Keith Nislow

NE CASC Principal Investigator
Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation
Fish and Wildlife Habitat Relationships Team Leader of USDA-Forest Service Northern Research Station
Research Fisheries Biologist of USDA-Forest Service Northern Research Station

Consortium Institution: 

University of Massachusetts

Education: 

Ph.D.: Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1997
M.S.: Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1990
B.S.: University Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1988

Website: 

http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/nislow-keith/

Experience: 

Fish and Wildlife Habitat Relationships Team Leader, USDA-Forest Service Northern Research Station, 2005 to present
Research Fisheries Biologist, USDA-Forest Service Northern Research Station, 1999 to present
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1999 to present
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, 1999 to present
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, 1997- 1999

Research Interests: 

Expertise

 Hydrology • stream temperature • aquatic habitat • stream fish • extreme flow • ecological drought.

Recent Publications

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Palmer, R. N., Nislow K. H., Ericson A., & Backiel B. (2019).  Final Report: Reconnecting Floodplains and Restoring Green Space as a Management Strategy to Minimize Risk and Increase Resilience in the Context of Climate and Landscape Change.
Myers, B. J. E., C. Dolloff A., Webster J. R., Nislow K. H., Fair B., & Rypel A. L. (2018).  Fish assemblage production estimates in Appalachian streams across a latitudinal and temperature gradient. Ecology of Freshwater Fish. 27(1), 363 - 377.
Robinson, Z. L., Coombs J. A., Hudy M., Nislow K. H., Letcher B. H., & Whiteley A. R. (2017).  Experimental test of genetic rescue in isolated populations of brook trout. Molecular Ecology. 26(17), 4418 - 4433.
Bassar, R. D., Letcher B. H., Nislow K. H., & Whiteley A. R. (2016).  Changes in seasonal climate outpace compensatory density-dependence in eastern brook trout. Global Change Biology. 22(2), 577 - 593.
Letcher, B. H., Hocking D. J., O’Neil K., Whiteley A. R., Nislow K. H., & O’Donnell M. J. (2016).  A hierarchical model of daily stream temperature using air-water temperature synchronization, autocorrelation, and time lags. PeerJ. 4, e1727.
Magilligan, F., Nislow K. H., Kynard B., & Hackman A. (2016).  Immediate changes in stream channel geomorphology, aquatic habitat, and fish assemblages following dam removal in a small upland catchment. Geomorphology. 252,
Dethier, E., Magilligan F. J., Renshaw C. E., & Nislow K. H. (2016).  The role of chronic and episodic disturbances on channel-hillslope coupling: the persistence and legacy of extreme floods. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 41(10), 
Kanno, Y., Letcher B. H., Rosner A. L., O’Neil K. P., & Nislow K. H. (2015).  Environmental Factors Affecting Brook Trout Occurrence in Headwater Stream Segments. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 144, 373 - 382.
Daniels, A., Shaw N., Peterson D., Nislow K. H., Tomosy M., & Rowland M. (2014).  Facing Climate Change in Forests and Fields. The Wildlife Society News.
Katz, R., Grant E. H. Campbel, Runge M. C., Connery B., Crockett M., Herland L., et al. (2014).  Making Decisions in Complex Landscapes: Headwater Stream Management Across Multiple Federal Agencies. Headwater Streams - Structured Decision Making Workshops.
Trumbo, B. A., Nislow K. H., Stallings J., Hudy M., Smith E. P., Kim D-Y., et al. (2014).  Ranking Site Vulnerability to Increasing Temperatures in Southern Appalachian Brook Trout Streams in Virginia: An Exposure-Sensitivity Approach. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 143, 173 - 187.
Coombs, J. A., & Nislow K. H. (2014).  Riparian Prioritization and Status Assessment for Climate Change Resilience of Coldwater Stream Habitats within the Appalachian and Northeastern Regions.
Letcher, B. H., Schueller P., Bassar R. D., Nislow K. H., Coombs J. A., Sakrejda K., et al. (2014).  Robust estimates of environmental effects on population vital rates: an integrated capture-recapture model of seasonal brook trout growth, survival and movement in a stream network. Journal of Animal Ecology. n/a - n/a.
XU, CAILIN., Letcher B. H., & Nislow K. H. (2010).  Context-specific influence of water temperature on brook trout growth rates in the field. Freshwater Biology. no - no.
XU, CAILIN., Letcher B. H., & Nislow K. H. (2010).  Size-dependent survival of brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis in summer: effects of water temperature and stream flow. Journal of Fish Biology. 76, 2342 - 2369.
Letcher, B. H., Nislow K. H., Coombs J. A., O’Donnell M. J., & Dubreuil T. L. (2007).  Population Response to Habitat Fragmentation in a Stream-Dwelling Brook Trout Population. PLoS ONE. 2, e1139.
Nislow, K. H., Sepulveda A.. J., & Folt C.. L. (2004).  Mechanistic Linkage of Hydrologic Regime to Summer Growth of Age-0 Atlantic Salmon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 133, 79 - 88.
Nislow, K. H., Armstrong J. D., & McKelvey S. (2004).  Phosphorus flux due to Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in an oligotrophic upland stream: effects of management and demography. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 61, 2401 - 2410.