A geostatistical state‐space model of animal densities for stream networks
Daniel J. Hocking, James T. Thorson, Kyle O’Neil, Benjamin H. Letcher
2018, Ecological Applications (28) 1782-1796
Population dynamics are often correlated in space and time due to correlations in environmental drivers as well as synchrony induced by individual dispersal. Many statistical analyses of populations ignore potential autocorrelations and assume that survey methods (distance and time between samples) eliminate these correlations, allowing samples to be treated independently....
Migration trends for king and common eiders and yellow-billed loons past Point Barrow in a rapidly changing environment
Abby Powell, R. Bentzen, R. Suydam
2018, Final Report BOEM 2018-059
Most of the king (Somateria spectabilis) and common eiders (S. mollissima v-nigra) nesting in northern Alaska and northwestern Canada migrate past Point Barrow, Alaska, during the spring and fall migration. Yellow-billed loons (Gavia adamsii) also migrate past Point Barrow and are a species of international conservation concern. Spring migration counts...
Floristic and climatic reconstructions of two Lower Cretaceous successions from Peru
Paula J. Mejia-Velasquez, Steven R. Manchester, Carlos A. Jaramillo, Luiz Quiroz, Lucas B. Fortini
2018, Palynology (42) 420-433
Climate during the Early Cretaceous in tropical South America has often been reconstructed as arid. However, some areas seem to have been humid. We reconstructed the floristic composition of two tropical stratigraphic successions in Peru using quantitative palynology (rarefied species richness and abundance), and used the abundance of aridity vs....
Long-term rehabilitation of Delavan Lake, Wisconsin, USA
Dale M. Robertson
D. Hamilton, K. Collier, J. Quinn, C. Howard-Williams, editor(s)
2018, Book chapter, Lake restoration handbook: A New Zealand perspective
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Juke Box trench: A valuable archive of late Pleistocene and Holocene stratigraphy in the Bonneville basin, Utah
Charles G. Oviatt, Jeffrey S. Pigati, David B. Madsen, David E. Rhode, Jordon Bright
2018, Miscellaneous Publication 18-1
A backhoe trench in deposits of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville and Holocene wetlands below the mouth of Juke Box Cave, near Wendover, Utah, provides an excellent view of the late Pleistocene and Holocene geologic history of the area. The following stratigraphic units are exposed (ascending): preBonneville gravel (fluvial or lacustrine) and...
Induced earthquake and liquefaction hazards in Oklahoma, USA: Constraints from InSAR
William D. Barnhart, William L. Yeck, Daniel E. McNamara
2018, Remote Sensing of Environment (218) 1-12
Oklahoma experienced three earthquakes of Mw5.0 or greater in 2016: the 13-Feb. Fairview earthquake (Mw5.1), the 03-Sep. Pawnee earthquake (Mw5.8), and the 07-Nov. Cushing earthquake (Mw5.0). These events are the first earthquakes in the state exceeding Mw5.0 since the 2011 Mw5.7 Prague earthquake and likely result from wide-scale deep fluid-injection. We use interferometric synthetic...
Economics, helium, and the U.S. Federal Helium Reserve: Summary and outlook
Steven T. Anderson
2018, Natural Resources Research (27) 455-477
In 2017, disruptions in the global supply of helium reminded consumers, distributors, and policy makers that the global helium supply chain lacks flexibility, and that attempts to increase production from the U.S. Federal Helium Reserve (the FHR) may not be able to compensate for the loss of one of the...
Quantifying climate sensitivity and climate-driven change in North American amphibian communities
David A.W. Miller, Evan H. Campbell Grant, Erin L. Muths, Staci M. Amburgey, M. J. Adams, Maxwell B. Joseph, J. Hardin Waddle, Pieter T.J. Johnson, Maureen E. Ryan, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Daniel L. Calhoun, Courtney L. Davis, Robert N. Fisher, David M. Green, Blake R. Hossack, Tracy A.G. Rittenhouse, Susan C. Walls, Larissa L. Bailey, Sam S. Cruickshank, Gary M. Fellers, Thomas A. Gorman, Carola A. Haas, Ward Hughson, David S. Pilliod, Steven J. Price, Andrew M. Ray, Walter Sadinski, Daniel Saenz, William J. Barichivich, Adrianne B. Brand, Cheryl S. Brehme, Rosi Dagit, Katy S. Delaney, Brad M. Glorioso, Lee B. Kats, Patrick M. Kleeman, Christopher Pearl, Carlton J. Rochester, Seth P. D. Riley, Mark F. Roth, Brent Sigafus
2018, Nature Communications (9)
Changing climate will impact species’ ranges only when environmental variability directly impacts the demography of local populations. However, measurement of demographic responses to climate change has largely been limited to single species and locations. Here we show that amphibian communities are responsive to climatic variability, using >500,000 time-series observations for...
