Assessing the attractiveness of native wildflower species to bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) in the southeastern United States
Anthony P. Abbate, Joshua W. Campbell, Steven Mark Grodsky, Geoffrey R. Williams
2024, Ecological Solutions and Evidence (5)
Habitat loss, agricultural intensification, pesticide use, disease and climate change have contributed to the decline of numerous insect groups. Recent government initiatives have recognized the importance of supplementary wildflower plantings to support native bee populations, yet little information exists on the attractiveness of recommended plant species to bees.With the...
Projecting the long-term effects of large-scale human influence on the spatial and functional persistence of extant longleaf pine ecosystems in the Florida Flatwoods Pyrome
Lilian Hutchens, John A. Kupfer, Peng Gao, Georgina M. Sanchez, Ross K. Meentemeyer, Adam Terando, J. Kevin Hiers
2024, Conservation Science and Practice (6)
Decades of human activities and fire suppression have adversely affected longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystems, which are home to high levels of diversity and endemism. These iconic ecosystems also now face challenges from urbanization and climate change, which will alter conservation outcomes over the remainder of the 21st century. To...
A semi-mechanistic model for partitioning evapotranspiration reveals transpiration dominates the water flux in drylands
E.G. Reich, K. Samuels-Crow, John B. Bradford, M. Litvak, Daniel Rodolphe Schlaepfer, K. Ogle
2024, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (129)
Popular evapotranspiration (ET) partitioning methods make assumptions that might not be well-suited to dryland ecosystems, such as high sensitivity of plant water-use efficiency (WUE) to vapor pressure deficit (VPD). Our objectives were to (a) create an ET partitioning model that can produce fine-scale estimates of transpiration (T) in drylands, and...
Evaluating distributed snow model resolution and meteorology parameterizations against streamflow observations: Finer Is not always better
Theodore B. Barnhart, Annie L. Putman, Aaron Joseph Heldmyer, David M. Rey, John C. Hammond, Jessica M. Driscoll, Graham A. Sexstone
2024, Water Resources Research (60)
Estimating snow conditions is often done using numerical snowpack evolution models at spatial resolutions of 500 m and greater; however, snow depth in complex terrain often varies on sub-meter scales. This study investigated how the spatial distribution of simulated snow conditions varied across seven model spatial resolutions from 30 to 1,000 m...
Isotopic evidence against North Pacific Deep Water formation during late Pliocene warmth
Joseph Novak, Rocio Caballero-Gill, Rebecca Rose, Timothy D. Herbert, Harry J. Dowsett
2024, Nature Geoscience (17) 795-802
Several modelling and observational studies suggest deep water formation in the subpolar North Pacific as a possible alternative mode of thermohaline circulation that occurred in the warm Pliocene, a time when global atmospheric partial pressure of carbon dioxide was like the modern atmosphere (~400 ppm). We...
Urban tree cover provides consistent mitigation of extreme heat in arid but not humid cities
Peter Christian Ibsen, Benjamin Crawford, Lucila Marie Corro, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Brandon E McNellis, G. Darrel Jenerette, James E. Diffendorfer
2024, Sustainable Cities and Society (113)
Urban land cover types influence the urban microclimates. However, recent work indicates the magnitude of land cover's microclimate influence is affected by aridity. Moreover, this variation in cooling and warming potentials of urban land cover types can substantially alter the exposure of...
Parameter ESTimation with the Gauss–Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm: An intuitive guide
Michael N. Fienen, Jeremy White, Mohamed Hayek
2024, Groundwater (63) 93-104
In this paper, we review the derivation of the Gauss–Levenberg–Marquardt (GLM) algorithm and its extension to ensemble parameter estimation. We explore the use of graphical methods to provide insights into how the algorithm works in practice and discuss the implications of both algorithm tuning parameters...
Predictor importance in habitat suitability models for invasive terrestrial plants
Demetra A. Williams, Keana S. Shadwell, Ian Pearse, Janet S. Prevey, Peder Engelstad, Grace Henderson, Catherine S. Jarnevich
2024, Diversity and Distributions (30)
AimDue to the socioeconomic and environmental damages caused by invasive species, predicting the distribution of invasive plants is fundamental for effectively targeting management efforts. A habitat suitability model (HSM) is a powerful tool to predict potential habitat of invasive species to help guide the early detection of...
Utilization of stochastic ground motion simulations for scenario-based performance assessment of geo-structures
M. Amin Hariri-Ardebili, Sanaz Rezaeian
2024, Reliability Engineering and System Safety (RESS) (251)
Probabilistic seismic performance assessments of engineered structures can be highly sensitive to the seismic input excitation and its variability. In the present study, the scenario-based performance assessment recommended by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) P-58 guidelines is adopted to estimate seismic fragility of concrete dams for various seismic hazard scenarios....
