A single nucleotide polymorphism panel for identifying North American species and hybrids in the genus Morone
Jared Homola, Hadley I.A. Boehm, Paul Albosta, Craig Paukert
2025, Conservation Genetics Resources (17) 161-163
Four species of the fish genus Morone exist in North America and are often the focus of management actions, including propagation and stocking of their hybrids. We have developed an amplicon-based single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping panel that provides the ability to distinguish all four species and the commonly stocked M. chrysops x M. saxatilis hybrid...
Representing 3-dimensional fuels for physics-based fire behavior models: A general framework and case study in a type-converted post-fire shrubfield
Niko Tutland, Andreas Paul Wion, Carolina Jasmine May, Grant C. Hutchings, Hope Nowak, James R. Gattiker, J. Kevin Hiers, Rodman R. Linn, Scott M. Pokswinski, Ellis Margolis
2025, Fire Ecology (21)
Background Physics-based three-dimensional (3D) fire behavior models improve planning for prescribed fire application and wildfire mitigation, but require high spatial resolution 3D fuel models as inputs. While multiple methods and data sources for realistically representing 3D, heterogeneous fuels are available, no unifying framework exists to guide the use of these...
Evaluating trends using total impervious cover as a metric for degree of urbanisation
Laura Toran, Daniel Bain, Kristina G. Hopkins, Joel Moore, Emily May O'Donnell
2025, Hydrological Processes (39)
Impervious cover (IC) is a common metric for assessing the degree of urbanisation in watersheds. However, there are different methods for determining IC, and use of IC correlation with urban watershed response to hydrologic and geochemical inputs can be strongly influenced by the end members (IC below 10% and above...
Decision-support modeling and research priorities for establishing baseline conditions for outstandingly remarkable values, Obed Wild and Scenic River, Tennessee
Elena R. Crowley-Ornelas, Rebecca Schapansky, Tom Blount, Niki S. Nicholas
2025, Open-File Report 2025-1035
The Obed River is the last undammed river in Tennessee. The Obed Wild and Scenic River is managed by the National Park Service and covers a protected area of the Obed River headwaters (including four contributing tributaries). The Obed Wild and Scenic River supports a unique ecosystem with eight federally...
A systematic review and meta-analysis of post-fire seeding and herbicide treatment effectiveness for controlling exotic annual grasses in the sagebrush biome
Leland D Bennion, Christopher A Anthony, Scott N Zimmer, David Pilliod, Matthew Germino
2025, Restoration Ecology (33)
IntroductionOutcomes of ecological restoration treatments can be highly variable and challenging to generalize, even for the same treatment type applied in similar ecological communities at different times and places. Notable examples are the herbicide and seeding treatments that have been extensively applied across the perennial sagebrush steppe...
Integrating the resist–accept–direct framework into natural resource decision-making processes for climate adaptation
Amanda L. Sesser, Jennifer L. Wilkening, Wendy Beth Miles, Kelly G. Guilbeau, Abigail Lynch, Jeremy R. Conrad, Dawn Robin Magness
2025, Conservation Biology (39)
The resist–accept–direct (RAD) framework for climate adaptation is a useful tool, particularly when conservation practitioners know they need to address climate change but do not know where to start or when they struggle to implement conservation actions that are outside the status quo. Some conservation practitioners may view RAD as...
Hydrologic budgets and water availability of six bedrock aquifers in the Black Hills area, South Dakota and Wyoming, 1931–2022
Colton J. Medler, Todd M. Anderson, William G. Eldridge
2025, Scientific Investigations Report 2025-5067
Population growth and recurring droughts in the Black Hills region raised interest in water resources and future availability. The Black Hills hydrology study (BHHS) was initiated in the early 1990s to address questions regarding water resources. Since completion of the BHHS in the early 2000s, the population of the Black...
The 3D Elevation Program—Supporting Tennessee’s economy
George Heleine
2025, Fact Sheet 2025-3037
Introduction The State of Tennessee has an area of approximately 42,100 square miles and includes six physiographic regions: Blue Ridge, Valley and Ridge, Appalachian Plateaus, Highland Rim, Nashville Basin, and the Gulf Coastal Plains. Up-to-date elevation data support key activities across the State, such as economic development, infrastructure and construction management,...
