The article appeared on April 2 in the journal Illiesia. The authors found Nearctic Nemoura rickeri to be a junior synonym of Nemoura sahlbergi, which affects Alaskan specimens.
Category Archives: Freshwater arthropods
Diura washingtoniana (Hanson) resurrected from synonymy with D. nanseni (Kempny) (Plecoptera: Perlodidae), supplemented with a description of the larva and egg and comparison to other congeners
Even though this article does not cite any Alaskan specimens, it is pertinent to the Canadian and Alaskan members of the genus.
Proceedings of the 17th annual Alaska Invasive Species Workshop
Presentations from the 17th annual Alaska Invasive Species Workshop have been posted at the URI below.
http://www.uaf.edu/ces/pests/cnipm/annual-invasive-species-c/17th-annual-meeting-proce/
Direct links to arthropod-related presentations:
Electrofishing and kick seining efforts for invasive signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) on Kodiak Island, Alaska – Kelly Krueger, Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak. Project video
Leafminers in Alaskan birch – Stephen Burr, USDA, Forest Service, Forest Health Protection
Asian gypsy moth detection and response in the Pacific Northwest, 2015 and 2016 – Clinton Campbell, USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, and Timothy B. St. Germain, Plant Protection and Quarantine
Ticks parasitizing dogs, cats, humans and wild vertebrates in Alaska: invasion potential – Kimberlee Beckmen, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Wildlife Conservation.
The Taxonomy of the North American Species of Parameletus Bengtsson, 1908 (Ephemeroptera: Siphlonuridae), with Keys to Nymphs and Male Imagos
The article appeared November 1st in the Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3752/cjai.2017.33
Using stable isotopes to assess the contribution of terrestrial and riverine organic matter to diets of nearshore marine consumers in a glacially influenced estuary
The article appeared May 31, 2017 in the journal Estuaries and Coasts.
Aquatic insect community structure and secondary production in southcentral Alaska streams with contrasting thermal and hydrologic regimes
In her M.Sc. thesis, dated December 2016, Samantha Hertel analyzed aquatic arthropod communities in the Copper River Delta.
Citation:
Hertel, S. D. 2016. Aquatic insect community structure and secondary production in southcentral alaska streams with contrasting thermal and hydrologic regimes (Order No. 10241078). M.Sc. thesis, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois. https://search.proquest.com/docview/1867049666
Biotic responses to multiple aquatic and terrestrial gradients in shallow subarctic lakes (Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada).
This article, appearing 6.Feb.2017 in the journal Arctic Science, analyzes chironomid communities in some lakes in the Yukon.
Prey partitioning and use of insects by juvenile sockeye salmon and a potential competitor, threespine stickleback, in Afognak Lake, Alaska
The article (URI below) appeared in the journal Ecology of Freshwater Fish on August 25.
Peninsula Clarion: Refuge Notebook: Vernal pools filled with life
The article appeared in the Peninsula Clarion on April 28
http://peninsulaclarion.com/outdoors/2016-04-28/refuge-notebook-vernal-pools-filled-with-life
Climate oscillations, glacial refugia, and dispersal ability: factors influencing the genetic structure of the least salmonfly, Pteronarcella badia (Plecoptera), in Western North America
The article appeared in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. See the URI below.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0553-4
Sproul et al. 2015, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 A map showing the distribution of sample localities for P. badia across portions western North America. Clade membership (as identified in Fig. 4) for all specimens at a given locality is represented by color. Clade names are abbreviated as follows. Widespread (WS), Northern Rockies (NR), Western Great Basin (WGB), Pacific Northwest (PNW), Old Rio Grande (ORG), and Old Colorado Plateau (OCP)