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Overview

Kurt D. Fausch is a researcher affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States, specializing in environmental science with a focus on fish ecology and management studies. Their work spans multiple interconnected disciplines including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, ecological modeling, statistical and nonlinear physics, and broader fields tied to evolutionary behavior and systematics.

Their research topics cover a range of ecological and behavioral subjects, such as:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction

Fausch has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals across ecological and biological sciences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Ecology
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Oikos
  • Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
  • Ichthyological Research

Their recent significant publications include:

  • Magnitude and direction of stream-forest community interactions change with timescale, 2020, Ecology
  • Interspecific social dominance networks reveal mechanisms promoting coexistence in sympatric charr in Hokkaido, Japan, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Short-term effects of wildfire on high elevation stream-riparian food webs, 2023, Oikos
  • Magnitude and Direction of Stream-Forest Community Interactions Change with Time Scale, 2020, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
  • The past, present, and a future for native charr in Japan, 2024, Ichthyological Research

Kurt D. Fausch has collaborated with several coauthors multiple times. Frequent coauthors are:

  • Yoichiro Kanno
  • Amy Marcarelli
  • Colden V. Baxter
  • Joseph R. Benjamin
  • Yo Miyake

This body of work reflects a broad engagement with ecological processes and species interactions, especially concerning stream and fish ecology as well as social behavior within animal populations. The variety of publication venues and topics underscores a multidisciplinary approach incorporating theoretical and applied ecological research.

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

  • Ecological and evolutionary consequences of biotic homogenization.

    Julian D. Olden;N. LeRoy Poff;Marlis R. Douglas;Michael E. Douglas

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

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

  • Measuring the total economic value of restoring ecosystem services in an impaired river basin: results from a contingent valuation survey

    John Loomis;Paula Kent;Liz Strange;Kurt Fausch

  • Profitable stream positions for salmonids: relating specific growth rate to net energy gain

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  • 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

  • Restricted Movement in Resident Stream Salmonids: A Paradigm Lost?

    Charles Gowan;Michael K. Young;Kurt D. Fausch;Stephen C. Riley

  • Competition Between Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) and Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) for Positions in a Michigan Stream

    Kurt D. Fausch;Ray J. White

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

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

  • Regional Application of an Index of Biotic Integrity Based on Stream Fish Communities

    Kurt D. Fausch;James R. Karr;Philip R. Yant

  • DYNAMICS OF INTERMITTENT STREAM HABITAT REGULATE PERSISTENCE OF A THREATENED FISH AT MULTIPLE SCALES

    Theodore R. Labbe;Kurt D. Fausch

  • Large Woody Debris and Salmonid Habitat in a Small Coastal British Columbia Stream

    Kurt D. Fausch;Thomas G. Northcote

  • FLOOD DISTURBANCE REGIMES INFLUENCE RAINBOW TROUT INVASION SUCCESS AMONG FIVE HOLARCTIC REGIONS

    Kurt D. Fausch;Yoshinori Taniguchi;Shigeru Nakano;Gary D. Grossman

  • Regional Applications of an Index of Biotic Integrity for Use in Water Resource Management

    David L. Miller;Robert M. Hughes;James R. Karr;Paul M. Leonard

  • Interactions between hatchery and wild salmonids in streams: differences in biology and evidence for competition

    Edward D Weber;Kurt D Fausch

  • Invasion versus isolation: trade-offs in managing native salmonids with barriers to upstream movement.

    Kurt D. Fausch;Bruce E. Rieman;Jason B. Dunham;Michael K. Young

  • Mobile brook trout in two high-elevation Colorado streams: Re-evaluating the concept of restricted movement

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  • Tests of Competition between Native and Introduced Salmonids in Streams: What Have We Learned?

    Kurt D. Fausch

  • Flexible niche partitioning via a foraging mode shift: a proposed mechanism for coexistence in stream‐dwelling charrs

    Shigeru Nakano;Kurt D. Fausch;Satoshi Kitano

  • MINIMUM HABITAT REQUIREMENTS FOR ESTABLISHING TRANSLOCATED CUTTHROAT TROUT POPULATIONS

    Amy L. Harig;Kurt D. Fausch

  • POPULATION ECOLOGY OF AN INVASION: EFFECTS OF BROOK TROUT ON NATIVE CUTTHROAT TROUT

    Douglas P. Peterson;Kurt D. Fausch;Gary C. White

  • Assessment of climate change and freshwater ecosystems of the Rocky Mountains, USA and Canada

    F. Richard Hauer;Jill S. Baron;Donald H. Campbell;Kurt D. Fausch

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce E. Rieman
Bruce E. Rieman US Forest Service
Colden V. Baxter
Colden V. Baxter Idaho State University
Michael K. Young
Michael K. Young US Forest Service
Jason B. Dunham
Jason B. Dunham United States Geological Survey
Alan P. Covich
Alan P. Covich University of Georgia
Daniel J. Isaak
Daniel J. Isaak US Forest Service
Seth J. Wenger
Seth J. Wenger University of Georgia
Larissa L. Bailey
Larissa L. Bailey Colorado State University
Charles H. Luce
Charles H. Luce US Forest Service
Robert M. Hughes
Robert M. Hughes Oregon State University

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