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2042

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Mary C. Freeman is affiliated with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on ecology and conservation related to freshwater systems.

The main fields of study for Freeman include Environmental Science, with subfields in Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Molecular Biology, and Water Science and Technology.

Freeman's research topics cover a wide array of subjects including:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior

Freeman has contributed to multiple scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecology Of Freshwater Fish
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Hydrobiologia
  • Biological Conservation

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Freeman include:

  • "Toward Improved Understanding of Streamflow Effects on Freshwater Fishes," 2022, Fisheries
  • "Ecological forecasting-21st century science for 21st century management," 2020, Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World
  • "Freshwater crabs (Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae) increase rates of leaf breakdown in a neotropical headwater stream," 2020, Freshwater Biology
  • "Integrating tracking and resight data enables unbiased inferences about migratory connectivity and winter range survival from archival tags," 2021, Ornithological applications
  • "Rethinking foundation species in a changing world: The case for Rhododendron maximum as an emerging foundation species in shifting ecosystems of the southern Appalachians," 2020, Forest Ecology and Management

Freeman collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Seth J. Wenger
  • Edward S. Stowe
  • Nathan R. Franssen
  • Keith B. Gido
  • Yoichiro Kanno

Best Publications

  • The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA): a new framework for developing regional environmental flow standards

    N. Leroy Poff;Brian D. Richter;Angela H. Arthington;Stuart E. Bunn

  • Hydrologic connectivity and the contribution of stream headwaters to ecological integrity at regional scales

    Mary C. Freeman;Catherine M. Pringle;C. Rhett Jackson

  • Regional Effects of Hydrologic Alterations on Riverine Macrobiota in the New World: Tropical–Temperate Comparisons

    Catherine M. Pringle;Mary C. Freeman;Byron J. Freeman

  • FLOW AND HABITAT EFFECTS ON JUVENILE FISH ABUNDANCE IN NATURAL AND ALTERED FLOW REGIMES

    Mary C. Freeman;Zachary H. Bowen;Ken D. Bovee;Elise R. Irwin

  • ASSEMBLAGE ORGANIZATION IN STREAM FISHES: EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION AND INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTIONS

    Gary D. Grossman;Robert E. Ratajczak;Maurice Crawford;Mary C. Freeman

  • ESTIMATING SPECIES OCCURRENCE, ABUNDANCE, AND DETECTION PROBABILITY USING ZERO‐INFLATED DISTRIBUTIONS

    Seth J. Wenger;Mary C. Freeman

  • Microhabitat use in a stream fish assemblage

    G. D. Grossman;Mary C. Freeman

  • Ecological consequences of hydropower development in Central America: impacts of small dams and water diversion on neotropical stream fish assemblages

    Elizabeth P. Anderson;Mary C. Freeman;Catherine M. Pringle

  • Investigating hydrologic alteration as a mechanism of fish assemblage shifts in urbanizing streams

    Allison H. Roy;Mary C. Freeman;Byron J. Freeman;Seth J. Wenger

  • 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

  • Geomorphology and fish assemblages in a Piedmont river basin, U.S.A

    D.M. Walters;D.S. Leigh;Mary C. Freeman;B.J. Freeman

  • Large-scale Flow Experiments for Managing River Systems

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

  • Fish Assemblage Stability in a Southern Appalachian Stream

    M. C. Freeman;M. K. Crawford;J. C. Barrett;D. E. Facey

  • Principal Component Analyses of Assemblage Structure Data: Utility of Tests Based on Eigenvalues

    Gary D. Grossman;David M. Nickerson;Mary C. Freeman

  • Stream fish occurrence in response to impervious cover, historic land use, and hydrogeomorphic factors

    Seth J. WengerS.J. Wenger;James T. PetersonJ.T. Peterson;Mary C. FreemanM.C. Freeman;Byron J. FreemanB.J. Freeman

  • Ecosystem-Level Consequences of Migratory Faunal Depletion Caused by Dams

    Mary C. Freeman;Catherine M. Pringle;Effie A. Greathouse;Byron J. Freeman

  • Fish Assemblage Responses to Water Withdrawals and Water Supply Reservoirs in Piedmont Streams

    Mary C. Freeman;Paula A. Marcinek

  • Transferability of Habitat Suitability Criteria for Fishes in Warmwater Streams

    Mary C. Freeman;Zachary H. Bowen;Johnie H. Crance

  • Stochasticity and Assemblage Organization in an Indiana Stream Fish Assemblage

    Gary D. Grossman;Mary C. Freeman;Peter B. Moyle;John O. Whitaker

  • Microhabitat use in a mediterranean riverine fish assemblage : Fishes of the upper Matarraña.

    G D Grossman;A de Sostoa;M C Freeman;J Lobon-Cerviá

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine M. Pringle
Catherine M. Pringle University of Georgia
Seth J. Wenger
Seth J. Wenger University of Georgia
Gary D. Grossman
Gary D. Grossman University of Georgia
Julian D. Olden
Julian D. Olden University of Washington
David A. Lytle
David A. Lytle Oregon State University
Keith B. Gido
Keith B. Gido Kansas State University
Christopher T. Robinson
Christopher T. Robinson Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Mark J. Kennard
Mark J. Kennard Griffith University
John C. Schmidt
John C. Schmidt Utah State University
Andrew J. Sharp
Andrew J. Sharp Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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