Origin stories: How does learned migratory behaviour arise in populations?
Janey Fugate, Cody F. Wallace, Ellen O. Aikens, Brett Jesmer, Matthew Kauffman
2025, Biological Reviews (100) 996-1014
Although decades of research have deepened our understanding of the proximate triggers and ultimate drivers of migrations for a range of taxa, how populations establish migrations remains a mystery. However, recent studies have begun to illuminate the interplay between genetically inherited and learned migrations, opening the door to the evaluation...
Sprague’s Pipits (Anthus spragueii) occupying high-elevation intermontane valley habitat throughout the breeding season in southwest Montana
Andrew C. Staufer, Emilie K. Maggs, Erik A. Beever, Adam E. Mitchell
2025, Western North American Naturalist (85) 80-86
Sprague's Pipit (Anthus spragueii) is an imperiled bird species that breeds in grasslands of the northern Great Plains of North America. While conducting avian surveys in the Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, southwest Montana, during spring and summer 2023, we detected approximately 10 male Sprague's Pipits performing aerial displays. These represent...
Pediment formation and subsequent erosion in Gale crater: Clues to the climate history of Mars
A.B. Bryk, W.E. Dietrich, Kristen A. Bennett, V.K. Fox, C.M. Fedo, M.P. Lamb, E.S. Kite, L.M. Thompson, S. G. Banham, J. Schieber, J.A. Grant, A.R. Vasavada, A.A. Fraeman, Lauren A. Edgar, P. J. Gasda, R.C. Wiens, J.P. Grotzinger, K. Stack-Morgan, R.E. Arvidson, O. Gasnault, S. Le Mouelic, S. Gupta, R.M.E. Williams, R.Y. Sheppard, K.W. Lewis, D.M. Rubin, W. Rapin, M.N. Hughes, M. Turner, S.A. Wilson, J.M. Davis, R.E. Kronyak, L. Le Deit, L.C. Kah, J. Frydenvang, R.J. Sullivan, C.C. Bedford, E. Dehouck, H.E. Newsom, M.C. Malin
2025, Icarus (430)
Evidence of paleo-rivers, fans, deltas, lakes, and channel networks across Mars has prompted much debate about what climate conditions would permit the formation of these surface water derived features. Pediments, gently sloping erosional surfaces of low relief developed in bedrock, have also been identified on Mars. On Earth, these erosional...
Multiyear crop residue cover mapping using narrow-band vs. broad-band shortwave infrared satellite imagery
Brian T. Lamb, W. Dean Hively, Jyoti Jennewein, Alison Thieme, Alexander M. Soroka, Leticia Santos, Daniela Jones, Steven Mirsky
2025, Soil and Tillage Research (251)
Crop residue serves an important role in agricultural systems as high levels of fractional crop residue cover (fR) can reduce erosion, preserve soil moisture, and build soil organic carbon. However, the ability to accurately quantify fR at scale has been limited. In this study we produced annual maps of fR for farmland in Maryland,...
Acute Toxicity of 4-hydroxydiphenylamine (4-HDPA) and N-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-N'-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine-quinone (6PPDQ), transformation products of 6PPD, to early instars of the mayfly, Neocloeon triangulifer
David J. Soucek, Rebecca A. Dorman, Jeffery A. Steevens, Viviane Yargeau, Marco Pineda, Erin Bennett, Chris Metcalfe
2025, Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (44) 1369-1377
Our analysis of water samples collected during a rain event from two urban rivers in the Greater Toronto area, Ontario, Canada, indicated that selected transformation products (TPs) of the tire antioxidant, N-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-N'-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD), including 6PPD-quinone (6PPDQ) and 4-hydroxydiphenylamine (4-HDPA), were present at concentrations >1 µg/L. In acute (96-hr) toxicity tests with...
Living with uncertainty: Using multi-model large ensembles to assess emperor penguin extinction risk for the IUCN Red List
Stephanie Jenouvrier, Alice Eparvier, Bilgecan Sen, Francesco Ventura, Christian Joseph Che-Castaldo, Marika Holland, Laura Landrum, Kristen Krumhardt, Jimmy Garnier, Karine Delord, Christophe Barbraud, Philip Trathan
2025, Biological Conservation (305)
Improved methods for identifying species at risk are needed to strengthen climate change vulnerability assessments, as current estimates indicate that up to one million species face extinction due to environmental changes. Integrating multiple sources of uncertainty enhances the robustness of Red List of Threatened Species assessments, providing a more comprehensive...
Nature-based solutions could offset coastal squeeze of tidal wetlands from sea-level rise on the U.S. Pacific coast
Karen M. Thorne, Kevin Buffington, Michael Osland, Bogdan Chivoiu, James Grace, Nicholas Enwright, Glenn R. Guntenspergen
2025, Scientific Reports (15)
In this study, we explored the opportunities for tidal wetland landward migration in response to sea-level rise on the Pacific Coast of the United States. By employing a systematic spatial approach, we quantified the available space for wetland migration with sea-level rise across 61 estuarine drainage areas. Although many of...
