Native mammals lack resilience to invasive generalist predator
Paul J. Taillie, Kristen Hart, Adia R. Sovie, Robert A. McCleery
2021, Biological Conservation (261)
Invasive predators have caused catastrophic declines in native wildlife across the globe. Though research has focused on the initial establishment, rapid growth, and spread of invasive predators, our understanding of prey resilience to established invasive predators remains limited. As a direct...
Invaders from islands: Thermal matching, potential or flexibility?
Natalie M. Claunch, Colin Goodman, Robert Reed, Robert P. Guralnick, Christina M. Romagosa, Emily N. Taylor
2021, Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society (134) 587-603
Native-range thermal constraints may not reflect the geographical distributions of species introduced from native island ranges in part due to rapid physiological adaptation in species introduced to new environments. Correlative ecological niche models may thus underestimate potential invasive distributions of species from islands. The northern curly-tailed lizard (Leiocephalus carinatus)...
Mineral resource inventory of North Dakota
Stephen E. Box, Pamela M. Cossette
2021, Open-File Report 2021-1057
Aside from construction aggregate materials, the value of nonfuel mineral commodities that have been produced in North Dakota is small, although there is potential for the existence of several mineral resource deposit types which are not economically viable at this time. In this report, we present a mineral resource inventory...
Introduction: Metallurgical slags - Environmental liability or valuable resource?
Nadine M. Piatak, Vojtech Ettler
Nadine M. Piatak, Vojtech Ettler, editor(s)
2021, Book chapter, Metallurgical slags: Environmental geochemistry and resource potential
Slags are important by-products generated by ferrous and non-ferrous pyrometallurgical operations, with hundreds of millions of tonnes generated globally each year. Depending on the chemical and mineralogical compositions of slags, they may be disposed of as waste, which can then weather and release contaminants into the environment with the potential...
Weathering of slags
Jakub Kierczak, Anna Pietranik, Nadine M. Piatak
Nadine M. Piatak, Vojtech Ettler, editor(s)
2021, Book chapter, Metallurgical slags: Environmental geochemistry and resource potential
Weathering is a natural process causing the transformation of minerals, rocks, and related materials like glass under near-surface conditions. Although metallurgical slags are human-made materials, they also undergo natural weathering processes. As base metal slags weather, the released solutions may contain contaminants that could pose an environmental risk. On the...
Social identity, values, and trust in government: How stakeholder group, ideology, and wildlife value orientations relate to trust in a state agency for wildlife management
Susan A. Schroeder, Adam C. Landon, David C. Fulton, Leslie McInenly
2021, Biological Conservation (261)
Our objective was to understand how social identity and values influenced general public and stakeholder trust in a state wildlife management agency (SWMA). In particular, we wanted to examine how stakeholder group, political ideology, and wildlife value orientation influenced trust in a SWMA. Data were derived from a study of...
Characterization of water use and water balance for the croplands of Kansas using satellite, climate, and irrigation data
Lei Ji, Gabriel B. Senay, MacKenzie Friedrichs, Matthew Schauer, Olena Boiko
2021, Agricultural Water Management (256)
Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states in the United States, where agricultural irrigation is a primary user of underground and surface water. Because of low precipitation and declining groundwater levels in western and central Kansas, sustainable management of irrigation water resources is a critical issue in the agricultural productivity...
Predicted spatial distribution of the Eastern Spotted Skunk (Spilogale putorius) in Virginia using detection and non-detection records
Emily D. Thorne, W. Mark Ford
2021, Southeastern Naturalist (20) 39-51
The geographic distribution of a species is a fundamental component in understanding its ecology and is necessary for forming effective conservation plans. For rare and elusive species of conservation concern, accurate maps of predicted occurrence are particularly problematic and often highly subjective. Spilogale putorius (Eastern Spotted Skunk) populations have...
Divergent, plausible, and relevant climate futures for near- and long-term resource planning
David J. Lawrence, Amber N. Runyon, John E. Gross, Gregor W. Schuurman, Brian W. Miller
2021, Climatic Change (167)
Scenario planning has emerged as a widely used planning process for resource management in situations of consequential, irreducible uncertainty. Because it explicitly incorporates uncertainty, scenario planning is regularly employed in climate change adaptation. An early and essential step in developing scenarios is identifying “climate futures”—descriptions of the physical attributes of...
