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Decoupling the Roles of Corticosterone in Mediating Effects of Methylmercury and Chytrid Fungus (Bd) on Amphibian Survival Open

Brian J. Tornabene, Morgan P. Kain, Creagh W. Breuner, Collin A. Eagles‐Smith, Lisa A. Eby , et al. · 2025

Amphibians have suffered widespread declines caused by many interacting factors whose effects are often difficult to isolate. We used complementary analyses to decouple effects of methylmercury (MeHg) and amphibian chytrid fungus (Bd) on s…

The relationship between body condition, body composition, and growth in amphibians Open

Ross K. Hinderer, Blake R. Hossack, Lisa A. Eby · 2025

Body condition of animals is often assumed to reflect advantages in survival or reproduction, but body condition indices may not reflect body composition, or condition may be unrelated to fitness-associated traits. The relationship between…

Genomic Insights Into Inbreeding and Adaptive Divergence of Trout Populations to Inform Genetic Rescue Open

Donovan A. Bell, Kellie J. Carim, Ryan P. Kovach, Lisa A. Eby, Craig A. Barfoot , et al. · 2025

Genetic rescue, specifically translocation to facilitate gene flow among populations and reduce the effects of inbreeding, is an increasingly used approach in conservation. However, this approach comes with trade‐offs, wherein gene flow ma…

Using life history traits to assess climate change vulnerability in understudied species Open

Ross K. Hinderer, Blake R. Hossack, Lisa A. Eby · 2024

Climate change is a primary threat to biodiversity, but for many species, we still lack information required to assess their relative vulnerability to changes. Climate change vulnerability assessment (CCVA) is a widely used technique to ra…

Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity Open

Beth A. Reinke, Hugo Cayuela, Fredric J. Janzen, Jean‐François Lemaître, Jean‐Michel Gaillard , et al. · 2022

Comparative studies of mortality in the wild are necessary to understand the evolution of aging; yet, ectothermic tetrapods are underrepresented in this comparative landscape, despite their suitability for testing evolutionary hypotheses. …

Importance of local weather and environmental gradients on demography of a broadly distributed temperate frog Open

David S. Pilliod, Rebecca McCaffery, Robert S. Arkle, Rick D. Scherer, Jacqueline B. Cupples , et al. · 2022

Amphibian populations are sensitive to environmental temperatures and moisture, which vary with local weather conditions and may reach new norms and extremes as contemporary climate change progresses. Using long-term (11–16 years) mark-rec…

Mechanism of northern pike invasion in the Columbia River Basin Open

Kellie J. Carim, Lisa A. Eby, Loren M. Miller, Holly McLellan, Virgil Dupuis , et al. · 2022

Thermal conditions predict intraspecific variation in senescence rate in frogs and toads Open

Hugo Cayuela, Jean‐François Lemaître, Erin Muths, Rebecca McCaffery, THIERRY FRÉTEY , et al. · 2021

Significance Using long-term demographic studies, we showed that warmer temperatures are associated with increased senescence rates and decreased lifespans in four amphibian species that are widely distributed across two continents (North …

Habitat degradation from intermittent hypoxia: impacts on demersal fishes Open

Lisa A. Eby, Larry B. Crowder, Catherine McClellan, Charles H. Peterson, Monica J. Powers · 2021

As eutrophication of estuaries and coastal oceans increases worldwide, the resulting expansion of hypoxic zones represents an increasingly frequent form of habitat degradation. Although impacts of prolonged hypoxia on benthic invertebrate …

Genomic signatures of thermal adaptation are associated with clinal shifts of life history in a broadly distributed frog Open

Hugo Cayuela, Yann Dorant, Brenna R. Forester, Dan L. Jeffries, Rebecca McCaffery , et al. · 2021

Temperature is a critical driver of ectotherm life‐history strategies, whereby a warmer environment is associated with increased growth, reduced longevity and accelerated senescence. Increasing evidence indicates that thermal adaptation ma…

Ultrasound imaging identifies life history variation in resident Cutthroat Trout Open

Kellie J. Carim, Scott Relyea, Craig A. Barfoot, Lisa A. Eby, John A. Kronenberger , et al. · 2021

Human activities that fragment fish habitat have isolated inland salmonid populations. This isolation is associated with loss of migratory life histories and declines in population density and abundance. Isolated populations exhibiting onl…

Hybridization alters growth and migratory life‐history expression of native trout Open

Jeffrey T. Strait, Lisa A. Eby, Ryan P. Kovach, Clint C. Muhlfeld, Matthew Boyer , et al. · 2020

Human‐mediated hybridization threatens many native species, but the effects of introgressive hybridization on life‐history expression are rarely quantified, especially in vertebrates. We quantified the effects of non‐native rainbow trout a…

Estimating inundation of small waterbodies with sub‐pixel analysis of Landsat imagery: long‐term trends in surface water area and evaluation of common drought indices Open

