Data

Note: this data release has been superseded by version 2.0, available here: https://doi.org/10.5066/P14P7RT6. This data release contains the methodology and results of two field experiments performed in 2024 to better understand how predation impacts detection efficiency of acoustic tags. The first experiment was a static approach focusing on how different tag types, tag power, depth...

Acoustic telemetry is an effective tool for the study of fish survivorship and habitat use. Fish are tagged with acoustic tags and presence data is collected with stationary receivers. This data set contains a total of 69 hatchery tagged juvenile Lake Sturgeon released into the Genesee River, NY in the Fall of 2019 and 2020, along with data for 30 sub-adult Lake Sturgeon field tagged in...

In 2003, a lake sturgeon reintroduction experiment was initiated in the Genesee River, NY. Young-of-year hatchery-reared lake sturgeon were released over multiple years. An assessment of the presence of lake sturgeon was done by systematic gill netting using monofilament nets. This data release is the lake sturgeon catch information collected during the systematic gill netting from 2003...

Data were collected during efforts to remove invasive grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) from the Sandusky River, OH, USA during 2020–2023. The data includes the number of grass carp captured, capture method, total vessel hours, removal effort year, removal effort month, number of non-target species captured, and river kilometer (distance from the river mouth measured in 0.5 kilometer...

This dataset is associated with an examination of environmental DNA (eDNA) from the invasive round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) in parallel with visual surveys of fish count and size conducted by scuba divers in four Great Lakes: Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. Round goby inhabits benthic areas, and it is known to have direct contact with the bottom substrate as it feeds on...

This dataset is the result of international collaborative efforts by the United States Geological Survey, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, and the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans. These data provide substrate information along the shoreline of Lake...

These data describe layered double hydroxide (LDH) mediated delivery of novel gene silencing agents (GSAs) in leaf tissue of the invasive common reed Phragmites australis ssp. australis. Double-stranded and hairpin RNAs were designed and synthesized to target paralogous genes coding for phytoene desaturase (PDS) and 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS). A leaf cutting...

Non-native Phragmites australis is one of the most aggressive plant species invading North America and is managed using a suite of conventional approaches (e.g., herbicide, cutting/crushing, flooding, burning). These management actions are resource intensive and differ in effectiveness, largely because there are uncertainties about how the plant responds to treatment given site-specific...

This dataset represents the locations of experimental plots that were used during the Phragmites bioherbicide 2024 field experiment, where a novel bio-based formula for herbicide was applied to Phragmites australis to test the efficacy of Phragmites bioherbicide as a tool to control invasive Phragmites. To meet the criteria for selection, a site must have relatively dry soil with no...

4+ year old cisco (Coregonus artedi) pre-spawn and spawning/near-spawning behavioral data were collected and compiled at the Tunison Laboratory of Aquatic Science in Cortland, NY USA, between August-October 2021 and November-December 2021. Data are comprised of fish reactions in choice flume video data (attractance/avoidance). Cisco were exposed/not exposed to an imprinting chemical...

Biodiversity measures provide insight into ecological processes like productivity and ecosystem stability, and rare, vulnerable species are a major component of freshwater biodiversity. This data release provides the data used to address multiple ecological questions about fish and habitat conditions throughout a large section of the St. Lawrence River Valley. More than 140,000 fishes of...

This data set includes acoustic telemetry detection data and biological attributes for walleye and grass carp in the Sandusky River and Bay, OH. The detection data also includes information about the receivers that recorded the detection of acoustic telemetry tags implanted in walleye and grass carp from from 2014 to 2021. Receiver attributes include location and deployment history of...