Demographic patterns of walleye (Sander vitreus) reproductive success in a Wisconsin population
Robert P. Davis, Levi M. Simmons, Stephanie L. Shaw, Greg G. Sass, Nicholas M. Sard, Daniel A. Isermann, Wesley A. Larson, Jared Joseph Homola
2024, Evolutionary Applications (17)
Harvest in walleye Sander vitreus fisheries is size-selective and could influence phenotypic traits of spawners; however, contributions of individual spawners to recruitment are unknown. We used parentage analyses using single nucleotide polymorphisms to test whether parental traits were related to the probability of offspring survival in Escanaba Lake, Wisconsin. From 2017 to...
Characterization of the structural–stratigraphic and reservoir controls on the occurrence of gas hydrates in the Eileen Gas Hydrate Trend, Alaska North Slope
Margarita Zyrianova, Timothy Collett, Ray Boswell
2024, Journal of Marine Science Engineering (12)
One of the most studied permafrost-associated gas hydrate accumulations in Arctic Alaska is the Eileen Gas Hydrate Trend. This study provides a detailed re-examination of the Eileen Gas Hydrate Trend with a focus on the gas hydrate accumulation in the western part of the Prudhoe Bay Unit. This integrated...
Background seismic noise levels among the Caribbean network and the role of station proximity to coastline
Justin T. Wilgus, Adam T. Ringler, Brandon Schmandt, David C. Wilson, Robert E. Anthony
2024, Seismological Research Letters (95) 2141-2152
The amplitude and frequency content of background seismic noise is highly variable with geographic location. Understanding the characteristics and behavior of background seismic noise as a function of location can inform approaches to improve network performance and in turn increase earthquake detection capabilities....
Consumer isoscapes reveal heterogeneous food webs in deep-sea submarine canyons and adjacent slopes
Amanda Demopoulos, Brian J. Smith, Jill Bourque, Jason Chaytor, Jennifer McClain Counts, Nancy G. Prouty, Steve W. Ross, Sandra Brooke, Gerard Duineveld, Furu Mienis
2024, Progress in Oceanography (223)
The deep sea is the largest biome on earth, but one of the least studied despite its critical role in global carbon cycling and climate buffering. Deep-sea organisms largely rely on particulate organic matter from the surface ocean for energy –...
Prokaryotic microbial ecology as an ecosurveillance tool for eukaryotic pathogen colonisation: Meiothermus and Naegleria fowleri
Natalia Malinowski, Matthew J. Morgan, Jason Wylie, Tom Walsh, Sergio Domingos, Suzanne Metcalfe, Anna H. Kaksonen, Elliott P. Barnhart, Rebecca C. Mueller, Brent M. Peyton, Geoffrey J. Puzon
2024, Water Research (254)
Naegleria fowleri has been detected in drinking water distribution systems (DWDS) in Australia, Pakistan and the United States and is the causative agent of the highly fatal disease primary amoebic meningoencephalitis. Previous small scale field studies have shown that Meiothermus may be a potential biomarker for N. fowleri. However,...
Second guessing the maximum likelihood estimator values for bat surveys
W. Mark Ford, Jesse L. De La Cruz, Emily D. Thorne, Alexander Silvis, Michael P. Armstrong, R. Andrew King
2024, Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (11) 177-184
TThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service allows acoustical surveys and automated identification software to determine the presence of the endangered northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) and Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis). Analytical software is required to assess presence probability on a site-night basis using a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) that accounts...
Second guessing the maximum likelihood estimator values for bat surveys.
W. Mark Ford, Jesse L. De La Cruz, Emily D. Thorne, Alexander Silvis, Michael P. Armstrong, R. Andrew King
2024, Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (11) 177-184
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service allows acoustical surveys and automated identification software to determine the presence of the endangered northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) and Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis). Analytical software is required to assess presence probability on a site-night basis using a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) that accounts...
Allochthonous marsh subsidies enhances food web productivity in an estuary and its surrounding ecosystem mosaic
Melanie J. Davis, Isa Woo, Susan E.W. De La Cruz, Christopher S. Ellings, Sayre Hodgson, Glynnis Nakai
2024, PLoS ONE (19)
Terrestrial organic matter is believed to play an important role in promoting resilient estuarine food webs, but the inherent interconnectivity of estuarine systems often obscures the origins and importance of these terrestrial inputs. To determine the relative contributions of terrestrial (allochthonous) and aquatic (autochthonous) organic matter...
