The Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) has a rich history in the Havana, Illinois area, dating back to 1876 when Stephen A. Forbes began his biological collections there. While IRBS ecological research continues to move forward and tackle the modern challenges of the Illinois River and other large river systems, the station retains ties to its illustrious past. For this reason, Pegg and Havera assembled the “Illinois River Natural Resources Bibliography” in 2001 to document the vast amount of work done by INHS/IRBS staff near Havana.
The IRBS Google Scholar online database lists many of the publications authored by INHS’s current and alumni staff from the Havana area. The database allows users to search for authors, papers, and citations from the scientific community. Also, the station strives to maintain a Illinois River Biological Station Curriculum Vitae (IRBS CV) with current staff, media coverage, outreach events, presentations, committee service, proposals and grants, as well as, reports and publications.
Publications
Lampo, E., Holda, T., Vallazza, J., Anderson, C., Solomon, L., Pendleton, R., Lamer, J. T. 2023. Size-selective silver carp predation by largemouth bass in the Illinois River. Scientific Reports. Accepted with revision.
VanMiddlesworth, M.M., J.A. DeBoer, M.W. Fritts, J.M. Levengood, and A.F. Casper. In Review. Landscape-scale patterns of intersex prevalence and vitellogenin levels in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in a floodplain river. Target journal: Journal of Fish Biology.
Gibson-Reinemer, D. K., J. A. DeBoer, K. A. Maxson, and L. E. Solomon. In Review. Native piscivore populations show low overlap with invasive prey in a large floodplain river. Freshwater Biology.
Maxson, K.A., A.L. Whitten, B.S, Harris, A. Happel, S.E Butler, J.J. Parkos III, A.F. Casper, J.T. Lamer. In Press. First records of the fishhook waterflea Cercopagis pengoi Ostroumov, 1891 in the Mississippi River Basin, Illinois Waterway, USA. BioInvasions Records.
Harris, B.S., A.L. Whitten, B.S. Smith, and C.A. Hayer. 2023. Judgmental versus fixed and stratified random sampling: optimizing early detection monitoring surveys for non-native species in lower Green Bay, Lake Michigan. Northeastern Naturalist.
Whitten, A.L., B.S. Harris, J.A. DeBoer, N.N. McClelland, and J.T. Lamer. 2023. New records of Spotted Bass, Micropterus punctulatus, in the Mississippi River basin, Illinois. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e9777. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9777
Turney, D., Fritts, A., Knights, B., Vallazza, J., Appel, D., Lamer, J. 2022. Hydrological and lock operation conditions associated with paddlefish and bigheaded carp dam passage on a large and small scale in the Upper Mississippi River (Pools 14-18). PeerJ 10:e13822 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13822
Broaddus, C.L., Lamer, J. T. 2022. Growth rates of non-native Bighead and Silver Carp in the Upper Mississippi River. Fishes. 7,73 https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes7020073
Szott, E.A., K. Brightwell, and Q. Gibson. 2022. Assessment of social mixing and spatial overlap as a pathway for disease transmission in a northeast Florida estuarine dolphin community. Mammalian Biology. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-022-00282-y
Tucker, S.R, C.J. Houghton, S. Harris, R.F. Elliott, M.C. Donofrio, and P.S. Forsythe. 2022. Identification of high‐occupancy areas and movement dynamics of age‐0 Lake Sturgeon in the Lower Fox River, Wisconsin. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tafs.10382
Gibson-Reinemer, D.K., R.M. Pendleton, E. Solomon, J.H. Chick, and A.F. Casper. 2022. Strong Reductions in Bigheaded Carp Size at Age Accompany Increasing Population Densities. Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Science. 115: 11-19.
Solomon, L.E., A.F. Casper, A., Maxson, J.T. Lamer, T.W. Ford, K.D. Blodgett, T. Hobson, D. Perry, N.T. Grider, R.B. Hilsabeck, T.R. Cook, K.S. Irons, M.A. McClelland, and M.O. O’Hara. 2022. A Case Study of Large Floodplain River Restoration: Two Decades of Monitoring the Merwin Preserve and Lessons Learned through Water Level Fluctuations and Uncontrolled Reconnection to a Large River. Wetlands 42:59 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-022-01581
Lederman, N.J., S.A. Love, R.L. Anderson, A. DeBoer, and J.T. Lamer. 2022. Using pectoral fin ridges to assign sex to Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. Early access at https://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10798.
Harris, B.S., J.A. DeBoer, and J.T. Lamer. 2022. Trophic reorganization of native planktivorous fishes at different density extremes of bigheaded carps in the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, USA. Biological Invasions, pp.1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02822-6
Whitten, A.L., J.A. DeBoer, S. Berry, C. Moody-Carpenter, B.J. Lubinski, N.P Rude, J.H. Chick, R.E. Colombo, G.W. Whitledge, and T. Lamer. 2022. Channel catfish and freshwater drum population demographics across four large midwestern rivers. Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 37:1, 268-284. DOI: 10.1080/02705060.2022.2072008.
