Passive integrated transponder tags: Review of studies on warmwater fishes with notes on additional species
W. Chris Musselman, Thomas A. Worthington, Joshua Mouser, Desiree M. Williams, Shannon K. Brewer
2017, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (8) 353-364
Although numerous studies have assessed retention and survival of passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags, data are scattered and information gaps remain for many diminutive fishes. Our study objectives were to 1) systematically review PIT tag studies and summarize retention, growth, and survival data for warmwater fishes; and 2) conduct a...
National Park Service Vegetation Mapping Inventory Program: Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Vegetation Mapping Project
Kevin D. Hop, Andrew C. Strassman, Stephanie Sattler, Milo Pyne, Judy Teague, Rickie White, Janis Ruhser, Enrika Hlavacek, Jennifer Dieck
2017, Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/GULN/NRR—2017/1528
The National Park Service, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science office in Fort Collins, Colorado, publishes a range of reports that address natural resource topics. These reports are of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and...
Macroscale patterns of synchrony identify complex relationships among spatial and temporal ecosystem drivers
Noah R. Lottig, Pang-Ning Tan, Tyler Wagner, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, Patricia A. Soranno, Emily H. Stanley, Caren E. Scott, Craig A. Stow, Shuai Yuan
2017, Ecosphere (8) 1-11
Ecology has a rich history of studying ecosystem dynamics across time and space that has been motivated by both practical management needs and the need to develop basic ideas about pattern and process in nature. In situations in which both spatial and temporal observations are available, similarities in temporal behavior...
Sampling bees in tropical forests and agroecosystems: A review
Sara G. Prado, Hien T. Ngo, Jaime A. Florez, Jaime A. Collazo
2017, Journal of Insect Conservation (21) 753-770
Bees are the predominant pollinating taxa, providing a critical ecosystem service upon which many angiosperms rely for successful reproduction. Available data suggests that bee populations worldwide are declining, but scarce data in tropical regions precludes assessing their status and distribution, impact on ecological services, and response to management actions. Herein,...
LAGOS-NE: a multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of US lakes
Patricia A. Soranno, Linda C. Bacon, Michael Beauchene, Karen E. Bednar, Edward G. Bissell, Claire K. Boudreau, Marvin G. Boyer, Mary T. Bremigan, Stephen R. Carpenter, Jamie W. Carr, Kendra S. Cheruvelil, Samuel T. Christel, Matt Claucherty, Sarah M. Collins, Joseph D. Conroy, John A. Downing, Jed Dukett, C. Emi Fergus, Christopher T. Filstrup, Clara Funk, Maria J. Gonzalez, Linda T. Green, Corinna Gries, John D. Halfman, Stephen K. Hamilton, Paul C. Hanson, Emily N. Henry, Elizabeth M. Herron, Celeste Hockings, James R. Jackson, Kari Jacobson-Hedin, Lorraine L. Janus, William W. Jones, John R. Jones, Caroline M. Keson, Katelyn B.S. King, Scott A. Kishbaugh, Jean-Francois Lapierre, Barbara Lathrop, Jo A. Latimore, Yuehlin Lee, Noah R. Lottig, Jason A. Lynch, Leslie J. Matthews, William H. McDowell, Karen E.B. Moore, Brian Neff, Sarah J. Nelson, Samantha K. Oliver, Michael L. Pace, Donald C. Pierson, Autumn C. Poisson, Amina I. Pollard, David M. Post, Paul O. Reyes, Donald Rosenberry, Karen M. Roy, Lars G. Rudstam, Orlando Sarnelle, Nancy J. Schuldt, Caren E. Scott, Nicholas K. Skaff, Nicole J. Smith, Nick R. Spinelli, Joseph J. Stachelek, Emily H. Stanley, John L. Stoddard, Scott B. Stopyak, Craig A. Stow, Jason M. Tallant, Pang-Ning Tan, Anthony P. Thorpe, Michael J. Vanni, Tyler Wagner, Gretchen Watkins, Kathleen C. Weathers, Katherine E. Webster, Jeffrey D. White, Marcy K. Wilmes, Shuai Yuan
2017, GigaScience (6) 1-22
Understanding the factors that affect water quality and the ecological services provided by freshwater ecosystems is an urgent global environmental issue. Predicting how water quality will respond to global changes not only requires water quality data, but also information about the ecological context of individual water bodies across broad spatial...
Ad hoc instrumentation methods in ecological studies produce highly biased temperature measurements
Adam J. Terando, Elsa Youngsteadt, Emily K. Meineke, Sara G. Prado
2017, Ecology and Evolution (7) 9890-9904
In light of global climate change, ecological studies increasingly address effects of temperature on organisms and ecosystems. To measure air temperature at biologically relevant scales in the field, ecologists often use small, portable temperature sensors. Sensors must be shielded from solar radiation to provide accurate temperature measurements, but our review...
