Ecological Interactions Team - Reports and Publications

Technical Reports

Hindman, J. N., G. A. McMichael, J. P. Olson, and S. A. Leider. 1991. Yakima River Species

Interactions Studies. Annual Report FY 1990 submitted to Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon. DOE/BP-01483-1. 75 pp.

McMichael, G. A., J. P. Olson, E. L. Bartrand, M. Fischer, J. N. Hindman, and S. A. Leider.

1992. Yakima River Species Interactions Studies. Annual Report FY 1991 submitted to Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon. DOE/BP-01483-2. 177 pp.

Pearsons, T. N., G. A. McMichael, E. L. Bartrand, M. Fischer, J. T. Monahan, and S. A. Leider.

1993. Yakima Species Interactions Study. Annual Report FY 1992 submitted to Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon. DOE/BP-01483-3. 98 pp.

Pearsons, T. N., G. A. McMichael, S. W. Martin, E. L. Bartrand, M. Fischer, and S. A. Leider.

1994. Yakima River Species Interactions Studies. Annual Report FY 1993 submitted to Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon. DOE/BP-99852-2. 247 pp.

Pearsons, T. N., G. A. McMichael, S. W. Martin, E. L. Bartrand, J. A. Long, and S. A. Leider.

1996. Yakima River Species Interactions Studies. Annual Report FY 1994 submitted to Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon. DOE/BP-99852-3. 150 pp.

Busack, C., B. Watson, T. Pearsons, C. Knudsen, S. Phelps, and M. Johnston. 1997. Yakima

Fisheries Project Spring Chinook Supplementation Monitoring Plan. Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon. DOE/BP-64878-1

Pearsons, T. N., G. A. McMichael, K. D. Ham, E. L. Bartrand, A. L. Fritts, and C. W.

Hopley. 1998. Yakima River Species Interactions Studies. Progress Report FY 1995-1997 submitted to Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon. DOE/BP-64878-6.

McMichael, G. A., A. L. Fritts, T. N. Pearsons, and J. L. Dunnigan. 1999. Lower Yakima

River predatory fish monitoring: progress report 1998. Pages 93-124 In ODFW and NMFS. Management implications of co-occurring native and introduced fishes: Proceedings of the workshop. Portland, Oregon.

Pearsons, T. N., K. D. Ham, G. A. McMichael, E. L. Bartrand, A. L. Fritts, and C. W.

Hopley. 1999. Yakima River Species Interactions Studies. Annual Report FY 1998 submitted to Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon. DOE/BP-64878-5.

James, B. B., T. N. Pearsons, and G. A. McMichael. 1999. Spring chinook salmon interactions

indices and residual/precocial monitoring in the upper Yakima Basin. Annual Report FY 1998 submitted to Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon. DOE/BP-64878-4.

Phinney, D. D., S. B. Mathews, and T. N. Pearsons. 2000. Development of a bird predation

index. Annual Report FY 1998 submitted to Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon. DOE/BP-64878-3.

Pearsons, T. N., A. L. Fritts, K. D. Ham, G. A. McMichael, E. L. Bartrand, G. M. Temple, and

C. W. Hopley. 2001a. Yakima River Species Interactions Studies. Annual Report FY 1999 submitted to Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon. DOE/BP-64878-7.

Pearsons, T. N., A. L. Fritts, G. M. Temple, N. S. Burres, M. R. Schmuck, and C. W. Hopley.

2001b. Yakima River Species Interactions Studies. Annual Report FY 2000 submitted to Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, Oregon. DOE/BP-00004666-1.

Peer-reviewed publications

McMichael, G. A. 1993. Examination of electrofishing injury and short-term mortality in

hatchery rainbow trout. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 13:229-233.

Martin, S. W., J. A. Long, and T. N. Pearsons. 1995. Comparison of survival, gonad

development, and growth between rainbow trout with and without surgically implanted dummy radio transmitters. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 15:494-498.

