Keith Nislow, PhD

Project Leader / Research Fisheries Biologist

Northern Research Station

keith.nislow@usda.gov

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Toni L. Morelli, Michael T. Hallworth, Timothy Duclos, Adam Ells, Steven D. Faccio, Jane Foster, Kent P. McFarland, Keith Nislow, Joel Ralston, Mary Ratnaswamy, William V. Deluca, Alexej P. K. Siren. 2025. Does habitat or climate change drive species range shifts?
Katherine Abbott, Allison Roy, Francis Magilligan, Keith Nislow, Rebecca Quiñones. 2024. Incorporating climate change into restoration decisions: perspectives from dam removal practitioners
Jenna Zukswert, Keith Nislow. 2024. Reducing Flooding Risk and Maintaining Ecosystem Services in a Wetter New England
Keith Nislow, Francis J. Magilligan, Mason Saleeba, Richard E. Palmer. 2024. Slowing the flow for climate resilience in human-dominated riverine landscapes
Fionn R. Bernthal, Ben W. Seaman, Edward Rush, John D. Armstrong, Darryl McLennan, Keith Nislow, Neil B. Metcalfe. 2023. High summer temperatures are associated with poorer performance of underyearling Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in upland streams
Benjamin H. Letcher, Keith Nislow, Matthew J. O'Donnell, Andrew R. Whiteley, Jason A. Coombs, Todd L. Dubreuil, Daniel B. Turek. 2023. Identifying mechanisms underlying individual body size increases in a changing, highly seasonal environment: The growing trout of West brook
Fionn R. Bernthal, John D. Armstrong, Keith Nislow, Neil B. Metcalfe. 2022. Nutrient limitation in Atlantic salmon rivers and streams: Causes, consequences, and management strategies
Katherine M. Abbott, Peter A. Zaidel, Allison H. Roy, Kristopher M. Houle, Keith Nislow. 2022. Investigating impacts of small dams and dam removal on dissolved oxygen in streams
Benjamin J. Zdasiuk, Celia Y. Chen, Stephen D. McCormick, Keith Nislow, Joel G. Singley, John T. Kelly. 2022. Evaluating acid-aluminum stress in streams of the Northeastern U.S
Benjamin H. Letcher, Keith Nislow, Matthew J. O’Donnell, Andrew R. Whiteley, Jason A. Coombs, Todd L. Dubreuil. 2022. Cohort strength and body size in co-occurring salmonids in a small stream network: variation in space and time
Randy Kolka, Robert G. Haight, Chan Lan Chun, Matthew J. Berens, Elizabeth Rogers, Ryan Vinhal, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., Keith Nislow, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Stephanie Connolly. 2022. Mercury sulfur initiative: suggested program of research for the Upper Great Lakes States
Max R. R. Piana, Richard Hallett, Michelle Johnson, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Leslie Brandt, Myla F. J. Aronson, Mark Ashton, Max Blaustein, David Bloniarz, Ashley A. Bowers, Megan E. Carr, Vince D’Amico, Laura Dewald, Heather Dionne, Danica A. Doroski, Robert T. Fahey, Helen Forgione, Todd Forrest, Jack Hale, Eric Hansen, Lisa Hayden, Sarah Hines, Jessica M. Hoch, Taro Ieataka, Susannah B. Lerman, Charles Murphy, Eliot Nagele, Keith Nislow, Dhan Parker, Clara C. Pregitzer, Luke Rhodes, Jessica Schuler, Alexander Sherman, Tara Trammell, Brittany M. Wienke, Thomas Witmer, Thomas Worthley, Ian Yesilonis. 2021. Climate Adaptive Silviculture for the City: Practitioners and Researchers Co-create a Framework for Studying Urban Oak-Dominated Mixed Hardwood Forests
Christian O. Marks, Brian C. Yellen, Keith Nislow. 2021. Species Distributions on Successional and Flooding Gradients in Connecticut River Floodplain Forests
F.J. Magilligan, Keith Nislow, J.T. Dietrich, H. Doyle, B. Kynard. 2021. Transient versus sustained biophysical responses to dam removal
Bonnie J. E. Myers, Andy Dolloff, Jackson R. Webster, Keith Nislow, Andrew L. Rypel. 2021. Diversity production relationships of fish communities in freshwater stream ecosystems
Sonya K. Auer, Ronald D. Bassar, Daniel Turek, Graeme J. Anderson, Simon McKelvey, John D. Armstrong, Keith Nislow, Helen K. Downie, Thomas A. J. Morgan, Darryl McLennan, Neil B. Metcalfe. 2020. Metabolic Rate Interacts with Resource Availability to Determine Individual Variation in Microhabitat Use in the Wild
