Fishing preferences, angling behavior, and attitudes toward management: A comparison between White and Nonwhite anglers
H. J. Roop, N. C. Poudyal, Cecil A. Jennings
2021, Human Dimensions of Wildlife (26) 84-89
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Where you trap matters: Implications for integrated sea lamprey management
Scott M. Miehls, Heather Dawson, Alex Maguffee, Nicholas S. Johnson, Michael Jones, Norine Dobiesz
2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research (47) S320-S327
Barriers and pesticides have been used in streams to control sea lamprey in the Laurentian Great Lakes for nearly 70 years. Considerable effort has been spent to develop additional control measures, but much less effort has gone toward identifying how or where additional control measures might be cost-effectively integrated into the...
Effects of plunge pool configuration on downstream passage survival of juvenile blueback herring
Theodore R. Castro-Santos, Kevin Mulligan, Micah Kieffer, Alexander Haro
2021, Aquaculture and Fisheries (6) 135-143
Anadromous alosines are widespread throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Juveniles of this clade are notoriously fragile animals that are at high risk of injury and death associated with passage at hydroelectric facilities. Although turbine mortality is a common concern, conditions encountered when...
Trapping of suspended sediment by submerged aquatic vegetation in a tidal freshwater region: Field observations and long-term trends
Paul A. Work, Maureen A. Downing-Kunz, Judith Z. Drexler
2021, Estuaries and Coasts (44) 734-739
Widespread invasion by non-native, submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) may modify the sediment budget of an estuary, reducing the availability of inorganic sediment required by marshes to maintain their position in the tidal frame. The instantaneous trapping rate of suspended sediment in SAV patches in an estuary has not previously been...
A synthesis of the biology and ecology of sculpin species in the Laurentian Great Lakes and implications for the adaptive capacity of the benthic ecosystem
Kelly F. Robinson, Charles R. Bronte, David Bunnell, Peter T. Euclide, Darryl W. Hondorp, John J. Janssen, Matthew S. Kornis, Derek H. Ogle, Will Otte, Stephen Riley, Mark Vinson, Shea L. Volkel, Brian Weidel
2021, Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture (29) 96-121
The Laurentian Great Lakes have experienced recent ecosystem changes that could lead to reductions in adaptive capacity and ultimately a loss of biodiversity and production throughout the food web. Observed changes in Great Lakes benthic communities include declines of native species and widespread success of invasive...
Group density, disease, and season shape territory size and overlap of social carnivores
E. E. Brandell, Nicholas M. Fountain-Jones, Marie L. J. Gilbertson, Paul C. Cross, P. J. Hudson, Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler, Craig Packer, Meggan E. Craft
2021, Journal of Animal Ecology (90) 87-101
1. The spatial organization of a population can influence the spread of information, behaviour, and pathogens. Territory size and territory overlap, components of spatial organization, provide key information as these metrics may be indicators of habitat quality, resource dispersion, contact rates, and environmental risk (e.g., indirectly transmitted pathogens). Furthermore, sociality...
Food web fuel differs across habitats and seasons of a tidal freshwater estuary
Matthew J. Young, Emily R. Howe, Teejay O’Rear, Kathleen Berridge, Peter B. Moyle
2021, Estuaries and Coasts (44) 286-301
Estuarine food webs are fueled by multiple different primary producers. However, identifying the relative importance of each producer to consumers is difficult, particularly for fishes that utilize multiple food sources due to both their mobility and their generally high trophic levels. Previous studies have documented broad spatial differences in the...
Estimating inundation of small waterbodies with sub-pixel analysis of Landsat imagery: Long-term trends in surface water area and evaluation of common drought indices
Ibrahima Sall, Christopher J. Jarchow, Brent H. Sigafus, Lisa A Eby, Michael James Forzley, Blake R. Hossack
2021, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (7) 109-124
Small waterbodies are numerically dominant in many landscapes and provide several important ecosystem services, but automated measurement of waterbodies smaller than a standard Landsat pixel (0.09 ha) remains challenging. To further evaluate sub‐Landsat pixel techniques for estimating inundation extent of small waterbodies (basin area: 0.06–1.79 ha), we used a partial spectral unmixing...
What could explain δ13C signatures in biocrust cyanobacteria of drylands?
Eva Stricker, Grace Cain, Jennifer A. Rudgers, Robert L Sinsabaugh, Vanessa Fernandes, Corey Nelson, Ana Giraldo Silva, Ferran Garcia-Pichel, Jayne Belnap, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi
2021, Microbial Ecology (81) 134-145
Dryland ecosystems are increasing in geographic extent and contribute greatly to interannual variability in global carbon dynamics. Disentangling interactions among dominant primary producers, including plants and autotrophic microbes, can help partition their contributions to dryland C dynamics. We measured the δ13C signatures of biological soil crust cyanobacteria and dominant plant...