Assessing the effect of coral reef restoration location on coastal flood hazard along the San Juan Coastline, Puerto Rico
Ramin Familkhalili, Curt D. Storlazzi, Michael Nemeth, Shay Viehman
2025, Frontiers in Marine Science (12)
Coastal resilience has become a pressing global issue due to the growing vulnerability of coastlines to the effects of climate change. Nature-based solutions have emerged as a promising approach to coastal protection to not only enhance coastal resilience, but also restore critical ecosystems. Coral reef restoration has the potential to...
Looking for Lazarus: Environmental DNA (eDNA) surveillance of the federally threatened Slender Chub (Erimystax cahini) in the Clinch and Powell Rivers
R.T. Paine, Mark W. Rogers, Amanda E. Rosenberger
2025, Southeastern Naturalist (24) 37-56
Erimystax cahni (Slender Chub) is a federally threatened fish native to the Powell, Clinch, and lower Holston rivers of Tennessee and Virginia. No individuals have been captured or reported for over 2 decades. We developed a species-specific environmental DNA (eDNA) assay to survey for its presence throughout its native distribution in...
Temporal and spatial comparison of coal mine ventilation methane emissions and mitigation quantified using PRISMA satellite data and on-site measurements
C. Ozgen Karacan, Itziar Irakulis-Loitxate, Robert A. Field, Peter D. Warwick
2025, Science of the Total Environment (975)
Emission monitoring at the facility level (bottom-up, BU) is key for accurate reporting of coal mine methane (CMM) emissions. Recent advances in aerial and satellite observations (top-down, TD) indicate that these methods have the potential to support CMM emissions monitoring and reporting of, as well as track the effectiveness of,...
Intraspecific variation in masting across climate gradients is inconsistent with the environmental stress hypothesis
Jessie Foest, Thomas Caignard, Ian S. Pearse, Michal Bogdziewicz, Andrew Hacket-Pain
2025, Ecology (106)
Year-to-year variation in seed crop size (i.e., masting) varies strongly among populations of the same species. Understanding what causes this variation is vital, as masting affects the ability of tree species to regenerate and determines the population dynamics of a wide variety of animals. It is commonly...
Identifying recruitment sources across trophic levels in a large river food web
Shaley A. Valentine, Kristen L. Bouska, Gregory W. Whitledge
2025, Ecology and Evolution (15)
Assemblages are connected through the movement of physical and biological resources including recruits. Identifying recruitment sources for predators and their prey could help us understand how assemblages use connectivity across multiple trophic levels and whether predator and prey recruitment is coupled. Recruitment sources of organisms across multiple trophic levels can...
Are we heading towards a global decrease in coregonine catches?
Orlane Anneville, Benjamin Alric, Chun-Wei Chang, Jan Baer, Fabien Bourinet, Alexander Brinker, David Bunnell, Chloe Goulon, Kerstin Holmgren, Chih-hao Hsieh, Yamin Janjua, Yu-Chun Kao, Kulli Kangur, Alfred Sandstrom, Eugene A. Silow, Xinhua Zhu
2025, International Journal of Limnology (61)
Coregonines have specific ecological needs, making them potentially very vulnerable to changes in lake conditions. A contemporary concern is that many lakes worldwide are experiencing environmental changes due to anthropogenic pressure and climate warming. Here, we compiled long-term data of coregonine catches from 27 lakes from three continents in the...
Pathways for potential exposure to onshore oil and gas wastewater: What we need to know to protect human health
Ayusha Ariana, Isabelle M. Cozzarelli, Cloelle Danforth, Bonnie McDevitt, Anna Rosofsky, Donna Vorhees
2025, Environmental Health Perspectives (9)
Produced water is a chemically complex waste stream generated during oil and gas development. Roughly four trillion liters were generated onshore in the United States in 2021 (ALL Consulting, 2022, https://www.gwpc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021_Produced_Water_Volumes.pdf). Efforts are underway to expand historic uses of produced water to offset freshwater needs in water-stressed regions,...
Scent detection dogs detect a species of hard tick, Dermacentor albipictus, with comparable accuracy and efficiency to traditional tick drag surveys
Troy Koser, Aimee Hurt, Laura Thompson, Courtemanch, Benjamin Wise, Paul C. Cross
2025, Parasites and Vectors (18)
BackgroundAccurate surveillance data are critical for addressing tick and tick-borne pathogen risk to human and animal health. Current surveillance methods for detecting invading or expanding tick species are limited in their ability to scale efficiently to state or national levels. In this study we explored the potential use...
