Intra-specific variation in responses to habitat restoration: Could artificial reefs increase spatiotemporal segregation between migratory phenotypes of lake sturgeon?
Tyler J. Buchinger, Darryl W. Hondorp, Charles C. Krueger
2023, Ecological Indicators (148)
Habitat restoration is an important tool used to conserve biodiversity and restore species, but its effects are notoriously difficult to predict. Although outcomes of restoration projects are usually assessed using indices of species abundance and diversity, phenotypic differences among individuals within species are likely associated with differing responses to restored...
Barrier island reconfiguration leads to rapid erosion and relocation of a rural Alaska community
Richard M. Buzard, Nicole E.M. Kinsman, Christopher V. Maio, Li H. Erikson, Benjamin M. Jones, Scott K. Anderson, Roberta Glenn, Jacquelyn R. Overbeck
2023, Journal of Coastal Research (39) 625-642
Coastal erosion is one of the foremost hazards that circumpolar communities face. Climate change and warming temperatures are anticipated to accelerate coastal change, increasing risk to coastal communities. Most erosion hazard studies for Alaska communities only consider linear erosion and do not anticipate coastal morphologic changes. This study showcases the...
Heavy: Software for forward-modeling gravity change from MODFLOW output
Jeffrey R. Kennedy, Joshua Larsen
2023, Environmental Modelling and Software (165)
Fortran software, named Heavy, was developed to simulate gravity change due to water-storage change in MODFLOW groundwater models. Heavy is compatible with MODFLOW-2005 and MODFLOW-NWT models using the layer-property flow or upstream weighting packages. All of the necessary information for the gravity calculation—the geometry of the model cells, the storage...
Conspecific density and habitat quality affect breeding habitat selection: Support for the social attraction hypothesis
Rose J. Swift, Michael J. Anteau, Kristen S. Ellis, Megan M. Ring, Mark H. Sherfy, Dustin L. Toy
2023, Ecosphere (14)
Breeding habitat selection is a critical component of the annual cycle because of its effect on fitness. Multiple theories of habitat selection can be differentiated by their responses to the quantity of habitat, conspecific density, and habitat quality. Here, we use network analysis to understand the characteristics of fine-scale breeding...
Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) as putative vectors of zoonotic Onchocerca lupi (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) in northern Arizona and New Mexico, southwestern United States
Chandler C. Roe, Olivia Holiday, Kelly Upshaw-Bia, Gaven Benally, Charles H.D. Williamson, Jennifer Urbanz, Guilherme G. Verocai, Chase Ridenour, Roxanne Nottingham, Morgan Ford, Derek Lake, Theodore Kennedy, Crystal Hepp, Jason W. Sahl
2023, Frontiers in Veterinary Science (10)
Onchocerca lupi (Rodonaja, 1967) is an understudied, vector-borne, filarioid nematode that causes ocular onchocercosis in dogs, cats, coyotes, wolves, and is also capable of infecting humans. Onchocercosis in dogs has been reported with increasing incidence worldwide. However, despite the growing number of reports describing canine O. lupi cases as well as zoonotic infections...
Environmental antimicrobial resistance gene detection from wild bird habitats using two methods: A commercially available culture-independent qPCR assay and culture of indicator bacteria followed by whole-genome sequencing
Christina Ahlstrom, Laura Celeste Scott, Hanna Woksepp, Jonas Bonnedahl, Andrew M. Ramey
2023, Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance (33) 186-193
ObjectivesA variety of methods have been developed to detect antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in different environments to better understand the evolution and dissemination of this public health threat. Comparisons of results generated using different AMR detection methods, such as quantitative PCR (qPCR) and whole-genome sequencing...
Future climate-induced changes in mixing and deep oxygen content of a caldera lake with hydrothermal heat and salt inputs
Tamara M. Wood, Susan Wherry, Sebastiano Piccolroaz, Scott F Girdner
2023, Journal of Great Lakes Research (49) 563-580
Vertical profiles of temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen in Crater Lake, a caldera lake in the Oregon Cascade Range that receives hydrothermal inputs of heat and salt, were simulated with a 1-dimensional model. Twelve Global Circulation Models and two Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) were used to develop boundary conditions from...
Spatial and temporal variability in summertime dissolved carbon dioxide and methane in temperate ponds and shallow lakes
Nicholas E. Ray, Meredith Holgerson, Mikkel Rene Andersen, Janis Bikse, Lauren E Bortolotti, Martyn N. Futter, Ilga Kokorite, Alan Law, Cory P. McDonald, Jorrit Mesman, Mike Peacock, David Richardson, Julien Arsenault, Sheel Bansal, Kaelin M Cawley, Kerri Finlay, McKenzie A. Kuhn, Amir Reza Shahabinia, Facundo Smufer
2023, Limnology and Oceanography (68) 1530-1545
Small waterbodies have potentially high greenhouse gas emissions relative to their small footprint on the landscape, although there is high uncertainty in model estimates. Scaling their carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) exchange with the atmosphere remains challenging due to an incomplete understanding and...
