Suresh Andrew Sethi, PhD (Former Employee)
Science and Products
Aquatic Native Species and Habitat Restoration: Cisco Spawning Habitat Assessment
Cisco (formerly known as Lake Herring) Coregonus artedi are native shallow water coregonines which were formerly very abundant in the Great Lakes and provided large commercial fisheries and healthy prey to native piscivores. In most areas outside of Lake Superior, cisco abundance is greatly reduced and in Lakes Ontario and Erie they are uncommon to rare.
Effect of Elodea spp. on Fish Performance Mediated Through Food Web Interactions
The potential for invasive species introductions in Arctic and Subarctic ecosystems is growing as climate change manifests and human activity increases in high latitudes.
Hydroacoustic data from uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) overtakes in Lake Superior, 2022 Hydroacoustic data from uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) overtakes in Lake Superior, 2022
These data were derived from hydroacoustic data collected by uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) and powered research vessels in Lake Superior in 2022. The powered vessels overtook the USVs to study fish avoidance of survey vessels during traditional acoustic surveys. The water column was divided into four depth groups for analysis. Each USV transect was binned into 30-sec intervals and...
Hydroacoustic data from uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) overtakes in Lakes Huron and Michigan, 2021 Hydroacoustic data from uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) overtakes in Lakes Huron and Michigan, 2021
These data were derived from hydroacoustic data collected by uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) and powered research vessels. The powered vessels overtook the USVs in Lakes Huron and Michigan to study fish avoidance of survey vessels during traditional acoustic surveys. The water column was divided into three depth groups (epilimnion, metalimnion, hypolimnion) for analysis. Each drone...
Survival and ancillary data associated with Cisco acoustic tagging experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019 Survival and ancillary data associated with Cisco acoustic tagging experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019
These data include survival information for Cisco in the laboratory for up to 30 days after surgical implantation of two different sizes of Lotek acoustic tags. Three-hundred fish of a range of sizes were used for the implantation and controls of this experiment, which was repeated three time. Ancillary data of surgical condition, recovery, and time until death or tag expulsion were also...
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Clarifying the role of the resist–accept–direct framework in supporting resource management planning processes Clarifying the role of the resist–accept–direct framework in supporting resource management planning processes
No abstract available.
Authors
Gregor Schuurman, Wylie Carr, Cat Hawkins Hoffman, David Lawrence, Brian Miller, Erik Beever, Jean Brennan, Katherine Clifford, Scott Covington, Shelley Crausbay, Amanda Cravens, John Gross, Linh Hoang, Stephen Jackson, Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Wendy Morrison, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Robin O'Malley, Jay Peterson, Mark T. Porath, Karen Prentice, Joel Reynolds, Suresh Sethi, Helen Sofaer, Jennifer Wilkening
Reconstructing half a century of coregonine recruitment reveals species-specific dynamics and synchrony across the Laurentian Great Lakes Reconstructing half a century of coregonine recruitment reveals species-specific dynamics and synchrony across the Laurentian Great Lakes
Understanding how multiple species and populations vary in their recruitment dynamics can elucidate the processes driving recruitment across space and time. Lake Whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and Cisco (C. artedi) are socioecologically important fishes across their range; however, many Laurentian Great Lakes populations have experienced declining, poor, or sporadic recruitment in...
Authors
Taylor Brown, Lars Rudstam, Suresh Sethi, Paul Ripple, Jason Smith, Ted Treska, Christopher Hessell, Erik Olsen, Ji He, Jory Jonas, Benjamin Rook, Joshua Blankenheim, Sarah Beech, Erin Brown, Eric Berglund, H. Andrew Cook, Erin Dunlop, Stephen James, Steven Pothoven, Zach Amidon, John A. Sweka, Dray Carl, Scott Hansen, David Bunnell, Brian Weidel, Andrew Honsey
Synthesizing professional opinion of Lake Whitefish and Cisco recruitment drivers across the Great Lakes Synthesizing professional opinion of Lake Whitefish and Cisco recruitment drivers across the Great Lakes
Disentangling the suite of ecological drivers that explain recruitment variability for Lake Whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis and Cisco C. artedi is of critical importance for their conservation, management, and stewardship in the Laurentian Great Lakes. However, recruitment is inherently variable and can be regulated by many interacting processes, the relative importance of which can...
