and direct responses to biological invasions: A social–ecological perspective
Jason B. Dunham, Joseph R. Benjamin, David J. Lawrence, Katherine Clifford
2022, Fisheries Management and Ecology (29) 475-485
Biological invasions represent an important and unique case of ecological transformation that can strongly influence species and entire ecosystems. Challenges in managing invasions arise on multiple fronts, ranging from diverse and often divergent values associated with native and introduced species, logistical constraints, and transformation via other...
A haploid pseudo-chromosome genome assembly for a keystone sagebrush species of western North American rangelands
Anthony E. Melton, Andrew W. Child, Richard S. Beard Jr., Carlos Dave C. Dumaguit, Jennifer S. Forbey, Matthew Germino, Marie-Anne de Graaff, Andrew Kliskey, Ilia J. Leitch, Peggy Martinez, Stephen J. Novak, Jaume Pellicer, Bryce A. Richardson, Desiree Self, Marcelo D. Serpe, Sven Buerki
2022, G3 Genes, Genomes, Genetics (12)
Increased ecological disturbances, species invasions, and climate change are creating severe conservation problems for several plant species that are widespread and foundational. Understanding the genetic diversity of these species and how it relates to adaptation to these stressors are necessary for guiding conservation and restoration efforts. This need is...
How do accuracy and model agreement vary with versioning, scale, and landscape heterogeneity for satellite-derived vegetation maps in sagebrush steppe?
Cara Applestein, Matthew J. Germino
2022, Ecological Indicators (139)
Maps of the distribution and abundance of dominant plants derived from satellite data are essential for ecological research and management, particularly in the vast semiarid shrub-steppe. Appropriate application of these maps requires an understanding of model accuracy and precision, and how it might vary across space, time, and different vegetation...
Thirteen novel ideas and underutilized resources to support progress towards a range-wide American eel stock assessment
David K. Cairns, José Benchetrit, Louis Bernatchez, Virginie Bornarel, John M. Casselman, Martin Castonguay, Anthony Charsley, Malte Dorrow, Hilaire Drouineau, Jens Frankowski, Alexander Haro, Simon Hoyle, D. Craig Knickle, Marten A. Koops, Luke A. Poirier, James T. Thorson, John A. Young, Xinhua Zhu
2022, Fisheries Management and Ecology (29) 516-541
A robust assessment of the American eel (Anguilla rostrata) stock, required to guide conservation efforts, is challenged by the species’ vast range, high variability in demographic parameters and data inadequacies. Novel ideas and underutilised resources that may assist both analytic assessments and spatially oriented modelling include (1) species and environmental databases;...
Quantifying relations between altered hydrology and fish community responses for streams in Minnesota
Jeffrey R. Ziegeweid, Gregory D. Johnson, Aliesha L. Krall, Kara Fitzpatrick, Sara B. Levin
2022, Ecological Processes (11)
Altered hydrology is a stressor on aquatic life for several streams in Minnesota, but quantitative relations between specific aspects of streamflow alteration and biological responses have not been developed on a statewide scale in Minnesota. Best subsets regression analysis was used to develop linear regression models that quantify relations...
Dammed water quality — Longitudinal stream responses below beaver ponds in the Umpqua River Basin, Oregon
John R. Stevenson, Jason B. Dunham, Steve M. Wondzell, Jimmy D. Taylor
2022, Ecohydrology (15)
Beaver-related restoration (BRR) has gained popularity as a means of improving stream ecosystems, but the effects are not fully understood. Studies of dissolved oxygen (DO) and water temperature, key water quality metrics for salmonids, have demonstrated improved conditions in some cases, but warming and decreased DO have been more commonly...
Spectral mixture analysis for surveillance of harmful algal blooms (SMASH): A field-, laboratory-, and satellite-based approach to identifying cyanobacteria genera from remotely sensed data
Carl J. Legleiter, Tyler Victor King, Kurt D. Carpenter, Natalie Celeste Hall, Adam Mumford, E. Terrence Slonecker, Jennifer L. Graham, Victoria G. Stengel, Nancy Simon, Barry H. Rosen
2022, Remote Sensing of Environment (279)
Algal blooms around the world are increasing in frequency and severity, often with the possibility of adverse effects on human and ecosystem health. The health and economic impacts associated with harmful algal blooms, or HABs, provide compelling rationale for developing new methods for monitoring these...
Tree regrowth duration map from LCMAP collection 1.0 land cover products in the conterminous United States, 1985–2017
Qiang Zhou, George Z. Xian, Josephine Horton, Danika F. Wellington, Grant Domke, Roger F. Auch, Congcong Li, Zhe Zhu
2022, GIScience & Remote Sensing (59) 959-974
Forest covers about one-third of the land area of the conterminous United States (CONUS) and plays an important role in offsetting carbon emissions and supporting local economies. Growing interest in forests as relatively cost-effective nature-based climate solutions, particularly restoration and reforestation activities, has increased the demand for information on forest...
The role of microtopography and resident species in post-disturbance recovery of arid habitats in Hawaiʻi
Stephanie G. Yelenik, Eli Rose, Susan Cordell, Michelle Victoria, James R. Kellner
2022, Ecological Applications (32)
Habitat-suitability indices (HSI) have been employed in restoration to identify optimal sites for planting native species. Often, HSI are based on abiotic variables and do not include biotic interactions, even though similar abiotic conditions can favor both native and nonnative species. Biotic interactions such as competition may be especially important...
Analysis of surface water trends for the conterminous United States using MODIS satellite data, 2003–2019
Roy Petrakis, Christopher E. Soulard, Eric K. Waller, Jessica J. Walker
2022, Water Resources Research (58)
Satellite imagery is commonly used to map surface water extents over time, but many approaches yield discontinuous records resulting from cloud obstruction or image archive gaps. We applied the Dynamic Surface Water Extent (DSWE) model to downscaled (250-m) daily Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data in Google...
A water quality barometer for Chesapeake Bay: Assessing spatial and temporal patterns using long-term monitoring data
A.R. Zahran, Qian Zhang, Peter J. Tango, E.P. Smith
2022, Ecological Indicators (140)
This paper develops a barometer that indexes water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and summarizes quality over spatial regions and temporal periods. The barometer has a basis in risk assessment and hydrology, and is a function of three different metrics of water...
Response of riparian vegetation to short- and long-term hydrologic variation
J. M. Friedman, Abigail M. Eurich, Gregor T. Auble, Michael L. Scott, Patrick B. Shafroth, Polly P Gibson
2022, Ecological Applications (32)
Increasing demand for river water now conflicts with an increasing desire to maintain riparian ecosystems. Efficiently managing river flows for riparian vegetation requires an understanding of the time scale of flow effects, but this information is limited by the absence of long-term studies of vegetation change...
Predicting near-term effects of climate change on nitrogen transport to Chesapeake Bay
Scott Ator, Gregory E. Schwarz, Andrew Sekellick, Gopal Bhatt
2022, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (58) 578-596
Understanding effects of climate change on nitrogen fate and transport in the environment is critical to nutrient management. We used climate projections within a previously calibrated spatially referenced regression (SPARROW) model to predict effects of expected climate change over 1995 through 2025 on total nitrogen fluxes to Chesapeake Bay and...
A novel method for conducting a geoenvironmental assessment of undiscovered ISR-amenable uranium Resources: Proof-of-concept in the Texas Coastal Plain
Tanya J. Gallegos, Victoria G. Stengel, Katherine Walton-Day, Johanna Blake, Andrew Teeple, Delbert G Humberson, Steven M. Cahan, Douglas Yager, Kent D Becher
2022, Minerals (12)
A geoenvironmental assessment methodology was developed to estimate waste quantities and disturbances that could be associated with the extraction of undiscovered uranium resources and identify areas on the landscape where uranium and other constituents of potential concern (COPCs) that may co-occur with uranium deposits in this region are likely...
Processes and mechanisms of coastal woody-plant mortality
Nate G. McDowell, Marilyn Ball, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Matthew L. Kirwan, Ken Krauss, J. Patrick Megonigal, Maurizio Mencuccini, Nicholas D. Ward, Michael N. Weintraub, Vanessa Bailey
2022, Global Change Biology (28) 5881-5900
Observations of woody plant mortality in coastal ecosystems are globally widespread, but the overarching processes and underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. This knowledge deficiency, combined with rapidly changing water levels, storm surges, atmospheric CO2, and vapor pressure deficit, creates large predictive uncertainty regarding how coastal ecosystems will respond to global...