Policy comparison of lead hunting ammunition bans and voluntary nonlead programs for California condors
John H. Schulz, Samantha Totoni, Sonja A. Wilhelm Stanis, Christine Jie Li, Mark Morgan, Damon M. Hall, Elisabeth B. Webb, Robin M. Rotman
2023, Wildlife Society Bulletin (47)
The endangered California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is negatively affected by lead poisoning from spent lead-based hunting ammunition. Because lead poisoning is the primary mortality factor affecting condors, the California Fish and Game Commission banned lead hunting ammunition during 2008 in the southern California condor range followed by a statewide ban...
Exchange of carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli Sequence Type 38 intercontinentally and among wild bird, human, and environmental niches
Christina Ahlstrom, Hanna Woksepp, Linus Sandegren, Andrew M. Ramey, Jonas Bonnedahl
2023, Applied and Environmental Microbiology (89)
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are a global threat to human health and are increasingly being isolated from nonclinical settings. OXA-48-producing Escherichia coli sequence type 38 (ST38) is the most frequently reported CRE type in wild birds and has been detected in gulls or storks in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The epidemiology...
Range-wide population trend analysis for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)—Updated 1960–2022
Peter S. Coates, Brian G. Prochazka, Cameron L. Aldridge, Michael S. O’Donnell, David R. Edmunds, Adrian P. Monroe, Steve E. Hanser, Lief A. Wiechman, Michael P. Chenaille
2023, Data Report 1175
Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) are at the center of state and national land-use policies largely because of their unique life-history traits as an ecological indicator for health of sagebrush ecosystems. This updated population trend analysis provides state and federal land and wildlife managers with best-available science to help guide current...
Bioaccumulation kinetics of model pharmaceuticals in the freshwater unionid pondmussel, Sagittunio subrostratus
S. Rebekah Burket, Jaylen L. Sims, Rebecca A. Dorman, Nile E. Kemble, Eric Brunson, Jeffery A. Steevens, Bryan W. Brooks
Eric Brunson, editor(s)
2023, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (42) 1183-1189
Bioaccumulation of ionizable pharmaceuticals has been increasingly studied, with most reported aquatic tissue concentrations in field or laboratory experiments being from fish. However, higher levels of antidepressants have been observed in bivalves compared with fish from effluent-dominated and dependent surface waters. Such observations may be important for biodiversity because approximately...
Supervised versus unsupervised approaches to classification of accelerometry data
Maitreyi Sur, Jonathan C. Hall, Joseph Brandt, Molly Astell, Sharon A. Poessel, Todd E. Katzner
2023, Ecology and Evolution (13)
Sophisticated animal-borne sensor systems are increasingly providing novel insight into how animals behave and move. Despite their widespread use in ecology, the diversity and expanding quality and quantity of data they produce have created a need for robust analytical methods for biological interpretation. Machine learning tools are often used to...
Measuring basin-scale aquifer storage change and mapping specific yield in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, with repeat microgravity data
Jeffrey R. Kennedy, Meghan T. Bell
2023, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies (47)
Study RegionThe groundwater basin underlying the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.Study FocusThe study focuses on changes in groundwater storage and how those changes relate to groundwater-level changes. Groundwater storage change was measured using repeat microgravity at 35...
Relative contributions of water-level components to extreme water levels along the US Southeast Atlantic Coast from a regional-scale water-level hindcast
Kai Alexander Parker, Li H. Erikson, Jennifer Anne Thomas, Cornelis M. Nederhoff, Patrick L. Barnard, Sanne Muis
2023, Natural Hazards (117) 2219-2248
A 38-year hindcast water level product is developed for the U.S. Southeast Atlantic coastline from the entrance of Chesapeake Bay to the southeast tip of Florida. The water level modelling framework utilized in this study combines a global-scale hydrodynamic model (Global Tide and Surge Model, GTSM-ERA5), a novel ensemble-based tide...
Spatial variability in vertical accretion and carbon sequestration in salt marsh soils of an urban estuary
Hongqing Wang, Gregg Snedden, Ellen K. Hartig, Q. Chen
2023, Wetlands (43)
Salt marshes in New York City’s Jamaica Bay have been disappearing and deteriorating since early 1900s, resulting in the loss of long-term accumulated carbon storage. However, the spatial variations and mechanisms in vertical accretion and soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration across this highly urbanized estuary remains unclear. In this study,...
Reference genome of an iconic lizard in western North America, Blainville’s horned lizard Phrynosoma blainvillii
Jonathan Q. Richmond, Jimmy A. McGuire, Merly Escalona, Mohan P. A. Marimuthu, Oanh Nguyen, Samuel Sacco, Eric Beraut, Erin Toffelmier, Robert N. Fisher, Ian J. Wang, H.B. Shaffer
2023, Journal of Heredity (114) 410-417
Genome assemblies are increasingly being used to identify adaptive genetic variation that can help prioritize the population management of protected species. This approach may be particularly relevant to species like Blainville’s horned lizard, Phrynosoma blainvillii, due to its specialized diet on noxious harvester ants, numerous adaptative traits for avoiding predation...
