Hormonal control of euryhalinity
Yoshio Takei, Stephen D. McCormick
Stephen D. McCormick, Anthony Peter Farrell, Colin J. Brauner, editor(s)
2013, Book chapter, Euryhaline fishes
Hormones play a critical role in maintaining body fluid balance in euryhaline fishes during changes in environmental salinity. The neuroendocrine axis senses osmotic and ionic changes, then signals and coordinates tissue-specific responses to regulate water and ion fluxes. Rapid-acting hormones, e.g. angiotensins, cope with immediate challenges by controlling drinking rate...
Tamarix, hydrology and fluvial geomorphology
Daniel A. Auerbach, David M. Merritt, Patrick B. Shafroth
Anna A Sher, Martin F. Quigley, editor(s)
2013, Book chapter, Tamarix: A case study of ecological change in the American West
This chapter explores the impact of hydrology and fluvial geomorphology on the distribution and abundance of Tamarix as well as the reciprocal effects of Tamarix on hydrologic and geomorphic conditions. It examines whether flow-regime alteration favors Tamarix establishment over native species, and how Tamarix stands modify processes involved in the...
Hydrologic connectivity to streams increases nitrogen and phosphorus inputs and cycling in soils of created and natural floodplain wetlands
Kristin L. Wolf, Gregory E. Noe, Changwoo Ahn
2013, Journal of Environmental Quality (42) 1245-1255
Greater connectivity to stream surface water may result in greater inputs of allochthonous nutrients that could stimulate internal nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycling in natural, restored, and created riparian wetlands. This study investigated the effects of hydrologic connectivity to stream water on soil nutrient fluxes in plots (n =...
Impacts of land-use change to ecosystem services
Tom Stohlgren, Tracy R. Holcombe
2013, Book chapter, Climate vulnerability: understanding and addressing threats to essential resources
Increasing human populations on the landscape and globe coincide with increasing demands for food, energy, and other natural resources, with generally negative impacts to wildlife habitat, air and water quality, and natural scenery. Here we define and describe the impacts of land-use change on ecosystem services – the services that...
Diablotin Pterodroma hasitata: a biography of the endangered Black-capped Petrel
Theodore R. Simons, David S. Lee, J. Christopher Haney
2013, Marine Ornithology: Journal of Seabird Research and Conservation (41) 1-43
The Black-capped Petrel Pterodroma hasitata was believed extinct throughout much of the 20th century. It is the only gadfly petrel currently known to breed in the Caribbean Basin. Now seriously endangered, the species is presumed extirpated from Martinique, Dominica, and Guadeloupe, and breeding populations currently occur only on Hispaniola and perhaps Cuba....
Smolt physiology and endocrinology
Stephen D. McCormick
Stephen D. McCormick, Anthony Peter Farrell, Colin J. Brauner, editor(s)
2013, Book chapter, Euryhaline fishes
Hormones play a critical role in maintaining body fluid balance in euryhaline fishes during changes in environmental salinity. The neuroendocrine axis senses osmotic and ionic changes, then signals and coordinates tissue-specific responses to regulate water and ion fluxes. Rapid-acting hormones, e.g. angiotensins, cope with immediate challenges by controlling drinking rate...
Global climate change impacts on coastal ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico: Considerations for integrated coastal management
John W. Day, Alejandro Yanez-Arancibia, James H. Cowan, Richard H. Day, Robert R. Twilley, John R. Rybczyk
2013, Book chapter, Gulf of Mexico origin, waters, and biota
Global climate change is important in considerations of integrated coastal management in the Gulf of Mexico. This is true for a number of reasons. Climate in the Gulf spans the range from tropical to the lower part of the temperate zone. Thus, as climate warms, the tropical temperate interface, which...
Galveston Bay: Chapter D in Emergent wetlands status and trends in the northern Gulf of Mexico: 1950-2010
Lawrence R. Handley, Kathryn A. Spear, Eleonor Taylor, Cindy A. Thatcher
2013, Report, Emergent wetlands status and trends in the northern Gulf of Mexico: 1950-2010
The Galveston Bay estuary is located on the upper Texas Gulf coast (Lester and Gonzalez, 2002). It is composed of four major sub-bays - Galveston, Trinity, East, and West Bays. It is Texas’ largest estuary on the Gulf Coast with a total area of 155,399 hectares (384,000 acres) and 1,885...