Interpreting and reporting 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data
Allen J. Schaen, Brian R. Jicha, Kip V. Hodges, Pieter Vermeesch, Mark E. Stelten, Cameron M. Mercer, David Phillips, Tiffany Rivera, Fred Jourdan, Erin L. Matchan, Sidney R. Hemming, Leah E. Morgan, Simon P. Kelley, William S. Cassata, Matt T. Heizler, Paulo M. Vasconcelos, Jeff A. Benowitz, Anthony A.P. Koppers, Darren F. Mark, Elizabeth M. Niespolo, Courtney J. Sprain, William E. Hames, Klaudia F. Kuiper, Brent D. Turrin, Paul R. Renne, Jake Ross, Sebastian Nomade, Herve Guillou, Laura E. Webb, Barbara A. Cohen, Andrew T. Calvert, Nancy Joyce, Morgan Ganderod, Jan Wijbrans, Osamu Ishizuka, Huaiyu He, Adan Ramirez, Jorg Pfander, Margarita Lopez-Martinez, Huaning Qiu, Brad S. Singer
2021, GSA Bulletin (133) 461-487
The 40Ar/39Ar dating method is among the most versatile of geochronometers, having the potential to date a broad variety of K-bearing materials spanning from the time of Earth’s formation into the historical realm. Measurements using modern noble-gas mass spectrometers are now producing 40Ar/39Ar dates with analytical uncertainties of ∼0.1%, thereby...
Sediment budget estimates for a highly impacted embayment with extensive wetland loss
Robert Chant, David K. Ralston, Neil K. Ganju, Casia Pianca, Amy Simonson, Richard Cartwright
2021, Estuaries and Coasts (44) 608-626
External sediment supply is an important control on wetland morphology and vulnerability to storms, sea-level rise, and land use change. Constraining sediment supply and net budgets is difficult due to multiple timescales of variability in hydrodynamic forcing and suspended-sediment concentrations, as well as the fundamental limitations of measurement and modeling...
Estimating age and growth of invasive sea lamprey: A review of approaches and investigation of a new method
Heather A Dawson, Courtney Higgins-Weier, Todd B. Steeves, Nicholas S. Johnson
2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research (47) S570-S579
We review recent advances in age and growth estimation of invasive sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in the Great Lakes and present a more accurate method for growth estimation. To forecast growth and prioritize streams for control actions, sea lamprey managers currently...
Modeling groundwater inflow to the new crater lake at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaiʻi
Steven E. Ingebritsen, Ashton F. Flinders, James P. Kauahikaua, Paul A. Hsieh
2021, Groundwater (59) 7-15
During the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai'i, scientists relied heavily on a conceptual model of explosive eruptions triggered when lava‐lake levels drop below the water table. Numerical modeling of multiphase groundwater flow and heat transport revealed that, contrary to expectations, liquid water inflow to the...
Source switching maintains dissolved organic matter chemostasis across discharge levels in a large temperate river network
J.D. Hosen, K.S. Aho, Jennifer H. Fair, E.D. Kyzivat, S. Matt, Jonathan Morrison, A. Stubbins, L.C. Weber, B. Yoon, P.A. Raymond
2021, Ecosystems (24) 227-247
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) helps regulate aquatic ecosystem structure and function. In small streams, DOM concentrations are controlled by transport of terrestrial materials to waterways, and are thus highly variable. As rivers become larger, the River Continuum Concept hypothesizes that internal primary production is an increasingly...
Riverbank stability assessment of lower Osage River during hydro-peak flow events: The lower Osage River case (Missouri, USA)
Wesam Mohammed-Ali, Cesar Mendoza, Robert R. Holmes Jr.
2021, International Journal of River Basin Management (19) 335-343
The fluctuation of water level downstream from dams due to hydropower flow releases can negatively affect riverbank stability. This research aims to investigate riverbank instability resulting from the outflow variation of hydropower plants, using Bagnell Dam and the lower Osage River (Missouri, USA) as the basis of analysis. The effects...
Adult sea lamprey respond to induced turbulence in a low current system
Daniel P. Zielinski, Scott M. Miehls, Gordon Burns, Charles Coutant
2021, Journal of Ecohydraulics (6) 82-90
Manipulation of water velocities and turbulence using pumps, propellers, or jets is a promising alternative to physical water control structures to guide fish towards traps or fishways. Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) are a species of concern in much of their native and invasive ranges, and their improved guidance could benefit...