Counihan, T.D., K.L. Bouska, S.K. Brewer, R.B. Jacobson, A.F. Casper, C.G. Chapman, I.R. Waite, K.R. Sheehan, M. Pyron, E.R. Irwin, K. Riva-Murray, A.J. McKerrow, and J.M. Bayer. 2022. Identifying monitoring information needs that support the management of fish in large rivers. PLoS ONE 17(4): e0267113. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267113
Spear, M.J., P.A. Wakker, T.P. Shannon, R.L. Lowe, L.E. Burlakova, A.Y. Karatayev, and M.J. Vander Zanden. 2022. Early changes in the benthic community of a eutrophic lake following zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) invasion. Inland Waters, pp.1-19.
Broaddus, C.L., and J.T. Lamer. 2022. Growth rates of non-native Bighead and Silver Carp in the Upper Mississippi River. Fishes. 7,73 https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes7020073
Locher‡, T., J. Wang, T. Holda, J.T. Lamer. 2022. Consumption of non-native bigheaded carps by native blue catfish in an impounded bay of the upper Mississippi River. Fishes 7(2), 80; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes7020080
DeBoer, J.A., M.C. Thoms, and M.D. Delong, Ecosystem response through a resilience lens: do differences in the Illinois river over 150 y indicate regime shifts? Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, p.e2021JG006553.
Altenritter, M.E., J.A. DeBoer, K.A. Maxson, A.F. Casper. and J.T. Lamer. 2022. Ecosystem responses to aquatic invasive species management: A synthesis of two decades of bigheaded carp suppression in a large river. Journal of Environmental Management, 305, p.114354.
Erickson, R.A., J.L. Kallis, A.A. Coulter, D.P. Coulter, R. MacNamara, J.T. Lamer, W.W. Bouska, K.S. Irons, L.E. Solomon, A.J. Stump, and M.J. Weber. 2021. Demographic Rate Variability of Bighead and Silver Carps Along an Invasion Gradient. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, 12(2), pp.338-353.
Vanmiddlesworth M., J. A. DeBoer, M Fritts, J.M. Levengood, and A.F. Casper. 2021. Basin-scale patterns of common carp physiological condition associated with EDC exposure in a large Anthropocene river. Environmental Biology of Fishes. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-021-01164-x
Anderson, C. A., R. Anderson, J. Wang, N. Gillespie, E. Lampo, N. McClelland, L. Solomon, R. Pendleton, and J.T. Lamer. 2021. Juvenile Asian carp as forage for predatory fishes in the LaGrange Reach of the Illinois River. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. Early view. http://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10681
Stodola, A.P., C. Lydeard, J.T. Lamer, S.A. Douglass, K. Cummings, and D.C. Campbell. 2021. Hiding in plain sight: Genetic confirmation of putative Louisiana fatmucket Lampsilis hydiana (Mollusca: Unionidae) in Illinois. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation. 24:59-86
Williams, J.A., G.W. Whitledge, B.C. Knights, N.C. Bloomfield, and Lamer, J.T. Age-0 Silver Carp Otolith Microchemistry and Microstructure Reveal Multiple Early-Life Environments and Protracted Spawning in the Upper Mississippi River. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. Early view: https://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10707
Lenaerts, A.W., A. Coulter, K. Irons, and J.T. Lamer. 2021. Examination of bigheaded carp ovaries indicates batch spawning. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. http://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10633
La Hood, B., T. Thomsen, A.W. Lenaerts., M. Tomczak, E. Szott, Z. Woiak, K. Von Ruden, K. Bockrath, K. Irons, and J.T. Lamer. 2021. Light trapping reveals multiple bigheaded carp spawns upstream of Lock and Dam 19 on the upper Mississippi River. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. http://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10630
Anderson‡, C. L., G. Whitledge, N. Rude, and J.T. Lamer. 2021. Using microchemistry and stable isotopes to determine early-life environment and movement of the emerging Bigheaded carp Populations in Pools 16-19 of the Mississippi River. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. Early view: https://doi-org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/10.1002/nafm.10679.
Tucker, S., P. Forsythe, C. Houghton, B.S. Harris, R. Elliott, and M. Donofrio. 2021. Reproductive status of a remnant Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) population: spawning and larval drift in the Fox River, Wisconsin. River Research and Applications. 2021: 1–14. Early view https://doi: 10.1002/rra.3836
Lenaerts‡, A.W., A. Coulter, K. Irons, and J.T. Lamer. 2021. A Quick Method for Fecundity Estimation. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. Early view. https://doi-org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/10.1002/nafm.10651
Erickson, R., J.L. Kallis, A. Coulter, D.P. Coulter, R. MacNamara, J.T. Lamer, W. Bouska, K.S. Irons, L.E. Solomon, A.J. Stump, M. Brey, C.J. Sullivan, G. Sass, J.E. Garvey. 2021. Demographic rate variability of bighead and silver carps along an invasion gradient. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. Early view: http://dx.doi.org/10.3996/JFWM-20-070/2834760/jfwm-20-070.pdf
O’Shaughnessey E.M., R. Egly, B.S. Harris, B. Smith, and R.P. Keller. 2021. Distribution of crayfish in the Southern Basin of Lake Michigan and the Greater Chicago Region. Journal of Great Lakes Research. Early view: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2021.05.001.
