Submissions from 2022
Breaking down barriers to consistent, climate-smart regulation of invasive plants - a case study of northeast states, Bethany A. Bradley, Evelyn M. Beaury, Emily Fusco, Lara Munro, Carrie Brown-Lima, William Coville, Benjamin Kesler, Nancy Olmstead, and Jocelyn Parker
SpORtI: The species originality and rarity index combines phylogenetic and functional originality with rarity metrics to provide a new perspective on species rarity, Michael Cunningham-Minnick, Joan Milam, and David I. King
Identification of supraoptimal temperatures in juvenile blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis) using survival, growth rate and scaled energy reserves, Lian W. Guo, Adrian Jordaan, Eric T. Schultz, and Stephen D. McCormick
The contribution of canopy samples to assessments of forestry effects on native bees, Joan Milam, Michael Cunningham-Minnick, Henry Patrick Roberts, Christopher Buelow, and David I. King
Submissions from 2021
Hatching date influences winter habitat occupancy: Examining Seasonal Interactions Across the Full Annual Cycle in a Migratory Songbird, Michael E. Akresh, David I. King, and Peter P. Marra
An Empirical Demonstration of the Effect of Study Design on Density Estimations, Muhammad Ali Nawaz, Barkat Ullah Khan, Amer Mahmood, Muhammad Younas, Jaffar ud Din, and Chris Sutherland
Parasite Prevalence May Drive the Biotic Impoverishment of New England (USA) Bumble Bee Communities, Anne L. Averill, Andrea V. Couto, Jeremy C. Andersen, and Joseph S. Elkinton
Species and Population Specific Gene Expression in Blood Transcriptomes of Marine Turtles, Shreya M. Banerjee, Jamie Adkins Stoll, Camryn D. Allen, Jennifer M. Lynch, Heather S. Harris, Lauren Kenyon, Richard E. Connon, Eleanor J. Sterling, Eugenia Naro-Maciel, and Kathryn McFadden
Global Plastic Pollution Observation System to Aid Policy, Michael S. Bank, Peter W. Swarzenski, Carlos M. Duarte, Matthias C. Rillig, Albert A. Koelmans, Marc Metian, Stephanie Wright, Jennifer F. Provencher, Monica Sanden, Adrian Jordaan, Martin Wagner, and Yong Sik Ok
Invaders for sale: the ongoing spread of invasive species by the plant trade industry, Evelyn M. Beaury, Madeline Patrick, and Bethany A. Bradley
Regulators and Utility Managers Agree About Barriers and Opportunities for Innovation in the Municipal Wastewater Sector, Alida Cantor, Luke Sherman, Anita Milman, and Michael Kiparsky
Annual Winter Water-Level Drawdowns Influence Physical Habitat Structure and Macrophytes in Massachusetts, USA, Lakes, Jason R. Carmignani and Allison H. Roy
Contrasting fishing effort reduction and habitat connectivity as management strategies to promote alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) recovery using an ecosystem model, Beatriz dos Santos Dias, Michael G. Frisk, and Adrian Jordaan
The Value of Considering Demographic Contributions to Connectivity: A Review, Joseph Drake, Xavier Lambin, and Chris Sutherland
Functional Traits Linked to Pathogen Prevalence in Wild Bee Communities, Laura L. Figueroa, Sally Compton, Heather Grab, and Scott H. McArt
Spatial Connectivity and Drivers of Shark Habitat Use Within a Large Marine Protected Area in the Caribbean, The Bahamas Shark Sanctuary, Austin J. Gallagher, Oliver N. Shipley, Maurits P. M. van Zinnicq Bergmann, Jacob W. Brownscombe, Craig P. Dahlgren, Michael G. Frisk, Lucas P. Griffin, Neil Hammerschlag, Sami Kattan, and Yannis P. Papastamatiou