Peter A. Zaidel, Allison H. Roy, Kristopher M. Houle, Beth Lambert, Benjamin H. Letcher, Keith Nislow, Christopher Smith. 2020. Impacts of small dams on stream temperature
Darryl McLennan, Sonya K. Auer, Graeme J. Anderson, Thomas C. Reid, Ronald D. Bassar, David C. Stewart, Eef Cauwelier, James Sampayo, Simon McKelvey, Keith Nislow, John D. Armstrong, Neil B. Metcalfe. 2019. Simulating nutrient release from parental carcasses increases the growth, biomass and genetic diversity of juvenile Atlantic salmon
Evan S. Childress, Keith Nislow, Andrew R. Whiteley, Matthew J. O'Donnell, Benjamin H. Letcher. 2019. Daily estimates reveal fine-scale temporal and spatial variation in fish survival across a stream network
Shelley D. Crausbay, Aaron R. Ramirez, Shawn L. Carter, Molly S. Cross, Kimberly R. Hall, Deborah J. Bathke, Julio L. Betancourt, Steve Colt, Amanda E. Cravens, Melinda S. Dalton, Jason B. Dunham, Lauren E. Hay, Michael J. Hayes, Jamie McEvoy, Chad A. McNutt, Max A. Moritz, Keith Nislow, Nejem Raheem, Todd Sanford. 2018. Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century
Benjamin H. Letcher, Jeffrey D. Walker, Matthew J. O'Donnell, Andrew R. Whiteley, Keith Nislow, Jason A. Coombs. 2018. Three Visualization Approaches for Communicating and Exploring Passive Integrated Transponder Tag Data
Sonya K. Auer, Graeme J. Anderson, Simon McKelvey, Ronald D. Bassar, Darryl McLennan, John D. Armstrong, Keith Nislow, Helen K. Downie, Lynn McKelvey, Thomas A.J. Morgan, Karine Salin, Danielle L. Orrell, Alice Gauthey, Thomas C. Reid, Neil B. Metcalfe. 2018. Nutrients from salmon parents alter selection pressures on their offspring
Simon J. Dixon, David A. Sear, Keith Nislow. 2018. A conceptual model of riparian forest restoration for natural flood management
Brooke Penaluna, Gordon Reeves, Zanethia C. Barnett, Pete Bisson, John M. Buffington, Andy Dolloff, Rebecca Flitcroft, Charlie H. Luce, Keith Nislow, John Rothlisberger, Mel Warren. 2018. Using natural disturbance and portfolio concepts to guide aquatic-riparian ecosystem management
Kate Buckman, Vivien Taylor, Hannah Broadley, Daniel Hocking, Prentiss Balcom, Rob Mason, Keith Nislow, Celia Chen. 2017. Methylmercury Bioaccumulation in an Urban Estuary: Delaware River, USA
Andrew R. Whiteley, Jason A. Coombs, Matthew J. O'Donnell, Keith Nislow, Benjamin H. Letcher. 2017. Keeping things local: Subpopulation N_b and N_e in a stream network with partial barriers to fish migration
Zachary L. Robinson, Jason A. Coombs, Mark Hudy, Keith Nislow, Benjamin H. Letcher, Andrew R. Whiteley. 2017. Experimental test of genetic rescue in isolated populations of brook trout
Bonnie J.E. Myers, C. Andrew Dolloff, Jackson R. Webster, Keith Nislow, Brandon Fair, Andrew L. Rypel. 2017. Fish assemblage production estimates in Appalachian streams across a latitudinal and temperature gradient
Benjamin H. Letcher, Daniel J. Hocking, Kyle O'Neil, Andrew R. Whiteley, Keith Nislow, Matthew J. O'Donnell. 2016. A hierarchical model of daily stream temperature using air-water temperature synchronization, autocorrelation, and time lags
F.J. Magilligan, Keith Nislow, B.E. Kynard, A.M. Hackman. 2016. Immediate changes in stream channel geomorphology, aquatic habitat, and fish assemblages following dam removal in a small upland catchment
Ronald D. Bassar, Benjamin H. Letcher, Keith Nislow, Andrew R. Whiteley. 2016. Changes in seasonal climate outpace compensatory density-dependence in eastern brook trout
Andrew R. Whiteley, Jason A. Coombs, Matthew Cembrola, Matthew J. O'Donnell, Mark Hudy, Keith Nislow, Benjamin H. Letcher. 2015. Effective number of breeders provides a link between interannual variation in stream flow and individual reproductive contribution in a stream salmonid
J. T. Kelly, D. T. Lerner, M. F. O'Dea, A. M. Regish, M. Y. Monette, J. P. Hawkes, Keith Nislow, S. D. McCormick. 2015. Evidence for episodic acidification effects on migrating Atlantic salmon Salmo salar smolts
Joseph G. Chadwick, Keith Nislow, Stephen D. McCormick. 2015. Thermal onset of cellular and endocrine stress responses correspond to ecological limits in brook trout, an iconic cold-water fish