McMichael, G. A., C. S. Sharpe, and T. N. Pearsons. 1997. Effects of residual hatchery-reared

steelhead on growth of wild rainbow trout and spring chinook salmon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 126:230-239.

McMichael, G. A., and T. N. Pearsons. 1998. Effects of wild juvenile spring chinook

salmon on growth and abundance of wild rainbow trout. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 127:261-274.

McMichael, G. A., A. L. Fritts, and T. N. Pearsons. 1998. Electrofishing injury to stream

salmonids; injury assessment at the sample, reach, and stream scales. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 18:894-904.

Pearsons, T. N., and A. L. Fritts. 1999. Maximum size of chinook salmon consumed by

juvenile coho salmon. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 19:165-170.

McMichael, G. A., T. N. Pearsons, and S. A. Leider. 1999. Minimizing ecological impacts of

hatchery-reared juvenile steelhead on wild salmonids in a Yakima basin tributary. Pages 365-380 in Eric Knudson et al. editors. Sustainable fisheries management: Pacific salmon. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

McMichael, G. A., T. N. Pearsons, and S. A. Leider. 1999. Behavioral interactions

among hatchery-reared steelhead smolts and wild Oncorhynchus mykiss in natural streams. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 19:948-956.

Pearsons, T. N., and C. W. Hopley. 1999. A practical approach for assessing

ecological risks associated with fish stocking programs. Fisheries 24(9):16-23.

Ham, K. D., and T. N. Pearsons. 2000. Can reduced salmonid population abundance be

detected in time to limit management impacts? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 57:17-24.

Ham, K. D., and T. N. Pearsons. 2001. A practical approach for containing ecological risks

associated with fish stocking programs. Fisheries 25(4):15-23.

McMichael, G. A. and T. N. Pearsons. 2001. Upstream movement of residual hatchery

steelhead into areas containing bull trout and cutthroat trout. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 21:517-520.

Amaral, S. V., F. C. Winchell, and T. N. Pearsons. 2001. Reaction of chinook salmon, northern

pikeminnow, and smallmouth bass to behavioral guidance stimuli. Pages 125-144 in C. C. Coutant, editor. Behavioral technologies for fish guidance. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 26, Bethesda, Maryland.

Pearsons, T. N., S. R. Phelps, S. W. Martin, E. L. Bartrand, and G. A. McMichael. In press.

Gene flow between resident and anadromous rainbow trout in the Yakima Basin: Ecological and genetic evidence. In P. Howell and D. Buchannan editors, proceedings of the inland rainbow trout workshop. Malheur Field Station, Oregon.

Pearsons, T. N. Submitted. Chronology of ecological interactions associated with the life-span of

salmon supplementation programs. Fisheries.

Other documents prepared or contributed by EIT

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. 1995. Ecological risk assessment - stocking

hatchery coho salmon in the mid- and upper Columbia River basin. 34 pp.

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. 1996. Draft Electrofishing Injury Policy.

Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team. 2000. Conservation hatcheries and

supplementation strategies for recovery of wild stocks of salmonids: Report of a workshop. Technical Report 2000-1 to the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds. Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board. Salem, Oregon.

Other publications unassociated with EIT but authored or co-authored by current EIT members

Markle, D. F., T. N. Pearsons, and D. T. Bills. 1991. Natural history of Oregonichthys (Pisces:

Cyprinidae), with a description of a new species from the Umpqua River of Oregon. Copeia 1991: 277-293.

Pearsons, T. N., H. W. Li, and G. A. Lamberti. 1992. Influence of habitat complexity on

resistance to flooding and resilience of stream fish assemblages. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 121:427-436.

Li, H. W., G. A. Lamberti, T. N. Pearsons, C. K. Tait, J. L. Li, and J. C. Buckhouse. 1994.

Cumulative effects of riparian disturbances along high desert trout streams of the John Day Basin, Oregon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 123:627-640.

Tait, C. K., J. L. Li, G. A. Lamberti, T. N. Pearsons, and H. W. Li. 1994. Relationships

between riparian cover and the community structure of high desert streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 13:45-56.