Authors
Taylor Brown, Lars Rudstam, Suresh Sethi, Chris Hessell, Erik Olsen, Jory Jonas, Benjamin Rook, Steven Pothoven, Sarah Beech, Erin Dunlop, Stephen James, Jason Smith, Zach Amidon, Dray Carl, David Bunnell, Ralph Tingley, Brian Weidel, Andrew Honsey
Multistage time-to-event models improve survival inference by partitioning mortality processes of tracked organisms Multistage time-to-event models improve survival inference by partitioning mortality processes of tracked organisms
Advances in tagging technologies are expanding opportunities to estimate survival of fish and wildlife populations. Yet, capture and handling effects could impact survival outcomes and bias inference about natural mortality processes. We developed a multistage time-to-event model that can partition the survival process into sequential phases that reflect the tagged animal experience...
Authors
Suresh Sethi, Alex Koeberle, Anna Poulton, Daniel W. Linden, Duane Diefenbach, Frances Buderman, Mary Casalena, Kenneth Duren
Prey ration, temperature, and predator species influence digestion rates of prey DNA inferred from qPCR and metabarcoding Prey ration, temperature, and predator species influence digestion rates of prey DNA inferred from qPCR and metabarcoding
Diet analysis is a vital tool for understanding trophic interactions and is frequently used to inform conservation and management. Molecular approaches can identify diet items that are impossible to distinguish using more traditional visual-based methods. Yet, our understanding of how different variables, such as predator species or prey ration size, influence molecular diet analysis is...
Authors
Cory Dick, Wesley A. Larson, Kirby Karpan, Diana Baetscher, Yue Shi, Suresh Sethi, Nann A. Fangue, Mark J. Henderson
Larval cisco and lake whitefish exhibit high distributional overlap within nursery areas Larval cisco and lake whitefish exhibit high distributional overlap within nursery areas
Coregonine fishes, including lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and cisco (C. artedi), are socioecologically important in the Laurentian Great Lakes and of conservation concern, but the processes driving recruitment variability are unclear. In Lake Ontario, cisco and lake whitefish exhibit similar spawning behaviours and early life histories, but population trajectories are...
Authors
Taylor Brown, Lars Rudstam, Jeremy Holden, Brian Weidel, Amanda Ackiss, Ann Ropp, Marc Chalupnicki, James McKenna, Suresh Sethi
Parentage-based tagging using mothers balances accuracy and cost for discriminating between natural and stocked recruitment for inland fisheries Parentage-based tagging using mothers balances accuracy and cost for discriminating between natural and stocked recruitment for inland fisheries
Hatchery programmes are frequently used to supplement inland fisheries, yet achieving successful management outcomes often requires information on stocked versus naturally reproduced fish abundance. Parentage-based tagging – genetically assigning offspring to their parents – has potential to be an effective approach for distinguishing stocked and naturally reproduced fish. However...
Authors
Kimberly B. Fitzpatrick, Nina Overgaard Therkildsen, Benjamin Marcy-Quay, Harmony B. Borchardt-Wier, Suresh Sethi
Elodea mediates juvenile salmon growth by altering physical structure in freshwater habitats Elodea mediates juvenile salmon growth by altering physical structure in freshwater habitats
Invasive species introductions in high latitudes are accelerating and elevating the need to address questions of their effects on Subarctic and Arctic ecosystems. As a driver of ecosystem function, submerged aquatic vegetation is one of the most deleterious biological invasions to aquatic food webs. The aquatic plant Elodea spp. has potential to be a widespread invader to Arctic and...
Authors
Michael Carey, Gordon Reeves, Suresh Sethi, Theresa Tanner, Daniel Young, Krista Bartz, Christian Zimmerman
Diversity in spawning habitat use among Great Lakes Cisco populations Diversity in spawning habitat use among Great Lakes Cisco populations
Cisco (Coregonus artedi) once dominated fish communities in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Restoring the abundance and distribution of this species has emerged as a management priority, yet our understanding of Cisco spawning habitat use is insufficient to characterise habitat needs for these populations and assess whether availability of suitable spawning habitat could be a constraint to...
