The current website of the US Department of Agriculture. What a nightmare.

Funding: CESAB programme of @frbiodiv.bsky.social. Great list of co-authors and fun working group! @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwfreshwater.bsky.social @profchrisharrod.bsky.social @profchrisharrod.bsky.social

In a global test, we show that morphological traits show weak (ca. 10% var exp) associations with d13C & d15N for freshwater fish species. At the individual level, morphology explained 4% in isotopic variation within populations. Body size & jaw length explained some var, albeit not much.

Support of such claims depends on the fundamental, albeit often unspoken, assumption that morphological characteristics of fish, such as body size & shape, fin configuration, & the size & orientation of the mouth and eyes, serve as reliable indicators of their feeding strategies & prey preferences.

It was a real pleasure to participate in the Mazama Newt Workshop at Crater Lake hosted by the @oregonzoo.bsky.social and the National Park Service. Discussions focused on a recovery plan for the Mazama newt in light of an exploding invasive signal crayfish. Great to see @ericrlarson.bsky.social!

Wonderful to be able to spend some time at @iea-udg.bsky.social at @univgirona.bsky.social with my host and friend @garciaberthou.bsky.social. Looking forward to my seminar in a few hours!

Another wonderful CESAB FOOD-WEBS working group meeting!. Such a wonderful and productive time (managed to submit 2 papers during the meeting) Special thanks to @profchrisharrod.bsky.social for hosting us at @sceneuog.bsky.social in Scotland! Funding: @frbiodiv.bsky.social

Management struggles to keep pace with invaders. With @jessdiallo.bsky.social and others we demonstrate the utility of removal models to help improve invasive removal programs & robustly evaluate the success of population suppression & eradication.
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Dear friends and colleagues! I'm looking for a riparian zone (area) spatial layer for 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇦 (or ind. provinces/territories). Something simple that has been delineated using a DEM and estimated flood height, for example. Image below is purely eye candy. Many thanks ... from a Canadian 🇨🇦

Just returning from the Texas A&M Ecological Integration Symposium (eeb.tamu.edu/eis/). Thanks to the student organizing committee and all the other invited speakers! I presented on the current protection status of American's rivers and threats to protections in the future. @tamu.bsky.social

Invasion ecology is replete with a body of well-supported yet contradictory evidence for numerous invasion hypotheses, likely as a result of context dependency. Just published in DDI we explore the indirect effects & context dependencies in fish invasions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Nice one Solomon! One of my fondest projects was working with the Australian lungfish in the Mary River (2004!).

A wonderful holiday card from @clairevaage.bsky.social. It’s impossible not to get holiday cheer from an eastern mudminnow! With the added bonus of Olden Lab stickers!

New paper in @freshwaterscience.bsky.social reporting on the efficiency and effectiveness of an innovative new methodology called autonomous suction harvesting that controls aquatic invasive plant using a ROV instead of a diver . Paper <- dx.doi.org/10.1086/733211 or find at RG @uwsafs.bsky.social

People often ask me "what do you work on?". At the end of an exhausting day, I wish I could make stickers of this word cloud and just slap it on their shoulders! ;)

Our new study reports that over 13,000 human barriers fragment close to THREE-QUARTERS of all rivers in the Mekong River Basin.

Paper is free to access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.rs....

Global invasion and biosecurity risk from the online trade in ornamental crayfish - just out in ConBiology. We conducted the first global assessment of the online trade in and associated invasion risk of freshwater crayfishes. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hi folks. I'm eagerly awaiting re-connection with my science colleagues and friends. Let's do this!