Dona Horan

Featured Publications

• Daniel J. Isaak, Dona L. Horan. 2011. An evaluation of underwater epoxies to permanently install temperature sensors in mountain streams
• Daniel J. Isaak, Charles H. Luce, Bruce E. Rieman, David E. Nagel, Erin E. Peterson, Dona L. Horan, Sharon Parkes, Gwynne L. Chandler. 2010. Effects of climate change and wildfire on stream temperatures and salmonid thermal habitat in a mountain river network
• Dan Isaak, Bruce Rieman, Dona Horan. 2009. A watershed-scale monitoring protocol for bull trout
• Christopher C. Downs, Dona Horan, Erin Morgan-Harris, Robert Jakubowski. 2006. Spawning demographics and juvenile dispersal of an adfluvial bull trout population in Trestle Creek, Idaho

Other Publications

• Joy Drohan, Daniel Isaak, Charlie Luce, Michael K. Young, Dona Horan, David Nagel, Sherry Wollrab, Gwynne Chandler, Scott Barndt, Yvette Converse, Sean Finn, Scott Spaulding, Brian Staab. 2024. Some good news on climate change: High mountain streams act as strongholds for cold-water species
• Daniel J. Isaak, Dona L. Horan, Sherry P. Wollrab. 2024. Air temperature data source affects inference from statistical stream temperature models in mountainous terrain
• Daniel J. Isaak, Michael K. Young, Dona L. Horan, David Nagel, Michael K. Schwartz, Kevin S. Mckelvey. 2022. Do metapopulations and management matter for relict headwater bull trout populations in a warming climate?
• Michael K. Young, Daniel J. Isaak, David Nagel, Dona L. Horan, Kellie J. Carim, Thomas W. Franklin, Victoria A. Zeller, Brett Roper, Michael K. Schwartz. 2022. Broad-scale eDNA sampling for describing aquatic species distributions in running waters: Pacific lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus in the upper Snake River, USA
• Daniel J. Isaak, Charles H. Luce, Dona L. Horan, Gwynne L. Chandler, Sherry P. Wollrab, William B. Dubois, David E. Nagel. 2020. Thermal regimes of perennial rivers and streams in the western United States
• Michael K. Young, Daniel J. Isaak, Scott Spaulding, Cameron A. Thomas, Scott A. Barndt, Matthew C. Groce, Dona Horan, David E. Nagel. 2018. Climate vulnerability of native cold-water salmonids in the Northern Rockies Region [Chapter 5]
• Daniel J. Isaak, Charles H. Luce, Dona L. Horan, Gwynne Chandler, Sherry Wollrab, David E. Nagel. 2018. Global warming of salmon and trout rivers in the northwestern U.S.: Road to ruin or path through purgatory?
• Daniel J. Isaak, Michael K. Young, Cynthia Tait, Daniel Duffield, Dona L. Horan, David E. Nagel, Matthew C. Groce. 2018. Effects of climate change on native fish and other aquatic species [Chapter 5]
• Taylor M. Wilcox, Michael K. Young, Kevin S. McKelvey, Daniel J. Isaak, Dona L. Horan, Michael K. Schwartz. 2018. Fine-scale environmental DNA sampling reveals climate-mediated interactions between native and invasive trout species
• Daniel J. Isaak, Charles H. Luce, Gwynne L. Chandler, Dona L. Horan, Sherry P. Wollrab. 2018. Principal components of thermal regimes in mountain river networks
• Daniel J. Isaak, Jay M. Ver Hoef, Erin E. Peterson, Dona L. Horan, David E. Nagel. 2017. Scalable population estimates using spatial-stream-network (SSN) models, fish density surveys, and national geospatial database frameworks for streams
• Daniel J. Isaak, Katherine Ramsey, John C. Chatel, Deborah L. Konnoff, Robert A. Gecy, Dona Horan. 2017. Climate change, fish, and aquatic habitat in the Blue Mountains [Chapter 5]
• Michael K. Young, Daniel J. Isaak, Kevin S. McKelvey, Taylor M. Wilcox, Matthew R. Campbell, Matthew P. Corsi, Dona Horan, Michael K. Schwartz. 2017. Ecological segregation moderates a climactic conclusion to trout hybridization
