Science Picks

Sharp, J. L., Sojda, R. S., Greenwood, M., Rosenberry, D. O. and Warren, J. M. 2012. Statistical classification of vegetation and water depths in montane wetlands. Ecohydrology. doi: 10.1002/eco.1252

Peitzsch, E.H., J. Hendrikx, D.B. Fagre, B. Reardon. 2012. Examining spring wet slab and glide avalanche occurrence along the Going-to-the-Sun Road corridor, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Cold Reg. Sci. Technol. doi:10.1016/j.coldregions.2012.01.012

Rodhouse, T.J, P.C. Ormsbee, K. Irvine, L.A. Vierling, J.M. Szewczak, and K.T. Vierling. In press. Assessing the status and trend of bat populations across broad geographic regions with dynamic distribution models. Ecological Applications. doi: 10.1890/11-1662.1

Olexa, E. and S. Soileau. 2012. Development and Evaluation of Synthetic High Resolution Satellite Imagery for Effectiveness Monitoring. NOROCK Information Sheet.

Bellmore J. Ryan, Colden V. Baxter, Andrew M. Ray, Lytle Denny, Kurt Tardy and Evelyn Galloway. 2012. Assessing the Potential for Salmon Recovery via Floodplain Restoration: A Multitrophic Level Comparison of Dredge-Mined to Reference Segments. Environmental Management. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-9813-x

Gould William R., Debra A. Patla, Rob Daley, Paul Stephen Corn, Blake R. Hossack, Robert Bennetts and Charles R. Peterson. 2012. Estimating Occupancy in Large Landscapes: Evaluation of Amphibian Monitoring in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Wetlands. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-012-0273-0

Allen, L.A., and Kauffman, M.J., WLCI researchers employ new approaches to help managers conserve deer migrations: WLCI Fact Sheet 2, 4 p.

Calkins, M. T., Beever, E. A., Boykin, K. G., Frey, J. K. and Andersen, M. C. 2012. Not-so-splendid isolation: modeling climate-mediated range collapse of a montane mammal Ochotona princeps across numerous ecoregions. Ecography. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07227.x

Davison, J. E., L. J. Graumlich, E. L. Rowland, G. T. Pederson, and D. D. Breshears. 2012. Leveraging modern climatology to increase adaptive capacity across protected area networks. Global Environmental Change, 22, 268-274.

Torgersen, C.E., C.V. Baxter, J.L. Ebersole, and R.E. Gresswell. 2012. Incorporating spatial context into the analysis of salmonid–habitat relationships. Pages 216-224 in M. Church, P.M. Biron, and A. Roy, editors. Gravel-bed rivers: Processes, tools, environments. John Wiley & Sons Limited, Chichester, UK.

Muhlfeld, C. M., et al. 2012. A Fine-scale Assessment of Using Barriers to Conserve Native Stream Salmonids: A Case Study in Akokala Creek, Glacier National Park, USA. The Open Fish Science Journal (5) 9-20.

Gresswell, B. 2011. Keynote: Developing priorities for managing invasive species in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Pages 32–37. In C. Andersen, editor. Questioning Greater Yellowstone’s Future: Climate, Land Use, and Invasive Species. Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Yellowstone Center for Resources and University of Wyoming William D. Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources.

Hossack, B. R., R. L. R. L. Newell, and D. E. D. E. Ruiter. 2011. New collection records and range extension for the caddisfly Arctopora salmon (Smith, 1969) (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae). Pan Pacific Entomologist 87:206-208.

Ebinger, MR, PC Cross, R Wallen, PJ White & J Treanor. 2011. Modeling Brucellosis Management in Bison: A Heuristic Model of Management Actions on Disease Dynamics. Ecological Applications 21:2944-2959.

Proctor, M.F., et al. 2012. Population Fragmentation and Inter-Ecosystem Movements of Grizzly Bears in Western Canada and the Northern United States. Wildlife Monographs. 180:1-46. doi: 10.1002/wmon.6.

Rodhouse, T. J., Irvine, K. M., Vierling, K. T., Vierling, L. A. 2011. Estimating Temporal Trend in the Presence of Spatial Complexity: A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for a Wetland Plant Population Undergoing Restoration. PLoSOne. 6(12): e28635. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028635.

