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USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center staff publish results of their research in USGS series reports and in peer-reviewed journals. Publication links are below. Information on all USGS publications can be found at the USGS Publications Warehouse.
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Fort Laramie National Historic Site 2022 ABAM Investigator Annual Report Fort Laramie National Historic Site 2022 ABAM Investigator Annual Report
The Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) project is a consortium of seven parks in the Northern Great Plains working together to better understand how to control invasive annual grasses (including Bromus species) through an adaptive management approach. This approach is supported by a quantitative model that uses current data from standardized vegetation monitoring plots in all seven...
Authors
Amy Symstad
Supplemental vegetation monitoring plots at Wind Cave National Park to accelerate learning of the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model Supplemental vegetation monitoring plots at Wind Cave National Park to accelerate learning of the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model
The Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) project is a consortium of seven parks in the Northern Great Plains (NGP) working together to better understand how to control invasive annual grasses (including Bromus species) through an adaptive management approach. This approach is supported by a quantitative model that uses current data from standardized vegetation monitoring plots in all...
Authors
Amy Symstad, Timm Richardson
Supplemental vegetation monitoring plots at Badlands National Park to accelerate learning of the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model Supplemental vegetation monitoring plots at Badlands National Park to accelerate learning of the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model
The annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) project is a consortium of seven parks in the Northern Great Plains working together to better understand how to control invasive annual grasses (including Bromus species) through an adaptive management approach. This approach is supported by a quantitative model that uses current data from standardized vegetation monitoring plots in all seven...
Authors
Amy Symstad
Development of an online reporting format to facilitate the inclusion of ecosystem services into Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program reports Development of an online reporting format to facilitate the inclusion of ecosystem services into Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program reports
The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program is a program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency. The Secretary of Agriculture is required to submit an annual report to Congress on Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program agreements that, among other things, reports on the progress made towards fulfilling commitments outlined in the agreements. The U.S...
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David Mushet, Owen McKenna
Addressing detection uncertainty in Bombus affinis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) surveys can improve inferences made from monitoring Addressing detection uncertainty in Bombus affinis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) surveys can improve inferences made from monitoring
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service developed national guidelines to track species recovery of the endangered rusty patched bumble bee [Bombus affinis Cresson (Hymenoptera: Apidae)] and to investigate changes in species occupancy across space and time. As with other native bee monitoring efforts, managers have specifically acknowledged the need to address species detection uncertainty and...
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Clint Otto, Alma Schrage, Larissa L. Bailey, John Mola, Tamara Smith, Ian Pearse, Stacy Simanonok, Ralph Grundel
Automatic recorders monitor wolves at rendezvous sites: do wolves adjust howling to live near humans? Automatic recorders monitor wolves at rendezvous sites: do wolves adjust howling to live near humans?
We used automatic sound recorders to study spontaneous vocalizations of wild wolves during the pup-rearing season around rendezvous sites from 24 wolf packs in six study areas across North America, Asia, and Europe. Between 2018 and 2021, for a total of 1225 pack-days, we recorded 605 spontaneous wolf chorus howls and 224 solo-howl series. Howling occurrence varied across areas, from 12...
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Vicente Palacios, Barbara Marti-Domken, Shannon Barber-Meyer, Bilal Habib, Jose Lopez-Bao, Douglas Smith, Daniel Stahler, Emilio Garcia, Victor Sazatornil, L. Mech
Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming
The quality of lake ice is of uppermost importance for ice safety and under-ice ecology, but its temporal and spatial variability is largely unknown. Here we conducted a coordinated lake ice quality sampling campaign across the Northern Hemisphere during one of the warmest winters since 1880 and show that lake ice during 2020/2021 commonly consisted of unstable white ice, at times...
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Gesa Weyhenmeyer, Ulrike Obertegger, Hugo Rudebeck, Ellinor Jakobsson, Joachim Jansen, Galina Zdorovennova, Sheel Bansal, Benjamin Block, Cayelan Carey, Jonathan Doubek, Hilary Dugan, Oxana Erina, Irina Fedorova, Janet Fischer, Laura Grinberga, Hans-Peter Grossart, Külli Kangur, Lesley Knoll, Alo Laas, Fabio Lepori, Jacob Meier, Nikolai Palshin, Mark Peternell, Merja Pulkkanen, James Rusak, Sapna Sharma, Danielle Wain, Roman Zdorovennov
Lessons learned from wetlands research at the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota, 1967–2021 Lessons learned from wetlands research at the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota, 1967–2021
Depressional wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America have a long history of investigation owing to their importance in maintaining migratory-bird populations, especially waterfowl. One area of particularly intensive study is the Cottonwood Lake study area in Stutsman County, North Dakota. Studies at the Cottonwood Lake study area began in 1967 and continue through the...
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David Mushet, Ned Euliss, Donald Rosenberry, James LaBaugh, Sheel Bansal, Zeno Levy, Owen McKenna, Kyle McLean, Christopher Mills, Brian Neff, Richard D. Nelson, Matthew Solensky, Brian Tangen
Multiproxy paleolimnological records provide evidence for a shift to a new ecosystem state in the Northern Great Plains, USA Multiproxy paleolimnological records provide evidence for a shift to a new ecosystem state in the Northern Great Plains, USA
Wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of the North American Northern Great Plains perform multiple ecosystem services and are biodiversity hotspots. However, climatological changes can result in sudden shifts in these important ecosystems. For example, marked increases in precipitation in the last few decades have resulted in a widespread shift in wetlands across the Prairie Pothole...
Authors
Kui Hu, David M. Mushet, Jon Sweetman
Climate and land use driven ecosystem homogenization in the Prairie Pothole Region Climate and land use driven ecosystem homogenization in the Prairie Pothole Region
The homogenization of freshwater ecosystems and their biological communities has emerged as a prevalent and concerning phenomenon because of the loss of ecosystem multifunctionality. The millions of prairie-pothole wetlands scattered across the Prairie Pothole Region (hereafter PPR) provide critical ecosystem functions at local, regional, and continental scales. However, an estimated...
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Kyle McLean, David M. Mushet, Jon Sweetman