Publications

Refereed Publications

31.  Baruch, E.M., Yarnell, S.M., Grantham, T.E, Ayers, J.R., and Lusardi, R.A. 2024. Mimicking functional elements of the natural flow regime promotes native fish recovery in a regulated river. Ecological Applications: xx: xxx-xxx.

30.   Ayers, J.R., Yarnell, S.M., Baruch, E., Lusardi, R.A., and Grantham, T.E. 2024. Perennial and non-perennial streamflow regime shifts across California, USA. Water Resources Research 60(4): xxx-xxx. 

29. Huber, E.R., Ryan, R.E., Johnson, R.C., Sturrock, A.M., Lusardi, R.A., and Carlson, S.M. 2024. Seventy years of diminishing biocomplexity of California Central Valley hatchery steelhead, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences xx: xxx-xxx.

28. Corline, N.J., Bellido-Leiva, F. Alarcon, A., Dahlgren, D., Van Nieuwenhuyse, E.E., Beakes, M., and Lusardi, R.A. 2023. Reservoir-derived subsidies provide a potential management opportunity for novel river ecosystems. Journal of Environmental Management 345: xxx-xxx.

27. Lusardi, R.A., Dahlgren, R.A., Van Nieuwenhuyse, E., Whitman, G., Jeffres, C., and R. Johnson. 2023. Does fine scale habitat diversity promote meaningful phenotypic diversity within a watershed network? Ecology xx: xxx-xxx. 

26, Zillig, K., Fitzgerald, A., Lusardi, R.A., Cocherell, D.E., and N.A. Fangue. 2023. Intraspecific variation among Chinook salmon populations indicates physiological adaptation to local environmental conditions. Conservation Physiology 11: xxx-xxx. 

25. Ogaz, M.H., A.L. Rypel, R.A. Lusardi, P.B. Moyle, and C.A. Jeffres.  Behavioral cues enable native fishes to exit a California floodplain while leaving non-native fishes behind. Ecosphere 13(12): 1-18.

24. Lukk, A.K., Lusardi, R.A., and A.W. Willis. 2022. Water management for conservation and ecosystem function: modelling the prioritization of source water in a working landscape. In press at the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.

23. Zillig, K.W., Lusardi, R.A., Cocherell, D.E., and N.A. Fangue. Interpopulation variation in thermal physiology among seasonal runs of Chinook salmon . Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 80: 1-13.

22. Peek, R., Irving, K., Yarnell, S.M., Lusardi, R.A., Stein, E.D., and R. Mazor. 2022. Identifying functional flow linkages between stream alteration and biological stream condition indices across California. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9: 1-14.

21. Corline, N.J., Vasquez-Housley, P., Yokel, E., Gilmore, C., Stapleton, B., and R.A. Lusardi. When humans work like beavers: riparian restoration enchances gamma diversity and habitat resiliency. Restoration Ecology 31 (1): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13690 

20. Grantham, T.E., Carlisle, D.M., Howard, J. Lane, B., Lusardi, R.A., Obester, A., Sandoval-Solis, S., Standford, B., Stein, E.D., Taniguchi-Quan, K.T., Yarnell, S.M., and J.K.H. Zimmerman. 2022. Modeling Functional Flows in California's Rivers. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.787473

19. Bellido-Leiva, F.J., Lusardi, R.A., and J.R. Lund. 2022. Quantification of off-channel inundated habitat for Pacific Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) along the Sacramento River, California, using remote sensing imagery. Remote Sensing 14 (6): 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14061443

18. Yarnell, S.M., Willis, A., Obester, A., Peek, R.A., Lusardi, R.A., Zimmerman, J., Grantham, T.E., and E.D. Stein. Functional flows in groundwater-influenced streams: application of the California Environmental Flows Framework to determine ecological flow needs. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.788295 

17. Stein, E.D., Zimmerman, J., Yarnell, S. M., Stanford, B., Lane, B. Taniguchi-Quan, K.T., Obester, A., Grantham, T.E., Lusardi, R.A., and S. Sandoval-Solis. 2021. The California Environmental Flows Framework: Meeting the Challenges of Developing a Large Scale Environmental Flows Program. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.769943.

16. Obester, A., Lusardi, R.A., Santos, N., Peek, R.A., and S.M Yarnell. 2021. The use of umbrella fish species to provide a more comprehensive approach for freshwater conservation management. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 32: 112-128. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3746 

15. Lusardi, R.A., Nichols, A.L., Willis, A.D., Jeffres, C.A., Kiers, A.H., Van Nieuwenhuyse, E.E., and R.A. Dahlgren. 2021. Not all rivers are created equal: the importance of spring-fed rivers under a changing climate. Water 13 (12): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13121652 

14. Bellido-Leiva, F.J., Lusardi, R.A., and J.R. Lund. 2021. Modeling the effect of habitat availability and quality on endangered winter-run Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawystscha) production in the Sacramento Valley. Ecological Modelling 447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109511 

13. Zillig, K.W., Lusardi, R.A, P.B. Moyle and N.A. Fangue. 2021. One size does not fit all: variation in thermal ecophysiology among Pacific salmonids. 2021. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 31: 95-114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-02009632-w  

12. Lusardi, R.A., Hammock, B.G., C.A. Jeffres, R.A Dahlgren, and J.D. Kiernan. 2020. Oversummer Growth and Survival of Juvenile Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) Across a Natural Gradient of Stream Temperature and Prey Availability: an In Situ Enclosure Experiment.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 77(2): 413-424. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0484 

11. Nichols, A.L., Lusardi, R.A., and Willis, A.D. 2020. Seasonal Macrophyte Growth Constrains Extent, but Improves Quality of Cold-Water Habitat in a Spring-fed River.  Hydrological Processes 34(7): 1587-1597. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.13684 

10. Yarnell, S.M., Stein, E.D., Webb, J.A., Grantham, T., Lusardi, R.A., Zimmerman, J., Peek, R.A., Grantham, T., Lane, B.A., Howard, J., and S.S. Sandoval-Solis. 2020. A Functional Flows Approach to Selecting Ecologically Relevant Flow Metrics for Environmental Flow Applications. River Research and Applications 36: 318-324.