Perilous Choices: Landscapes of Fear for Adult Birds Reduces Nestling Condition Across an Urban Gradient, Aaron M. Grade, Susannah B. Lerman, and Paige S. Warren
A Novel Framework to Predict Relative Habitat Selection in Aquatic Systems: Applying Machine Learning and Resource Selection Functions to Acoustic Telemetry Data From Multiple Shark Species, Lucas P. Griffin, Grace A. Casselberry, Kristen M. Hart, Adrian Jordaan, Sarah L. Becker, Ashleigh J. Novak, Bryan M. DeAngelis, Clayton G. Pollock, Ian Lundgren, and Zandy Hills-Star
Small-Area Estimation for the USDA Forest Service, National Woodland Owner Survey: Creating a Fine-Scale Land Cover and Ownership Layer to Support County-Level Population Estimates, Vance Harris, Jesse Caputo, Andrew Finley, Brett J. Butler, Forrest Bowlick, and Paul Catanzaro
The Motion of Trees in the Wind: a Data Synthesis, Toby D. Jackson, Sarab Sethi, Ebba Dellwik, Nikolas Angelou, Amanda Bunce, Tim van Emmerick, Marine Duperat, Jean-Claude Ruel, Axel Wellpott, and Brian Kane
Daily Patterns of River Herring (Alosa spp.) Spawning Migrations: Environmental Drivers and Variation among Coastal Streams in Massachusetts, Henry D. Legett, Adrian Jordaan, Allison H. Roy, John J. Sheppard, Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela, and Michelle D. Staudinger
Plasma proteomics of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) reveals pathway shifts and potential biomarker candidates associated with health and disease, David P. Marancik, Justin R. Perrault, Lisa M. Komoroske, Jamie A. Stoll, Kristina N. Kelley, and Charles A. Manire
Translational invasion ecology: bridging research and practice to address one of the greatest threats to biodiversity, Toni Lyn Morelli, Carrie J. Brown-Lima, Jenica M. Allen, Evelyn M. Beaury, Emily J. Fusco, Audrey Barker-Plotkin, Brittany B. Laginhas, Brendan R. Quirion, Bridget Griffin, Blair McLaughlin, Lara Munro, Nancy Olmstead, Julie Richburg, and Bethany A. Bradley
Diversity-Production Relationships of Fish Communities in Freshwater Stream Ecosystems, Bonnie J. E. Myers, C. Andrew Dolloff, Jackson R. Webster, Keith H. Nislow, and Andrew L. Rypel
Simulation of ecohydrological processes influencing water supplies in the Tuul River watershed of Mongolia, Javzansuren Norvanchig and Timothy O. Randhir
First Records of Perdita bequaerti (Hymenopertera: Andrenidae) from New England, Justin C. Roch, Deicy Carolina Muñoz Agudelo, Lynn S. Adler, and Joan Milam
Large-Scale Patterns of Green Turtle Trophic Ecology in the Eastern Pacific Oceans, Jeffery A. Seminoff, Lisa M. Komoroske, Diego Amorocho, Randall Arauz, Didiher Chacón-Chaverrí, Nelly de Paz, Peter H. Dutton, Miguel Donoso, Maike Heidemeyer, and Gabriel Hoeffer
Abiotic stress and biotic factors mediate range dynamics on opposing edges, Alexej P. K. Sirén, Christopher S. Sutherland, Christopher A. Bernier, Kimberly J. Royar, Jillian R. Kilborn, Catherine B. Callahan, Rachel M. Cliché, Leighlan S. Prout, and Toni Lyn Morelli
Understanding the Combined Impacts of Weeds and Climate Change on Crops, Montserrat Vilà, Evelyn M. Beaury, Dana M. Blumenthal, Bethany A. Bradley, Regan Early, Brittany B. Laginhas, Alejandro Trillo, Jeffery S. Dukes, Cascade J. B. Sorte, and Inés Ibáñez