• Daniel J. Isaak, Seth J. Wenger, Erin E. Peterson, Jay M. Ver Hoef, David E. Nagel, Charles H. Luce, Steven W. Hostetler, Jason B. Dunham, Brett B. Roper, Sherry P. Wollrab, Gwynne L. Chandler, Dona L. Horan, Sharon Parkes-Payne. 2017. The NorWeST summer stream temperature model and scenarios for the western U.S.: A crowd-sourced database and new geospatial tools foster a user community and predict broad climate warming of rivers and streams
• Daniel J. Isaak, Michael K. Young, Charlie Luce, Steven W. Hostetler, Seth J. Wenger, Erin E. Peterson, Jay M. Ver Hoef, Matthew C. Groce, Dona L. Horan, David E. Nagel. 2016. Slow climate velocities of mountain streams portend their role as refugia for cold-water biodiversity
• Michael K. Young, Daniel J. Isaak, Kevin S. McKelvey, Taylor M. Wilcox, Daniel M. Bingham, Kristine L. Pilgrim, Kellie J. Carim, Matthew R. Campbell, Matthew P. Corsi, Dona L. Horan, David E. Nagel, Michael K. Schwartz. 2016. Climate, demography, and zoogeography predict introgression thresholds in salmonid hybrid zones in Rocky Mountain streams
• Daniel J. Isaak, Michael K. Young, David E. Nagel, Dona L. Horan, Matthew C. Groce. 2015. The cold-water climate shield: Delineating refugia for preserving salmonid fishes through the 21st century
• Douglas P. Peterson, Bruce E. Rieman, Dona L. Horan, Michael K. Young. 2014. Patch size but not short-term isolation influences occurrence of westslope cutthroat trout above human-made barriers
• Daniel J. Isaak, Michael K. Young, David Nagel, Dona Horan. 2014. Cold water as a climate shield to preserve native trout through the 21st Century
• Daniel J. Isaak, Dona L. Horan, Sherry P. Wollrab. 2013. A simple protocol using underwater epoxy to install annual temperature monitoring sites in rivers and streams
• Seth J. Wenger, Daniel J. Isaak, Jason B. Dunham, Kurt D. Fausch, Charlie Luce, Helen M. Neville, Bruce E. Rieman, Michael K. Young, David E. Nagel, Dona L. Horan, Gwynne L. Chandler. 2011. Role of climate and invasive species in structuring trout distributions in the interior Columbia River Basin, USA
• D. J. Isaak, S. Wollrab, D. Horan, G. Chandler. 2011. Climate change effects on stream and river temperatures across the northwest U.S. from 1980-2009 and implications for salmonid fishes
• Bruce E. Rieman, Daniel Isaak, Susan Adams, Dona Horan, David Nagel, Charles Luce, Deborah Myers. 2007. Anticipated climate warming effects on bull trout habitats and populations across the interior Columbia River basin

Data and Tools

• Interactive Map
  

  Aquatic eDNAtlas Project: eDNA field sampling grid

• Interactive Map
  

  Aquatic eDNAtlas Project: Lab results map

• Interactive Map
  

  NorWeST stream temperature interactive map

• Project
  

  Spatial Stream Network (SSN)

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  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Program
  

  Water and Watersheds

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  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  NorWeST

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  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Aquatic eDNAtlas

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  Rocky Mountain Research Station
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  Bull Trout eDNA

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  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Science Delivery

• SYCU - Bulletin
  

  Some Good News on Climate Change: High mountain streams act as strongholds for cold-water species

• SYCU - In 5 Minutes
  

  Fishing for climate data: How recent research is helping forecast changes in salmon and trout habitat

Features

• Feature Story
  

  The Aquatic eDNAtlas Project