Reviews and syntheses: Variable inundation across Earth's terrestrial ecosystems
James Stegen, Amy J. Burgin, Michelle H. Busch, Joshua B. Fisher, Joshua Ladau, Jenna Abrahamson, Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Li Li, Xingyuan Chen, Thibault Datry, Nate McDowell, Corianne Tatariw, Anna Braswell, Jillian M. Deines, Julia A. Guimond, Peter Regier, Kenton Rod, Edward K.P. Bam, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Inke Forbrich, Kristin L. Jaeger, Teri O'Meara, Timothy D. Scheibe, Erin Seybold, Jon N. Sweetman, Jianqiu Zheng, Daniel C. Allen, Elizabeth Herndon, Beth Middleton, Scott Painter, Kevin Roche, Julianne Scamardo, Ross Vander Vorste, Kristin Boye, Ellen Wohl, Margaret Zimmer, Kelly Hondula, Maggi Laan, Anna Marshall, Kaizad F. Patel
2025, Biogeosciences (22) 995-1034
The structure, function, and dynamics of Earth's terrestrial ecosystems are profoundly influenced by how often (frequency) and how long (duration) they are inundated with water. A diverse array of natural and human-engineered systems experience temporally variable inundation whereby they fluctuate between inundated and non-inundated states. Variable inundation spans extreme events...
Abrupt changes in algal biomass of thousands of US lakes are related to climate and are more likely in low-disturbance watersheds.
Patricia A. Soranno, Patrick J. Hanly, Katherine E. Webster, Tyler Wagner, Andrew McDonald, Arnab Shuvo, Erin M. Schliep, Kaitlin L Reinl, Ian M. McCullough, Pang-Ning Tan, Noah R. Lottig, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil
2025, PNAS (122)
Climate change is predicted to intensify lake algal blooms globally and result in regime shifts. However, observed increases in algal biomass do not consistently correlate with air temperature or precipitation, and evidence is lacking for a causal effect of climate or the nonlinear dynamics needed to demonstrate...
Hydroclimate projections and effects on runoff at National Wildlife Refuges in the semi-arid western U.S.
Brian S. Caruso, Lauren Ellissa Eng, Andrew R. Bock, Nicholas Graff Hall
2025, JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association (61)
This study evaluated hydroclimate projections and effects on runoff at National Wildlife Refuges in a semiarid region of the western United States (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6) using mean air temperature (TAVE) and precipitation (PPT) inputs and runoff (RO) output from a national application of a Monthly Water...
James Buttle review: The characteristics of baseflow resilience across diverse ecohydrological terrains
Martin A. Briggs, Connor P. Newman, Joshua Robert Benton, David M. Rey, Christopher Konrad, Valerie Ouellet, Christian E. Torgersen, Lance R. Gruhn, Brandon J. Fleming, Christopher L. Gazoorian, Daniel H. Doctor
2025, Hydrological Processes (39)
The dynamic storage of aquifers is the portion of groundwater that can potentially drain to any given point along a stream to create baseflow. Baseflow typically occurs year-round in perennial streams, though the characteristics and stability of dynamic storage are often most important to instream processes during extended dry periods...
Heterogeneity of locked‐pasture snow conditions modulate habitat and movement choices of a facultative migrant
Katherine Gura, Glen E. Liston, Adele K. Reinking, Bryan Bedrosian, Kelly Elder, Anna D. Chalfoun
2025, Ecology and Evolution (15)
Habitat selection and movement are key mechanisms by which animals can respond to and potentially cope with highly variable environmental conditions. Optimal responses likely vary, however, depending on the severity and scope of conditions. We tested this hypothesis using a facultative migrant species, the Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa), which...