Normalized difference vegetation index as an estimator for abundance and quality of avian herbivore forage in arctic Alaska
Kyle R. Hogrefe, Vijay P. Patil, Daniel R. Ruthrauff, Brandt W. Meixell, Michael E. Budde, Jerry W. Hupp, David H. Ward
2017, Remote Sensing (9)
Tools that can monitor biomass and nutritional quality of forage plants are needed to understand how arctic herbivores may respond to the rapidly changing environment at high latitudes. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) has been widely used to assess changes in abundance and distribution of terrestrial vegetative communities. However,...
Connecting the Soda–Avawatz and Bristol–Granite Mountains faults with gravity andaeromagnetic data, Mojave Desert, California
Victoria E. Langenheim, David M. Miller
2017, Conference Paper, ECSZ does it: Revisiting the Eastern California Shear Zone 2017 Desert Symposium Field Guide and Proceedings
The Soda–Avawatz and Bristol–Granite Mountains faults are considered by some to form the northeastern margin of the eastern California shear zone yet their connectivity and extents are obscured by surficial deposits and the estimates of total right-lateral offset from geologic data range from 0 to as much as 24 km....
Dynamic rupture modeling of the M7.2 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake: Comparison with a geodetic model
Christos Kyriakopoulos, David D. Oglesby, Gareth J. Funning, Kenneth Ryan
2017, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (122) 10263-10279
The 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake is the largest event recorded in the broader Southern California-Baja California region in the last 18 years. Here we try to analyze primary features of this type of event by using dynamic rupture simulations based on a multifault interface and later compare our results with space...
Evaluating factors driving population densities of mayfly nymphs in Western Lake Erie
Martin A. Stapanian, Patrick Kocovsky, Betsy L. Bodamer Scarbro
2017, Journal of Great Lakes Research (43) 1111-1118
Mayfly (Hexagenia spp.) nymphs have been widely used as indicators of water and substrate quality in lakes. Thermal stratification and the subsequent formation of benthic hypoxia may result in nymph mortality. Our goal was to identify potential associations between recent increases in temperature and eutrophication, which exacerbate hypoxic events in lakes,...
Estimating thermal maturity in the Eagle Ford Shale petroleum system using gas gravity data
Justin E. Birdwell, Scott A. Kinney
2017, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions (67) 397-403
Basin-wide datasets that provide information on the geochemical properties of petroleum systems, such as source rock quality, product composition, and thermal maturity, are often difficult to come by or assemble from publicly available data. When published studies are available and include these kinds of properties, they generally have few sampling...
How many Laysan Teal Anas laysanensis are on Midway Atoll? Methods for monitoring abundance after reintroduction
Michelle H. Reynolds, Karen Courtot, Jeffrey Hatfield
2017, Wildfowl (67) 60-71
Wildlife managers often request a simple approach to monitor the status of species of concern. In response to that need, we used eight years of monitoring data to estimate population size and test the validity of an index for monitoring accurately the abundance of reintroduced, endangered Laysan Teal Anas laysanensis....
Interactive effects of water temperature and salinity on growth and mortality of eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica: A meta-analysis using 40 years of monitoring data
Michael R. Lowe, Troy Sehlinger, Thomas M. Soniat, Megan K. LaPeyre
2017, Journal of Shellfish Research (36) 683-697
Despite nearly a century of exploitation and scientific study, predicting growth and mortality rates of the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) as a means to inform local harvest and management activities remains difficult. Ensuring that models reflect local population responses to varying salinity and temperature combinations requires locally appropriate models. Using...
Genomics of Arctic cod
Robert E. Wilson, George K. Sage, Sarah A. Sonsthagen, Megan C. Gravley, Damian M. Menning, Sandra L. Talbot
2017, OCS Study BOEM 2017-066
The Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) is an abundant marine fish that plays a vital role in the marine food web. To better understand the population genetic structure and the role of natural selection acting on the maternally-inherited mitochondrial genome (mitogenome), a molecule often associated with adaptations to temperature, we analyzed...
Water-resources and land-surface deformation evaluation studies at Fort Irwin National Training Center, Mojave Desert, California
Jill N. Densmore, Justine E. Dishart, David M. Miller, David C. Buesch, Lyndsay B. Ball, Paul A. Bedrosian, Linda R. Woolfenden, Geoffrey Cromwell, Matthew K. Burgess, Joseph Nawikas, David O’Leary, Adam Kjos, Michelle Sneed, Justin T. Brandt
2017, Conference Paper, 2017 Desert Symposium Field Guide and Proceedings - ECSZ does it: Revisiting the eastern California Shear Zone
The U.S. Army Fort Irwin National Training Center (NTC), in the Mojave Desert, obtains all of its potable water supply from three groundwater basins (Irwin, Langford, and Bicycle) within the NTC boundaries (fig. 1; California Department of Water Resources, 2003). Because of increasing water demands at the NTC, the U.S....
Importance of fishing as a segmentation variable in the application of a social worlds model
Larry M. Gigliotti, Loren Chase
2017, Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science (96) 58-76
Market segmentation is useful to understanding and classifying the diverse range of outdoor recreation experiences sought by different recreationists. Although many different segmentation methodologies exist, many are complex and difficult to measure accurately during in-person intercepts, such as that of creel surveys. To address that gap in the literature, we...
