Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI): A successful start to a national program in the United States
Erin Muths, Robin E. Jung, Larissa L. Bailey, M. J. Adams, P. Stephen Corn, C. Kenneth Dodd Jr., Gary M. Fellers, Walter J. Sadinski, Cecil R. Schwalbe, Susan C. Walls, Robert N. Fisher, Alisa L. Gallant, William A. Battaglin, D. Earl Green
2005, Applied Herpetology (2) 355-371
Most research to assess amphibian declines has focused on local-scale projects on one or a few species. The Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI) is a national program in the United States mandated by congressional directive and implemented by the U.S. Department of the Interior (specifically the U.S. Geological Survey,...
Recent water temperature trends in the Lower Klamath River, California
John M. Bartholow
2005, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (25) 152-162
Elevated water temperatures have been implicated as a factor limiting the recovery of anadromous salmonids in the Klamath River basin. This article reviews evidence of a multidecade trend of increasing temperatures in the lower main-stem Klamath River above the ocean and, based on model simulations, finds a high probability that...
Examining patterns of bat activity in Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, using walking point transects
L.E. Ellison, A. L. Everette, M.A. Bogan
2005, Southwestern Naturalist (50) 197-208
We conducted a preliminary study using small field crews, a single Anabat II detector coupled with a laptop computer, and point transects to examine patterns of bat activity at a scale of interest to local resource managers. The study was conducted during summers of 1996–1998 in Bandelier National Monument in...
Inducible defenses in food webs: Chapter 3.4
Matthijs Vos, Bob W. Kooi, Donald L. DeAngelis, Wolf M. Mooij
Peter de Ruiter, Volkmar Wolters, John C. Moore, Kimberly Melville-Smith, editor(s)
2005, Book chapter, Dynamic food webs: Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change
This chapter reviews the predicted effects of induced defenses on trophic structure and two aspects of stability, “local” stability and persistence, as well as presenting novel results on a third, resilience. Food webs are structures of populations in a given location organized according to their predator–prey interactions. Interaction strengths and,...
Toxic Alexandrium blooms in the western Gulf of Maine: The plume advection hypothesis revisited
D.M. Anderson, B.A. Keafer, W.R. Geyer, R. P. Signell, T.C. Loder
2005, Limnology and Oceanography (50) 328-345
The plume advection hypothesis links blooms of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense in the western Gulf of Maine (GOM) to a buoyant plume derived from river outflows. This hypothesis was examined with cruise and moored-instrument observations in 1993 when levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins were high, and in...
Developmental biology and ecology of the Kemp's ridley sea turtle. Lepidochelys kempii, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico
J.R. Schmid, W.J. Barichivich
2005, Chelonian Conservation and Biology (4) 828-834
Abstract not supplied at this time...
Evidence of decline for Bufo boreas and Rana luteiventris in and around the northern Great Basin
W. Wente, M. J. Adams, Christopher A. Pearl
2005, Alytes (22) 95-108
A method is described for the analysis of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) compounds in tissue samples. Cleanup by hexane-aceto-nitrile partitioning and Florisil column chromatography are performed on samples before oxidative treatment to convert DDE to DCBP. PCB components are then determined semi-quantitatively by TLC. No prior separation of PCB from chlorinated...
Risk factors and declines in northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans)
V.R. Beasley, S. Faeh, B. Wikoff, C. Staehle, J. Eisold, D. Nichols, Rebecca A. Cole, A. Schotthoefer, M. Greenwell, L. Brown
M.J. Lannoo, editor(s)
2005, Book chapter, Amphibian declines: The conservation status of United States species
Diseases of frogs and toads
D. E. Green, K. A. Converse
S.K. Majumdar, J.E. Huffman, F.J. Brenner, A.I. Panah, editor(s)
2005, Book chapter, Wildlife Diseases: Landscape Epidemiology, Spatial Distribution, and Utilization of Remote Sensing Technology.
This chapter presents information on infectious diseases of free-living frogs and toads that have completed metamorphosis. The diseases discussed in this chapter pertain principally to sub-adult and adult frogs and toads that are at least 60-90 days removed from completion of metamorphosis. The main emphasis of this chapter is the...
Lesser scaup Aythya affinis
Jane E. Austin, Christine M. Custer, Alan D. Afton
Janet Kear, editor(s)
2005, Book chapter, Ducks, geese, and swans
No abstract available....
Nowcast modeling of Escherichia coli concentrations at multiple urban beaches of southern Lake Michigan
Meredith B. Nevers, Richard L. Whitman
2005, Water Research (39) 5250-5260
Predictive modeling for Escherichia coli concentrations at effluent-dominated beaches may be a favorable alternative to current, routinely criticized monitoring standards. The ability to model numerous beaches simultaneously and provide real-time data decreases cost and effort associated with beach monitoring. In 2004, five Lake Michigan beaches and the nearby Little Calumet River outfall...
