Poor quality, isolated habitat promotes dispersal in an endangered riparian bird, but long-distance dispersal requires benign climatic conditions and high population density 📊
To enhance connectivity, suggests actions that boost source populations 🐦🌏 🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Background image is a blurred fall landscape. Four headshots are in a row at the top left corner of the graphic with titles and names. Title reads 'Mobilizing Evidence Syntheses to Inform Environmental Decision-Making'. Beneeath is a calendar graphic and 'DATE 07, April, 2025' and a clock graphic with 'TIME 1 - 2 PM EST'. The CCEIC logo and Canadian Science Publishing logo sits in the bottom right corner.
Join CSP and @envevidencecanada.bsky.social for our kick-off partnership webinar on mobilizing evidence syntheses for environmental decision-making. Register now ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
OTN’s study hall promotes a culture of open science by providing a platform for transparent discussions and problem solving. These informal sessions on Thursdays can be a valuable resource for anyone interested in aquatic telemetry. Learn more: oceantrackingnetwork.org/study-hall/
Migrating hundreds and hundreds of miles is hard work for the common noctule bat. But this European species makes its marathon journey a little bit easier by paying attention to the weather.
Tired: Times Square Ball Drop
Wired: Port Clinton, OH celebrating New Year's Eve by dropping an 18-ft long, 700 lb fiberglass fish named Wylie the Walleye at the stroke of midnight www.13abc.com/2024/12/31/p...
A scene from the animated "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" with fish overlayed on the Whos eating dinner
And with that, Year 9 of #25DaysofFishmas is complete! Thank you to everyone who's followed along and shared these silly (and occasionally interesting) posts about #GreatLakes fish. I hope you have the chance to celebrate the amazing world just under the water's surface all year long!
The #25DaysofFishmas calendar with striped shiner on Day 25; the calendar is a grid of 25 red squares
#Fishmas Day is here at last, so break out the candy canes because Day 25 is all about the stripes - the Striped Shiner (Luxilus chrysocephalus), that is!
We end this year's #GreatLakes #25DaysofFishmas by shining some light on a small fish who’s not often in the spotlight ✨
Kicked off our sampling season in style with a few big snook. I was fortunate to acoustically tag this fish a few years back. Though I’ve handed over my scalpel to some great new lab mates since, it made me happy to see this one still running around the Shark River, Everglades National Park 🐟
Check out @mackeco.bsky.social's drone footage of a smallmouth buffalo spawning migration in Tenn.—as spectacular as any Bristol Bay sockeye run!
And see also "Salmon of the Southeastern US," White et al's paper on nutrient input from these underloved fish.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
REU programs are starting to come out across the LTER Network!
See all the postings below.
REU opportunities will continue to come out through the winter, so check back often for the most up-to-date postings.
lternet.edu/education-an...
The #25DaysofFishmas calendar with chestnut lamprey on Day 17; the calendar is a grid of 25 red squares
🎶Chestnuts roasting on an open fire🎶
As another cool native #GreatLakes species often mistaken for being invasive, the Chestnut Lamprey (Ichthyomyzon castaneus) is perfect for today’s #GarWeek theme of “Invasive Species Awareness”! Though they may not be winning any beauty contests #25DaysofFishmas
The #25DaysofFishmas calendar with pygmy whitefish on Day 9; the calendar is a grid of 25 red squares
🎶I’m dreaming of a white #Fishmas…🎶
If you're dreaming of snow and cold this winter, you're in good company - the Pygmy Whitefish (Prosopium coulterii), is a small, little-known fish adapted for life in cold and dark environments like the deepest parts of Lake Superior #25DaysofFishmas ❄️
The #25DaysofFishmas calendar (a series of 25 red squares) with northern pike on December 3
🎶Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Fish nipping at your nose 🎶
Day 3’s #Fishmas feature is a species that wouldn’t be out of place at the North Pole!
The Northern Pike (Esox lucius), also known in Canada as jackfish, is a popular catch across the #GreatLakes and beyond #25DaysofFishmas
The #25DaysofFishmas calendar (a series of 25 red squares containing the numbers 1-25) with black bullhead (a catfish) on December 2
Grab the bull(head) by the horns on Day 2 of #25DaysofFishmas because it's time for the black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) to shine!
The second day of #Fishmas brings a cool cat - one of several species of catfishes on the prowl throughout the #GreatLakes 🐈🐟
A brown-colored fish called a pirate perch wears a Santa hat; the text says December 1
The pirate perch’s scientific name “Aphredoderus” comes from the Greek “aphod” meaning “excrement” and “dere” meaning “throat” - so basically, “poop neck.”
Unlike most fish, their urogenital opening (a hole for excretion + reproduction) is located on the throat #25DaysofFishmas
More #fish species have been found in the world's #freshwater habitats (~1% of Earth's surface) than in all the world's oceans (~70% of Earth's surface).
More info: wwf.panda.org/discover/our...
In August, a forest burned and a reef bleached.
How the Andrews Forest and Moorea Coral Reef LTER sites respond to these disturbances highlights the struggle and opportunity that come with an irreparably altered ecosystem.
Read the new story here:
lternet.edu/stories/burn...
So excited to finally see this paper out in Conservation letters!
We worked collaboratively w/ recreational anglers (through CCFRP) to sample 12 MPAs over 6 years & found evidence to further support age and size matter for fish across a temperate reserve network.
doi.org/10.1111/conl.13000
