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Fish conservation: Hydropower, Rivers, & Climate Change
Hydropower and Rivers
Climate Change
Bioenergy Sustainability & Watershed Influences on Rivers
Modeling Populations in Landscapes Supporting Oil & Gas Production
Ecological Spatial Statistics and Uncertainty
Regional Assessment of Stream & Lake Acidification
Food Web Theory

Fish conservation: Hydropower, Rivers, & Climate Change

Hydropower and River Ecology

Jager, H.I., D.L. Peterson, D. Farrae, and M.S. Bevelhimer. 2013. A population model to assess influences on the viability of the shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) population in the Ogeechee River, Georgia. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 142(3): 731-746 (pdf).
Perkins, T.A. and H.I. Jager. 2011. Falling behind: Delayed growth explains life-history variation in Snake River fall Chinook salmon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 140(4): 959-972 (pdf).
Jager, H.I., K.B. Lepla, W. Van Winkle, B.A. James, and S.O. McAdams. 2010. The elusive minimum viable population size for white sturgeon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139: 1551- 1565 (pdf).
Jager, H.I., K.A. Rose, and A. Vila-Gispert. 2008. Life history correlates and extinction risk of capital-breeding fishes. Hydrobiologia 602: 15-25 (pdf). Data
Jager, H. I., and B.T. Smith. 2008. Sustainable reservoir operation: Can we generate hydropower and preserve ecosystem values? River Research and Applications 24: 340-352. (pdf)
Jager, H.I. and M.S. Bevelhimer. 2007. How run-of-river operation affects hydropower generation. Environmental Management 40: 1004-1015 (pdf).
Smith, B.T., H.I. Jager, and P. March. 2007. Prospects for Combining Energy and Environmental Objectives in Hydropower Optimization. WaterPower XI. 10 pp.
Jager, H.I., M.S. Bevelhimer, K.A. Lepla, J.B. Chandler, and W. Van Winkle. 2007. Evaluation of reconnection options for white sturgeon in the Snake River using a Population Viability Model. (pdf) Pages 319-335 In American Fisheries Society Symposium 56, J.F. Munro ed., American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.
Jager, H.I. 2006. Chutes and ladders and other games we play with rivers: I. upstream passage. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63(1): 165-175 (pdf).
Jager, H.I. 2006. Chutes and ladders and other games we play with rivers: II. translocation. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63(1): 176-184 (pdf).
Sullivan, A.B., H.I. Jager, and R. Myers. 2003. Modeling white sturgeon movement in a reservoir: the effect of water quality. Ecological Modelling 167(1-2): 97-114. (pdf)
Jager, H.I. and K.A. Rose. 2003. Designing optimal flow patterns for chinook salmon in a Central Valley river. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23(1): 1-21 (pdf)
Jager, H.I., W. Van Winkle, K.B. Lepla, J.A. Chandler, and P. Bates. 2002. Factors controlling white sturgeon recruitment in the Snake River. pp.127-150 (pdf) IN: AFS Symposium: Biology, Management, and Protection of Sturgeon. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.
Jager, H.I. 2001. Individual variation in life history characteristics can influence population extinction risk. Ecological Modelling 144(1):59-74 (pdf).
Jager, H.I. and J.A. Tyler. 2001. Letter to the editor concerning Railsback et al. 1999. Movement rules for individual-based models of stream fish. Ecological Modelling 144(3): 245-248 (pdf).
Jager, H.I., J.A. Chandler, K.B. Lepla, W. Van Winkle. 2000. A theoretical study of river fragmentation by dams and its effects on white sturgeon populations. Environmental Biology of Fishes 60:347-361 (pdf).
Jager, H.I. 2000. Predicting the viability of fish populations in a modified riverine environment. PhD. Dissertation. University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Jager, H.I. 2005. Genetic and demographic implications of aquaculture on white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) conservation. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62(8): 1733-1745 (pdf).
Van Winkle, W., H.I. Jager, B.D. Holcomb, S.F. Railsback, T.K. Studley, and J.E. Baldrige. 1998. An individual-based instream flow model for sympatric populations of brown and rainbow trout: model description, sensitivity analysis, and calibration. Ecological Modelling 110: 175-207 (pdf).
Jager, H.I. and E.J. Pert. 1997. Comment on "Utility of depth and velocity preferences for predicting steelhead parr distribution at different flows." Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 126: 537-540 (pdf).
Jager, H.I., H.E. Cardwell, M.J. Sale, M.J. Bevelhimer, C.C. Coutant, and W. Van Winkle. 1997. Modelling the linkages between flow management and salmon recruitment in rivers. Ecological Modelling 103: 171-191 (pdf)
Van Winkle, W., C. C. Coutant, H. I. Jager, J. S. Mattice, D. J. Orth, R. G. Otto, S. F. Railsback, and M. J. Sale. 1997. Uncertainty and instream flow standards: Perspectives based on hydropower research and assessment. Fisheries 22(7): 21-22.
Cardwell, H., H.I. Jager, and M.J. Sale. 1996. Designing instream flows to satisfy fish and human water needs. ASCE J. of Water Res. Planning and Mgmt. 122(5): 356-363 (pdf)
Van Winkle, W., B.D. Holcomb, H.I. Jager, J.A. Tyler, S.Y. Whitaker, and B.J. Shuter. 1995. Regulation of energy acquisition and allocation to respiration, growth, and reproduction: simulation model and example using rainbow trout. IN R.C. Chambers and E.A. Trippel, (eds.), Early Life History and Recruitment in Fish Populations, Chapman and Hall.
Jager, H.I., D.L. DeAngelis, M.J. Sale, W. VanWinkle, D.D. Schmoyer, M.J. Sabo, D.J. Orth, and J.A. Lukas. 1993. An individual-based model of smallmouth bass reproduction and young-of-year dynamics in streams. Rivers 4: 91-113 (pdf).
Jager, H., W. Van Winkle, K. Lepla, J. Chandler, and P. Bates. 1999. Population viability analysis of riverine fishes. Environmental Science & Policy 3: S483-489 (html).
Suter, G.W. II, L.W. Barnthouse, R.A. Efroymson, and H.I. Jager. 1999. Ecological risk assessment in a large river-reservoir: 2. fish community. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 18(4): 589-598.

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Climate Change
McCullough, D.A., J. M. Bartholow, H. I. Jager, R. L. Beschta, E. F. Cheslak, M. L. Deas, J. L. Ebersole, J. S. Foott, S. L. Johnson, W. J. Kimmerer, K. R. Marine, M. G. Mesa, J. H. Petersen, Y. Souchon, K. F. Tiffan, W. A. Wurtsbaugh. 2009. Research in thermal biology: Burning questions for coldwater stream fishes. Reviews in Fisheries Science 17(1): 90-115 (pdf). This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Reviews in Fisheries Science ( doi:10.1080/10641260802590152 )
Jager, H.I., W. Van Winkle, and B.D. Holcomb. 1999. Would hydrologic climate changes in Sierra Nevada streams influence trout persistence? Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 128: 222-240.
Van Winkle, W., K.A. Rose, B.J. Shuter, H.I. Jager, and B.D. Holcomb. 1997. Effects of climatic temperature change on growth, survival, and reproduction of rainbow trout: predictions of a simulation model. Can. J. of Fish. and Aquat. Sci. 54: 2526-2542.

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Bioenergy Sustainability and Watershed Influences on Rivers
Jager, H.I., M.S. Bevelhimer, R. King, and K. Smith. 2011. Landscape influences on headwater streams on Fort Stewart, Georgia, USA. Environmental Management 4: 1227-1239 (pdf).
Schweizer P & HI Jager. 2011. Modeling fish diversity in the Arkansas-Red-White River Basin. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 140(5): 1227-1239 (pdf).
McBride, A.C, V.H. Dale, L.M. Baskaran, M.E. Downing, L.M. Eaton, R.A. Efroymson, C.T. Garten Jr., K.L. Kline, H.I. Jager, P.J. Mulholland, E.S. Parish, P.E. Schweizer, and J.M. Storey. 2011. Indicators to support environmental sustainability of bioenergy systems. Ecological Indicators 11(5): 1277-1289 (pdf)
Baskaran, L.M., H.I. Jager, P. E. Schweizer, R. Srinivasan. 2010. Progress toward evaluating the sustainability of switchgrass production at a regional scale. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers 53(5): 1547-1556 (pdf).
Jager, H.I., L. M. Baskaran, C. C. Brandt, E. B. Davis, C. A. Gunderson, S. D. Wullschleger. 2010. Empirical geographic modeling of switchgrass yields in the United States. Global Change Biology: Bioenergy 2: 248-257 (pdf).
Graham, R.L., W. Liu, H.I. Jager, B.C. English, C.E. Noon and M.J. Daly. 1996. A regional-scale GIS-based modeling system for evaluating the potential costs and supplies of biomass from biomass crops. Proceedings, BIOENERGY'96. September 15-20, 1996, Nashville, TN, Southeastern Regional Biomass Energy Program (html)