Spatio-temporal ecological models via physics-informed neural networks for studying chronic wasting disease
Juan Francisco Mandujano Reyes, Ting Fung Ma, Ian P. McGahan, Daniel J. Storm, Daniel P. Walsh, Jun Zhu
2024, Spatial Statistics (62)
To mitigate the negative effects of emerging wildlife diseases in biodiversity and public health it is critical to accurately forecast pathogen dissemination while incorporating relevant spatio-temporal covariates. Forecasting spatio-temporal processes can often be improved by incorporating scientific knowledge about the dynamics of the process using physical models. Ecological diffusion equations...
Influence of dams on sauger population structure and hybridization with introduced walleye
William C. Rosenthal, Elizabeth G. Mandeville, Ashleigh Pilkerton, Paul C. Gerrity, Joseph A. Skorupski, Annika W. Walters, Catherine E. Wagner
2024, Article
Dams have negatively affected freshwater biodiversity throughout the world. These negative effects tend to be exacerbated for aquatic taxa with migratory life histories, and for taxa whose habitat is fundamentally altered by the formation of large reservoirs. Sauger (Sander candadensis; Percidae), large-bodied migratory fishes native to North America, have seen...
Stability concepts in ecology
Donald L. DeAngelis, Linhao Xu
2024, Book chapter, Reference module in earth systems and environmental sciences-Encyclopedia of ecology
The term stability, as applied to ecological systems, whether populations, communities, or ecosystems, means the tendency either to stay either close to some initial state, or to stay within certain bounds, or to persist in the face of environmental disturbances or changes. Here, a historical overview of stability concepts in ecology is...
Post-fire sediment yield from a central California watershed: Field measurements and validation of the WEPP model
Amy E. East, Joshua B. Logan, Helen Willemien Dow, Douglas P. Smith, Pat Iampietro, Jonathan A. Warrick, Thomas Lorenson, Leticia Hallas, Benjamin Kozlowicz
2024, Earth and Space Science (11)
In a warming climate, an intensifying fire regime and higher likelihood of extreme rain are expected to increase watershed sediment yield in many regions. Understanding regional variability in landscape response to fire and post-fire rainfall is essential for managing water resources and infrastructure. We measured sediment yield...
The influence of vesicularity on grain morphology in basaltic pyroclasts from Mauna Loa and Kīlauea volcanoes
Kira van Helden, Johanne Schmith, Drew T. Downs
2024, Journal of Applied Volcanology (13)
Vesicularity of individual pyroclasts from airfall tephra deposits is an important parameter that is commonly measured at basaltic volcanoes. Conventional methods used to determine pyroclast vesicularity on a large number of clasts has the potential to be time consuming, particularly when rapid analysis is required. Here...
Integrating depth measurements from gaging stations with image archives for spectrally based remote sensing of river bathymetry
Carl J. Legleiter, Brandon Overstreet, Paul J. Kinzel
2024, Water Resources Research (60)
Remote sensing can be an effective tool for mapping river bathymetry, but the need for direct measurements to calibrate image-derived depth estimates impedes broader application of this approach. One way to circumvent the need for field campaigns dedicated to calibration is to capitalize upon existing data. In...
A predictive analysis of water use for Providence, Rhode Island
Catherine A. Chamberlin
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5052
To explain the drivers of historical water use in the public water systems (PWSs) that serve populations in Providence, Rhode Island, and surrounding areas, and to forecast future water use, a machine-learning model (cubist regression) was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with Providence Water to model daily...
Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false-positive N-mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends
Bradley James Udell, Bethany Straw, Susan C. Loeb, Kathryn Irvine, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Cori Lausen, Jonathan D. Reichard, Jeremy T.H. Coleman, Paul M. Cryan, Winifred F. Frick, Brian Reichert
2024, Ecological Monographs (94)
Estimating the abundance of unmarked animal populations from acoustic data is challenging due to the inability to identify individuals and the need to adjust for observation biases including detectability (false negatives), species misclassification (false positives), and sampling exposure. Acoustic surveys conducted along mobile transects were designed to avoid counting individuals...
The effects of flow extremes on native and non-native stream fishes in Puerto Rico
B. J. E. Myers, A. C. Engman, A. Ramírez, A. Torres-Molinari, Abigail Lynch, Mitchell J. Eaton, P. B. Cooney, T. J. Kwak
2024, Freshwater Biology (69) 1292-1306
Globally, freshwater fishes are among the taxa most vulnerable to climate change but are generally understudied in tropical island ecosystems where climate change is predicted to alter the intensity, frequency and duration of extreme flow events. These changes may impact stream ecosystems and native and non-native biota in complex...