First evidence of lake trout Salvelinus namaycush spawning aggregation in Ohio waters of Lake Erie following reintroduction
Benjamin J. Spitz, Graham F. Montague, Joseph Schmitt, Francesco Guzzo, Peter I. Jenkins
2025, Journal of Great Lakes Research
Lake trout Salvelinus namaycush, an important apex predator native to Lake Erie, were extirpated by 1965 due to overexploitation, introduction of invasive species, and habitat degradation. Cooperative lake-wide lake trout stocking has been ongoing since 1982, with stocking strategies adapting as research identifies the age at stocking, locations, and strains that optimize...
Did the Aleutian Basin form by plate capture or backarc basin opening?
Robert J. Stern, David W. Scholl, Matthew A. Malkowski, Kylara M. Martin, Ginger Barth, Daniel S. Scheirer
2025, International Geology Review (67) 1697-1719
The origin of the Aleutian Basin is unresolved because its crust is deeply buried beneath sediments. It has been interpreted as forming in the Eocene when the Beringian convergent margin jumped seaward to south of the Aleutian arc, thereby capturing a large sector of Cretaceous Pacific crust. Alternatively, it may...
Reservoir thermal energy storage pre-assessment for the United States
Jeff D. Pepin, Erick R. Burns, Ryan Cain Cahalan, Daniel O. Hayba, Jesse E. Dickinson, Leslie L. Duncan, Eve L. Kuniansky
2025, Geothermics (129)
Storing thermal energy underground for later use in electricity production or direct-use heating/cooling is a promising, viable, and economical green energy option. Reservoir thermal energy storage (RTES) is one such option, which stores energy in underutilized permeable strata with low ambient groundwater flow rates and more geochemically evolved (e.g. brackish/saline)...
Grfin Tools—User guide and methods for modeling landslide runout and debris-flow growth and inundation
Mark E. Reid, Dianne L. Brien, Collin Cronkite-Ratcliff, Jonathan P. Perkins
2025, Techniques and Methods 14-A3
The software package, Grfin Tools, can estimate potential runout from landslides or inundation from geophysical mass flows such as debris flows, lahars from volcanoes, and rock avalanches within a digital elevation model (DEM). Grfin is an acronym of growth + flow + inundation. The tools within this package apply simple,...
Centering voices of scientists from marginalized backgrounds to understand experiences in climate adaptation science and inform action
Meghna N. Marjadi, Rebecca A. Smith, Hsin Fei Tu, Asha M. Ajmani, Addie Rose Holland, Bianca E. Lopez, Toni Lyn Morelli, Bethany A. Bradley
2025, PLoS ONE (20)
Identifying and building solutions to help people and ecosystems adapt to climate change requires participation of all people; however, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, including environmental sciences, continue to lack diversity. To address this issue, many institutions have increased programming to recruit and retain people from historically marginalized...
Overcoming the data limitations in landslide susceptibility modelling
Jacob Bryson Woodard, Benjamin B. Mirus
2025, Science Advances (11)
Data-driven models widely used for assessing landslide susceptibility are severely limited by the landslide and environmental data needed to create them. They rely on inventories of past landslide locations, which are difficult to collect and often nonrepresentative. Furthermore, susceptibility maps are most needed in regions without the means to assemble...
A Cftr-independent, Ano1-rich seawater-adaptive ionocyte in sea lamprey gills
Ciaran A. Shaughnessy, Daniel J Hall, Jessica L. Norstog, Andre Barany, Amy M. Regish, Diogo Ferreira-Martins, Jason P. Breves, Lisa M. Komoroske, Stephen D. McCormick
2025, Journal of Experimental Biology (228)
All ionoregulating marine fishes examined to date utilize seawater-type ionocytes expressing the apical Cl- channel, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (Cftr) to secrete Cl−. We performed transcriptomic, molecular, and functional studies to identify Cl− transporters in the seawater-type ionocytes of sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus). Gill cftr expression was minimal or undetectable in larvae...
