Temporal, spatial, and chemical evolution of Quaternary high-silica rhyolites in the Mineral Mountains, Utah
Tiffany A. Rivera, Brian R. Jicha, Stefan Kirby, Hannah B. Peacock
2024, Professional Paper 1890-K
The Mineral Mountains in southwestern Utah are a structurally controlled core complex at the confluence of the Colorado Plateau and the Basin and Range physiographic provinces. Aside from hosting Utah’s largest batholith, the Mineral Mountains host some of the State’s youngest high-silica rhyolites, which have been linked to a magma...
Streams, springs, and volcanic lakes for volcano monitoring
Steven E. Ingebritsen, Shaul Hurwitz
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5062-F
IntroductionVolcanic unrest can trigger appreciable change to surface waters such as streams, springs, and volcanic lakes. Magma degassing produces gases and soluble salts that are absorbed into groundwater that feeds streams and lakes. As magma ascends, the amount of heat and degassing will increase, and so will any related geochemical...
Ore mineralization in the Mofete and San Vito geothermal fields, Campi Flegrei volcanic complex, Naples, Italy
Harvey E. Belkin, Ryan J. McAleer, Benedetto De Vivo
2024, Journal of Geochemical Exploration (265)
The Mofete and San Vito geothermal fields, located west of Naples, Italy, are part of the Campi Flegrei volcanic complex. In the 1970s, exploratory wells were drilled to a depth of ~3000 m in an attempt to locate high-enthalpy fluids for potential power production. Drill core samples from Mofete wells (MF1,...
Arctic fishes reveal patterns in radiocarbon age across habitats and with recent climate change
Ashley E. Stanek, Jonathan A. O’Donnell, Michael P. Carey, Sarah M. Laske, Xiaomei Xu, Kenneth H. Dunton, Vanessa R. von Biela
2024, Limnology and Oceanography Letters (9) 796-805
Climate change alters the sources and age of carbon in Arctic food webs by fostering the release of older carbon from degrading permafrost. Radiocarbon (14C) traces carbon sources and age, but data before rapid warming are rare and limit assessments over time. We capitalized on 14C...
Editorial: From cold seeps to hydrothermal vents: Geology, chemistry, microbiology, and ecology in marine and coastal environments
Glen T. Snyder, Andrew R. Thurber, Stephanie Dupre, Marcelo Ketzer, Carolyn D. Ruppel
2024, Frontiers in Earth Science (12)
This Research Topic compiles contemporary studies on cold seeps, hydrothermal vents, mud volcanoes, and related seafloor features that are associated with focused fluid emissions and the transfer of carbon, other chemical species, and sometimes heat from the geosphere to the ocean. Because these features sometimes tap fluids and gas...
Boundary spanning increases knowledge and action on invasive species in a changing climate
Annette E. Evans, Eva M. Colberg, Jenica M. Allen, Evelyn M. Beaury, Carrie Jean Brown-Lima, Toni Lyn Morelli, Bethany A. Bradley
2024, Ecological Solutions and Evidence (5)
Challenges associated with global change stressors on ecosystems have prompted calls to improve actionable science, including through boundary-spanning activities, which aim to build connections and communication between researchers and natural resource practitioners. By synthesizing and translating research and practitioner knowledge, boundary-spanning activities could support proactive, research-informed conservation practice, but...
Overcoming low detectability in snake conservation research: Case studies from the Southeast USA
John D. Willson, Jacquelyn C. Guzy, Andrew M. Durso
2024, Book chapter, Strategies for Conservation Success in Herpetology
Goals of conservation research include detecting and monitoring changes in abundance, understanding species interactions, detecting extinction events of imperiled species, and detecting colonization events and spread of non-native species. Achieving these goals is difficult or impossible when the target species is rarely encountered or when the number of individuals detected...