Ibrahima Sall, Christopher J. Jarchow, Brent H. Sigafus, Lisa A. Eby, Michael J. Forzley , et al. · 2020

Small waterbodies are numerically dominant in many landscapes and provide several important ecosystem services, but automated measurement of waterbodies smaller than a standard Landsat pixel (0.09 ha) remains challenging. To further evalua…

Trends in River Discharge and Water Temperature Cue Spawning Movements of Blue Sucker, Cycleptus elongatus, in an Impounded Great Plains River Open

Brian J. Tornabene, Troy Wellington Smith, Anne Tews, Robert P. Beattie, William M. Gardner , et al. · 2020

Tornabene, Brian J., Smith, Troy W., Tews, Anne E., Beattie, Robert P., Gardner, William M., Eby, Lisa A. (2020): Trends in River Discharge and Water Temperature Cue Spawning Movements of Blue Sucker, Cycleptus elongatus, in an Impounded G…

Parallel, targeted analysis of environmental samples via high‐throughput quantitative PCR Open

Taylor M. Wilcox, Kevin S. McKelvey, Michael K. Young, Cory Engkjer, Richard F. Lance , et al. · 2020

When analyzing environmental samples for DNA from multiple taxa, researchers must usually decide between iterative analyses with single‐taxon assays—which are reliable and sensitive, but also laborious to apply—and approaches such as metab…

Biotic and Abiotic Associations with Westslope Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) in the North Fork Flathead River Basin in northwestern Montana, USA and southeastern British Columbia, CAN under current and future climate scenarios. Open

Kadie B. Heinle, Lisa A. Eby, Clint C. Muhlfeld, Vincent S. D’Angelo, Amber Steed , et al. · 2019

Westslope Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi; WCT) populations are declining across much of their native range due to threats such as habitat degradation, competition with non-native species, and climate change. Understanding how…

Dataset for the article: Metal contamination and food web changes alter exposure to upper trophic levels in upper Blackfoot River basin streams, Montana Open

Jack E Landers, S. Mažeika P. Sullivan, Lisa A. Eby, Andrew C. Wilcox, Heiko W. Langner · 2018

Reduced invertebrate abundance and diversity are common responses to heavy metals contamination in mining-impacted streams. The resulting changes in community composition may have implications for metals accumulation and transfer through t…

Life history, population viability, and the potential for local adaptation in isolated trout populations Open

Kellie J. Carim, Yngvild Vindenes, Lisa A. Eby, Craig A. Barfoot, Leif Asbjørn Vøllestad · 2017

Peer Review #1 of "A time-lapse photography method for monitoring salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) passage and abundance in streams (v0.1)" Open

William W. Deacy, William B. Leacock, Lisa A. Eby, Jack A. Stanford · 2016

Accurately estimating population sizes is often a critical component of fisheries research and management.Although there is a growing appreciation of the importance of smallscale salmon population dynamics to the stability of salmon stock-…

A time-lapse photography method for monitoring salmon ( <i>Oncorhynchus spp.</i> ) passage and abundance in streams Open

William W. Deacy, William B. Leacock, Lisa A. Eby, Jack A. Stanford · 2016

Accurately estimating population sizes is often a critical component of fisheries research and management. Although there is a growing appreciation of the importance of small-scale salmon population dynamics to the stability of salmon stoc…

Peer Review #2 of "A time-lapse photography method for monitoring salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) passage and abundance in streams (v0.1)" Open

William W. Deacy, William B. Leacock, Lisa A. Eby, Jack A. Stanford · 2016

Accurately estimating population sizes is often a critical component of fisheries research and management.Although there is a growing appreciation of the importance of smallscale salmon population dynamics to the stability of salmon stock-…

Toward a more ecologically informed view of severe forest fires Open

Richard L. Hutto, Robert E. Keane, Rosemary L. Sherriff, Christopher T. Rota, Lisa A. Eby , et al. · 2016

We use the historical presence of high‐severity fire patches in mixed‐conifer forests of the western United States to make several points that we hope will encourage development of a more ecologically informed view of severe wildland fire …

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Craig Aumann, Lisa A. Eby, William F. Fagan · 2016

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Multiscale Prediction of Whirling Disease Risk in the Blackfoot River Basin, Montana: a Useful Consideration for Restoration Prioritization? Open

Lisa A. Eby, Ron Pierce, Morgan M. Sparks, Kellie J. Carim, Craig. Podner · 2015

Habitat restoration for inland trout (family Salmonidae) is common across western North America, but planners rarely consider disease risk when prioritizing restoration sites. Whirling disease is a parasitic infection caused by the invasiv…

Does Whirling Disease Mediate Hybridization between a Native and Nonnative Trout? Open

Kellie J. Carim, Lisa A. Eby, Ron Pierce · 2015

The spread of nonnative species over the last century has profoundly altered freshwater ecosystems, resulting in novel species assemblages. Interactions between nonnative species may alter their impacts on native species, yet few studies h…

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