Lenaerts‡, A.W., Coulter, A., Irons, K., Lamer, J. T. 2021. Plasticity in Reproductive Potential of Bigheaded Carp Along an Invasion Front. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. Early view. http://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10583
Whitten, A. L., O. M. Mendenhall, L. E. Solomon, and A. F. Casper. 2021. Operational Impacts of a Water Management Structure on the Surrounding Fish Assemblages in a Restored Backwater and a Large Floodplain River. American Midland Naturalist. 185: 120-138 https://doi.org/10.1637/0003-0031-185.1.120
DeBoer, J.A., M. Thoms, J.T. Lamer, A. Casper, and M.D. Delong. 2021. Complex to simple: Fish growth along the Illinois River network. Ecological complexity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2020.100891
Zhu, L, Zhang, Z, Chen, H, Lamer, J, Wang, J, Wei, W, Fu, L, Tang, M, Wang, C, Lu, G. 2020. Gut microbiomes of bigheaded carps and hybrids provide insights into invasion: a hologenome perspective. Evolutionary Applications. Early view. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.13152
Schaick, S. J., C. J. Moody-Carpenter, E. L. Effert-Fanta, K. N. Hanser, D. R. Roth, and R. E. Colombo. 2020. Bigheaded Carp Spatial Reproductive Dynamics in Illinois and Wabash River Tributaries. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. https://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10573.
DeBoer, J. A., S. King, R. Pendleton, L. Solomon, T.D. VanMiddlesworth, and K. Weaver. 2020. Gars (Lepisosteus and Atractosteus spp.). In: Schlesser, N. J., ed. UMRCC Fisheries Compendium, 4th Edition. Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee.
DeBoer, J. A., S. King, R. Pendleton, L. Solomon, and T.D. VanMiddlesworth. 2020. Bowfin (Amia calva). In: Schlesser, N. J., ed. UMRCC Fisheries Compendium, 4th Edition. Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee.
Roth, D.R., J.J. Pesik, E.L. Effert‐Fanta, D.H. Wahl, and R.E. Colombo. 2021. Comparison of Active and Passive Larval Sampling Gears in Monitoring Reproduction of Invasive Bigheaded Carps in Large‐River Tributaries. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. https://doi:10.1002/NAFM.10548
Fritts, A. K., B. C. Knights, J. C. Stanton, A. S. Milde, J. M. Vallazza, M. K. Brey, S. J. Tripp, T. E. Devine, W. Sleeper, J. T. Lamer, and K. J. Mosel. 2020. Lock operations influence upstream passages of invasive and native fishes at a Mississippi River high-head dam. Biological Invasions. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02401-7.
Chará‐Serna, A. M., and A. Casper. 2020. How do large river zooplankton communities respond to abiotic and biotic drivers over time? A complex and spatially dependent example. Freshwater Biology. Journal of Freshwater Biology, 66: 391-405, https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13646
Whitten, A.L., J.A. DeBoer, L.E. Solomon, A.K. Fritts , M.W. Fritts , R.M. Pendleton, T. D. VanMiddlesworth, and F. Casper. 2020. Spatial variation in bluegill population demographics in a highly modified large river system, Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 35: 303-320, DOI: 10.1080/02705060.2020.1806122
DeBoer, J. A., M. C. Thoms, M. D. Delong, M. E. Parsons, and F. Casper. 2020. Spatial heterogeneity of ecosystem function in an “Anthropocene” river system. Anthropocene. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2020.100252
Harris, B.S., C.R. Ruetz III, T.J. Ellens, A.D. Weinke, and B.A. Biddanda. 2020. Adult lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque, 1817) occurrence in the Muskegon River system, a Lake Michigan drowned river mouth, USA. Journal of Applied Ichthyology: Sturgeon Paper. DOI: 10.1111/jai.14076
Chick, J.H, C.E. Colaninno, A.M. Beyer, K.B. Brown, C.T. Dopson, A.O. Enzerink, S.R. Goesmann, T. Higgins, N.Q. Knutzen, E.N. Laute, Paula M. Long, Paige L. Ottenfeld, Abigail T. Uehling, Lillian C. Ward, A. Maxson, E.N. Ratcliff, B.J. Lubinski, and E.J. Gittinger (2020). Following the edge of the flood: use of shallow-water habitat by larval silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix in the upper Mississippi river system, Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 35:1, 95-104, DOI: 10.1080/02705060.2020.1742809
Bouska, K.L., J.N. Houser, N.R. De Jager, D.C. Drake, S.F. Collins, K. Gibson-Reinemer, and M.A. Thomsen. 2020. Conceptualizing Alternate Regimes in a Large Floodplain-River Ecosystem: Water Clarity, Invasive Fish, and Floodplain Vegetation. Journal of Environmental Management 264: 110516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110516.
