Accounting for spatiotemporal sampling variation in joint species distribution models
Joshua S. North, Erin M. Schliep, Gretchen J.A. Hansen, Holly Kundel, Christopher A. Custer, Paul McLaughlin, Tyler Wagner
2024, Journal of Applied Ecology (61) 186-201
Estimating relative abundance is critical for informing conservation and management efforts and for making inferences about the effects of environmental change on populations. Freshwater fisheries span large geographic regions, occupy diverse habitats and consist of varying species assemblages. Monitoring schemes used to sample...
An assessment of HgII to preserve carbonate system parameters in organic-rich estuarine waters
Christopher Moore, Robert H. Byrne, Kimberly Yates
2024, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods (22) 93-102
This work assesses the effectiveness of sample preservation techniques for measurements of pHT (total scale), total dissolved inorganic carbon (CT), and total alkalinity (AT) in organic-rich estuarine waters as well as the internal consistency of measurements and calculations (e.g., AT, pHT, and CT) in these waters....
Imperfect detection and misidentification affect inferences from data informing water operation decisions
Joseph E. Kirsch, James T. Peterson, Adam Duarte, Denise Goodman, Andrew Goodman, Sara Hugentobler, Mariah Meek, Russell W. Perry, Lori Smith, Jeffrey Stuart
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 335-358
ObjectiveManagers can modify river flow regimes using fish monitoring data to minimize impacts from water management infrastructure. For example, operation of the gate-controlled Delta Cross Channel (DCC) in California can negatively affect the endangered Sacramento River winter-run Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. Although guidelines have been developed for DCC...
Arizona Groundwater Explorer: Interactive maps for evaluating the historical and current groundwater conditions in wells in Arizona, USA
Fred D. Tillman, Marilyn E. Flynn
2024, Hydrogeology Journal (32) 645-661
Groundwater is an important water source in Arizona, accounting for about 41% of water use in this mostly arid-to-semiarid state in the southwestern United States, and the availability of groundwater resources in the state is a concern. To provide accessible information from depth-to-groundwater data, a series of web-based interactive maps...
Coyotes in the Great Basin desert do not exhibit a spatial response following the removal of anthropogenic water sources
Nadine Pershyn, Eric Gese, Erica Francis Stuber, Brian Kluever
2024, Journal of Arid Environments (220)
Coyote (Canis latrans) range expansion into desert ecosystems has highlighted the role of anthropogenic water sources in arid ecosystems. Despite hypotheses that additional water facilitated this expansion, previous studies reported that coyotes did not exhibit a spatial or dietary...
Toxicity of wildland fire retardants to rainbow trout in short exposures
Holly J. Puglis, Michael G. Iacchetta
2024, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (43) 398-404
Long-term wildland fire retardants are one important tool used to control and suppress wildfires. During suppression activities, these retardants may enter waterbodies; thus, there is a need to understand their potential effects to aquatic biota. We investigated...
Survival implications of diversion entrainment for outmigrating juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and steelhead (O. mykiss)
Tobias J. Kock, Scott D. Evans, Russell Perry, Patrick A. Monk, Michael S. Porter, Amy C. Hansen, Adam C. Pope
2024, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (153) 200-215
Efforts to ameliorate negative effects of diversion dams on aquatic species of concern are important in rivers where water withdrawal supports agricultural economies and are likely to become increasingly important with impending climate change. A multiyear study was conducted to evaluate the survival consequences of diversion dam passage for juvenile...
Springing forward: Migrating songbirds catch up with the start of spring in North America
Claire E. Nemes, Peter P. Marra, Theodore J. Zenzal Jr., Samantha A. Collins, Bryant C. Dossman, Alexander R. Gerson, Camila Gomez, Ana M. Gonzalez, Mariamar Gutierrez Ramirez, Sarah A. Hamer, Joseph Marty, Phillip L. Vasseur, Emily B. Cohen
2024, Journal of Animal Ecology (93) 294-306
In temperate regions, the annual pattern of spring onset can be envisioned as a ‘green wave’ of emerging vegetation that moves across continents from low to high latitudes, signifying increasing food availability for consumers.Many herbivorous migrants ‘surf’ such resource waves, timing their movements to exploit peak vegetation resources in...
Determination and prediction of micro scale rare earth element geochemical associations in mine drainage treatment wastes
Benjamin C. Hedin, Mengling Y. Stuckman, Charles A. Cravotta III, Christina L. Lopano, Rosemary C. Capo
2024, Chemosphere (346)
Acid mine drainage (AMD) has been proposed as a novel source of rare earth elements (REE), a group of elements that includes critical metals for clean energy and modern technologies. REE are sequestered in the Fe–Al–Mn-rich precipitates produced during the treatment of AMD. These AMD solids are typically managed...