How to reduce the risks of introducing and spreading invasive species in a major disaster
Invasive Species Council
2024, Report
Disaster impacts are exacerbated by invasive species, which are harmful, non-native organisms that can be introduced and spread by disasters, including disaster response and recovery operations. Mechanisms are available to reduce risks from invasive species in a disaster, but those mechanisms are rarely used because invasive species experts and emergency...
Rare Earth Elements in coal fly ash and their potential recovery
James Hower, Allan Kolker, Heileen Hsu-Kim, Desiree Platta
Athanasios Karamalidis, Roderick Eggert, editor(s)
2024, Book chapter, Rare Earth Elements: Sustainable recovery, processing, and purification
Coal fly ash is a potential resource of valuable elements, such as rare earth elements (REEs), which are retained and concentrated upon combustion. Understanding REE occurrence within fly ash is vital to developing recovery methods. Some of the highest REE contents occur in fly ash derived from U.S. Appalachian Basin...
Lead exposure of a fossorial rodent varies with the use of ammunition across the landscape
Vincent Slabe, Kevin Warner, Zoe K. T. Duran, David S. Pilliod, Patricia Ortiz, Diane Schmidt, Shawn Szabo, Todd E. Katzner
2024, Science ot the Total Environment (954)
Exposure to heavy metals has been documented in a wide range of wildlife species, but infrequently in ground squirrels. This is despite their tendency to be targets of recreational shooters and the accumulation of lead ammunition in the soil environments they inhabit. We...
Evaluation and review of ecology-focused stream studies to support cooperative monitoring, Fountain Creek Basin, Colorado
Robert E. Zuellig, Charles F. Wahl, Erin K. Hennessy, Alex Jouney, Paul Foutz
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5074
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Colorado Springs Utilities and Colorado Springs Stormwater Enterprise, synthesized previous studies and evaluated recent monitoring data to understand the distribution of fish and invertebrates in the Fountain Creek Basin and documented response to streamflow, water temperature, and water quality. The goal was to...
Historical and morphological evidence for a remnant population of Lake Erie cisco Coregonus artedi (albus) in Crystal Lake, Pennsylvania
Joseph Schmitt, Douglas P. Fischer, Yu-Chun Kao, Aaron Frey, Marc Chalupnicki, James E. McKenna Jr., Kristy Phillips, Mark Richard Dufour, Richard Kraus, Randy L. Eshenroder
2024, Journal of Great Lakes Research (50)
The cisco (Coregonus artedi) population in Crystal Lake, Pennsylvania, is of great scientific interest as it either originated from Lake Erie or Lake Ontario. Cisco in Lake Erie once supported the largest freshwater fishery in the world, but populations were extirpated by 1960. We conducted a morphological analysis of Crystal...
Anomalously high relief on Denali, Alaska, caused by tectonic, lithologic, and climatic drivers
Ari Matmon, Peter J. Haeussler, Michael Loso, ASTER Team
2024, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (646)
We assess the growth of anomalously high relief on Denali, located in the Alaska Range, Alaska, and the tallest mountain in North America (6190 masl). Denali is 3000 m taller than most surrounding peaks. It lies inside a 19° restraining bend in the active Denali fault system that is moving...
Mantle melting in regions of thick continental lithosphere: Examples from Late Cretaceous and younger volcanic rocks, Southern Rocky Mountains, Colorado (USA)
Lang Farmer, Leah E. Morgan, M. Cosca, James Mize, Treasure Bailey, Kenzie J. Turner, Cameron Mark Mercer, Eric T Ellison, Aaron Bell
2024, Geosphere (20) 1411-1440
Major- and trace-element data together with Nd and Sr isotopic compositions and 40Ar/39Ar age determinations were obtained for Late Cretaceous and younger volcanic rocks from north-central Colorado, USA, in the Southern Rocky Mountains to assess the sources of mantle-derived melts in a region underlain...
