J. Ryan Bellmore, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Claire Delbecq, Jason B. Fellman, J. Ryan Bellmore, Emily J. Whitney, Kevin Fitzgerald, Jeffrey A. Falke. 2026. Season and antecedent conditions impact concentration-discharge relationships for dissolved organic carbon and alkalinity in a Southeast Alaskan watershed
• Marie K. Gutgesell, J. Ryan Bellmore, Lauren A. Sill, Raven Cunningham, John R. Harley, Henry P. Huntington. 2025. Wild food portfolios: Access to diverse foods stabilizes harvest in wild food systems
• Andrea Watts, J. Ryan Bellmore, Jason Dunham, James Pearson. 2025. The carp conundrum: Science-based insights to control an invasive fish
• Valerie Ouellet, Aimee H. Fullerton, Matt Kaylor, Sean Naman, J. Ryan Bellmore, Jordan Rosenfeld, Gabriel Rossi, Seth White, Suzanne Rhoades, David A. Beauchamp, Martin Liermann, Peter Kiffney, Beth Sanderson. 2025. Food for fish: Challenges and opportunities for quantifying foodscapes in river networks
• James C. Paris, Colden V Baxter, J. Ryan Bellmore, Joseph R. Benjamin. 2025. Food‐web dynamics of a floodplain mosaic overshadow the effects of engineered logjams for Pacific salmon and steelhead
• David A. Roon, J. Ryan Bellmore, Joseph R. Benjamin, François-Nicolas Robinne, Rebecca Flitcroft, Jana E. Compton, Joseph L. Ebersole, Jason B. Dunham, Kevin D. Bladon. 2025. Linking fire, food webs, and fish in stream ecosystems
• James L. Chamberlain, Richard D. Honor, Karl Malcolm, Shane P. Mahoney, J. Ryan Bellmore, Matthew C. Reeves, Hailey Wilmer, Marie K. Gutgesell, Lauren A. Sill. 2025. Provisioning food and medicine from public forests in the United States
• Claire Delbecq, Jason B. Fellman, J. Ryan Bellmore, Emily J. Whitney, Eran Hood, Kevin Fitzgerald, Jeffrey A. Falke. 2024. Seasonal patterns in riverine carbon form and export from a temperate forested watershed in Southeast Alaska
• Hailey Wilmer, Abigail R. Kaminski, Kendra Wendel, Nicole Grewe, Tracy Hruska, Lee K. Cerveny, J. Ryan Bellmore, Chanda L. Meek, Kellen Nelson. 2024. Southeast Alaskans want food sovereignty and reimagined rural futures
• Matthew R. Dunkle, J. Ryan Bellmore, Jason B. Fellman, Christopher C. Caudill. 2024. Glaciers, snow, and rain: Water source influences invertebrate community structure and secondary production across a hydrologically diverse subarctic landscape
• Jeremy C. Jennings, J. Ryan Bellmore, Jonathan B. Armstrong, Robert W. Wisseman. 2023. Effects of process‐based floodplain restoration on aquatic macroinvertebrate production and community structure
• Kevin A. Fitzgerald, J. Ryan Bellmore, Jason B. Fellman, Matthew L. H. Cheng, Claire E. Delbecq, Jeffrey A. Falke. 2023. Stream hydrology and a pulse subsidy shape patterns of fish foraging
• Christopher J. Sergeant, J. Ryan Bellmore, J. Ryan Bellmore, Jeffrey A. Falke, Franz J. Mueter, Peter A.H. Westley. 2023. Hypoxia vulnerability in the salmon watersheds of Southeast Alaska
• J. Ryan Bellmore, Christopher J. Sergeant, J. Ryan Bellmore, Jeffrey A. Falke, Jason B. Fellman. 2023. Modeling coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) population response to streamflow and water temperature extremes
• Jason B. Fellman, J. Ryan Bellmore, Connor Johnson, Matthew R. Dunkle, Eran Hood. 2023. Glacier runoff influences biogeochemistry and resource availability in coastal temperate rainforest streams: Implications for juvenile salmon growth
• Joseph R. Benjamin, Jason B. Dunham, Sherri Johnson, Linda Ashkenas, Brooke Penaluna, Robert E. Bilby, Douglas Bateman, David Leer, J. Ryan Bellmore. 2022. Pathways of productivity and influences on top consumers in forested streams
• David A. Roon, Jason B. Dunham, J. Ryan Bellmore, Deanna H. Olson, Bret C. Harvey. 2022. Influence of riparian thinning on trophic pathways supporting stream food webs in forested watersheds
• Jeffrey Duda, J. Ryan Bellmore. 2022. Dam Removal and River Restoration
• J. Ryan Bellmore, Jason B. Fellman, Eran Hood, Matthew R. Dunkle, Richard T. Edwards. 2022. A melting cryosphere constrains fish growth by synchronizing the seasonal phenology of river food webs
• Rebecca Flitcroft, William R. Brignon, Brian Staab, J. Ryan Bellmore, Jonathan Burnett, Paul Burns, Brian Cluer, Guillermo Giannico, Joseph M. Helstab, Jeremy Jennings, Christopher Mayes, Celeste Mazzacano, Lauren Mork, Kate Meyer, Jay Munyon, Brooke Penaluna, Paul Powers, Daniel N. Scott, Steve Wondzell. 2022. Rehabilitating valley floors to a Stage 0 condition: A synthesis of opening outcomes.
• Sean M. Naman, Seth White, J. Ryan Bellmore, Peter A. McHugh, Matthew J. Kaylor, Colden V Baxter, Robert J. Danehy, Robert J. Naiman, Amy L. Puls. 2022. Food web perspectives and methods for riverine fish conservation
• James B. Pearson, J. Ryan Bellmore, Jason B. Dunham. 2022. Controlling invasive fish in fluctuating environments: Model analysis of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in a shallow lake