Authors
Matthew R. Paufve, Suresh Sethi, Brian Weidel, Brian Lantry, Daniel Yule, Lars Rudstam, Jory Jonas, Eric K. Berglund, Michael J. Connerton, Dimitry Gorsky, Matthew Herbert, Jason Smith
Estimating Pacific walrus abundance and survival with multievent mark-recapture models Estimating Pacific walrus abundance and survival with multievent mark-recapture models
Arctic marine ecosystems are undergoing rapid physical and biological change associated with climate warming and loss of sea ice. Sea ice loss will impact many species through altered spatial and temporal availability of resources. In the Bering and Chukchi Seas, the Pacific walrus Odobenus rosmarus divergens is one species that could be impacted by rapid environmental change, and thus...
Authors
William S. Beatty, Patrick R. Lemons, Jason Everett, Cara Lewis, Rebecca Taylor, Robert Lynn, Suresh Sethi, Lori Quakenbush, John Citta, Michelle Kissling, Natalia Kryukova, John Wennburg
Juvenile salmon habitat use drives variation in growth and highlights vulnerability to river fragmentation Juvenile salmon habitat use drives variation in growth and highlights vulnerability to river fragmentation
Widespread stream network fragmentation from dams and culverts has altered habitat connectivity in river ecosystems and presents an acute threat to migratory fish. To support watershed management for an iconic migratory fish group, we assessed juvenile salmon growth outcomes across habitat use strategies and characterized how these life histories may be impacted by stream connectivity...
Authors
Suresh Sethi, Michael Carey, Jonathon Gerken, Bradley P. Harris, Nathan Wolf, Curry Cunningham, Felipe Restrepo, Josh Ashline
Biodiversity underpins fisheries resilience to exploitation in the Amazon River basin. Biodiversity underpins fisheries resilience to exploitation in the Amazon River basin.
Inland fisheries feed greater than 150 million people globally, yet their status is rarely assessed due to their socio-ecological complexity and pervasive lack of data. Here, we leverage an unprecedented landings time series from the Amazon, Earth's largest river basin, together with theoretical food web models to examine (i) taxonomic and trait-based signatures of exploitation in inland...
Authors
Sebastian A. Heilpern, Suresh Sethi, Ronaldo B. Barthem, Vandick da Silva Batista, Carolina Doria, Fabrice Duponchelle, Aurea Garcia Vasquez, Michael Goulding, Victoria Isaac, Shahid Naeem, Alexander S. Flecker
Science and Products
Aquatic Native Species and Habitat Restoration: Cisco Spawning Habitat Assessment
Cisco (formerly known as Lake Herring) Coregonus artedi are native shallow water coregonines which were formerly very abundant in the Great Lakes and provided large commercial fisheries and healthy prey to native piscivores. In most areas outside of Lake Superior, cisco abundance is greatly reduced and in Lakes Ontario and Erie they are uncommon to rare.
Effect of Elodea spp. on Fish Performance Mediated Through Food Web Interactions
The potential for invasive species introductions in Arctic and Subarctic ecosystems is growing as climate change manifests and human activity increases in high latitudes.
Hydroacoustic data from uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) overtakes in Lake Superior, 2022 Hydroacoustic data from uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) overtakes in Lake Superior, 2022
These data were derived from hydroacoustic data collected by uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) and powered research vessels in Lake Superior in 2022. The powered vessels overtook the USVs to study fish avoidance of survey vessels during traditional acoustic surveys. The water column was divided into four depth groups for analysis. Each USV transect was binned into 30-sec intervals and...
Hydroacoustic data from uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) overtakes in Lakes Huron and Michigan, 2021 Hydroacoustic data from uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) overtakes in Lakes Huron and Michigan, 2021
These data were derived from hydroacoustic data collected by uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) and powered research vessels. The powered vessels overtook the USVs in Lakes Huron and Michigan to study fish avoidance of survey vessels during traditional acoustic surveys. The water column was divided into three depth groups (epilimnion, metalimnion, hypolimnion) for analysis. Each drone...
Survival and ancillary data associated with Cisco acoustic tagging experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019 Survival and ancillary data associated with Cisco acoustic tagging experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019
These data include survival information for Cisco in the laboratory for up to 30 days after surgical implantation of two different sizes of Lotek acoustic tags. Three-hundred fish of a range of sizes were used for the implantation and controls of this experiment, which was repeated three time. Ancillary data of surgical condition, recovery, and time until death or tag expulsion were also...
Filter Total Items: 47
Clarifying the role of the resist–accept–direct framework in supporting resource management planning processes Clarifying the role of the resist–accept–direct framework in supporting resource management planning processes
No abstract available.