Sepulveda, A.J. and L.B. Marczak. 2011. Active dispersal of an aquatic invader determined by resource and flow conditions. Biological invasions. Online First: 2 December 2011. doi: 10.1007/s10530-011-0149-x

Mace, R. D., et al. 2011. Grizzly bear population vital rates and trend in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, Montana. The Journal of Wildlife Management. 76(1): 119-128. doi: 10.1002/jwmg.250.

Miller, D. S., et al. 2011. Shared bacterial and viral respiratory agents in Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries), and goats (Capra hircus) in Montana. Veterinary Medicine International. 2011: 1-12.

Serrano, E., P.C. Cross, M. Beneria, A. Ficapal, J. Curia, S. Marco, X. Lavín & I. Marco. 2011. Decreasing prevalence of brucellosis in red deer through efforts to control disease in livestock. Epidemiology and Infection (2011), 139, 1626-1630. DOI:10.1017/S0950268811000951.

Drinan, D. P., Kalinowski, S. T., Vu, N. V., Shepard, B. B., Muhlfeld, C. C., and Campbell, M. R. 2011. Genetic variation in westslope cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi: implications for conservation. Conservation Genetics 12:1513-1523. DOI: 10.1007/s10592-011-0249-2

Smith, S. B., Odion, D. C., Starr, D. A. and Irvine, K. I. 2011. Monitoring direct and indirect climate effects on whitebark pine ecosystems at Crater Lake National Park. ParkScience 28(2):92–94.

Schweiger, E. W., Ashton, I. W., Muhlfeld, C. C., Jones, L. A. and Bahls, L. L. 2011. The distribution and abundance of a nuisance native alga, Didymosphenia geminata, in streams of Glacier National Park: Climate drivers and management implications. ParkScience 28(2):88–91.

Gresswell, R. E. 2011. Biology, Status, and Management of the Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 31:5, 782-812.

Muhlfeld, C., Giersch, J., Marotz, B. 2011.Seasonal movements of non-native lake trout in a connected lake and river system. Fisheries Management and Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2011.00821.x.

Romme, W. H., Boyce, M. S., Gresswell R. E., et al. 2011. Twenty Years After the 1988 Yellowstone Fires: Lessons About Disturbance and Ecosystems. Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9470-6

Irvine, K.I, E.C. Dinger, and D. Sarr. 2011. A power analysis for multivariate tests of temporal trend in species composition. Ecology 92(10): 1879-1886

Muhlfeld, Clint C., Leslie Jones, Daniel Kotter, William J. Miller, Doran Geise, Joel Tohtz, and Brian Marotz. 2011. Assessing the impacts of river regulation on native bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) and westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) habitats in the upper Flathead River, Montana, USA. River Research and Applications. DOI: 10.1002/rra.1494

Beever, E.A. and J.L. Wilkening. 2011. Playing by new rules: altered climates are affecting some pikas dramatically – and rapidly. The Wildlife Professional. 5(3): 38-41.

Schwartz CCM, Haroldson MA, West K, editors. 2011. Yellowstone grizzly bear investigations: annual report of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, 2010. Bozeman (MT): U.S. Geological Survey.

Lutz, James A., Carl H. Key, Crystal A. Kolden, Jonathan T. Kane, and Jan W. van Wagtendonk. 2011. Fire frequency, area burned, and severity: A quantitative approach to defining a normal fire year. Fire Ecology. 7(2) 51-65. DOI:10.4996/fireecology.0702051.

Irvine, K. and A. Gitelman. 2011. Graphical Spatial Models: a new view on spatial pattern. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 18(3) 447-469. DOI: 10.1007/s10651-010-0146-8

Ault, Toby R., Alison K. Macalady, Gregory T. Pederson, Julio L. Betancourt, Mark D. Schwartz, 2011: Northern Hemisphere Modes of Variability and the Timing of Spring in Western North America. J. Climate, 24, 4003–4014. doi: 10.1175/2011JCLI4069.1

Erin L. Landguth, C. C. Muhlfeld and G. Luikart. 2011. CDFISH: an individual-based, spatiallyexplicit, landscape genetics simulator for aquatic species in complex riverscapes. Conservation Genetics Resources. DOI: 10.1007/s12686-011-9492-6 .

Hossack, B.R., Pilliod, D.S., 2011, Amphibian responses to wildfire in the western United States- Emerging patterns from short-term studies. Fire Ecology, v. 7, no. 2, p. 129-144.

