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Benjamin H. Letcher is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with 49 publications in this field. The scientist has contributed significant work across several subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

Letcher's work centers on topics such as Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, and Marine Animal Studies Overview.

The scientist has published in a variety of frequent venues, highlighting areas of study and ongoing research engagement. These venues include the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Global Change Biology, Journal of Thermal Biology, and Journal of Experimental Biology.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Benjamin H. Letcher are:

  • Climate-change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane (2020), published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Impacts of small dams on stream temperature (2020), published in Ecological Indicators
  • Managing climate refugia for freshwater fishes under an expanding human footprint (2020), published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Closing the gap between science and management of cold-water refuges in rivers and streams (2023), published in Global Change Biology
  • How repeatable is CTmax within individual brook trout over short- and long-time intervals? (2020), published in Journal of Thermal Biology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Letcher include Matthew J. O'Donnell, Amy M. Regish, Stephen D. McCormick, Nathaniel P. Hitt, and Keith H. Nislow. These collaborations reflect a network of researchers working on related scientific questions in ecology and environmental science.

Best Publications

  • A critical review of adaptive genetic variation in Atlantic salmon: implications for conservation

    C. Garcia de Leaniz;I. A. Fleming;S. Einum;E. Verspoor

  • Distance, flow and PCR inhibition: eDNA dynamics in two headwater streams

    Stephen F. Jane;Taylor M. Wilcox;Kevin S. McKelvey;Michael K. Young

  • Climate‐change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane

    Toni Lyn Morelli;Cameron W Barrows;Aaron R Ramirez;Jennifer M Cartwright

  • Variability in survival of larval fish: disentangling components with a generalized individual-based model

    B.H. Letcher;J.A. Rice;L.B. Crowder;K.A. Rose

  • Population Response to Habitat Fragmentation in a Stream-Dwelling Brook Trout Population

    Benjamin H. Letcher;Keith H. Nislow;Jason A. Coombs;Jason A. Coombs;Matthew J. O'Donnell

  • Basin‐scale phenology and effects of climate variability on global timing of initial seaward migration of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

    Jaime Otero;Jan Henning L'Abée-Lund;Ted Castro-Santos;Kjell Leonardsson

  • create: a software to create input files from diploid genotypic data for 52 genetic software programs

    J. A. Coombs;B. H. Letcher;K. H. Nislow

  • Remote Monitoring of Fish in Small Streams: A Unified Approach Using Pit Tags

    Gayle Barbin Zydlewski;Gregg Horton;Todd Dubreuil;Benjamin Letcher

  • Microsatellite DNA markers for the study of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) kinship, population structure, and mixed‐fishery analyses

    Timothy Lee King;Michael S. Eackles;Benjamin H. Letcher

  • An individual-based, spatially-explicit simulation model of the population dynamics of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, Picoides borealis

    Benjamin H. Letcher;Jeffery A. Priddy;Jeffrey R. Walters;Larry B. Crowder

  • Alternative life histories shape brain gene expression profiles in males of the same population.

    Nadia Aubin-Horth;Christian R Landry;Benjamin H Letcher;Benjamin H Letcher;Hans A Hofmann

  • Tag Retention and Survival of Age-0 Atlantic Salmon following Surgical Implantation with Passive Integrated Transponder Tags

    G. Gries;B. H. Letcher

  • Fine-scale population structure and riverscape genetics of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) distributed continuously along headwater channel networks

    Yoichiro Kanno;Jason C. Vokoun;Benjamin H. Letcher

  • Variation in local abundance and species richness of stream fishes in relation to dispersal barriers: Implications for management and conservation

    Keith H. Nislow;Mark Hudy;Benjamin H. Letcher;Eric P. Smith

  • Context‐specific influence of water temperature on brook trout growth rates in the field

    Cailin Xu;Cailin Xu;Benjamin H. Letcher;Keith H. Nislow

  • Determining the effects of dams on subdaily variation in river flows at a whole‐basin scale

    Julie K. H. Zimmerman;Benjamin H. Letcher;Keith H. Nislow;Kimberly A. Lutz

  • Fragmentation and patch size shape genetic structure of brook trout populations

    Andrew R. Whiteley;Jason A. Coombs;Mark Hudy;Zachary Robinson

  • Robust estimates of environmental effects on population vital rates: an integrated capture–recapture model of seasonal brook trout growth, survival and movement in a stream network

    Benjamin H. Letcher;Paul Schueller;Paul Schueller;Ronald D. Bassar;Keith H. Nislow

  • Size‐dependent survival of brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis in summer: effects of water temperature and stream flow

    C. L. Xu;C. L. Xu;B. H. Letcher;K. H. Nislow

  • Migratory behaviour and survival rates of wild northern Atlantic salmon Salmo salar post-smolts: effects of environmental factors.

    J G Davidsen;A H Rikardsen;E Halttunen;E B Thorstad

  • Modeling structured population dynamics using data from unmarked individuals

    Elise F. Zipkin;James T. Thorson;Kevin See;Heather J. Lynch

  • Predation on stocked Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fry

    J Nathan Henderson;Benjamin H Letcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith H. Nislow
Keith H. Nislow US Forest Service
Andrew R. Whiteley
Andrew R. Whiteley University of Montana
Larry B. Crowder
Larry B. Crowder Stanford University
Clint C. Muhlfeld
Clint C. Muhlfeld United States Geological Survey
James A. Rice
James A. Rice North Carolina State University
Stephanie M. Carlson
Stephanie M. Carlson University of California, Berkeley
Andrew P. Hendry
Andrew P. Hendry McGill University
Richard A. Cunjak
Richard A. Cunjak University of New Brunswick
Hans A. Hofmann
Hans A. Hofmann The University of Texas at Austin
Evan H. Campbell Grant
Evan H. Campbell Grant United States Geological Survey

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