Authors
Gregor Schuurman, Wylie Carr, Cat Hawkins Hoffman, David Lawrence, Brian Miller, Erik Beever, Jean Brennan, Katherine Clifford, Scott Covington, Shelley Crausbay, Amanda Cravens, John Gross, Linh Hoang, Stephen Jackson, Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Wendy Morrison, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Robin O'Malley, Jay Peterson, Mark T. Porath, Karen Prentice, Joel Reynolds, Suresh Sethi, Helen Sofaer, Jennifer Wilkening
Reconstructing half a century of coregonine recruitment reveals species-specific dynamics and synchrony across the Laurentian Great Lakes Reconstructing half a century of coregonine recruitment reveals species-specific dynamics and synchrony across the Laurentian Great Lakes
Understanding how multiple species and populations vary in their recruitment dynamics can elucidate the processes driving recruitment across space and time. Lake Whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and Cisco (C. artedi) are socioecologically important fishes across their range; however, many Laurentian Great Lakes populations have experienced declining, poor, or sporadic recruitment in...
Authors
Taylor Brown, Lars Rudstam, Suresh Sethi, Paul Ripple, Jason Smith, Ted Treska, Christopher Hessell, Erik Olsen, Ji He, Jory Jonas, Benjamin Rook, Joshua Blankenheim, Sarah Beech, Erin Brown, Eric Berglund, H. Andrew Cook, Erin Dunlop, Stephen James, Steven Pothoven, Zach Amidon, John A. Sweka, Dray Carl, Scott Hansen, David Bunnell, Brian Weidel, Andrew Honsey
Synthesizing professional opinion of Lake Whitefish and Cisco recruitment drivers across the Great Lakes Synthesizing professional opinion of Lake Whitefish and Cisco recruitment drivers across the Great Lakes
Disentangling the suite of ecological drivers that explain recruitment variability for Lake Whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis and Cisco C. artedi is of critical importance for their conservation, management, and stewardship in the Laurentian Great Lakes. However, recruitment is inherently variable and can be regulated by many interacting processes, the relative importance of which can...
Authors
Taylor Brown, Lars Rudstam, Suresh Sethi, Chris Hessell, Erik Olsen, Jory Jonas, Benjamin Rook, Steven Pothoven, Sarah Beech, Erin Dunlop, Stephen James, Jason Smith, Zach Amidon, Dray Carl, David Bunnell, Ralph Tingley, Brian Weidel, Andrew Honsey
Multistage time-to-event models improve survival inference by partitioning mortality processes of tracked organisms Multistage time-to-event models improve survival inference by partitioning mortality processes of tracked organisms
Advances in tagging technologies are expanding opportunities to estimate survival of fish and wildlife populations. Yet, capture and handling effects could impact survival outcomes and bias inference about natural mortality processes. We developed a multistage time-to-event model that can partition the survival process into sequential phases that reflect the tagged animal experience...
Authors
Suresh Sethi, Alex Koeberle, Anna Poulton, Daniel W. Linden, Duane Diefenbach, Frances Buderman, Mary Casalena, Kenneth Duren
Prey ration, temperature, and predator species influence digestion rates of prey DNA inferred from qPCR and metabarcoding Prey ration, temperature, and predator species influence digestion rates of prey DNA inferred from qPCR and metabarcoding
Diet analysis is a vital tool for understanding trophic interactions and is frequently used to inform conservation and management. Molecular approaches can identify diet items that are impossible to distinguish using more traditional visual-based methods. Yet, our understanding of how different variables, such as predator species or prey ration size, influence molecular diet analysis is...
Authors
Cory Dick, Wesley A. Larson, Kirby Karpan, Diana Baetscher, Yue Shi, Suresh Sethi, Nann A. Fangue, Mark J. Henderson
Larval cisco and lake whitefish exhibit high distributional overlap within nursery areas Larval cisco and lake whitefish exhibit high distributional overlap within nursery areas
Coregonine fishes, including lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and cisco (C. artedi), are socioecologically important in the Laurentian Great Lakes and of conservation concern, but the processes driving recruitment variability are unclear. In Lake Ontario, cisco and lake whitefish exhibit similar spawning behaviours and early life histories, but population trajectories are...
