Quantifying the relationship between prey density, livestock and illegal killing of leopards
Mahmood Soofi, Ali T. Qashqaei, Marzieh Mousavi, Ehsan Hadipour, Marc Filla, Bahram H. Kiabi, Benjamin Bleyhl, Arash Ghoddousi, Niko Balkenhol, Andy Royle, Chris R. Pavey, Igor Khorozyan, Matthias Waltert
Matt W. Hayward, editor(s)
2022, Journal of Applied Ecology (59) 1536-1547
Many large mammalian carnivores are facing population declines due to illegal killing (e.g., shooting) and habitat modification (e.g., livestock farming). Illegal killing occurs cryptically and hence is difficult to detect. However, reducing illegal killing requires a solid understanding of its magnitude and underlying drivers, while accounting for the imperfect...
Using near-term forecasts and uncertainty partitioning to inform prediction of oligotrophic lake cyanobacterial density
Mary Lofton, Jennifer A. Brentrup, Whitney S. Beck, Jacob Aaron Zwart, Ruchi Bhattacharya, Ludmila S Brighenti, Sarah H. Burnett, Ian M. McCullough, Bethel Steele, Cayelan C. Carey, Kathryn L Cottingham, Michael Dietze, Holly A. Ewing, Kathleen C. Weathers, Shannon L. LaDeau
2022, Ecological Applications (32)
Near-term ecological forecasts provide resource managers advance notice of changes in ecosystem services, such as fisheries stocks, timber yields, or water quality. Importantly, ecological forecasts can identify where there is uncertainty in the forecasting system, which is necessary to improve forecast skill and guide interpretation of forecast results. Uncertainty partitioning...
A comparison of eDNA and visual survey methods for detection of longnose darter Percina nasuta in Missouri
Jacob Thomas Westhoff, Leah K. Berkman, Katy E. Klymus, Nathan Thompson, Cathy A. Richter
2022, Fishes (7)
The longnose darter Percina nasuta is a rare and cryptic fish that recently disappeared from much of its historic range. We developed and used an environmental DNA (eDNA) assay for longnose darter paired with visual surveys to better determine the species’ range and compare detection probability between sampling approaches in an...
Pedigree analysis and estimates of effective breeding size characterize sea lamprey reproductive biology
Ellen M. Weise, Kim T. Scribner, Jean V. Adams, Olivia Boeberitz, Aaron K. Jubar, Gale Bravener, Nicholas S. Johnson, John D. Robinson
2022, Evolutionary Applications (15) 484-500
The sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) is an invasive species in the Great Lakes and the focus of a large control and assessment program. Current assessment methods provide information on the census size of spawning adult sea lamprey in a small number of streams, but information characterizing reproductive success of spawning...
GW/SW-MST: A groundwater/surface-water method selection tool
Steven Hammett, Frederick Day-Lewis, Brett Russell Trottier, Paul M. Barlow, Martin A. Briggs, Geoffrey N. Delin, Judson Harvey, Carole D. Johnson, John W. Lane Jr., D.O. Rosenberry, Dale D. Werkema
2022, Groundwater (60) 784-791
Groundwater/surface-water (GW/SW) exchange and hyporheic processes are topics receiving increasing attention from the hydrologic community. Hydraulic, chemical, temperature, geophysical, and remote sensing methods are used to achieve various goals (e.g., inference of GW/SW exchange, mapping of bed materials, etc.), but the application of these methods is constrained by site conditions...
Coupling validation effort with in situ bioacoustic data improves estimating relative activity and occupancy for multiple species with cross-species misclassifications
Christian Stratton, Kathryn M. Irvine, Katharine M. Banner, Wilson J. Wright, Cori Lausen, Jason Rae
2022, Methods in Ecology and Evolution (13) 1288-1303
The increasing complexity and pace of ecological change requires natural resource managers to consider entire species assemblages. Acoustic recording units (ARUs) require minimal cost and effort to deploy and inform relative activity, or encounter rates, for multiple species simultaneously. ARU-based surveys require post-processing of the recordings via software algorithms...