Cancer risk and estimated lithium exposure in drinking groundwater in the US
Jiajun Luo, Liange Zheng, Zhihao Jin, Yuqing Yang, William I. Krakowka, Eric Hong, Melissa A. Lombard, Joseph D. Ayotte, Habibul Ahsan, Jayant M. Pinto, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy
2025, JAMA Network Open (8)
Importance Lithium is a naturally occurring element in drinking water and is commonly used as a mood-stabilizing medication. Although clinical studies have reported associations between receiving lithium treatment and reduced cancer risk among patients with bipolar disorder, to our knowledge, the association between environmental lithium exposure and cancer risk has never...
Conservation translocation immediately reverses decline in imperiled sage-grouse populations
Mary B. Meyerpeter, Peter S. Coates, Megan C. Milligan, Brian G. Prochazka, Kade D. Lazenby, Steve Abele, John C. Tull, Katherine Miller, Jesse L. Kolar, Steven R. Mathews, David K. Dehlgren, David J. Delehanty
2025, Biological Conservation (304)
Conservation translocation (hereafter translocation), the intentional movement of organisms from one location to another as a management tool, can be an extremely useful conservation action to increase the abundance of isolated populations following successful habitat restoration. However, managers seek to weigh the benefits against costs to the source population from...
Range-wide ecology, conservation, and research needs for yellow lampmussel (Lampsilis cariosa)
Stefanie J. Farrington, Christina Amy Murphy, David Perkins, Allison H. Roy
2025, Hydrobiologia (852) 2729-2754
The freshwater mussel yellow lampmussel (Lampsilis cariosa) is declining throughout its range along the Atlantic Slope of the eastern United States and Canada, and the species is a target for proactive conservation to avoid federal listing. This paper synthesizes information about the ecology (physiology and life history, host fishes, and...
The relative influence of climate extremes and species richness on the temporal variability of bird communities
Samantha M. Cady, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Craig A. Davis, Barney Luttbeg, Caleb Powell Roberts, Scott Loss
2025, Ecology (106)
Understanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecological stability is increasingly urgent as rapid species extinction continues. Though evidence of positive diversity–stability relationships is accumulating, empirical results are inconsistent, and effect sizes tend to be small, raising questions about relative contributions of intrinsic (i.e., species composition/interactions) and extrinsic (i.e., environmental) drivers...
Spatially explicit capture-recapture using fecal DNA to estimate elk population abundance and growth in western North Carolina, USA
Jessica L. Braunstein, Joseph D. Clark, Benjamin C. Augustine, Caleb R. Hickman, Justin McVey, Joseph G. Yarkovich
2025, Journal of Wildlife Management (89)
In an effort to restore extirpated elk to their historical range, 52 elk were reintroduced to Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) in North Carolina, USA, during 2001 and 2002. Since their reintroduction, elk numbers have increased, and elk have extended their range beyond GRSM boundaries. We used spatially explicit...
Current distribution of the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) in the United States
Brett Alexander DeGregorio, Anant Deshwal
2025, Diversity (17)
The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus: hereafter armadillo) was first recorded in the United States (U.S.) in the state of Texas in 1849 and has been expanding its range northward and eastward since then. With the widespread adoption of participatory science as well as the proliferation of nationwide wildlife game...
Short-term ecological effects of solar energy development depend on plant community, soil type, and disturbance intensity
Claire C Karban, Seth M. Munson, Lara A. Kobelt, Jeffrey E. Lovich
2025, Journal of Applied Ecology (62) 945-957
Solar energy is rapidly growing to decarbonize the electrical grid. Maintaining ecosystem function with solar energy generation can be promoted through construction methods that minimize negative impacts on soils and vegetation. However, the disturbance created by less-impactful construction methods at utility-scale solar energy (USSE) facilities and the ecosystem responses...
Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023
GlaMBIE Team, Michael Zemp, Livia Jakob, Ines Dussaillant, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Noel Gourmelen, Sophie Dubber, A. Geruo, Sahra Abdullahi, Liss M. Andreassen, Etienne Berthier, Atanu Bhattacharya, Alejandro Blazquez, Laura Boehm Vock, Tobias Bolch, Jason Box, Matthias H. Braun, Fanny Brun, Eric Cicero, William Colgan, Nicolas Eckert, D. Farinotti, Caitlyn Florentine, Dana Floricioiu, Alex Gardner, Christopher Harig, Javed Hassan, Romain Hugonnet, Matthias Huss, Tómas Jóhannesson, Chia-Chun Angela Liang, Chang-Qing Ke, Shfaqat Abbas, Owen King, Marin Kneib, Lukas Krieger, Fabien Maussion, Enrico Mattea, Robert McNabb, Brian Menounos, Evan Miles, Geir Moholdt, Johan Nilsson, F. Palsson, Julia Pfeffer, Livia Piermattei, Stephen Plummer, Andreas Richter, Ingo Sasgen, Lilian Schuster, Thorsten Seehaus, Xiaoyi Shen, Christian Sommer, Tyler Sutterley, Desiree Treichler, Isabella Velicogna, Bert Wouters, Harry Zekollari, Whyjay Zheng
2025, Nature (639) 382-388
Glaciers are indicators of ongoing anthropogenic climate change1. Their melting leads to increased local geohazards<a...
Confronting debris-flow hazards after wildfire
Ann Youberg, Luke McGuire, N. S. Oakley, Francis K. Rengers, Autym Shafer
2025, Eos, American Geophysical Union (106)
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Implications of physics-based M9 ground motions on liquefaction-induced damage in the Cascadia Subduction Zone: Looking forward and backward
Ryan A. Rasanen, Alex R. Grant, Andrew James Makdisi, Brett W. Maurer, Erin A. Wirth
2025, Earthquake Spectra
Given the likelihood of future M9 Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) earthquakes, various estimates of the resulting, regional ground motions have been made, including a suite of 30 physics-based simulations that reflect key modeling uncertainties. However, because the last CSZ interface rupture occurred in 1700 CE, the shaking expected in such...
Investigating the influence of Diadematidae scuticociliatosis on host microbiome composition
Brayan Vilanova-Cuevas, Christopher M. DeRito, Isabella T. Ritchie, Christina A. Kellogg, James S. Evans, Alizee Zimmermann, Stacey M. Williams, Marilyn E. Brandt, Moriah L. B. Sevier, Samuel Gittens, Kayla A. Budd, Matthew Warham, William C. Sharp, Gabriel A. Delgado, Alwin Hylkema, Kimani A. Kitson-Walters, Jean-Pascal Quod, Mya Breitbart, Ian Hewson
2025, mSystems (10)
Mass mortality of Diadematidae urchins, caused by the Diadema antillarum scuticociliatosis Philaster clade (DScPc), affected the Caribbean in spring 2022 and subsequently spread to the eastern Mediterranean, Red Sea, and western Indian Ocean. A key question around Diadematidae scuticociliatosis (DSc), the disease caused by the scuticociliate, is whether the urchin microbiome varies between...
Not just corticosterone: Further characterization of the endocrine response of Kemp’s ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys kempii) reveals elevated plasma aldosterone concentrations during field capture events
Charles J. Innis, Katherine M. Graham, Cody R. Mott, Kristen Hart, David Roche, Michael Cherkiss, Elizabeth A. Burgess
2025, Animals (15)
To develop safe and effective management policies, it is important to understand the physiologic effects of fishing interactions and scientific research methods on endangered marine species. In the present study, validated assays for plasma corticosterone, free thyroxine (fT4), and aldosterone were used to assess the endocrine status of 61 presumed...
Integrated patterns of residence and movement create testable hypotheses about fish feeding migrations
Martha E. Mather, Ryland B. Taylor, Joseph M. Smith, Kayla M. Boles
2025, Scientific Reports (15)
Developing and testing alternate hypotheses about patterns, mechanisms, and consequences of movement in geographically-large, heterogeneous, natural systems can advance the scientific understanding of animal migration and benefit the conservation of most mobile species. Within organismal movement trajectories, different combinations of residence and movement are predicted from existing ecological theories (e.g....
