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Daniel J. Isaak is a researcher affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on Water Science and Technology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology. They also have research contributions in Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research addresses a range of topics including Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, and Identification and Quantification in Food.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
  • River Research and Applications
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Forest Ecology and Management

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel J. Isaak are:

  • Thermal Regimes of Perennial Rivers and Streams in the Western United States, 2020, JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • Elevation-dependent warming of streams in mountainous regions: implications for temperature modeling and headwater climate refugia, 2023, Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques

Other relevant papers include works by frequent collaborators but not directly authored by Isaak, reflecting the broader research context they engage with:

  • Climate change and forest management on federal lands in the Pacific Northwest, USA: Managing for dynamic landscapes, 2021, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Riparian vegetation shade restoration and loss effects on recent and future stream temperatures, 2022, Restoration Ecology
  • A Molecular Taxonomy of Cottus in western North America, 2022, Western North American Naturalist

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Isaak include:

  • Erin E. Peterson
  • Jay M. Ver Hoef
  • Dona L. Horan
  • Peter Leinenbach
  • Naomi E. Detenbeck

Best Publications

  • Flow regime, temperature, and biotic interactions drive differential declines of trout species under climate change

    Seth J. Wenger;Daniel J. Isaak;Charles H. Luce;Helen M. Neville

  • Climate change effects on stream and river temperatures across the northwest U.S. from 1980–2009 and implications for salmonid fishes

    D. J. Isaak;S. Wollrab;D. Horan;G. Chandler

  • Effects of climate change and wildfire on stream temperatures and salmonid thermal habitat in a mountain river network

    Daniel J. Isaak;Charles H. Luce;Bruce E. Rieman;David E. Nagel

  • The NorWeST Summer Stream Temperature Model and Scenarios for the Western U.S.: A Crowd-Sourced Database and New Geospatial Tools Foster a User Community and Predict Broad Climate Warming of Rivers and Streams

    Daniel J. Isaak;Seth J. Wenger;Erin E. Peterson;Jay M. Ver Hoef

  • The cold‐water climate shield: delineating refugia for preserving salmonid fishes through the 21st century

    Daniel J. Isaak;Michael K. Young;David E. Nagel;Dona L. Horan

  • Anticipated Climate Warming Effects on Bull Trout Habitats and Populations Across the Interior Columbia River Basin

    Bruce E. Rieman;Daniel Isaak;Susan Adams;Dona Horan

  • Modelling dendritic ecological networks in space: an integrated network perspective

    Erin E. Peterson;Jay M. Ver Hoef;Dan J. Isaak;Jeffrey A. Falke

  • Slow climate velocities of mountain streams portend their role as refugia for cold-water biodiversity

    Daniel J. Isaak;Michael K. Young;Charles H. Luce;Steven W. Hostetler

  • Applications of spatial statistical network models to stream data

    Daniel J. Isaak;Erin E. Peterson;Jay M. Ver Hoef;Seth J. Wenger

  • Potential effects of climate change on streambed scour and risks to salmonid survival in snow-dominated mountain basins

    Jaime R. Goode;Jaime R. Goode;John M. Buffington;Daniele Tonina;Daniel J. Isaak

  • Stream isotherm shifts from climate change and implications for distributions of ectothermic organisms.

    Daniel J. Isaak;Bruce E. Rieman

  • Macroscale hydrologic modeling of ecologically relevant flow metrics

    Seth J. Wenger;Charles H. Luce;Alan F. Hamlet;Daniel J. Isaak

  • Sensitivity of summer stream temperatures to climate variability in the Pacific Northwest

    Charles Luce;Brian Staab;Marc Kramer;Seth Wenger

  • A hypothesis about factors that affect maximum summer stream temperatures across montane landscapes

    Daniel J. Isaak;Wayne A. Hubert

  • CHINOOK SALMON USE OF SPAWNING PATCHES: RELATIVE ROLES OF HABITAT QUALITY, SIZE, AND CONNECTIVITY

    Daniel J. Isaak;Russell F. Thurow;Bruce E. Rieman;Jason B. Dunham

  • Global Warming of Salmon and Trout Rivers in the Northwestern U.S.: Road to Ruin or Path Through Purgatory?

    Daniel J. Isaak;Charles H. Luce;Dona L. Horan;Gwynne L. Chandler

  • Fine-scale natal homing and localized movement as shaped by sex and spawning habitat in Chinook salmon: insights from spatial autocorrelation analysis of individual genotypes.

    Helen Neville;Helen Neville;Daniel Isaak;J.B. Dunham;J.B. Dunham;Russel Thurow

  • Network-scale spatial and temporal variation in Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) redd distributions: patterns inferred from spatially continuous replicate surveys

    Daniel J. Isaak;Russell F. Thurow

  • Probabilistic accounting of uncertainty in forecasts of species distributions under climate change

    Seth J. Wenger;Nicholas A. Som;Daniel C. Dauwalter;Daniel J. Isaak

  • Role of climate and invasive species in structuring trout distributions in the interior Columbia River Basin, USA

    Seth J. Wenger;Daniel J. Isaak;Jason B. Dunham;Kurt D. Fausch

  • Geomorphic controls on salmon nesting patterns described by a new, narrow‐beam terrestrial–aquatic lidar

    Jim A McKean;Dan J Isaak;Charles W Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles H. Luce
Charles H. Luce US Forest Service
Seth J. Wenger
Seth J. Wenger University of Georgia
Jason B. Dunham
Jason B. Dunham United States Geological Survey
Bruce E. Rieman
Bruce E. Rieman US Forest Service
Michael K. Young
Michael K. Young US Forest Service
Daniele Tonina
Daniele Tonina University of Idaho
Steven W. Hostetler
Steven W. Hostetler United States Geological Survey
Wayne A. Hubert
Wayne A. Hubert University of Wyoming
Kurt D. Fausch
Kurt D. Fausch Colorado State University
Michael K. Schwartz
Michael K. Schwartz US Forest Service

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