Journal Articles

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Dauwalter, D.C. 2013. Fish assemblage associations and thresholds with existing and projected oil and gas development. Fisheries Management and Ecology, in press.
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Haak, A.L. and J.E. Williams. 2013. Using native trout restoration to jumpstart freshwater conservation planning in the Interior West, Journal of Conservation Planning Vol 9 (2013) 38 – 52
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Peterson, D. P., S. J. Wenger, B. E. Rieman, and D. J. Isaak. 2013. Linking climate change and fish conservation efforts using spatially explicit decision support tools. Fisheries 38:112-127.
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2012

Haak, A.L. and J.E. Williams. 2012. Spreading the Risk: Native Trout Management in a Warmer and Less-Certain Future, North American Journal of Fisheries Management 32:2, 387-401
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Wenger, S.J., and J.D. Olden. 2012. Assessing transferability of ecological models: an underappreciated aspect of statistical validation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00170.x.
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2011

Dauwalter, D.C., and F.J. Rahel. 2011. Patch size and shape influence the accuracy of mapping small habitat patches with a global positioning system. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 179:123-135.
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Dauwalter, D. C., J. S. Sanderson, J. E. Williams, and J. R. Sedell. 2011. Identification and implementation of Native Fish Conservation Areas in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Fisheries 36:278-288.
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Dauwalter, D. C., S. J. Wenger, K. R. Gelwicks, and K. A. Fesenmyer. 2011. Land use associations with declining native fishes in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 140:646-658.
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Hagler, M. M., M. C. Freeman, S. J. Wenger, B. J. Freeman, P. L. Rakes, and J. R. Shute. 2011. Use of recent and historical records to estimate status and trends of a rare and imperiled stream fish, Percina jenkinsi (Percidae). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68:739-748.
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Neville, H.M., and J.B. Dunham. Patterns of Hybridization of Nonnative Cutthroat Trout and Hatchery Rainbow Trout with Native Redband Trout in the Boise River, Idaho. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 31:1163–1176.
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Splinter, D.K., D.C. Dauwalter, R.A. Marston, W.L. Fisher. 2011. Watershed morphology of highland and mountain ecoregions in eastern Oklahoma. The Professional Geographer 63(1):131-143.
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Wenger S.J., D.J. Isaak, C.H. Luce, H.M. Neville, K.D. Fausch, J.B. Dunham, D.C. Dauwalter, M.K. Young, M.M. Elsner, B.E. Rieman, A.F. Hamlet, J.E. Williams. 2011. Flow regime, temperature, and biotic interactions drive differential declines of trout species under climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(34):14175–14180.
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Wenger S.J., D.J. Isaak, J.B. Dunham, K.D. Fausch, C.H. Luce, H.M. Neville, B.E. Rieman, M.K. Young, D.E. Nagel, D.L. Horan, and G.L. Chandler. 2011. Role of climate and invasive species in structuring trout distributions in the interior Columbia River Basin, USA. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68:988-1008.
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Williams, J. E., R. N. Williams, R. F. Thurow, L. Elwell, D. P. Philipp, F. A. Harris, J. L. Kershner, P. J. Martinez, D. Miller, G. H. Reeves, C. A. Frissell, and J. R. Sedell. 2011. Native Fish Conservation Areas: a vision for large-scale conservation of native fish communities. Fisheries 36:267-277.
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2010

Beck, J.L., D.C. Dauwalter, K.G. Gerow, and G.D. Hayward. 2010. Design to monitor trend in abundance and presence of American beaver (Castor canadensis) at the national forest scale. Environmental Monitoring and
Assessment 164:463-479.
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Dauwalter, D.C., W.L. Fisher, F.J. Rahel. 2010. Warmwater streams. Pages 657 – 697 in Hubert, W.A. and M.C. Quist, editors. Inland Fisheries Management in North America, third edition. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
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Dauwalter, D.C., F.J. Rahel, K.G. Gerow. Power of revisit monitoring designs to detect forest-wide declines in trout populations. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 30:1462-1468.
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Haak, A.L., Williams, J.E., Isaak, D., Todd, A., Muhlfeld, C., Kershner, J.L., Gresswell, R., Hostetler, S., and Neville, H.M., 2010, The potential influence of changing climate on the persistence of salmonids of the inland west: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010–1236, 74 p.
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Haak, A.L., J.E. Williams, H.M. Neville, D.C. Dauwalter, W.T. Colyer. 2010. Conserving peripheral trout populations: the value and risk of life on the edge. Fisheries 35(11):530-549.
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Roy, A.H., M.J. Paul,&S.J. Wenger. 2010. Urban Stream Ecology (Chapter 16). In: J. Aitkenhead-Peterson&A. Volder (editors), Urban Ecosystem Ecology (Agronomy Monograph 55). American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI.
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Splinter, D.K., D.C. Dauwalter, R.A. Marston, W.L. Fisher. 2010. Ecoregions and stream morphology in eastern Oklahoma. Geomorphology 122(1-2):117-128
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Wenger, S.J., M.C. Freeman, L.A. Fowler, B.J. Freeman and J.T. Peterson. 2010. Conservation planning for imperiled aquatic species in an urbanizing environment. Landscape and Urban Planning 97(1): 11-21.
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Wenger, S.J., C.H. Luce, A.F. Hamlet, D.J. Isaak and H.M. Neville. 2010. Macroscale hydrologic modeling of ecologically relevant flow metrics. Water Resources Research 46 (W09513): 10pp. doi:10.1029/2009WR008839
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2009