9. Durand, J.D., Manfree, A., Medellin-Azuara, J., Bombardelli, F., Fleenor, W., Henneberry, Y., Herman, J., Jeffres, C., Leinfelder-Miles, M., Lusardi, R.A., Milligan, B., Moyle, P.B., and  T. Young. 2020. Drought and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, 2012-2016: Synthesis Review and Lessons. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 18(2): 1-26.

8. Lusardi, R.A., C.A. Jeffres, and P.B. Moyle. 2018. Stream Macrophytes Increase Invertebrate Production and Fish Habitat Utilization in a California Stream. River Research and Applications 34: 1003-1012.

7. Moyle, P.B., R.A. Lusardi, P.J. Samuel, and J.V.E. Katz. 2017. State of the Salmonids: Status of California’s Emblematic Fishes 2017. Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis and California Trout, San Francisco, CA. 579 pp.

6. Steel, A.E, R.A. Peek, R.A. Lusardi, and S.M. Yarnell. 2017. Associating Metrics of Hydrologic Variability with Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities in Regulated and Unregulated Snowmelt-dominated Rivers. Freshwater Biology 63: 844-858.

5. Lusardi, R.A., and P.B. Moyle. 2017. Two-way Trap and Haul as a Conservation Strategy for Anadromous Salmonids. Fisheries 42(9): 478-487.

4. Lusardi, R.A., M.T. Bogan, R.A. Dahlgren, and P.B. Moyle. 2016. Environment Shapes Invertebrate Assemblage Structure Differences between Volcanic Spring-fed and Runoff Rivers in Northern California. Freshwater Science 35(3): 1010-1032.

3. Lusardi, R.A., M.R. Stephens, C. McGuire, P.B Moyle, and J. Hull. 2015. Threat Evolution: Negative Feedbacks Between Management Action and Species Recovery in Threatened Trout. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 25: 521-535.

2. Durand, J.R., R.A. Lusardi, D.M. Nover, R.J. Suddeth, G.C. Carmona-Catot, C.R. Connell-Buck, S.E. Gatzke, J.V. Katz, J.F. Mount, and J.H. Viers. 2011. Environmental Heterogeneity and Community Structure of the Kobuk River, Alaska, in Response to Climate Change. Ecosphere 2(4):1-19.

1. Herbst, D.B., M.T. Bogan, and R.A. Lusardi. 2008. Low Specific Conductivity Limits Growth and Survival of the New Zealand Mudsnail from the Upper Owens River, CA. Western North American Naturalist 68(3): 324-333

Technical Reports and other Research

Zillig, K. W., R.A. Lusardi, and Fangue, N. A. 2018. Variation in Thermal Eco-Physiology among California Salmonids: Implications for Management. Sacramento, California: California State Water Resources Control Board. 39 pp 

Lukk, A., Vasquez-Housely, P., Lusardi, R.A., and Willis, A.D. 2019. Little Shsata River 2017-2019: Pre Project Assessment of the Proposition 1 Ecosystem Restoration Grant Activities. 46 pp.

Nichols, A., R.A. Lusardi, and A. Willis. 2017.  Little Shasta Habitat Assessments 2016.  Final Report to The Nature Conservancy.

Yarnell, S., R. Peek, and R. Lusardi. 2017. Development of Tier 1 Environmental Flows for California.  Final Report to The Nature Conservancy.

Durand, J.D., Lusardi, R.A., Suddeth, R., Caromona-Catot, G., Connell, C.R., Gatzke, S.E., Katz, J., Nover, D., Mount, J.F., Moyle, P.B., and Viers, J.H. 2009. Conceptual ecosystem model of subarctic river response to climate change: Kobuk River, Alaska. Final report to the National Park Service and Alaska Department of Fish and Game 

Jeffres, C., R. Dahlgren, J. Kiernan, A. King, R. Lusardi, A. Nichols, S. Null, S. Tanaka, and A. Willis. 2009. Baseline Assessment of Physical and Biological Conditions within the Waterways on Big Springs Ranch, Siskiyou County, California. Final Report to the California State Water Resources Control Board.

Lusardi, R.A. 2009. Chapter 5: Aquatic Food Webs of the Tuolumne River. In J. Mount and S. Purdy (Eds.), Confluence: A Natural and Human History of the Tuolumne River Watershed (in publication with the Tuolumne River Trust).

Jeffres, C., A. Nichols, A. Willis, N. Corline, A. King, R. Lusardi, and R. Dahlgren. Longitudinal baseline assessment of salmonid habitat characteristics of the Shasta River, March through September, 2008. Final Report to the United States Bureau of Reclamation.