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2018
Predators Shape Sedimentary Organic Carbon Storage in a Coral Reef Ecosystem, Trisha Atwood, Elizabeth M. P. Madin, Alastair R. Harborne, Edd Hammill, Osmar J. Luiz, Quinn R. Ollivier, Chris M. Roelfsema, Peter I. Macreadie, and Catherine E. Lovelock; Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
High Interspecific Variation in Nutrient Excretion Within a Guild of Closely Related Caddisfly Species, Jared A. Balik, Brad W. Taylor, Susan E. Washko, and Scott A. Wissinger; Ecosphere
Light May Have Triggered a Period of Net Heterotrophy in Lake Superior, Soren Brothers and Paul Sibley; Limnology and Oceanography
Relationships Between Borders, Management Agencies, and the Likelihood of Watershed Impairment, Josh Epperly, Andrew Witt, Jeffrey Haight, Susan Washko, Trisha Atwood, Janice Brahney, Soren Brothers, and Edd Hammill; Plos one
Natural and Managed Watersheds Show Similar Responses to Recent Climate Change, Darren L. Ficklin, John T. Abatzoglou, Scott M. Robeson, Sarah E. Null, and Jason H. Knouft; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The Relationship Between Measures of Annual Livestock Disturbance in Western Riparian Areas and Stream Conditions Important to Trout, Salmon, and Char, Lindsey M. Goss and Brett B. Roper; Western North American Naturalist
Alluvial Substrate Mapping by Automated Texture Segmentation of Recreational-Grade Side Scan Sonar Imagery, Daniel Hamill, Daniel Buscombe, and Joseph M. Wheaton; PLoS ONE
High Resolution Monitoring of River Bluff Erosion Reveals Failure Mechanisms and Geomorphically Effective Flows, Sara Ann Kelly and Patrick Belmont; Water
Calibration Parameter Selection and Watershed Hydrology Model Evaluation in Time and Frequency Domains, Karthik Kumarasamy and Patrick Belmont; Water
Empirical Correspondence Between Trophic Transfer Efficiency in Freshwater Food Webs and the Slope of Their Size Spectra, Thomas Mehner, Betty Lischke, Kristin Scharnweber, Katrin Attermeyer, Soren Brothers, Ursula Gaedke, Sabine Hilt, and Sandra Brucet; Ecology
Reducing High Flows and Sediment Loading Through Increased Water Storage in an Agricultural Watershed of the Upper Midwest, USA, Nate Mitchell, Karthik Kumarasamy, Se Jong Cho, Patrick Belmont, Brent Dalzell, and Karen Gran; Water
Benthic Meiofaunal Community Response to The Cascading Effects of Herbivory Within an Algal Halo System of The Great Barrier Reef, Quinn R. Ollivier, Edward Hammill, David J. Booth, Elizabeth M.P. Madin, Charles Hinchliffe, Alastair R. Harborne, Catherine E. Lovelock, Peter I. Macreadie, and Trisha B. Atwood; PLoS ONE
A Network Model for Primary Production Highlights Linkages Between Salmonid Populations and Autochthonous Resources, W. Carl Saunders, Nicolaas Bouwes, Peter McHugh, and Chris E. Jordan; Ecosphere
Low-Tech Riparian and Wet Meadow Restoration Increases Vegetation Productivity and Resilience Across Semiarid Rangelands, Nicholas L. Silverman, Brady W. Allred, John Patrick Donnelly, Teresa B. Chapman, Jeremy D. Maestas, Joseph M. Wheaton, Jeff White, and David E. Naugle; Restoration Ecology
Long-Term Evolution of Sand Transport Through a River Network: Relative Influences of a Dam Versus Natural Changes in Grain Size From Sand Waves, David J. Topping, Erich R. Mueller, John C. Schmidt, Ronald E. Griffiths, David J. Dean, and Paul E. Grams; Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
Using Systematic Conservation Planning to Establish Management Priorities for Freshwater Salmon Conservation, Matanuska-Susitna Basin, AK, USA, Andrew W. Witt and Edd Hammill; Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Effects of Eutrophication on Birds in Three Bays of Great Salt Lake: A Comparative Analysis with Utah DWR Waterbird Survey Data, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh
2017
Warming alters food web-driven changes in the CO2 flux of experimental pond ecosystems, T. B. Atwood, Edd Hammill, P. Kratina, H. S. Greig, J. B. Shurin, and J. S. Richardson; Biology Letters
Convective mixing and high littoral primary production can establish systematic errors in lake diel oxygen curves in shallow, eutrophic lakes, Soren Brothers, Garabet Kazanjian, Jan Kohler, Ulrike Scharfenberger, and Sabine Hilt; Limnology and Oceanograpy Methods
A decline in benthic algal production may explain recent hypoxic events in Lake Erie's central basin, Soren Brothers, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, and Paul Sibley; Journal of Great Lakes Research
Interplay between spatially explicit sediment sourcing, hierarchical river-network structure, and in-channel bed material sediment transport and storage dynamics, J. A. Czuba, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, K. B. Gran, and P. Belmont; Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
3D photogrammetry quantifies growth and external erosion of individual coral colonies and skeletons, Renata Ferrari, Will F. Figueira, Morgan S. Pratchett, Tatiana Boube, Arne Adam, Tania Kobelkowsky-Vidrio, Steve S. Doo, Trisha Brooke Atwood, and Maria Byrne; Scientific Reports
Ocean acidification alters zooplankton communities and increases predation pressure of a cubozoan predator, Edd Hammill, Ellery Johnson, Trisha B. Atwood, Januar Harianto, Charles Hinchliffe, Piero Calosi, and Maria Byrne; Global Change Biology
Body Condition of Endangered Humpback Chub in Relation to Temperature and Discharge in the Lower Colorado River, Forest P. Hayes, Michael J. Dodrill, Brandon S. Gerig, Colton Finch, and William E. Pine III; Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management
25 years of EFF—a thank you to the co-founding editor Javier Lobón-Cerviá, David C. Heins, Phaedra E. Budy, Núria Sanz, and Asbjørn Vøllestad; Ecology of Freshwater Fish
Translating regime shifts in shallow lakes into changes in ecosystem function, Sabine Hilt, Soren Brothers, Erik Jeppesen, Annelies J. Veraart, and Sarian Kosten; BioScience
Presence of invasive Gambusia alters ecological communities and the functions they perform in lentic ecosystems, Charles Hinchliffe, Trisha B. Atwood, Quinn Ollivier, and Edd Hammill; Marine and Freshwater Research
Wildfire in Utah: The Physical and Economic Consequences of Wildfire, Paul M. Jakus, Man-Keun Kim, Randy C. Martin, Ian Hammond, Edd Hammill, Nancy Mesner, and Jacob Stout
Rapid surface-water volume estimations in beaver ponds, Daniel J. Karran, Cherie J. Westbrook, Joseph M. Wheaton, Carol A. Johnston, and Angela Bedard-Haughn; Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Measuring Program Impacts: 1. Setting Goals and Objectives, Mark Larese-Casanova
Measuring Program Impacts: 2. Assessment of Participant Knowledge Gain, Mark Larese-Casanova
Measuring Program Impacts: 3. Evaluating Program Success, Mark Larese-Casanova
Measuring Program Impacts: 4. Evaluating Long-Term Impacts, Mark Larese-Casanova
Utah Master Naturalist Deserts Textbook, Mark Larese-Casanova
Utah Master Naturalist Mountains Textbook, Mark Larese-Casanova
Utah Master Naturalist Watersheds Textbook, Mark Larese-Casanova
Benthic carbon is inefficiently transferred in the food webs of two eutrophic shallow lakes, Betty Lischke, Thomas Mehner, Sabine Hilt, Katrin Attermeyer, Mario Brauns, Soren Brothers, Hans-Peter Grossart, Jan K€ohler, Kristin Scharnweber, and Ursula Gaedke; Freshwater Biology
Assessing the risk of carbon dioxide emissions from blue carbon ecosystems, Catherine E. Lovelock, Trisha Atwood, Jeff Baldock, Carlos M. Duarte, Sharyn Hickey, Paul S. Lavery, Pere Masque, Peter I. Macreadie, Aurora M. Ricart, Oscar Serrano, and Andy Steven; Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Brine Shrimp Grazing and Fecal Production Increase sedimentation to the deep brine layer (monimolimnion) of Great Salt Lake, Utah, Piotr Maszczyk and Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh; Hydrobiologia
Growth of Endangered Humpback Chub in Relation to Temperature and Discharge in the Lower Colorado River, W. E. Pine III, K. Limburg, B. Gerig, Colton Finch, D. Chagaris, L. Coggins, D. Speas, and D. A. Hendrickson; Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management
Characterizing Growth and Condition of Endangered Humpback Chub in the Lower Colorado River, William E. Pine III, Brandon S. Gerig, and Colton Finch; Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management
Comparison of burbot populations across adjacent native and introduced ranges, Annika W. Walters, Elizabeth G. Madenville, W. Carl Saunders, Paul C. Gerrity, Joseph A. Skorupski, Zack E. Underwood, and Eric I. Gardunio; Aquatic Invasion
Accounting for spatial and temporal variation in macroinvertebrate community abundances when measuring the food supply of stream salmonids, Nicholas Weber, Nicolaas Bouwes, and Chris Jordan; Freshwater Science
Accounting for Spatial and Temporal Variation in Macroinvertebrate Community Abundances When Measuring the Food Supply of Stream Salmonids, Nicholas Weber, Nicolaas Bouwes, and Chris Jordan; Freshwater Science
Decline of the World’s Saline Lakes, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, Craig Miller, Sarah E. Null, R. Justin DeRose, Peter Wilcock, Maura Hahnenberger, Frank Howe, and Johnnie Moore; Perspective
2016
Benthic algae compensate for phytoplankton losses in large aquatic ecosystems, Soren Brothers, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, and Paul Sibley; Global Change Biology
Sediment Supply Versus Local Hydraulic Controls on Sediment Transport and Storage in a River with Large Sediment Loads, David J. Dean, David J. Topping, John C. Schmidt, Ronald E. Griffiths, and Thomas A. Sabol; Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface
Maximal stomatal conductance to water and plasticity in stomatal traits differ between native and invasive introduced lineages of Phragmites australis in North America, V. Douhovnikoff, S. H. Taylor, Eric L. G. Hazelton, C. Smith, and J. O'Brien; AoB Plants
Wetland Plants of Great Salt Lake: A guide to identification, communities, & bird habitat, M. Frank, J. Marty, Christine Rohal, Rebekah Downard, Joanna Endter-Wada, Karin Kettenring, and Mark Larese-Casanova
Factoring attitudes towards conflict risk into selection of protected areas for conservation, Edd Hammill, A. I. Tulloch, H. P. Possingham, N. Strange, and K. A. Wilson; Nature Communications
Multitaxon distribution models reveal severe alteration in the regional biodiversity of freshwater invertebrates, Charles P. Hawkins and Lester L. Yuan; Freshwater Science
The Blurred Line Between Form and Process: A Comparison of Stream Channel Classification Frameworks, Martha Jensen; PLOS One
The Blurred Line Between Form and Process: A Comparison of Stream Channel Classification Frameworks, Alan Kasprak, Nate Hough-Snee, Tim Beechie, Nicolaas Bouwes, Gary Brierley, Reid Camp, Kirstie Fryirs, Hiroo Imaki, Martha Jensen, Gary O'Brien, David Rosgen, and Joseph Wheaton; PLoS ONE
Human Amplified Changes in Precipitation-Runoff Patterns in Large River Basins of The Midwestern United States, Sara A. Kelly, Zeinab Takbiri, Patrick Belmont, and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou; Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Connecting College Students to Nature to Benefit Wellbeing and Academic Success, Mark Larese-Casanova
Developing a Nature Field Guide, Mark Larese-Casanova
The Who, What, When, Why, and How of Program Evaluation, Mark Larese-Casanova
Utah Nature Explorers Roundtable Session, Mark Larese-Casanova
Weak Response of Animal Allochthony and Production to Enhanced Supply of Terrestrial Leaf Litter in Nutrient-Rich Lakes, Thomas Mehner, Katrin Attermeyer, Mario Brauns, Soren Brothers, J. Diekmann, Ursula Gaedke, Hans-Peter Grossart, Jan Köhler, Betty Lischke, N. Meyer, Kristin Scharnweber, Jari Syväranta, M. J. Vanni, and Sabine Hilt; Ecosystems
Soils of Great Salt Lake Wetlands: Hydric Indicators and Common Features, Christine Rohal, Karin Kettenring, Rebekah Downard, and Mark Larese-Casanova
Morphological characteristics of rhodolith and correlations with associated sediment in a sandstone reef: Northeast Brazil, Eduardo Vitarelli de Queiroz, Paulo Victor do Nascimento Araújo, Edd Hammill, and Ricardo Farias do Amaral; Regional Studies in Marine Science
Impacts of Water Development on Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Front, Wayne Wurtsbaugh, Craig Miller, Sarah Null, Peter Wilcock, Maura Hahnenberger, and Frank Howe
2015
Predation on Native Sculpin by Exotic Brown Trout Exceeds that by Native Cutthroat Trout Within a Mountain Watershed (Logan, UT, USA), Phaedra Budy, Christy S. Meredith, and Gary P. Thiede; Ecology of Freshwater Fish
Behavioural responses to predation may explain shifts in community structure, Edd Hammill, Trisha B. Atwood, Paloma Corvalan, and Diane S. Srivastava; Freshwater Biology
Conspecific density modulates the effect of predation on dispersal rates, Edd Hammill, Richard G. Fitzjohn, and Diane S. Srivastava; Oecologia
Food web persistence is enhanced by non-trophic interactions, Edd Hammill; Pavel Kratina; Matthijs Vos; Owen L. Petchey; and Bradley R, Anholt; Springer Verlag
Contrasting response of two shallow lakes to a partial winterkill of fish, Sabine Hilt, Thomas Wanke, Kristin Scharnweber, Mario Brauns, Jari Syvaeranta, Soren Brothers, Ursula Gaedke, Jan Koehler, Betty Lischke, and Thomas Mehner; Hydrobiologia
Multi-scale environmental filters and niche partitioning govern the distributions of riparian vegetation guilds, Nate Hough-Snee, Brian G. Laub, David M. Merritt, A. Lexine Long, Lloyd L. Nackley, Brett B. Roper, and Joseph M. Wheaton; Ecosphere
Multi-Scale Environmental Filters and Niche Partitioning Govern the Distributions of Riparian Vegetation Guilds, Nate Hough-Snee, Brian G. Laub, David M. Merritt, A. Lexine Long, Lloyd L. Nackley, Brett B. Roper, and Joseph M. Wheaton; Ecosphere
Changes in Knowledge and Attitude from a Short-Term Aquatic Education Program, Tiffany Kinder, Nancy O. Mesner, Mark Larese-Casanova, Kimberly H. Lott, Adrienne Cachelin, and Katherine LaLonde; Natural Sciences Education
Integrating Environmental Education and STEM, Mark Larese-Casanova
Integrating the Utah Master Naturalist Program and STEM Education, Mark Larese-Casanova
Natural Resource Volunteers and Citizen Science: Bringing Together a Community of Practice, Mark Larese-Casanova
Using Evaluation to Guide and Validate Improvements to the Utah Master Naturalist Program, Mark Larese-Casanova; Journal of Extension
Are the effects of adjacent habitat type on seagrass gastropod communities being masked by previous focus on habitat dyads?, Q. R. Ollivier, N. A. Bramwell, Edd Hammill, C. Foster-Thorpe, and D. J. Booth; Australian Journal of Zoology
Population Trend of the World’s Monitored Seabirds, 1950-2010, Michelle Paleczny, Edd Hammill, Vasiliki Karpouzi, and Daniel Pauly; PLoS ONE
Optimizing Selective Withdrawal from Reservoirs to Manage Downstream Temperatures with Climate Warming, David E. Rheinheimer, Sarah Null, and Jay R. Lund; Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Geographic range size and extinction risk assessment in nomadic species, Claire A. Runge, Ayesha Tulloch, Edd Hammill, Hugh P. Possingham, and Richard A. Fuller; Conservation Biology
Riparian vegetation, Colorado River, and climate: Five decades of spatiotemporal dynamics in the Grand Canyon with river regulation, Joel B. Sankey, Barbara Ralston, Paul E. Grams, John C. Schmidt, and Laura E. Cagney; Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences
How do Changes to the Railroad Causeway in Utah's Great Salt Lake Affect Water and Salt Flow?, James S. White, Sarah E. Null, and David G. Tarboton; PLoS ONE
Bear Lake Limnology & Nutrient Limnology, Wayne Wurtsbaugh