Functional turnover in a prairie-river fish community over 130 years
Niall G. Clancy, Jonathan A. McFarland, Megan G. Ahern, Annika W. Walters
2024, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (153) 525-540
ObjectiveIn many Great Plains rivers, functional turnover—the change in proportional dominance of members in biological communities that fill certain ecological roles—has occurred due to impoundment and habitat alteration. The Powder River of Montana and Wyoming remains one of the few unregulated prairie rivers, but long-term monitoring is limited, so we...
Testing food web theory in a large lake: The role of body size in habitat coupling in Lake Michigan
Bryan M. Maitland, Harvey A. Bootsma, Charles R. Bronte, David Bunnell, Zachary S. Feiner, Kari Fenske, William Fetzer, Carolyn Foley, Brandon Gerig, Austin Happell, Tomas O. Hook, Friedrich W. Keppeler, Matthew Kornis, Ryan F. Lepak, Andrew McNaught, Brian Roth, Ben Turschak, Joel C. Hoffman, Olaf P. Jensen
2024, Ecology (105)
The landscape theory of food web architecture (LTFWA) describes relationships among body size, trophic position, mobility, and energy channels that serve to couple heterogenous habitats, which in turn promotes long-term system stability. However, empirical tests of the LTFWA are rare and support differs among terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems. Further,...
2023-2024 Coastal sage scrub and chaparral community monitoring for western San Diego County
Emily E. Perkins, Philip Robert Gould, Jennifer Kingston, Christopher W. Brown, Kristine L. Preston, Robert N. Fisher
2024, Report
Western San Diego County is dominated by shrublands supporting biologically diverse native plant and animal communities. Widespread urbanization has led to regional habitat loss and fragmentation, and many species in these shrubland communities are rare, threatened, or endangered. Large-scale, multiple-species conservation planning has resulted in a regional preserve system that...
Spatial and temporal variability of movements among sympatric salmonids in an unfragmented inland watershed
Michael J. Lance, T. David Ritter, Alexander V. Zale, Grant G. Grisak, Jason A. Mullen, Stephen J. Walsh, Kurt C. Heim, Robert Al-Chokhachy
2024, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (153) 611-629
ObjectiveOur aim was to determine the movement patterns of three abundant salmonids—Brown Trout Salmo trutta, Mountain Whitefish Prosopium williamsoni, and Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss—in the Smith River watershed of Montana.MethodsWe tagged 7172 fish with passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags, monitored their movements past 15 stationary...
Landscape-scale modeling to forecast fluvial-aeolian sediment connectivity in river valleys
Alan Kasprak, Joel B. Sankey, Joshua Caster
2024, Geophysical Research Letters (51)
Sedimentary landforms on Earth and other planetary bodies are built through scour, transport, and deposition of sediment. Sediment connectivity refers to the hypothesis that pathways of sediment transport do not occur in isolation, but rather are mechanistically linked. In dryland river systems, one such example of sediment connectivity is the transport of...
Abiotic and demographic drivers of flea parasitism on deer mice in a recovering mixed-conifer forest a decade postfire
Colton J. Padilla, Jessica T. Martin, James W. Cain III, Matthew E. Gompper
2024, Journal of Parasitology (110) 375-385
With the intensity and frequency of wildfires increasing rapidly, the need to study the ecological effects of these wildfires is also growing. An understudied aspect of fire ecology is the effect fires have on parasite–host interactions, including ectoparasites that might be pathogen vectors. Although some studies have examined the impacts...