Smith, B.S., and S. Harris. 2020. Expansion of a Banded Killifish Fundulus diaphanus Population into Benthic Nearshore Waters of Lake Michigan around Calumet Harbor. American Midland Naturalist 183(2): 260-267.
Anderson, R.H., C.A. Anderson, B. Knights, J. Vallazza, J. Larson, S.E. Jenkins, and T. Lamer. 2020. Influence of a high-head dam as a dispersal barrier to fish community structure of the Upper Mississippi River. River Research and Applications. 36:47-56.
Wang, J., Gaughan, J.T. Lamer, C. Deng, W. Hu, M. Wachholtz, S. Qin, H. Nie, X. Liao, Q. Ling, W. Li, L. Zhu, L. Bernatchez, C. Wang, and G. Lu. 2020. Resolving the Genetic Paradox of Invasions: Preadapted Genomes and Post-introduction Hybridization of Bigheaded Carps in the Mississippi River Basin. Evolutionary Applications. 13:263-277.
Coulter, A.A., M.K. Brey,T . Lamer, G.W. Whitledge, and J.E. Garvey. 2020. Early generation hybrids may drive range expansion of an invasive population: Distribution and movements of Silver Carp, Bighead Carp, and their hybrids. Freshwater Biology. 65:716-730.
Chick, J.H., D.K. Gibson-Reinemer, L. Soeken-Gittinger, and A.F. Casper. 2020. Invasive silver carp is empirically linked to declines of native sport fish in the Upper Mississippi River System. Biological Invasions. doi:10.1007/s10530-019-02124-4
Trone-Launer, E.K., J. Wang, G. Lu,E. Mateus-Pinilla, P. Zick, J.T. Lamer, P. Shelton, and C.N. Jacques. 2019. Differential gene expression in chronic wasting disease-positive white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Ecology and Evolution. 9:12600-12612.
Altenritter, M.E., S.M. Pescitelli, A.L. Whitten, and A.F. Casper. 2019. Implications of an invasive fish barrier for the long-term recovery of native fish assemblages in a previously degraded northeastern Illinois river system. River Research and Applications. doi: 10.1002/rra.3457
Altenritter, M.E., and B.D. Walther. 2019. The legacy of hypoxia: tracking carryover effects of low oxygen exposure in a demersal fish using geochemical tracers. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 148:569-583.
Anderson, R.H., Anderson, C. A., Knights, B., Vallazza, J., Larson, J., Jenkins, S. E., Lamer, J. T. 2019. Influence of a high-head dam as a dispersal barrier to fish community structure of the Upper Mississippi River. River. River research and Applications.
DeBoer, J. A., M. C. Thoms, A. F. Casper, and M. D. Delong. 2019. The response of fish diversity in a highly modified large river system to multiple anthropogenic stressors. Biogeosciences 124:384-404.
Lamer J.T., Ruebush B.C., McClelland M.A., Epifanio J.M., Sass G.G. 2019. Body condition (Wr) and reproductive potential of bighead and silver carp hybrids: Postzygotic selection in the Mississippi River Basin. Ecology and Evolution. 9:8978-8986.
Solomon, L. E., Pendleton, R. M., Maxson, K. A., Gibson-Reinemer, D. K., Anderson, C. A., Lampo, E. G., Lamer, J. T., Casper, A. F. 2019. (In Publication). Status, trends and population demographics of selected sportfish species in the La Grange Reach of the Illinois River. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin (Accepted with revision)
Whitledge, G. W., B. Knights, J. Vallazza, J. Larson, M. J. Weber, J. T. Lamer, Q. E. Phelps, J. D. Norman. 2019. Identification of Bighead Carp and Silver Carp early life environments and inferring Lock and Dam 19 passage in the Upper Mississippi River: insights from otolith chemistry. Biological Invasions 21: 1007-1020.
Wang, J., S., Gaughan, J. T., Lamer, C., Deng, W. Hu, M., Wachholtz, S., Qin, H. Nie, X. Liao, Q., Ling, W., Li, L., Zhu, L., Bernatchez, C., Wang, Lu, G. 2019 (In press) Resolving the Genetic Paradox of Invasions: Preadapted Genomes and Post-introduction Hybridization of Bigheaded Carps in the Mississippi River Basin. Evolutionary Applications.