Authors
Taylor Brown, Lars Rudstam, Jeremy Holden, Brian Weidel, Amanda Ackiss, Ann Ropp, Marc Chalupnicki, James McKenna, Suresh Sethi
Parentage-based tagging using mothers balances accuracy and cost for discriminating between natural and stocked recruitment for inland fisheries Parentage-based tagging using mothers balances accuracy and cost for discriminating between natural and stocked recruitment for inland fisheries
Hatchery programmes are frequently used to supplement inland fisheries, yet achieving successful management outcomes often requires information on stocked versus naturally reproduced fish abundance. Parentage-based tagging – genetically assigning offspring to their parents – has potential to be an effective approach for distinguishing stocked and naturally reproduced fish. However...
Authors
Kimberly B. Fitzpatrick, Nina Overgaard Therkildsen, Benjamin Marcy-Quay, Harmony B. Borchardt-Wier, Suresh Sethi
Elodea mediates juvenile salmon growth by altering physical structure in freshwater habitats Elodea mediates juvenile salmon growth by altering physical structure in freshwater habitats
Invasive species introductions in high latitudes are accelerating and elevating the need to address questions of their effects on Subarctic and Arctic ecosystems. As a driver of ecosystem function, submerged aquatic vegetation is one of the most deleterious biological invasions to aquatic food webs. The aquatic plant Elodea spp. has potential to be a widespread invader to Arctic and...
Authors
Michael Carey, Gordon Reeves, Suresh Sethi, Theresa Tanner, Daniel Young, Krista Bartz, Christian Zimmerman
Diversity in spawning habitat use among Great Lakes Cisco populations Diversity in spawning habitat use among Great Lakes Cisco populations
Cisco (Coregonus artedi) once dominated fish communities in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Restoring the abundance and distribution of this species has emerged as a management priority, yet our understanding of Cisco spawning habitat use is insufficient to characterise habitat needs for these populations and assess whether availability of suitable spawning habitat could be a constraint to...
Authors
Matthew R. Paufve, Suresh Sethi, Brian Weidel, Brian Lantry, Daniel Yule, Lars Rudstam, Jory Jonas, Eric K. Berglund, Michael J. Connerton, Dimitry Gorsky, Matthew Herbert, Jason Smith
Estimating Pacific walrus abundance and survival with multievent mark-recapture models Estimating Pacific walrus abundance and survival with multievent mark-recapture models
Arctic marine ecosystems are undergoing rapid physical and biological change associated with climate warming and loss of sea ice. Sea ice loss will impact many species through altered spatial and temporal availability of resources. In the Bering and Chukchi Seas, the Pacific walrus Odobenus rosmarus divergens is one species that could be impacted by rapid environmental change, and thus...
Authors
William S. Beatty, Patrick R. Lemons, Jason Everett, Cara Lewis, Rebecca Taylor, Robert Lynn, Suresh Sethi, Lori Quakenbush, John Citta, Michelle Kissling, Natalia Kryukova, John Wennburg
Juvenile salmon habitat use drives variation in growth and highlights vulnerability to river fragmentation Juvenile salmon habitat use drives variation in growth and highlights vulnerability to river fragmentation
Widespread stream network fragmentation from dams and culverts has altered habitat connectivity in river ecosystems and presents an acute threat to migratory fish. To support watershed management for an iconic migratory fish group, we assessed juvenile salmon growth outcomes across habitat use strategies and characterized how these life histories may be impacted by stream connectivity...
Authors
Suresh Sethi, Michael Carey, Jonathon Gerken, Bradley P. Harris, Nathan Wolf, Curry Cunningham, Felipe Restrepo, Josh Ashline
Biodiversity underpins fisheries resilience to exploitation in the Amazon River basin. Biodiversity underpins fisheries resilience to exploitation in the Amazon River basin.
Inland fisheries feed greater than 150 million people globally, yet their status is rarely assessed due to their socio-ecological complexity and pervasive lack of data. Here, we leverage an unprecedented landings time series from the Amazon, Earth's largest river basin, together with theoretical food web models to examine (i) taxonomic and trait-based signatures of exploitation in inland...
Authors
Sebastian A. Heilpern, Suresh Sethi, Ronaldo B. Barthem, Vandick da Silva Batista, Carolina Doria, Fabrice Duponchelle, Aurea Garcia Vasquez, Michael Goulding, Victoria Isaac, Shahid Naeem, Alexander S. Flecker