2026 (published and in press) Turner, T. F., T. E. Dowling, P. C. Marsh, R. W. Clarkson, D. L. Propst, S. P. Platania, M. J. Osborne, and G. Caeiro Dias. 2026. Holistic species delimitation supports recognition of multiple lineages in the Gila robusta complex of the American Southwest. Ichthyology and Herpetology, In Press.
Hudgell, M. A. B., M. J. Osborne, I. Salinas, and T. F. Turner. 2026. A chromosome-level genome for Gila Trout (Oncorhynchus gilae) provides a novel resource for conservation and management. BMC Genomics. In press.
Gilbert, E. I., M. E. Moses, A. J. Webster, and T. F. Turner. 2026. Drying regime characteristics predictive of riverine fish occurrence and density. Freshwater Science 45:1-19.
Camak, D. T., M. J. Osborne, and T. F. Turner. 2026. Retention of ancestral polymorphism, not recent introgression, best explains elevated levels of genetic variation in Gila Trout Oncorhynchus gilae. Journal of Heredity. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaf110.
Caeiro Dias, G., M. J. Osborne, and T. F. Turner. 2026. Time is of the essence: using archived DNA to develop a GT-seq panel for long-term genetic monitoring. PeerJ. In press.
Keppeler, F.W., Giarrizzo, T., Montaña, C.G., Adite, A., Akın, Ş., Angelini, R., Arantes, C.C., Benedito, E., Bokhutlo, T., El-Sabaawi, R., Garcia, A., Gonzalez-Bergonzoni, I., Hoeinghaus, D., Hoffman, J., Jensen, O. P., Jeppesen, E., Keller Kopf, R., Layman, C. A., Orlando Lopez, E., Maitland, B. M., Matsuzaki, S. S., Olin, J. A., Paterson, G., Quintana, Y., de Rezende, C. E., Trudeau, A., Trindade, P. A., Turner, T. F., Zandona, E., Winemiller, K. O. 2026. What determines trophic niche breadth? A global analysis of freshwater fishes using isospaces. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 36, art13.
2025 Hoagstrom, C.W., Davenport, S.R. and Osborne, M.J., 2025. Assembling the Pecos River fish fauna: barrier displacement on the Southern Great Plains, North America. Biological Reviews.
Gilbert, E.I., Diver, T.A., Mussmann, S.M., Saltzgiver, M.J., Knight, W.K., Durst, S.L., Farrington, M.A., Clark Barkalow, S.L., Tobler, M. and Franssen, N.R., 2025. Why Is It Too Cold? Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Cold‐Water Pollution Effects on Recruitment of an Imperiled Warmwater Fish. Molecular Ecology, 34(1), p.e17588.
Driscoll, K., 2025. Build like a beaver: Evaluation of stream restoration success based on plant traits. Science You Can Use (in 5 Minutes), September 2025. Fort Collins, CO: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.
McAllister, C.T., Leis, E.M., Cloutman, D.G., Camus, A.C., Arroyo-Torres, I., Gretebeck, L., Rodriguez, M.R. and Robison, H.W., 2025. A new species of Myxobolus (Cnidaria: Myxosporea: Myxobolidae) from the gills of the green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus (Perciformes: Centrarchidae), from the Ouachita River Drainage of Western Arkansas. Systematic Parasitology, 102(1), p.9.
Poe, S. and Arroyo-Torres, I., 2025. Sleeping behavior in Anolis limifrons and comparison to closely related species. Herpetologica, 81(2), pp.164-170.
Alfaro, B., T. F. Turner, and D. L. Marshall. 2025. Evaluating genetic variation of Brassica tournefortii gouan collections via microsatellite marker analysis. Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany 43:65-73.
Besser, A. C., A. L. Robinson, T. F. Turner, C. A. Tackacs-Vesbach, and S. D. Newsome. 2025. Differential utilization of submerged leaf litter by microbial biofilms and macroinvertebrates in a large dryland river. Limnology and Oceanography. Early View. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70225.
