Estimating streamflow permanence with the watershed erosion prediction project model: Implications for surface water presence modeling and data collection
Konrad Hafen, Kyle W. Blasch, Paul E. Gessler, Jason Dunham, Erin Brooks
2023, Journal of Hydrology (622)
Many data collection efforts and modeling studies have focused on providing accurate estimates of streamflow while fewer efforts have sought to identify when and where surface water is present and the duration of surface water presence in stream channels, hereafter referred...
Synergistic soil, land use, and climate influences on wind erosion on the Colorado Plateau: Implications for management
Travis W. Nauman, Seth M. Munson, Saroj Dhital, Nicholas P. Webb, Michael C. Duniway
2023, Science of the Total Environment (893)
Two decades of drought in the southwestern USA are spurring concerns about increases in wind erosion, dust emissions, and associated impacts on ecosystems, agriculture, human health, and water supply. Different avenues of investigation into primary drivers of wind erosion and dust have yielded mixed results depending...
A review of N-mixture models
Lisa Madsen, J. Andrew Royle
2023, WIREs Computational Statistics (15)
N-mixture models were born in 2004 of the necessity to model animal population size from point counts with imperfect detection of individuals, where capture-recapture methods are infeasible. Initially developed for applications where population size was assumed constant, N-mixture models were extended in 2011 to include population dynamics,...
The role of giant impacts in planet formation
Travis S.J. Gabriel, Saverio Cambioni
2023, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science (51) 671-695
Planets are expected to conclude their growth through a series of giant impacts: energetic, global events that significantly alter planetary composition and evolution. Computer models and theory have elucidated the diverse outcomes of giant impacts in detail, improving our ability to interpret collision conditions from observations of their remnants. However,...
Wildlife health surveillance: Gaps, needs and opportunities
M. Delgado, N. Ferrari, A. Fanelli, S. Muset, L. Thompson, Jonathan M. Sleeman, C. LeAnn White, Daniel P. Walsh, C. Wannous, P. Tizzani
2023, Scientific and Technical Review 161-172
Disease emergence represent a global threat for public health, economy, and biological conservation and most of the emerging diseases have zoonotic origin from wildlife. To prevent their spread and to support the implementation of control measures, disease surveillance and reporting systems are needed, and due to globalisation, these activities should...
Invasion-mediated mutualism disruption is evident across heterogeneous environmental conditions and varying invasion intensities
Morgan Roche, Ian S. Pearse, Helen Sofaer, Stephanie N Kivlin, Greg Spyreas, David N. Zaya, Susan Kalisz
2023, Ecography (2023)
The impact of a biological invasion on native communities is expected to be uneven across invaded landscapes due to differences in local abiotic conditions, invader abundance, and traits and composition of the native community. One way to improve predictive ability about the impact of an invasive species given variable conditions...
Larval cisco and lake whitefish exhibit high distributional overlap within nursery areas
Taylor A. Brown, Lars G. Rudstam, Jeremy P. Holden, Brian Weidel, Amanda Susanne Ackiss, Ann J. Ropp, Marc Chalupnicki, James E. McKenna Jr., Suresh A. Sethi
2023, Ecology of Freshwater Fish (32) 804-823
Coregonine fishes, including lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and cisco (C. artedi), are socioecologically important in the Laurentian Great Lakes and of conservation concern, but the processes driving recruitment variability are unclear. In Lake Ontario, cisco and lake whitefish exhibit similar spawning behaviours and early life histories, but population trajectories are...
Report of the Science Community Workshop on the proposed First Sample Depot for the Mars Sample Return Campaign
Andrew D. Czaja, Maria-Paz Zorzano Mier, Gerhard Kminek, Michael Meyer, David Beaty, Elliot Sefton-Nash, Brandi Carrier, Fiona Thiessen, Timothy Haltigin, Audrey Bouvier, Nicolas Dauphas, Katherine L. French, Lydia Hallis, Rachel Harris, Ernst Hauber, Laura Rodriguez, Susanne P. Schwenzer, Andrew Steele, Kimberly Tait, Michael T. Thorpe, Tomohiro Usui, Jessica Vanhomwegen, Michael Velbel, Samuel Edwin, Kenneth A. Farley, Daniel Glavin, Andrea Harrington, Lindsay Hays, Aurore Hutzler, Meenakshi Wadhwa
2023, Meteoritics and Planetary Science (58) 885-896
The Mars 2020/Mars Sample Return (MSR) Sample Depot Science Community Workshop was held on September 28 and 30, 2022, to assess the Scientifically-Return Worthy (SRW) value of the full collection of samples acquired by the rover Perseverance at Jezero Crater, and of a proposed subset of samples to be left...
The role of lithology and climate on bedrock river incision and terrace development along the Buffalo National River, Arkansas
Kathleen Rodrigues, Amanda Keen-Zebert, Stephanie Shepherd, Mark R. Hudson, Charles J. Bitting, Bradley G. Johnson, Abigail Langston
2023, Quaternary Research (115) 179-193
The Buffalo National River in northwest Arkansas preserves an extensive Quaternary record of fluvial bedrock incision and aggradation across lithologies of variable resistance. In this work, we apply optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating to strath and fill terraces along the Buffalo River to elucidate the role of lithology and climate...
Patterns of water use by raptors in the southern Great Plains
Clint W. Boal, Brent D. Bibles, Trevor S. Gicklhorn
2023, Journal of Raptor Research (57) 444-455
There is a paucity of data evaluating water use by raptors. Although raptors are believed to satisfy their water requirements through metabolic processes, they are known to experience reduced reproductive success during periods of drought, and there is evidence of water being important for site occupancy in arid...
Application of habitat association models across regions: Useful explanatory power retained in wetland bird case study
Lisa H. Elliott, Annie M. Bracey, Gerald J. Niemi, Douglas H. Johnson, Thomas M. Gehring, Erin E. Gnass Giese, Giuseppe E. Fiorino, Robert W. Howe, Gregory A. Lawrence, Christopher J. Norment, Douglas C. Tozer, Lawrence Igl
2023, Ecosphere (14)
Species often exhibit regionally specific habitat associations, so habitat association models developed in one region might not be accurate or even appropriate for other regions. Three programs to survey wetland-breeding birds covering (respectively) Great Lakes coastal wetlands, inland Great Lakes wetlands, and the Prairie Pothole Region offer an opportunity to...
Influence of increased freshwater inflow on nitrogen and phosphorus budgets in a dynamic subtropical estuary, Barataria Basin, Louisiana
Hoonshin Jung, William K. Nuttle, Melissa Millman Baustian, Tim J. B. Carruthers
2023, Water (15)
Coastal Louisiana is currently experiencing high rates of wetland loss and large-scale ecosystem restoration is being implemented. One of the largest and most novel restoration projects is a controlled sediment diversion, proposed to rebuild and sustain wetlands by diverting sediment- and nutrient-rich water from the Mississippi River. However, the impact...
Operational forecasts of wave-driven water levels and coastal hazards for US Gulf and Atlantic coasts
Hilary F Stockdon, Joseph W. Long, Margaret L. Palmsten, Andre Van der Westhuysen, Kara S. Doran, Richard J. Snell
2023, Communications Earth & Environment (4)
Predictions of total water levels, the elevation of combined tides, surge, and wave runup at the shoreline, are necessary to provide guidance on potential coastal erosion and flooding. Despite the importance of early warning systems for these hazards, existing real-time meteorological and oceanographic forecast systems at regional and national scales,...
Permafrost microbial communities and functional genes are structured by latitudinal and soil geochemical gradients
Mark Waldrop, Chris Chabot, Susanne Liebner, Sheila Holmes, Marcia Snyder, Martin L. Dillon, S Dudgeon, Thomas A. Douglas, Mary-Catherine Leewis, Katie M Walter- Anthony, Jack McFarland, Christopher D. Arp, Allen C. Bondurant, Neslihan Tas, Rachel Mackelprang
2023, The ISME Journal (17) 1224-1235
Permafrost underlies approximately one quarter of Northern Hemisphere terrestrial surfaces and contains 25–50% of the global soil carbon (C) pool. Permafrost soils and the C stocks within are vulnerable to ongoing and future projected climate warming. The biogeography of microbial communities inhabiting permafrost has not been...