Compensatory mortality explains rodent resilience to an invasive predator
Marina E. McCampbell, Margaret Hunter, John V. Stechly, Kaitlyn N. Leist, Kristen Hart, Robert A. McCleery
2023, Journal of Mammalogy (104) 967-978
Invasive Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) in the Everglades of Florida, United States, have drastically reduced populations of mammals, yet populations of some rodents appear unaffected by the invasion. To understand this pattern, we radio-tagged cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) in areas of high and low python occurrence densities (hereafter occurrence)...
Status and trends of the Lake Huron prey fish community, 1976-2022
Darryl W. Hondorp, Timothy P. O’Brien, Edward F. Roseman, Peter C. Esselman
2023, Report
The United States Geological Survey-Great Lakes Science Center has monitored annual changes in the offshore prey fish community of Lake Huron since 1973. Monitoring of prey fish populations in Lake Huron is based on a bottom trawl survey that targets demersal (benthic) species and an acoustic-midwater trawl survey that targets...
Logs and data from the Starthistle trench across a scarp within the Wallula Fault Zone, southeastern Washington
Stephen J. Angster, Brian Sherrod, John Lasher
2023, Scientific Investigations Map 3495
IntroductionThe Wallula Fault Zone is composed of a series of northwest-trending faults and folds that coincide with a prominent magnetic anomaly that extends uninterrupted for approximately 120 kilometers within the Cascadia back arc of southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon. It is part of the geologic structures associated with the topographic...
Breaking plates: Creation of the East Anatolian fault, the Anatolian plate, and a tectonic escape system
Donna Whitney, Jonathan Delph, Stuart N. Thomson, Susan L. Beck, Gilles Brocard, M. Cosca, Michael H. Darin, Nuretdin Kaymakci, Maud J.M. Meijers, Aral Okay, Bora Rojay, Christian Teyssier, Paul J. Umhoefer
2023, Geology (51) 673-677
Lateral movement of lithospheric fragments along strike-slip faults in response to collision (escape tectonics) has characterized convergent settings since the onset of plate tectonics and is a mechanism for the formation of new plates. The Anatolian plate was created by the sequential connection of strike-slip faults following ≥10 m.y. of...
Rapid modeling of compound flooding across broad coastal regions and the necessity to include rainfall driven processes: A case study of Hurricane Florence (2018)
Tim Leijnse, Cornelis M. Nederhoff, Jennifer Anne Thomas, Kai Alexander Parker, Maarten van Ormondt, Li H. Erikson, Robert T. McCall, Ap van Dongeren, Andrea C. O'Neill, Patrick L. Barnard
Ping Wang, Elizabeth Royer, Julie D. Rosati, editor(s)
2023, Conference Paper, Coastal Sediments 2023: Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2023
In this work, we show that large-scale compound flood models developed for North and South Carolina, USA, can skillfully simulate multiple drivers of coastal flooding as confirmed by measurements collected during Hurricane Florence (2018). Besides the accuracy of representing observed water levels, the importance of individual processes was investigated. We...
Rift basins and intraplate earthquakes: New high-resolution aeromagnetic data provide insights into buried structures of the Charleston, South Carolina seismic zone
Anjana K. Shah, Thomas L. Pratt, J. Wright Horton, Jr.
2023, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (24)
The delineation of faults that pose seismic risk in intraplate seismic zones and the mapping of features associated with failed rift basins can help our understanding of links between the two. We use new high-resolution aeromagnetic data, previous borehole sample information, and reprocessed seismic reflection profiles to image subsurface structures...
Shoreface sediment availability offshore of a rapidly migrating, mixed-energy barrier island
Emily A. Wei, Jennifer L. Miselis
Ping Wang, Elizabeth Royer, Julie D. Rosati, editor(s)
2023, Conference Paper, Coastal Sediments 2023: Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2023
Less is known about sediment exchanges between shorefaces and mixed-energy barrier islands (MEBI) than between shorefaces and wave-dominated barrier islands. We used seismic stratigraphy from Cedar Island, Virginia, USA to understand the interplay between shoreface deposits and MEBI morphodynamics. Interpretations reveal that the shelf and shoreface are extensively dissected by...
Incorporating wave climate complexity into modeling lower shoreface morphology and transport
Megan Gillen, Andrew D. Ashton, Jennifer L. Miselis, Daniel J. Ciarletta, Emily A. Wei, Christopher R. Sherwood
Ping Wang, Elizabeth Royer, Julie D. Rosati, editor(s)
2023, Conference Paper, Coastal Sediments 2023, proceedings of the 10th international conference
The lower shoreface, a transitional subaqueous region extending from the seaward limit of the surf zone to beyond the closure depth, serves as a sediment reservoir and pathway in sandy beach environments over annual to millennial time scales. Despite the important role this region plays in shoreline dynamics, the morphodynamics...