Ruth, T. K., Haroldson, M. A., Murphy, K. M., Buotte, P. C., Hornocker, M. G. and Quigley, H. B. (2011), Cougar survival and source-sink structure on Greater Yellowstone's Northern Range. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 75: 1381–1398. doi: 10.1002/jwmg.190

Sepulveda, Adam J. and Winsor H. Lowe. 2011. Coexistence in streams: do source–sink dynamics allow salamanders to persist with fish predators? Oecologia. 166:1043–1054. DOI 10.1007/s00442-011-1935-y

Almberg, ES, DL Mech, PC Cross, DW Smith, JW Sheldon & RL Crabtree. 2011. Infectious disease in Yellowstone National Park’s canid community. Yellowstone Science. 19(2):16-24

Pierce, K.L., Muhs, D.R., Fosberg, M.A., Mahan, S.A., Rosenbaum, J.G., Licciardi, J.M., and Pavich, M.J., 2011, A loess-paleosol record of climate and glacial history over the past two glacial-interglacial cycles (~150 ka), southern Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Quaternary Research 26, 119-141.

Hatala, Jaclyn A., Michael C. Dietze, Robert L. Crabtree, Katherine Kendall, Diana Six, and Paul R. Moorcroft. 2011. An ecosystem-scale model for the spread of a host-specific forest pathogen in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Ecological Applications 21:1138–1153. [doi:10.1890/09-2118.1]

Malanson, G.P., J.P. Rose, J. Schroeder, and D.B. Fagre. 2011. Contexts for change in alpine tundra.. Physical Geography. 32(2): 97–113.

Williams, Jack E. , Williams, Richard N. , Thurow, Russell F. , Elwell, Leah , Philipp, David P. , Harris, Fred A. , Kershner, Jeffrey L. , Martinez, Patrick J. , Miller, Dirk , Reeves, Gordon H. , Frissell, Christopher A. and Sedell, James R. 2011. Native Fish Conservation Areas: A Vision for Large-Scale Conservation of Native Fish Communities. Fisheries. 36: 6, 267 — 277

Beever, E.A., and A. Woodward. 2011. Design of ecoregional monitoring in protected areas of high-latitude ecosystems under contemporary climate change. Biological Conservation. 144(5):1258-1269.

Beever, E.A., and A. Woodward. 2011. Ecoregional-scale monitoring within conservation areas, in a rapidly changing climate. Biological Conservation. 144(5):1255-1257.

Beever, E.A., C. Ray, J.L. Wilkening, P.F. Brussard and P.W. Mote. 2011. Contemporary climate change alters the pace and drivers of extinction. Global Change Biology. 17(6):2054–2070. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02389.x.

Malanson, G.P., L.M. Resler, M.Y. Bader, F.K. Holtmeier, D.R. Butler, D.J. Weiss, L.D. Daniels, and D.B. Fagre. 2011. . Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 43(2):167-177. 2011. doi: 10.1657/1938-4246-43.2.167.

Greenwood, M.C., R.S. Sojda, J.L. Sharp, R.G. Peck, and D.O. Rosenberry. 2011. Journal of Data Science 9:399-426.

USGS scientists Todd Preston, Tara Chesley-Preston, and co-authors have recently published the Fact Sheet Examination of Brine Contamination Risk to Aquatic Resources from Petroleum Development in the Williston Basin. USGS Fact Sheet 2011-3047, 4 p.

USGS scientist Chuck Schwartz, Mark Haroldson, and co-authors have recently published the study that Study design and sampling intensity for demographic analyses of bear populations. Ursus 22(1):24-36.

USGS scientist Kathi Irvine co-authors a recently published study entitled A practical sampling design for acoustic surveys of bats. Journal of Wildlife Management. DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.151

USGS scientist Robert Al-Chokhachy and co-authors recently publish the study Quantifying the Extent of and Factors Associated with the Temporal Variability of Physical Stream Habitat in Headwater Streams in the Interior Columbia River Basin. Tran. American Fisheries Society, 140: 2, 399 -14

USGS scientists Greg Pederson, Dan Fagre and co-authors recently publish the study Climatic Controls on the Snowmelt Hydrology of the Northern Rocky Mountains. Journal of Climate. 24, 1666–1687. DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3729.1

USGS scientists Erik Beever and Andrea Woodward (FRESC) recently publish the study Conceptual Ecological Models to Support Detection of Ecological Change on Alaska National Wildlife Refuges. USGS Open-File Report 2011–1085, 136 p.