Interactive effects of salinity and hydrology on radial growth of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich.) in coastal Louisiana, USA
Richard Day, Andrew From, Darren Johnson, Ken Krauss
2024, Forests (15)
Tidal freshwater forests are usually located at or above the level of mean high water. Some Louisiana coastal forests are below mean high water, especially bald cypress (Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich.) forests because flooding has increased due to the combined effects of global sea level rise and local subsidence. In...
Mitigating risk: Predicting H5N1 avian influenza spread with an empirical model of bird movement
Fiona McDuie, Cory T. Overton, Austen Lorenz, Elliott Matchett, Andrea Mott, Desmond Alexander Mackell, Josh T. Ackerman, Susan E.W. De La Cruz, Vijay P. Patil, Diann Prosser, John Y. Takekawa, Dennis L. Orthmeyer, Maurice E. Pitesky, Samuel L. Diaz-Munoz, Brock M. Riggs, Joseph Gendreau, Eric T. Reed, Mark J. Petrie, Chris K. Williams, Jeffrey J. Buler, Matthew J. Hardy, Brian S. Ladman, Pierre Legagneux, Joel Bety, Philippe J. Thomas, Jean Rodrigue, Josee Lefebvre, Michael L. Casazza
2024, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
Understanding timing and distribution of virus spread is critical to global commercial and wildlife biosecurity management. A highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIv) global panzootic, affecting ~600 bird and mammal species globally and over 83 million birds across North America (Dec 2023), poses a serious global threat to animals and...
Upland Yedoma taliks are an unpredicted source of atmospheric methane
Katey M. Walter Anthony, Nicholas Hasson, Colin W. Edgar, Orit Sivan, Effrat Eliani-Russak, Oded Bergman, Burke J. Minsley, Stephanie R. James, Neal J. Pastick, Alexander Kholodov, Sergey Zimov, Eugenie Euskirchen, Marion S. Bret-Harte, Guido Grosse, Moritz Langer, Jan Nitzbon
2024, Nature Communications (15)
Landscape drying associated with permafrost thaw is expected to enhance microbial methane oxidation in arctic soils. Here we show that ice-rich, Yedoma permafrost deposits, comprising a disproportionately large fraction of pan-arctic soil carbon, present an alternate trajectory. Field and laboratory observations indicate that talik (perennially thawed soils in permafrost) development...
Challenges of implementing a multi-agency monitoring and adaptive management strategy for federally threatened Chinook salmon and steelhead trout during and after dam removal in the Elwha River
Roger J. Peters, Joseph H. Anderson, Jeffrey J. Duda, Michael L. McHenry, George Pess, Samuel J. Brenkman, Jeffery R. Johnson, Martin C. Liermann, Keith Denton, Matthew M. Beirne, Patrick Crain, Heidi A. Connor
2024, Frontiers in Environmental Science (12)
Adaptive management, a process of planning, implementing, and evaluating management strategies, is often recommended for monitoring ecological systems. However, few examples of successful implementation and retrospective case studies exist. We provide a case study of adaptively managing hatchery-assisted protection and recovery for Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and winter steelhead trout...
Risk of invasive waterfowl interaction with poultry production: Understanding potential for avian pathogen transmission via species distribution models
Reilly T. Jackson, Percival M. Marshall, Chris Burkhart, Julia Schneck, Grant Kelly, Caleb Powell Roberts
2024, Biological Invasions (14)
Recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have devastated poultry production across the United States, with more than 77 million birds culled in 2022–2024 alone. Wild waterfowl, including various invasive species, host numerous pathogens, including highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV), and have been implicated...
Methods for quantifying interactions between groundwater and surface water
Rui Ma, Kewei Chen, Charles B. Andrews, Steven P. Loheide II, Audrey H Sawyer, Xue Jiang, Martin A. Briggs, Peter G. Cook, Steven M. Gorelick, Henning Prommer, Bridget R. Scanlon, Zhilin Guo, Chunmiao Zheng
2024, Annual Review of Environment and Resources (49) 623-653
Driven by the need for integrated management of groundwater (GW) and surface water (SW), quantification of GW–SW interactions and associated contaminant transport has become increasingly important. This is due to their substantial impact on water quantity and quality. In this review, we provide...
Quantifying compound and nonlinear effects of hurricane-induced flooding using a dynamically coupled hydrological-ocean model
Daoyang Bao, Z. George Xue, John C. Warner
2024, Water Resources Research (60)
We recently developed a dynamically coupled hydrological-ocean modeling system that provides seamless coverage across the land-ocean continuum during hurricane-induced compound flooding. This study introduced a local inertial equation and a diagonal flow algorithm to the overland routing of the coupled system’s hydrology model (WRF-Hydro). Using Hurricane Florence (2018) as a...