Diminished warming tolerance and plasticity in low-latitude populations of a marine gastropod, Andrew R. Villeneuve, Lisa M. Komoroske, and Brian S. Cheng
Environment and phenology shape local adaptation in thermal performance, Andrew R. Villeneuve, Lisa M. Komoroske, and Brian S. Cheng
Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales, Elise F. Zipkin, Erin R. Zylstra, Alexander D. Wright, Sarah P. Saunders, Andrew O. Finley, Michael C. Dietze, Malcom S. Itter, and Morgan W. Tingley
Submissions from 2020
Plant invasion impacts on fungal community structure and function depends on soil warming and nitrogen enrichment, M. A. Anthony, K. A. Stinson, J. A. M. Moore, and S. D. Frey
Incorporating climate change into invasive species management: insights from managers, Evelyn M. Beaury, Emily J. Fusco, Michelle R. Jackson, Brittany B. Laginhas, Toni Lyn Morelli, Jenica M. Allen, Valerie J. Pasquarella, and Bethany A. Bradley
Defoliation severity is positively related to soil solution nitrogen availability and negatively related to soil nitrogen concentrations following a multi-year invasive insect irruption, Emma Conrad-Rooney, Audrey Barker Plotkin, Valerie J. Pasquarella, Joseph Elkinton, Jennifer L. Chandler, and Jaclyn Hatala Matthes
Geographic Life History Differences Predict Genomic Divergence Better than Mitochondrial Barcodes or Phenotype, Daniel P. Duran, Robert A. Laroche, Harlan M. Gough, Rodger A. Gwiazdowski, Charles B. Knisley, David P. Herrmann, Stephen J. Roman, and Scott P. Egan
First Account of Phylogeographic Variation, Larval Characters, and Laboratory Rearing of the Endangered Cobblestone Tiger Beetle Cicindelidia marginipennis, Dejean, 1831 with Observations of Their Natural History, Rodger A. Gwiazdowski, Jeremy C. Andersen, C. Barry Knisley, Brian P. Griffin, and Joseph S. Elkinton
Shifts in timing and duration of breeding for 73 boreal bird species over four decades, Maria H. Hällfors, Laura H. Antão, Malcolm Itter, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Tanja Lindholm, Tomas Roslin, and Marjo Saastamoinen
Evaluating the Likelihood of Tree Failure in Naples, Florida (United States) Following Hurricane Irma, Ryan W. klein, Andrew K. Koeser, Brian Kane, Shawn M. Laundry, Heather Shields, Stephen Lloyd, and Gail Hansen
Validating Morphometrics with DNA Barcoding to Reliably Separate Three Cryptic Species of Bombus Cresson (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Joan Milam, Dennis E. Johnson, Jeremy C. Andersen, Aliza B. Fassler, Desiree L. Narango, and Joseph S. Elkinton
Validating Morphometrics with DNA Barcoding to Reliably Separate Three Cryptic Species of Bombus Cresson (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Joan Milam, Dennis E. Johnston, Jeremy C. Anderson, Aliza B. Fassler, Desiree L. Narango, and Joseph S. Elkinton
A synthesis of the effects of cheatgrass invasion on the US Great Basin carbon storage, R. Chelsea Nagy, Emily J. Fusco, Jennifer K. Balch, John T. Finn, Adam Mahood, Jenica M. Allen, and Bethany A. Bradley
Supporting proactive management in the context of climate change: Prioritizaing range-shifting invasive plants based on impact, Mei Rockwell-Postel, Brittany B. Laginhas, and Bethany A. Bradley
Wildlife Diversity and Relative Abundance Among a Variety of Adjacent Protected Areas in the Northern Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica, Carolina Sáenz-Bolaños, Todd K. Fuller, and Eduardo Carillo J.
