Introgression, phylogeography, and genomic species cohesion in the eastern North American white oak syngameon
Gabe Ribicoff, Mira Garner, Kasey Pham, Kieren Althaus, Jeannine Cavendar-Bares, Andy Crowl, Samantha Gray, Paul F. Gugger, Marlene Hahn, S Liao, Paul Manos, Rebekah Mohn, Ian S. Pearse, Nicholas Steichmann, Ashley Tuffin, Alan T. Whittemore, Andrew Hipp
2025, Molecular Ecology (34)
Hybridization and interspecific gene flow play a substantial role in the evolution of plant taxa. The eastern North American white oak syngameon, a group of approximately 15 ecologically, morphologically and genomically distinguishable species, has long been recognised as a model system for studying introgressive hybridization in temperate trees. However, the...
Resiliency of land change monitoring efforts to input data resampling
Nathan C. Healey, Christopher P. Barber, Kelcy Smith, Rohan Mital, Jesslyn F. Brown, Charles Robison
2025, Frontiers in Remote Sensing (6)
The geometric transformation of remotely sensed imagery from one map projection to another necessitates a data resampling operation which alters the recorded values. The global Landsat archive is made available in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection system which preserves geographic shape across small area but introduces small errors in...
Component identification of solid biomass fuels using reflected light microscopy: Interlaboratory study 2
Agnieszka Drobniak, Maria Mastalerz, Zbigniew Jelonek, Iwona Jelonek, Menandro Acda, Tushar Adsul, Neža Malenšek Andolšek, Lorenzo Animali, Omid Ardakani, Telma Ataide, Demberelsuren Batbold, Mohd Younus Bhat, Tara Congo, Bryon S. Donohoe, Olugbenga Ehinola, Deolinda Flores, Carolina Fonseca, Santanu Ghosh, Paula Gonçalves, Paul C. Hackley, James C. Hower, Luvsanchultem Jargal, Michelle Nicole Johnston, Stavros Kalaitzidis, Sławomir Kędzior, Wayne Knowles, Susheel Kumar, Jolanta Kus, Grzegorz Lis, Kacper Lis, Bei Liu, Bangjun Liu, Qingyong Luo, Meili Du, Alessio Mencarelli, Divya Mishra, Magdalena Misz-Kennan, Nicola Mitillo, Roksana Muzyka, Jennifer Nedzweckas, Jennifer M.K. O'Keefe, Silvia Omodeo-Salé, Luvsannyam Oyunjargal, Jackie Park, Aulia Agus Patria, Richard Pearson, Henrik I. Petersen, Georgeta Predeanu, Ganzorig Ranjin, Julito Reyes, Joana Ribeiro, Genaro de la Rosa Rodríguez, Arka Rudra, Marcin Sajdak, Margaret M. Sanders, George Siavalas, Piotr Sosnowski, Atul K. Varma, Małgorzata Wojtaszek-Kalaitzidi, Mateusz Wolszczak, Zhanjie Xu, Alexander Zdravkov, Lei Zhao, Magdalena Zielińska, Konrad Ziemianin
2025, International Journal of Coal Geology (307)
As nations transition toward sustainable energy systems, biomass has become a vital component of global energy portfolios. Derived from organic materials such as wood, agricultural residues, forestry byproducts, and organic waste, biomass is a renewable energy source with significant environmental and economic benefits. Responsible biomass energy production can improve waste management, reduce emissions of greenhouse gases,...
Doe diligence: A regional analysis of antlerless deer harvest regulations in the Midwestern United States of America.
John P. Draper, Ellen E. Brandell, Jason Isabelle, Chris Jacques, Clint McCoy, Eric Michel, Daniel J. Storm, Caitlin Ott-Conn, Beth Wojcik, Wendy Christine Turner, Daniel P. Walsh
2025, PLoS ONE (20)
Wildlife management in the United States of America (US) is primarily delegated to the individual states wherein state wildlife agencies manage wildlife populations to achieve multiple and sometimes conflicting objectives. White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are an important species in the Midwestern US whose populations are primarily managed through recreational hunting....