Hydroclimatic and land-use factors affecting peak streamflow in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin
Karen R. Ryberg, Mackenzie K. Marti, Nancy A. Barth, Thomas M. Over, Sara B. Levin, Hannah Lee Podzorski, Steven K. Sando, Tara Williams-Sether, Padraic S. O’Shea, Katherine J. Chase
2025, Circular 1557
Flood-frequency analysis provides the basis for flood risk estimates used by water-resource managers in land-use planning, and it informs the design of essential infrastructure such as bridges and culverts. Federal guidelines for flood-frequency analysis do not offer guidance on addressing changing climate and land-use conditions when estimating floods. However, failing...
Stable isotope reference materials and scale definitions – Outcomes of the 2024 IAEA experts meeting
Federica Camin, Dinka Besic, Paul J. Brewer, Colin E Allison, Tyler B. Coplen, Philip J.H. Dunn, Matthias Gehre, Manfred Gröning, Harro A.J. Meijer, Jean-François Hélie, Paola Iacumin, Rebecca Kraft, Bor Krajnc, Steffen Kümmel, Sangil Lee, Juris Meija, Zoltan Mester, Joachim Mohn, Heiko Moossen, Haiping Qi, Grzegorz Skrzypek, Peter Sperlich, Joelle Viallon, Leonard I. Wassenaar, Robert I. Wielgosz
2025, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (39)
The participants of the 12th International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting on stable isotope reference materials reached a consensus, acknowledging the existence and use of two carbon isotope delta scales: the VPDB (Vienna Peedee belemnite) scale and the VPDB-LSVEC (LSVEC - lithium carbonate prepared by H. J. Svec). Conversion models between...
The influence of human presence and footprint on animal space use in US national parks
Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Forest Hayes, Kezia R. Manlove, Nathan L. Galloway, John F. Benson, Michael J. Cherry, Clinton W. Epps, Robert J. Fletcher Jr., John L. Orrock, Justine A. Smith, Christina M. Aiello, Jerrold L. Belant, Joel Berger, Mark Biel, Jill Bright, Joseph K. Bump, Michael Burchett, Carson Butler, Jennifer Carlson, Eric K. Cole, Neal Darby, Erin DeGutis, Sarah Dewey, Pete Figura, Tom Gable, Jeff Gagnon, Danielle M. Glass, Jennifer R. Green, Kerry A. Gunther, Mark Haroldson, Kent Hersey, Brandon Holton, Austin T. Homkes, Sarah R. Hoy, Debra Hughson, Kyle Joly, Ryan Leahy, Caitlin Lee-Roney, Rob Lester, Daniel MacNulty, Michael Magnuson, Daniel J. Martin, Rachel Mazur, Seth A. Moore, Elizabeth K. Orning, Katie Patrick, Rolf O. Peterson, Lynette Potvin, Paige Prentice, Seth P.D. Riley, Mark C. Romanski, Annette Roug, Jeff A. Sikich, Nova Simpson, William B. Sloan, Douglas W. Smith, Mathew Sorum, Scott Sprague, Daniel Stahler, John A. Stephenson, Thomas R. Stephenson, Janice Stroud-Settles, Frank T. van Manen, John A. Vucetich, Kate Wilmot, Steve K. Windels, Tiffany Wolf, Paul C. Cross
2025, Proceedings of the Royal Society B (292)
Given the importance of protected areas for biodiversity, the growth of visitation to many areas has raised concerns about the effects of humans on wildlife. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to temporary closure of national parks in the United States, offering a pseudonatural experiment to tease apart the effects...