Examining the complex relationship between innovation and regulation through a survey of wastewater utility managers, Luke Sherman, Alida Cantor, Anita Milman, and Michael Kiparsky
Forecasting Seasonal Habitat Connectivity in a Developing Landscape, Katherine A. Zeller, Jacan M. Bauder, Javan M. Bauder, and Stephen Destefano
Submissions from 2019
Disentangling the abundance–impact relationship for invasive species, Bethany A. Bradley, Brittany B. Laginhas, Raj Whitlock, Jenica M. Allen, Amanda E. Bates, Genevieve Bernatchez, Jeffrey M. Diez, Regan Early, Jonathan Lenoir, Montserrat Vilà, and Cascade J.B. Sorte
Accounting for aboveground carbon storage in shrubland and woodland ecosystems in the Great Basin, Emily J. Fusco, Benjamin M. Rau, Michael Falkowski, Steven Filippelli, and Bethany A. Bradley
Movements, connectivity, and space use of immature green turtles within coastal habitats of the Culebra Archipelago, Puerto Rico: implications for conservation, Lucas Griffin, John T. Finn, Carlos Diez, and Andy J. Danylchuk
Effects of Urbanization on Native Bird Species in Three Southwestern US Cities, Christopher B. Hensley, Christopher H. Trisos, Paige S. Warren, Jennie MacFarland, Steve Blumenshine, Joshua Reece, and Madhusudan Katti
Livestock depredation by large carnivores in northern Botswana, Eric G. LeFlore, Todd K. Fuller, Mathata Tomeletso, and Andrew B. Stein
Visual Head Counts: A Promising Method for Efficient Monitoring of Diamondback Terrapins, Patricia Levasseur, Sean Sterrett, and Chris Sutherland
Submissions from 2018
Invasive species risk assessments need more consistent spatial abundance data, Bethany A. Bradley, Jenica M. Allen, Mitchell W. O'Neill, Rebekah D. Wallace, Charles T. Bargeron, Julie A. Richburg, and Kristina Stinson
Progress and Challenges of Protecting North American Ash Trees from the Emerald Ash Borer Using Biological Control, Jian J. Duan, Leah S. Bauer, Roy G. Vandriesche, and Juli R. Gould
What Is the Value of Wild Bee Pollination for Wild Blueberries and Cranberries, and Who Values It?, Aaron K. Hoshide, Francis A. Drummond, Thomas H. Stevens, Eric M. Venturini, Samuel P. Hanes, Martha M. Slyvia, Cynthia S. Loftin, David E. Yarborough, and Anne L. Averill
A landscape index of ecological integrity to inform landscape conservation, Kevin McGarigal, Brad Compton, Ethan Plunkett, Bill DeLuca, Joanna Grand, Eduard Ene, and Scott D. Jackson
Modeling non-stationary urban growth: The SPRAWL model and the ecological impacts of development, Kevin McGarigal, Ethan Plunkett, Lisabeth L. Willey, Brad Compton, Bill DeLuca, and Joanna Grand
Bee Assemblages in Managed Early-Successional Habitats in Southeastern New Hampshire, Joan Milam, John A. Litvaitis, Alena Warren, Donald Keirstead, and David I. King
Human-Related Ignitions Increase the Number of Large Wildfires across U.S. Ecoregions, R. Chelsea Nagy, Emily Fusco, Bethany Bradley, John T. Abatzoglou, and Jennifer Balch
Balancing Urban Biodiversity Needs and Resident Preferences for Vacant Lot Management, Christine C. Rega-Brodsky, Charles H. Nilon, and Paige S. Warren
Responses of non-native earthworms to experimental eradication of garlic mustard and implications for native vegetation, Kristina A. Stinson, S. D. Frey, M. R. Jackson, E. Coates-Connor, M. Anthony, and K. Martinez
Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide, and Pest Biology, Managing the Future: Coffee as a Case Study, Lewis H. Ziska, Bethany A. Bradley, Rebekah D. Wallace, Charles T. Bargeron, Joseph H. LaForest, Robin A. Choudhury, Karen A. Garrett, and Fernando E. Vega