Delineation of contributing areas for 2017 pumping conditions to selected wells in Ingham County, Michigan
Carol L. Luukkonen
2018, Open-File Report 2018-1133
As part of local wellhead protection area programs, areascontributing water to production wells need to be periodicallyupdated because groundwater-flow paths depend in part onthe stresses to the groundwater-flow system. A steady-stategroundwater-flow model that was constructed in 2009 wasupdated to reflect recent (2017) pumping conditions in theLansing and East Lansing area...
Vegetative community response to landscape-scale post-fire herbicide (imazapic) application
Cara Applestein, Matthew J. Germino, Matthew Fisk
2018, Invasive Plant Science and Management (11) 127-135
Disturbances such as wildfire create time-sensitive windows of opportunity for invasive plant treatment, and the timing of herbicide application relative to the time course of plant community development following fire can strongly influence herbicide effectiveness. We evaluated the effect of herbicide (imazapic) applied in the first winter or second fall...
Great Lakes coastal fish habitat classification and assessment
K. E. Kovalenko, L.B. Johnson, C. M. Riseng, M. J. Cooper, K. Johnson, L. A. Mason, James E. McKenna Jr., B. L. Sparks-Jackson, D.G. Uzarski
2018, Journal of Great Lakes Research (44) 1100-1109
Basin-scale assessment of fish habitat in Great Lakes coastal ecosystems would increase our ability to prioritize fish habitat management and restoration actions. As a first step in this direction, we identified key habitat factors associated with highest probability of occurrence for several societally and ecologically important coastal fish species as well as community metrics,...
Persistence-based area prioritization for conservation: Applying occupancy and habitat threats and risks analyses
L. M. Yirka, Jaime A. Collazo, S. G. Williams, D. T. Cobb
2018, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (9) 554-564
Effective habitat conservation is predicated on maintaining high levels or increasing local persistence probability of the species it purports to protect. Thus, methodological approaches that improve the inferential value of local persistence are of utmost value to guide conservation planning as they inform area selection processes. Herein we used the...
Resistance to deltamethrin in prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) fleas in the field and in the laboratory
David A. Eads, Dean E. Biggins, Jonathan Bowser, Janet McAllister, Randall Griebel, Eddie Childers, Travis M. Livieri, Cristi Painter, Lindsey Sterling Krank, Kristy Bly
2018, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (54) 745-754
Sylvatic plague poses a substantial risk to black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) and their obligate predator, the black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes). The effects of plague on prairie dogs and ferrets are mitigated using a deltamethrin pulicide dust that reduces the spread of plague by killing fleas, the vector...
Effectiveness of ultrasonic imaging for evaluating presence and maturity of eggs in fishes in remote field locations
Morgan E. Brizendine, David Ward, Scott A. Bonar
2018, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (38) 1017-1026
Ultrasonic imaging is an effective, nonlethal method used to determine sex and maturity in a variety of fishes. However, many previous studies of this technique have been performed in laboratory environments. Using Common Carp Cyprinus carpio, we developed a standardized method for ultrasonically scanning cyprinids, and we accurately sexed 78% (N = 58)...
A regime shift in sediment export from a coastal watershed during a record wet winter, California: Implications for landscape response to hydroclimatic extremes
Amy E. East, Andrew W. Stevens, Andrew C. Ritchie, Patrick L. Barnard, Pamela L. Campbell‐Swarzenski, Brian D. Collins, Christopher H. Conaway
2018, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (43) 2562-2577
Small, steep watersheds are prolific sediment sources from which sediment flux is highly sensitive to climatic changes. Storm intensity and frequency are widely expected to increase during the 21st century, and so assessing the response of small, steep watersheds to extreme rainfall is essential to understanding landscape response to climate...
Development of the Wildlife Adaptation Menu for Resource Managers
Olivia E. LeDee, Stephen D. Handler, Chris Hoving, Christopher W. Swanston, Benjamin Zuckerberg
2018, Report
The Climate Change Response Framework is an example of a collaborative, cross-boundary approach to create a set of tools, partnerships, and actions to support climate-informed conservation and land management. Historically, this effort has focused on the needs of forest managers and forestry professionals. In recent years, however, there has been...