New insights reveal a temporally distinct two-stock genetic structure for Suwannee River Gulf sturgeon
Melissa E. Price, Brian Kreiser, Michael T. Randall
2025, Endangered Species Research (57) 289-298
Understanding population genetic structure and patterns of gene flow is important for effective decision making and the preservation of genetic diversity, especially when managing protected species. Historically, Gulf sturgeon have been managed by river system, with early evidence supporting spatially distinct genetic structure across 7 natal populations. However, an increasing...
Long-term surgery survival, body condition effects, and incision healing of Silver Carp and buffalo species comparing sedation methods across seasons
Matthew Ross Acre, Sophia Marie Bonjour, Jacob N. Griffin, Robert Bratcher, Tyler Hessler, Dustin Broaddus, Andrew T. Mueller, Jacob Faulkner, Josey Lee Ridgway, Michael G. Iacchetta, Suzanne Colyer, Robin D. Calfee
2025, Transactions of the American Fishery Society (154) 424-439
ObjectiveInternal tagging for telemetry studies requires invasive surgery procedures, necessitating sufficient sedation to support animal welfare. Challenges with existing chemical sedatives have resulted in technological alternatives, including electrosedation, with these newer methods less extensively studied. Our primary objective was to understand long-term survival, body-condition effects, and...
Marsh sediment in translation: A review of sediment transport across a natural tidal salt marsh in northern San Francisco Bay
Madeline R. Foster-Martinez, Matthew C. Ferner, John C. Callaway, Brenda Goeden, Jessica R. Lacy
2025, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (23)
Deposition of inorganic sediment is essential for the sustainability of tidal salt marshes. Understanding variability in sediment sources and the processes of sediment delivery to salt marshes are high priorities for decision-makers responsible for managing sediment and conserving and restoring marshes....
Abundance of ohiʻa-associated ambrosia beetles in two sites with rapid ohiʻa death outbreaks
Helen Sofaer, Sophia Smith, Robert W. Peck, Ellen Dunkle, Jorden Zarders, Naiʻa Odachi, Ryan L. Perroy
2025, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society (57) 7-24
ʻŌhiʻa lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha Gaudich.) is the dominant tree in native Hawaiian forests but is threatened by two pathogenic fungi (Ceratocystis spp.) which cause Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death (ROD). Understanding the spread of ROD is vital to informing prevention and management strategies. Ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera:...
Pesticide concentrations in multiple physical and biological stream matrices are impacted by a bioenergy production facility receiving pesticide coated corn seeds
Michelle L. Hladik, Dana W. Kolpin, Matthew D. De Parsia, Daniel D. Snow, Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, Brenda Densmore, Laura E. Hubbard, David L. Rus, Jonathan J. Spurgeon, Brittany G. Perrotta, Karen A. Kidd, Johanna M. Kraus, Carrie E. Givens, Christopher James Kotalik, David Walters
2025, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (44) 2143-2153
Insecticide and fungicide seed coatings have become prevalent in conventional agriculture in recent decades. From 2015 to 2021, the AltEn bioenergy plant (Mead, Nebraska, USA) generated ethanol from almost 100% unused/expired treated corn seeds. This use of these seeds for ethanol production resulted in the accumulation of large amounts of...
Leucism in a family group and a review of color aberrations in Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia)
Anthony J. Locatelli, Travis M. Livieri, Steven C. Forrest, Marc R. Matchett, Courtney J. Conway, Thomas D. Mangelsen
2025, Wilson Journal of Ornithology
Avian color aberrations capture public interest and sometimes indicate ecological problems. Diagnosing color aberration type can be difficult because nomenclature is inconsistent, appearance of color aberrations vary, typical coloration varies, and there are many undocumented color aberration types. One type of recognized avian color aberration is leucism....
First evidence of natural reproduction and recruitment of reintroduced Lake Sturgeon in the Coosa River, Georgia
Martin J. Hamel, Matthew A. Phillips, Savannah R. Perry, Brian J. Irwin, John D. Damer
2025, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (45) 516-522
Objective Lake Sturgeon Acipenser fluences became extirpated from the Coosa River system in Georgia and Alabama during the 1970s. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources began stocking hatchery-raised Lake Sturgeon in 2002 with the goal of reestablishing a self-sustaining population. Stocking lapsed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which allowed an opportunity...