Zhu, L., J. Wang, J. T. Lamer, S. Gaughan, C. Deng, W. Hu, M. Wachholtz, S. Qin, H. Nie, X. Liao, Q. Ling, L. Bernatchez, C. Wang, G. Lu. 2019 (In Press). Genomic Features and Hybridization likely Contributed to Asian Carp Invasions in North America. Evolutionary Applications.
Altenritter, M.E., A. Cohuo, and B.D. Walther. 2018. Proportions of demersal fish exposed to sublethal hypoxia revealed by otolith chemistry. Marine Ecology Progress Series 589:193:208.
Altenritter, M.E., and A.F. Casper. 2018. Evaluating the potential responses of native fish and mussels to proposed separation of Lake Michigan from the Illinois River Waterway at Brandon Road Lock and Dam. Illinois Natural History Survey Technical Report 2018 (29).
DeBoer, J. A., A. M. Anderson, and A. F. Casper. 2018. Multi-trophic response to invasive silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) in a large floodplain river. Freshwater Biology 63:597–611.
Fritts, M. W., A. K. Fritts, R. M. Pendleton, T. D. VanMiddlesworth, L. E. Solomon, J. A. DeBoer, and A. F. Casper. 2018. Survey of intersex (testicular oocytes) in black crappie collected from the Illinois River Waterway. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 9(2):659–665.
Love, S. A., N. J. Lederman, R. L. Haun, J. A. DeBoer, and A. F. Casper. 2018. Does aquatic invasive species removal benefit native fish? The response of gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) to commercial harvest of bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) and silver carp (H. molitrix). Hydrobiologia 817:403-412.
Parker, J. L., M. W. Fritts, and J. A. DeBoer. 2018. Length-weight relationships for small Midwestern US fishes. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 34:1081–1083.
VonBank, J. A., J. A. DeBoer, A. F. Casper, and H. M. Hagy. 2018. Ichthyochory in a temperate river system by common carp (Cyprinus carpio). Journal of Freshwater Ecology 33:83–96.
Whitten, A.L. and K. Gibson-Reinemer. 2018. Tracking the trajectory of change in large river fish communities over 50 years. American Midland Naturalist. 180:94-103.
Whitten, A.L.,R. Marin Jarrin, and A.S. McNaught. 2018. A mesocosm investigation of the direst effects of quagga mussels (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) on Lake Michigan zooplankton assemblages. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 44:105-113.
Gibson-Reinemer, D.K., A.F. Casper, T.D. VanMiddlesworth, M.Y. VanMiddlesworth, and J.H. Chick. 2017. Widespread and enduring demographic collapse of invasive common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in the Upper Mississippi River System. Biological Invasions 19: 1905-1916.
Gibson-Reinemer, D.K., J.H. Chick, and B.S. Ickes. 2017. Development and assessment of a new method for combining catch per unit effort data from different fish sampling gears: Multi-Gear Mean Standardization (MGMS). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74: 8-14.
Gibson-Reinemer, D. K., R. A. Sparks, J. L. Parker, J. A. DeBoer, M. W. Fritts, M. A. McClelland, J. H. Chick, and A. F. Casper. 2017. Ecological recovery of a river fish assemblage following the implementation of the Clean Water Act. BioScience 67:957–970. *Selected as Editor’s Choice
Gibson-Reinemer, D.K., R.M. Pendleton, L.E. Solomon, J.H. Chick, and A.F. Casper. 2017. Hydrology controls recruitment of invasive Asian carp on the Illinois River, USA. PeerJ 5: e3641.
Fritts, M. W., J. A. DeBoer, D. K. Gibson-Reinemer, B. J. Lubinski, M. A. McClelland, and A. F. Casper. 2017. Over 50 years of fish community monitoring in Illinois’ large rivers: the evolution of methods used by the INHS’s Long-term Survey and Assessment of Large-River Fishes in Illinois. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 41(1):1–18.
Fritts, A. K., M. W. Fritts, W. R. Haag, J. A. DeBoer, and A. F. Casper. 2017. Freshwater mussel shells (Unionidae) chronicle changes in a North American river over the past 1000 years. Science of the Total Environment 575:199–206.
Lampo, E. G., B. C. Knights, J. M. Vallazza, W. T. Rechkemmer, C. A. Anderson, L. E. Solomon, A. F. Casper, R. M. Pendleton, and J. T. Lamer. 2017. Using Pharyngeal Teeth and Chewing Pads to Predict Juvenile Silver Carp Total Length in the La Grange Reach, Illinois River. North American Journal of Fisheries Management Vol 37: 5.
Pendleton, R. M., C. Schwinghammer, L. E. Solomon, and A. F. Casper. 2017. Competition among river planktivores: are native planktivores still fewer and skinnier in response to the Silver Carp invasion. Environmental Biology of Fishes. DOI 10.1007/s10641-017-0637-7.
Gibson-Reinemer, D. K., D. R. Stewart, A. F. Casper, M. W. Fritts, and J. A. DeBoer. 2016. Estimating the effects of environmental variables and gear type on the detection and occupancy of large river fishes in a standardized sampling program using multi-season Bayesian mixture models. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 36:1445–1456.