High-precision U-Pb data and reference age for Emerald Lake apatite
Francisco Apen, Sean Patrick Gaynor, Blair Schoene
2025, Data in Brief (60)
New isotope dilution thermal ionization mass spectrometry U-Pb data for Emerald Lake apatite demonstrate its potential as a reference material for geochronology. A three-dimensional 238U/206Pb-207Pb/206Pb-204Pb/206Pb isochron produces a 95.2 ± 1.1 Ma date with an initial Pb isotopic composition of 206Pb/204Pb = 18.85 ± 0.19 and 207Pb/204Pb = 15.68 ± 0.10 (n =...
Simulating demography, monitoring, and management decisions to evaluate adaptive management strategies for endangered species
Stefano Canessa, Sarah J. Converse, Lynn Adams, Doug P. Armstrong, Troy Makan, Mhairi McCready, Kevin A. Parker, Elizabeth H. Parlato, Hannah A. Sipe, John J. Ewen
2025, Conservation Letters (18)
Adaptive management (AM) remains underused in conservation, partly because optimization-based approaches require real-world problems to be substantially simplified. We present an approach to AM based in management strategy evaluation, a method used largely in fisheries. Managers define objectives and nominate alternative adaptive strategies, whose future performance is simulated by integrating...
Low genetic differentiation across restored and natural populations shortly after a large-scale, post-fire seeding in the Great Basin
Lina Aoyama, Matthew Germino, Lauren M. Hallett, Matthew A. Streisfeld
2025, Restoration Ecology (33)
Genetic diversity is essential for species to adapt to environmental changes. In restoration efforts, such as those after large wildfires in the sagebrush steppe of the Great Basin, commercially produced native seeds are used to revegetate the burned areas. While native seed certification and procurement protocols assure that genetically appropriate...
U.S. Geological Survey global seabed mineral resources
U.S. Geological Survey
2025, Fact Sheet 2025-3017
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides science and data on seabed mineral resources and ecosystems, as well as on the potential hazards associated with extraction. The Nation relies on minerals for infrastructure, technology, manufacturing, and energy production. Critical minerals are essential to the economic and national security of the United...
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Version 4 product user guide
Ying Li Yuan, Cole Krehbiel
2025, Book
The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) is a multispectral imager that was launched on board the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Observing System (EOS) Terra Platform on December 18, 1999, and has been observing and collecting Earth observations for over 25 years. ASTER covers a...
Spatiotemporal patterns in urban nutrient and suspended sediment loads and stream response to watershed management implementation
Aaron J. Porter
2025, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (197)
In recent years, local governments have invested heavily in management practices to reduce nutrient and sediment loads. These practices provide localities with nutrient and sediment regulatory reduction credits; however, their effects on water quality are poorly understood at the watershed scale. Long-term watershed-scale monitoring is essential for assessing progress toward...
Management strategy evaluation to assess trade-offs associated with invasive Blue Catfish fisheries and predation impacts
Corbin David Hilling, Yan Jiao, Joseph Schmitt, Mary C. Fabrizio, Paul L. Angermeier, Donald J. Orth
2025, Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management and Ecosystem Science (17)
ObjectiveMany species are intentionally introduced beyond their native range to provide benefits to humans (e.g., food, recreation, or biocontrol). However, introduced species can become invasive and can harm native species, prompting resource managers to explore options to simultaneously conserve native biota and enhance fishing opportunities. Management...
Lake Ontario August gillnet survey and Lake Trout assessment, 2024
Brian O’Malley, Scott P. Minihkeim, Olivia Margaret Mitchinson, Scott David Stahl, Brian Weidel, Michael Connerton, Jessica Goretzke, Lucus Sunderland, Emma Bloomfield, Collin Farrell, Dimitry Gorsky
2025, Report
Lake Ontario Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) rehabilitation has been assessed with fishery independent surveys to evaluate program benchmarks and compare observations with management objectives since 1983. These surveys provide information on the abundance, strain composition, and performance of stocked Lake Trout, as well as information on levels of natural recruitment,...
Identifying strategies to manage boreal forests: Simulating moose and timber management scenarios at a landscape scale in the face of changing environmental conditions
Nathan R. De Jager, Wiebke Neumann, Miguel M. Girona, Joakim Hjältén, Anouschka R. Hof
2025, European Journal of Forest Research (144) 525-546
There are ongoing debates among different stakeholders about which forest and ungulate management strategies will sustain high levels of timber and animal harvest and maintain important ecosystem functions under climate change. Ungulate-forest interactions are complex, including periods where forest regeneration is sensitive to browsing pressure, making it difficult to predict...
Behavioral plasticity in detection height of an invasive, arboreal snake based on size, condition, and prey
Melia G. Nafus, Levi Gray, Page E. Klug, Gordon H. Rodda, Scott Michael Goetz
2025, Wildlife Research (52)
ContextAnimals may adjust their behavior in predictable ways to balance tradeoffs between resource acquisition and survival or fecundity. Microhabitat selection based on individual traits or environmental conditions is one measure of risk–reward tradeoffs by individuals.AimsWe used data from observational and manipulative studies to investigate whether an...