Submissions from 2017
Tambora and the Mackerel Year: Phenology and Fisheries During an Extreme Climate Event, Karen E. Alexander, William B. Leavenworth, Theodore V. Willis, Carolyn Hall, Steven Mattocks, Steven M. Bittner, Emily Klein, Michelle Staudinger, Alexander Bryan, Julianne Rosset, Benjamin H. Carr, and Adrian Jordaan
Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) distribution in the intermountain Western United States and its relationship to fire frequency, seasonality, and ignitions, Bethany A. Bradley, Caroline A. Curtis, Emily J. Fusco, John T. Abatzoglou, Jennifer K. Balch, Sepideh Dadashi, and Mao-Ning Tuanmu
Ecosystem Service Supply and Capacity on U.S. Family Forestlands, Jesse Caputo and Brett Butler
Frequency of invasive plant occurrence is not a suitable proxy for abundance in the Northeast United States, Tyler Cross, John T. Finn, and Bethany A. Bradley
The Importance of Institutional Design for Distributed Local-Level Governance of Groundwater: The Case of California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, Michael Kiparsky, Anita Milman, Dave Owen, and Andrew T. Fisher
Near-Real-Time Monitoring of Insect Defoliation Using Landsat Time Series, Valerie J. Pasquarella, Bethany A. Bradley, and Curtis E. Woodcock
Submissions from 2016
Controls on Interannual Variability in Lightning-Caused Fire Activity in the Western US, John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal A. Kolden, Jennifer K. Balch, and Bethany A. Bradley
The Influence of Sex and Season on Conspecific Spatial Overlap in a Large, Actively-Foraging Colubrid Snake, Javan M. Bauder, David R. Breininger, M. Rebecca Bolt, Michael L. Legare, Christopher L. Jenkins, Betsie B. Rothermel, and Kevin McGarigal
Continent-Wide Survey Reveals Massive Decline in African Savannah Elephants, Michael J. Chase, Scott Schlossberg, Curtice R. Griffin, Philippe J.C. Bouché, Sintayehu W. Djene, Paul W. Elkan, Sam Ferreira, Falk Grossman, Edward Mtarima Kohi, Kelly Landen, Patrick Omondi, Alexis Peltier, S.A. Jeanetta Selier, and Robert Sutcliffe
Plant Distribution Data Show Broader Climatic Limits than Expert-Based Climatic Tolerance Estimates, Caroline A. Curtis and Bethany A. Bradley
Quantifying the Human Influence on Fire Ignition Across the Western USA, Emily J. Fusco, John T. Abatzoglou, Jennifer K. Balch, John T. Finn, and Bethany Bradley
Discontinuities Concentrate Mobile Predators: Quantifying Organism-Environment Interactions at a Seascape Scale, Cristina G. Kennedy, Martha E. Mather, Joseph M. Smith, John T. Finn, and Linda A. Deegan
Globalization Impacts on Local Commons: Multiscale Strategies for Socioeconomic and Ecological Resilience, Timothy O. Randhir
Spatial capture–recapture models allowing Markovian transience or dispersal, J. Royle, Angela Fuller, and Chris Sutherland
Testing the Accuracy of Aerial Surveys for Large Mammals: An Experiment with African Savanna Elephants (Loxodonta africana), Scott Scholossberg, Michael J. Chase, and Curtice R. Griffin
Identification and Density Estimation of American Martens (Martes americana) Using a Novel Camera-Trap Method, Alexej P. K. Sirén, Peter J. Pekins, Peter L. Abdu, and Mark J. Ducey
Spatial Capture–Recapture: A Promising Method for Analyzing Data Collected Using Artificial Cover Objects, Chris Sutherland, David Mun'Oz, David Miller, and Evan Grant
Effects of Photo and Genotype-Based Misidentification Error on Estimates of Survival, Detection and State Transition using Multistate Survival Models, Kristopher J. Winiarski and Kevin McGarigal