Quantifying large-scale continental shelf margin growth and dynamics across mid-Cretaceous Arctic Alaska with detrital zircon U-Pb dating
Richard O. Lease, David W. Houseknecht, Andrew R. C. Kylander-Clark
2022, Geology (50) 620-625
Sequence stratigraphy provides a unifying framework for integrating diverse observations to interpret sedimentary basin evolution; however, key time assumptions about stratigraphic elements spanning hundreds of kilometers are rarely quantified. We integrate new detrital zircon U-Pb (DZ) dates from 28 samples with seismic mapping to establish a chronostratigraphic framework across 800...
Effect of adult male sterilization on the behavior and social associations of a feral polygynous ungulate: The horse
Sarah R. B. King, Kathryn A. Schoenecker, Mary J. Cole
2022, Appled Animal Behaviour Science (249)
Castration is commonly used to control the behavior of companion animals and livestock, yet there have been few longitudinal studies of its effects. Despite the ubiquity of this surgery in ridden horses, the effects of castration (termed gelding in horses) have rarely been examined in a...
Volatile organic compounds in groundwater used for public supply across the United States: Occurrence, explanatory factors, and human-health context
Laura M. Bexfield, Kenneth Belitz, Miranda S. Fram, Bruce D. Lindsey
2022, Science of the Total Environment (827)
This systematic assessment of occurrence for 85 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in raw (untreated) groundwater used for public supply across the United States (U.S.), which includes 43 compounds not previously monitored by national studies, relates VOC occurrence to explanatory factors and assesses VOC detections in a human-health context. Samples were...
Maximizing species distribution model performance when using historical occurrences and variables of varying persistency
Jason T. Bracken, Amelie Y. Davis, Katherine M. O’Donnell, William Barichivich, Susan C. Walls, Tereza Jezkova
2022, Ecosphere (13)
Occurrence data used to build species distribution models often include historical records from locations in which the species no longer exists. When these records are paired with contemporary environmental values that no longer represent the conditions the species experienced, the model creates false associations that hurt predictive performance. The extent...
Significance of U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology for mudstone provenance
Paul Sylvester, Amanda Souders, Rui Liu
2022, Geology (50) 670-675
Detrital zircon U-Pb studies of mudstone provenance are rare but may preferentially fingerprint distal zircon sources. To examine this issue, Pierre Shale and Trinidad Sandstone deposited in a Late Cretaceous deltaic environment in the Raton Basin, Colorado (USA), were measured for detrital zircon U-Pb age by laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass...
Comparison of electrofishing and PIT antennas for detection of hatchery-reared Roundtail Chub (Gila robusta) stocked into a desert stream
Laura A. Tennant, David Ward, Alice C. Gibb
2022, Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science (49) 116-126
Stocking of rare native fishes for conservation purposes is a common practice in the southwestern United States. Monitoring typically occurs after hatchery-reared fish are released to assess post-stocking movement and survival. We conducted a two-year study, in which tow-barge electrofishing and portable, flat-bed passive integrated transponder (PIT) antennas...
Comparison of methods for estimating density and population trends for low-density Asian bears
Dana J. Morin, John Boulanger, Richard Bischof, David C. Lee, Dusit Ngoprasert, Angela K. Fuller, Bruce McLellan, Robert Steinmetz, Sandeep Sharma, Dave Garshelis, Arjun M. Gopalaswamy, Muhammad Ali Nawaz, Ullas Karanth
2022, Global Ecology and Conservation
Populations of bears in Asia are vulnerable to extinction and effective monitoring is critical to measure and direct conservation efforts. Population abundance (local density) or growth (λ) are the most sensitive metrics to change. We discuss the value in implementing spatially explicit capture-recapture (SCR), the current gold standard for density estimation,...