• Jonathan B. Armstrong, Aimee H. Fullerton, Chris E. Jordan, Joseph L. Ebersole, J. Ryan Bellmore, Ivan Arismendi, Brooke Penaluna, Gordon Reeves. 2021. The importance of warm habitat to the growth regime of cold-water fishes
• Joseph R. Benjamin, J. Ryan Bellmore, Emily Whitney, Jason B. Dunham. 2020. Can nutrient additions facilitate recovery of Pacific salmon?
• Josh McDaniel, Adelaide C. Johnson, J. Ryan Bellmore, Stormy Haught, Ron Medel. 2020. Alaska’s forest fish: Calculating the value of wild salmon from the Chugach and Tongass National Forests
• Emily J. Whitney, J. Ryan Bellmore, Joseph R. Benjamin, Chris E. Jordan, Jason B. Dunham, Michael Newsom, Matt Nahorniak. 2020. Beyond sticks and stones: Integrating physical and ecological conditions into watershed restoration assessments using a food web modeling approach
• Christopher J. Sergeant, Jeffrey A. Falke, Rebecca A. Bellmore, J. Ryan Bellmore, Ryan L. Crumley. 2020. A classification of streamflow patterns across the coastal Gulf of Alaska
• James Pearson, Jason Dunham, J. Ryan Bellmore, Don Lyons. 2019. Modeling control of Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) in a shallow lake–wetland system
• Adelaide C. Johnson, J. Ryan Bellmore, Stormy Haught, Ronald Medel. 2019. Quantifying the monetary value of Alaska national forests to commercial Pacific salmon fisheries
• J. Ryan Bellmore, George Pess, Jeffrey Duda, Jim O’Connor, Amy East, Melissa Foley, Andrew Wilcox, Jon Major, Patrick Shafroth, Sarah Morley, Christopher Magirl, Chauncey Anderson, James W. Evans, Christian Torgersen, laura S. Craig. 2019. Conceptualizing ecological responses to dam removal: If you remove it, what's to come?
• Emily J. Whitney, J. Ryan Bellmore, Joseph R. Benjamin. 2019. User manual for the aquatic trophic productivity model: a river food web simulation model for management and research
• Francine H. Mejia, Alexander K. Fremier, Joseph R. Benjamin, J. Ryan Bellmore, Adrianne Z. Grimm, Grace A. Watson, Michael Newsom. 2019. Stream metabolism increases with drainage area and peaks asynchronously across a stream network
• Silvie Daniels, J. Ryan Bellmore, Joseph R. Benjamin, Nele Witters, Jaco Vangronsveld, Steven Van Passel. 2018. Quantification of the indirect use value of functional group diversity based on the ecological role of species in the ecosystem
• Andrea Watts, J. Ryan Bellmore, Joseph Benjamin, Colden Baxter. 2018. River food webs: Incorporating nature’s invisible fabric into river management
• M. M. Foley, J. Ryan Bellmore, J. E. O'Connor, J. J. Duda, A. E. East, Gordon Grant, C. W. Anderson, J. A. Bountry, M. J. Collins, P. J. Connolly, L. S. Craig, J. E. Evans, S. L. Greene, F. J. Magilligan, C. S. Magirl, J. J. Major, G. R. Pess, T. J. Randle, P. B. Shafroth, C. E. Torgersen, D. Tullos, A. C. Wilcox. 2017. Dam removal: Listening in
• Brooke Penaluna, Deanna H. Olson, Rebecca Flitcroft, Matthew A. Weber, J. Ryan Bellmore, Steve Wondzell, Jason B. Dunham, Sherri Johnson, Gordon Reeves. 2017. Aquatic biodiversity in forests: a weak link in ecosystem services resilience
• David Roon, Jason Dunham, Bret C. Harvey, J. Ryan Bellmore, Deanna H. Olson, Gordon Reeves. 2017. Evaluating the ecological trade-offs of riparian thinning for headwater stream ecosystems in second-growth redwood forests
• Christopher J. Sergeant, J. Ryan Bellmore, Casey McConnell, Jonathan W. Moore. 2017. High salmon density and low discharge create periodic hypoxia in coastal rivers
• J. Ryan Bellmore, Joseph R. Benjamin, Michael Newsom, Jennifer A. Bountry, Daniel Dombroski. 2017. Incorporating food web dynamics into ecological restoration: a modeling approach for river ecosystems
• J. Ryan Bellmore, Jeffrey J. Duda, Laura S. Craig, Samantha L. Greene, Christian E. Torgersen, Mathias J. Collins, Katherine Vittum. 2016. Status and trends of dam removal research in the United States
• Desirée D. Tullos, Mathias J. Collins, J. Ryan Bellmore, Jennifer A. Bountry, Patrick J. Connolly, Patrick B. Shafroth, Andrew C. Wilcox. 2016. Synthesis of common management concerns associated with dam removal
• Joseph R. Benjamin, J. Ryan Bellmore, Grace A. Watson. 2016. Response of ecosystem metabolism to low densities of spawning Chinook Salmon

• Center or Group
  

  Northwest Water Research Initiative

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/centers/nwri
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Connectivity of Aquatic Habitats in Space and Time

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/connectivity-aquatic-habitats-space-and-time
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Program
  

  Watershed and Aquatic Sciences

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/programs/was
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  The forest is our pantry: Alaska national forests support abundant wild foods

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/articles/forest-our-pantry-alaska-national-forests-support-abundant-wild-foods

• Idaho State University, Ph.D., Biology, 2011
• Oregon State University, B.S., Fisheries and Wildlife Science, 2004