Toward a near-lossless image compression strategy for the NASA/USGS Landsat Next mission
Rehman S. Eon, Craig De Groot, Jeffrey A. Pedelty, Aaron Gerace, Matthew Montanaro, Richard K. Covington, Amy S. DeLisa, Wen-Ting Hsieh, Joy M. Hengear-leon, Douglas J. Daniels, Christopher Engebretson, Christopher J. Crawford, Thomas R.H. Holmes, Philip Dabney, Bruce D. Cook
2025, Remote Sensing of Environment (329)
As orbiting Earth imaging platforms carry more complex and capable instruments, efficient methods are needed to reduce the time and cost associated with storing and downlinking greater volumes of image data. The upcoming NASA/USGS Landsat Next mission, with an increase in spatial and spectral resolution over previous Landsat missions, is...
Land-based nutrient flux to a fringing reef: Insights from Ofu Island, American Samoa
Nancy G. Prouty, Ferdinand K.J. Oberle, Olivia M. Cheriton, Lauren Toth, Eric K. Brown, Curt D. Storlazzi
2025, Frontiers in Marine Science (12)
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a critical driver of nutrient transport in coral reef ecosystems, shaping water quality, primary productivity, and overall reef health. This study quantifies SGD fluxes and associated nutrient dynamics in two reef flat pools within the Ofu Unit of the National Park of American Samoa: Papaloloa...
Impact of land subsidence on housing sale values: Evidence from the San Joaquin Valley, California
Mehdi Nemati, Michelle Sneed, Ariel Dinar
2025, Land Economics
This study assesses the impact of land subsidence on housing sale values in the San Joaquin Valley, California. The study utilizes home sale transactions and vertical land-surface displacement data from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar techniques. Using fine-scale fixed effects, matching, as well as a repeat-sales approach, our results indicate that...
Reaction kinetics and accelerant effects of sulfides in early mature hydrocarbon generation using hydrous pyrolysis
Tushar Adsul, Paul C. Hackley, Javin J. Hatcherian, Ryan J. McAleer, Carlin J. Green, Alan K. Burnham, Santanu Ghosh, Josef P. Werne, Atul K. Varma
2025, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis (192)
Hydrocarbon generation in organic-rich sediments is influenced by the molecular organic composition and relative abundance of associated minerals. Certain mineral-derived elements act as catalysts and reaction intermediaries, facilitating early-stage hydrocarbon formation in potential source rocks. This study investigated the role of sulfur contributed from pyrite as an accelerant in thermal...
Mauna Loa 2022 – Unrest, eruption, and outreach at the world’s largest volcano: Preface to the special issue
Kendra J. Lynn, Elisabeth Gallant, Drew T. Downs, Frank A. Trusdell
2025, Bulletin of Volcanology (87)
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Environmental controls of suppressed fall crop productivity in an agrivoltaic solar array
Matthew A. Sturchio, Dana F. Russell, Jasmine Schmidt, Caroline Marschner, Antonio DiTomasso, Jinwook Kim, Steven Mark Grodsky
2025, Environmental Research: Food Systems (2)
Globally, agrivoltaics (AV) research has revealed how microclimates created by photovoltaic (PV) panels can be leveraged to promote reciprocal benefits for agricultural land use and PV energy generation. Yet, in regions of the United States where emissions reduction laws are likely to lead to greater PV development...
Regenerable membrane sensors for ultrasensitive nanoplastic quantification enabled by a data-driven Raman spectral processing algorithm
Ziyan Wu, Sarah E. Janssen, Michael Tate, Mohan Qin, Haoran Wei
2025, Environmental Science and Technology (59) 16652-16661
The detection of nanoplastics (NPs) in complex natural water systems is hindered by matrix interferences and limitations in current analytical techniques. This study presents Pre_seg, a Raman spectral processing algorithm integrated with regenerable anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membrane sensors, for ultrasensitive, rapid, and quantitative NP detection at the single-particle level....
Larger larval sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) have longer survival times when exposed to the lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol
Allison Nalesnik, Emily Martin, Ian Kovacs, Connor Johnson, Emma Carroll, Aaron K. Jubar, William Hemstrom, Michael Wilkie, Erin S. Dunlop, Maria S. Sepulveda, Nicholas S. Johnson, Mark R. Christie
2025, Journal of Great Lakes Research (51)
Invasive sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in the Laurentian Great Lakes have negatively impacted ecologically and economically important fishes for nearly a century. To mitigate these effects, the lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) is applied annually on a rotating basis to selected Great Lakes tributaries to kill larval lamprey before they become juveniles,...