Leisure boat harbours, hidden alien species, and pollution: A case study of Hinsholmskilen harbour (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Irina Polovodova Asteman, Emilie Jaffre, Agata Olejnik, Maria Holzmann, Mary McGann, Kjell Nordberg, Jean-Charles Pavard, Delia Rosel, Magali Schweizer
2025, Journal of Micropalaeontology (44) 119-143
Small leisure boat harbours have important aesthetic and recreational values in any country with a coastline. In Sweden, there are about 860 000 leisure boats, which is one of the world's highest numbers in relation to the country's population. However, small boat harbours also present a wide range of environmental problems,...
Foraging of wading birds on a patchy landscape: Simulating effects of social information, interference competition, and patch selection on prey intake and individual distribution
Hyo Won Lee, Donald L. DeAngelis, Simeon Yurek, Yannis P. Papastamatiou
2025, Ecological Modelling (507)
Foragers on patchy landscapes must acquire sufficient resources despite uncertainty in the location and amount of the resources. Optimal Foraging Theory posits that foragers deal with this uncertainty by using strategies that optimize resource intake within foraging periods. For species such as wading birds, this optimization is closely linked to...
Reconciling scale using the Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) Framework to improve management of woody encroachment in grasslands
Rheinhardt Scholtz, Daniel R. Uden, Brady W. Allred, Victoria M. Donovan, Jeremy D. Maestas, Scott L. Morford, Matthew O. Jones, David E. Naugle, Samantha M. Cady, Dillon T. Fogarty, Alexander L. Metcalf, Brian C. Chaffin, Craig Allen, Caleb Powell Roberts, Emily Rowen, Gwendwr R. Meredith, Holly K. Nesbitt, Matthew A. Williamson, Sabrina Gulab, Samantha Hamlin, Sapana Lohani, Dirac Twidwell
2025, Journal of Environmental Management (387)
Implementing strategies to navigate large-scale ecological transitions in grasslands is one of this century's greatest conservation challenges. In the US Great Plains, managing areas impacted by woody transitions have been reactive, short-lived, costly, and ineffective. Along with current technological innovation in rangeland monitoring, the promise of early warning science is to...
A joint Gaussian process model of geochemistry, geophysics, and temperature for groundwater TDS in the San Ardo Oil Field, California, USA
Michael J. Stephens, Will Chang, David H. Shimabukuro, Amanda Howery, Theron A. Sowers, Janice M. Gillespie
2025, Journal of Hydrology (661)
Decline in availability of fresh groundwater has expanded interest in brackish groundwater resources; however, the distribution of brackish groundwater is poorly understood. Water resources in sedimentary basins across the United States often overlie oil and gas development. Mapping of groundwater total dissolved solids (TDS) using data from oil...
Remote sensing of river discharge based on critical flow theory
Carl J. Legleiter, Gordon E. Grant, Inhyeok Bae, Becky Fasth, Elowyn Yager, Daniel C. White, Laura A. Hempel, Merritt Elizabeth Harlan, Christina Leonard, Robert W. Dudley
2025, Geophysical Research Letters (52)
Critical flow theory provides a physical foundation for inferring discharge from measurements of wavelength and channel width made from images. In rivers with hydraulically steep local slopes greater than∼0.01, flow velocities are high and the Froude number F r (ratio of inertial to gravitational forces) can approach 1.0 (critical flow)...
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus exposure and infection in free-ranging bobcats (Lynx rufus) in New York, USA
Haley M. Turner, Angela K. Fuller, Joshua P. Twining, Gavin R. Hitchener, Melissa A. Fadden, David E. Stallknecht, Rebecca L. Poulson, Deborah L. Carter, Mandy B. Watson, Krysten L. Schuler, Jennifer C. Bloodgood
2025, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (61) 515-521
Highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza A virus (HP H5N1) cases in wild mammals have been increasing globally. Carnivora has been the most affected mammal order; however, the extent of morbidity and mortality in carnivores exposed to HP H5N1 remains undefined. We assessed the presence of antibodies to H5 and N1 in...
