Publications
Detrital food web contributes to aquatic ecosystem productivity and rapid salmon growth in a managed floodplain.
PLoS. 15(9),
Jeffres et al. 2020.pdf (2.26 MB)
(2020). 
Ephemeral floodplain habitats provide best growth conditions for juvenile Chinook salmon in a California river.
Environmental Biology of Fishes. 83(4),
(2008). Floodplain farm fields provide novel rearing habitat for Chinook salmon.
PLoS ONE. 12(6),
(2017). RAD Capture (Rapture): Flexible and Efficient Sequence-Based Genotyping.
Genetics. 202 (2),
(2016). Seasonal aquatic macrophytes reduce water temperatures via a riverine canopy in a spring-fed stream.
Freshwater Science.
Willis et al. 2017 Riverine canopy.pdf (1.16 MB)
(2017). 
Water Temperature Patterns Below Large Groundwater Springs: Management Implications For Coho Salmon In The Shasta River, California.
River Research and Applications. 30(4),
rra2655.pdf (1.16 MB)
(2014). 
When Good Fish Make Bad Decisions: Coho Salmon in an Ecological Trap.
North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 32, 87-92.
(2012).
(2010).
Baseline Assessment of Physical and Biological Conditions Within Waterways on Big Springs Ranch, Siskiyou County, California.
Read full study (9.11 MB)
(2009). 
Baseline Assessment of Salmonid Habitat and Aquatic Ecology of the Nelson Ranch, Shasta River, California Water Year 2007.
Read full report (1.9 MB)
(2007). 
Cosumnes Research Group 3 Annual Report - 2014.
Cosumnes Research Group 3 annual report 2014 (1.8 MB)
(2015). 
Executive Analysis of Restoration Actions in Big Springs Creek March 2008-September 2011.
Read full study (4.34 MB)
(2011). 
Experimental Agricultural Floodplain Habitat Investigation at Knaggs Ranch on Yolo Bypass, 2012-2013.
Knaggs 2013 Preliminary Report (4.12 MB)
(2013). 
Experimental Agricultural Floodplain Pilot Study, 2011-2012.
15.
Agricultural Floodplain Pilot Study 2011-2012 (4.52 MB)
(2012).
(2015).
(2010).
(2013). 