Recent Publications

Morrill, D.P., J. Main, G. Davenport, G.L. Adams, S.R. Adams. 2024. Taxonomic and functional homogenization of fish assemblages in an Ozark river associated with pasture land use and constructed water bodies. Ecology of Freshwater Fish. DOI: 10.1111/eff.12802 

Gavrielides, G., G.L. Adams, S.R. Adams, M.H. Connolly. 2024. Environmental correlates with fish assemblage change and biotic homogenization across 40 years in an Ozark, Gravel-Bed river basin. Ecology of Freshwater Fish. Vol 33(3). 

Morrill, D.P., M.H. Connolly, G.L. Adams, and S.R. Adams.  2023.  Fish Assemblage Shifts in an Ozark River over Eighty Years amidst a Mosaic of Forest Regeneration and Persistent Pasture. Ecology of Freshwater Fish. Vol 32 (2): 257-269.

Morrill, D.P, C.R. Rezac, G.L. Adams, S.R. Adams, and R.A. Hrabik. 2021. Rediscovery of the Pallid Shiner, Hybopsis amnis, in the Black River System of Arkansas and Missouri Including Notes on Ecology and Life History.  Proceedings of the Southeastern Fishes Council Vol 1 Number 61:46-58.

Walker, R.H., C.J. Naus, and S.R. Adams. 2022. Should I stay or should I go: Hydrologic characteristics and body size influence fish emigration from the floodplain following an atypical summer flood. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 31(4): 607-621.

Braund, D.M., A.J. Feltmann, G.B. Gavrielides, K.L. Lang, J.R. Main, A.K. Mogilevski, J.H. Mosbey, R.L. Relic, C.R. Rezac, B.K. Trejo, G.L. Adams, and S.R. Adams. 2019. A tale of two Sylamores: understanding relationships among land use, nutrients, and aquatic communities across a subsidy-stress gradient. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 73:93-105.

Burgad, Aaron A., Ginny L. Adams, and Reid Adams. 2019. Temporal and spatial dynamics of fish community structure during watershed alteration in two Ouachita River systems. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 28:459-472. 

Coulter, A., S.R. Adams, M.B. Flinn, M.R. Whiles, B.M. Burr, R.J. Sheehan, and J.E. Garvey. 2019. Extended water-level drawdowns in dammed rivers enhance fish habitat: environmental pool management in the Upper Mississippi River. Environmental Management 63:124-135

Keevin, T. M., S.R. Adams, K.J. Killgore, and D.J. Schaeffer. 2019. Effects of pressure changes induced by commercial navigation traffic on mortality of fish early life stages. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 2019:1–6.

Stearman, L.W., G.L. Adams, and S.R. Adams. 2019. Stream size and network position affect fish assemblage diversity differently in headwater streams of the Interior Highlands, USA. Copeia 107 (4): 724-735.

Naus, C.J., and S.R. Adams.  2018.  Fish nursery habitat function of the main channel, floodplain tributaries and oxbow lakes of a medium-sized river.  Ecology of Freshwater Fish 27:4-18.                                                  

Kluender, E.R., S.R. Adams, and L. Lewis.  2017.  Seasonal habitat use of alligator gar at multiple spatial scales in a river-floodplain ecosystem.  Ecology of Freshwater Fish 26:233-246.      

Burgad, A., S.T. Clark, M.E. Furr, A.N. Lenard, M.E. Polett, C.D. Robinson, C.R. Sherwood, G.L. Spooner, S.J. Stoughton, and S.R. Adams.  2017.  Longitudinal patterns in an Arkansas River Valley stream: an application of the river continuum concept.  Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science. 71:153-164.

Robison, H.W., L. Lewis, C. Cox, G. Spooner, S.R. Adams, and C.T. McAllister.  2016. New distributional records of the Ohio Shrimp, Macrobrachium ohione Smith (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) in Arkansas.  Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 70:207-210.

Metzke, B., G.L. Adams, S. R. Adams. 2016.  Status of Spring Cavefish (Forbesichthys agassizii) in Southern Illinois. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science. 109:35-39.

Smith, G., Adams, G. L., Dinkelacker, S. 2016. Do habitat characteristics limit population densities of American alligators in Arkansas? Journal of Wildlife Management. Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 11(1): 71-79.

Cox, C., Quinn, J., Lewis, L., Adams, S. R., Adams, G. 2016. Population demographics of American eels in two Arkansas USA watersheds that drain into the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Fish Biology.

Stearman, L., Adams, G. L., Adams, S. R. 2015. Does the ecology of the redfin darter (Etheostoma whipplei) reveal initial effects of nontraditional natural gas exploration? Environmental Biology of Fishes. 98:623-635.

