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...

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...

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!

#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...

🎶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

🎶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 ❄️

🎶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

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 🐈🐟

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