Climate and land use drivers of freshwater fish biodiversity in the northeastern United States
Jennifer B. Rogers, Graziella Vittoria DiRenzo, Rebecca M. Quiñones, Todd Richards, Allison H. Roy
2025, Biological Conservation (310)
Freshwater habitats can sustain high biodiversity, but habitat degradation, species invasion, and overexploitation have imperiled freshwater species. The multiple threats to freshwater habitats and changing stream characteristics due to climate change make it challenging to identify the drivers of fish vulnerability, especially given that the importance of drivers may vary...
Rapid Holocene deposition in the Mackenzie Trough and Barrow Canyon areas in the western Arctic Ocean
Masanobu Yamamoto, Kenta Suzuki, Masafumi Murayama, Laura Gemery, Koji Seike, Leonid Polyak, Young Jin Joe, Shoma Uchida, Minoru Kobayashi, J. Onodera, Keiji Horikawa, Yuhji Yamamoto, Takayuki Omori, Michinobu Kuwae, Tomohisa Irino, Yutaka Watanabe, Motoyo Itoh, Eiji Watanabe
2025, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (12)
The Arctic Ocean and terrestrial environment have recently been reported to be changing drastically, but it is unclear whether these changes are similar to natural variations in the past or how sudden and large the changes are compared to natural variations. This premise served as motivation to collect sediment cores...
Arctic fold-and-thrust belts
Sergey S. Drachev, Andrey K. Khudoley, Iwona Klonowska, Jaroslaw Majka, Thomas E. Moore, Karsten Piepjohn, Andrey V. Prokopiev
2025, Book chapter, Geological Society of London Memoir
The modern Arctic has been formed through a series of continent–continent collisions, accretion of terranes and phases of crustal extension. The Neoproterozoic Timanian, Paleozoic Caledonian and Uralian, and late Mesozoic Verkhoyansk–Kolyma, Chukotkan and Brookian orogenies formed several large fold-and-thrust belts (FTBs). The FTBs are exposed across vast areas of continents...
Potential impacts of 2.3.4.4b highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus infection on Snow Goose (Anser caerulescens) movement ecology
Jeffery D. Sullivan, Michael L. Casazza, Rebecca L. Poulson, Elliott Matchett, Cory T. Overton, Mike Carpenter, Austen Lorenz, Fiona McDuie, Michael Derico, Elizabeth Howerth, David E. Stallknecht, Diann Prosser
2025, PLoS ONE (20)
While wild waterfowl are known reservoirs of avian influenza viruses and facilitate the movement of these viruses, there are notable differences in the response to infection across species. This study explored differential responses to infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza in Snow Geese (Anser caerulescens) located in the California Central...
Dietary bioavailability of uranium to a model freshwater invertebrate
Marie Noele Croteau, Christopher C. Fuller, Daniel J. Cain, Kate M. Campbell
2025, Environmental Science and Technology (59) 16641-16651
Uranium (U) mining increases environmental exposures. Understanding how U is taken up by organisms can aid in evaluating the potential for bioaccumulation and toxicity. Although the importance of aqueous geochemical speciation is well recognized for U bioavailability after dissolved exposures, far less is known about the processes controlling U bioavailability...
Suturing fragmented landscapes: Mosaic hybrid zones in plants may facilitate ecosystem resiliency
Robert Massatti, Trevor Morgan Faske, Ivana M. Barnes, Elizabeth A. Leger, Thomas L. Parchman, Bryce A. Richardson, L. Lacey Knowles
2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (122)
Many widespread plant taxa of western North America have diversified into phenotypically and genetically divergent lineages due to complex biogeographic histories across heterogeneous landscapes. Mosaic hybrid zones can form when geographically co-occurring, yet environmentally distinct, lineages cross-pollinate and form hybrids that occupy unique environmental niches absent of a geographic cline....