Does choice of estimators influence conclusions from true metabolizable energy feeding trials?
M. H. Sherfy, R. L. Kirkpatrick, K. E. Webb Jr.
2005, Journal of Ornithology (146) 383-389
True metabolizable energy (TME) is a measure of avian dietary quality that accounts for metabolic fecal and endogenous urinary energy losses (EL) of non-dietary origin. The TME is calculated using a bird fed the test diet and an estimate of EL derived from another bird (Paired Bird Correction), the same...
Integrated fire science in the Rocky Mountains
Natasha B. Kotliar
2005, Fact Sheet 2005-3032
Fire is an important ecological process that has helped shape western landscapes. Wildfire suppression and other management practices may have altered historic fire regimes in ecosystems adapted to frequent, low-severity fires. Compounding this problem is the encroachment of homes into fire-prone areas. Fire affects a number of abiotic and biotic components...
Discovery of 100-160-year-old iceberg gouges and their relation to halibut habitat in Glacier Bay, Alaska
P.R. Carlson, P.N. Hooge, G.R. Cochrane
2005, American Fisheries Society Symposium (41) 235-243
Side-scan sonar and multibeam imagery of Glacier Bay, Alaska, revealed complex iceberg gouge patterns at water depths to 135 m on the floor of Whidbey Passage and south to the bay entrance. These previously undiscovered gouges likely formed more than 100 years ago as the glacier retreated rapidly up Glacier...
Rana catesbeiana (American Bullfrog). Chytridiomycosis
Christopher A. Pearl, D. E. Green
2005, Herpetological Review (36) 305-306
No abstract available....
Surveys for desert torotises in the Jawbone-Butterbredt Area of Critical Environmental Concern, Eastern Kern County, California
K. Keith, K. Berry, J. Weigand
2005, Report
No abstract available at this time...
Behavior, ecology, and detection surveys of mammalian carnivores in the Presidio
E. E. Boydston
2005, Report
No abstract available at this time...
Managing inland wetlands for wildlife
M.K. Laubhan, S.L. King, L.H. Fredrickson
2005, Book chapter, Techniques for wildlife investigations and management
Symposium on agency bargaining behavior in multi-party environmental negotiations: Part I
B. L. Lamb, N.P. Lovrich, editor(s)
2005, International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior (8) 174-273
No abstract available....
Clinic and field training for desert tortoise health assessments at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California. May 22-28, 2004
K.H. Berry, A. Demmon
2005, Report
No abstract available at this time...
Evidence for New Madrid earthquakes in A.D. 300 and 2350 B.C
Martitia P. Tuttle, E. S. Schweig III, J. Campbell, P. M. Thomas, J.D. Sims, R. H. Lafferty III
2005, Seismological Research Letters (76) 489-501
Six episodes of earthquake-induced liquefaction are associated with soil horizons containing artifacts of the Late Archaic (3000-500 B.C.) and Early to Middle Woodland (500 B.C.-A.D. 400) cultural periods at the Burkett archaeological site in the northern part of the New Madrid seismic zone, where little information about prehistoric earthquakes has...
Assessment of bird populations in a high quality savanna/woodland: a banding approach
Sandra L. Wilmore, Gary A. Glowacki, Ralph Grundel
2005, Chicago Wilderness Journal (3) 5-13
Between 1999 and 2004, Save the Dunes Conservation Fund's Miller Woods Bird Banding Program monitored migrating and breeding bird populations within a high quality black oak, dry-mesic sand savanna/woodland with ridge and swale topography. The objectives of this program were to collect consistent and reliable demographic and abundance data on...
Juvenile rainbow trout production in New York tributaries of Lake Ontario: implications for Atlantic salmon restoration
James E. McKenna Jr., James H. Johnson
2005, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (25) 391-403
Three Pacific salmonid species Onchorynchus spp. have replaced the extirpated Atlantic salmon Salmo salar as the main migratory salmonid in the Lake Ontario drainage. One of those species, the nonnative rainbow trout O. mykiss, has become widely distributed within the historical Atlantic salmon habitat, occupying an ecological niche similar to...
Thiamine status of Cayuga Lake rainbow trout and its influence on spawning migration
H. George Ketola, Thomas L. Chiotti, Robert S. Rathman, John D. Fitzsimons, Dale C. Honeyfield, Peter J. Van Dusen, Graham E. Lewis
2005, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (25) 1281-1287
Rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss in Cayuga Lake, New York, appear to be suffering from a thiamine deficiency because their progeny develop general weakness, loss of equilibrium, and increased mortality, which are prevented by treatment with thiamine. Thiamine status and its effect on adults are unknown. In 2000 and 2002, we...
Predation vulnerability of two gobies (Microgobius gulosus; Gobiosoma robustum) is not related to presence of seagrass
P. J. Schofield
2005, Florida Scientist (68) 25-34
Abstract not supplied at this time...