Day, J., Gerken, J., Adams, G. L. Online 2014. Population ecology and seasonal demography of the endangered grotto sculpin (Cottus specus). Ecology of Freshwater Fish.

Walker, R., Adams, G. L. 2014. Ecological factors influencing movement of creek chub in an intermittent stream of the Ozark Mountains, Arkansas. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 22(2):216-227.

Matthews, W., Marsh-Matthews, E., Adams, G. L., Adams, S. R. 2014. Two Catastrophic Floods: Similarities and Differences in Effects on an Ozark Stream Fish Community. Copeia, 2014(4):682-693.

Day, J., Starkey, D. E., Adams, G. L., Brummett*, S., Keeney, D. 2014. Population genetics of grotto sculpin (Cottus specus), a new cave adapted fish species. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 97(12):1305-1315.  

Christian, J., Adams, G. L. 2014. Effects of pool isolation on trophic ecology of fishes in an Ozark Highland stream. Journal of Fish Biology, 85(3):752-772.

Walker, R. H., E. R. Kluender, T. E. Inebnit, and S. R. Adams.  2013.  Differences in diet and feeding ecology of similar-sized spotted (Lepisosteus oculatus) and ashortnose (Leipsosteus platostomus) gars during flooding of a south-eastern US river.  Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 22:617-625.

Driver, L., Adams, G. L. 2013. Life History and Spawning Behavior of the Western Sand Darter, Ammocrypta clara, in Northeast Arkansas. American Midland Naturalist, 170(2):199-212.

Adams, G.L., B.M. Burr, J.L. Day and D.E. Starkey.  2013.  Cottus specus, a new troglomorphic species of Sculpin (Cottidae) from southeastern Missouri.  Zootaxa, 3609(5):484-494. 

Walker, R.H., G.L. Adams and S.R. Adams.  2012.  Movement patterns of southern redbelly dace Chrosomus erythrogaster, in headwater reaches of an Ozark stream.  Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 22(2):216-227.

Mitchell, D. M., S.A. Entrekin, G.L. Adams.  2012. Structure and function of large wood in Ozark headwater streams. Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 27(3):335-349. 

Pandey, R.B., G.L Adams, and L.W. Warren. 2011. Survival and precopulatory guarding behavior of Hyalella azteca (Amphipoda) exposed to nitrate in the presence of atrazine. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 30(5):1170-1177. 

Fox, J.T., G.L. Adams, K. Steelman, and M. Sharum. 2010. Environmental assessment of bioavailable organic chemicals in Perry County, Missouri cave stream using passive samplers. Environmental Science and Technology, 44:8835-8841.

Driver, L.J., G.L. Adams and S.R. Adams. 2009.  Fish assemblage of a cypress wetland within an urban landscape.  Southeastern Naturalist, 8(3):527-536. 

Flinn, M. B., S. R. Adams, M. R. Whiles, and J. E. Garvey. 2008. Biological responses to contrasting hydrology in backwaters of the Upper Mississippi River Navigation Pool 25.  Environmental Management 41:468-486.

Gerken, J.E. and G.L. Adams.  2008. Habitat use by Grotto sculpin (Cottus carolinae), a troglomorphic fish in Perry County, Missouri title in Elliott, William R., ed. 2008. Proceedings of the 2007 National Cave and Karst Management Symposium 74- 78.

Wilhelm, F.M., S.J. Taylor and G.L. Adams.  2006.  Comparison of routine metabolic rates of the troglobite, Gammarus acherondytes (Amphipoda: Gammaridae), and the troglophile, Gammarus troglophilus.  Freshwater Biology, 51(6):1162-1174. 

Adams, S. R., M. B. Flinn, B. M. Burr, M. R. Whiles, and J. E. Garvey.  2006.  Ecology of larval blue sucker (Cycleptus elongatus) in the Mississippi River. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 15:291-300.

Adams, S. R., G. L. Adams, and J. J. Hoover.  2003.  Oral grasping: a distinctive behavior of cyprinids for maintaining station in flowing water.  Copeia, 2003(4):851-857. 

Adams, S. R., Adams, G. L., and G. R. Parsons.  2003.  Critical Swimming Speed and Behavior of Juvenile Shovelnose Sturgeon and Pallid Sturgeon, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 132(2):392–397.

Burr, B. M., G. L. Adams, J. Krejca, R. J. Paul, and M. L. Warren.  2001.  Troglomorphic sculpins of the Cottus carolinae species group in Perry County, Missouri: distribution, external morphology, and conservation status review.  Environmental Biology of Fishes, 62:279–296.