A social-ecological odyssey in fisheries and wildlife management
Andrew K. Carlson, William W. Taylor, Melissa R Cronin, Mitchell J. Eaton, Lauren E. Eckert, Mark A Kaemingk, Andrea J. Reid, Ashley Trudeau
2020, Fisheries (45) 238-243
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Ineffectiveness of light emitting diodes as underwater deterrents for Long-tailed Ducks Clangula hyemalis
Jennifer C Cantlay, Alexander L. Bond, Alicia Berlin, Rory Crawford, Graham R Martin, Yann Rouxel, Sharon Peregoy, Kathleen A. McGrew, Steve J Portugal
2020, Global Ecology and Conservation (23)
Gillnet bycatch accounts for over 400,000 bird mortalities worldwide every year, affecting a wide variety of species, especially those birds that dive when foraging. Technological solutions to improve gillnet visibility or deter birds from approaching nets, such as LED lights, are...
History and evolution of seepage meters for quantifying flow between groundwater and surface water: Part 1 – Freshwater settings
Donald O. Rosenberry, Carlos Duque, David R. Lee
2020, Earth-Science Reviews (204)
More than 75 years after its introduction, the seepage meter remains the only device for directly quantifying exchange across the sediment-water interface between groundwater and surface water. This device, first presented in the literature in the 1940s, has been in a state of near-constant improvement and design change, necessitating...
Geophysical characterization of the Northwest Geysers geothermal field, California
Jared R. Peacock, Tait E. Earney, Margret T. Mangan, William D. Schermerhorn, Jonathan M.G. Glen, Mark Walters, Craig Hartline
2020, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (339)
The Clear Lake Volcanic Field in northern California is the youngest and northern-most part of a long-lived volcanic system that has produced recent (~10 ka) eruptions. Adjacent to the Clear Lake Volcanic Field is the worlds largest energy producing geothermal field, The Geysers. The hottest part of The...
The Mars Global Digital Dune Database (MGD3): Composition and stability
Lori K. Fenton, Amber L. Gullikson, Rosalyn Hayward, Heather Charles, Timothy N. Titus
2020, Icarus (330) 189-203
We present an expansion to the Mars Global Digital Dune Database (MGD3) describing 1) bulk dune field composition determined by fitting a mineral spectral library to Thermal Emission Spectra (TES) data, and 2) a morphologic stability index that measures the degree of non-aeolian modification that has eroded and stabilized each...
Isolating anthropogenic wetland loss by concurrently tracking inundation and land cover disturbance across the Mid-Atlantic Region, U.S.
Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Jay Christensen, Yen-Ju G. Beal, Ben DeVries, Megan W. Lang, Nora Hwang, Christine Mazzarella, John Jones
2020, Remote Sensing (12)
Global trends in wetland degradation and loss have created an urgency to monitor wetland extent, as well as track the distribution and causes of wetland loss. Satellite imagery can be used to monitor wetlands over time, but few efforts have attempted to distinguish anthropogenic wetland loss from climate-driven variability in...
Simulation of discharge, water-surface elevations, and water temperatures for the St. Louis River estuary, Minnesota-Wisconsin, 2016–17
Erik A. Smith, Richard L. Kiesling, Earl J. Hayter
2020, Scientific Investigations Report 2020-5028
The St. Louis River estuary is a large freshwater estuary, next to Duluth, Minnesota, that encompasses the headwaters of Lake Superior. The St. Louis River estuary is one of the most complex and compromised near-shore systems in the upper Great Lakes with a long history of environmental contamination caused by...
Prioritizing habitats based on abundance and distribution of molting waterfowl in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area of the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska
Paul L. Flint, Vijay Patil, Bradley Shults, Sarah J. Thompson
2020, Open-File Report 2020-1034
The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) encompasses more than 9.5 million hectares of federally managed land on the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska, where it supports a diversity of wildlife, including millions of migratory birds. Within the NPR-A, Teshekpuk Lake and the surrounding area provide important habitat for...
Threats posed by the Fungal Kingdom to humans, wildlife, and agriculture
Matthew C. Fisher, Sarah J. Gurr, Christina A. Cuomo, David S. Blehert, Hailing Jin, Eva H. Stukenbrock, Jason E. Stajich, Regine Kahmann, Charles Boone, David W. Denning, Neil A. R. Gow, Bruce S. Klein, James W. Kronstad, Donald C. Sheppard, John W. Taylor, Gerard D. Wright, Joseph Heitman, Arturo Casadevall, Leah E. Cowen
2020, mBio (11)
The Fungal Kingdom includes at least six million eukaryotic species and is remarkable with respect to its profound impact on global health, biodiversity, ecology, agriculture, manufacturing, and biomedical research. Approximately 625 fungal species have been reported to infect vertebrates, 200 of which can be human-associated, either as commensals and members...