A comparison of stable isotopes and polychlorinated biphenyls 1 among genetic strains of Lake Ontario lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush)
Nicole E. Saavedra, N. Roxanna Razavi, Donald J. Stewart, Brian F. Lantry, Gordon Paterson
2024, Journal of Great Lakes Research (50)
This study quantified stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) concentrations and growth rates among multiple genetic strains of Lake Ontario lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) to evaluate the potential role of genetics in these parameters. Fish ranging in age from 1 to 31 years (n = 72) and representing nine...
Molecular detection and characterization of highly pathogenic H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b avian influenza viruses among hunter-harvested wild birds provides evidence for three independent introductions into Alaska
Andrew M. Ramey, Laura Celeste Scott, Christina Ahlstrom, Evan James Buck, Alison Williams, Mia Kim Torchetti, David E. Stallknecht, Rebecca L. Poulson
2024, Virology (589)
We detected and characterized highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses among hunter-harvested wild waterfowl inhabiting western Alaska during September–October 2022 using a molecular sequencing pipeline applied to RNA extracts derived directly from original swab samples. Genomic characterization of 10 H5 clade 2.3.4.4b avian influenza...
Assessing the added value of antecedent streamflow alteration information in modeling stream biological condition
Taylor Woods, Ken Eng, Daren M. Carlisle, Matthew J. Cashman, Michael R. Meador, Karen R. Ryberg, Kelly O. Maloney
2024, Science of the Total Environment (908)
In stream systems, disentangling relationships between biology and flow and subsequent prediction of these relationships to unsampled streams is a common objective of large-scale ecological modeling. Often, streamflow metrics are derived from aggregating continuous...
Detection and quantification of preferential flow using artificial rainfall with multiple experimental approaches
Maria Clementina Caputo, Lorenzo De Carlo, Rita Masciale, Kimberlie Perkins, Antonietta Celeste Turturro, John R. Nimmo
2024, Hydrogeology Journal (32) 467-485
Preferential flow in the unsaturated zone strongly influences important hydrologic processes, such as infiltration, contaminant transport, and aquifer recharge. Because it entails various combinations of physical processes arising from the interactions of water, air, and solid particles in a porous medium, preferential flow is highly complex. Major research is needed...
Degradation kinetics of veterinary antibiotics and estrogenic hormones in a claypan soil
Adam H. Moody, Robert N. Lerch, Keith Goyle, Stephen H. Anderson, David Mendoza-Cozatl, David A. Alvarez
2024, Chemosphere (346)
Veterinary antibiotics and estrogens are excreted in livestock waste before being applied to agricultural lands as fertilizer, resulting in contamination of soil and adjacent waterways. The objectives of this study were to 1) investigate the degradation kinetics of the VAs sulfamethazine and lincomycin and the estrogens estrone and 17β-estradiol in...
Dam removal cost databases and drivers
Jennifer A. Bountry, Timothy J. Randle, Alvin Jansen, Jeffrey J. Duda, Suman Jumani, Desiree D. Tullos, Kyle McKay, Susan Bailey
2024, Final Report ST-2023-21084 and ENV-2023-002
The United States (U.S.) has over 90,000 dams listed in the National Inventory of Dams that provide vital infrastructure to support water management for municipal and industrial uses including irrigation, hydropower, flood control, navigation, recreation, and habitat, among other uses (NID 2023). The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and U.S. Army...
Warming-induced changes in benthic redox as a potential driver of increasing benthic algal blooms in high-elevation lakes
Stephanie E. Hampton, Jill Baron, Robert Ladwig, Ryan P. McClure, Michael Frederick Meyer, Isabella Oleksy, Anna Shampain
2024, Limnology and Oceanography - Letters (9) 1-6
Algal blooms appear to be increasing on benthic substrates of naturally nutrient-poor lakes worldwide, yet common drivers across these systems remain elusive. The phenomenon has been notable in high-elevation mountain lakes, which is enigmatic given their relative remoteness from human disturbance. We suggest that warming-induced changes in redox conditions that...
Effects of auto-adaptive localization on a model calibration using ensemble methods
Jonathan P. Traylor, Randall J. Hunt, Jeremy White, Michael N. Fienen
2024, Groundwater (2) 140-149
Simulations of the natural systems for environmental decision-making typically benefit from a highly parameterized approach (Hunt et al. 2007; Doherty and Hunt 2010), which enhances the flow of information contained in state observations to the parameters and improves application to decision support. However, parameter estimation (PE) with highly parameterized environmental...
