Peer reviewed

Manuscripts

  1. Norris, D.M., M.E. Colvin, L.E. Miranda, and M.A. Lashley. 2022. Supplemental habitat is reservoir dependent: Identifying optimal planting decision using Bayesian Decision Networks. Journal of Environmental Management: 15: xxx-xxx. DOI
  2. Aldridge, C., D.M. Norris, H.R. Hatcher, G. Coppola, L.E. Miranda, and M.E. Colvin. 2021. Retention and Dimensional Changes of Supplemental Evergreen Brush Piles within a Flood Control Reservoir. . Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. DOI
  3. Braaten, P.J., D.B. Fuller, T.M. Haddix, J.R. Hunziker, M.E. Colvin, L.M. Holmquist, R.H. Wilson. 2021. Catch rates for sturgeon and sicklefin chubs in the upper Missouri River 2004-2016, and Correlations with Biotic and Abiotic Variables. Submitted to the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. DOI
  4. Coppola, G., L.E. Miranda, M.E. Colvin, H. Hatcher, and M.A. Lashley. 2021. Selection of habitat enhancing plants depends on predator-prey interactions. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. DOI
  5. Shirley, C.A., M.E. Colvin, and P.J. Allen. 2021. Evaluation of methods for cryopreservation of black-stripe Black Crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) sperm and subsequent use in egg fertilization. Submitted to the Journal of the World Aquaculture Society DOI.
  6. Schumann, D.A., M.E. Colvin, Campbell, R., M.D. Wagner, and D. Schwartz. 2021. Suitability of passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags and enhanced madtom traps to monitor a cryptic species (Noturus munitus). Endangered species research. Endangered Species Research 44, 1-10. DOI.
  7. Aldridge, C.A., L.E. Miranda, and M.E. Colvin. 2021. Themes of Contemporary Inland Fisheries Goals. Fisheries. DOI.
  8. Richardson, B.M., M.J. Griffin, M.E. Colvin, T.E. Greenway, C. Ware, C.C. Mischke, T.S. Byars, D.J. Wise, and M.L. Lawrence. 2020. Using quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) and occupancy models to estimate atypical Aeromonas hydrophila (aAh) prevalence in catfish. Aquaculture. 530: 735687. DOI.
  9. Norris, D.M., H.R. Hatcher, M.E. Colvin, G. Coppola, M.A. Lashley, and L.E. Miranda. 2020. Assessing establishment and growth of agricultural plantings on reservoir mudflats. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 40: 394-405. DOI.
  10. Kroboth, P., D. Hann, M.E. Colvin, P. Hartfield, and H. Schramm. 2020. Pallid sturgeon Scaphirhynchus albus seasonal habitat selection in a large river free-flowing river, the lower Mississippi River. Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 36: 131-141. DOI.
  11. Schumann, D.A., M.E. Colvin, L.E. Miranda, and D.T. Jones-Farrand. 2020. Occurrence and co-occurrence patterns of gar in river-floodplain habitats: leveraging species interactions to benefit distributional models. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 40: 622-637. DOI.
  12. Jargowsky, M., P.T. Cooper, M.J. Ajemian, M.E. Colvin, and J.M. Drymon. 2019. Discerning the dietary habits of the smooth butterfly ray Gymnura lessae using two distinct methods, otolith identification and metagenetics. Journal of Fish Biology. 96 (2), 434-443. DOI.
  13. Coppola, G. H. Hatcher, S. Miranda, M.E. Colvin, and M.A. Lashley. 2019. Submergence responses of cool-season annual plants and potential for fish habitat. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. DOI.
  14. Kramer, N., Q.E. Phelps, C.L. Pierce, and M.E. Colvin. 2019. A Food Web Modelling Assessment of Asian Carp Impacts in the Middle and Upper Mississippi River. Food Webs. DOI.
  15. Shaw, S.B., J.O. Beslity, and M.E. Colvin. 2019. Working Toward a More Holistic Set of Hydrologic Principles to Teach Non-Hydrologists: Five Simple Concepts Within Catchment Hydrology. Hydrological Processes. 16: 2258-2262.
  16. Ivey, M.R., M.E. Colvin, B.K. Strickland, and M.A. Lashley. 2019. The effects of vertebrate biological invasions on species-area relationships are not scale-dependent. Ecology and Evolution. 13: 7761-7767.
  17. Hatcher, H.R., L.E. Miranda, M.E. Colvin, G. Coppola, and M.A. Lashley. 2019. Fish assemblages in reservoir mudflats with low structural complexity. Hydrobiologia. 841: 163-175.
  18. Guy, E.L., C.C. Mischke, M.E. Colvin, and P.J. Allen. 2019. Zooplankton selectivity and commercial feed consumption of Black Buffalo Ictiobus niger. North American Journal of Aquaculture. 81: 215-221.
  19. Katzenmeyer, E., M.E. Colvin, T.W. Stewart, C.L. Pierce, and S. Grummer. 2019. Fish growth changes over time in a Midwestern USA lake. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 148: 493-506.
  20. Gallardo, J.C., F.J. Vilella, and M.E. Colvin. 2019. A periodic population matrix model of the Caribbean Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis jamaicensis in eastern Puerto Rico. Ibis. 161: 459-466.
  21. Colvin, M.E., J.T. Peterson, C. Sharpe, M.L. Kent. and C.B. Schreck. 2018. Identifying optimal hauling densities for adult Chinook Salmon trap and haul operations. River Research and Applications.
  22. Miranda, L.E., L. Bull, M.E. Colvin, W.D. Hubbard, and L.L. Pugh. 2018. Segmentation of Mississippi Lakes. Lake and Reservoir Management.
  23. Gilliland, C.R., M.E. Colvin, S.A. Rush, and S. Reagan. 2018. American Alligators are predators of Paddlefish creating new nutrient flows between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Foodwebs.