Sediment budget of a Maumee River headwater tributary: How streambank erosion, streambed-sediment storage, and streambed-sediment source inform our understanding of legacy phosphorus
Tanja N. Williamson, Faith Fitzpatrick, Rebecca M. Kreiling, James D. Blount, Diana L. Karwan
2024, Journal of Soils and Sediments (24) 1447-1463
ObjectiveWe described source and phosphorus (P) retention potential of soft, fine-grained, streambed sediment and associated phosphorus (sed-P) during summer low-flow conditions. Combining in-channel, sed-P storage with relative age provided context on relevance to western Lake Erie Basin management goals.MethodsIn 2019, rapid geomorphic assessment (30 reaches) compared...
Evaluating ecosystem protection and fragmentation of the world's major mountain regions
David M. Theobald, Aerin Jacobs, Paul R. Elsen, Erik A. Beever, Libby Ehlers, Jodi Hilty
2024, Conservation Biology (38)
Conserving mountains is important for protecting biodiversity because they have high beta diversity and endemicity, facilitate species movement, and provide numerous ecosystem benefits for people. Mountains are often thought to have lower levels of human modification and contain more protected area than surrounding lowlands. To...
Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) roost site-selection criteria and locations east of the Appalachian Mountains, U.S.A.
Brandon M. Boxler, Cyndy Loftin, William B. Sutton
2024, Journal of Insect Behavior (37) 22-48
The monarch butterfly is a flagship species and pollinator whose populations have declined by 85% in the recent two decades. Their largest population overwinters in Mexico, then disperses across eastern North America during March to August. During September-December, they return south using two flyways, one that spans the central United...
Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) roost site-selection criteria and locations east of the Appalachian Mountains, U.S.A.
Brandon M. Boxler, Cyndy Loftin, William B. Sutton
2024, Journal of Insect Behavior (37) 22-48
The monarch butterfly is a flagship species and pollinator whose populations have declined by 85% in the recent two decades. Their largest population overwinters in Mexico, then disperses across eastern North America during March to August. During September-December, they return south using two flyways, one that spans the central United...
Assessing grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) occupancy and detection probability within Lake Erie from environmental DNA
Justin Bopp, Lucas R. Nathan, John D. Robinson, Jeanette Kanefsky, Kim T. Scribner, Seth Herbst, Kelly Filer Robinson
2024, Management of Biological Invasions (15) 51-72
Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella), an invasive cyprinid within the Laurentian Great Lakes, is naturally reproducing in several Lake Erie tributaries, which has raised concerns of the species’ spread throughout Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes. Knowledge of the recent invasion extent outside of the western basin of Lake Erie,...
Ensemble2: Scenarios ensembling for communication and performance analysis
Clara Bay, Guillaume St-Onge, Jessica T. Davis, Matteo Chinazzi, Emily Howerton, Justin Lessler, Michael C. Runge, Katriona Shea, Shaun Truelove, Cecile Viboud, Alessandro Vespignani
2024, Epidemics (46)
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, scenario modeling played a crucial role in shaping the decision-making process of public health policies. Unlike forecasts, scenario projections rely on specific assumptions about the future that consider different plausible states-of-the-world that may or may not be realized and that depend on policy interventions, unpredictable changes in the...
Measuring erosional and depositional patterns across Comet 67P's imhotep region
Abhinav S. Jindal, Samuel P. D. Birch, Alexander G. Hayes, F. P. Ozyurt, A. Issah, S. Moruzzi, N. M. Barrington, Jason M. Soderblom, Randolph L. Kirk, R. Marschall, J.-B. Vincent
2024, Journal of Geophysical Research (129)
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko displays a pronounced hemispherical dichotomy in surface morphology, where the southern hemisphere exhibits more erosional features than the northern hemisphere due to receiving much greater solar radiation. Consequently, it is generally assumed that particles are ejected from the southern hemisphere through sublimation and a significant...
Smaller body size under warming is not due to gill-oxygen limitation in a coldwater salmonid
Joshua K. Lonthair, Nicholas C. Wegner, Brian S. Cheng, Nann A. Fangue, Matthew J. O'Donnell, Amy M. Regish, John D. Swenson, Estefany Argueta, Stephen D. McCormick, Benjamin Letcher, Lisa M Komoroske
2024, Journal of Experimental Biology (227)
Declining body size in fishes and other aquatic ectotherms associated with anthropogenic climate warming has significant implications for future fisheries yields, stock assessments and aquatic ecosystem stability. One proposed mechanism seeking to explain such body-size reductions, known as the gill oxygen limitation (GOL) hypothesis, has recently been used to model...
Rupture jumping and seismic complexity in models of earthquake cycles for fault stepovers with off‐fault plasticity
Shumon Mia, Mohamed Abdelmeguid, Ruth A. Harris, Ahmed E. Elbanna
2024, Bulletin of the Seismological Șociety of America (114) 1466-1480
Fault stepovers are prime examples of geometric complexity in natural fault zones that may affect seismic hazard by determining whether an earthquake rupture continues propagating or abruptly stops. However, the long‐term pattern of seismicity near‐fault stepovers and underlying mechanisms of rupture jumping in...