Biotic and chemical changes along the salinity gradient in Farmington Bay, Great Salt Lake, Utah, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, Carson Richards, Jonathan Hodson, Chantel Rasmussen, and Clayton Winter; Utah State University Watershed Sciences Aquatic Practicum Class Report
2014
Trophic-level dependent effects on CO2 emissions from experimental stream ecosystems, Trisha B. Atwood, Edd Hammill, and John S. Richardson; Global Change Biology
Competitive displacement alters top-down effects on carbon dioxide saturation in a freshwater ecosystem, Trisha B. Atwood, Edd Hammill, Diane S. Srivastava, and John S. Richardson; Oecologia
The effects of changing salinity on communities of the Great Salt Lake: A mesocosm experiment and implication for management, Brian Barnes; Spring Runoff Conference
A feedback loop links brownification to anoxia in a temperate, shallow lake, Soren Brothers, J. Kohler, K. Attermeyer, H. P. Grossart, T. Mehner, N. Meyer, K. Scharnweber, and S. Hilt; Limnology And Oceanography
Annual Variation of Spawning Cutthroat Trout in a Small Western USA Stream: A Case Study with Implications for the Conservation of Potamodromous Trout Life History Diversity, Phaedra Budy, Stephen Bennett, Robert Al-Chokhachy, and Brett B. Roper; North American Journal of Fisheries Management
Effects of Fine Sediment, Hyporheic Flow, and Spawning Site Characteristics on Survival and Development of Bull Trout Embryos, Phaedra Budy, Tracy Bowerman, and Bethany T. Neilson; Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
An Examination of the Processes That Regulate Fish Size Downriver of Dams in the Western United States, Phaedra Budy, Kimberly Dibble, Charles Yackulic, and Theodore Kennedy; AFS 2014 Annual Meeting Quebec City, Canada
Understanding How Lake Populations of Arctic Char are Structured and Function with Special Consideration of the Potential Effects of Climate Change: a Multi-Faceted Approach, Phaedra Budy and Chris Luecke; Oecologia
Demographic Changes Following Mechanical Removal of Exotic Brown Trout in an Intermountain West (USA), High-Elevation Stream, Phaedra Budy, W. Carl Saunders, and Gary P. Thiede; Ecology of Freshwater Fish
Walla Walla River Bull Trout Ten Year Retrospective Analysis and Implications for Recovery Planning, Phaedra Budy, Howard Schaller, and Courtney Newlon; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey, Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Scofield Reservoir Predator-Prey Interactions: Investigating the Roles of Interspecific Interactions and Forage Availability on the Performance of Three Predatory Fishes, Phaedra Budy, Lisa Winters, Gary P. Thiede, Konrad Hafen, and Bryce Roholt; Project Completion Report to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, UTCFWRU, 2014
Clonal Growth: Invasion or stability? A comparative study of clonal architecture and diversity in native and introduced lineages of Phragmites australis (Poaceae), Vladimir Douhovnikoff and Eric L. G. Hazelton; American Journal of Botany
Bromeliad-associated reductions in host herbivory; do epiphytic bromeliads act as commensalists or mutualists?, Edd Hammill, Paloma Corvalan, and Diane S. Srivastava; Biotropica
Environmental disturbance can increase beta diversity of stream macroinvertebrate assemblages, C. P. Hawkins, H. Mykra, J. Oksanen, and J. J. Vander Laan; Global Ecology and Biogeography
Phragmites australis management in the United States: 40 years of methods and outcomes, Eric L. G. Hazelton, Thomas J. Mozdzer, David M. Burdick, Karin M. Kettenring, and Dennis F. Whigham; AoB Plants
Using modeled stream temperatures to predict macro-spatial patterns of stream invertebrate biodiversity, R. A. Hill and C. P. Hawkins; Freshwater Biology
Predicting thermal vulnerability of stream and river ecosystems to climate change, R. A. Hill, C. P. Hawkins, and D. R. Cutler; Climactic Change
Non-equilibrium in plant distribution models – only an issue for introduced or dispersal limited species?, Karin M. Kettenring, Diane R. Menuz, Charles P. Hawkins, and D. Richard Cutler; Ecography