Geochemistry and mineralogy of metallurgical slag
Nadine M. Piatak, Vojtech Ettler, Darryl Andre Hoppe
2021, Book chapter, Metallurgical slags: Environmental geochemistry and resource potential
Slag is a waste product from the pyrometallurgical processing of natural ores or the recycling of man-made materials. This chapter provides an overview of the geochemical and mineralogical characteristics of different types of slag. A review of the analytical methods used to determine these characteristics is also provided. Ferrous slags...
Wetland selection by female Ring-Necked Ducks (Aythya collaris) in the Southern Atlantic Flyway
Tori D. Mezebish, Richard Chandler, Glenn H. Olsen, Michele Goodman, Frank C. Rohwer, Nicholas J. Meng, Mark D. McConnell
2021, Wetlands (41)
On the wintering grounds, wetland selection by waterfowl is influenced by spatiotemporal resource distribution. The ring-necked duck (Aythya collaris) winters in the southeastern United States where a disproportionate amount of Atlantic Flyway ring-necked duck harvest occurs. We quantified female ring-necked duck selection for wetland characteristics during...
Uncertainty in remote sensing of streams using noncontact radars
Mushfiqur Rahman Khan, Jonathan J Gourley, Jorge Duarte, Humberto Vergara, Daniel Wasielewski, Pierre-Alain Ayral, John W, Fulton
2021, Journal of Hydrology (603)
Accounting for freshwater resources and monitoring floods are vital functions for societies throughout the world. Remote-sensing methods offer great prospects to expand stream monitoring in developing countries and to smaller, headwater streams that are largely ungauged worldwide. This study evaluates the...
The trajectory of soil development and its relationship to soil carbon dynamics
Corey Lawrence, Marjorie S. Schulz, Caroline Masiello, Oliver A. Chadwick, Jennifer W. Harden
2021, Geoderma (403)
It has been postulated that the amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) associated with soil minerals exhibits a threshold relationship in response to effective soil moisture (estimated as precipitation less evapotranspiration). To better characterize the role of moisture in influencing mechanisms...
Merging empirical and mechanistic approaches to modeling aquatic visual foraging using a generalizable visual reaction distance model
Sean K. Rohan, David Beauchamp, Timothy E. Essington, Adam G. Hansen
2021, Ecological Modelling (457)
Visual encounter distance models are important tools for predicting how light and water clarity mediate visual predator-prey interactions that affect the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems at multiple spatial, temporal, and organizational scales. The two main varieties of visual encounter distance...
Using an unmanned aerial vehicle water sampler to gather data in a pit-lake mining environment to assess closure and monitoring
Brian Straight, Devin Castendyk, Diane M. McKnight, Connor P. Newman, Pierre Filiatreault, Americo Pino
2021, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (193)
Residual pit lakes from mining are often dangerous to sample for water quality. Thus, pit lakes may be rarely (or never) sampled. This study developed new technology in which water-sampling devices, mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), were used to sample three pit lakes in...
Geomorphic history of Lake Manix, Mojave Desert, California: Evolution of a complex terminal lake basin
Marith C. Reheis, David M. Miller, James B. Paces, Charles G. Oviatt, Joanna R. Redwine, Darrell Kaufman, Jordon Bright, Elmira Wan
2021, Geomorphology (392)
The US Environmental Protection Agency's short-term freshwater effluent test methods include a fish (Pimephales promelas), a cladoceran (Ceriodaphnia dubia), and a green alga (Raphidocelis subcapitata). There is a recognized need for additional taxa to accompany the three standard species for effluent testing. An appropriate additional taxon...