Integrating acoustic telemetry research into management: successes and challenges in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Natalie V. Klinard, Christopher S. Vandergoot, Andrew S. Briggs, Connor W. Elliott, Matthew D. Faust, David G. Fielder, Dimitry Gorsky, Travis Hartman, Christopher M. Holbrook, Daniel A. Isermann, Jonathan D. Midwood, Michael J. Siefkes, Justin VanDeHey, Dan Wilfond, Todd C. Wills, Troy Zorn, Ana P. Barbosa Martins, Arun Oakley-Cogan, Aaron T. Fisk, Jordan K. Matley
2025, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (80) 1-20
In the Laurentian Great Lakes, the application of acoustic telemetry to track fish movements has evolved into an important part of multijurisdictional management. Nevertheless, barriers remain in translating telemetry research into management or conservation actions. Here, we synthesize acoustic telemetry literature within the Great Lakes basin to explore factors that...
Calibration of the Stream Salmonid Simulator (S3) model to estimate annual survival, movement, and food consumption by juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the restoration reach of the Trinity River, California, 2006–18
John M. Plumb, Russell W. Perry, Kyle De Juilio
2025, Open-File Report 2024-1070
Executive SummaryThe Trinity River is managed in two sections: (1) from the upper 64-kilometer “restoration reach” downstream from Lewiston Dam to the confluence with the North Fork Trinity River, and (2) the 120-kilometer lower Trinity River downstream from the restoration reach. The Stream Salmonid Simulator (S3) has been previously applied...
New technology for an ancient fish: A lamprey life cycle modeling tool with an R Shiny application
Dylan Gerald-Everett Gomes, Joseph R. Benjamin, Benjamin J. Clemens, Ralph Lampman, Jason Dunham
2025, PLoS ONE (20)
Lampreys (Petromyzontiformes) are an ancient group of fishes with complex life histories. We created a life cycle model that includes an R Shiny interactive web application interface to simulate abundance by life stage. This will allow scientists and managers to connect available demographic information in a framework that can be...
Regional analysis of the dependence of peak-flow quantiles on climate with application to adjustment to climate trends
Thomas M. Over, Mackenzie K. Marti, Hannah Lee Podzorski
2025, Hydrology (12)
Standard flood-frequency analysis methods rely on an assumption of stationarity, but because of growing understanding of climatic persistence and concern regarding the effects of climate change, the need for methods to detect and model nonstationary flood frequency has become widely recognized. In this study, a regional statistical method for estimating...
Using distance sampling with camera traps to estimate densities of ungulates on tropical oceanic islands
Richard J. Camp, Trevor M. Bak, Matthew D Burt, Scott Vogt
2025, Journal of Tropical Ecology (41)
Reliable population estimates are one of the most elementary needs for the management of wildlife, particularly for introduced ungulates on oceanic islands. We aimed to produce accurate and precise density estimates of Philippine deer (Rusa marianna) and wild pigs (Sus scrofa) on Guam using motion-triggered cameras combined with...
Shifting baselines of coral-reef species composition from the Late Pleistocene to the present in the Florida Keys
Lauren T. Toth, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Scarlette Shan-Hwei Hsia, David A. Weinstein
2025, The Depositional Record (11) 893-916
The ongoing global-scale reassembly of modern coral reefs is unprecedented compared with the observed stability of most late Quaternary reef assemblages. One notable exception is the marine isotope stage (MIS) 5e (ca 130–116 thousand years ago [ka]) reefs in the Florida Keys, where the ubiquitous shallow-water coral, Acropora palmata, was near absent....
Linking permafrost to the abundance, biomass, and energy density of fish in Arctic headwater streams
Michael P. Carey, Joshua C. Koch, Jonathan A. O’Donnell, Brett Poulin, Christian E. Zimmerman
2025, Ecosphere (16)
Permafrost thaw alters groundwater flow, river hydrology, stream-catchment interactions, and the availability of carbon and nutrients in headwater streams. The impact of permafrost on watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry of headwater streams has been demonstrated, but there is little understanding of how permafrost influences fish in these ecosystems. We examined relations...
Assessing potential collateral effects on amphibians from insecticide applications for flea control and plague mitigation
David A. Eads, Susan A. Shriner, Jeremy W. Ellis, Paul M. Cryan, Michelle L. Hladik, Gregory P. Dooley, Erin L. Muths
2025, PLoS ONE (20)
Ideal disease mitigation measures for wildlife are safe and benign for target species, non-target organisms, the environment, and humans. Identifying collateral (i.e., unintended) effects is a key consideration in implementing such actions. Deltamethrin dust and fipronil-laced baits represent a group of insecticides that target fleas (pulicides) and are used to...