Three decades of stranding data reveal insights into endangered hawksbill sea turtles in Hawai‘i
Shandell Brunson, Alexander Gaos, Irene Kelly, Kyle van Houtan, Yonat Swimmer, Stacy Hargrove, George H. Balazs, Thierry M. Work, T. Todd Jones
2022, Endangered Species Research (47) 109-118
Hawksbill sea turtles Eretmochelys imbricata inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands are extremely rare and listed as endangered under the US Endangered Species Act. The paucity of data on basic hawksbill ecology continues to hinder effective management of the species. We analyzed stranding data collected between 1984 and 2018 to gain insights into...
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...
Increased juvenile native fish abundance following a major flood in an Arizona river
Christopher J. Jenney, Zach C. Nemec, Larissa N. Lee, Scott A. Bonar
2022, Journal of Freshwater Ecology (37) 1-14
Spring floods trigger spawning in many native fishes of the desert Southwest (USA), but less is known about fish community response when native fishes are rare. Here, we document change to native and nonnative fish captures and instream habitat features following a decade-high flooding event (2019) in the Verde River...
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...
MASTREE+: Time-series of plant reproductive effort from six continents
Andrew Hacket-Pain, Jessie Foest, Ian S. Pearse, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Walter D. Koenig, Giorgio Vacchiano, Michal Bogdziewicz, Thomas Caignard, Paulina Celebias, Joep Van Dormolen, Marcos Fernandez-Martinez, Jose V. Moris, Ciprian Palaghianu, Mario B. Pesendorfer, A. Satake, Eliane Schermer, A. Tanentzap, Peter A. Thomas, Davide Vecchio, Andreas P. Wion, T. Wohlgemuth, Tingting Xue, Katherine Abernethy, Marie-Claire Aravena Acuna, Marcelo Daniel Barrera, Jessica H. Barton, Stan Boutin, Emma R. Bush, Sergio Donoso Calderon, Felipe Carevic, Carolina Volkmer de Castilho, Juan Manuel Cellini, Colin A. Chapman, Hazel Chapman, Francesco Chianucci, Patricia da Costa, Luc Croise, Andrea Cutini, Ben Dantzer, R. Justin DeRose, Jean-Thoussaint Dikangadissi, Edmond Dimoto, Fernanda Lopes da Fonseca, Leonardo Gallo, Georg Gratzer, David F. Greene, Martin A. Hadad, Alejandro Huertas Herrera, Kathryn J. Jeffery, Jill F. Johnstone, Urs Kalbitzer, Wladyslaw Kantorowicz, Christie A. Klimas, Jonathan G. A. Lageard, Jeffrey Lane, Katharina Lapin, Mateusz Ledwon, Abigail C. Leeper, Maria Vanessa Lencinas, Ana Claudia Lira-Guedes, Michael Lordon, Paula Marchelli, Shealyn Marino, Harald Schmidt Van Marle, A. McAdam, Ludovic R. W. Momont, Manuel Nicolas, Lucia Helena de Oliveira Wadt, Parisa Panahi, Guillermo Martinez Pastur, T. Patterson, Pablo Luis Peri, Lukasz Piechnik, Mehdi Pourhashemi, Claudia Espinoza Quezada, Fidel A. Roig, Karen Pena Rojas, Yamina Micaela Rosas, Silvio Schueler, Barbara Seget, Rosina Soler, Michael A. Steele, Monica Toro-Manriquez, Caroline E. G. Tutin, Tharcisse Ukizintambara, Lee White, Biplang Yadok, John L. Willis, Anita Zolles, Magdalena Zywiec, Davide Ascoli
2022, Global Change Biology (28) 3066-3082
Significant gaps remain in understanding the response of plant reproduction to environmental change. This is partly because measuring reproduction in long-lived plants requires direct observation over many years and such datasets have rarely been made publicly available. Here we introduce MASTREE+, a data set that collates reproductive time-series data from...
