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D-Index
42
Citations
9708
World Ranking
5459
National Ranking
1860

Overview

David A. Lytle is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science with a focus on Ecology as well as Nature and Landscape Conservation. They have contributed to various subfields including Water Science and Technology, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The major topics of Lytle's work encompass Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Physiological and biochemical adaptations.

Lytle's recent papers include:

  • Designing flow regimes to support entire river ecosystems, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Integrated ecosystems: linking food webs through reciprocal resource reliance, 2021, Ecology
  • Hydropeaking intensity and dam proximity limit aquatic invertebrate diversity in the Colorado River Basin, 2021, Ecosphere
  • Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality, 2025, Science
  • Biogeochemical and community ecology responses to the wetting of non-perennial streams, 2024, Nature Water

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lytle include:

  • Julian D. Olden
  • Jonathan D. Tonkin
  • David Schimel
  • Jill S. Baron
  • Timothy E. Essington

Lytle's work has been published in several notable venues, with multiple publications appearing in Ecological Applications. Other frequent publication outlets include Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Science, Nature Water, and BioScience.

Best Publications

  • Adaptation to natural flow regimes

    David A. Lytle;N. LeRoy Poff

  • Theory, methods and tools for determining environmental flows for riparian vegetation: riparian vegetation‐flow response guilds

    David M. Merritt;Michael L. Scott;N. LeROY Poff;Gregor T. Auble

  • The role of dispersal in river network metacommunities: Patterns, processes, and pathways

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt;Debra S. Finn;Jani Heino

  • Seasonality and predictability shape temporal species diversity.

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Michael T. Bogan;Núria Bonada;Blanca Rios‐Touma

  • Flow regime alteration degrades ecological networks in riparian ecosystems

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;David. M. Merritt;Julian D. Olden;Lindsay V. Reynolds

  • Severe drought drives novel community trajectories in desert stream pools

    Michael T. Bogan;David A. Lytle

  • HYDROLOGIC REGIMES AND RIPARIAN FORESTS: A STRUCTURED POPULATION MODEL FOR COTTONWOOD

    David A. Lytle;David M. Merritt

  • VARIATION IN MAYFLY SIZE AT METAMORPHOSIS AS A DEVELOPMENTAL RESPONSE TO RISK OF PREDATION

    Barbara L. Peckarsky;Barbara L. Peckarsky;Brad W. Taylor;Brad W. Taylor;Angus R. McIntosh;Angus R. McIntosh;Mark A. McPeek

  • Are large‐scale flow experiments informing the science and management of freshwater ecosystems?

    Julian D. Olden;Christopher P. Konrad;Theodore S. Melis;Mark James Kennard

  • Ecosystem effects of environmental flows: Modelling and experimental floods in a dryland river

    Patrick B. Shafroth;Andrew C. Wilcox;David A. Lytle;John T. Hickey

  • Disturbance Regimes and Life‐History Evolution

    David A. Lytle

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

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

  • Dispersal strength determines meta‐community structure in a dendritic riverine network

    Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles;Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles;Kate S. Boersma;Michael T. Bogan;Julian D. Olden

  • Automated insect identification through concatenated histograms of local appearance features: feature vector generation and region detection for deformable objects

    Natalia Larios;Hongli Deng;Wei Zhang;Matt Sarpola

  • Resistance and resilience of invertebrate communities to seasonal and supraseasonal drought in arid‐land headwater streams

    Michael T. Bogan;Kate S. Boersma;David A. Lytle

  • Flow intermittency alters longitudinal patterns of invertebrate diversity and assemblage composition in an arid-land stream network

    Michael T. Bogan;Kate S. Boersma;David A. Lytle

  • Large-scale Flow Experiments for Managing River Systems

    Christopher P. Konrad;Julian D. Olden;David A. Lytle;Theodore S. Melis

  • Prepare river ecosystems for an uncertain future.

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;N. Le Roy Poff;Nick R. Bond;Avril Horne

  • Seasonal flow variation allows 'time-sharing' by disparate aquatic insect communities in montane desert streams

    Michael T. Bogan;David A. Lytle

  • CONSTRAINTS ON PRIMARY PRODUCER N:P STOICHIOMETRY ALONG N:P SUPPLY RATIO GRADIENTS

    Spencer R. Hall;Val H. Smith;David A. Lytle;Mathew A. Leibold

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian D. Olden
Julian D. Olden University of Washington
Jonathan D. Tonkin
Jonathan D. Tonkin University of Canterbury
Thomas G. Dietterich
Thomas G. Dietterich Oregon State University
Linda G. Shapiro
Linda G. Shapiro University of Washington
David M. Merritt
David M. Merritt US Forest Service
Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles
Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles University of Barcelona
Val H. Smith
Val H. Smith University of Kansas
Mathew A. Leibold
Mathew A. Leibold University of Florida
Spencer R. Hall
Spencer R. Hall Indiana University
N. LeRoy Poff
N. LeRoy Poff Colorado State University

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