Molecular and distributional data used to investigate misidentifications, population genetic diversity, and spatiotemporal trends in distribution for Pleurobema riddellii to help guide ESA listing decisions

We provide genetic and distribution data for the Louisiana Pigtoe, Pleurobema riddellii, to guide decisions related to federal protection for the species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Our final dataset includes 125 COI sequences generated as part of our study representing P. riddellii from eight North American river basins. This includes the COI sequence we generated from a museum specimen collected from the Trinity River in the late 1900s, which is the first genetic confirmation of P. riddellii in the Trinity River basin. Also included are sequences from specimens initially identified as Fusconaia cerina (n=3) Fusconaia flava (n=1), Fusconaia sp. (n=5), Pleurobema sintoxia (n=10), and Pustulosa pustulosa...

Categories: Data; Tags: Amite River, Aquatic Biology, Arkansas, Calcasieu River, Genetics, All tags... Lake Pontchartrain, Little River, Louisiana, Mississippi, Neches River, Oklahoma, Ouachita River, Pearl River, Sabine River, Saline River, San Jacinto River, Texas, Trinity River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, conservation, endangered species, freshwater mussels, genetics, range extension, species status assessment, Fewer tags

In Support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 3-Bat Species Status Assessment: Summer Mobile Acoustic Transect Analysis

Through the North American Bat Monitoring Program, Bat Conservation International and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collaborated with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provided technical and science support to assistance in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services’ Species Status Assessment (“SSA”) for the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), and tri-colored bat (Perimyotis subflavus). We conducted analyses to estimate changes in bat echolocation activity recorded during mobile transect surveys. Bat activity recorded during mobile acoustic transects provide an index of abundance and can be used to determine changes in populations over time (Roche et al. 2011, Jones et...

Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS-EMA-LOW-IS White-Nose Syndrome, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Bats, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB T&E: Bats, All tags... USGS-EMA-LOW-SS Wind energy, United States, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, acoustic mobile transect surveys, bats, biota, endangered species, species status assessment, white-nose syndrome, wind energy, Fewer tags

Estimating population persistence for at-risk species using citizen science data

Abstract (from ELSEVIER) Population persistence probability is valuable for characterizing risk to species and informing listing and conservation decisions but is challenging to estimate through traditional methods for rare, data-limited species. Modeling approaches have used citizen science data to mitigate data limitations of focal species and better estimate parameters such as occupancy and detection, but their use to estimate persistence and inform conservation decisions is limited. We developed an approach to estimate persistence using only occurrence records of the target species and citizen science occurrence data of non-target species to account for search effort and imperfect detection. We applied the...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Bayesian inference, Conservation planning, Endangered species listing decisions, Extinction probability, Forests, All tags... Landscapes, Other Wildlife, Southeast CASC, Southeast CASC, Southern Hognose Snake, Species status assessment, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags