Use of vehicle counters to index and evaluate potential shifts in angler effort following implementation of more restrictive panfish regulations in Wisconsin lakes
Daniel J. Dembkowski, Alexander W. Latzka, Zachary S. Feiner, Daniel A. Isermann
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 1342-1357
Objective: Understanding angler responses to fisheries management actions such as regulation changes have important implications for the effectiveness and efficacy of such management strategies. We examined the ability of remote vehicle counters to provide a relative index of angler effort and present a case study demonstrating use of vehicle counters...
Desert Tortoise translocation plan for the U.S. Department of the Army National Training Center and Fort Irwin Western Training Area
Todd Esque, Ally Xiong, Sarah Doyle, Sean M. Murphy, Chad Wilhite, Kenneth Nussear
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5092
The U.S. Department of the Army proposes to commence military activity at the Fort Irwin National Training Center within the Western Training Area (WTA) and to translocate Mojave Desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii; hereafter tortoise) that will be affected to the Western Training Area Translocation Site (WTATS). This desert tortoise translocation...
Concordant signal of genetic variation across marker densities in the desert annual Chylismia brevipes is linked with timing of winter precipitation
Daniel F. Shryock, Nila Lê, Lesley A. DeFalco, Todd Esque
2024, Conservation Genetics (17)
Climate change coupled with large-scale surface disturbances necessitate active restoration strategies to promote resilient and genetically diverse native plant communities. However, scarcity of native plant materials hinders restoration efforts, leading practitioners to choose from potentially viable but nonlocal seed sources. Genome scans for genetic variation linked with selective environmental gradients...
Perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS) induces hepatotoxicity through the PPAR signaling pathway in larval zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Haolin Liao, Ying-Jie He, Shuwen Zhang, Xinyuan Kang, Xin Yang, Bentuo Xu, Jason Tyler Magnuson, Shuping Wang, Chunmiao Zheng, Wenhui Qiu
2024, Environmental Science & Technology (58) 22894-22906
In recent years, the industrial substitution of long-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with short-chain alternatives has become increasingly prevalent, resulting in the widespread environmental detection of perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS), a short-chain PFAS. However, there remains limited information about the potential adverse effects of PFHxS at environmental concentrations to wildlife....
How, what, and where you sample environmental DNA affects diversity estimates and species detection
Anish Kirtane, Leif Howard, Caitlin Beaver, Margaret Hunter, Gordon Luikart, Kristy Deiner
2024, Environmental DNA (6)
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a complex mixture of DNA, varying in particle sizes and distributed heterogeneously in aquatic systems. Optimizing eDNA sampling is crucial for maximizing species detection, particularly in high-risk scenarios like invasive species management. In this study, we compare two eDNA sampling methods - namely tow net and...
Northern Great Plains native seed strategy
Lora B. Perkins, Amy Symstad, Jennifer Zavaleta-Cheek, Emily Rohrer, Krista Ehlert
2024, Report
No abstract available....
Antibodies to influenza A virus in Lesser (Aythya affinis) and Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) in the USA
Harrison Huang, Rebecca L. Poulson, Jeffery D. Sullivan, Susan E.W. De La Cruz, Hutchison Walbridge, David E. Stallknecht, Diann Prosser
2024, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (60) 940-949
Scaup, including both Lesser and Greater (Aythya affinis and Aythya marila, respectively), are a grouping of populous and widespread North American diving ducks. Few influenza type A viruses (IAV) have been reported from these species despite a high prevalence of antibodies to IAV being reported. Existing virologic and serologic data indicate that...
Flood-inundation maps for the Cuyahoga River in and near Independence, Ohio, 2024
Chad J. Ostheimer, Matthew T. Whitehead
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5122
Digital flood-inundation maps for a 9.9-mile reach of the Cuyahoga River in and near Independence, Ohio, were created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District Board of Trustees. Water-surface profiles were computed for the stream reach by using a one-dimensional steady-state step-backwater...
Abiotic and biotic factors related to growth of non-native Walleyes in Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho
Susan Frawley, Matthew P. Corsi, Andrew M. Dux, Ryan S. Hardy, Michael Quist
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 1325-1341
Objective Growth is one of the primary drivers of fish population dynamics and understanding factors influencing growth is vital to effective management of fish populations. This study investigated potential factors influencing growth of a recently established, non-native population of Walleye Sander vitreus in the Lake Pend Oreille system in northern...