Eradication of sea lampreys from the Laurentian Great Lakes is possible
Michael L. Jones, Jean V. Adams
2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research (47) S776-S781
Eradication has been achieved for many vertebrate pest control programs, primarily on small, isolated islands, but has never been considered a practical goal for invasive sea lampreys in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Our objective was to examine evidence relevant to the feasibility of setting eradication as a management goal for Great Lakes...
Assessment of NMR logging for estimating hydraulic conductivity in glacial aquifers
Alexander K. Kendrick, Rosemary Knight, Carole D. Johnson, Gaisheng Liu, Steven Knobbe, Randall J. Hunt, James J. Butler
2021, Groundwater (59) 31-48
Glacial aquifers are an important source of groundwater in the United States and require accurate characterization to make informed management decisions. One parameter that is crucial for understanding the movement of groundwater is hydraulic conductivity, K. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging measures the NMR response associated with...
Detrital zircon age spectra of middle and upper Eocene outcrop belts, U.S. Gulf Coast region
William H. Craddock, James L. Coleman Jr., Andrew R.C. Kylander-Clark
2021, Basin Research (33) 250-269
Recently reported detrital zircon (DZ) data help to associate the Paleogene strata of the Gulf of Mexico region to various provenance areas. By far, recent work has emphasised upper Paleocene-lower Eocene and upper Oligocene strata that were deposited during the two episodes of the highest sediment...
A Lagrangian particle-tracking approach to modelling larval drift in rivers
Richard R. McDonald, Jonathan M. Nelson
2021, Journal of Ecohydraulics (6) 17-35
The migration of larval fish from spawning to rearing habitat in rivers is not well understood. This paper describes a methodology to predict larval drift using a Lagrangian particle-tracking (LPT) model with passive and active behavioural components loosely coupled to a quasi-three-dimensional hydraulic model. In the absence of measured larval...
Factors influencing Cinnamon Teal nest attendance patterns
Casey M. Setash, William L. Kendall, David Olson
2021, Ibis (163) 125-136
Patterns of nest attendance in birds result from complex behaviours and influence the success of reproductive events. Incubation behaviours vary based on individual body condition, energy requirements and environmental factors. We assessed nest attendance patterns in Cinnamon Teal Spatula cyanoptera breeding in the San Luis Valley of Colorado...
Quantifying and mapping inundation regimes within a large river‐floodplain ecosystem for ecological and management applications
Molly Van Appledorn, Nathan R. De Jager, Jason J. Rohweder
2021, River Research and Applications (37) 241-255
Spatial information on the distribution of ecosystem patterns and processes can be a critical component of designing and implementing effective management programs in river‐floodplain ecosystems. For example, translating how flood pulses detected within a stream gauge record are spatially manifested across a river‐valley bottom can be used to evaluate whether...
Using decision analysis to collaboratively respond to invasive species threats: A case study of Lake Erie grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)
Kelly F. Robinson, Mark R. DuFour, Michael Jones, Seth Herbst, Tammy Newcomb, James C. Boase, Travis O. Brenden, Duane Chapman, John M. Dettmers, James Francis, Travis Hartman, Patrick Kocovsky, Brian Locke, Jeff Tyson, Christine Mayer
2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research (47) 108-119
Decisions about invasive species control and eradication can be difficult because of uncertainty in population demographics, movement ecology, and effectiveness of potential response actions. These decisions often include multiple stakeholders and management entities with potentially different objectives, management priorities, and jurisdictional authority. We provide a case study of using multi-party,...
Carbon stock losses and recovery observed for a mangrove ecosystem following a major hurricane in Southwest Florida
Elitsa I. Peneva-Reed, Ken Krauss, Eric L. Bullock, Zhiliang Zhu, Victoria Woltz, Judith Z. Drexler, Jeremy R. Conrad, Stephen V. Stehman
2021, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (248)
Studies integrating mangrove in-situ observations and remote sensing analysis for specific sites often lack precise estimates of carbon stocks over time frames that include disturbance events. This study quantifies change in mangrove area from 1985 to 2018 with Landsat time series analysis, estimates above and belowground stored carbon using field data, and...
Geomorphological mapping and anthropogenic landform change in an urbanizing watershed using structure-from-motion photogrammetry and geospatial modeling techniques
Peter G. Chirico, Sarah E. Bergstresser, Jessica D. DeWitt, Marissa Ann Alessi
2021, Journal of Maps (17) 241-252
Increasing urbanization and suburban growth in cities globally has highlighted the importance of land planning using detailed geomorphologic maps that depict anthropogenic landform changes. Such mapping provides information crucial for land management, hazard identification, and the management of the challenges arising from urbanization. The development and use...