Propst, D. L., K. B. Gido, and T. F. Turner. 2025. A century of shifting disturbance regimes and persistence of an arid-land native fish assemblage. Western North American Naturalist. 85(4): 584–609
Driscoll, K. P., L. F. Martinez, and T. F. Turner. 2025. Stream restoration effectively alters functional diversity and composition of riparian plant communities in the southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A. Restoration Ecology, Early View. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.70053
Turner, T. F., E. S. DeArmon, M. J. Osborne, G. Caiero-Dias, T. E. Dowling, A. J. Wicks, T. J. Krabbenhoft, S. M. Mussman, and W. D. Wilson. 2025. Building collections to support conservation genomics of Colorado River fishes. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology 209:1-19.
2024 Osborne, M. J., G. G. Caiero-Dias, and T. F. Turner. 2024. Mitogenomics of a declining species with boom-bust population dynamics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 143 (1), blae081
Mortensen, J., T. F. Turner, R. K. Dudley, and S. P. Platania. 2024. Small fish, big problems: Life history, conservation, and the future of the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow. Fisheries 49: 577-587.
Gilbert, E. I., T. F. Turner, M. E. Moses, A. J. Webster. 2024. The subreach effect: multi-scale analysis reveals climate and irrigation infrastructure effects on flow intermittency in a regulated desert river. Journal of Hydrology 643:132000.
Marsh, P. C. T. E. Dowling, T. F. Turner, M. J. Osborne, B. R. Kesner. 2024. Maturation of an off channel habitat concept to conserve native fishes in the lower Colorado River. Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist 15: 1.
Quinn, T. P., J. Epifanio, P. B. Moyle, S. Gregory, D. J. Hasselman, E. Merrill, K. Rose, T. F. Turner, and T. C. Wainwright. 2024. Ecological interactions between non-native American shad and Pacific salmon: the Columbia River case study. Reviews inFisheries Science and Aquaculture 32: 435-449.
Turner, T.F., Propst, D.L., Brooks, J.E. 2024. Demographic and genetic attributes of small, isolated populations of Gila trout: prospects for persistence under a shifting climate regime. In: Lobon-Cervia, J., Budy, P., Gresswell, R. (eds) Advances in the Ecology of Stream-Dwelling Salmonids. Fish & Fisheries Series 44: 629-654. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44389-3_25.
2023 Turner, T. F. et al. (22 Coauthors) 2023. Long-term ecological research in freshwaters enabled by regional biodiversity collections, stable isotope analysis, and environmental informatics. Bioscience 73: 479–493.
Alexandre, N. M., A. C. Cameron, D. Tian, K. Chatla, N. K. Whiteman, T. F. Turner, P. N. Reinthal. 2023.Chromosome-level reference genomes of two imperiled desert fishes: Spikedace (Meda fulgida) and Loach Minnow (Tiaroga cobitis). G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 13, https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad157.
Osborne, M. J., T. Archdeacon, C. Yackulic, R. K. Dudley, G. Caeiro-Dias, and T. F. Turner. 2023. Genetic erosion in an endangered desert fish during a multi-decadal megadrought despite long-term supportive breeding. Conservation Biology Online Early, https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14154(Honorable Mention -2024 John R. Morgart Award for Best Scientific Publication in Conservation and Management, US Fish & Wildlife Service).
Caeiro-Dias, G., Osborne, M.J., Waterman, H.M., Krabbenhoft, T.J. and Turner, T.F., 2023. Limited evidence for extensive genetic differentiation between X and Y chromosomes in Hybognathus amarus (Cypriniformes: Leuciscidae). Journal of Heredity 114: 470-487.
Gido, K.B., Osborne, M.J., Propst, D.L., Turner, T.F. and Olden, J.D., 2023. Megadroughts Pose Mega‐Risk to Native Fishes of the American Southwest. Fisheries 48: 204-214.
Osborne, M.J., Caeiro‐Dias, G. and Turner, T.F., 2023. Transitioning from microsatellites to SNP‐based microhaplotypes in genetic monitoring programs: lessons from paired data spanning 20 years. Molecular Ecology 32:316-334.
2022 Campbell, D.C., Camak, D.T. and Piller, K.R., 2022. Islands in the desert: assessing fine scale population genomic variation of a group of imperiled desert fishes. Conservation Genetics 23: 935-947.