A statement of common ground regarding the role of wildfire in forested landscapes of the western United States
Max A. Moritz, Chris Topik, Craig D. Allen, Paul F. Hessburg, Penelope Morgan, Dennis C. Odion, Thomas T. Veblen, Ian M. McCullough
2018, Report
For millennia, wildfires have markedly influenced forests and non-forested landscapes of the western United States (US), and they are increasingly seen as having substantial impacts on society and nature. There is growing concern over what kinds and amounts of fire will achieve desirable outcomes and limit harmful effects on people...
United States bat species of concern: A synthesis
Thomas J. O’Shea, Paul M. Cryan, Michael A. Bogan
2018, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series (65) 1-279
In 1994 the federal government designated 24 species or subspecies of bats in the United States (U.S.) and its territories as Category 2 candidates for listing as Endangered or Threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Category 2 was eliminated in 1996, but taxa previously receiving this designation were informally...
Time series of high-resolution images enhances efforts to monitor post-fire condition and recovery, Waldo Canyon fire, Colorado, USA
Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Clifton Burt, Todd Hawbaker
2018, International Journal of Wildland Fire (27) 699-713
Interpretations of post-fire condition and rates of vegetation recovery can influence management priorities, actions and perception of latent risks from landslides and floods. In this study, we used the Waldo Canyon fire (2012, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA) as a case study to explore how a time series (2011–2016) of high-resolution...
Late-season movement and habitat use by Oregon spotted frogs (Rana pretiosa) in Oregon, USA
Christopher Pearl, Brome McCreary, Jennifer Rowe, M. J. Adams
2018, Copeia (106) 539-549
Many amphibians use multiple habitats across seasons. Information on seasonal habitat use, movement between seasonal habitat types, and habitats that may be particularly valuable is important to conservation and management. We used radio-telemetry to study late-season movement and habitat use by Oregon Spotted Frog (Rana pretiosa) at nine sites from...
Efficient delineation of nested depression hierarchy in digital elevation models for hydrological analysis using level-set method
Qiusheng Wu, Charles R. Lane, Lei Wang, Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Jay R. Christensen, Hongxing Liu
2018, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (55) 354-368
In terrain analysis and hydrological modeling, surface depressions (or sinks) in a digital elevation model (DEM) are commonly treated as artifacts and thus filled and removed to create a depressionless DEM. Various algorithms have been developed to identify and fill depressions in DEMs during the past decades. However, few studies...
A spatially discrete, integral projection model and its application to invasive carp
Richard A. Erickson, Eric E. Eager, Patrick Kocovsky, David C. Glover, Jahn L. Kallis, K. R. Long
2018, Ecological Modelling (387) 163-171
Natural resource managers and ecologists often desire an understanding of spatial dynamics such as migration, dispersion, and meta-population dynamics. Network-node models can capture these salient features. Additionally, the state-variable used with many species may be appropriately modeled as a continuous variable (e.g., length) and management activities sometimes can only target individuals of...
Spatial distribution of halogen oxides in the plume of Mount Pagan volcano, Mariana Islands
Christoph Kern, John J. Lyons
2018, Geophysical Research Letters (45) 9588-9596
Halogens are emitted from volcanoes primarily as hydrogen halides (HCl, HF, HBr, and HI). Upon mixing with the atmosphere, chlorine and bromine species are partially converted to the halogen oxides OClO and BrO. Here we report on the spatial distribution of BrO and OClO in the gas plume emitted from...
Depth to basement and thickness of unconsolidated sediments for the western United States—Initial estimates for layers of the U.S. Geological Survey National Crustal Model
Anjana K. Shah, Oliver S. Boyd
2018, Open-File Report 2018-1115
We present numeric grids containing estimates of the thickness of unconsolidated sediments and depth to the pre-Cenozoicbasement for the western United States. Values for these grids were combined and integrated from previous studies or deriveddirectly from gravity analyses. The grids are provided with 1-kilometer grid-node spacing in ScienceBase (https://www.sciencebase.gov).These layers...
Does proximity to wetlands matter? A landscape-level analysis of the influence of local wetlands on the public’s concern for ecosystem services and conservation involvement
Emily J. Wilkins, Wilson Sinclair, Holly M. Miller, Rudy M. Shuster
2018, Wetlands (39) 1271-1280
The success of landscape-level conservation depends on public support and an understanding of public opinion. However, perceptions of wetlands’ importance may differ based on proximity to a wetland. This study used a mail-out survey across the entire U.S. (n=1,030) to investigate the public’s knowledge of local wetlands, visitation to wetlands,...
