Recovery of prairie fish assemblages at the transition from channelized to nonchannelized: Implications for conservation of natural channels
Jason C. Vokoun, Charles F. Rabeni
2003, Natural Areas Journal (23) 349-355
Fish assemblages were systematically sampled along the transition from channelized to unchannelized reaches in seven streams in northern Missouri, USA. Streams ranged in size from 4th to 8th order and were located in the Central Dissected Till Plains including the Grand, Chariton, Salt, and Fabius watersheds. Maximum species richness was...
Specific-conductance, water-temperature, and water-level data, San Francisco Bay, California, for water years 2001-2002
P.A. Buchanan
2003, Interagency Ecological Program Newsletter (16) 25-30
This article presents time-series plots of specific-conductance, water-temperature, and water-level data collected in San Francisco Bay during water years 2001 and 2002 (October 1, 2000, through September 30, 2002). Specific-conductance and water-temperature data were recorded at 15-minute intervals at the following US Geological Survey (USGS) locations (Figure 1): • Suisun...
Cross-channel variability in benthic habitat
Marc Vayssieres, Heather Peterson
2003, Interagency Ecological Program Newsletter (16) 51-56
Benthic invertebrates play an important role in estuarine food webs and biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nutrients, and contaminants. The generally sedentary benthic invertebrates continuously integrate local water, sediment, and food conditions. This makes them good indicators of the type and quality of aquatic habitat at the location where they are...
Electrofishing and its harmful effects on fish
Darrel E. Snyder
2003, Information and Technology Report 2003-0002
Electrofishing, a valuable sampling technique in North America for over half a century, involves a very dynamic and complex mix of physics, physiology, and behavior that remains poorly understood. New hypotheses have been advanced regarding "power transfer" to fish and the epileptic nature of their responses to electric fields, but...
Effects of lampricide exposure on the survival, growth, and behavior of the unionid mussels Elliptio complanata and Pyganadon cataracta
D. L. Waller, T.D. Bills, M.A. Boogaard, D.A. Johnson, T.C.J. Doolittle
2003, Journal of Great Lakes Research (29 Suppl. 1) 542-551
The effects of a 12-h exposure to the lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) and a combination of TFM and 1% niclosamide (active ingredient in Bayluscide 70% wettable powder) on the short and long-term (10 mo post exposure) survival and behavior of two unionid freshwater mussel species Elliptio complanata and Pyganadon cataracta were...
Global occurrence of tellurium-rich ferromanganese crusts and a model for the enrichment of tellurium
J.R. Hein, A. Koschinsky, A. N. Halliday
2003, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (67) 1117-1127
Hydrogenetic ferromanganese oxyhydroxide crusts (Fe-Mn crusts) precipitate out of cold ambient ocean water onto hard-rock surfaces (seamounts, plateaus, ridges) at water depths of about 400 to 4000 m throughout the ocean basins. The slow-growing (mm/Ma) Fe-Mn crusts concentrate most elements above their mean...
Boll weevil eradication: a model for sea lamprey control?
James W. Smith, William D. Swink
2003, Journal of Great Lakes Research (29) 445-455
Invasions of boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) into the United States and sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) into the Great Lakes were similar in many ways. Important species (American cotton, Gossypium hirsutum, and lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush) and the industries they supported were negatively affected. Initial control efforts were unsuccessful until pesticides...
Environmental fate and effects of the lampricide TFM: a review
T.D. Hubert
2003, Journal of Great Lakes Research (29) 456-474
Use of 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) is limited geographically to the Great Lakes basin where it is the principal agent used in control of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus). It is clear from available data that TFM has effects on the environment, but the effects reported are transient. Individual organisms and aquatic...
Exposure and effects of chemical contaminants on tree swallows nesting along the Housatonic River, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA, 1998-2000
Christine M. Custer, T. W. Custer, P.M. Dummer, K.L. Munney
2003, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (22) 1605-1621
Hatching success of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) was assessed for three years in relation to chemical contamination along the Housatonic River, Berkshire County (MA, USA), in 1998, 1999, and 2000. Nest boxes were erected at five sites along the Housatonic River and its tributaries and at one reference location. Concentrations...
Efficacy of hydrogen peroxide in controlling mortality associated with saprolegniasis on walleye, white sucker, and paddlefish eggs
M.P. Gaikowski, J.J. Rach, M. Drobish, J. Hamilton, T. Harder, L.A. Lee, C. Moen, A. Moore
2003, North American Journal of Aquaculture (65) 349-355
The efficacy of hydrogen peroxide in controlling saprolegniasis on eggs of walleye Stizostedion vitreum, white sucker Catostomus commersoni, and paddlefish Polyodon spathula was evaluated at four private, state, and federal production hatcheries participating in an Investigational New Animal Drug efficacy study (experiment 1; walleyes) and in a laboratory-based miniature egg...
Evaluation of relocation of unionid mussels to in situ refugia
W.G. Cope, M.C. Hove, D. L. Waller, D.J. Hornbach, M.R. Bartsch, L.A. Cunningham, H.L. Dunn, A.R. Kapuscinski
2003, Journal of Molluscan Studies (69) 27-34
The aim of this study was to evaluate the recovery and survival of four species of unionid mussles [pimpleback, Quadrula pustulosa pustulosa (I. Lea, 1831); spike, Elliptio dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820); Higgins eye, Lampsilis higginsii (I. Lea, 1857); and pocketbook, Lampsilis cardium (Rafinesque, 1820)] that were experimentally relocated to in situ...
