Publications - Kurt D. Fausch

Publications in Refereed Journals

Fausch, K. D., and R. J. White. 1981. Competition between brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) and brown trout (Salmo trutta) for positions in a Michigan stream. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 38:1220-1227.

Fausch, K. D., and R. J. White. 1983. Sinuous stream aquarium to simulate lotic fish habitat. Prog. Fish-Cult. 45:113-116.

Fausch, K. D. 1984. Profitable stream positions for salmonids: relating specific growth rate to net energy gain. Can. J. Zool. 62:441-451.

Fausch, K. D., J. R. Karr, and P. R. Yant. 1984. Regional application of an index of biotic integrity based on stream fish communities. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 113:39-55.

Fausch, K. D., and R. J. White. 1986. Competition among juveniles of coho salmon, brook trout, and brown trout in a laboratory stream, and implications for Great Lakes tributaries. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 115:363-381.

Karr, J. R., K. D. Fausch, P. L. Angermeier, P. R. Yant, and I. J. Schlosser. 1986. Assessment of biological integrity in running waters: a method and its rationale. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication 5, Champaign, IL.

Karr, J. R., P. R. Yant, K. D. Fausch, and I. J. Schlosser. 1987. Spatial and temporal variability of the index of biotic integrity in three midwestern streams. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 116:1-11.

Fausch, K. D. 1988. Tests of competition between native and introduced salmonids in streams: what have we learned? Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 45: 2238-2246.

Fausch, K. D. 1988. Book Review of Matthews, W. J., and D. C. Heins, eds. Community and evolutionary ecology of North American stream fishes. Univ. of Oklahoma Press. Copeia 1988(4).

Miller, D. L., P. M. Leonard, R. M. Hughes, J. R. Karr, P. B. Moyle, L. H. Schrader, B. A. Thompson, R. A. Daniels, K. D. Fausch, G. A. Fitzhugh, J. R. Gammon, D. B. Halliwell, P. L. Angermeier, and D. J. Orth. 1988. Regional applications of an index of biotic integrity for use in water resource management. Fisheries (Bethesda) 13(5): 12-20.

Fausch, K. D. 1989. Do gradient and temperature affect distributions of, and interactions between, brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis) and other resident salmonids in streams? Physiology and Ecology Japan, Special Vol. 1:303-322.

Fausch, K. D., J. D. Lyons, P. L. Angermeier, and J. R. Karr. 1990. Fish communities as indicators of environmental degradation. American Fisheries Society Symposium 8:123-144.

Bestgen, K. R., K. D. Fausch, and S. C. Riley. 1991. Rediscovery of lake chub, Couesius plumbeus, in Colorado. Southwestern Naturalist 36:125-127.

Bramblett, R. G., and K. D. Fausch. 1991. Fishes, macroinvertebrates, and aquatic habitats of the Purgatoire River in Pinon Canyon, Colorado. Southwestern Naturalist 36: 281-294.

Bramblett, R. G., and K. D. Fausch. 1991. Variable fish communities and the index of biotic integrity in a western Great Plains river. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 120:752-769.

Fausch, K. D., and R. G. Bramblett. 1991. Disturbance and fish communities in intermittent tributaries of a western Great Plains river. Copeia 1991:659-674.

Fausch, K. D., and T. G. Northcote. 1992. Large woody debris and salmonid habitat in a small coastal British Columbia stream. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 49:682-693.

Nakano, S., K. D. Fausch, T. Furukawa-Tanaka, K. Maekawa, and H. Kawanabe. 1992. Resource partitioning between sympatric populations of bull charr, Salvelinus confluentus, and cutthroat trout, Oncorhynchus clarki, in a mountain stream in Montana, USA. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 39:211-217.

Riley, S. C., and K. D. Fausch. 1992. Underestimation of trout population size by maximum likelihood removal estimates in small streams. N. Amer. J. Fish. Manage. 12:768-776.

Riley, S. C., K. D. Fausch, and C. Gowan. 1992. Movement of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in four small subalpine streams in northern Colorado. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 1:112-122.

Fausch, K. D. 1993. Experimental analysis of microhabitat selection by juvenile steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and coho salmon (O. kisutch) in a British Columbia stream. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 50:1198-1207.

Fausch, K. D., S. Nakano, and K. Ishigaki. 1994. Distribution of two congeneric charrs in streams of Hokkaido Island, Japan: considering multiple factors across scales. Oecologia 100:1-12.

Gowan, C., M. K. Young, K. D. Fausch, and S. C. Riley. 1994. Restricted movement in resident stream salmonids: a paradigm lost? Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 51:2626-2637.

Kitano, S., K. Maekawa, S. Nakano, and K. D. Fausch. 1994. Spawning behavior of bull trout in the upper Flathead drainage, Montana, with special reference to hybridization with brook trout. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 123:988-992.

Mourning, T. E., K. D. Fausch, and C. Gowan. 1994. Comparison of visible implant tags and Floy anchor tags using hatchery rainbow trout. N. Amer. J. Fish. Manage. 14:636-642.

Shuler, S., R. B. Nehring, and K. D. Fausch. 1994. Diel habitat selection by brown trout in the Rio Grande River, Colorado, after placement of boulder structures. N. Amer. J. Fish. Manage. 14:99-111.

Fausch, K. D., C. Gowan, A. D. Richmond, and S. C. Riley. 1995. The role of dispersal in trout population response to habitat formed by large woody debris in Colorado mountain streams. Bull. Francais de la Peche et de la Pisciculture 337/338/339:179-190.

Fausch, K. D., and M. K. Young. 1995. Evolutionarily significant units and movement of resident stream fishes: a cautionary tale. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 17:360-370.

Richmond, A. D., and K. D. Fausch. 1995. Characteristics and function of large woody debris in mountain streams of northern Colorado. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 52:1789-1802.

Riley, S. C., and K. D. Fausch. 1995. Trout population response to habitat enhancement in six northern Colorado streams. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 52:34-53.

Gowan, C., and K. D. Fausch.  1996.  Long-term demographic responses of trout populations to habitat manipulation in six Colorado streams.  Ecol. Appl. 6:931-946.

Gowan, C., and K. D. Fausch. 1996. Mobile brook trout in two high-elevation Colorado streams: re-evaluating the concept of restricted movement. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 53:1370-1381.

Lohr, S. C., and K. D. Fausch.  1996.  Effects of green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus) predation on survival and habitat use of plains killifish (Fundulus zebrinus).  Southwest. Nat. 41:155-160.

Fausch, K. D., S. Nakano, and S. Kitano. 1997.  Experimentally induced foraging mode shift by sympatric charrs in a Japanese mountain stream.  Behavioral Ecology 8:414-420.

Hauer, F. R., J. S. Baron, D. H. Campbell, K. D. Fausch, S. W. Hostetler, G. H. Leavesley, P. R. Leavitt, D. M. McKnight, and J. A. Stanford. 1997.  Assessment of climate change and freshwater ecosystems of the Rocky Mountains, U.S. and Canada.  Hydrologic Processes 11:903-924.

Kocovsky, P. M., C. Gowan, K. D. Fausch, and S. C. Riley.  1997.  Spinal injury rates in three wild trout populations in Colorado after eight years of backpack electrofishing.  N. Am. J. Fish. Manage.17:308-313.

Lohr, S. C., and K. D. Fausch. 1997.  Multiscale analysis of natural variability in stream fish assemblages of a western Great Plains watershed.  Copeia 1997: 706-724.

Smith, R.K., and K.D. Fausch.  1997.  Thermal tolerance and vegetation preference of Arkansas darter and johnny darter from Colorado plains streams. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc.126:676-686.

Fausch, K. D., and S. Nakano. 1998.  Research on fish ecology in Japan: a brief history and selected review.  Env. Biol. Fishes. 52:75-95.

Nakano, S., S. Kitano, K. Nakai, and K. D. Fausch.  1998.  Competitive interactions for foraging microhabitat among introduced brook charr, Salvelinus fontinalis, and native bull charr, S. confluentus, and westslope cutthroat trout, Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi, in a Montana stream. Env. Biol. Fishes. 52:345-355.

Fausch, K. D.  1998.  Interspecific competition and juvenile Atlantic salmon: on testing effects and evaluating the evidence across scales.  Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 55(Suppl. 1): 218-231.

Armstrong, J. D., J. W. A. Grant, H. L. Forsgren, K. D. Fausch, R. M. DeGraaf, I. A. Fleming, T. D. Prowse, and I. J. Schlosser.  1998.  The application of science to the management of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): integration across scales.  Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 55(Suppl. 1): 303-311.

Latterell, J. J., K. D. Fausch, C. Gowan, and S. C. Riley.  1998.  Relationship of trout recruitment to snowmelt runoff flows and adult trout abundance in six Colorado mountain streams.  Rivers 6:240-250.

Strange, E. M., K. D. Fausch, and A. P. Covich.  1999.  Sustaining ecosystem services in human-dominated watersheds: biohydrology and ecosystem processes in the South Platte River basin.  Environmental Management 24:39-54.

Nakano, S., K. D. Fausch, and S. Kitano.  1999.  Flexible niche partitioning via a foraging mode shift: a proposed mechanism for coexistence in stream-dwelling charrs.  J. Anim. Ecol. 68: 1079-1092.

Labbe, T. R., and K. D. Fausch.  2000.  Dynamics of intermittent stream habitat regulate persistence of a threatened fish at multiple scales.  Ecological Applications 10:1774-1791.

Loomis, J., P. Kent, L. Strange, K. Fausch, and A. Covich.  2000.  Measuring the total economic value of restoring ecosystem services in an impaired river basin: results from a contingent valuation survey.  Ecological Economics 33:103-117.

Fausch, K. D.  2000.  Shigeru Nakano – an uncommon Japanese fish ecologist.  Environmental Biology of Fishes 59:359-364.

Harig, A. L., K. D. Fausch, and M. K. Young.  2000.  Factors influencing success of greenback cutthroat trout translocations.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 20:994-1004.

Fausch, K. D., Y. Taniguchi, S. Nakano, G. D. Grossman, and C. R. Townsend.  2001.  Flood disturbance regimes influence rainbow trout invasion success among five Holarctic regions.  Ecological Applications 11:1438-1455.

Fausch, K. D., M. E. Power, and M. Murakami.  2002.  Linkages between stream and forest food webs: Shigeru Nakano's legacy for ecology in Japan.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:429-434.

Fausch, K. D., C. E. Torgersen, C. V. Baxter, and H. W. Li.  2002.  Landscapes to riverscapes: bridging the gap between research and conservation of stream fishes.  BioScience 52:483-498.

Gowan, C., and K. D. Fausch. 2002.  Why do foraging stream salmonids move during summer?  Environmental Biology of Fishes 64:139-153.

Harig, A. L., and K. D. Fausch.  2002.  Minimum habitat requirements for establishing translocated cutthroat trout populations.  Ecological Applications 12:535-551.

Taniguchi, Y., K. D. Fausch, and S. Nakano.  2002.  Stage-structured interactions between native and introduced species: can intraguild predation facilitate invasion by stream salmonids?  Biological Invasions 4:223-233.

Kennedy, B. M., D. P. Peterson, and K. D. Fausch.  2003.  Different life histories of brook trout populations invading mid-elevation and high-elevation cutthroat trout streams in Colorado.  Western North American Naturalist 63:215-223.

Peterson, D. P., and K. D. Fausch.  2003.  Dispersal of brook trout promotes invasion success and replacement of native cutthroat trout.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 60:1502-1516.

Peterson, D. P., and K. D. Fausch.  2003.  Testing population-level mechanisms of invasion by a mobile vertebrate: a simple conceptual framework for salmonids in streams.  Biological Invasions 5:239-259.

Scheurer, J. A., K. R. Bestgen, and K. D. Fausch.  2003.  Resolving taxonomy and historic distribution for conservation of rare great plains fishes: Hybognathus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in eastern Colorado basins.  Copeia 2003:1-12.

Scheurer, J. A., K. D. Fausch, and K. R. Bestgen.  2003.  Multi-scale processes regulate brassy minnow persistence in a Great Plains river.  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 132:840-855..

Weber, E. D., and K. D. Fausch.  2003.  Interactions between hatchery and wild salmonids in streams: differences in biology and evidence for competition.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 60:1018-1036.

Baxter, C. V., K. D. Fausch, M. Murakami, and P. L. Chapman. 2004. Fish invasion restructures stream and forest food webs by interrupting reciprocal prey subsidies. Ecology 85:2656-2663. Baxter won the 2005 Hynes Award for Young Investigators from the North American Benthological Society for this paper

Olden, J. D., N. L. Poff, M. R. Douglas, M. E. Douglas, and K. D. Fausch. 2004. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of biotic homogenization: beyond a simple focus on species diversity loss. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:18-24.

Peterson, D. P., K. D. Fausch, and G. C. White. 2004. Population ecology of an invasion: effects of brook trout on native cutthroat trout. Ecological Applications 14:754-772.

Weber, E. D., and K. D. Fausch. 2004. Abundance and size distribution of ocean-type juvenile chinook salmon in the upper Sacramento River margin before and after hatchery releases. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24:1447-1455.

Weber, E. D., and K. D. Fausch. 2005. Competition between hatchery-reared and wild juvenile Chinook salmon in enclosures in the Sacramento River, California. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134:44-58.

Baxter, C. V., K. D. Fausch, and W. C. Saunders. 2005. Tangled webs: reciprocal flows of invertebrate prey link streams and riparian zones. Freshwater Biology 50:201-220.

Cooney, S. J., A. P. Covich, P. M. Lukacs, A. L. Harig, and K. D. Fausch. 2005. Modeling global warming scenarios in greenback cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki stomias) streams: implications for species recovery. Western North American Naturalist 65:371-381.

Laeser, S. R., C. V. Baxter, and K. D. Fausch. 2005. Riparian vegetation loss, stream channelization, and web-weaving spiders in northern Japan. Ecological Research 20:646-651.

Huckins, C. J., E. A. Baker, K. D. Fausch, and J. B. K. Leonard. In press. Ecology and life history of coaster brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis and potential bottlenecks in their rehabilitation. North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

Baxter, C. V., K. D. Fausch, M. Murakami, and P. L. Chapman. In press. Invading rainbow trout usurp a terrestrial prey subsidy from native charr and reduce their growth and abundance. Oecologia.

Coleman, M. A., and K. D. Fausch. In press. Cold summer temperature regimes cause a recruitment bottleneck in age-0 Colorado River cutthroat trout reared in laboratory streams. Transactions American Fisheries Society.

Coleman, M. A., and K. D. Fausch. In press. Cold summer temperature limits recruitment of age-0 cutthroat trout in high-elevation Colorado streams. Transactions American Fisheries Society.

Saunders, W. C., and K. D. Fausch. In press. Improved grazing management increases terrestrial invertebrate inputs that feed trout in Wyoming rangeland streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.

Book Chapters

Fausch, K. D.  1991.  Competition among trout species.  Pages 82-83 In J. Stolz and J. Schnell, eds.  Trout.  Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Fausch, K. D.  1991.  Trout as predator.  Pages 65-80 In J. Stolz and J. Schnell, eds.  Trout.  Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Fausch, K. D., and K. R. Bestgen.  1997.  Ecology of fishes indigenous to the central and southwestern Great Plains.  Pages 131-166 in F. L. Knopf and F. B. Samson, eds.  Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates.  Ecological Studies 125.  Springer-Verlag, New York.

Poff, N. L., P. L. Angermeier, S. D. Cooper, P. S. Lake, K. D. Fausch, K. O. Winemiller, L. A. K. Mertes, M. W. Oswood, J. Reynolds, and F. J. Rahel.  2001.  Fish diversity in streams and rivers.  Pages 315-350  In: F. S. Chapin III, O. E. Sala, and E. Huber-Sannwald, editors.  Global diversity in a changing environment: scenarios for the 21st century.  Springer-Verlag, New York.

Fausch, K. D.  2002.  Preface: Community ecology of salmonid fishes. Pages 3-6 in: Ecology of Streams and Forests: Collective Papers by Shigeru Nakano.  Hokkaido University Press, Sapporo (In Japanese).

Fausch, K. D., and M. K. Young. 2004. Interactions between forests and fish in the Rocky Mountains of the USA. Pages 463-484 in T. G. Northcote and G. F. Hartman, editors. Fishes and Forestry: Worldwide Watershed Interactions and Management. Blackwell Science, Oxford, U.K.

Edited Volumes

Yuma, M., I. Nakamura, and K.D. Fausch, editors.  1998.  Fish biology in Japan: an anthology in honour of Hiroya Kawanabe.  Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes 18, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

Refereed Technical Reports

Fausch, K. D., C. L. Hawkes, and M. G. Parsons. 1988. Models that predict standing crop of stream fish from habitat variables: 1950-85. U. S. D. A. Forest Service, Gen. Tech. Rept. PNW-GTR-213, Portland, OR, 52 p.

Harig, A. L., and K. D. Fausch.  2000.  Application of a model to predict success of cutthroat trout translocations in central and southern Rocky Mountain streams.  Wild Trout VII.

Fausch, K. D., B. E. Rieman, M. K. Young, and J. B. Dunham. 2006. Strategies for conserving native salmonid populations at risk from nonnative fish invasions: tradeoffs in using barriers to upstream movement. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-174. Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, Colorado.

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