Daniel Mason

Treesearch Publications

• Daniel J. Isaak, Michael Dumelle, Dona Horan, Daniel Mason, Thomas W. Franklin, David E. Nagel, Jay M. Ver Hoef, Michael K. Young. 2025. Improving species distribution models for stream networks by incorporating spatial autocorrelation in multi-sourced datasets: A range-wide assessment of Idaho giant salamander status and future risk
• Daniel Mason, Heidi A. Henderson, Thomas W. Franklin, Michael K. Young, Jennifer Hernandez, Cory L. Engkjer, Joanna Hatt, Michael K. Schwartz. 2025. Environmental DNA detects endangered Texas hornshell and its hosts
• David R. Steward, Thomas Hafen, Dean A. Hendrickson, Andrew T. Taylor, Alejandro Varela-Romero, Daniel Mason, Joseph Dysthe, Thomas W. Franklin, Michael K. Young, Kevin S. McKelvey, Michael K. Schwartz, James M. Long. 2024. Environmental DNA mitochondrial markers to assess potential occupancy of endangered Yaqui catfish in the Yaqui River basin, Mexico
• Michael F. Sleeting, Taylor Wilcox, Daniel Mason, Thomas W. Franklin, Michael K. Schwartz. 2024. From jaguars to pathogens: Simultaneous genetic detection of diverse taxa across biodiversity hotspots in the U.S.
• Joanna Elmore, Taylor Wilcox, Michael K. Young, Steve Kopp, Kellie Carim, Daniel Mason, Thomas W. Franklin, Michael K. Schwartz. 2024. The riverscape on a chip: High-throughput qPCR enables basin-wide fishery assessments
• John Kronenberger, Taylor Wilcox, Michael K. Young, Daniel Mason, Thomas W. Franklin, Michael K. Schwartz. 2024. Large-scale validation of 46 invasive species assays using an enhanced in silico framework
• Taylor Wilcox, John Kronenberger, Michael K. Young, Daniel Mason, Thomas W. Franklin, Michael K. Schwartz. 2024. The unknown unknown: A framework for assessing environmental DNA assay specificity against unsampled taxa
• John Kronenberger, Taylor Wilcox, Daniel Mason, Thomas W. Franklin, Kevin S. McKelvey, Michael K. Young, Michael K. Schwartz. 2022. eDNAssay: A machine learning tool that accurately predicts qPCR cross‐amplification
• Taylor Wilcox, Anthony Caragiulo, Joseph Dysthe, Thomas W. Franklin, Daniel Mason, Kevin S. McKelvey, Katherine Zarn, Michael K. Schwartz. 2021. Detection of jaguar (Panthera onca) from genetic material in drinking water
• Jamie S. Sanderlin, Jessie Golding, Taylor Wilcox, Daniel Mason, Kevin S. McKelvey, Dean E. Pearson, Michael K. Schwartz. 2021. Occupancy modeling and resampling overcomes low test sensitivity to produce accurate SARS-CoV-2 prevalence estimates
• Daniel Mason, Joseph Dysthe, Thomas W. Franklin, Chris L. Williams, Michael K. Young, Kevin S. McKelvey, Michael K. Schwartz. 2020. Certain detection of uncertain taxa: eDNA detection of a cryptic mountain sucker (Pantosteus jordani) in the Upper Missouri River, USA

• Project
  

  Aquatic eDNAtlas

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/ednatlas
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Program
  

  Wildlife Ecology

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/wildlife-ecology
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/centers/ngc
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  Finding Idaho’s giant stream salamander with modern maps

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/finding-idahos-giant-stream-salamander-modern-maps

• Appalachian State University, M.S. Ecology & Evolution, Status and population genetics of the freshwater mussel Elliptio arca in the Mobile River Basin, 2017
• Appalachian State UNiversity, B.S. Ecology, Evolution, Environmental Biology, Stream ecology, conservation biology, genetics, 2014