Global assessment of aquatic Isoëtes species ecology
Mattia M. Azzella, Alice Dalla Vecchia, Thomas Abeli, Janne Alahuhta, Victor B. Amoroso, Enric Ballesteros, Vincent Bertrin, Daniel Brunton, Alexander A. Bobrov, Cecilio Caldeira, Simona Ceschin, Elena V. Chemeris, Martina Ctvrtlikova, Mary de Winton, Esperanca Gacia, Oleg G. Grishutkin, Deborah Hofstra, Daniella Ivanova, Maria O. Ivanova, Nikita K. Konotop, Danelle M. Larson, Sara Magrini, Marit Mjelde, Olga A. Mochalova, Guilherme Oliveira, Ole Pedersen, Jovani B. de S. Pereira, Cristina Ribaudo, Maria Inmaculada Romero Bujan, Angelo Troia, Yulia S. Vinogradova, Polina A. Volkova, Daniel Zandonadi, Nadezhda V. Zueva, Rossano Bolpagni
2024, Freshwater Biology (69) 1420-1437
Isoëtes are iconic but understudied wetland plants, despite having suffered severe losses globally mainly because of alterations in their habitats. We therefore provide the first global ecological assessment of aquatic Isoëtes to identify their environmental requirements and to evaluate if taxonomically related species differ in their...
A heuristic method to evaluate consequences for flight control and stability induced by attachment of biologging devices to birds and bats
Todd E. Katzner, George Young
2024, Methods in Ecology and Evolution (15) 1553-1560
Biologging is central to the study of wildlife, but questions remain about the minimization of effects of biologging devices. Rarely considered are changes biologging devices induce on an animal's centre of mass (COM) and resulting losses of flight control and stability.We applied established...
The Amazon Basin’s rivers and lakes support Nearctic-breeding shorebirds during southward migration
Jennifer A. Linscott, Enzo Basso, Rosalyn Bathrick, Juliana Bosi de Almeida, Alexandra Anderson, Fernando Angulo-Pratolongo, Bart M Ballard, Joel Bety, Stephen Brown, Katherine S. Christie, Sarah J. Clements, Christian Friis, Callie Gesmundo, Marie-Andree Giroux, Autumn-Lynn Harrison, Christopher M. Harwood, Jason M. Hill, James A. Johnson, Bart Kempenaers, Benoit Laliberte, Jean-Francois Lamarre, Richard B. Lanctot, Christopher Latty, Nicolas Lecomte, Laura Anne McDuffie, Juan G. Navedo, Erica Nol, Zachary M. Pohlen, Jennie Rausch, R.B. Renfrew, Jorge Ruiz, Mike Russell, Daniel R. Ruthrauff, Sarah T. Saalfeld, Brett K. Sandercock, Shiloh A. Schulte, Paul A Smith, Audrey R. Taylor, T. Lee Tibbitts, Mihai Valcu, Mitch D. Weegman, James R. Wright, Nathan R. Senner
2024, Ornithological Applications (126)
Identifying the migration routes and stopover sites used by declining species is critical for developing targeted conservation actions. Long-distance migratory shorebirds are among the groups of birds declining most rapidly, yet we frequently lack detailed knowledge about the routes and stopover sites they use during their hemisphere-spanning migrations. This is...
Bottom trawl assessment of Lake Ontario's benthic preyfish community, 2023
Brian O’Malley, Scott P. Minihkeim, Olivia Margaret Mitchinson, Scott David Stahl, Jessica A Goretzke, Jeremy P. Holden
2024, Report
Since 1978, surveys of Lake Ontario preyfish communities have provided information on the status and trends of the benthic preyfish community related to Fish Community Objectives that includes understanding preyfish population dynamics and community diversity. Beginning in 2015, the benthic preyfish survey expanded from US-only to incorporate Canadian sites, increasing...
Effective field sampling of rectoanal mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue for antemortem chronic wasting disease testing in white-tailed deer
Marie L. J. Gilbertson, Lindsey J. Long, Heather N. Inzalaco, Wendy Christine Turner, Daniel J. Storm
2024, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (60) 996-1003
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal prion disease of cervids that has spread across much of North America. Although gold standard CWD diagnostics involve postmortem testing of medial retropharyngeal lymph nodes or obex (brain stem), a key tissue sample for antemortem testing is rectoanal mucosa–associated lymphoid tissue (RAMALT). However,...
