Genetic and phenotypic variation along an ecological gradient in lake trout Salvelinus namaycush
Shauna M. Baillie, Andrew M. Muir, Michael J. Hansen, Charles C. Krueger, Paul Bentzen
2016, BMC Evolutionary Biology (16) 1-16
BackgroundAdaptive radiation involving a colonizing phenotype that rapidly evolves into at least one other ecological variant, or ecotype, has been observed in a variety of freshwater fishes in post-glacial environments. However, few studies consider how phenotypic traits vary with regard to neutral genetic partitioning along...
Statistical correction of lidar-derived digital elevation models with multispectral airborne imagery in tidal marshes
Kevin Buffington, Bruce D. Dugger, Karen M. Thorne, John Y. Takekawa
2016, Remote Sensing of Environment (186) 616-625
Airborne light detection and ranging (lidar) is a valuable tool for collecting large amounts of elevation data across large areas; however, the limited ability to penetrate dense vegetation with lidar hinders its usefulness for measuring tidal marsh platforms. Methods to correct lidar elevation data are available, but a reliable method...
Mapping annual forest cover in sub-humid and semi-arid regions through analysis of landsat and PALSAR imagery
Yuanwei Qin, Xiangming Xiao, Jie Wang, Jinwei Dong, Kayti Ewing, Bruce Hoagland, Daniel J Hough, Todd D Fagin, Zhenhua Zou, George L. Geissler, George Z. Xian, Thomas Loveland
2016, Remote Sensing (8)
Accurately mapping the spatial distribution of forests in sub-humid to semi-arid regions over years is a challenging task and causes difficulty to forest management. Relatively large uncertainties still exist in the spatial distribution of forests and deforestation in the sub-humid and semi-arid regions. Numerous publications have used either optical or...
Simulated effects of groundwater withdrawals from aquifers in Ocean County and vicinity, New Jersey
Stephen J. Cauller, Lois M. Voronin, Mary M. Chepiga
2016, Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5035
Rapid population growth since the 1930s in Ocean County and vicinity, New Jersey, has placed increasing demands upon the area’s freshwater resources. To examine effects of groundwater withdrawals, a three-dimensional groundwater-flow model was developed to simulate the groundwater-flow systems of five area aquifers: the unconfined Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system and...
Plastic debris in 29 Great Lakes tributaries: Relations to watershed attributes and hydrology
Austin K. Baldwin, Steven R. Corsi, Sherri A. Mason
2016, Environmental Science & Technology (50) 10377-10385
Plastic debris is a growing contaminant of concern in freshwater environments, yet sources, transport, and fate remain unclear. This study characterized the quantity and morphology of floating micro- and macroplastics in 29 Great Lakes tributaries in six states under different land covers, wastewater effluent contributions, population densities, and hydrologic conditions....
Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative—A case study in partnership development
Frank D’Erchia
2016, Circular 1423
The Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) is a successful example of collaboration between science and natural resource management at the landscape scale. In southwestern Wyoming, expanding energy and mineral development, urban growth, and other changes in land use over recent decades, combined with landscape-scale drivers such as climate change...
Selected techniques for monitoring water movement through unsaturated alluvium during managed aquifer recharge
Joseph M. Nawikas, David R. O’Leary, John A. Izbicki, Matthew K. Burgess
2016, Open-File Report 2016-1180
Managed aquifer recharge is used to augment natural recharge to aquifers. It can be used to replenish aquifers depleted by pumping or to store water during wetter years for withdrawal during drier years. Infiltration from ponds is a commonly used, inexpensive approach for managed aquifer recharge.At some managed...
Abstract volume for the 2016 biennial meeting of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
Jacob B. Lowenstern, editor(s)
2016, Open-File Report 2016-1104
IntroductionEvery two years, scientists, natural resource managers, outreach specialists, and a variety of other interested parties get together for the biennial meeting of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO). Each time, the theme varies. In past years, we have focused the meeting around topics including monitoring plans, emergency response, geodesy,...
Incorporating imperfect detection into joint models of communites: A response to Warton et al.
Steven R. Beissinger, Kelly J. Iknayan, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Elise Zipkin, Robert Dorazio, Andy Royle, Marc Kery
2016, Trends in Ecology and Evolution (31) 736-737
Warton et al. [1] advance community ecology by describing a statistical framework that can jointly model abundances (or distributions) across many taxa to quantify how community properties respond to environmental variables. This framework specifies the effects of both measured and unmeasured (latent) variables on the...