Contemporary distribution of non-native Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in South America
Guillermo Figueroa-Munoz, J. Andres Olivos, Ivan Arismendi, Graciela Fabiano, Martin Laporta, Santiago Silveira, Ivan González-Bergonzoni, Guido Pavez, Billy Ernst, Javier E. Ciancio, Chris Harrod, Cecilia Y. Di Prinzio, Tomás Chalde, Christina Amy Murphy, Daniel Gomez-Uchida
2023, Biological Invasions (25) 2727-2735
Chinook salmon represent one of the most successful salmonid introductions in South America, and today multiple naturalized populations exist across Patagonia. Here, we present an updated regional distribution of Chinook salmon that includes new records of occurrences collected between 2006 and 2022. We found a significant range expansion in terms...
Nest attendance, incubation constancy, and onset of incubation in dabbling ducks
C. Alex Hartman, Joshua T. Ackerman, Sarah H. Peterson, Brady Lynn Fettig, Michael L. Casazza, Mark P. Herzog
2023, PLoS ONE (18)
In birds, parents must provide their eggs with a safe thermal environment suitable for embryonic development. Species with uniparental incubation must balance time spent incubating eggs with time spent away from the nest to satisfy self-maintenance needs. Patterns of nest attendance, therefore, influence embryonic development and the time it takes...
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...
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...
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...
Stream restoration milestones: Monitoring scales determine successes and failures
Sujay S. Kaushal, Megan L. Fork, Robert J. Hawley, Kristina G. Hopkins, Blanca Rios-Touma, Allison H. Roy
2023, Urban Ecosystems (26) 1131-1142
Urban stream restoration is growing globally, but there is much to learn from successes, failures, and evaluating tradeoffs in restoration practices. Significant time and resources have been invested towards restoring the structure and function of urban ecosystems and understanding and slowing the drivers of degradation. However, the rapid pace of...
A numerical investigation of the mechanisms controlling salt intrusion in the Delaware Bay Estuary
Salme Ellen Cook, John C. Warner, Kendra L. Russell
2023, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (283)
Salinity intrusion in coastal systems is mainly controlled by freshwater inflows. However, extreme events like drought, low-pressure storms, and longer-term sea level rise can exacerbate the landward salt migration and threaten economic infrastructure and ecological health. Along the eastern seaboard of the United States, approximately 13 million people rely on the water...
Spatiotemporal segregation by migratory phenotype indicates potential for assortative mating in lake sturgeon
Tyler J. Buchinger, Darryl W. Hondorp, Charles C. Krueger
2023, Oecologia (201) 953-964
Migratory diversity can promote population differentiation if sympatric phenotypes become temporally, spatially, or behaviorally segregated during breeding. In this study, the potential for spatiotemporal segregation was tested among three migratory phenotypes of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) that spawn in the St. Clair River of North America’s Laurentian Great Lakes but...
Assembling the right pieces: Developing an interdisciplinary team to study disease, decline, and recovery of a world-class Smallmouth Bass fishery
Megan K. Schall, Geoffrey Smith, Vicki S. Blazer, Heather L. Walsh, Timothy Wertz, Dustin R. Shull, Tyler Wagner
2023, Fisheries Magazine (48) 287-294
Managing and understanding fisheries dynamics are becoming more complex as new and seemingly more complicated environmental factors are identified. Often management requires resources beyond that of any one entity and calls for collaboration among partners with differing priorities and backgrounds to account for the complexity of factors influencing fisheries. We...
Diverse migratory portfolios drive inter-annual switching behavior of elk across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Gabriel R. Zuckerman, Kristin J. Barker, Laura C. Gigliotti, Eric K. Cole, Justin A. Gude, Mark A. Hurley, Matthew J. Kauffman, Daryl Lutz, Daniel R. MacNulty, Eric J. Maichak, Doug McWhirter, Tony W. Mong, Kelly Proffitt, Brandon M. Scurlock, Daniel R. Stahler, Ben Wise, Arthur D. Middleton
2023, Ecosphere (14)
A growing body of evidence shows that some ungulates alternate between migratory and nonmigratory behaviors over time. Yet it remains unclear whether such short-term behavioral changes can help explain reported declines in ungulate migration worldwide, as opposed to long-term demographic changes. Furthermore, advances in...