Reviews and syntheses: Field data to benchmark the carbon cycle models for tropical forests
Deborah A. Clark, Shinichi Asao, Rosie A. Fisher, Sasha C. Reed, Peter B. Reich, Michael G. Ryan, Tana E. Wood, Xiaojuan Yang
2017, Biogeosciences (14) 4663-4690
For more accurate projections of both the global carbon (C) cycle and the changing climate, a critical current need is to improve the representation of tropical forests in Earth system models. Tropical forests exchange more C, energy, and water with the atmosphere than any other class of land ecosystems. Further,...
Spatial data analytics on heterogeneous multi- and many-core parallel architectures using python
Jason R. Laura, Sergio J. Rey
2017, Book chapter, Encyclopedia of GIS
Parallel vector spatial analysis concerns the application of parallel computational methods to facilitate vector-based spatial analysis. The history of parallel computation in spatial analysis is reviewed, and this work is placed into the broader context of high-performance computing (HPC) and parallelization research. The rise of cyber infrastructure and its manifestation...
Toward a unified near-field intensity map of the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake
Sujan Raj Adhikari, Gopi Baysal, Amod Dixit, Stacey Martin, Mattieu Landes, Remy Bossu, Susan E. Hough
2017, Earthquake Spectra (33) S21-S34
We develop a unified near-field shaking intensity map for the 25 April 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake by synthesizing intensities derived from macroseismic effects that were determined by independent groups using a variety of approaches. Independent assessments by different groups are generally consistent, with minor differences that are likely due...
Decaying lava extrusion rate at El Reventador Volcano, Ecuador measured using high-resolution satellite radar
D. W. D. Arnold, J. Biggs, Kyle R. Anderson, S. Vallejo Vargas, G. Wadge, S. K. Ebmeier, M. F. Naranjo, P. Mothes
2017, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (122) 9966-9988
Lava extrusion at erupting volcanoes causes rapid changes in topography and morphology on the order of tens or even hundreds of meters. Satellite radar provides a method for measuring changes in topographic height over a given time period to an accuracy of meters, either by measuring the width of radar...
Effects of thermal variability on broadband seismometers: Controlled experiments, observations, and implications
Claire Doody, Adam T. Ringler, Robert Anthony, David C. Wilson, Austin Holland, Charles R. Hutt, Leo Sandoval
2017, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (108) 493-502
Isolating seismic instruments from temperature fluctuations is routine practice within the seismological community. However, the necessary degree of thermal stability required in broadband installations to avoid generating noise or compromising the fidelity in the seismic records is largely unknown and likely application dependent. To quantify the temperature sensitivity of seismometers...
Documenting mudstone heterogeneity by use of principal component analysis of X-ray diffraction and portable X-ray fluorescence data: A case study in the Triassic Shublik Formation, Alaska North Slope
Adam Boehlke, Katherine J. Whidden, William Benzel
2017, Conference Paper, SEPM-AAPG Research Conference
Determining the chemical and mineralogical variability within fine-grained mudrocks poses analytical challenges but is potentially useful for documenting subtle stratigraphic differences in physicochemical environments that may influence petroleum reservoir properties and behavior. In this study, we investigate the utility of combining principal component analysis (PCA) of X-ray diffraction (XRD) data...
A Bayesian-based system to assess wave-driven flooding hazards on coral reef-lined coasts
S. G. Pearson, Curt D. Storlazzi, A. R. van Dongeren, M. F. S. Tissier, A. J. H. M. Reniers
2017, Journal of Geophysical Research C: Oceans (122) 10099-10117
Many low-elevation, coral reef-lined, tropical coasts are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, sea level rise, and wave-induced flooding. The considerable morphological diversity of these coasts and the variability of the hydrodynamic forcing that they are exposed to make predicting wave-induced flooding a challenge. A process-based wave-resolving hydrodynamic model...
A statistical method to predict flow permanence in dryland streams from time series of stream temperature
Ivan Arismendi, Jason B. Dunham, Michael Heck, Luke Schultz, David Hockman-Wert
2017, Water (9) 1-13
Intermittent and ephemeral streams represent more than half of the length of the global river network. Dryland freshwater ecosystems are especially vulnerable to changes in human-related water uses as well as shifts in terrestrial climates. Yet, the description and quantification of patterns of flow permanence in these systems is challenging...
Multi-level multi-task learning for modeling cross-scale interactions in nested geospatial data
Shuai Yuan, Jiayu Zhou, Pang-Ning Tan, Emi Fergus, Tyler Wagner, Patricia Sorrano
2017, Conference Paper, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
Predictive modeling of nested geospatial data is a challenging problem as the models must take into account potential interactions among variables defined at different spatial scales. These cross-scale interactions, as they are commonly known, are particularly important to understand relationships among ecological properties at macroscales. In this paper, we present...
