The presence of denitrifiers in bacterial communities of urban stormwater best management practices (BMPs)
Natalie C. Hall, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Dianna M. Hogan, R. Christian Jones, Patrick Gillevet
2022, Environmental Management (69) 89-110
Stormwater best management practices (BMPs) are engineered structures that attempt to mitigate the impacts of stormwater, which can include nitrogen inputs from the surrounding drainage area. The goal of this study was to assess bacterial community composition in different types of stormwater BMP soils to establish...
Population genomics of free-ranging Great Plains white-tailed and mule deer reflects a long history of interspecific hybridization
Fraser J. Combe, Levi Jaster, Andrew Ricketts, David A. Haukos, Andrew G. Hope
2022, Evolutionary Applications (15) 111-131
Hybridization is a natural process at species-range boundaries that may variably promote the speciation process or break down species barriers but minimally will influence management outcomes of distinct populations. White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) have broad and overlapping distributions in North America and a recognized capacity...
Supplemental habitat is reservoir dependent: Identifying optimal planting decision using Bayesian Decision Networks
D. M. Norris, M. E. Colvin, Leandro E. Miranda, M. A. Lashley
2022, Journal of Environmental Management (304)
Environmental management often requires making decisions despite system uncertainty. One such example is mudflat mediation in flood control reservoirs. Reservoir mudflats limit development of diverse fish assemblages due to the lack of structural habitat provided by plants. Seeding mudflats with agricultural plants may mimic floodplain wetlands once inundated and provide fish habitat and achieve...
Review of ESA SYMP 7: A dynamic perspective on ecosystem restoration–establishing temporal connectivity at the intersection between paleoecology and restoration ecology
Rachel Reid, Jenny McGuire, Jens-Christiane Svenning, G. Lynn Wingard, David Moreno-Mateos
2022, Bulletin Ecological Society of America (103)
Landscape connectivity is vital not only spatially, but also temporally; as ecosystems change, it is important to be aware of past, present, and future variables that may impact ecosystem function and biodiversity. As climate and environments continue to change, choosing appropriate restoration targets is becoming more challenging. By considering the...
Calcareous plankton biostratigraphic fidelity and species richness during the last 10 m.y. of the Cretaceous at Blake Plateau, subtropical North Atlantic
Brian T. Huber, Nataliya A. Tur, Jean Self-Trail, Kenneth G. MacLeod
2022, Cretaceous Research (131)
Species distributions of well-preserved and diverse assemblages of planktonic foraminifera and calcareous nannofossils spanning the last 10 m.y. of the Cretaceous (middle Campanian through Maastrichtian) are analyzed from samples taken across a 1400 m depth transect at Blake Nose in the western subtropical North Atlantic (Ocean Drilling Program Sites 1049,...
New insights on faulting and intrusion processes during the June 2007, East Rift Zone eruption of Kilauea volcano, Hawai'i
J. Leeburn, C. Wauthier, Emily K. Montgomery-Brown, J. Gonzalez-Santana
2022, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (421)
The East Rift Zone (ERZ) of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai'i, represents one of the most volcanically active regions in the world. The 2007 Father's Day (FD) dike intrusion, eruption, and accompanying slow-slip event (SSE) has been previously modeled using geodetic data to constrain the geometry of the intrusion and the timing...
Local variations in broadband sensor installations: Orientations, sensitivities, and noise levels
Adam T. Ringler, Robert Anthony
2022, Pure and Applied Geophysics (179) 217-231
As seismologists continue to place more stringent demands on data quality, accurately described metadata are becoming increasingly important. In order to better constrain the orientation and sensitivities of seismometers deployed in U.S. Geological Survey networks, the Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory (ASL) has recently begun identifying true north...
Magmatism, migrating topography, and the transition from Sevier shortening to Basin and Range extension, western United States
Jens-Erik Lundstern, Elizabeth L. Miller
2022, GSA Special Papers (555)
The paleogeographic evolution of the western U.S. Great Basin from the Late Cretaceous to the Cenozoic is critical to understanding how the North American Cordillera at this latitude transitioned from Mesozoic shortening...
Tree mortality response to drought-density interactions suggests opportunities to enhance drought resistance
John B. Bradford, Robert K Shriver, Marcos D. Robles, Lisa A McCauley, Caitlin M. Andrews, Michael A. Crimmins, David M. Bell
2022, Journal of Applied Ecology. (59) 549-559
The future of dry forests around the world is uncertain given predictions that rising temperatures and enhanced aridity will increase drought-induced tree mortality. Using forest management and ecological restoration to reduce density and competition for water offers one of the few pathways that forests managers can potentially minimize drought-induced tree...
Quantifying the stormwater runoff volume reduction benefits of urban street tree canopy
William R. Selbig, Steven P. Loheid II, William Schuster, Bryant C. Scharenbroch, Robert C. Coville, James Kruegler, William Avery, Ralph J. Haefner, David Nowak
2022, Science of the Total Environment (806)
Trees in the urban right-of-way areas have increasingly been considered part of a suite of green infrastructure practices used to manage stormwater runoff. A paired-catchment experimental design (with street tree removal as the treatment) was used to assess how street trees affect major hydrologic fluxes in a typical residential stormwater...
The role of preexisting upper plate strike-slip faults during long-lived (ca. 30 Myr) oblique flat slab subduction, southern Alaska
Trevor Waldien, Richard O. Lease, Sarah Roeske, Jeff Benowitz, Paul O'Sullivan
2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (557)
Upper plates of subduction zones commonly respond to flat slab subduction by structural reactivation, magmatic arc disruption, and foreland basin inversion. However, the role of active strike-slip faults in focusing convergent deformation and magmatism in response to oblique flat slab subduction remains...
Ontogeny of eDNA shedding during early development in Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Carl O. Ostberg, Dorothy M. Chase
2022, Environmental DNA (4) 339-348
Knowledge of the timing of major life history events in aquatic species is important for informing conservation and resource management planning. Accordingly, surveys of environmental DNA (eDNA) have been performed to determine the efficacy of eDNA for providing information on life history events, primarily focusing on...
From site to system: Approaches for producing system-wide estimates of fish habitat in large rivers
H. E. Robinson, Mark J. Henderson, Russell Perry, Damon H. Goodman, Nicholas A. Som
2022, River Research and Applications (38) 1192-130
Worldwide, many productive rivers are dam-regulated and rely on flow management strategies that must balance support of ecological processes with human water use. One component of evaluating this balance is to understand ecological consequences of alternative flow management strategies, which has often been accomplished by coupling...
Landscape- and local- level variables affect monarchs in Midwest grasslands
Anna Skye Bruce, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Chris Trosen, Karen Oberhauser, Claudio Gratton
2022, Landscape Ecology (37) 93-108
ContextIt is estimated that over one billion milkweed stems need to be restored to sustain the eastern North American migratory population of monarch butterflies; where and in what context the stems should be placed on the landscape is key to addressing habitat deficits.ObjectivesWe assessed how the...
Imaging the next Cascadia earthquake: Optimal design for a seafloor GNSS- A network
Eileen L. Evans, Sarah E. Minson, David Chadwell
2022, Geophysical Journal International (228) 944-957
The Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America capable of producing magnitude ∼9 earthquakes, likely often accompanied by tsunamis. An outstanding question in this region is the degree and spatial extent of interseismic strain accumulation on the subduction megathrust. Seafloor geodetic methods combining GNSS...
Rapid colonisation post-displacement contributes to native fish resilience
Samantha L. Alford, Annika W. Walters
2022, Ecology of Freshwater Fish (31) 347-357
Native freshwater fish are experiencing global declines. Determining what drives native fish resilience to disturbance is crucial to understanding their persistence in the face of multiple stressors. Fish colonisation ability may be one factor affecting population resilience after disturbance. We conducted displacement experiments in headwater streams in Wyoming, USA, to...
Evidence for interannual persistence of infectious influenza A viruses in Alaska wetlands
Andrew M. Ramey, Andrew B. Reeves, Benjamin Joel Lagasse, Vijay P. Patil, Laura E. Hubbard, Dana W. Kolpin, R. Blaine McCleskey, Deborah A. Repert, David E. Stallknecht, Rebecca L. Poulson
2022, Science of the Total Environment (803)
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) deposited by wild birds into the environment may lead to sporadic mortality events and economically costly outbreaks among domestic birds. There is a paucity of information, however, regarding the persistence of infectious IAVs within the environment following deposition. In this investigation, we assessed the persistence of...
Nearshore microfossil assemblages in a Caribbean reef environment show variable rates of recovery following Hurricane Irma
Stephen Mitchell, Jessica Pilarczyk, Michaela Spiske, Bruce E. Jaffe
2022, Sedimentology (69) 1209-1230
Modern microfossil distributions reflect site-specific habitats and provide an opportunity to assess sediment transport pathways in the nearshore environment. When applied to overwash deposits in the geological record, they provide insight into sediment provenance and transport, factors important for understanding patterns of frequency and intensity of...
A big problem for small earthquakes: Benchmarking routine magnitudes and conversion relationships with coda-envelope-derived Mw in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma
David R. Shelly, Kevin Mayeda, Justin Barno, Katherine M. Whidden, Morgan P. Moschetti, Andrea L. Llenos, Justin Rubinstein, William L. Yeck, Paul S. Earle, Rengin Gok, William R. Walter
2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) (112) 210-225
Earthquake magnitudes are widely relied upon measures of earthquake size. Although moment magnitude (Mw">MwMw) has become the established standard for moderate and large earthquakes, difficulty in reliably measuring seismic moments for...