Drivers and consequences of alternative landscape futures on wildlife distributions in New England, United States
Schuyler B. Pearman-Gillman, Matthew J. Duveneck, James D. Murdoch, Therese M. Donovan
Anouschka R. Hof, editor(s)
2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (8) 1-19
In an era of rapid climate and land transformation, it is increasingly important to understand how future changes impact natural systems. Scenario studies can offer the structure and perspective needed to understand the impacts of change and help inform management and conservation decisions. We implemented a scenario-based approach to assess...
Types and areal distribution of ground failure associated with the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, earthquake sequence
Randall W. Jibson
2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (110) 1567-1578
The July 2019 Ridgecrest, California, earthquake sequence included the largest earthquake (M 7.1) to strike the conterminous United States in the past 20 yr. To characterize the types, numbers, and areal distributions of different types of ground failure (landslides, liquefaction, and ground cracking), I conducted a field investigation of ground failure triggered...
Combining genetic and demographic monitoring better informs conservation of an endangered urban snake
Dustin A. Wood, Jonathan P. Rose, Brian J. Halstead, Ricka E. Stoelting, Karen E Swaim, Amy G. Vandergast
2020, PLoS ONE (15)
Conversion and fragmentation of wildlife habitat often leads to smaller and isolated populations and can reduce a species’ ability to disperse across the landscape. As a consequence, genetic drift can quickly lower genetic variation and increase vulnerability to extirpation. For species of conservation concern, quantification of...
The future of landslides’ past—A framework for assessing consecutive landsliding systems
A. Temme, F. Guzzetti, J. Samia, Benjamin B. Mirus
2020, Landslides (17) 1519-1528
Landslides often happen where they have already occurred in the past. The potential of landslides to reduce or enhance conditions for further landsliding has long been recognized and has often been reported, but the mechanisms and spatial and temporal scales of these processes have previously received little specific attention. Despite...
Ringed seal (Pusa hispida) seasonal movements, diving, and haul-out behavior in the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering Seas (2011–2017)
Andrew L. Von Duyke, David C. Douglas, Jason K Herreman, Justin A. Crawford
2020, Ecology and Evolution (10) 5595-5616
Continued Arctic warming and sea-ice loss will have important implications for the conservation of ringed seals, a highly ice-dependent species. A better understanding of their spatial ecology will help characterize emerging ecological trends and inform management decisions. We deployed satellite transmitters on ringed seals in the summers of 2011, 2014,...
Spatial population structure of a widespread aquatic insect in the Colorado River Basin: Evidence for a Hydropsyche oslari species complex
Anya N. Metcalfe, Theodore A. Kennedy, Jane C. Marks, Aaron D. Smith, Jeffrey D. Muehlbauer
2020, Freshwater Science (39) 309-320
Structural connectivity and dispersal ability are important constraints on functional connectivity among populations. For aquatic organisms that disperse among stream corridors, the regional structure of a river network can, thus, define the boundaries of gene flow. In this study, we used mitochondrial DNA (mtCO1 barcoding gene) to examine the genetic...
Understanding nekton use of estuarine habitats in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Guidebook for natural resource managers and restoration practitioners
T. A. Hollweg, M. C. Christman, K. Sauby, J. Cebrian, Megan La Peyre
2020, Report
Without a comprehensive understanding of nekton use of key habitats across locations, natural resource managers and restoration practitioners in the northern Gulf of Mexico region lack a key tool to assist in their efforts to design, implement, and monitor effective coastal restoration and protection efforts in the decades to come....
Inland fish and fisheries integral to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Abigail Lynch, Vittoria Elliott, Sui C. Phang, Julie E. Claussen, Ian Harrison, Karen J. Murchie, E. Ashley Steel, Gretchen L. Stokes
2020, Nature Sustainability (3) 579-587
Inland fish provide food for billions and livelihoods for millions of people worldwide and are integral to effective freshwater ecosystem function, yet the recognition of these services is notably absent in development discussions and policies, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). How might the SDGs be enhanced...
Temperature‐related responses of an invasive mussel and 2 unionid mussels to elevated carbon dioxide
Diane L. Waller, Michelle R. Bartsch, Eric G. Lord, Richard A. Erickson
2020, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (39) 1546-1557
Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) have exacerbated the decline of native freshwater mussels (Order Unionida) in North America since their arrival in the 1980s. Options for controlling invasive mussels, particularly in unionid mussel habitats, are limited. Previously, carbon dioxide (CO2) showed selective toxicity for zebra mussels, relative to unionids, when applied...
Microplastics in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, USA: Occurrence and biological uptake
Austin K. Baldwin, Andrew R. Spanjer, Michael R. Rosen, Theresa Thom
2020, PLoS ONE (15)
Microplastics are an environmental contaminant of growing concern, but there is a lack of information about microplastic distribution, persistence, availability, and biological uptake in freshwater systems. This is especially true for large river systems like the Colorado River that spans multiple states through mostly rural and agricultural land use. This...