Dauwalter, D. C., F. J. Rahel, and K. G. Gerow. 2009. Temporal variation in trout populations: implications for monitoring and trend. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 138:38-51.
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Kanno, Y., J.C. Vokoun, D.C. Dauwalter, R.M. Hughes, A.T. Herlihy, T.R. Maret, T.M. Patton. 2009. Influence of rare species on electrofishing distance when estimating species richness of stream and river reaches. Transactions of the
American Fisheries Society 138:1240-1251.
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Neville H, Dunham J, Rosenberger A, Umek J, Nelson B. 2009. Influences of wildfire, habitat size, and connectivity on trout in headwater streams revealed by patterns of genetic diversity. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 138:1314-1327.
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Roy, A.H., A.H. Purcell, C.J. Wash and S.J. Wenger. 2009. Urbanization and stream ecology: five years later. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28: 908-910.
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Sepulveda, A.J., W.T. Colyer, W.H. Lowe, and M.R. Vinson. 2009. Using nitrogen stable isotopes to detect long-distance movement in a threatened cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii utah). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66:672-682.
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Steinbach Elwell, L.C., K.E. Stromberg, E.K.N. Ryce, J.L. Bartholomew. 2009. Whirling Disease in the United States.
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Wenger, S.J., M.M. Hagler and B.J. Freeman. 2009. Prioritization of areas of the Conasauga River Sub-basin of Georgia and Tennessee for preservation and restoration. Proceedings of the Southeastern Fishes Council 51: 31-38.
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Wenger, S.J., A.H. Roy, C.R. Jackson, E.S. Bernhardt, T.L. Carter, S. Filoso, C.A. Gibson, N.B. Grimm, W.C. Hession, S.S. Kaushal, E. Martí, J.L. Meyer, M.A. Palmer, M.J. Paul, A.H. Purcell, A. Ramirez, A.D. Rosemond, K.A. Schofield, T.R. Schueler, E. Sudduth, C.J. Walsh. 2009. Twenty-six key research questions in urban stream ecology: an assessment of the state of the science. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28: 1080-1098.
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Williams, J.E., A.L. Haak, H.M. Neville, and W.T. Colyer. 2009. Potential Consequences of Climate Change to Persistence of Cutthroat Trout Populations. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 29:533–548.
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Williams, J.E., and J. Meka Carter.  2009.  Managing native trout past peak water. Southwest Hydrology 8(2):26-34.
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2008

Dauwalter, D. C., and W. L. Fisher. 2008. Ontogenetic and seasonal diet shifts by smallmouth bass in an Ozark stream. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 23(1):113-121.
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Dauwalter, D. C., and F. J. Rahel. 2008. Distribution modeling to guide stream fish conservation: an example using the mountain sucker in the Black Hills National Forest, USA. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 18(7):1263-1276.
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Dauwalter, D. C., D. K. Splinter, W. L. Fisher, and R. A. Marston. 2008. Biogeography, ecoregions, and geomorphology affect fish species composition in streams of eastern Oklahoma, USA. Environmental Biology of Fishes 82:237-249.
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Dauwalter, D. C., and W. L. Fisher. 2008. Spatial and temporal patterns in stream habitat and smallmouth bass populations in eastern Oklahoma. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137:1072-1088.
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Granek, E.F., E.M.P. Madin, M.A. Brown, W. Figueira, D.S. Cameron, Z. Hogan, G. Kristianson, P. deVilliers, J.E. Williams, J. Post, S. Zahn, and R. Arlinghaus. 2008. Engaging recreational fishers in management and conservation:
global case studies. Conservation Biology 22:1125-1134.
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Roy, A.H., S.J. Wenger, T.D. Fletcher, C.J. Walsh, A.R. Ladson, W.D. Shuster, H.W. Thurston and R.R. Brown. 2008. Impediments and solutions to sustainable, watershed-scale urban stormwater management: lessons from Australia and the United States. Environmental Management 42(2): 344-359.
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Wenger, S.J., T.L. Carter, R. A. Vick and L.A. Fowler. 2008. Runoff limits: an ecologically-based stormwater management program. Stormwater 9(2): 45-58.
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Wenger, S.J. 2008. The use of surrogates to predict the stressor response of imperiled species. Conservation Biology 22:1564-15
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Wenger, S.J. and M.C. Freeman. 2008. Estimating species occurrence, abundance and detection probability using zero-inflated distributions. Ecology 89: 2953-2959.
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Wenger, S.J., J.T. Peterson, M.C. Freeman, B.J. Freeman and D.D.Homans. 2008. Stream fish occurrence in response to impervious cover, historic land use and hydrogeomorphic factors. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:1250-1264.
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Williams, J.E., A.L. Harig, J.G. Imhof. 2008. Developing a Consistent Framework for Measuring and Reporting the Conservation Status of Coastal Cutthroat Trout. Coastal Cutthroat Trout Symposium: Status, Management, Biology, and Conservation. Oregon Chapter, American Fisheries Society.
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2007

