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Overview

Frank J. Rahel is affiliated with the University of Wyoming in the United States and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Aquatic Science.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics related to aquatic and ecological systems. These include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Marine and Fisheries Research, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Frank J. Rahel are:

  • Abigail J. Lynch
  • Mark A. Kirk
  • Bryan M. Maitland
  • Annika W. Walters
  • Mark T. Porath

The scientist has published regularly in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Fisheries
  • Fisheries Management and Ecology
  • Biological Invasions
  • North American Journal of Fisheries Management
  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Frank J. Rahel include:

  • Managing for RADical ecosystem change: applying the Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) framework (2021) in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Responding to Ecosystem Transformation: Resist, Accept, or Direct? (2020) in Fisheries
  • RAD Adaptive Management for Transforming Ecosystems (2021) in BioScience
  • Environmental filters of freshwater fish community assembly along elevation and latitudinal gradients (2021) in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Managing Freshwater Fish in a Changing Climate: Resist, Accept, or Direct (2022) in Fisheries

Best Publications

  • Assessing the effects of climate change on aquatic invasive species.

    Frank J. Rahel;Julian D. Olden

  • Homogenization of Freshwater Faunas

    Frank J. Rahel

  • Homogenization of fish faunas across the United States.

    Frank J. Rahel

  • Biogeographic barriers, connectivity and homogenization of freshwater faunas: it's a small world after all

    Frank J. Rahel

  • Fish Assemblages and Habitat Gradients in a Rocky Mountain–Great Plains Stream: Biotic Zonation and Additive Patterns of Community Change

    Frank J. Rahel;Wayne A. Hubert

  • Process-Based Ecological River Restoration: Visualizing Three-Dimensional Connectivity and Dynamic Vectors to Recover Lost Linkages

    G. Mathias Kondolf;Andrew J. Boulton;Scott O'Daniel;Geoffrey C. Poole

  • THE HIERARCHICAL NATURE OF COMMUNITY PERSISTENCE: A PROBLEM OF SCALE

    Frank J. Rahel

  • Thermal Limits to Salmonid Distributions in the Rocky Mountain Region and Potential Habitat Loss Due to Global Warming: A Geographic Information System (GIS) Approach

    Christopher J. Keleher;Frank J. Rahel

  • Temperature mediation of competitive interactions among three fish species that replace each other along longitudinal stream gradients

    Yoshinori Taniguchi;Frank J Rahel;Douglas C Novinger;Kenneth G Gerow

  • Factors Structuring Fish Assemblages Along a Bog Lake Successional Gradient

    Frank J. Rahel

  • Managing aquatic species of conservation concern in the face of climate change and invasive species.

    Frank J. Rahel;Britta Bierwagen;Yoshinori Taniguchi

  • Complex predator-prey interactions and predator intimidation among crayfish, piscivorous fish, and small benthic fish.

    Frank J. Rahel;Roy A. Stein

  • Potential habitat loss and population fragmentation for cold water fish in the North Platte River drainage of the Rocky Mountains : Response to climate warming

    Frank J. Rahel;Christopher J. Keleher;Jeffry L. Anderson

  • Influence of water temperature on interactions between juvenile Colorado river cutthroat trout and brook trout in a laboratory stream

    James De Staso;Frank J. Rahel

  • Intentional Fragmentation as a Management Strategy in Aquatic Systems

    Frank J. Rahel

  • Isolation Management with Artificial Barriers as a Conservation Strategy for Cutthroat Trout in Headwater Streams

    Douglas C. Novinger;Frank J. Rahel

  • Science Priorities for Reducing the Threat of Invasive Species to Sustainable Forestry

    Elizabeth A. Chornesky;Ann M. Bartuska;Gregory H. Aplet;Kerry O. Britton

  • Foraging in a Lethal Environment: Fish Predation in Hypoxic Waters of a Stratified Lake

    Frank J. Rahel;Julie Waymire Nutzman

  • Managing for RADical ecosystem change: applying the Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) framework

    Abigail J Lynch;Laura M Thompson;Laura M Thompson;Erik A Beever;Erik A Beever;David N Cole

  • Single-Pass Electrofishing Predicts Trout Abundance in Mountain Streams with Sparse Habitat

    Carter G. Kruse;Wayne A. Hubert;Frank J. Rahel

  • Effort Needed to Estimate Species Richness in Small Streams on the Great Plains in Wyoming

    Tim M. Patton;Wayne A. Hubert;Frank J. Rahel;Kenneth G. Gerow

Frequent Co-Authors

Wayne A. Hubert
Wayne A. Hubert University of Wyoming
Stephen T. Jackson
Stephen T. Jackson United States Geological Survey
Erik A. Beever
Erik A. Beever United States Geological Survey
Ellen Wohl
Ellen Wohl Colorado State University
Dennis M. Staley
Dennis M. Staley United States Geological Survey
David H. Secor
David H. Secor University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Andrew J. Hansen
Andrew J. Hansen Montana State University
Eva B. Thorstad
Eva B. Thorstad Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Geoffrey C. Poole
Geoffrey C. Poole Montana State University
G. Mathias Kondolf
G. Mathias Kondolf University of California, Berkeley

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