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...
Effect of spatial resolution of satellite images on estimating the greenness and evapotranspiration of urban green spaces
Hamideh Nouri, Pamela L. Nagler, Sattar Chavoshi Borujeni, Armando Barreto Munez, Sina Alaghmand, Behnaz Noori, Alejandro Galindo, Kamel Didan
2020, Hydrological Processes (34) 3183-3199
Urban green spaces (UGS), like most managed land covers, are getting progressively affected by water scarcity and drought. Preserving, restoring and expanding UGS require sustainable management of green and blue water resources to fulfil evapotranspiration (ET) demand for green plant cover. The heterogeneity of UGS with high variation in their...
Sources of variation in maternal allocation in a long-lived mammal
Kaitlin R. Macdonald, Jay J. Rotella, Robert A. Garrott, William A. Link
2020, Journal of Animal Ecology (89) 1927-1940
1.Life history theory predicts allocation of energy to reproduction varies with maternal age, but additional maternal features may be important to the allocation of energy to reproduction.We aimed to characterize age‐specific variation in maternal allocation and assess the relationship between maternal allocation and other static and dynamic maternal features.Mass...
Elevation and elevation-change maps of Fountain Creek, southeastern Colorado, 2015–19
Laura A. Hempel
2020, Scientific Investigations Map 3456
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Colorado Springs Utilities, has been collecting topographic data at 10 study areas along Fountain Creek, Colorado, annually since 2012. The 10 study areas are located between Colorado Springs and the terminus of Fountain Creek at the Arkansas River in Pueblo. The purpose of...
Ore deposits: Origin, exploration, and exploitation
Eric D. Anderson
2020, Economic Geology (115) 687-688
No abstract available....
Prioritizing uncertainties to improve management of a reintroduction program
Sarah J. Converse
Michael C. Runge, Sarah J. Converse, James E. Lyons, David R. Smith, editor(s)
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
The success of wildlife reintroduction efforts rests on the demographic performance of released animals. Whooping Cranes in the eastern migratory population—reintroduced beginning in 2001—demonstrate adequate survival but poor reproduction. Managers and scientists have used an iterative process of learning and management to respond to this management challenge, but by 2015,...
Reserve network design for prairie-dependent taxa in South Puget Sound
Sarah J. Converse, Beth Gardner, Steve Morey
Michael C. Runge, Sarah J. Converse, James E. Lyons, David R. Smith, editor(s)
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
Conserving species requires managing threats, including habitat loss. One approach to managing habitat loss is to identify and protect habitat in networks of reserves. Reserve network design is a type of resource allocation problem: how can we choose the most effective reserve network design given available resources? We undertook development...
Decision analysis of restoration actions for faunal conservation and other stakeholder values: Dauphin Island, Alabama
Elise R. Irwin, K. Ouellette Coffman, E. S. Godsey, Nicholas Enwright, M. Clint Lloyd, K. Joyner, Q. T. Lai
2020, Report
Dauphin Island is a barrier island located in the northern Gulf of Mexico and serves as the only barrier island providing protection to much of the State of Alabama’s coastal natural resources. The ecosystem spans over 3,500 acres of barrier island habitat including, beach, dune, overwash fans, intertidal wetlands, maritime forest and...
Climate-induced abrupt shifts in structural states trigger delayed transitions in functional states
Yanbin Hao, Wenjun Liu, Xingliang Xu, Seth M. Munson, Xiaoyong Cui, Xiaoming Kang, Nianpeng He, Yan Wang
2020, Ecological Indicators (115)
Theoretical models suggest that ecosystems can be found in one of several possible alternative stable states, and a shift in structural stable state (SSS) can trigger a change in functional stable state (FSS). But we still lack the empirical evidence to confirm these states and transitions, and to inform the...
The relationship between biodiversity and wetland cover varies across regions of the conterminous United States
Jeremy S. Dertien, Stella Self, Beth Ross, Kyle Barrett, Robert F. Baldwin
Daehyun Kim, editor(s)
2020, PLoS ONE (15) 1-18
Identifying the factors that determine the spatial distribution of biodiversity is a major focus of ecological research. These factors vary with scale from interspecific interactions to global climatic cycles. Wetlands are important biodiversity hotspots and contributors of ecosystem services, but the association between proportional wetland cover and species richness has...
First record of pughead deformity in the threatened Clear Lake Hitch
Jessica Catherine Kathan, Matthew J. Young, Frederick V. Feyrer
2020, California Fish and Game (106) 186-190
No abstract available....
Using the Delphi process to gather information from a Bald Eagle expert panel
Rebecca Kolstrom, Tammy L. Wilson, Larry M. Gigliotti
2020, Natural Resource Report NPS/SWAN.NRR-2020/2128
Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) populations are classified by the Southwest Alaska Network (SWAN) of the National Park Service as a vital sign of biological integrity, largely because of their importance as an indicator species for environmental contaminants and human disturbance. Though Bald Eagles are plentiful in Alaska, it is still...
Using small unmanned aircraft systems for measuring post-flood high-water marks and streambed elevations
Brandon T. Forbes, Geoffrey DeBenedetto, Jesse E. Dickinson, Claire Bunch, Faith A. Fitzpatrick
2020, Remote Sensing (12)
Floods affected approximately two billion people around the world from 1998–2017, causing over 142,000 fatalities and over 656 billion U.S. dollars in economic losses. Flood data, such as the extent of inundation and peak flood stage, are needed to define the environmental, economic, and social impacts of significant flood events....
Individual and population fitness consequences associated with large carnivore use of residential development
Heather E. Johnson, David Bruce Lewis, Stewart Breck
2020, Ecosphere (11)
Large carnivores are negotiating increasingly developed landscapes, but little is known about how such behavioral plasticity influences their demographic rates and population trends. Some investigators have suggested that the ability of carnivores to behaviorally adapt to human development will enable their persistence, and yet, others have suggested that such landscapes...
Risk-targeted alternatives to deterministic ground motion caps in U.S. seismic provisions
Jonathan P. Stewart, Nico Luco, John D Hooper, C. B. Crouse
2020, Earthquake Spectra (36) 904-923
Since their inception over 20 years ago, the maximum considered earthquake ground motion maps in U.S. building codes have capped probabilistic values with deterministic ground motions from characteristic earthquakes on known active faults. This practice has increasingly been called into question both because of spatially non-uniform risk levels...