Submissions from 2015
Assessing Metal Exposures in a Community near a Cement Plant in the Northeast U.S., Zhao Dong, Michael S. Bank, and John D. Spengler
Will Remote Sensing Shape the Next Generation of Species Distribution Models?, Kate S. He, Bethany A. Bradley, Anna F. Cord, Duccio Rocchini, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Sebastian Schmidtlein, Woody Turner, Martin Wegmann, and Nathalie Pettorelli
Likelihood analysis of spatial capture-recapture models for stratified or class structured populations, J. Royle, Chris Sutherland, Angela Fuller, and Catherine Sun
Submissions from 2014
Integrated Assessment of Biological Invasions, Ibnes Ibanez, Jeffrey M. Diez, Luke P. Miller, Julian D. Olden, Cascade J B Sorte, Dana M. Blumenthal, Bethany A. Bradley, Carla M. D’Antonio, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Regan I. Early, Edwin D. Grosholz, and Joshua J. Lawler
Effects of Invasive Winter Moth Defoliation on Tree Radial Growth in Eastern Massachusetts, USA, Michael J. Simmons, Thomas D. Lee, Mark J. Ducey, Joseph S. Elkinton, George H. Boettner, and Kevin J. Dodds
Lights, Camera...Citizen Science: Assessing the Effectiveness of Smartphone-Based Video Training in Invasive Plant Indentification, Jared Starr, Charles M. Schweik, Nathan Bush, Lena Fletcher, Jack Finn, Jennifer Fish, and Charles T. Bergeron
A demographic, spatially explicit patch occupancy model of metapopulation dynamics and persistence, Chris Sutherland, D. Elston, and X. Lambin
Modelling non-Euclideanmovement and landscape connectivity in highly structured ecological networks, Chris Sutherland, Angela Fuller, and J. Royle
Submissions from 2013
Spatial and Temporal Habitat Use of an Asian Elephant in Sumatra, Arnold F. Sitompul, Curtice R. Griffin, Nathaniel D. Rayl, and Todd K. Fuller
Accounting for false positive detection error induced by transient individuals, Chris Sutherland, D Elston, and X. Lambin
Submissions from 2012
The Invasive Grass-Fire Cycle in the U.S. Great Basin, Jennifer K. Balch, Marnie K. Carroll, and Bethany A. Bradley
Global change, global trade, and the next wave of plant invasions, Bethany Bradley, D M. Blumenthal, R Early, E D. Grosholz, J J, L P. Miller, C JB Sorte, C M. D'Antonio, J M. Diez, J S. Dukes, I Ibanez, and J D. Olden
Will Extreme Climatic Events Facilitate Biological Invasions?, Jeffrey M. Diez, Carla M. D'Antonio, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Edwin D. Grosholz, Julian D. Olden, Cascade J B Sorte, Dana M. Blumenthal, Bethany Bradley, Regan Early, Ines Ibanez, Sierra J. Jones, Joshua J. Lawler, and Luke P. Miller
Architectural Design with SketchUp - Component-Based Modeling, Plugins, Rendering, and Scripting, Alexander C. Schreyer
Submissions from 2011
Using Expert Knowledge to Satisfy Data Needs:Mapping Invasive Plant Distributions in the Western United States, Bethany A. Bradley and David C. Marvin
Climate Responsive Design and the Milam Residence, Simi T. Hoque, Carl Fiocchi, and Mohammad Shahadat
Compatibility of Toothed Ascenders with Arborist Climbing Ropes, Brian CP Kane
Dynamic properties of open-grown deciduous trees, Brian CP Kane and Kenneth R. James
Measuring urban forestry performance and demographic associations in Massachusetts, USA, Brian CP Kane, David Rines, David B. Kittredge, H Dennis P. Ryan, and Brett Butler
Toward Open Public Administration Scholarship, Charles M. Schweik, Ines Mergel, Jodi Sandfort, and Zhirong Zhao