Variation in foraging patterns as reflected by floral resources used by male vs female bees of selected species at Badlands National Park, SD
Diane L. Larson, Zachary M. Portman, Jennifer Larson, Deborah A. Buhl
2022, Arthropod-Plant Interactions (16) 145-157
Female and male bees forage for different reasons: females provision nests with pollen appropriate for larval development and consume nectar for energy while males need only fuel their own energetic requirements. The expectation, therefore, is that females should visit fewer floral resource species than males, due to females’ focus...
Diverse native island flora shows rapid initial passive recovery after exotic herbivore removal on Santa Rosa Island, California
Diane M Thomson, Kathryn McEachern, Emily L Schultz, Kenneth G. Niessen, Dieter Wilken, Katherine A. Chess, Lauren F Cole, Ruth Y Oliver, Jennifer D Phillips, Acadia Tucker
2022, Biological Invasions (24) 2635-1649
Removing exotic vertebrates from islands is an increasingly common and potentially effective strategy for protecting biodiversity. Yet, surprisingly few studies evaluate large-scale effects of island removals on native plants. We surveyed 431 hectares of habitat in 7 canyons on Santa Rosa Island just after exotic herbivore...
Juvenile continental crust evolution in a modern oceanic arc setting: Petrogenesis of Cenozoic felsic plutons in Fiji, SW Pacific
Chris S. Marien, Elizabeth Kathleen Drewes-Todd, Allen Stork, Erin Todd, James B Gill, J. Elis Hoffman, Kenichiro Tani, Charlotte M. Allen, Carsten Munker
2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (320) 339-365
Viti Levu, Fiji, provides one of the best exposed Phanerozoic analogues for the formation of juvenile continental crust in an intra-oceanic setting. Tonalites and trondhjemites are present in several large (75–150 km2) adjacent, mid-Cenozoic plutons. We report major and trace element data...
Estimating wolf abundance from cameras
David Edward Ausband, Paul M. Lukacs, Mark A. Hurley, Shane Roberts, Kaitlyn M. Strickfaden, Anna K. Moeller
2022, Ecosphere (13)
Monitoring the abundance of rare carnivores is a daunting task for wildlife biologists. Many carnivore populations persist at relatively low densities, public interest is high, and the need for population estimates is great. Recent advances in trail camera technology provide an unprecedented opportunity for biologists to monitor rare species economically....
Estimating bee abundance: Can mark-recapture methods validate common sampling protocols?
Emma L. Briggs, Christopher Baranski, Olivia Munzer Schaetz, Gabriela Garrison, Elsa Youngsteadt, Jaime A. Collazo
2022, Apidologie (53)
Wild bees are essential pollinators in natural and agricultural systems, but populations of some species have declined. Efforts to assess the status of wild bees are hindered by uncertainty in common sampling methods, such as pan traps and aerial netting, which may or may not provide a valid index of...
Long-term suspended sediment and particulate organic carbon yields from the Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed and Critical Zone Observatory
Kayla L Glossner, Kathleen A. Lohse, Alison P. Appling, Zane K Cram, Erin Murray, Sarah Godsey, Steve Van Vactor, Emma P McCorkle, Mark Seyfried, Frederick B Pierson
2022, Hydrological Processes (36)
Long-term (>20 y) suspended sediment (SS) and particulate organic carbon (POC) records are relatively rare and yet are necessary for understanding linkages between climate, erosion and carbon export. We estimated long-term (>23 y) SS and POC yields from four nested catchments that ranged from <1 to 54 km2 in area...
Shifting precipitation regimes alter the phenology and population dynamics of low latitude ectotherms
Erica H Henry, Adam Terando, William F. Morris, Jaret C. Daniels, Nick M. Haddad
2022, Climate Change Ecology (3)
Predicting how species respond to changes in climate is critical to conserving biodiversity. Modeling efforts to date have largely centered on predicting the effects of warming temperatures on temperate species phenology. In and near the tropics, the effects of a warming planet on species phenology are more likely to be driven...