Solomon, L. E. and A. F. Casper. 2016. Documenting the Use of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Element’s Fish Monitoring Methodologies Throughout the Midwest U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program, Long Term Resource Monitoring Technical Report 2016–T001, 15 p., including appendixes, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70175438.
Solomon, L. S., R. M. Pendleton, J. H. Chick, and A. F. Casper. 2016. Long-term changes in fish community structure in relation to the establishment of Asian carp in a large floodplain river. Biological Invasions. DOI 10.1007/s10530-016-1180-8.
Solomon, L. E., R. M. Pendleton, R. A, Hrabik, and A. F. Casper. 2016. Population trends and a distributional record of selected fish species from the Illinois River. Transaction of the Illinois State Academy of Science. Vol. 109, pp. 57-61.
Seibert, J, R., Q. E. Phelps, K. L. Yallaly, S. Tripp, L. Solomon, T. Stefanavage, D. P. Herzog, and M. Taylor. 2015. Use of exploitation simulation models for silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) populations in several Midwestern U.S. rivers Management of Biological Invasions. Vol 6, Issue 3: 295-3-2.
Helmus, M.R., and Sass, G.G. 2008. The rapid effects of a whole-lake reduction of coarse woody debris on fish and benthic macroinvertebrates. Freshwater Biology 53:1423–1433.
Roth, B.M., Kaplan, I.C., Sass, G.G., Johnson, P.T., Marburg, A.E., Yannarell, A.C., Havlicek, T.D., Willis, T.V., Turner, M.G., and Carpenter, S.R. 2007. Linking terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: the role of woody habitat in lake food webs. Ecological Monitoring 203:439–452.
Sass, G.G., Gille, C.M., Hinke, J.T., and Kitchell, J.F. 2006. Whole-lake influences of littoral structural complexity and prey body morphology on fish predator-prey interactions. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 15:301–308.
Sass, G.G., Ketchell, J.F., James, F., Carpenter, S.R., Hrabik, T.R., Marburg, A.E., and Turner, M.G. 2006. Fish community and foodweb responses to a whole-lake removal of coarse woody habitat. Fisheries 31(7):321–330.
Bartels, A., Bowler, M.C., DeLain, S., Gittinger, E., Herzog, D., Irons, K., Maurel, K. O’hara, T.M., Ratcliff, E., and Ridings, J. 2006. 2005 Annual Status Report: a summary of fish data in six reaches of the Upper Mississippi River System. U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin. An LTRMP Web-based report.
Irons, K.S., McClelland, M.A. and Pegg, M.A. 2006. Expansion of round goby in the Illinois Waterway. American Midland Naturalist 156:198–200.
Irons, K.S., and Pegg, M.A. 2006. Assessing the ability of a long-term fish monitoring program to detect effects of dredged material placement within the Upper Mississippi River System. Illinois Natural History Survey, Center for Aquatic Ecology Technical Report 2006/01. 65 p.
McClelland, M.A., Pegg, M.A., and Spier, T.W. 2006. Longitudinal patterns of the Illinois Waterway fish community. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 21(1):91–99.
Pegg, M.A., Irons, K.S., O’Hara, T.M., and McClelland, M.A. 2006. Lake Chautauqua habitat rehabilitation and enhancement project fisheries response. Contract report submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island, IL by the U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin. 27 p.
Pegg, M.A., Irons, K.S., O’Hara, T.M., and McClelland, M.A. 2006. Initial response of a floodplain lake fish community to water-level stabilization. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 15:40–47.
Bartels, A., Bowler, M.C., DeLain, S., Gittinger, E., Herzog, D., Irons, K., Maurel, K. O’Hara, T.M., Ratcliff, E., and Ridings, J. 2005. 2004 Annual Status Report: a summary of fish data in six reaches of the Upper Mississippi River System. U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin. An LTRMP Web-based report.
Ickes, B.S., Bowler, M.C., Bartels, A.D., Kirby, D.J., DeLain, S., Chick, J.H., Barko, V.A., Irons, K.S., and Pegg, M.A. 2005. Multiyear synthesis of the fish component from 1993 to 2002 for the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program. U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin. An LTRMP Web-based report.
Taylor, R.M., Pegg, M.A., and Chick, J.H. 2005. Response of bighead carp to a bioacoustic behavioural fish guidance system. Fisheries Management and Ecology 12:283–286.
Cook, T.R., and Pegg, M.A. 2004. An Introduction to the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program of the Upper Mississippi River System. River Crossings (Summer issue).
Cook, T.R., and Pegg, M.A. 2004. An Introduction to the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program of the Upper Mississippi River System. Mississippi River Monitor (June issue).
Elderkin, C.L., Stoeckel, J.A., Klerks, P.L., and Berg, D.J. 2004. Heritability of heat tolerance in zebra mussel veligers. Journal of Great Lakes Research 30:360–366.