Exposure to and biomarker responses from legacy and emerging contaminants along three drainages in the Milwaukee Estuary, Wisconsin, USA
Christine M. Custer, Thomas W. Custer, Paul M. Dummer, Sandra L. Schultz, Natalie Karouna-Renier, Chi Yen Tseng, Cole W. Matson
2024, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (43) 856-877
Legacy contaminants and contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) were assessed in tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) tissue and diet samples from three drainages in the Milwaukee estuary, Wisconsin, USA, to understand exposures and possible biomarker responses. Two remote Wisconsin lakes were assessed for comparative purposes....
Novel approach for ranking DEMs: Copernicus DEM improves one arc second open global topography
Conrad Bielski, Carlos Lopez-Vazquez, Carlos H. Grohmann, Peter L. Guth, Laurence Hawker, Dean B. Gesch, Sebastiano Trevisani, Virginia Herrera-Cruz, Serge Riazanoff, Axel Corseaux, Hannes I. Reuter, Peter Strobl
2024, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (62)
We present a practical approach to intercompare a range of candidate digital elevation models (DEMs) based on predefined criteria and a statistically sound ranking approach. The presented approach integrates the randomized complete block design (RCBD) into a novel framework for DEM comparison. The method presented provides a flexible, statistically sound,...
PFAS river export analysis highlights the urgent need for catchment-scale mass loading data
Patrick Byrne, William M. Mayes, Alun L. James, Sean Comber, Emma Biles, Alex Riley, Robert L. Runkel
2024, Environmental Science & Technology Letters (11) 266-272
Source apportionment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) requires an understanding of the mass loading of these compounds in river basins. However, there is a lack of temporally variable and catchment-scale mass loading data, meaning identification and prioritization of sources of PFAS to rivers for management...
Adaptive resource management: Achieving functional eradication of invasive snakes to benefit avian conservation
Melia Gail Nafus, Amanda Reyes, Thomas Fies, Scott Michael Goetz
2024, Journal of Applied Ecology (61) 733-745
Natural resource management often co-occurs with considerable uncertainty. One approach to mitigating uncertainty is through adaptive resource management (ARM), a specialized form of structured decision-making that modifies management decisions or actions through monitoring and implementation.Here, we present a case study on the attempted...
Estimating internal transmitter and external tag retention by Walleye in the Laurentian Great Lakes over multiple years
S.F. Colborne, M.D. Faust, T.O. Brenden, T.A. Hayden, J.M. Robinson, T.M. MacDougall, H.A. Cook, Daniel A. Isermann, D.J. Dembkowski, M. Haffley, C.S. Vandergoot
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 377-393
ObjectiveBoth electronic tags (e.g., acoustic and radio transmitters) and conventional external tags are used to evaluate movement and population dynamics of fish. External tags are also sometimes used to facilitate the recovery of internal electronic tags or other instrumentation because healing can make it difficult to identify...
Rotation of the microplates within the plate boundary in southwestern United States
James C. Savage
2024, JGR Solid Earth (129)
I investigate the long‐term, rigid motions of the 20 microplates identified by McCaffrey (2005,https://doi.org/10.1029/2004jb003307) within the Pacific‐North America plate boundary in southwestern United States. Those motions are described by the Euler vectors (Ωi0 for the ith microplate) given by McCaffrey for each microplate. McCaffrey noticed that the Euler poles for...
Thermal traits of anurans database for the southeastern United States (TRAD): A database of thermal trait values for 40 anuran species
Traci P. DuBose, Victorjose Catalan, Chloe E. Moore, Vincent R. Farallo, Abigail Benson, Jessica Dade, William A. Hopkins, Meryl C. Mims
2024, Ichthyology & Herpetology (112) 21-30
Thermal traits, or how an animal responds to changing temperatures, impacts species persistence and thus biodiversity. Trait databases, as repositories of consolidated, measured organismal attributes, allow researchers to link study species with specific trait values, enabling comparisons within and among species. Trait databases also help lay the groundwork to build...
Annotated bibliography of scientific research on Taeniatherum caput-medusae published from January 2010 to January 2022
Jennifer K. Meineke, Logan M. Maxwell, Alison C. Foster, Laine E. McCall, Tait K. Rutherford, Ella M. Samuel, Lea B. Selby, Joshua S Willems, Nathan J. Kleist, Samuel E. Jordan
2024, Open-File Report 2023-1089
Integrating recent scientific knowledge into management decisions supports effective natural resource management and can lead to better resource outcomes. However, finding and accessing scientific knowledge can be time consuming and costly. To assist in this process, the U.S. Geological Survey is creating a series of annotated bibliographies on topics of...