Growth and condition of alewives in Lake Michigan, 1984-2001
Charles P. Madenjian, Jeffrey D. Holuszko, Timothy J. Desorcie
2003, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (132) 1104-1116
Diets of salmonines in Lake Michigan have been dominated by alewives Alosa pseudoharengus since the 1960s, and information on alewife population dynamics is critical to the management of salmonine fisheries. We monitored alewife size at age and condition (K) at several different locations in Lake Michigan during fall 1984–2001. Alewives were aged...
Submersed aquatic vegetation trends in impounded and backwater habitat types in Pool 13, Upper Mississippi River system: 1994-2000
T.A. Blackburn, D.J. Kirby
2003, Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science (110) 51-55
Abstract has not been submitted...
New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, January-March 2003
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2003, Report
A list of USGS publications and articles by U.S. Geological Survey personnel in non-U.S. Geological Survey journals and books that were published in January to March of the year 2003....
Relationship among side channels, fish assemblages, and environmental gradients in the unimpounded Upper Mississippi River
V.A. Barko, D.P. Herzog
2003, Journal of Freshwater Ecology (18) 377-382
We analyzed fish abundance and environmental data collected over nine years from six side channels of the unimpounded upper Mississippi River between river km 46.7 and 128.7. A partial canonical correspondence analysis revealed differences in fish assemblages and environmental factors correlated with the six side channels. Fishes correlated with open...
New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, April-June 2003
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2003, Report
A list of USGS publications and articles by U.S. Geological Survey personnel in non-U.S. Geological Survey journals and books that were published in January to March of the year 2003....
First record of Dasycorixa rawsoni (Hemiptera: Corixidae) in the United States
B.A. Hanson, N.H. Euliss Jr., D.M. Mushet, S. W. Chorda III
2003, Entomological News (114) 235-236
Abstract has not been submitted...
Wilderness experience in Rocky Mountain National Park 2002; report to respondents
Elke Schuster, S. Shea Johnson, Jonathan G. Taylor
2003, Open-File Report 2003-444
A substantial amount of backcountry (about 250,000 acres) in Rocky Mountain National Park [RMNP of the Park] may be designated as wilderness areas in the coming years. Currently, over 3 million visitors drives through the park on Trail Ridge Road, camp in designated campgrounds, day hike, etc. each year. Many...
Critical pressure and multiphase flow in Blake Ridge gas hydrates
P.B. Flemings, Xiuying Liu, W.J. Winters
2003, Geology (31) 1057-1060
We use core porosity, consolidation experiments, pressure core sampler data, and capillary pressure measurements to predict water pressures that are 70% of the lithostatic stress, and gas pressures that equal the lithostatic stress beneath the methane hydrate layer at Ocean Drilling Program Site 997, Blake Ridge, offshore North Carolina. A...
US National Large-scale City Orthoimage Standard Initiative
G. Zhou, C. Song, S. Benjamin, W. Schickler
2003, Conference Paper, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
The early procedures and algorithms for National digital orthophoto generation in National Digital Orthophoto Program (NDOP) were based on earlier USGS mapping operations, such as field control, aerotriangulation (derived in the early 1920's), the quarter-quadrangle-centered (3.75 minutes of longitude and latitude in geographic extent), 1:40,000 aerial photographs, and 2.5 D...
Copepod communities from surface and ground waters in the everglades, south Florida
M.C. Bruno, K.J. Cunningham, S.A. Perry
2003, Southeastern Naturalist (2) 523-546
We studied species composition and individual abundance of copepods in the surficial aquifer northeast of Everglades National Park. We identified the spatial distribution of subsurface habitats by assessing the depth of the high porosity layers in the limestone along a canal system, and we used copepods to assess the exchange...
Structural framework of a major intracontinental orogenic termination zone: The easternmost Tien Shan, China
D. Cunningham, L.A. Owen, L.W. Snee, Ji Li
2003, Journal of the Geological Society (160) 575-590
The Barkol Tagh and Karlik Tagh ranges of the easternmost Tien Shan are a natural laboratory for studying the fault architecture of an active termination zone of a major intracontinental mountain range. Barkol and Karlik Tagh and lesser ranges to the north are bounded by active thrust faults that locally...
A model for spatially and temporally distributed shallow landslide initiation by rainfall infiltration
W. Z. Savage, J. W. Godt, R.L. Baum
Rickenmann D.Chen C.L., editor(s)
2003, Conference Paper, International Conference on Debris-Flow Hazards Mitigation: Mechanics, Prediction, and Assessment, Proceedings
We describe a model for regional initiation of shallow landslides based on an approximate analytic solution to Richards equation combined with an infinite-slope calculation. The model applied over digital topography computes pressure heads and factors of safety as functions of depth for geographic information system (GIS) grid cells at any...
Juvenile steelhead and other fish rearing in the Wind River watershed. Connolly, J.P. (ed.), Wind River watershed restoration. 2000-2001
I.G. Jezorek, P.J. Connolly
P.J. Connolly, editor(s)
2003, Report
Abstract not available ...
Monitoring of Lost River and shortnose suckers at Upper Klamath Lake non-spawning locations
H.A. Hendrixson, E.C. Janney, R.S. Shively
2003, Report
Abstract not available ...