Controls on lake pelagic primary productivity: Formalizing the nutrient-color paradigm
Isabella Oleksy, Christopher T. Solomon, Stuart E. Jones, Carly Olson, Brittni Bertolet, Rita Adrian, Sheel Bansal, Jill Baron, Soren Brothers, Sudeep Chandra, Hsiu-Mei Chou, William Colom-Montero, Joshua Culpeper, Elvira de Eyto, Matthew Farragher, Sabine Hilt, Kristen T. Holeck, Garabet Kazanjian, Marcus Klaus, Jennifer Klug, Jan Kohler, Alo Laas, Erik Lundin, Alice Parkes, Kevin C. Rose, Lars Rustam, James A. Rusak, Facundo Scordo, Michael J. Vanni, Piet Verburg, Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
2024, JGR Biogeosciences (129)
Understanding controls on primary productivity is essential for describing ecosystems and their responses to environmental change. Lake primary production is strongly controlled by inputs of nutrients and colored dissolved organic matter. While past studies have developed mathematical models of this nutrient-color paradigm, broad empirical tests of these models are scarce....
Detection of tick-borne pathogen coinfections and coexposures to foot-and-mouth disease, brucellosis, and Q fever in selected wildlife from Kruger National Park, South Africa, and Etosha National Park, Namibia
C.A. Cossu, S. Ochai, M. Troskie, A. Hartmann, J. Godfroid, L.-M. de Klerk, Wendy Christine Turner, P.L. Kamath, O. Louis van Schalkwyk, R. Cassini, R. Bhoora, H. van Heerden
2024, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases (2024)
Background: Although the rate of emerging infectious diseases that originate in wildlife has been increasing globally in recent decades, there is currently a lack of epidemiological data from wild animals.Methodology: We used serology to determine prior exposure to foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), Brucella spp., and Coxiella burnetii and used genetic testing to detect blood-borne parasitic infections...
Model predictions of global geologic hydrogen resources
Geoffrey S. Ellis, Sarah E. Gelman
2024, Science Advances (10)
Geologic hydrogen could be a low-carbon primary energy resource; however, the magnitude of Earth’s subsurface endowment has not yet been assessed. Knowledge of the occurrence and behavior of natural hydrogen on Earth has been combined with information from geologic analogs to construct a mass balance model to predict the resource...
Agricultural return flow dynamics on a reach of the East River, Colorado, as assessed by mass balance
Carleton R. Bern, Rachel G. Gidley
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1075
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District, studied historical streamflow in a reach of the East River, Colorado, to gain a preliminary understanding of return flow dynamics. Return flow is agricultural irrigation water that is not consumed by evapotranspiration and instead reaches streams...
Effects of exploitation and emigration on apparent survival of Walleye in Lake Sharpe, South Dakota
Laurel H. Sacco, Mark J. Fincel, Cameron W. Goble, Tanner Davis, Steven R. Chipps
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 1476-1488
ObjectiveIn 2017, we began a 5-year mark–recapture study to estimate apparent survival of Walleye Sander vitreus and angler exploitation in Lake Sharpe, South Dakota, and inform management strategies for this fishery. The study revealed substantial downstream emigration of Walleye; therefore, we also examined the influence of emigration on apparent...
Presence-absence surveys yield spatially imprecise information about nesting sites of an endangered, forest-nesting seabird
Jonathan J. Spurgeon, Lindsay J. Adrean, S. Kim Nelson, Matthew G. Betts, Daniel D. Roby, James W. Rivers
2024, PLoS ONE (19)
Presence-absence surveys are frequently used to monitor populations of rare and elusive species. Such data may also be used as a proxy for breeding activity, but links between presence-absence data and higher-order processes must be validated to determine their reliability. The Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) is a threatened seabird that...
Ungulate personality and the human shield contribute to long-distance migration loss
Gavin G. Cotterill, Paul C. Cross, Eric K Cole, Sarah R. Dewey, Benjamin L. Wise, Tabitha A. Graves
2024, Preprint
Long-distance ungulate migrations are declining and past research has focused on preserving migration paths where habitat fragmentation and loss disrupts movement corridors. However, changing residency-migration tradeoffs are the stronger driver of long-distance migration loss in some populations. The human shield effect relative to predation risk and anthropogenic food resources likely...