Biochar effect on maize yield and soil characteristics in five conservation farming sites in Zambia
Gerard Cornelissen, Vegard Martinsen, Victor Shitumbanuma, Vanja Alling, Gijs D. Breedveld, David W. Rutherford, Magnus Sparrevik, Sarah E. Hale, Alfred Obia, Jan Mulder
2013, Agronomy Journal (3) 256-274
Biochar addition to agricultural soils can improve soil fertility, with the added bonus of climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration. Conservation farming (CF) is precision farming, often combining minimum tillage, crop rotation and residue retention. In the present farmer-led field trials carried out in Zambia, the use of a low...
Sediment transport due to extreme events: The Hudson River estuary after tropical storms Irene and Lee
David K. Ralston, John C. Warner, W. Rockwell Geyer, Gary R. Wall
2013, Geophysical Research Letters (40) 5451-5455
Tropical Storms Irene and Lee in 2011 produced intense precipitation and flooding in the U.S. Northeast, including the Hudson River watershed. Sediment input to the Hudson River was approximately 2.7 megaton, about 5 times the long-term annual average. Rather than the common assumption that sediment is predominantly trapped in the...
Water resources in the desert southwest
Robert H. Webb, Stanley A. Leake
Richard Malloy, John Brock, Anthony Floyd, Margaret Livingston, Robert H. Webb, editor(s)
2013, Book chapter, Design with the desert: Conservation and sustainable development
As the old saying goes, there is nothing more precious than water in the desert. The Ancestral Puebloans, Hohokam, and other pre-Columbian cultures knew this and built their civilizations near guaranteed water supplies. When the Spaniards arrived in present-day Arizona, they found that the Tohono O’odham and Piman cultures had...
Gas hydrate formation rates from dissolved-phase methane in porous laboratory specimens
William F. Waite, E.K. Spangenberg
2013, Geophysical Research Letters (40) 4310-4315
Marine sands highly saturated with gas hydrates are potential energy resources, likely forming from methane dissolved in pore water. Laboratory fabrication of gas hydrate-bearing sands formed from dissolved-phase methane usually requires 1–2 months to attain the high hydrate saturations characteristic of naturally occurring energy resource targets. A series of gas hydrate...
The effects of pulse pressure from seismic water gun technology on Northern Pike
Jackson A. Gross, Kathryn M. Irvine, Siri K. Wilmoth, Tristany L. Wagner, Patrick A Shields, Jeffrey R. Fox
2013, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (142) 1335-1346
We examined the efficacy of sound pressure pulses generated from a water gun for controlling invasive Northern Pike Esox lucius. Pulse pressures from two sizes of water guns were evaluated for their effects on individual fish placed at a predetermined random distance. Fish mortality from a 5,620.8-cm3 water gun (peak pressure source...
Management of wetlands for wildlife
Matthew J. Gray, Heath M. Hagy, J. Andrew Nyman, Joshua D. Stafford
2013, Book chapter
Wetlands are highly productive ecosystems that provide habitat for a diversity of wildlife species and afford various ecosystem services. Managing wetlands effectively requires an understanding of basic ecosystem processes, animal and plant life history strategies, and principles of wildlife management. Management techniques that are used differ depending on target species,...
Tree-ring records of variation in flow and channel geometry
M.F. Merigliano, J.M. Friedman, M. L. Scott
2013, Book chapter, Reference module in earth systems and environmental sciences; Treatise on geomorphology, Volume 12
We review the use of tree rings to date flood disturbance, channel change, and sediment deposition, with an emphasis on rivers in semi-arid landscapes in the western United States. As watershed area decreases and aridity increases, large floods have a more pronounced and sustained effect on channel width and location,...
Lakes without Landsat? Implications of scale and an alternative approach to regional remote lake monitoring using MODIS 250 m imagery
Ian M. McCullough, Cynthia S. Loftin, Steven A. Sader
2013, Lake and Reservoir Management (29) 89-98
We evaluated use of MODIS 250 m imagery for remote lake monitoring in Maine. Despite limited spectral resolution (visible red and near infrared bands), the twice daily image capture has a potential advantage over conventionally used, often cloudy Landsat imagery (16 day interval) when short time windows are of interest. We analyzed...
