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View article: Stopping Rule Sampling to Monitor and Protect Endangered Species
Stopping Rule Sampling to Monitor and Protect Endangered Species Open
Ecological science and management often require animal population abundance estimates to determine population status, set harvest limits on exploited populations, assess biodiversity, and evaluate the effects of management actions. However…
View article: Identifying minimum freshwater habitat conditions for an endangered fish using life cycle analysis
Identifying minimum freshwater habitat conditions for an endangered fish using life cycle analysis Open
Identifying the most important factors affecting population growth in animal life cycles is an important tool of species conservation. Delta Smelt ( Hypomesus transpacificus ), an annual fish endemic to the San Francisco Estuary in Califor…
View article: Evaluating top‐down, bottom‐up, and environmental drivers of pelagic food web dynamics along an estuarine gradient
Evaluating top‐down, bottom‐up, and environmental drivers of pelagic food web dynamics along an estuarine gradient Open
Identification of the key biotic and abiotic drivers within food webs is important for understanding species abundance changes in ecosystems, particularly across ecotones where there may be strong variation in interaction strengths. Using …
View article: Proofing Field and Laboratory Species Identification Procedures Developed for the Non-Native Osmerid Species Wakasagi (Hypomesus nipponensis) Using SHERLOCK-Based Genetic Verification
Proofing Field and Laboratory Species Identification Procedures Developed for the Non-Native Osmerid Species Wakasagi (Hypomesus nipponensis) Using SHERLOCK-Based Genetic Verification Open
Accurate species identification is critical to monitoring programs because mis-identifications can lead to incorrect assessments of population status and trends. In the San Francisco Estuary, efforts to monitor the imperiled osmerid Delta …
View article: New Horizons in artificial intelligence in the healthcare of older people
New Horizons in artificial intelligence in the healthcare of older people Open
Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare describes algorithm-based computational techniques which manage and analyse large datasets to make inferences and predictions. There are many potential applications of AI in the care of older peop…
View article: New horizons in the role of digital data in the healthcare of older people
New horizons in the role of digital data in the healthcare of older people Open
There are national and global moves to improve effective digital data design and application in healthcare. This New Horizons commentary describes the role of digital data in healthcare of the ageing population. We outline how health and s…
View article: Combining multiple data sources with different biases in state‐space models for population dynamics
Combining multiple data sources with different biases in state‐space models for population dynamics Open
The resolution at which animal populations can be modeled can be increased when multiple datasets corresponding to different life stages are available, allowing, for example, seasonal instead of annual descriptions of dynamics. However, th…
View article: Evaluating top-down, bottom-up, and environmental drivers of pelagic food web dynamics along an estuarine gradient
Evaluating top-down, bottom-up, and environmental drivers of pelagic food web dynamics along an estuarine gradient Open
Identification of the key biotic and abiotic drivers within food webs is important for understanding species abundance changes in ecosystems, particularly across ecotones where there may be strong variation in interaction strengths. Using …
View article: Wakasagi in the San Francisco Bay Delta Watershed: Comparative Trends in Distribution and Life-History Traits with Native Delta Smelt
Wakasagi in the San Francisco Bay Delta Watershed: Comparative Trends in Distribution and Life-History Traits with Native Delta Smelt Open
Intentional introductions of non-native fishes can severely affect native communities. Wakasagi (Hypomesus nipponensis, referred to as Japanese Pond Smelt) are native to Japan and were once separated from their non-native congener the enda…
View article: Leveraging Delta Smelt Monitoring for Detecting Juvenile Chinook Salmon in the San Francisco Estuary
Leveraging Delta Smelt Monitoring for Detecting Juvenile Chinook Salmon in the San Francisco Estuary Open
Monitoring is an essential component in ecosystem management, and leveraging existing data sources for multiple species of interest can be one effective way to enhance information for management agencies. Here, we analyzed juvenile Chinook…
View article: Leveraging Delta Smelt Monitoring for Detecting Juvenile Chinook Salmon in the San Francisco Estuary
Leveraging Delta Smelt Monitoring for Detecting Juvenile Chinook Salmon in the San Francisco Estuary Open
Monitoring is an essential component in ecosystem management, and leveraging existing data sources for multiple species of interest can be one effective way to enhance information for management agencies. Here, we analyzed juvenile Chinook…
View article: Leveraging Delta Smelt Data for Juvenile Chinook Salmon Monitoring in the San Francisco Estuary
Leveraging Delta Smelt Data for Juvenile Chinook Salmon Monitoring in the San Francisco Estuary Open
Monitoring is an essential component in ecosystem management and leveraging existing data sources for multiple species of interest can be one effective way to enhance information when making management decisions. Here we analyzed juvenile …
View article: Resistance and resilience of pelagic and littoral fishes to drought in the San Francisco Estuary
Resistance and resilience of pelagic and littoral fishes to drought in the San Francisco Estuary Open
Many estuarine ecosystems and the fish communities that inhabit them have undergone substantial changes in the past several decades, largely due to multiple interacting stressors that are often of anthropogenic origin. Few are more impactf…
View article: Resistance and Resilience of Pelagic and Littoral Fishes to Drought in the San Francisco Estuary