Solutions in microbiome engineering: Prioritizing barriers to organism establishment
Michaeline B.N. Albright, Stilianos Louca, Daniel E. Winkler, Kelli L. Feeser, Sarah-Jane Haig, Katrine L. Whiteson, Joanne B. Emerson, John M. Dunbar
2022, The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology (16) 331-338
Microbiome engineering is increasingly being employed as a solution to challenges in health, agriculture, and climate. Often manipulation involves inoculation of new microbes designed to improve function into a preexisting microbial community. Despite, increased efforts in microbiome engineering inoculants frequently fail to establish and/or confer long-lasting...
Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non-forest ecosystems
Andrew Cunliffe, Karen Anderson, Fabio Boschetti, Richard E. Brazier, Hugh A. Graham, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Thomas Astor, Matthias M. Boer, Leonor G. Calvo, Patrick Clark, Michael D. Cramer, Miguel S. Encinas-Lara, Stephen M. Escarzaga, Adrian Fisher, Jose M Fernandez-Guisuraga, Katerina Gdulova, Breahna M. Gillespie, Anne Griebel, Niall P Hanan, Muhammed S. Hanggito, Stefan Haselberger, Caroline A. Havrilla, Phil Heilman, Wenjie Ji, Jason W. Karl, Sabine Kraushaar, Marguerite E. Mauritz, Mitchell Lyons, Irene Marzolff, C. D. McIntire, Daniel Metzen, Luis A. Mendez-Barroso, Simon C. Power, Jiri Prosek, Enoc Sanz-Ablanedo, Katherine J. Sauer, Damian Schulze-Bruninghoff, Petra Simova, Stephen Sitch, Julian L. Smit, Caiti M. Steele, Susana Suarez-Seoane, Sergio A. Vargas, Miguel L. Villarreal, Fleur Visser, Michael Wachendorf, Hannes Wirnsberger, Robert Wojcikiewicz
2022, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (8) 57-71
Non-forest ecosystems, dominated by shrubs, grasses and herbaceous plants, provide ecosystem services including carbon sequestration and forage for grazing, and are highly sensitive to climatic changes. Yet these ecosystems are poorly represented in remotely sensed biomass products and are undersampled by in situ monitoring. Current global change threats emphasize the need...
Shrub influence on soil carbon and nitrogen in a semi-arid grassland is mediated by precipitation and largely insensitive to livestock grazing
Heather L. Throop, Seth M. Munson, Nicole Hornslein, Mitchel P McClaran
2022, Arid Land Research and Management (36) 27-46
Dryland (arid and semi-arid) ecosystems globally provide more than half of livestock production and store roughly one-third of soil organic carbon (SOC). Biogeochemical pools are changing due to shrub encroachment, livestock grazing, and climate change. We assessed how vegetation microsite, grazing, and precipitation interacted to affect SOC and total nitrogen...
Sarcoptic mange: An emerging panzootic in wildlife
L. E. Escobar, Scott Carver, Paul C. Cross, Luca Rossi, E. S. Almberg, M. J. Yabsley, K D Niedringhaus, Peach Van Wick, Ernesto Dominguez-Villegas, F.F. Gakuya, Yue Xie, Samer Angelone, Christian Gortazar, Francisca Astorga
2022, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases (69) 927-942
Sarcoptic mange, a skin infestation caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei, is an emerging disease for some species of wildlife, potentially jeopardizing their welfare and conservation. Sarcoptes scabiei has a near-global distribution facilitated by its forms of transmission and use of a large diversity of host species (many of those with broad geographic...
Recent recovery and expansion of Guam’s locally endangered Såli (Micronesian Starling) Aplonis opaca population in the presence of the invasive brown treesnake
Henry Pollock, Martin Kastner, Gary Wiles, Hugo Thierry, Laura Duenas, Eben H. Paxton, Nicole Suckow, Jeff Quitugua, Haldre Rogers
2022, Bird Conservation International (32) 95-110
Assessing the impacts of invasive predators on the demography and distribution of native species is critical for understanding mechanisms of species persistence and informing the design of recovery programmes. On the oceanic island of Guam, the introduction of the predatory brown treesnake Boiga irregularis after World War II caused the near-total...
Aquatic toxicity of chemical road dust suppressants to freshwater organisms
Bethany K. Kunz, Edward E. Little, Vincent L. Barandino
2022, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (82) 294-305
Unpaved roads make up at least 14 million kilometers of the worldwide road network. Although investigations of road runoff often are focused on paved roads, unpaved roads contribute large volumes of runoff to roadside aquatic habitats and introduce unique constituents to runoff, such as chemical dust suppressants. At least 200...
