Publications
FORT scientists have produced more than 1,500 peer reviewed publications that are registered in the USGS Publications Warehouse, along with many others prior to their work at the USGS or in conjunction with other government agencies.
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A case for stream corridor restoration
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Mark K. Briggs, Osvel Hinojosa-Huerta, Waite Osterkamp, Patrick B. Shafroth, Carlos A. Sifuentes Lugo, Lindsay White, Francisco Zamora
The roles of phenotypic plasticity and adaptation in morphology and performance of an invasive species in a novel environment
(1) Species introductions provide insights into rapid adaptation and adaptive phenotypic plasticity, as populations encounter and respond to new environments and selection pressures. However, maladaptive responses are increasingly recognized to also be common in nature. The spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, has rapidly invaded divergent environments providing the opportunity...
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Marcel-Kate G. Jardeleza, Jonathan B Koch, Ian Pearse, Cameron K. Ghalambor, Ruth A. Hufbauer
Budburst timing of valley oaks at Hastings Reservation, central coastal California
We studied the timing of budburst of valley oak (Quercus lobata Née) at Hastings Reservation, central coastal California. Similar to other taxa, budburst was advanced by warmer temperatures. Over the 30-year study period, however, there were no significant trends in either air temperature or the timing of budburst, except during the 2014–2016 drought, during which the earliest budburst...
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Walter D. Koenig, Mario B. Pesendorfer, Ian Pearse, William J. Carmen, Johannes MH Knops
Making Recursive Bayesian inference accessible
Bayesian models provide recursive inference naturally because they can formally reconcile new data and existing scientific information. However, popular use of Bayesian methods often avoids priors that are based on exact posterior distributions resulting from former studies. Two existing Recursive Bayesian methods are: Prior- and Proposal-Recursive Bayes. Prior-Recursive Bayes uses...
Authors
Mevin Hooten, Devin S. Johnson, Brian M. Brost
Living with wildfire in Ashland, Oregon: 2020 data report
Wildfire affects many types of communities. Improved understandings of urban conflagrations are leading some fire-prone communities, such as Ashland, Oregon, to expand their attention from focusing solely on the intermix fringe to managing wildfire threats across more urbanized wildland urban interface (WUI) communities. The core intent of this project was to build a partnership between...
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Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Chris Chambers, Katie Gibble, Christopher M. Barth, Colleen Donovan, Carolyn J Wagner, Alison Lerch, James Meldrum, Patricia A. Champ
Evidence of post-breeding prospecting in a long-distance migrant.
Organisms assess biotic and abiotic cues at multiple sites when deciding where to settle. However, due to temporal constraints on this prospecting, the suitability of available habitat may be difficult for an individual to assess when cues are most reliable, or at the time they are making settlement decisions. For migratory birds, the postbreeding season may be the optimal time to...
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Max Ciaglo, Ross Calhoun, Scott W Yanco, Michael B. Wunder, Craig A. Stricker, Brian D Linkhart
Ecological interfaces between land and flowing water: Themes and trends in riparian research and management
This paper provides an overview of past, present and future themes for research and management of riparian zones, often relating to papers within this Wetlands Special Feature. Riparian research expanded in the United States around 1980 with themes that recognized (1) damage from excessive livestock, or (2) damage from river damming and diversion, and (3) the beneficial capacity of...
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Stewart B. Rood, Michael L. Scott, Mark D. Dixon, Eduardo Gonzalez, Christian O Marks, Patrick B. Shafroth, Martin Volk
Density dependence and adult survival drive the dynamics in two high elevation amphibian populations
Amphibian conservation has progressed from the identification of declines to mitigation, but efforts are hampered by the lack of nuanced information about the effects of environmental characteristics and stressors on mechanistic processes of population regulation. Challenges include a paucity of long-term data and scant information about the relative roles of extrinsic (e.g., weather)...
Authors
Amanda Marie Kissel, Simone Tenan, Erin L. Muths
Forest restoration and fuels reduction: Convergent or divergent?
For over 20 years, forest fuel reduction has been the dominant management action in western US forests. These same actions have also been associated with the restoration of highly altered frequent-fire forests. Perhaps the vital element in the compatibility of these treatments is that both need to incorporate the salient characteristics that frequent fire produced—variability in...
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Scott L. Stephens, Mike A. Battaglia, Derek J. Churchill, Brandon M. Collins, Michelle Coppoletta, Chad M. Hoffman, Jamie M. Lydersen, Malcolm P. North, Russell A. Parsons, Scott M. Ritter, Jens Stevens
Emoia atrocostata (mangrove skink)
No abstract available.
Authors
Robert Reed, Lea R. Bonewell, Gordon H. Rodda
Resist-accept-direct (RAD)-A framework for the 21st-century natural resource manager
An assumption of stationarity—i.e. “the idea that natural systems fluctuate within an unchanging envelope of variability” (Milly et al. 2008)—underlies traditional conservation and natural resource management, as evidenced by widespread reliance on ecological baselines to guide protection, restoration, and other management. Although ecological change certainly occurred under the...
Authors
Gregor W. Schuurman, Cat Hawkins Hoffman, David R. Cole, David J. Lawrence, John P. Morton, Dawn Robin Magness, Amanda E. Cravens, Scott Covington, Robin O'Malley, Nicholas A. Fisichelli
Ecology and management of plague in diverse communities of rodents and fleas
Plague originated in Asia as a flea-borne zoonosis of mammalian hosts. Today, the disease is distributed nearly worldwide. In western United States of America, plague is maintained, transmitted, and amplified in diverse communities of rodents and fleas. We examined flea diversity on three species of prairie dogs (Cynomys spp., PDs) and six species of sympatric small rodents in Montana...
Authors
David Eads, Dean E. Biggins, Kenneth L. Gage