Resistance and Resilience of Pelagic and Littoral Fishes to Drought in the San Francisco Estuary Open
Many estuarine ecosystems and the fish communities that inhabit them have undergone substantial changes in the past several decades, largely due to multiple interacting stressors that are often of anthropogenic origin. Few are more impactf…
View article: Leveraging Delta Smelt Data for Juvenile Chinook Salmon Monitoring in the San Francisco Estuary
Leveraging Delta Smelt Data for Juvenile Chinook Salmon Monitoring in the San Francisco Estuary Open
Monitoring is an essential component in ecosystem management and leveraging existing data sources for multiple species of interest can be one effective way to enhance information when making management decisions. Here we analyzed juvenile …
View article: Examining Retention-at-Length of Pelagic Fishes Caught in the Fall Midwater Trawl Survey
Examining Retention-at-Length of Pelagic Fishes Caught in the Fall Midwater Trawl Survey Open
The Fall Midwater Trawl Survey has provided data on aquatic organisms in the San Francisco Estuary for over five decades. In 2014–2015, a study was conducted to investigate and quantify the efficiency of this trawl for catching the endange…
View article: Fish Community Resistance and Resilience to Drought in the San Francisco Estuary: A Retrospective of Five Decades of Drought Cycles
Fish Community Resistance and Resilience to Drought in the San Francisco Estuary: A Retrospective of Five Decades of Drought Cycles Open
Many estuarine ecosystems and the fish communities that inhabit them have undergone significant changes in the past several decades, largely due to multiple interacting stressors that are often of anthropogenic origin. Few are more impactf…
View article: Improving inference for nonlinear state‐space models of animal population dynamics given biased sequential life stage data
Improving inference for nonlinear state‐space models of animal population dynamics given biased sequential life stage data Open
State‐space models (SSMs) are a popular tool for modeling animal abundances. Inference difficulties for simple linear SSMs are well known, particularly in relation to simultaneous estimation of process and observation variances. Several re…
View article: Data from: Resistance and Resilience of Pelagic and Littoral Fishes to Drought in the San Francisco Estuary
Data from: Resistance and Resilience of Pelagic and Littoral Fishes to Drought in the San Francisco Estuary Open
Data from: Resistance and Resilience of Pelagic and Littoral Fishes to Drought in the San Francisco Estuary (Ecological Applications)Mahardja, B., V. Tobias, S. Khanna, L. Mitchell, P. Lehman, T. Sommer, L. Brown, S. Culberson, and J.L. Co…
View article: Data from: Resistance and Resilience of Pelagic and Littoral Fishes to Drought in the San Francisco Estuary
Data from: Resistance and Resilience of Pelagic and Littoral Fishes to Drought in the San Francisco Estuary Open
Data from: Resistance and Resilience of Pelagic and Littoral Fishes to Drought in the San Francisco Estuary (Ecological Applications)Mahardja, B., V. Tobias, S. Khanna, L. Mitchell, P. Lehman, T. Sommer, L. Brown, S. Culberson, and J.L. Co…
View article: Data from: Resistance and Resilience of Pelagic and Littoral Fishes to Drought in the San Francisco Estuary
Data from: Resistance and Resilience of Pelagic and Littoral Fishes to Drought in the San Francisco Estuary Open
Data from: Resistance and Resilience of Pelagic and Littoral Fishes to Drought in the San Francisco Estuary (Ecological Applications)Mahardja, B., V. Tobias, S. Khanna, L. Mitchell, P. Lehman, T. Sommer, L. Brown, S. Culberson, and J.L. Co…
View article: A Bayesian hierarchical model of postlarval delta smelt entrainment: integrating transport, length composition, and sampling efficiency in estimates of loss
A Bayesian hierarchical model of postlarval delta smelt entrainment: integrating transport, length composition, and sampling efficiency in estimates of loss Open
Hydrodynamic models have been used to estimate rates of ichthyoplankton transport across marine and estuarine environments and subsequent geographic isolation of a portion of the population (i.e., entrainment). Combining simulated data fro…
View article: Improving inference for nonlinear state-space models of animal\n population dynamics given biased sequential life stage data
Improving inference for nonlinear state-space models of animal\n population dynamics given biased sequential life stage data Open
State-space models (SSMs) are a popular tool for modeling animal abundances.\nInference difficulties for simple linear SSMs are well known, particularly in\nrelation to simultaneous estimation of process and observation variances.\nSeveral…
View article: Estimating the Size Selectivity of Fishing Trawls for a Short-Lived Fish Species
Estimating the Size Selectivity of Fishing Trawls for a Short-Lived Fish Species Open
Long-term fish survey monitoring programs use a variety of fishing gears to catch fish, and the resulting catches are the basis for status and trends reports on the condition of different fish stocks. These catches can also be part of the …
View article: A Covered Cod-End and Tow-Path Evaluation of Midwater Trawl Gear Efficiency for Catching Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus)
A Covered Cod-End and Tow-Path Evaluation of Midwater Trawl Gear Efficiency for Catching Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) Open
For nearly 50 years, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has used a midwater trawl to intensively monitor fish populations in the San Francisco Estuary during the fall, sampling over 100 locations each month. The data collected …
View article: Abundance of <i>bsh</i> in metagenomic data from IBD and diabetic patients.
Abundance of <i>bsh</i> in metagenomic data from IBD and diabetic patients. Open
Abundance of bsh genes was obtained by searching a BSH protein database against publicly available SRA sequences from HMP and MetaHIT metagenomic datasets for Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC) (A) and diabetic patient…