  24. Keretz, K.R., C.P. Dinken, P.J. Allen, M.E. Colvin, and H.L. Schramm Jr. 2018. The effect of water temperature, angling time, and dissolved oxygen on the survival of angled and tournament-handled Largemouth Bass. Submitted to North American Journal of Fisheries Management.
  25. Mangipane, L.A., J.L. Belant, D.J.R. Lafferty, D.D. Gustine, T.L. Hiller, M.E. Colvin, B.A. Mangipane, and G.V. Hilderbrand. 2018. Dietary plasticity in a nutrient-rich system does not influence brown bear body condition or denning. Polar Biology. 88: 1-7.
  26. Mangipane, L.A., J.L. Belant, T.L. Hiller, M.E. Colvin, D.D. Gustine, B.A. Mangipane, and G.V. Hilderbrand. 2017. Influences of landscape heterogeneity on home-range sizes of brown bears in a salmon subsidized system. Mammalian Biology. 88: 1-7.
  27. Miranda, L.E., M.E. Colvin, A.C. Shamaskin, L.A. Bull, T. Holman, and R. Jones. 2018. Length-limits fail to restructure a Largemouth Bass population: A 27-year case history. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 37: 624-632.
  28. DeWeber, J.T., J.T. Peterson, C.S. Sharpe, M.L. Kent, M.E. Colvin, and C.B. Schreck. 2017. Prespawn mortality in outplanted Chinook Salmon is highly variable and associated with outplant date. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 1: 162-175.
  29. Neely, B.C., J.D. Koch, and M.E. Colvin. 2016. Utility of reservoir characteristics on collection of representative and precise fish samples: implications for determining minimum sampling effort. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 36: 285-293.
  30. Howell, P.J., M.E. Colvin, P.M. Sankovich, D.V. Buchanan, and A.R. Hemmingsen. 2016. Life Histories, Demography, and Distribution of Bull Trout from Mill Creek, a Tributary of the Walla Walla River. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 145 (1), 173-194.
  31. Dolan, B.P., K.M. Fisher, M.E. Colvin, S.E. Benda, J.T. Peterson, M.L. Kent, and C.B. Schreck. 2016. Innate and adaptive immune responses in migrating spring-run adult chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. Fish & Shellfish Immunology 48:136-144.
  32. Dolan, B., K. Fisher, M.E. Colvin, S. Benda, C. Danley, J.T. Peterson, M. Kent, P. Zwollo, and C.B. Shreck. 2015. Diminished innate, but not adaptive, immune responses in migrating adult Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. The Journal of Immunology 194 (1 Supplement): 146.15-146.15.
  33. Colvin, M.E., T.W. Stewart, and C.L. Pierce. 2015. A food web modelling analysis of a Midwestern, USA eutrophic lake dominated by non-native Common Carp and Zebra Mussels. Ecological Modelling. 32: 26-40.
  34. Colvin, M.E., J.T. Peterson, M. Kent, C.S. Sharpe, and C.B. Schreck. 2015. Using occupancy modeling to estimate detection probabilities and prevalence from hierarchically structured pathogen detection data. PLOS ONE.
  35. Collymore, C., V. Watral, J.R. White, M.E. Colvin, S. Rasmussen, R.J. Tolwani, M.L. Kent. 2014. Tolerance and Efficacy of Emamectin benzoate and Ivermectin for the Treatment of Pseudocapillaria tomentosa in laboratory Zebrafish (Danio rerio). Zebrafish. 11(5): 490-497.
  36. Koch, J.D., B.C. Neely, and M.E. Colvin. 2014. Evaluation of precision and sample sizes using standardized sampling in Kansas Reservoirs. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 34(6): 1211-1220.
  37. Mayfield, M.P., L.D. Schultz, L.A. Wyss, M.E. Colvin, and C.B. Schreck. 2014. Using spatial resampling to assess survey length requirements to detect and estimate spawner abundance from redd counts: an example using Pacific lamprey. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 34(5): 923-931.
  38. Colvin, M.E. G.D. Scholten, and P.W. Bettoli. 2013. Predicting paddlefish roe yields using an extension of the Beverton-Holt equilibrium yield model. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 33: 940-949.
  39. Colvin, M.E., Pierce, C.L., T.W. Stewart, and S.E. Grummer. 2012. Strategies to control a common carp population by pulsed commercial harvest. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 32(6): 1251-1264.
  40. Colvin, M.E., C.L. Pierce, and T.W. Stewart. 2012. Semi-discrete biomass dynamic modeling: an improved approach for assessing fish stock responses to pulsed harvest events. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 69(10): 1710-1721.
  41. Ebersole, J.L., M.E. Colvin, P.J. Wigington, S.G. Leibowitz, J.P. Baker, M.R. Church, J.E. Compton, and M.A. Cairns. 2009. Hierarchical modeling of late-summer weight and summer abundance of juvenile coho salmon across a stream network. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 138: 1138-1156.
  42. Ebersole, J.L., M.E. Colvin, P.J. Wigington, S.G. Leibowitz, J.P. Baker, M.R. Church, J.E. Compton, B.A., Miller, M.A. Cairns, B.P. Hansen, and H.R. Lavigne. 2009. Modeling stream network-scale variation in coho salmon overwinter survival and smolt size. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 138: 564-580.
  43. Colvin, M.E., and C.M. Moffitt. 2009. Evaluation of irrigation canal networks to assess stream connectivity in a watershed. River Research and Applications. 25: 486-496.
  44. Wigington, P.J., J.E. Ebersole, M.E. Colvin, S.G. Leibowitz, B. Miller, B. Hansen, H.R. Lavigne, D. White, J.P. Baker, M.R. Church, J.R. Brooks, M.A. Cairns, and J.E. Compton. 2006. Salmon dependent on intermittent streams. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 4(10): 513-518.

Other works

  1. Carlson, A.K., J.R. Fischer, D.J. Dembkowski, L.L. Pierce, M.E. Colvin, J.A. Kerns. 2015. Purpose, History, and Importance of the “Student Angle”. Fisheries. 40(2): 81-83.
  2. Colvin, M.E. and J.T. Peterson. 2016. Preparing future fisheries professionals to make good decisions. Fisheries 41(8): 473-474.
  3. Colvin, M.E. and J. Kopaska. 2009. The role of the student member in the American Fisheries Society Fisheries Information and Technology Section. Fisheries. 34(6): 305-306.

Book chapters

  1. Miranda, L.E., and M.E. Colvin. 2017. Sampling for age and growth estimation. Chapter 5 in Age and Growth of Fishes. Quist, M.C., and D. Isserman editors. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, MD.

Technical reports

  1. Reynolds, S. and M.E. Colvin. 2019. Modeling Long-Term Population Growth Rate of Pallid Sturgeon in the Upper Missouri River Below Fort Peck Dam. Report to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for model certification. 38 p.
  2. Colvin, M.E., S. Reynolds, R.B. Jacobson, LL. Pierce, K.D. Steffensen, and T.L. Welker. In review. PSPAP v.2.0 redesign process: Overview of Pallid Sturgeon Assessment Framework Redesign Process. Open-file Report 2018-1166, 87 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181166.
  3. Jacobson, R.B., Colvin, M., Bulliner, E.A., Pickard, D., and Elliott, C.M., 2018, Bend-scale geomorphic classification and assessment of the Lower Missouri River from Sioux City, Iowa, to the Mississippi River for application to pallid sturgeon management: U.S.
  4. Randall, M., M.E. Colvin, K. Steffensen, T. Welker, L. Pierce, and R. Jacobson. 2017. Assessment of Adult Pallid Sturgeon Fish Condition, Lower Missouri River: Application of New Information to the Missouri River Recovery Program. U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 2017- 1121.
  5. Jacobson, R. B., M. L. Annis, M. E. Colvin, D. A. James, T. L. Welker, and M. J. Parsley. 2016. Missouri River Scaphirhynchus albus (pallid sturgeon) effects analysis—Integrative report 2016. Report 2016-5064, Reston, VA.
  6. Jacobson, R.B., M.J. Parsley, M.L. Annis, M.E. Colvin, T.L. Welker, and D.A. James. 2016. Development of working hypotheses linking management of the Missouri River to population dynamics of Scaphirhynchus albus (pallid sturgeon): U.S. Geological Survey, Open-file Report 2015-1236, 36 p. 10.3133/ofr20151236.
  7. Jacobson, R.B., M.J. Parsley, M.A. Annis, M.E. Colvin, T.L. Welker, and D.A. James, D. 2015. Development of conceptual ecological models linking management of the Missouri River to pallid sturgeon population dynamics: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2015-1038, 47 p. 10.3133/ofr20151038.
  8. Jacobson, R.B., M.L. Annis, M.J. Parsley, D.A. James, M.E. Colvin, and T.L. Welker. 2015. Scientific information to support the Missouri River pallid sturgeon effects analysis: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-file Report 2015-1226, 78 p. 10.3133/ofr20151226.

Non peer reviewed

Technical reports

  1. Starnes, V., M.E. Colvin. 2019. A structured approach to water level management for a multiple use shallow eutrophic reservoir at Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. Interim report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 27 p.
  2. Schumann, D.A. and M.E. Colvin. 2019. Multi-objective conservation planning: prototyping a strategic decision framework for aquatic species conservation (phase 1). Completion Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 150 p.
  3. Miranda, L.E., M.E. Colvin, A. Shamaskin, and C. Aldridge. 2019. Review, revision and development of new monitoring protocols to facilitate the meeting of goals and objectives of freshwater fisheries management in Mississippi. Final report to Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks. 88 p.
  4. Colvin, M.E., and S. Reynolds. 2019. High-level planning process related to recovery of the endangered Pallid Sturgeon as part of the Missouri River Recovery Program. Completion Report to the U.S. Geological Survey. 22 p.
  5. Schumann, D.A., and M.E. Colvin. 2018. Multi-objective conservation planning: prototyping a strategic decision framework for aquatic species conservation (Phase 1). Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Annual Report, Columbia, Missouri. 72 p.
  6. Gilliland, C.R., M.E. Colvin, P.J. Allen, and J.W. Neal. 2017. Paddlefish Polyodon spathula spawning and migratory habitat use in the Noxubee River System with focus on the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge Management. Interim report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 47 pages.
  7. Gilliland, C.R., M.E. Colvin, P.J. Allen, and J.W. Neal. 2016. Paddlefish Polyodon spathula spawning and migratory habitat use in the Noxubee River System with focus on the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge Management. Interim report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 27 pages.
  8. Miranda, L.E., M.E. Colvin, and A.C. Shamaskin. 2016. Review, revision and development of new monitoring protocols to facilitate the meeting of goals and objectives of freshwater fisheries management in Mississippi. Progress report to Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks. 9 pages.
  9. Peterson, J.T., K. McDonnell, and M.E. Colvin. 2014. Coarse Resolution Planning Tools for Prioritizing Central Valley Project Improvement Act Fisheries Activities. Final Report to Central Valley Project Improvement Act Fisheries Program, Sacramento, CA.
  10. Colvin, M.E. 2013. Mill Creek Bull Trout Survival Analysis. Completion report to the U.S. Forest Service.
  11. Schreck, C.B., M.L. Kent, M.E. Colvin, S. Benda, C. Sharpe, J.T. Peterson, and B. Dolan. 2013. Potential causes and management of prespawn mortality in adult upper Willamette River spring Chinook salmon. Annual report to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
  12. Colvin, M.E. 2012. Impacts of nuisance species in a shallow lake: A systems modeling approach for evaluating restoration and management policies. Final Report to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
  13. Colvin, M.E., C.L. Pierce, and L. Beck. 2012. Age structure and growth of invasive common carp populations in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Final Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
  14. Colvin, M.E., E.D. Katzenmeyer, T.W. Stewart, and C.L. Pierce. 2010. The Clear Lake ecosystem simulation model (CLESM) project. Annual Progress Report to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
  15. Colvin, M.E., E.D. Katzenmeyer, T.W. Stewart, and C.L. Pierce. 2009. The Clear Lake ecosystem simulation model (CLESM) project. Annual Progress Report to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
  16. Colvin, M.E., E.D. Katzenmeyer, T.W. Stewart, and C.L. Pierce. 2008. The Clear Lake ecosystem simulation model (CLESM) Project. Annual Progress Report to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
  17. Munson, A.D., M.E. Colvin, and K.A. Johnson. 2005. Ceratomyxa shasta exposure trials at Oxbow fish hatchery. Idaho Department of Fish and Game Fishery Research Report 04-48. Boise, ID.