Lab Outreach & Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

NOTE: student co-authors in bold

1. Cavallaro, M.C., and D.A. Schumann. 2024. Utility of artificial reef structures to enhance fish habitat below a hydropeaking dam. River Research and Applications 10.1002/rra.4365

2. Dunn, C.G.*, D.A. Schumann*, M.E. Colvin, L.J. Sleezer, M. Wagner, D.T. Jones-Farrand, E. Rivenbark, and S. McRae. 2024. Using resiliency, redundnacy, and representation in a Bayesian belief network to assess imperilment in riverine fishes. Ecosphere 15(1):e4738

3. Pierce, J, G. Sandlund, D.A. Schumann, H. Thompson, and R. Erickson. 2023. Using a coupled integral projection model to investigate competition during an invasion: An application to silver carp and gizzard shad. Letters in Biomathematics 10(1):175-184.

4. Brino, E.E., D.A. Schumann, C.R. Rezac, R.J. Ellwanger, and T.W. Osmundson. 2023. Unlocking the genomes of formalin-fixed freshwater fish specimens: An assessment of factors influencing DNA extraction quantity and quality. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 43(6):1596-1609.

5. Lucchesi, D.O., S.R. Chipps, and D.A. Schumann. 2022. Effects of seasonal hypoxia on macroinvertebrate communities in a small reservoir. Lakes & Reservoirs: Science, Policy, and Management for Sustainable Use 27(1):e12395.

6. Schumann, D.A., K.N.B. Graeb, J. Pfrimmer, J.D. Stafford, and S.R. Chipps. 2021. The local respones of aquatic ecosystems to adjacent grassland conservation: Can streams of dreams exist in a degraded riverscape? Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 31(9):2481-2495.

7. Schumann, D.A., M.E. Colvin, R.L. Campbell, M.D. Wagner, and D.E. Schwarz. 2021. Suitability of passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags and a new monitoring technique for at-risk madtoms Noturus spp. Endangered Species Research 44:1-10.

8. Schumann, D.A., K.N.B. Graeb, M.D. Wagner, B.D.S. Graeb, E. Prenosil and J. Hoekwater. 2020. Suitability of surgically implanted 8-mm passive integrated transponder tags for small-bodied fishes. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 36(5):682-692.

9. Schumann, D.A., M.E. Colvin, L.E. Miranda, and D.T. Jones-Farrand. 2020. Occurrence and co-occurrence patterns of gar in river-floodplain habitats: Leveraging species co-existence to benefit distributional models. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 40(3):622-637.

10. Kauth, M.J., D.A. Schumann, K.N.B. Graeb, and W.W. Hoback. 2019. Effectiveness of single-pass backpack electrofishing to sample fish in small prairie streams.The Prairie Naturalist 51:17-24.

11. Wagner, M.D., D.A. Schumann, and B.J. Smith. 2019. Gear effectiveness and size selectivity for five species of madtoms in Mississippi streams. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 35:673-682.

12. Schumann, D.A., J.M. Haag, P.C. Ellensohn, J.D. Redmond, and K.N.B. Graeb. 2019. Restricted movement of prairie fishes in a fragmented riverscape: ecosystem processes risk being ratcheted downstream. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 29(2):235-244.

13. Schumann, D.A., C.S. Uphoff, C.W. Schoenebeck, and K.N.B. Graeb. 2018. Incorporation of carbon and nitrogen isotopes in age-0 Walleye (Sander vitreus) tissues following a laboratory diet switch experiment. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75:497-505.

14. Garcia, C., D.A. Schumann, J. Howell, B.D.S. Graeb, K.N. Bertrand, and R.A. Klumb. 2018. Seasonality, floods and droughts structure larval fish assemblages in prairie rivers. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 27:289-297.

15. Schumann, D.A., W.W. Hoback, K.D. Koupal, C.W. Schoenebeck, S.C. Schainost, and T.L. Wilson. 2017. Experimental analysis of reintroduction strategies to conserve the vulnerable Plains Topminnow Fundulus sciadicus in Nebraska. Endangered Species Research 34:249-255.

16. Pfrimmer, J., L. Gigliotti, J.D. Stafford, D.A. Schumann, and K.N. Bertrand. 2017. Motivations for enrollment into the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program in the James River Basin of South Dakota. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 22(4):382-389.

17. Schumann, D.A., D. Deslauriers, M.D. Wagner, K.N. Bertrand, and B.D.S. Graeb. 2017. Surgical implantation of passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags: a powerful tool for small-bodied sturgeon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 146(2):230-239.

18. Schumann, D.A., C.W. Schoenebeck, K.D. Koupal, and W.W. Hoback. 2016. Dynamics of fish assemblage structure and single-species persistence: valuable insight into interspecific interactions of a poorly understood species. The American Midland Naturalist 176(2):186-198.

19. Schumann, D.A., W.W. Hoback, and K.D. Koupal. 2015. Complex interactions between native and invasive species: investigating the differential displacement of two topminnows native to Nebraska. Aquatic Invasions 10(3):339-349.

20. Schumann, D.A., K.D. Koupal, S. Schainost, W.W. Hoback, and C.W. Schoenebeck. 2015. Spatial dynamics and large-scale dispersal patterns of plains topminnow Fundulus sciadicus: implications for species conservation. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 30(2):311-322.

21. Schumann, D.A., K.D. Koupal, W.W. Hoback, and C.W. Schoenebeck. 2013. Evaluation of sprayed fluorescent pigment marks as a method to mass mark fish species. The Open Journal of Fish Science 6:41-47.

22. Schumann, D.A., C.A. Pasbrig, K.D. Koupal, and W.W. Hoback. 2012. Culture of plains topminnow, Fundulus sciadicus, in a pond constructed for species conservation. North American Journal of Aquaculture 74:360-364.

23. Schumann, D.A., M.C. Cavallaro, and W.W. Hoback. 2012. Size selective predation of fish by Hydrophilis triangularis (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) and Lethocerus americanus (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 85(2):155-159.