Pegg, M.A. McClelland M.A. 2004. Spatial and temporal patterns in fish communities along the Illinois River. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 13:125–133.
Stoeckel, J.A. Rehmann C.R. Schneider D.W. Padilla D.K. 2004. Retention and supply of zebra mussel larvae in a large river system importance of an upstream lake. Freshwater Biology 49:919–930.
Burkhardt, R.W., Sauer, J.S., DeLain, S., Bartels, A., Bowler, M.C., Ratcliff, E., Herzog, D.P., Irons, K.S., and O’Hara, T.M. 2000 Annual Status Report: A summary of fish data in six reaches of the Upper Mississippi River System. U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin. An LTRMP Web-based report.
Burkhardt, R.W., Sauer,J.S., DeLain, S., Bartels, A., Bowler, M.C., Ratcliff, E., Herzog, D.P., Irons, K.S., and O’Hara, T.M. 2001 Annual Status Report: A summary of fish data in six reaches of the Upper Mississippi River System. U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin. An LTRMP Web-based report.
Ickes, B., Sauer,J.S., DeLain, S., Bartels, A., Bowler, M.C., Ratcliff, E., Herzog, D.P., Irons, K.S., and O’Hara, T.M. 2002 Annual Status Report: A summary of fish data in six reaches of the Upper Mississippi River System. U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin. An LTRMP Web-based report.
Chick, J.H. and Pegg, M.A. 2004. Long Term Resource Monitoring Program Outpool Fisheries Analysis Final report. U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, LaCrosse, Wisconsin. March 2004. LTRMP 2004-T001. 28 p.
Pegg, M.A., Irons, K.S., O’Hara, T.M., and McClelland, M.A. 2004. Fish community responses to habitat restoration practices at Chautauqua National Fish and Wildlife Refuge. Final report to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District.
Pierce, C.L., Guy, C.S., Pegg, M.A., and Braaten, P.J. 2004. Fish Growth, Mortality, Recruitment, Condition, and Size Structure. Volume 4. Population Structure and Habitat Use of Benthic Fishes Along the Missouri and Lower Yellowstone Rivers. U.S. Geological Survey, Cooperative Research Units, Iowa State University; 135 p.
Holtrop, A.M., and Pegg, M.A., editors. 2004. Illinois River Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring and Watershed Assessment Framework. Final Report to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District (Illinois Natural History Survey Technical Report 04/05); 339 p.
McClelland, M.A., and Pegg, M.A. 2004. The long-term Illinois River fish population monitoring program. Final report to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Project F-101-R-11-15 (Illinois Natural History Survey Technical Report 04/03).
McClelland, M.A., and Pegg, M.A. 2004. Spatial and temporal patterns in fish communities along the Illinois River. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 13:125–135.
Barko, V.A. Hrabik, R.A., Herzog, D.P., Ickes, B.S., Chick, J.H., and Pegg, M.A.. 2003. Spatial, temporal, and environmental trends of fish assemblages inhabiting the Upper Mississippi River System from 1993–2001. Final report submitted to USGS – Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center.
Sampson, S., Chick, J.H., and Pegg, M.A. 2003. Bighead Carp in the Upper Mississippi River: Competition with Native Filter-Feeding Fishes and Potential Threats to the Great Lakes. Annual report submitted to Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program.
Pegg, M.A., Taylor, R.M., and Chick, J.H. 2003. Aquatic nuisance species: An evaluation of barriers for preventing the spread of bighead carp to the Great Lakes. Annual report submitted to the National Sea Grant College Program.
Pegg, M.A. 2003. Survey of American Fisheries Society participation by North Central Division Chapter members. Final report submitted to the North Central Division American Fisheries Society.
Janvrin, J., Green, G., Buhr, V., Perk, R., Westphall, K., and Pegg, M.A. 2003. Upper Mississippi River habitat restoration case study. Proceedings of the Western Dredging Association 35:28–42.
Lemke, A.M., Stoeckel, J.A., and Pegg, M.A. 2003. Utilization of the exotic cladoceran, Daphnia lumholtzi, by young-of-year fishes in an Illinois River floodplain lake. Journal of Fish Biology 62:938–954.
Pegg, M.A., Pierce, C.L., and Roy, A. 2003. Effects of channelization and impoundment on flow in the Missouri River: a time series analysis of daily mean flow. Aquatic Sciences 65:63-72.
Taylor, R.M., Pegg, M.A., and Chick, J.H. 2003. Some observations on the effectiveness of two behavioral fish guidance systems for preventing the spread of bighead carp to the Great Lakes. Aquatic Invaders 14:1–5.
Arnold, J.A. 2002. Sediment and nutrient loading in La Grange Reach of the Illinois River. Proceedings of the 2001 Governor’s Conference on the Illinois River. Special Report 27. P. 73–77.