Middle and late Pleistocene pluvial history of Newark Valley, central Nevada, USA
Joanna L. Redwine, R. M. Burke, Marith C. Reheis, R. J. Bowers, Jordon Bright, D. S. Kaufman, R. M. Forester
Scott W. Starratt, Michael R. Rosen, editor(s)
2021, Book chapter, From saline to freshwater: The diversity of western lakes in space and time
Newark Valley lies between the two largest pluvial lake systems in the Great Basin, Lake Lahontan and Lake Bonneville. Soils and geomorphology, stratigraphic interpretations, radiocarbon ages, and amino acid racemization geochronology analyses were employed to...
Lakes of the western United States: Novel tools and new views
Scott W. Starratt, Michael R. Rosen
2021, Book chapter, From saline to freshwater: The diversity of western lakes in space and time
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Using microbial source tracking to identify fecal contamination sources in an embayment in Hempstead Harbor on Long Island, New York
Tristen N. Tagliaferri, Shawn C. Fisher, Christopher M. Kephart, Natalie Cheung, Ariel P. Reed, Robert J. Welk
2021, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5042
The U.S. Geological Survey worked collaboratively with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to assess the potential sources of fecal contamination entering Hempstead Harbor, an embayment on the northern shore of Nassau County, Long Island, New York. Water samples are routinely collected by the New York State Department...
The consequences of dam passage for downstream-migrating American eel in the Penobscot River, Maine
Matthew A. Mensinger, Erik J. Blomberg, Joseph D. Zydlewski
2021, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (78) 1181-1192
American eel (Anguilla rostrata) often pass hydropower dams during adult spawning migrations. We conducted a 4-year acoustic telemetry study that characterized passage risks through two dams (West Enfield and Milford) in the Penobscot River, Maine, USA. We released tagged fish (n = 355) at two sites, estimated survival and delay under...
From saline to freshwater: The diversity of western lakes in space and time
Scott W. Starratt, Michael R. Rosen, editor(s)
2021, Book
Beginning with the nineteenth-century territorial surveys, the lakes and lacustrine deposits in what is now the western United States were recognized for their economic value to the expanding nation. In the latter half of the twentieth century, these systems have been acknowledged as outstanding examples of depositional systems serving as...
Holocene evolution of sea-surface temperature and salinity in the Gulf of Mexico
Kaustubh Thiumalai, Julie N. Richey, Terrence M. Quinn
2021, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (36)
Flows into and out of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) are integral to North Atlantic ocean circulation, and help facilitate poleward heat transport in the Western Hemisphere. The GoM also serves as a key source of moisture for much of North America. Modern patterns of sea-surface temperature...
Understanding the future of big sagebrush regeneration: challenges of projecting complex ecological processes
Daniel Rodolphe Schlaepfer, John B. Bradford, William K. Lauenroth, Robert K Shriver
2021, Ecosphere (12)
Regeneration is an essential demographic step that affects plant population persistence, recovery after disturbances, and potential migration to track suitable climate conditions. Challenges of restoring big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) after disturbances including fire-invasive annual grass interactions exemplify the need to understand the complex regeneration processes of...
Paleoclimate record for Lake Coyote, California, and the Last Glacial Maximum and deglacial paleohydrology (25 to 14 cal ka) of the Mojave River
David M. Miller, Stephanie L. Dudash, John P. McGeehin
2021, Book chapter, From Saline to Freshwater: The Diversity of Western Lakes in Space and Time
Lake Coyote, California, which formed in one of five basins along the Mojave River, acted both as a part of the Lake Manix basin and, after the formation of Afton Canyon and draining of Lake Manix ca. 24.5 calibrated (cal) ka, a side basin that was filled episodically for the...
Tolerance of northern Gulf of Mexico eastern oysters to chronic warming at extreme salinities
D.A. Marshall, N.C. Coxe, Megan K. La Peyre, W.C. Walton, F. Scott Rikard, J. Beseres Pollack, M.A. Kelly, J.F. La Peyre
2021, Journal of Thermal Biology (100)
The eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, provides critical ecosystem services and supports valuable fishery and aquaculture industries in northern Gulf of Mexico (nGoM) subtropical estuaries where it is grown subtidally. Its upper critical thermal limit is not well defined, especially when combined with extreme salinities. The cumulative mortalities of the progenies of wild C....