Modeling Populations in Landscapes Supporting Oil & Gas Production
Efroymson, R.A., H.I. Jager, and W. Hargrove. 2010. Valuing wildlands. Pages 157-185 In Environmental Risk Assessment and Management from a Landscape Perspective, L. Kapustka, W. Landis, and A. Johnson (editors). John Wiley & Sons. (pdf).
Efroymson, R.A., H.I. Jager, V. Dale, J. Westerveld. 2009. A framework for developing management goals for species at risk and application to military installations in the United States. Environmental Management 44(6): 1163-1179 (pdf).
Jager, H.I., E.A. Carr, and R.A. Efroymson. 2006. Simulated effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on a solitary, mustellid predator. Ecological Modelling 191: 416-430 (pdf).
Jager, H.I., R.A. Efroymson, K. Sublette, and T.A. Ashwood. 2005. Unnatural landscapes in ecology: Generating the spatial distribution of brine spills. Environmetrics 16: 685-698 (pdf).
Efroymson, R., T. Carlson, H. Jager, T. Kostova, E. Carr, W. Hargrove, J. Kercher, and T. Ashwood. 2004. Toward a framework for assessing risk to vertebrate populations from brine and petroleum spills at exploration and production sites, Landscape ecology and wildlife habitat evaluation. ASTM STP 1458. L. Kaputska et al., eds. ASTM International, W. Conshohocken, PA.

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Ecological Spatial Statistics and Uncertainty
Jager, H.I., T.L. Ashwood, B.L. Jackson, A.W. King. 2005. Spatial uncertainty analysis of population models. Ecological Modelling 185(1): 13-27 (pdf).
Jager, H.I. and A.W. King. 2004. Spatial uncertainty and ecological models. Ecosystems 7: 1-7 (pdf).
Jager, H.I., W.W. Hargrove, A.W. King, R.J. Olson, C.C. Brandt, J.M.O. Scurlock, and K.A. Rose. 2000. Constructive Contrasts between Modeled and Measured Climate Responses over a Regional Scale. Ecosystems 3: 396-411 (pdf). Cover of Issue
Jager, H.I., M. Kramer, and W.S. Overton. 1999. Spatial modeling of landscape pattern. ORNL/TM-1999/294.
Jager, H.I. and W.S. Overton. 1993. Explanatory models for ecological response surfaces. Chap. 42, pp. 422-437 IN Goodchild, M.F., B.O. Parks, and L.T. Steyaert (eds.), Environmental Modeling with GIS. Oxford University Press, NY (pdf).
Dale, V.H., H.I. Jager, R.H. Gardner, and A.E. Rosen. 1988. Using sensitivity and uncertainty analysis to improve predictions of broad-scale forest development. Ecological Modelling 42:165-178.

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Regional Assessment of Stream & Lake Acidification
Cook, R.B. and H.I. Jager. 1991. Upper Midwest: The effects of hydrologic lake type and acidic deposition on lakewater chemistry. Chapter 13 IN D.F. Charles (ed.). Acidic Deposition and Aquatic Ecosystems: Regional Case Studies. Springer-Verlag, New York.
Jager, H.I., M.J. Sale, and R.L. Schmoyer. 1990. Regional assessment of water quality in the Southern Blue Ridge Province using cokriging. Water Resources Research 26(7): 1401-1412 (pdf).

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Food Web Theory
Jager, H.I. and R.H. Gardner. 1988. A simulation experiment to investigate food web polarization. Ecological Modelling 41: 101-116 (pdf).

Publications by topic

Topic

Fish conservation: Hydropower, Rivers, & Climate Change

Hydropower and River Ecology

Climate Change

Bioenergy Sustainability and Watershed Influences on Rivers

Modeling Populations in Landscapes Supporting Oil & Gas Production

Ecological Spatial Statistics and Uncertainty

Regional Assessment of Stream & Lake Acidification

Food Web Theory