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Joseph J. Cech is affiliated with the University of California, Davis, located in the United States. Their research primarily centers on environmental science with a specific emphasis on areas such as nature and landscape conservation, ecology, aquatic science, global and planetary change, and water science and technology.

Their scholarly output includes a variety of papers with topics spanning fish ecology and management studies, physiological and biochemical adaptations, marine and fisheries research, fish biology and ecology studies, aquaculture nutrition and growth, and hydrology and sediment transport processes.

Frequent coauthors in Joseph J. Cech's work include Nann A. Fangue, Steven J. Cooke, Dennis E. Cocherell, Daniel M. Glassman, and Julie H. Simard.

Their publications have appeared most notably in the following venues:

  • Environmental Biology of Fishes
  • Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
  • Conservation Physiology

Selected recent papers include:

  • Water resource development and sturgeon (Acipenseridae): state of the science and research gaps related to fish passage, entrainment, impingement and behavioural guidance, 2020, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
  • The effect of temperature on specific dynamic action of juvenile fall-run Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, 2022, Conservation Physiology
  • Estimating the energetic savings for green sturgeon moving by selective tidal stream transport, 2020, Environmental Biology of Fishes
  • Juvenile Chinook salmon use of sandbar willows in a large-scale, simulated riparian floodplain: microhabitat and energetics, 2021, Environmental Biology of Fishes

Best Publications

  • Effects of global climate change on marine and estuarine fishes and fisheries

    Julie M. Roessig;Christa M. Woodley;Joseph J. Cech;Lara J. Hansen

  • Stress-associated impacts of short-term holding on fishes

    Donald E. Portz;Donald E. Portz;Christa M. Woodley;Joseph J. Cech

  • Hydropower-related pulsed-flow impacts on stream fishes: a brief review, conceptual model, knowledge gaps, and research needs

    Paciencia S. Young;Joseph J. Cech;Lisa C. Thompson

  • Diel movements of bat rays, Myliobatis californica, in Tomales bay, california : evidence for behavioral thermoregulation?

    Scott A. Matern;Joseph J. Cech;Todd E. Hopkins

  • Effects of High Water Temperature on Growth, Smoltification, and Predator Avoidance in Juvenile Sacramento RiverChinook Salmon

    Keith R. Marine;Joseph J. Cech

  • Temperature influences on California rainbow trout physiological performance.

    C. A. Myrick;J. J. J. Cech

  • Experimental determination of the sources of otolith carbon and associated isotopic fractionation

    Christopher T Solomon;Peter K Weber;Joseph J Cech;B Lynn Ingram

  • Tidal Influence on Spatial Dynamics of Leopard Sharks, Triakis semifasciata, in Tomales Bay, California

    Joshua T. Ackerman;Matthew C. Kondratieff;Scott A. Matern;Joseph J. Jr. Cech

  • The Influence of Environmental Variables on the Distribution and Abundance of Three Elasmobranchs in Tomales Bay, California

    Todd E. Hopkins;Joseph J. Cech

  • Growth and Reproduction of the Mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, in Relation to Temperature and Ration Level: Consequences for Life History

    Bruce Vondracek;Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh;Joseph J. Cech

  • Distribution of California stream fishes: influence of environmental temperature and hypoxia

    Joseph J. Cech;Stephen J. Mitchell;Daniel T. Castleberry;Maryann McEnroe

  • Encyclopedia of fish physiology : from genome to environment

    Anthony P. Farrell;E. Donald Stevens;Joseph J. Cech;Jeffrey G. Richards

  • Age/size effects on juvenile green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris, oxygen consumption, growth, and osmoregulation in saline environments

    Peter J. Allen;Joseph J. Cech

  • Effects of environmental hypoxia on oxygen consumption rate and swimming activity in juvenile white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, in relation to temperature and life intervals

    Carlos E. Crocker;J. Joseph Cech

  • Effects of short-term management stress and ACTH injections on plasma cortisol levels in cultured white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus

    J.M Belanger;J.H Son;K.D Laugero;G.P Moberg

  • Comparative growth of juvenile white sturgeon and striped bass: Effects of temperature and hypoxia

    Joseph J. Cech;Stephen J. Mitchell;Trent E. Wragg

  • Osmoregulation in juvenile and adult white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus

    Maryann McEnroe;Joseph J. Cech

  • Temperature effects on juvenile anadromous salmonids in California’s central valley: what don’t we know?

    Christopher A. Myrick;Christopher A. Myrick;Joseph J. Cech

  • Improved Growth, Swimming Performance, and Muscular Development in Exercise-Conditioned Young-of-the-Year Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis)

    Paciencia S. Young;Joseph J. Cech

  • Blood oxygen transport in stressed striped bass ( Morone saxatilis ): role of beta-adrenergic responses

    Mikko Nikinmaa;Joseph J. Cech;Maryann McEnroe

Frequent Co-Authors

Nann A. Fangue
Nann A. Fangue University of California, Davis
Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh
Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh Utah State University
Dietmar Kültz
Dietmar Kültz University of California, Davis
Anthony P. Farrell
Anthony P. Farrell University of British Columbia
Collin A. Eagles-Smith
Collin A. Eagles-Smith United States Geological Survey
Daniel W. Anderson
Daniel W. Anderson University of California, Davis
Jeffrey F. Mount
Jeffrey F. Mount University of California, Davis
Mikko Nikinmaa
Mikko Nikinmaa University of Turku
David E. Hinton
David E. Hinton Duke University
Ronald P. Hedrick
Ronald P. Hedrick University of California, Davis

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