Importance of regional variation in conservation planning: A rangewide example of the Greater Sage-Grouse
Kevin Doherty, Jeffrey S. Evans, Peter S. Coates, Lara Juliusson, Bradley C. Fedy
2016, Ecosphere (7)
We developed rangewide population and habitat models for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) that account for regional variation in habitat selection and relative densities of birds for use in conservation planning and risk assessments. We developed a probabilistic model of occupied breeding habitat by statistically linking habitat characteristics within 4 miles of...
A synthetic review of notoedres species mites and mange
Janet E. Foley, L.E. Serieys, N. Stephenson, S. Riley, C. Foley, M. Jennings, G. Wengert, W. Vickers, Erin E. Boydston, Lisa L. Lyren, J. Moriarty, D.L. Clifford
2016, Parasitology (143) 1847-1861
Notoedric mange, caused by obligately parasitic sarcoptiform Notoedres mites, is associated with potentially fatal dermatitis with secondary systemic disease in small mammals, felids and procyonids among others, as well as an occasional zoonosis. We describe clinical spectra in non-chiropteran hosts, review risk factors and summarize ecological and epidemiological studies....
Roseate Tern breeding dispersal and fidelity: Responses to two newly restored colony sites
Jeffrey A. Spendelow, David Monticelli, James D. Nichols, James E. Hines, Ian Nisbet, Grace Cormons, Helen Hays, Jeremy Hatch, Carolyn Mostello
2016, Ecosphere (7) 1-16
We used 22 yr of capture–mark–reencounter (CMR) data collected from 1988 to 2009 on about 12,500 birds at what went from three to five coastal colony sites in Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut, United States, to examine spatial and temporal variation in breeding dispersal/fidelity rates of adult Roseate Terns (Sterna dougallii)....
Low-δD hydration rinds in Yellowstone perlites record rapid syneruptive hydration during glacial and interglacial conditions
Ilya N. Bindeman, Jacob B. Lowenstern
2016, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (171) 1-24
Hydration of silicic volcanic glass forms perlite, a dusky, porous form of altered glass characterized by abundant “onion-skin” fractures. The timing and temperature of perlite formation are enigmatic and could plausibly occur during eruption, during post-eruptive cooling, or much later at ambient temperatures. To learn more about the origin of...
Effects of seasonal drawdowns on fish assemblages in sections of an impounded river-canal system in upstate New York
Scott D. George, Barry P. Baldigo, Scott M Wells
2016, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (145) 1348-1357
The Mohawk River and New York State Barge Canal run together as a series of permanent and temporary impoundments for most of the distance between Rome and Albany, New York. The downstream or lower section is composed of two permanent impoundments, the middle section of a series of temporary (seasonal)...
Probing the volcanic-plutonic connection and the genesis of crystal-rich rhyolite in a deeply dissected supervolcano in the Nevada Great Basin: Source of the late Eocene Caetano Tuff
Kathryn E. Watts, David A. John, Joseph P. Colgan, Christopher D. Henry, Ilya N. Bindeman, Axel K. Schmitt
2016, Journal of Petrology (57) 1599-1644
Late Cenozoic faulting and large-magnitude extension in the Great Basin of the western USA has created locally deep windows into the upper crust, permitting direct study of volcanic and plutonic rocks within individual calderas. The Caetano caldera in north–central Nevada, formed during the mid-Tertiary ignimbrite flare-up, offers one of the...
Flood-inundation maps for the Peckman River in the Townships of Verona, Cedar Grove, and Little Falls, and the Borough of Woodland Park, New Jersey, 2014
Michal J. Niemoczynski, Kara M. Watson
2016, Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5105
Digital flood-inundation maps for an approximate 7.5-mile reach of the Peckman River in New Jersey, which extends from Verona Lake Dam in the Township of Verona downstream through the Township of Cedar Grove and the Township of Little Falls to the confluence with the Passaic River in the Borough of...
Water levels and groundwater and surface-water exchanges in lakes of the northeast Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, Minnesota, 2002 through 2015
Perry M. Jones, Jared J. Trost, Melinda L. Erickson, editor(s)
2016, Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5139
OverviewThis study assessed lake-water levels and regional and local groundwater and surface-water exchanges near northeast Twin Cities Metropolitan Area lakes applying three approaches: statistical analysis, field study, and groundwater-flow modeling. Statistical analyses of lake levels were completed to assess the effect of physical setting and climate on lake-level fluctuations of...