Recreation conflict, coping, and satisfaction: Minnesota grouse hunters’ conflicts and coping response related to all-terrain vehicle users, hikers, and other hunters
David C. Fulton, Susan A. Schroeder, Louis Cornicelli, Leslie McInenly
2020, Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (30)
Studying conflict and coping in recreation is important because some coping strategies may provoke distress, while others may lead to positive emotional changes. Building on applications of the transactional stress coping model to park visitors, anglers, and other recreation participants, we...
Are environmental DNA methods ready for aquatic invasive species management?
Adam J. Sepulveda, Nanette M Nelson, Christopher L. Jerde, Gordon Luikart
2020, Trends in Ecology and Evolution (35) 668-678
Multiple studies have demonstrated environmental (e)DNA detections of rare, invasive species. However, invasive species managers struggle with using eDNA results because detections might not indicate species presence. We evaluated if eDNA methods have matured to a point where they can be widely applied to aquatic invasive species management. We found...
Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements
Michael T. Noonan, Christen H. Fleming, Marlee A. Tucker, Roland Kays, Autumn-Lynn Harrison, Margaret Crofoot, Briana Abrahms, Susan C Alberts, Ali Abdullahi, Jeanne Altmann, Pamela Castro Antunes, Nina Attias, Jerrold L. Belant, Rogerio Cunha de Paula, J. Antonio de la torre, Jasia Dekker, Christopher S. DePerno, Mohammad Farhadinia, Julian Fennessy, Claudia Fichtel, Christina Fischer, Adam T. Ford, Jacob R. Goheen, Rasmus W. Havmoller, Ben T. Hirsch, Cindy Hurtado, Lynne A. Isbell, Rene Janssen, Florian Jeltsch, Petra Kaczensky, Yayoi Kaneko, Peter M. Kappeler, Anjan Katna, Matthew Kauffman, Flavia Koch, Abhijeet Kulkarn, Scott LaPoint, Peter Leimgruber, David W. Macdonald, A. Catherine Markham, Laura Mcmahon, Katherine Mertes, Christopher Moorman, Ronaldo G. Morato, Alexander M. Mosbrucker, Guilherme Mourao, David O’Connor, Luiz G. R. Oliveira-Santos, Jennifer Pastorini, Bruce D. Patterson, Janet L. Rachlow, Dustin H. Ranglack, Neil Reid, David M. Scantlebury, Dawn M. Scott, Nuria Selva, Agnieszka Sergiel, Melissa Songer, Nucharin Songsasen, Jared A. Stabach, Jenna Stacy-Dawes, Morgan B. Swingen, Jeffrey J. Thompson, Wiebke Ullmann, Abi Tamim Vanak, Marie Thaker, John W. Wilson, Koji Yamazaki, Richard W. Yarnell, Filip Zieba, Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica, William F. Fagan, Thomas Mueller, J.M. Calabrese
2020, Conservation Biology (34) 1017-1028
Accurately quantifying species’ area requirements is a prerequisite for effective area-based conservation. This typically involves collecting tracking data on species of interest and then conducting home-range analyses. Problematically, autocorrelation in tracking data can result in space needs being severely underestimated. Based on the previous work, we hypothesized the magnitude of...
Two Ocean Pass: An alternative hypothesis for invasion of Yellowstone Lake by lake trout, and implications for future invasions
Todd M. Koel, Colleen R. Detjens, Alexander V. Zale
2020, Water (12) 1-23
Preventing the interbasin transfer of aquatic invasive species is a high priority for natural resource managers. Such transfers can be made by humans or can occur by dispersal through connected waterways. A natural surface water connection between the Atlantic and Pacific drainages in North America exists at Two Ocean Pass...
Factors affecting sampling strategies for design of an effects‐directed analysis for endocrine‐active chemicals
Jennifer Brennan, Robert W. Gale, David A. Alvarez, Jason P. Berninger, Jessica Kristin Leet, Yan Li, Tyler Wagner, Donald E. Tillitt
2020, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (39) 1309-1324
Effects‐directed analysis (EDA) is an important tool for identifying unknown bioactive components in a complex mixture. Such an analysis of endocrine‐active chemicals (EACs) from water sources has promising regulatory implications but also unique logistical challenges. We propose a conceptual EDA (framework) based on a critical review of EDA literature and...
Wildfire reveals transient changes to individual traits and population responses of a native bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii)
John Michael Mola, Michael R. Miller, Sean M. O'Rourke, Neal M. Williams
2020, Journal of Animal Ecology (89) 1799-1810
1. Fire-induced changes in the abundance and distribution of organisms, especially plants, can alter resource landscapes for mobile consumers driving bottom-up effects on their population sizes, morphologies, and reproductive potential. We expect these impacts to be most striking for obligate visitors of plants, like bees and other pollinators, but these...