Mountain glaciers influence biogeochemical and ecological characteristics of high-elevation lakes across the northern Rocky Mountains, USA
Joseph Vanderwall, Clint C. Muhlfeld, Tyler Tappenback, Joe Giersch, Ze Ren, Jim Elser
2024, Limnology and Oceanography (69) 37-52
Mountain glaciers are retreating rapidly due to climate change, leading to the formation of downstream lakes. However, little is known about the physical and biogeochemical conditions in these lakes across a range of glacial influence. We surveyed alpine lakes fed by both glacial and...
Going with the floe: Sea-ice movement affects distance and destination during Adélie penguin winter movements
Dennis Jongsomjit, Amelie Lescroël, Annie Schmidt, Simeon Lisovski, David G. Ainley, Ellen Hines, Megan Elrod, Katie M. Dugger, Grant Ballard
2024, Ecology (105)
Seasonal migration, driven by shifts in annual climate cycles and resources, is a key part of the life history and ecology of species across taxonomic groups. By influencing the amount of energy needed to move, external forces such as wind and ocean currents are often key drivers of migratory pathways...
An agricultural package for MODFLOW 6 using the Application Programming Interface
Joshua Larsen, Christian D. Langevin, Joseph D. Hughes, Richard G. Niswonger
2024, Groundwater (62) 157-166
An agricultural water use package has been developed for MODFLOW 6 using the MODFLOW Application Programming Interface (API). The MODFLOW API Agricultural Water Use Package (API-Ag) was based on the approach to simulate irrigation demand in the MODFLOW-NWT and GSFLOW Agricultural Water Use (AG) Package....
Assessing the relationship between cyanobacteria blooms and respiratory-related hospital visits: Green Bay, Wisconsin 2017–2019
Jordan Murray, Amy M. Lavery, Blake A. Schaeffer, Bridget N. Seegers, Audrey F. Pennington, Elizabeth D. Hilborn, Savannah Boerger, Jennifer D. Runkle, Keith A. Loftin, Jennifer L. Graham, Richard Stumpf, Amanda Koch, Lorraine Backer
2024, International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health (255)
Potential acute and chronic human health effects associated with exposure to cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins, including respiratory symptoms, are an understudied public health concern. We examined the relationship between estimated cyanobacteria biomass and the frequency of respiratory-related hospital visits for residents living near Green Bay, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin...
Using the electron transport system as an indicator of organismal thermal tolerance and respiratory exploitation
Ehlana G. Stell, Shannon K. Brewer, Lindsay M. Horne, Russell A. Wright, Dennis R. DeVries
2024, Canadian Journal of Zoology (102) 155-165
Freshwater ecosystems are undergoing rapid thermal shifts, making it increasingly important to understand species-specific responses to these changes. Traditional techniques for determining a species’ thermal tolerance are often lethal and time consuming. Using the enzyme activity associated with the electron transport system (ETS; hereafter referred to as enzyme assay) may...
Target and suspect per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in fish from an AFFF-impacted waterway
Elena Nilsen, Derek J. Muensterman, Lya Carini, Ian R. Waite, Sean E. Payne, Jennifer Field, Jennifer L Peterson, Daniel Hafley, David Farrer, Gerrad D Jones
2024, Science of the Total Environment (906)
A major source of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is aqueous film-forming foams (AFFF) used in firefighting and training at airports and military installations, however, PFAS have many additional sources in consumer products and industrial processes. A field study was conducted on fish tissues from three reaches of the Columbia...
Hydrologic, water operations, reservoir temperature, river temperature, sediment transport, habitat, and fish population modeling for the Trinity River Water Management Plan
John Plumb, Russell Perry, Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
2024, Modeling Report Plan Project no. 251008
Humboldt County is developing a Water Management Plan that will describe a range of proposed annual releases from Trinity Reservoir consistent with the 1959 water delivery contract between Humboldt County and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation). The 1959 contract states that Reclamation shall release not less than an annual...
Using explainable machine learning methods to evaluate vulnerability and restoration potential of ecosystem state transitions
John Delaney, Danelle M. Larson
2024, Conservation Biology (38)
Ecosystem state transitions can be ecologically devastating or be a restoration success. State transitions are common within aquatic systems worldwide, especially considering human-mediated changes to land use and water use. We created a transferable conceptual framework to enable multiscale assessments of state resilience and...
