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Overview

Joshua T. Ackerman is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research centers primarily on Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Ecology and related subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Bird parasitology and diseases
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction

Joshua T. Ackerman has contributed scholarly articles to a variety of journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
  • Journal of Wildlife Management
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • The Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic, 2020, Science
  • Demethylation of Methylmercury in Bird, Fish, and Earthworm, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Influenza A viruses remain infectious for more than seven months in northern wetlands of North America, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • A National-Scale Assessment of Mercury Bioaccumulation in United States National Parks Using Dragonfly Larvae As Biosentinels through a Citizen-Science Framework, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Mark P. Herzog
  • Michael L. Casazza
  • Sarah H. Peterson
  • C. Alex Hartman
  • Cory T. Overton

Best Publications

  • Avian mercury exposure and toxicological risk across western North America: A synthesis.

    Joshua T. Ackerman;Collin A. Eagles-Smith;Mark P. Herzog;C. Alex Hartman

  • Current state of knowledge on biological effects from contaminants on arctic wildlife and fish

    Rune Dietz;Robert J. Letcher;Jean Pierre Desforges;Igor Eulaers

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of mercury concentrations in freshwater fish across the Western United States and Canada.

    Collin A. Eagles-Smith;Joshua T. Ackerman;James J. Willacker;Michael T. Tate

  • Mercury in western North America: A synthesis of environmental contamination, fluxes, bioaccumulation, and risk to fish and wildlife.

    Collin A. Eagles-Smith;James G. Wiener;Chris S. Eckley;James J. Willacker

  • Methylmercury exposure in wildlife: A review of the ecological and physiological processes affecting contaminant concentrations and their interpretation.

    John Chételat;Joshua T. Ackerman;Collin A. Eagles-Smith;Craig E. Hebert

  • Mercury demethylation in waterbird livers: dose-response thresholds and differences among species.

    Collin A. Eagles-Smith;Joshua T. Ackerman;Julie Yee;Terrence L. Adelsbach

  • Mercury correlations among six tissues for four waterbird species breeding in San Francisco Bay, California, USA.

    Collin A. Eagles-Smith;Joshua T. Ackerman;Terrence L. Adelsbach;John Y. Takekawa

  • Tidal Influence on Spatial Dynamics of Leopard Sharks, Triakis semifasciata, in Tomales Bay, California

    Joshua T. Ackerman;Matthew C. Kondratieff;Scott A. Matern;Joseph J. Jr. Cech

  • Effects of investigator disturbance on hatching success and nest-site fidelity in a long-lived seabird, Leach's storm-petrel

    Alexis L Blackmer;Joshua T Ackerman;Gabrielle A Nevitt

  • Bird Mercury Concentrations Change Rapidly as Chicks Age: Toxicological Risk is Highest at Hatching and Fledging

    Joshua T. Ackerman;Collin A. Eagles-Smith;Mark P. Herzog

  • Maternal transfer of contaminants in birds: Mercury and selenium concentrations in parents and their eggs.

    Joshua T. Ackerman;Collin A. Eagles-Smith;Mark P. Herzog;C. Alex Hartman

  • Mercury bioaccumulation and risk to three waterbird foraging guilds is influenced by foraging ecology and breeding stage.

    Collin A. Eagles-Smith;Joshua T. Ackerman;Susan E.W. De La Cruz;John Y. Takekawa

  • Exploring individual quality: Basal metabolic rate and reproductive performance in storm-petrels

    Alexis L. Blackmer;Robert A. Mauck;Joshua T. Ackerman;Charles E. Huntington

  • Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic

    Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Gil Bohrer;Eliezer Gurarie;Eliezer Gurarie;Scott LaPoint;Scott LaPoint

  • Methylmercury is the predominant form of mercury in bird eggs: a synthesis

    Joshua T. Ackerman;Mark P. Herzog;Steven E. Schwarzbach

  • Vocal Activity as a Low Cost and Scalable Index of Seabird Colony Size

    Abraham L. Borker;Matthew W. Mckown;Joshua T. Ackerman;Collin A. Eagles-Smith

  • Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds.

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  • Mercury concentrations in blood and feathers of prebreeding Forster's terns in relation to space use of San Francisco Bay, California, USA, habitats.

    Joshua T. Ackerman;Collin A. Eagles-Smith;Collin A. Eagles-Smith;John Y. Takekawa;Jill D. Bluso

  • Of mice and mallards: positive indirect effects of coexisting prey on waterfowl nest success

    Joshua T. Ackerman

  • Mercury cycling in agricultural and managed wetlands: a synthesis of methylmercury production, hydrologic export, and bioaccumulation from an integrated field study.

    Lisamarie Windham-Myers;Jacob A. Fleck;Joshua T. Ackerman;Mark C. Marvin-DiPasquale

  • Migration strategy affects avian influenza dynamics in mallards (Anas platyrhynchos).

    Nichola J. Hill;Nichola J. Hill;Nichola J. Hill;John Y. Takekawa;Joshua T. Ackerman;Keith A. Hobson

  • Mercury concentrations and space use of pre-breeding American avocets and black-necked stilts in San Francisco Bay.

    Joshua T. Ackerman;Collin A. Eagles-Smith;John Y. Takekawa;Scott A. Demers

Frequent Co-Authors

Collin A. Eagles-Smith
Collin A. Eagles-Smith United States Geological Survey
John Y. Takekawa
John Y. Takekawa United States Geological Survey
John M. Eadie
John M. Eadie University of California, Davis
David C. Evers
David C. Evers University of Minnesota
Daniel P. Costa
Daniel P. Costa University of California, Santa Cruz
Walter M. Boyce
Walter M. Boyce University of California, Davis
Charles N. Alpers
Charles N. Alpers United States Geological Survey
David P. Krabbenhoft
David P. Krabbenhoft United States Geological Survey
Gary H. Heinz
Gary H. Heinz United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Bjørn Munro Jenssen
Bjørn Munro Jenssen Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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