
Gila-San Francisco Coordinating Committee - Technical Subcommittee
Reference Literature - Relevant Desert Southwest
Fisheries
- Bailey J.K., J.A. Schweitzer & T.G. Whitham. 2001. Salt cedar negatively affects biodiversity of aquatic macroinvertebrates. Wetlands 21[3], 442-447.
- Brouder, M.J. 2001. Effects of flooding on recruitment of roundtail chub, Gila robusta, in a southwestern river. Southwestern Naturalist 46:302-310.
- Bruns, D.A., and W.L. Minckley. 1980. Distribution and abundance of benthic invertebrates in a Sonoran Desert stream. Journal of Arid Environments 3:117-131.
- Collins, J.P., C. Young, J. Howell, and W.L. Minckley. 1981. Impact of flooding in a Sonoran Desert stream, including elimination of an endangered fish population (Poeciliopsis o. occidentalis, Poeciliidae). Southwestern Naturalist 26:415-423.
- Fagan, W.F., P.J. Unmack, C. Burgess, and W.L. Minckley. 2002. Rarity, fragmentation, and extinction risk in desert fishes. Ecology 83:3250-3256.
- Fisher, S.G., L.J. Gray, N.B. Grimm, and D.E. Busch. 1982. Temporal succession in a desert stream ecosystem following flash flooding. Ecological Monographs 52:93-110.
- Garrigan, D., P.C. Marsh, and T.E. Dowling. 2002. Long-term effective population size of three endangered Colorado River fishes. Animal Conservation 5:95-102.
- Gray, L.J. 1981. Species composition and life histories of aquatic insects in a lowland Sonoran Desert stream. American Midland Naturalist 106:229-242.
- Gray, L.J. and S.G. Fisher. 1981. Postflood recolonization pathways of macroinvertebrates in a lowland Sonoran Desert stream. American Midland Naturalist 106:249-257.
- Grimm, N.B. and S.G. Fisher. 1989. Stability of periphyton and macroinvertebrates to disturbance by flash floods in a desert stream. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 8:293-307.
- Ivanyi, C.S., J.P. Hill, and W.J. Matter. 1995. Time of spawning by desert sucker. Southwestern Naturalist 40:425-426.
- Jenkins, K.M. and A.J. Boulton. 2003. Connectivity in a dryland river: Short-term aquatic microinvertebrate recruitment following floodplain inundation. Ecology 84:2708-2723.
- Meffe, G.K. 1984. Effects of abiotic disturbance on coexistence of predator-prey fish species. Ecology 65:1525-1534.
- Minckley, W.L., and B.D. DeMarais. 2000. Taxonomy of chubs (teleostei, cyprinidae, genus Gila) in the American southwest with comments on conservation. Copeia:251-256.
- Minckley, W.L., P.C. Marsh, J.E. Deacon, T.E. Dowling, P.W. Hedrick, W.J. Matthews, and G. Mueller. 2003. A conservation, plan for native fishes of the Lower Colorado River. Bioscience 53:219-234.
- Minckley, W.L. and G.K. Meffe. 1987. Differential selection by flooding in stream-fish communities of the arid American southwest. Pages 93-104 in W. J. Matthews and D. C. Heins, editors. Community and evolutionary ecology of North American Stream fishes. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
- Oberlin, G.E., J.P. Shannon, and D.W. Blinn. 1999. Watershed influence on the macroinvertebrate fauna of ten major tributaries of the Colorado River through Grand Canyon, Arizona. Southwestern Naturalist 44:17-30.
- Poff, N.L. 2002. Ecological response to and management of increased flooding caused by climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series a-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 360:1497-1510.
- Propst, D.L. and K.B. Gido. 2004. Responses of native and nonnative fishes to natural flow regime mimicry in the San Juan River. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 133:922-931.
- Schultz, A.A., O.E. Maughan, and S.A. Bonar. 2003. Effects of flooding on abundance of native and nonnative fishes downstream from a small impoundment. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:503-511.
- Tyus, H.M., and J.F. Saunders. 2000. Nonnative fish control and endangered fish recovery: Lessons from the Colorado River. Fisheries 25:17-24.
- Unmack, P.J. and W.E. Fagan. 2004. Convergence of differentially invaded systems toward invader-dominance: time-lagged invasions as a predictor in desert fish communities. Biological Invasions 6:233-243.
- Ward, D.L., A.A. Schultz, and P.G. Matson. 2003. Differences in swimming ability and behavior in response to high water velocities among native and nonnative fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes 68:87-92.