Effects of acidic deposition and soil acidification on sugar maple trees in the Adirondack Mountains, New York
Timothy J. Sullivan, Gregory B. Lawrence, Scott W. Bailey, Todd C. McDonnell, G.T. McPherson
2013, Report
This study documents the effects of acidic deposition and soil acid-base chemistry on the growth, regeneration, and canopy condition of sugar maple (SM) trees in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Sugar maple is the dominant canopy species throughout much of the northern hardwood forest in the State. A field...
Northern Great Plains Network water quality monitoring design for tributaries to the Missouri National Recreational River
Barbara L. Rowe, Stephen K. Wilson, Lisa Yager, Marcia H. Wilson
2013, Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/NGPN/NRTR-2013/783
The National Park Service (NPS) organized more than 270 parks with important natural resources into 32 ecoregional networks to conduct Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) activities for assessment of natural resources within park units. The Missouri National Recreational River (NRR) is among the 13 parks in the NPS Northern Great Plain...
Reconsidering residency: Characterization and conservation implications of complex migratory patterns of shortnose sturgeon (Acispenser brevirostrum)
Phillip E. Dionne, Gayle B. Zydlewski, Michael T. Kinnison, Joseph D. Zydlewski, Gail S. Wippelhauser
2013, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (70) 119-127
Efforts to conserve endangered species usually involve attempts to define and manage threats at the appropriate scale of population processes. In some species that scale is localized; in others, dispersal and migration link demic units within larger metapopulations. Current conservation strategies for endangered shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) assume the species...
Integrated hydrologic modeling of a transboundary aquifer system —Lower Rio Grande
Randall T. Hanson, Wolfgang Schmid, Jacob E. Knight, Thomas Maddock III
2013, Conference Paper, MODFLOW and more 2013--Translating science into practice
For more than 30 years the agreements developed for the aquifer systems of the lower Rio Grande and related river compacts of the Rio Grande River have evolved into a complex setting of transboundary conjunctive use. The conjunctive use now includes many facets of water rights, water use, and emerging...
Characterizing LEDAPS surface reflectance products by comparisons with AERONET, field spectrometer, and MODIS data
Tom Maiersperger, Pat Scaramuzza, Larry Leigh, S. Shrestha, Kevin Gallo, Calli B. Jenkerson, John L. Dwyer
2013, Remote Sensing of Environment (136) 1-13
This study provides a baseline quality check on provisional Landsat Surface Reflectance (SR) products as generated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center using Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System (LEDAPS) software. Characterization of the Landsat SR products leveraged comparisons between aerosol optical thickness...
Multitemporal cross-calibration of the Terra MODIS and Landsat 7 ETM+ reflective solar bands
Amit Angal, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Aisheng Wu, Gyanesh Chander, Taeyoung Choi
2013, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (51) 1870-1882
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the use of remotely sensed data to address global issues. With the open data policy, the data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensors have become a critical component of numerous applications. These...
Observed ices in the Solar System
Roger N. Clark, Will Grundy, Robert R. Carlson, Keith Noll
Murthy Gudipati, Julie C. Castillo-Rogez, editor(s)
2013, Book chapter
Ices have been detected and mapped on the Earth and all planets and/or their satellites further from the sun. Water ice is the most common frozen volatile observed and is also unambiguously detected or inferred in every planet and/or their moon(s) except Venus. Carbon dioxide is also extensively found in...
Projecting the land cover change and its environmental impacts in the Cedar River Basin in the Midwestern United States
Yiping Wu, Shuguang Liu, Terry L. Sohl, Claudia Young
2013, Environmental Research Letters (8) 1-13
The physical surface of the Earth is in constant change due to climate forcing and human activities. In the Midwestern United States, urban area, farmland, and dedicated energy crop (e.g., switchgrass) cultivation are predicted to expand in the coming decades, which will lead to changes in hydrological processes. This study...
Coasts: Complex changes affecting the Northwest's diverse shorelines
W. Spencer Reeder, Ruggiero Peter, Sarah L. Shafer, Amy K. Snover, Laurie L. Houston, Patty Glick, Jan Newton, Susan M. Capalbo
2013, Book chapter, Climate change in the Northwest: Implications for our landscapes, waters, and communities
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