USGS scientists Erik Beever and Andrea Woodward (FRESC) recently publish the study Framework for Ecological Monitoring on Lands of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuges and Their Partners. USGS Open-File Report 2010-1300. 94 p.

USGS scientists Clint Muhlfeld, Joe Giersch, Dan Fagre, Greg Pederson, and co-authors recently publish the study Climate change links fate of glaciers and an endemic alpine invertebrate. Climatic Change Letters. DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0057-1.

USGS scientists Robert Gresswell and Bruce Vondracek co-author the chapter "Fisheries Management in Coldwater Streams" in the recently released third edition of the book Inland Fisheries Management in North America.

USGS scientists Blake Hossack, Steve Corn and co-authors recently published a study investigating the effect of non-native salmonids on the occupancy of two native amphibians across. Nonnative salmonids affect amphibian occupancy at multiple spatial scales. Diversity and Distributions 16:959-974.

USGS scientists Blake Hossack, Steve Corn and co-authors recently published a study examining the effect of amphibian chytrid fungus on survival probability and population growth rate in wild boreal toads. Effects of amphibian chytrid fungus on individual survival probability in wild boreal toads. Conservation Biology 24: 1259-1267.

USGS scientist Dan Fagre and the CCME program contributed to a book that explores the scope of repeat photography, focusing particularly on the intertwined influences of climatic variation and land-use practices in sculpting landscapes. Repeat Photography: Methods and Applications in the Natural Sciences.

USGS scientist Chuck Schwartz and co-authors have recently published a study that examines communication strategies within the realm of human-bear management programs. A proposed lexicon of terms and concepts for human–bear management in North America. Ursus 21(2):154-168.

NOROCK scientists Chuck Schwartz, Shannon Podruzny and co-authors examine how black bears and grizzly bears alter their activity patterns in response to other bears and humans. Contrasting Activity Patterns of Sympatric and Allopatric Black and Grizzly Bears. Journal of Wildlife Management 74(8):1628-1638.

USGS Northern Divide Grizzly Bear Project, led by scientist Kate Kendall, recently published the fact sheet Noninvasive Methods for Monitoring Bear Population Trends, USGS Fact Sheet 2010–3054.

USGS scientists Jeff Kershner, Bob Gresswell, Clint Muhlfeld, Andrew Todd, Steve Hostetler and co-authors have recently published a study that examined the influence of changing climate on the persistence of native trout and grayling within 11 western States. The study is entitled The Potential Influence of Changing Climate on the Persistence of Salmonids of the Inland West , USGS Open File Report 2010–1236.

NOROCK scientist Paul Cross and co-authors used canine distember virus (CDV) in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem’s (GYE) wolves (Canis lupus) and coyotes (Canis latrans) as a case study for exploring how metapopulation structure, host demographics, and multi-host transmission affect the critical community size and spatial scale required for CDV persistence. These data have been published in the most recent edition of Ecological Applications.

NOROCK scientist Bob Gresswell, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center scientist Christian Torgersen and co-authors summarize data collection and tools that have been applied in western Oregon to understand how landscape features and processes may influence salmon in freshwater. These data have been published in a new book about the sustainability of salmon fisheries in the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (AYK) region of western Alaska. The book includes presentations from the February 2007 American Fisheries Society Salmon Symposium in Bethesda, MD.

NOROCK Center Director Jeff Kershner co-authors the article An Evaluation of Management Objectives Used to Assess Stream Habitat Conditions on Federal Lands within the Interior Columbia Basin in the June issue of Fisheries.

Three NOROCK scientists co-author chapters in the new book Knowing Yellowstone: Science in America’s first National Park, edited by J. Johnson and published by Taylor Trade Publishing, Lanham, Maryland. Scientists Chuck Schwartz and Mark Haroldson co-author the chapter Understanding Grizzlies: Science of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (pages 51-63) and scientist Paul Cross coauthors the chapter Brucellosis in Cattle, Bison, and Elk: Management Conflicts in a Society with Diverse Values (pages 81-93).

NOROCK scientists Mark Haroldson, Chuck Schwartz, and Kate Kendall co-author the article Genetic analysis of individual origins supports isolation of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem published in the May 2010 issue of Ursus.

NOROCK scientist Paul Cross co-authors two new articles. The article From moonlight to movement and synchronized randomness: Fourier and wavelet analyses of animal location time series datais in the May 2010 issue of Ecology. The article Linking process to pattern: estimating spatiotemporal dynamics of a wildlife epidemic from cross-sectional data is in the May 2010 issue of Ecological Monographs

Two new studies have been released in the May 2010 issue of The Journal of Wildlife Management- 74(4). NOROCK research scientists Chuck Schwartz and Mark Haroldson co-author the article Hazards Affecting Grizzly Bear Survival in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and research scientist Kate Kendall and University of Montana student Jeff Stetz co-author the article Evaluation of Bear Rub Surveys to Monitor Grizzly Bear Population Trends.

NOROCK scientist Paul Cross co-authors the article Mapping Brucellosis Increases Relative to Elk Density Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models in the April/May 2010 issue of PLoS ONE 5(4): e10322. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010322

NOROCK scientist Paul Cross co-authors the article Probable causes of increasing elk brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in the January 2010 issue of Ecological Applications.

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NOROCK scientist Clint Muhlfeld co-authors the article Founding population size of an aquatic invasive species. in the February 2010 issue of Conservation Genetics.

DOI 10.1007/s10592-009-0041-8.

NOROCK scientists Greg Pederson, Dan Fagre, and Lindsey Bengtson co-author the article Potential Economic Benefits of Adapting Agricultural Production Systems to Future Climate Change in the February 2010 issue of Environmental Management.

NOROCK scientists Greg Pederson, Dan Fagre, and Clint Muhlfeld co-author the article A century of climate and ecosystem change in Western Montana: what do temperature trends portend? in the January 2010 issue of Climatic Change.

NOROCK scientist Blake Hossack co-authors the article Branchiopods (Anostraca, Notostraca) from Protected Areas of Western Montana in the January 2010 edition or Northwest Science.

USGS scientists Ken Pierce and Lisa Morgan authored a Special Volume of the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research entitled The Track of the Yellowstone Hot Spot: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on the Origin of the Yellowstone-Snake River Plain Volcanic Province.

Volume 188, Issues 1-3, Pages 1-304 (20 November 2009)

NOROCK scientist Pete Gogan co-authors the Survey of Ungulate Abundance on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California, March 2009.: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1243.

Griffin, P.C., Schoenecker, K.A., Gogan, P.J.P., and Lubow, B.C., 2009, Survey of ungulate abundance on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California, March 2009: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009–1243, 23 p.

NOROCK scientist Dan Fagre co-authors a recently published book on a variety of climatic, geomorphologic, and edaphic controls over the woody vegetation in Glacier National Park. Some of this research may serve as a guideline to coming changes in other montane regions of the world.

Butler, D.R., G.P. Malanson, S.J. Walsh, and D.B. Fagre (eds). The Changing Alpine Treeline of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Elsevier, The Netherlands. 200pp.

ISBN: 978-0-444-53364-7

NOROCK scientist Robert Gresswell co-authors a recently published chapter on identifying small - to large-scale impacts of tributaries in a new book about river science. Early research on impacts of tributaries on rivers focused on geology and water dynamics. New research described in this book shows that these areas are also critical nodes that can affect living organisms and habitat. The authors identify approaches, provide examples, and explain how to see patterns through ecological variability. Topics presented include sampling, data collection, analytical tools, and future developments and challenges.

Torgersen, C.E., Gresswell, R.E., Bateman, D.S., Burnett, K.M., 2008, Spatial identification of tributary impacts in river networks In Rice, S., Roy, A., Rhoads, B., eds., River Confluences, Tributaries and the Fluvial Network: West Sussex, UK, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., p. 159-181. Catalog No: 1680

Newly published from Island Press Publishers is a comprehensive guide for wildlife researchers who want to use "noninvasive" research techniques coupled with cutting-edge laboratory and statistical methods to sample carnivore populations. The book features NOROCK scientist Katherine Kendall. Kendall and co-author (K.S. McKelvey) contributed Hair Collection, a chapter providing an overview of hair snagging methods used to collect hair from carnivores such as bears, cougars, wolves, and wolverines.

ISBN-10: 1597261203; ISBN-13: 978-1597261203

USGS professional paper featuring research from four NOROCK scientists: geologist Kenneth Pierce, ecologist Don Despain, and wildlife biologists Chuck Schwartz and Shannon Podruzny. This volume builds on a 130-year foundation of extensive, broadly based field studies in the geologically dynamic terrain of the Greater Yellowstone Area.

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ISBN: 978-1-60456-183-8