A multidisciplinary approach that considers occurrence, geochemistry, bioavailability, and toxicity to prioritize critical minerals for environmental research
Sarah Jane White, Tyler Kane, Kate M. Campbell, Marie Noele Croteau, Michael G. Iacchetta, Johanna Blake, Charles A. Cravotta III, Bethany K. Kunz, Charles N. Alpers, Jill Jenkins, Katherine Walton-Day
2024, Environmental Science & Technology (58) 22519-22527
Critical minerals (or critical elements) are minerals or elements that are essential to global security and development and have supply chains vulnerable to disruption. In general, knowledge of the environmental behavior and health effects of critical elements is needed to support the development of safe and environmentally responsible supplies. This...
Seasonal resource selection of a grassland bird in a dynamic landscape: Importance of a heterogeneous landscape
Sprih Harsh, Robert Charles Lonsinger, Hilary R. Kauth, Andrew J. Gregory
2024, Ecosphere (15)
Habitat loss and fragmentation are a growing threat to wildlife, and a better understanding of these landscape processes is needed to mitigate their effects on species populations. Grassland biomes are among the most imperiled ecosystems in the world, and grassland birds are experiencing significant population declines in North America. Understanding...
U.S. Geological Survey science strategy to address chronic wasting disease and cervid health in 2024–2028
Jason Ferrante, Jonathan D. Cook, Paul C. Cross, M. Camille Hopkins
2024, Circular 1546
Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a neurological disease similar to scrapie in goats and sheep, has been spreading since the 1960s throughout cervid populations in the United States. It is currently detected in 30 States and now also extends to Canada, Korea, and Scandinavia. CWD is a fatal disease caused by...
Evidence of nitrate attenuation in intertidal and subtidal groundwater in a subterranean estuary at a Cape Cod embayment, East Falmouth, Massachusetts, 2015–16
Thomas G. Huntington, Kevin D. Kroeger, Timothy D. McCobb, J.K. Bohlke, John A. Colman, Thomas W. Brooks, Beata Syzmczycha
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5100
Nitrogen dynamics in intertidal and nearshore subtidal groundwater (subterranean estuary) adjacent to the Seacoast Shores peninsula, Falmouth, Massachusetts, were investigated during 2015–16 by the U.S. Geological Survey. The peninsula is a densely populated residential area with septic systems and cesspools that are substantial sources of nitrogen to groundwater. The study...
Streamflow characteristics and trends in New Jersey, water years 1903–2017
Amy R. McHugh, Thomas P. Suro, Samantha L. Sullivan, Brianna Williams
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5099
As New Jersey’s population density remains high, so does its requirements for water management. Understanding the streamflow conditions throughout the state and how they may have changed over time is an important part of managing the water resources within the state. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has many...
Societal benefits of cyanobacteria harmful algal bloom management in Lake Okeechobee in Florida—Potential damages avoided during the 2018 event under U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Harmful Algal Bloom Interception, Treatment, and Transformation System scenarios
Inoussa Boubacar, Emily Pindilli, Ellie Brown, Benjamin Simon, Kristin Skrabis, Ian Luby
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5091
Freshwater harmful algal blooms (HABs) formed by blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, have emerged as a global environmental problem. Their negative impacts on aquatic ecosystems can affect the benefits nature provides to human society by reducing water quality; inhibiting aquatic recreation; killing fish, wildlife, and pets; and posing a risk to...
Yellowstone River Compact Commission seventy-second annual report 2023
Seth Davidson
2024, Report
No abstract available....
Development of a large-volume concentration method to recover infectious avian influenza virus from the aquatic environment
Laura E. Hubbard, Erin A. Stelzer, Rebecca L. Poulson, Dana W. Kolpin, Christine M. Szablewski, Carrie E. Givens
2024, Viruses (16)
Since late 2021, outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus have caused a record number of mortalities in wild birds, domestic poultry, and mammals in North America. Wetlands are plausible environmental reservoirs of avian influenza virus; however, the transmission and persistence of the virus in the aquatic environment are poorly...
Using camera traps to estimate site occupancy of invasive Argentine Black and White Tegus (Salvator merianae) in South Florida
Samantha N. Smith, Melissa A. Miller, Hardin Waddle, Sarah Cooke, Amy A. Yackel Adams, Andrea Currylow, Kevin Donmoyer, Frank J. Mazzotti
2024, Southeastern Naturalist (23) 425-447
The introduction of nonnative species is a leading cause of biodiversity loss. Many invasive species are cryptic or elusive in nature and therefore often evade detection, complicating their management. Occupancy modeling can reveal the presence and spread of invasive species over time and therefore has important management implications. Camera traps...