Hedden, C., Gido, K.B. and Cameron, A.C., 2022. How fast is too fast? Water velocity differentially affects growth of four Gila River, native cyprinids. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 31:118-128.
Hedden, S.C.,K. B. Gido, CK Hedden, CA Pennock, BR Duran, BA Hines, EI Gilbert, MC McKinstry, SL Durst, NR Franssen. 2022. Determining resource intake of a nonnative fish highlights potential predatory and competitive interactions. Biol Invasions 24, 2351–2364.
Gilbert, Eliza I., W. Howard Brandenburg,Adam L. Barkalow,Ron B. Kegerries,Brandon C. Albrecht,Brian D. Healy,Emily C. Omana Smith,James R. Stolberg,Mark C. McKinstry, andSteven P. Platania "SYSTEMATIC LARVAL FISH SURVEYS AND ABIOTIC CORRELATES CHARACTERIZE EXTANT NATIVE FISH ASSEMBLAGE REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN THE COLORADO RIVER, WESTERN GRAND CANYON, ARIZONA," The Southwestern Naturalist 66(1), 67-76
Hamilton, G. H., T. L. Cooper, and T. F. Turner. 2022. Field estimates of mortality associated with passive integrated transponder tagging in the northern crayfish, Faxionus virilis. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. In Press.
Dombrosky. J., T. F. Turner, A. Harris, and E. L. Jones. 2022. Body size from unconventional specimens: a 3D geometric morphometrics approach to fishes from ancestral pueblo contexts. Journal of Archaeological Science 142: 105600.
Pilger, T. J., K. B. Gido. D. L. Propst, J. E. Whitney, and T. F. Turner. 2022. Demography predicts genetic effective size in a desert stream fish community. American Naturalist 200:275-291.
Pennock, Casey A., Phaedra Budy, Scott A Bonar, Thomas E Dowling, Keith B Gido, Eliza I Gilbert, Brian R Kesner, Craig P Paukert, Michael C Quist, Julie Stahli, Thomas F Turner, David L Ward. 2022. Assessment of Potential Augmentation and Management Strategies for Razorback Sucker Xyrauchen texanus in Lake Mead and Grand Canyon: A 2021 Science Panel Summary. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/eco_pubs/137/
2021 Turner, T. F., A. C. Cameron, M. J. Osborne, and D. L. Propst. 2021. Origins and diversity of peripheral populations of Rio Grande Sucker Pantosteus plebeius in the southwestern United States. The Southwestern Naturalist, 66:25-34.
Cameron, A. C., and C. L. Loughran. 2021. Crotalus atrox (Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake). Diet and feeding behavior. Herpetological Review 53 (1), 152-153
Driscoll, K.P. and Smith, D.M., 2021. Development of Riparian and Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystem Assessments for National Forests in the Western US. Sustainability, 13(8), p.4488.
Hoagstrom, C. W., and M. J. Osborne. 2021. Biogeography of Cyprinodon Across the Great Plains-Chihuahuan Desert Region and Adjacent Areas. Desert Fishes Council Special Publication 2021:20-76.
Franssen, N.R., Durst, S.L., Gilbert, E.I., Knight, W.K. and Ulibarri, M., 2021. Flow Conditioning of Hatchery‐Reared Razorback Sucker Increases Apparent Survival in the Wild. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 41(2), pp.545-555
Caeiro-Dias, G., Rocha, S., Couto, A., Pereira, C., Brelsford, A., Crochet, P.A. and Pinho, C., 2021. Nuclear phylogenies and genomics of a contact zone establish the species rank of Podarcis lusitanicus (Squamata, Lacertidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 164, p.107270.
Caeiro-Dias, G., Brelsford, A., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Meneses-Ribeiro, M., Crochet, P.A. and Pinho, C., 2021. Variable levels of introgression between the endangered Podarcis carbonelli and highly divergent congeneric species. Heredity, 126(3), pp.463-476.
Reale, J. K., T. P. Archdeacon, D.J. Van Horn, E. J. Gonzales, R. K. Dudley, T. F. Turner, C. N. Dahm. 2021. Differential effects of a catastrophic wildfire on downstream fish assemblages in an aridland river. Aquatic Ecology 55: 483–500
Camak, D. T., M. J. Osborne, and T. F. Turner. Population Genomics and Conservation of Gila Trout (Oncorhynchus gilae). Conservation Genetics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-021-01355-0.