Statistical analysis of lake levels and field study of groundwater and surface-water exchanges in the northeast Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, Minnesota, 2002 through 2015: Chapter A of Water levels and groundwater and surface-water exchanges in lakes of the northeast Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, Minnesota, 2002 through 2015
Perry M. Jones, Jared J. Trost, Aliesha L. Diekoff, Donald O. Rosenberry, Eric A. White, Melinda L. Erickson, Daniel L. Morel, Jessica M. Heck
2016, Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5139-A
Water levels declined from 2003 to 2011 in many lakes in Ramsey and Washington Counties in the northeast Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, Minnesota; however, water levels in other northeast Twin Cities Metropolitan Area lakes increased during the same period. Groundwater and surface-water exchanges can be important in determining lake levels...
Large reptiles and cold temperatures: Do extreme cold spells set distributional limits for tropical reptiles in Florida?
Frank J. Mazzotti, Michael S. Cherkiss, Mark Parry, Jeff Beauchamp, Mike Rochford, Brian J. Smith, Kristen M. Hart, Laura A. Brandt
2016, Ecosphere (7) 1-9
Distributional limits of many tropical species in Florida are ultimately determined by tolerance to low temperature. An unprecedented cold spell during 2–11 January 2010, in South Florida provided an opportunity to compare the responses of tropical American crocodiles with warm-temperate American alligators and to compare the responses of nonnative Burmese...
Trophic feasibility of reintroducing anadromous salmonids in three reservoirs on the north fork Lewis River, Washington: Prey supply and consumption demand of resident fishes
Mark H. Sorel, Adam G. Hansen, Kristin A. Connelly, David A. Beauchamp
2016, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (145) 1331-1347
The reintroduction of anadromous salmonids in reservoirs is being proposed with increasing frequency, requiring baseline studies to evaluate feasibility and estimate the capacity of reservoir food webs to support reintroduced populations. Using three reservoirs on the north fork Lewis River as a case study, we demonstrate a method to determine...
Maximum magnitude (Mmax) in the central and eastern United States for the 2014 U.S. Geological Survey Hazard Model
Russell L. Wheeler
2016, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (106) 2154-2167
Probabilistic seismic‐hazard assessment (PSHA) requires an estimate of Mmax, the moment magnitude M of the largest earthquake that could occur within a specified area. Sparse seismicity hinders Mmax estimation in the central and eastern United States (CEUS) and tectonically similar regions worldwide (stable continental regions [SCRs]). A new global catalog...
Recovery of sockeye salmon in the Elwha River, Washington, after dam removal: Dependence of smolt production on the resumption of anadromy by landlocked kokanee
Adam G. Hansen, Jennifer R. Gardner, David A. Beauchamp, Rebecca Paradis, Thomas P. Quinn
2016, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (145) 1303-1317
Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. are adept at colonizing habitat that has been reopened to anadromous passage. Sockeye Salmon O. nerka are unique in that most populations require lakes to fulfill their life history. Thus, for Sockeye Salmon to colonize a system, projects like dam removals must provide access to lakes....
Identification and classification of very low frequency waves on a coral reef flat
Matthijs Gawehn, Ap van Dongeran, Arnold van Rooijen, Curt D. Storlazzi, Olivia Cheriton, Ad Reniers
2016, Journal of Geophysical Research C: Oceans (121) 7560-7574
Very low frequency (VLF, 0.001–0.005 Hz) waves are important drivers of flooding of low-lying coral reef-islands. In particular, VLF wave resonance is known to drive large wave runup and subsequent overwash. Using a 5 month data set of water levels and waves collected along a cross-reef transect on Roi-Namur Island...
Science to support aquatic animal health
Maureen K. Purcell, M. Camille Harris
2016, Fact Sheet 2016-3091
Healthy aquatic ecosystems are home to a diversity of plants, invertebrates, fish and wildlife. Aquatic animal populations face unprecedented threats to their health and survival from climate change, water shortages, habitat alteration, invasive species and environmental contaminants. These environmental stressors can directly impact the prevalence and severity of disease...
Geologic framework, age, and lithologic characteristics of the North Park Formation in North Park, north-central Colorado
Ralph R. Shroba
2016, Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5126
Deposits of the North Park Formation of late Oligocene and Miocene age are locally exposed at small, widely spaced outcrops along the margins of the roughly northwest-trending North Park syncline in the southern part of North Park, a large intermontane topographic basin in Jackson County in north-central Colorado. These outcrops...
