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Supporting Research

Publications

Isaak, D., M. Young, D. 2017. Delineating climate refugia for native aquatic species with big crowd-sourced databases. Chronicles of the Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains. Vol 11, No 2. 3-6

Isaak, D., M. Young, D. Nagel, D. Horan, and M. Groce. 2015. The cold-water climate shield: Delineating refugia for preserving salmonid fishes through the 21st Century. Global Change Biology. 21:2540-2553.

Supplemental materials (Appendices 1 and 2; Tables S1 – S3; Figures S1 – S5)

Climate shield refuge streams for preserving native trout - Science Briefing Paper

Isaak, D., M. Young, D. Nagel, and D. Horan. 2014. Cold water as a climate shield to preserve native trout through the 21st Century. Pages 110 - 116 in R. F. Carline and C. LoSapio, editors. Wild Trout XI: Looking Back and Moving Forward. Wild Trout Symposium, Bozeman, Montana.

Isaak, D.J., S. Wenger, and M.K. Young. 2017. Big biology meets microclimatology: Defining thermal niches of aquatic ectotherms at landscape scales for conservation planning. Ecological Applications 27:977-990. 

Isaak, D., M. Young, D. Horan, D. Nagel, M. Schwartz, and K. McKelvey. 2022. Do metapopulations and management matter for relict headwater bull trout populations in a warming climate? Ecological Applications. DOI: 10.1002/eap.2594

 Young, M., D. Isaak, K. McKelvey, T. Wilcox, M. Campbell, M. Corsi, D. Horan, and M. Schwartz. 2017. Ecological segregation moderates a climactic conclusion to trout hybridization. Global Change Biology 12:521-523.

Young, M.K., D.J. Isaak, K.S. McKelvey, T.M. Wilcox, D.M. Bingham, K. Pilgrim, K. Carim, M. Corsi, D.L. Horan, D.E. Nagel, and M.K. Schwartz. 2016. Climate, demography, and zoogeography predict introgression thresholds in salmonid hybrid zones in Rocky Mountain streams. PLoS ONE 11: e0163563

Wilcox, T.M., M.K. Young, K.S. McKelvey, D.J. Isaak, D.L. Horan, and M.K. Schwartz. 2018. Fine-scale environmental DNA sampling reveals climate-mediated interactions between native and invasive trout species. EcoSphere 9: e02500.

 

Presentations

Isaak, D.J., and M.K. Young. 2017. Building a crowd-sourced climate shield & aquatic eDNAtlas to protect biodiversity in the American West. Conservation Biology Institute webinar. January 13. (Webinar recording available at: Conservation Biology Institute).

Isaak, D.J., and M.K. Young. 2018. This century’s bull trout forecast: Partly sunny with scattered rain showers. Salvelinus Confluentus Curiosity Society meeting. Jarbidge, NV, Aug 25-27.

Isaak, D.J., M. Young, D. Nagel, D. Horan, and M. Groce. 2016. The cold-water climate shield: Delineating long-term climate refugia for cutthroat trout. Colorado River Cutthroat Trout working group meeting. Grand Junction, CO, December 8-9.

Isaak, D.J., M.K. Young, D.L. Horan, D. Nagel, M. Schwartz, and K. McKelvey. 2021. Do metapopulations and management matter for relict headwater bull trout populations in a warming climate? Salvelinus Confluentus Curiosity Society annual meeting. August 17–18. 

Young, M.K., K. McKelvey, and D.J. Isaak. 2016. Whither the hybrid swarm? Stream environments segregate cutthroat and rainbow trout and control hybrid zone locations. Colorado River Cutthroat Trout working group meeting. Grand Junction, CO, December 8-9.

Young, M., D. Isaak, K. McKelvey, M. Schwartz, K. Carim, W. Fredenberg, T. Wilcox, M. Groce, D. Nagel, D. Horan, and S. Wollrab. 2015. The rapid, range-wide inventory of bull trout: a crowd-sourced, eDNA-based approach with application to many aquatic species. Multiple webinars, seminars, and meetings in the northwestern U.S.

Young, M., D. Isaak, D. Nagel, D. Horan, and M. Groce. 2015. Coldwater as a climate shield to preserve native trout in the 21st Century. U.S. Forest Service Region 1 Leadership Team meeting, Missoula, Montana, January 29.

Isaak, D., M. Young, D. Nagel, D. Horan, and M. Groce. 2015. The cold-water climate shield: Delineating refugia for preserving native trout through the 21st Century. Idaho chapter American Fisheries Society meeting, Boise, ID, March 4-6.

Posters

Isaak, D., M. Young, D. Nagel, D. Horan, and M. Groce. 2015. Climate shield cold-water refuge streams for Bull Trout. Idaho chapter American Fisheries Society meeting, Boise, ID, March 4-6.

Isaak, D., M. Young, D. Nagel, D. Horan, and M. Groce. 2015. Climate shield cold-water refuge streams for Cutthroat Trout. Idaho chapter American Fisheries Society meeting, Boise, ID, March 4-6.

Posters of Rangewide Distribution

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Press Release and News Coverage

Associated Press - The Big Story

Rocky Mountain Research Station News Release - Trout Climate Change Refuge Streams Identified through Extensive Inter-agency Crowd Sourced Databases

United States Department of Agriculture Blog - Cold Water Can be Used as a Climate Shield to Protect Native Aquatic Species

Idaho Rivers United press release - Climate Report Says Healthy Rivers Are Critical for Idaho Native Trout

North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative - Cold-Water Climate Shield Manuscript & Online Fish Databases Now Available

Idaho Statesman - Idaho may serve as a 'Noah's ark' for trout

Idaho Mountain Express - Report states need to protect rivers

Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Report: Save cold water streams for native trout

The Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife News Bulletin - Study Develops Forecasts On Which Columbia Basin Streams Will Serve As ‘Climate Refugia’

Jackson Hole News & Guide - Trout could stay cool as the Hole heats up

Press Release: Mountain Streams Offer Climate Refuge

High Country News - How to shelter mountain streams in a changing world

Thermal envelopes and climate change - The Climate CIRCulator


Related Websites

The National Stream Internet

NorWeST: Regional Database & Modeled Stream Temperature

SSN & STARS: Tools for Spatial Statistical Modeling on Stream Networks

Stream Temperature Modeling and Monitoring

Climate-Aquatics Blog

U.S. Stream Flow Metric Dataset

National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation

Sculpins of the West - A molecular taxonomy of Cottus in western North America

The Range-Wide Bull Trout eDNA Project


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