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Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
Work in our lab focuses on the conservation and sustainable management of freshwater fish diversity, understanding reasons for its decline, and developing approaches for mitigating threats in Texas, the southern Great Plains, and beyond. We address questions regarding species- and community-level change across spatial and temporal scales using a variety of study approaches, including meta-analyses, field experiments, natural snapshot and trajectory experiments, landscape modeling, and molecular techniques. Our work strongly emphasizes how anthropogenic environmental manipulations, either destructive or restorative in nature, cause shifts in fish abundance, distribution, and community structure.

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Kansas State University - (Manhattan, Kansas, United States)

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Stream Fragmentation Thresholds for a Reproductive Guild of Great Plains Fishes

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Aspects of Chub Shiner Notropis potteri Life History with Comments on Native Distribution and Conservation Status

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The emblematic minnows of the North American Great Plains: A synthesis of threats and conservation opportunities

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Pollination biology and reproductive phenology of the federally endangered endemic Physaria globosa (Brassicaceae) in Tennessee

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Simulating fish dispersal in stream networks fragmented by multiple road crossings

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Paradigm versus paradox on the prairie: testing competing stream fish movement frameworks using an imperiled Great Plains minnow.

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The duality of drought: Pelagic and benthicspawning stream fishes show opposing responses to drought in the southern Great Plains

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The ecological niche of native and invasive fish congeners in Texas streams: evidence from morphology, stable isotope analysis, and stomach contents analysis

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Testing Cross-System Transferability of Fish Habitat Associations using Cottus carolinae (Banded Sculpin)

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Human impact on freshwater ecosystem services: a global perspective.

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Testing the febrile response of snakes inoculated with Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, the causative agent of snake fungal disease.

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A Gap in the Armor: Spearfishing Reduces Biomass of Invasive Suckermouth Armored Catfish

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Multiple survey methods reveal greater abundance of endangered pupfish in restored habitats

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Temporal trajectories in metacommunity structure: Insights from interdisciplinary research in intermittent streams

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Rapid Response of a Sand-Dominated River to Installation and Removal of a Temporary Run-of-the-River Dam

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Commonalities in stream connectivity restoration alternatives: an attempt to simplify barrier removal optimization

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Collapsing Range of an Endemic Great Plains Minnow, Peppered Chub Macrhybopsis tetranema

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Characteristics of the natural flow regime paradigm explain occurrence of imperiled Great Plains fishes

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Fragmentation and dewatering transform Great Plains stream fish communities

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LONG-TERM CHANGES IN FLOW REGIME AND FISH ASSEMBLAGE COMPOSITION IN THE GUADALUPE AND SAN MARCOS RIVERS OF TEXAS

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Connectivity and flow regime direct conservation priorities for pelagophil fishes

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Flowrecruitment relationships for Shoal Chub (Macrhybopsis hyostoma) and implications for managing environmental flows

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An integrative conservation planning framework for aquatic landscapes fragmented by road-stream crossings

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Longitudinal variability in hydraulic geometry and substrate characteristics of a Great Plains sand-bed river

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Which species, how many, and from where: Integrating habitat suitability, population genomics, and abundance estimates into species reintroduction planning.

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Who's Asking? Interjurisdictional Conservation Assessment and Planning for Great Plains Fishes

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Assessing riverscape-scale variation in fish life history using banded sculpin (Cottus carolinae)

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Multiple watershed alterations influence fish community structure in Great Plains prairie streams

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Comparing assembly processes for multimetric indices of biotic integrity

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Synthesizing stream fish community dynamics in the southern Great Plains and beyond

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Fragmentation alters stream fish community structure in dendritic ecological networks.

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INTRA-ANNUAL VARIATION IN FISH COMMUNITIES AND HABITAT ASSOCIATIONS IN A CHIHUAHUA DESERT REACH OF THE RIO GRANDE/RIO BRAVO DEL NORTE

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Can fisheries bioenergetics modelling refine spatially explicit assessments of climate change vulnerability?

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Occurrence of Lepomis miniatus (Redspotted Sunfish) in the Cumberland River Basin of Tennessee

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First record of the Gangetic Swamp Eel, Ophichthys cuchia (Hamilton, 1822) (Teleostei: Synbranchidae), from Texas (USA) based on museum vouchered material, and confirmation of a second established non-native population in the USA

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Movement and mortality of invasive suckermouth armored catfish during a spearfishing control experiment.

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Guadalupe Bass Micropterus treculii (Valliant & Bocourt, 1874)

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New insights into floral morph variation in Passiflora incarnata L. (Passifloraceae) in Tennessee, USA

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Fragmentation, connectivity and fish species persistence in freshwater ecosystems

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Movement and Microhabitat Associations of Guadalupe Bass in Two Texas Rivers

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Observations on habitat use of age-0 Rio Grande Blue Sucker (Cycleptus sp. cf . elongates)

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First record of the Conchos Shiner Cyprinella panarcys (Hubbs & Miller, 1978) from the mainstem of the Rio Grande along the USAMexico border

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Nest Attendance Patterns in the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

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American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH)

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Fragmentation and Drought Legacy Correlate with Distribution of Burrhead Chub in Subtropical Streams of North America

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Notes on the Distribution and Feeding Ecology of a Relict Population of the Cardinal Shiner, Luxilus cardinalis (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), in Kansas

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Life History Aspects of a Relict Ironcolor Shiner Notropis chalybaeus Population in a Novel Spring Environment

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Extreme drought causes fish recruitment failure in a fragmented Great Plains riverscape

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Groundwater declines are linked to changes in Great Plains stream fish assemblages.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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The river continuum concept predicts prey assemblage structure for an insectivorous fish along a temperate riverscape

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Historical Changes in Fish Assemblage Composition Following Water Quality Improvement in the Mainstem Trinity River of Texas

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March of the sculpin: measuring and predicting short-term movement of banded sculpin Cottus carolinae

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High and dry in days gone by: Life-history theory predicts Appalachian mountain stream fish assemblage transformation during historical drought

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Riverscape correlates for distribution of threatened spotfin chub Erimonax monachus in the Tennessee River Basin, USA

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TESTING RESTRICTED MOVEMENT OF PLAINS KILLIFISH (FUNDULUS ZEBRINUS)

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Hierarchy theory reveals multiscale predictors of Arkansas darter (Etheostoma cragini) abundance in a Great Plains riverscape

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Fragmentation and drying ratchet down Great Plains stream fish diversity

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Tributary streams provide migratory fish with access to floodplain habitats in a regulated river: evidence from alligator gar, Atractosteus spatula

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Estimated richness and environmental correlates of miniature fish assemblages in the rio Jacunda, Brazil

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Life history theory predicts long-term fish assemblage response to stream impoundment

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If you build it, they will go: A case study of stream fish diversity loss in an urbanizing riverscape

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Comparative riverscape genetics reveals reservoirs of genetic diversity for conservation and restoration of Great Plains fishes.

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Temporal distribution modelling reveals upstream habitat drying and downstream non-native introgression are squeezing out an imperiled headwater fish

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FISHWATER: Fishes as Indicators of Sustainable Human Water Allocation and Threatened Environmental Resources

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National Institute of Food and Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences; 2258 TAMU

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Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences