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Overview

Charles B. Yackulic is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, notably:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Maria Dzul
  • Bridget R. Deemer
  • Theodore A. Kennedy
  • Robert K. Shriver
  • William L. Kendall

The scientist has contributed multiple articles to journals such as Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Ecosphere, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Ecological Applications, with the highest number of publications appearing in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Charles B. Yackulic include:

  • "Is your ad hoc model selection strategy affecting your multimodel inference?" (2020, Ecosphere)
  • "Light and flow regimes regulate the metabolism of rivers" (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "A need for speed in Bayesian population models: a practical guide to marginalizing and recovering discrete latent states" (2020, Ecological Applications)
  • "Water storage decisions will determine the distribution and persistence of imperiled river fishes" (2020, Ecological Applications)
  • "Range-wide declines of northern spotted owl populations in the Pacific Northwest: A meta-analysis" (2021, Biological Conservation)

Best Publications

  • Presence‐only modelling using MAXENT: when can we trust the inferences?

    Charles B. Yackulic;Charles B. Yackulic;Richard Chandler;Elise F. Zipkin;J. Andrew Royle

  • Likelihood analysis of species occurrence probability from presence‐only data for modelling species distributions

    J. Andrew Royle;Richard B. Chandler;Charles Yackulic;James D. Nichols

  • The metabolic regimes of flowing waters

    Emily S. Bernhardt;Jim B. Heffernan;Nancy B. Grimm;Emily H. Stanley

  • Influence of land use on water quality in a tropical landscape: a multi-scale analysis

    María Uriarte;Charles B. Yackulic;Yili Lim;Javier A. Arce-Nazario

  • Light and flow regimes regulate the metabolism of rivers

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  • Overcoming equifinality: leveraging long time series for stream metabolism estimation.

    Alison P. Appling;Robert O. Hall;Charles B. Yackulic;Maite Arroita;Maite Arroita

  • Flow Management for Hydropower Extirpates Aquatic Insects, Undermining River Food Webs

    Theodore A. Kennedy;Jeffrey D. Muehlbauer;Charles B. Yackulic;David A. Lytle

  • Is your ad hoc model selection strategy affecting your multimodel inference

    Dana J. Morin;Charles B. Yackulic;Jay E. Diffendorfer;Damon B. Lesmeister

  • Turbidity, light, temperature, and hydropeaking control primary productivity in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon

    Robert O. Hall;Charles B. Yackulic;Theodore A. Kennedy;Michael D. Yard

  • The effects of habitat, climate, and Barred Owls on long-term demography of Northern Spotted Owls

    Katie M. Dugger;Eric D. Forsman;Alan B. Franklin;Raymond J. Davis

  • Isolation by environmental distance in mobile marine species: molecular ecology of franciscana dolphins at their southern range

    Martin Mendez;Howard C. Rosenbaum;Howard C. Rosenbaum;Howard C. Rosenbaum;Ajit Subramaniam;Charles Yackulic

  • Seed dispersal by Galapagos tortoises

    Stephen Blake;Martin Wikelski;Fredy Cabrera;Anne Guezou

  • Anthropogenic and environmental drivers of modern range loss in large mammals

    Charles B. Yackulic;Eric W. Sanderson;María Uriarte

  • The roles of competition and habitat in the dynamics of populations and species distributions.

    Charles Brandon Yackulic;Charles Brandon Yackulic;Charles Brandon Yackulic;Janice Reid;James D. Nichols;James E. Hines

  • Expansion of sugarcane production in São Paulo, Brazil: Implications for fire occurrence and respiratory health

    María Uriarte;Charles B. Yackulic;Tamar Cooper;Dan Flynn

  • To predict the niche, model colonization and extinction.

    Charles B. Yackulic;Charles B. Yackulic;Charles B. Yackulic;James D. Nichols;Janice Reid;Ricky Der

  • Neighborhood and habitat effects on vital rates: expansion of the Barred Owl in the Oregon Coast Ranges

    Charles B. Yackulic;Charles B. Yackulic;Janice Reid;Raymond Davis;James E. Hines

  • Vegetation dynamics drive segregation by body size in Galapagos tortoises migrating across altitudinal gradients

    Stephen Blake;Charles B. Yackulic;Fredy Cabrera;Washington Tapia

  • The metabolic regimes of 356 rivers in the United States.

    Alison P. Appling;Jordan S. Read;Luke A. Winslow;Maite Arroita;Maite Arroita

  • Climatic variation and tortoise survival: Has a desert species met its match?

    Jeffrey E. Lovich;Charles B. Yackulic;Jerry Freilich;Mickey Agha;Mickey Agha

  • A quantitative life history of endangered humpback chub that spawn in the Little Colorado River: variation in movement, growth, and survival

    Charles B. Yackulic;Michael D. Yard;Josh Korman;David R. Van Haverbeke

  • Demographic response of northern spotted owls to barred owl removal.

    Lowell V. Diller;Keith A. Hamm;Desiree A. Early;David W. Lamphear

  • Biophysical and Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Forest Transitions at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales

    Charles B. Yackulic;Matthew E. Fagan;Meha Jain;Amir Jina

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Blake
Stephen Blake Saint Louis University
James D. Nichols
James D. Nichols United States Geological Survey
Robert O. Hall
Robert O. Hall University of Montana
James E. Hines
James E. Hines United States Geological Survey
James P. Gibbs
James P. Gibbs SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
María Uriarte
María Uriarte Columbia University
Eric D. Forsman
Eric D. Forsman US Forest Service
Martin Wikelski
Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Jeffrey E. Lovich
Jeffrey E. Lovich United States Geological Survey
Trent L. McDonald
Trent L. McDonald Independent Scientist / Consultant, US

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