Irons, K.S., O’Hara, T.M., McClelland, M.A., and Pegg, M.A. 2002. White perch occurrence, spread, and hybridization in the middle Illinois River, Upper Mississippi River System. Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Science 95:207–214.
Koel, T.M., and Sparks, R.E. 2002. Historical patterns of river stage and fish communities as criteria for operations of dams on the Illinois River. River Research and Applications 18:3–19.
Koel, T.M., and Stevenson, K.E. 2002. Effects of dredge material placement on benthic macroinvertebrates of the Illinois River. Hydrobiologia 474:229–238.
Pegg, M.A., and Pierce, C.L. 2002. Fish community structure in the Missouri and Lower Yellowstone rivers in relation to flow characteristics. Hydrobiologia 479:155–167.
Pegg, M.A., and Pierce, C.L. 2002. Classification of reaches in the Missouri and Lower Yellowstone rivers based on flow characteristics. River Research and Applications 18:31–42.
Pegg, M.A., Lemke, A.M., and Stoeckel, J.A. 2002. Establishment of bighead carp in an Illinois River floodplain lake: a potential source population for the Illinois River. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 17(1):161–163.
Pegg, M.A. 2002. Invasion and transport of non-native aquatic species in the Illinois River. Proceedings of the 2001 Governor’s Conference on the Management of the Illinois River System. Special Report 27. P. 203–209.
Quist, M.C., Guy, C.S., Pegg, M.A., Braaten, P.J., Pierce, C.L., and Travnichek, V.T. 2002. Potential influence of harvest on shovelnose sturgeon populations in the Missouri River System: a case for pro-active management. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 22:537–549.
Chick, J.H., and Pegg, M.A. 2001. Invasive carp in the Mississippi River Basin. Science 292:2250–2251.
Koel, T.M. 2001. Classification of Upper Mississippi River pools based on contiguous aquatic/geomorphic habitats. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 16:159–170.
Pegg, M.A., and Pierce, C.L. 2001. Growth rate responses of Missouri and Lower Yellowstone River fishes to a latitudinal gradient. Journal of Fish Biology 59:1529–1543.
Gutreuter, S., Bartels, A.D., Irons, K.S., and Sandheinrich, M. 1999. Evaluation of the flood-pulse concept based on statistical models of growth of selected fishes of the Upper Mississippi River System. Canadian Journal Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 56:2282–2291.
Elderkin, C.L., Schneider, D.W., Stoeckel, J.A., and Padilla, D.K. 1998. A method for measuring in situ respiration rates of freshwater gastropods. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 17(3):338–347.
Madon, S.P., Schneider, D.W., and Stoeckel, J.A. 1998. In-situ determination of zebra mussel metabolic rates using the electron transport system (ETS) assay. Journal of Shellfish Research 17(1):195–203.
Madon, S.P., Schneider, D.W., Stoeckel, J.A., and Sparks, R.E. 1998. Effects of inorganic sediment and food concentrations on energetic processes of the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorphas: Implications for growth in turbid rivers. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:401–413. Reprinted by U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Management Technical Center, Onalaska, WI, September 1998. LTRMP 98-R013. 13 pp.
Madon, S.P., Schneider, D.W., Stoeckel, J.A., and Sparks, R.E. 1998. Effects of suspended sediment and food concentrations on energetic processes of the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha: implications for long-term success in large floodplain rivers. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55(2):401–413.
Schneider, D.W., Madon, S.P., Stoeckel, J.A., and Sparks, R.E. 1998. Seston quality controls zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) energetics in turbid rivers. Oecologia 117:331–341.
Raibley, P.T., Irons, K.S., O’Hara, T.M., and Blodgett, K.D. 1997. Winter habitats used by largemouth bass in the Illinois River, a large river—floodplain ecosystem. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 17:401–412.
Raibley, P.T., T.M. O’Hara, K.S. Irons, K.D. Blodgett, and R.E. Sparks. 1997. Largemouth bass size distributions under varying annual hydrological regimes in the Illinois River. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 126:850–856.
Sparks, R.E. 1997. Need for ecosystem management of large rivers and their floodplains. BioScience 45(3):168–182. Reprinted by U.S. Geological Survey, Environmantal Management Technical Center, Onalaska, WI, April 1997. LTRMP 97-R004. 15 pp.
Stoeckel, J.A., L. Camlin, K.D. Blodgett, and R.E. Sparks. 1996. Establishment of Daphnia lumholtzi (an exotic zooplankter) in the Illinois River. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 11(3):377–379.
Raibley, P.T., K.D. Blodgett, and R.E. Sparks. 1995. Evidence of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) reproduction in the Illinois and Upper Mississippi rivers. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 10(1):65–74.
Sparks, R.E. 1995. Maintaining and restoring the ecological integrity of the Mississippi River: Importance of floodplains and floodpulses. Transactions of the 60th North American Wildlife and natural Resources Conference. P. 90–97.