Dauwalter, D. C., and W. L. Fisher. 2007. Electrofishing capture probability of smallmouth bass in streams. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 27:162-171.
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Dauwalter, D. C., D. K. Splinter, W. L. Fisher, and R. A. Marston. 2007. Geomorphology and stream habitat relationships with smallmouth bass abundance at multiple spatial scales in eastern Oklahoma. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64:1116-1129.
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Dauwalter, D. C., and W. L. Fisher. 2007. Spawning chronology, nest site selection, and nest success of smallmouth bass during benign streamflow conditions. American Midland Naturalist 158:60-78.
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Fore, J. D., D. C. Dauwalter, and W. L. Fisher. 2007. Microhabitat use by smallmouth bass in an Ozark stream. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 22:189-199.
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Neville H., Isaak D. J., Thurow R., Dunham J., Rieman B. 2007. Microsatellite variation reveals weak genetic structure and retention of genetic variability in threatened Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) within a Snake River watershed. Conservation Genetics 8(1):133-147.
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Williams, J.E., A.L. Haak, N.G. Gillespie, and W.T. Colyer.  2007.  The Conservation Success Index: synthesizing and communicating salmonid condition and management needs. Fisheries 32:477-492.
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Williams, J.E., A.L. Haak, N.G. Gillespie, H.M. Neville, and W.T. Colyer.  2007.  Healing troubled waters: preparing trout and salmon habitat for a changing climate.  Trout Unlimited, Arlington, Virginia.
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Williams, J.E., A.L. Haak, H.M. Neville, W.T. Colyer, and N.G. Gillespie.  2007.  Climate change and western trout: strategies for restoring resistance and resilience in native populations.  In, Wild Trout IX Symposium. Pages 236-246. West
Yellowstone, Montana.
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Deacon, J.E., A.E. Williams, C.D. Williams, and J.E. Williams.  2007.  Fueling population growth in Las Vegas: how large-scale groundwater withdrawal could burn regional biodiversity. BioScience 57:688-698.
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2006

Dauwalter, D. C., W. L. Fisher, and K. C. Belt. 2006. Mapping stream habitats with a global positioning system: accuracy, precision, and comparison with traditional methods. Environmental Management 37:271-280.
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DellaSala, D.A., and J.E. Williams.  2006.  Special section introduction: The Northwest Forest Plan: a global model of forest management in contentious times. Conservation Biology 20:274-276.
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Neville H., Dunham J., Peacock M. 2006. Assessing connectivity in salmonid fishes with DNA microsatellite markers. In: Crooks K., Sanjayan M.A., editors. Connectivity Conservation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p 318-342.
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Neville H.M., Dunham J.B., Peacock M.M. 2006. Landscape attributes and life history variability shape genetic structure of trout populations in a stream network. Landscape Ecology 21:901-916.
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Neville H.M., Isaak D.J., Dunham J.B., Thurow R.F., Rieman B.E. 2006. Fine-scale natal homing and localized movement as shaped by sex and spawning habitat in Chinook salmon: insights from spatial autocorrelation analysis of individual genotypes. Molecular Ecology 15:4589–4602.
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Reeves, G.H., J.E. Williams, K.M. Burnett, and K. Gallo.  2006.  The Aquatic Conservation Strategy of the Northwest Forest Plan.  Conservation Biology 20:319-329.
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Williams, J.E., and G.H. Reeves.  2006.  Stream systems. Pages 298-318 in, D. Apostol and M. Sinclair, eds. Restoring the Pacific Northwest: the art and science of ecological restoration in Cascadia.  Island Press, Washington, D.C.

Williams, J.E., and E.P. Pister.  2006.  Lifestyles and ethical values to sustain salmon and ourselves. Pages 577-596 in, R.T. Lackey, D.H. Lach, and S.L. Duncan, eds. Salmon 2100: the future of wild Pacific salmon. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. 
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Williams, J.E., W. Colyer, N. Gillespie, A. Harig, D. DeGraaf, and J. McGurrin.  2006.  A guide to native trout restoration: science to protect and restore coldwater fishes and their habitats. Trout Unlimited, Arlington, Virginia.

Williams, J.E.  2006.  Constant vigilance: maintaining a fish preserve in the arid southwestern United States. Pages 516-517 in, M.J. Groom, G.K. Meffe, and C.R. Carroll, editors. Principles of Conservation Biology, 3rd edition.  Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.

2005

Colyer, W.T., J.L. Kershner, and R.H. Hilderbrand.  2005.  Movements of fluvial Bonneville cutthroat trout in the Thomas Fork of the Bear River, Idaho-Wyoming. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:954-963.
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