The reproductive biology of small fishes and the clutch concept: Combining macroscopic and histological approaches

DC Heins, NJ Brown‐Peterson - Aquaculture, Fish and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate estimates of reproductive parameters important in understanding life history
evolution and conservation of small fishes are dependent upon careful assignment of …

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

TA Worthington, AA Echelle, JS Perkin… - Fish and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic changes to the Great Plains rivers of North America have had a large,
negative effect on a reproductive guild of pelagic‐broadcast spawning (PBS) cyprinid fishes …

Landscape and flow metrics affecting the distribution of a federally-threatened fish: Improving management, model fit, and model transferability

TA Worthington, T Zhang, DR Logue, AR Mittelstet… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Truncated distributions of pelagophilic fishes have been observed across the Great Plains of
North America, with water use and landscape fragmentation implicated as contributing …

Backcasting the decline of a vulnerable Great Plains reproductive ecotype: identifying threats and conservation priorities

TA Worthington, SK Brewer… - Global Change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation efforts for threatened or endangered species are challenging because the
multi‐scale factors that relate to their decline or inhibit their recovery are often unknown. To …

Assessing functions of movement in a Great Plains endemic fish

DS Ruppel, VA Sotola, CA Craig, NH Martin… - … Biology of Fishes, 2020 - Springer
Pelagic broadcast spawning cyprinids are a mobile group of fishes commonly found within
semi-arid areas of the Great Plains of North America. In several species, upstream …

[PDF][PDF] An overview of North America's diminutive freshwater fish fauna

MG Bennett, KW Conway - Ichthyological Exploration of …, 2010 - researchgate.net
The North American continent contains one of the most diverse temperate freshwater fish
faunas in the World (Abell et al., 2000; Lundberg et al., 2000), with over 1050 described and …

Seasonal consumption of terrestrial prey by a threatened stream fish is influenced by riparian vegetation

J Burbank, DAR Drake, M Power - Endangered Species Research, 2022 - int-res.com
The consumption of terrestrial prey by fishes highlights the functional value of terrestrial
habitats, but such consumption is not well documented for many small-bodied species. We …

Movement and microhabitat associations of Guadalupe Bass in two Texas rivers

JS Perkin, ZR Shattuck, PT Bean… - … American Journal of …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Guadalupe bass Micropterus treculii is endemic to Texas and is threatened by
introgression with introduced smallmouth bass M. dolomieu as well as habitat degradation …

Intra-annual variation in fish communities and habitat associations in a Chihuahua Desert reach of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Del Norte

TC Heard, JS Perkin, TH Bonner - Western North American Naturalist, 2012 - BioOne
Anthropogenic alterations to lotic systems are often implicated in global declines among
stream-dwelling fishes. A primary step toward mediating fish declines is improving our …

Changes in taxonomic and functional diversity of an urban stream fish assemblage: A 30-year perspective

R Antoniazzi, CG Montaña, D Peterson… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Globally, freshwater fish diversity is rapidly changing in response to land use change,
including urbanization. Time series of freshwater fish communities can help elucidate the …