Osborne, M.J., Portnoy, D.S., Fields, A.T., Bean, M.G., Hoagstrom, C.W. and Conway, K.W., 2021. Under the radar: genetic assessment of Rio Grande Shiner (Notropis jemezanus) and Speckled Chub (Macrhybopsis aestivalis), two Rio Grande basin endemic cyprinids that have experienced recent range contractions. Conservation Genetics, 22(2), pp.187-204.
Osborne, M.J., Hatt, J.L., Gilbert, E.I. and Davenport, S.R., 2021. Still time for action: genetic conservation of imperiled South Canadian River fishes, Arkansas River Shiner (Notropis girardi), Peppered Chub (Macrhybopsis tetranema) and Plains Minnow (Hybognathus placitus). Conservation Genetics, pp.1-19. 2020 Propst, D. L., T. F. Turner, J. A. Monzingo, J. E. Brooks, D. J. Myers (2020) Ecology, politics, and conservation of Gila trout. In Williams, J., D. L., Propst, C. Hoagstrom, K. Bestgen, eds. Standing Between Life and Extinction. University of Chicago Press.
Gilbert, E.I., Durst, S.L., Diver, T.A., Mello, H., Bertrand, N.G. and Franssen, N.R., 2020. Efficacy of fluorescent calcein mark retention and identification in endangered Colorado pikeminnow Ptychocheilus lucius. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 27(3), pp.258-269.
Pennock, C.A., McKinstry, M.C., Cathcart, C.N., Gido, K.B., Francis, T.A., Hines, B.A., MacKinnon, P.D., Hedden, S.C., Gilbert, E.I., Cheek, C.A. and Speas, D.W., 2020. Movement ecology of imperilled fish in a novel ecosystem: River‐reservoir movements by razorback sucker and translocations to aid conservation. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 30(8), pp.1540-1551.
Hedden, S.C., Gido, K.B., Hedden, C.K., Pennock, C.A., Duran, B.R., Hines, B.A., Gilbert, E.I., McKinstry, M.C., Durst, S.L. and Franssen, N.R., 2020. Quantifying consumption of native fishes by nonnative Channel Catfish in a desert river. North American Journal of Fisheries Management.
Kegerries, R.B., Albrecht, B., McKinstry, M.C., Rogers, R.J., Valdez, R.A., Barkalow, A.L., Gilbert, E.I., Mohn, H.E., Healy, B. and Smith, E.O., 2020. Small-bodied fish surveys demonstrate native fish dominance over 300 kilometers of the Colorado River through Grand Canyon, Arizona. Western North American Naturalist, 80(2), pp.146-156.
Turner, T.F., T. E. Dowling, Megan J. Osborne, T. J. Krabbenhoft, and T. J. Pilger (2020) Conservation genetics of desert fishes in the genomics age. In Williams, J., D. L., Propst, C. Hoagstrom, K. Bestgen, eds. Standing Between Life and Extinction. University of Chicago Press.
Osborne, M. J., A. L. Cameron, S. McKittrick, B. Fitzgerald, M. Paulk, and T. F. Turner (2020) The complete mitochondrial genomes of three imperiled cyprinid fishes Bonytail (Gila elegans), Rio Grande Silvery Minnow (Hybognathus amarus) and Loach Minnow (Tiaroga cobitis), Mitochondrial DNA Part B 5:2368-2370.
Osborne, M. J., T. E. Dowling, K. B. Scribner, and T. F. Turner (2020) Perspective: Wild at heart: programs to diminish negative ecological and evolutionary effects of conservation hatcheries. Biological Conservation, Online Early.
Carson, E. M., M. J. Osborne, and T. F. Turner (2020) Relationship of effective size to hatchery supplementation and habitat connectivity in a simulated population of Rio Grande Silvery Minnow. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 40:922-938.
Schwemm, M.R., Thompson, K.G., Carson, E.W., Osborne, M.J. and Turner, T.F. (2020) Species composition and hybridization among native and nonnative catostomid fishes in two streams of the Gunnison River basin, Colorado. Western North American Naturalist 80:81-89.