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40
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10419
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5983
National Ranking
2036

Overview

Colden V. Baxter is affiliated with Idaho State University in the United States and specializes in environmental science with a particular focus on ecology. Their research spans various subfields including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, environmental chemistry, global and planetary change, and ecological modeling.

The main topics of Baxter's work cover a range of ecological and environmental issues. These include fish ecology and management studies, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, soil and water nutrient dynamics, isotope analysis in ecology, hydrology and sediment transport processes, wildlife ecology and conservation, and species distribution in relation to climate change.

The scientist has contributed to the literature with notable papers, including:

  • Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications, 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Magnitude and direction of stream-forest community interactions change with timescale, 2020, Ecology
  • A framework for assessing coupling and de-coupling trajectories in river social-ecological systems, 2021, Sustainability Science
  • Food web controls on mercury fluxes and fate in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, 2020, Science Advances
  • Influence of Drying and Wildfire on Longitudinal Chemistry Patterns and Processes of Intermittent Streams, 2020, Frontiers in Water

Baxter has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Amy Marcarelli
  • Wyatt F. Cross
  • Yo Miyake
  • Joseph R. Benjamin
  • Masashi Murakami

The scientist has published multiple works in certain research venues, demonstrating a consistent engagement with these journals. These include:

  • Ecosystems
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecosphere
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Ecological Applications

Best Publications

  • Landscapes to Riverscapes: Bridging the Gap between Research and Conservation of Stream Fishes

    Kurt D. Fausch;Christian E. Torgersen;Colden V. Baxter;Hiram W. Li

  • Tangled webs: reciprocal flows of invertebrate prey link streams and riparian zones

    Colden V. Baxter;Kurt D. Fausch;W. Carl Saunders

  • FISH INVASION RESTRUCTURES STREAM AND FOREST FOOD WEBS BY INTERRUPTING RECIPROCAL PREY SUBSIDIES

    Colden V. Baxter;Kurt D. Fausch;Masashi Murakami;Phillip L. Chapman

  • Geomorphology, hyporheic exchange, and selection of spawning habitat by bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus)

    Colden V. Baxter;F. Richard Hauer

  • Quantity and quality: unifying food web and ecosystem perspectives on the role of resource subsidies in freshwaters.

    Amy M. Marcarelli;Amy M. Marcarelli;Colden V. Baxter;Madeleine M. Mineau;Robert O. Hall

  • Measuring Groundwater–Stream Water Exchange: New Techniques for Installing Minipiezometers and Estimating Hydraulic Conductivity

    Colden Baxter;F. Richard Hauer;William W. Woessner

  • Linking Ecosystems, Food Webs, and Fish Production: Subsidies in Salmonid Watersheds

    Mark S. Wipfli;Colden V. Baxter

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

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

  • Food-web dynamics in a large river discontinuum

    Wyatt F. Cross;Wyatt F. Cross;Colden V. Baxter;Emma J. Rosi-Marshall;Emma J. Rosi-Marshall;Robert O. Hall

  • Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones

    Scott D. Tiegs;David M. Costello;Mark W. Isken;Guy Woodward

  • Ecosystem ecology meets adaptive management: food web response to a controlled flood on the Colorado River, Glen Canyon.

    Wyatt F. Cross;Wyatt F. Cross;Colden V. Baxter;Kevin C. Donner;Emma J. Rosi-Marshall

  • Invading rainbow trout usurp a terrestrial prey subsidy from native charr and reduce their growth and abundance.

    Colden V. Baxter;Colden V. Baxter;Kurt D. Fausch;Masashi Murakami;Phillip L. Chapman

  • The floodplain food web mosaic: a study of its importance to salmon and steelhead with implications for their recovery

    J. Ryan Bellmore;J. Ryan Bellmore;Colden V. Baxter;Kyle Martens;Patrick J. Connolly

  • Landscape Influences on Longitudinal Patterns of River Fishes: Spatially Continuous Analysis of Fish-Habitat Relationships

    Christian E. Torgersen;Colden V. Baxter;Hiram W. Li;Bruce A. McIntosh

  • Social-ecological systems influence ecosystem service perception: a Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) analysis

    Cristina Quintas-Soriano;Jodi S. Brandt;Katrina Running;Colden V. Baxter

  • Geomorphology, Logging Roads, and the Distribution of Bull Trout Spawning in a Forested River Basin: Implications for Management and Conservation

    Colden V. Baxter;Christopher A. Frissell;F. Richard Hauer

  • Trout Piscivory in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon: Effects of Turbidity, Temperature, and Fish Prey Availability

    Michael D. Yard;Lewis G. Coggins;Colden V. Baxter;Glenn E. Bennett

  • Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation of Dolly Varden, White spotted Char, and Bull Trout

    Jason Dunham;Colden Baxter;Kurt Fausch;Wade Fredenberg

  • The fire pulse: wildfire stimulates flux of aquatic prey to terrestrial habitats driving increases in riparian consumers

    Rachel L. MalisonR.L. Malison;Colden V. BaxterC.V. Baxter

  • EFFECTS OF GEOMORPHIC PROCESS DOMAINS ON RIVER ECOSYSTEMS: A COMPARISON OF FLOODPLAIN AND CONFINED VALLEY SEGMENTS

    J. R. Bellmore;J. R. Bellmore;C. V. Baxter

Frequent Co-Authors

Wyatt F. Cross
Wyatt F. Cross Montana State University
Kurt D. Fausch
Kurt D. Fausch Colorado State University
Robert O. Hall
Robert O. Hall University of Montana
Emma J. Rosi-Marshall
Emma J. Rosi-Marshall Loyola University Chicago
F. Richard Hauer
F. Richard Hauer University of Montana
Kathleen A. Lohse
Kathleen A. Lohse Idaho State University
Robert E. Gresswell
Robert E. Gresswell United States Geological Survey
Antonio Castro
Antonio Castro Spanish National Research Council
Geoffrey C. Poole
Geoffrey C. Poole Montana State University
G. Wayne Minshall
G. Wayne Minshall Idaho State University

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