Yoichiro Kanno, Benjamin H. Letcher, Ana L. Rosner, Kyle P. O'Neil, Keith Nislow. 2015. Environmental Factors Affecting Brook Trout Occurrence in Headwater Stream Segments
Benjamin H. Letcher, Paul Schueller, Ronald D. Bassar, Keith Nislow, Jason A. Coombs, Krzysztof Sakrejda, Michael Morrissey, Douglas B. Sigourney, Andrew R. Whiteley, Matthew J. O'Donnell, Todd L. Dubreuil. 2014. Robust estimates of environmental effects on population vital rates: an integrated capture-recapture model of seasonal brook trout growth, survival and movement in a stream network
Andrew R. Whiteley, Jason A. Coombs, Benjamin H. Letcher, Keith Nislow. 2014. Simulation and empirical analysis of novel sibship-based genetic determination of fish passage
Stephen F. Jane, Keith Nislow, Andrew R. Whiteley. 2014. The use (and misuse) of archaeological salmon data to infer historical abundance in North America with a focus on New England
Amy E. Daniels, Nancy L. Shaw, Dave Peterson, Keith Nislow, Monica Tomosy, Mary Rowland. 2014. Facing climate change in forests and fields
Christian O. Marks, Keith Nislow, Francis J. Magilligan. 2014. Quantifying flooding regime in floodplain forests to guide river restoration
Grethe Robertsen, John D. Armstrong, Keith Nislow, Ivar Herfindal, Simon McKelvey, Sigurd Einum, Martin Genner. 2014. Spatial variation in the relationship between performance and metabolic rate in wild juvenile Atlantic salmon
Matthew K. Wilson, Winsor H. Lowe, Keith Nislow. 2014. Family richness and biomass of understory invertebrates in early and late successional habitats of northern New Hampshire
Yoichiro Kanno, Benjamin H. Letcher, Jason A. Coombs, Keith Nislow, Andrew R. Whiteley. 2014. Linking movement and reproductive history of brook trout to assess habitat connectivity in a heterogeneous stream network
Amy E. Daniels, Nancy L. Shaw, David L. Peterson, Keith Nislow, Monica Tomosy, Mary M. Rowland. 2014. Facing climate change in forests and fields: U.S. Forest Service taps into science-management partnerships
Susannah B. Lerman, Keith Nislow, David J. Nowak, Stephen DeStefano, David King, D. Todd Jones-Farrand. 2014. Using urban forest assessment tools to model bird habitat potential
Bradly A. Trumbo, Keith Nislow, Jonathan Stallings, Mark Hudy, Eric P. Smith, Dong-Yun Kim, Bruce Wiggins, Andy Dolloff. 2014. Ranking site vulnerability to increasing temperatures in southern Appalachian brook trout streams in Virginia: An exposure-sensitivity approach
Alaina L. Berger, Brian J. J. Palik, Anthony W. D'Amato, Shawn Fraver, John B. Bradford, Keith Nislow, David King, Robert T. Brooks. 2013. Ecological impacts of energy-wood harvests: lessons from whole-tree harvesting and natural disturbance
Sigurd Einum, Anders G. Finstad, Grethe Robertsen, Keith Nislow, Simon McKelvey, John D. Armstrong. 2012. Natal movement in juvenile Atlantic salmon: a body size-dependent strategy?
A. Kasprak, F. J. Magilligan, Keith Nislow, N. P. Snyder. 2012. A Lidar-derived evaluation of watershed-scale large woody debris sources and recruitment mechanisms: costal Maine, USA
Robert Brooks, Sue Eggert, Keith Nislow, Randy Kolka, Celia Y. Chen, Darren M. Ward. 2012. Preliminary assessment of mercury accumulation in Massachusetts and Minnesota seasonal forest pools
Andrew R. Whiteley, Jason A. Coombs, Mark Hudy, Zachary Robinson, Keith Nislow, Benjamin H. Letcher. 2012. Sampling strategies for estimating brook trout effective population size
John D. Armstrong, Keith Nislow. 2012. Modelling approaches for relating effects of change in river flow to populations of Atlantic salmon and brown trout
Sigurd Einum, Keith Nislow, Simon McKelvey, John D. Armstrong. 2011. The spatial scale of competition from recruits on an older cohort in Atlantic salmon
Darren M. Ward, Keith Nislow, Carol L. Folt, James Grant. 2011. Seasonal shift in the effects of predators on juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) energetics
Benjamin H. Letcher, Jason A Coombs, Keith Nislow. 2011. Maintenance of phenotypic variation: repeatibility, heritability, and size-dependent processes in a wild brook trout population
Darren M. Ward, Keith Nislow, Celia Y. Chen, Carol L. Folt. 2010. Rapid, efficient growth reduces mercury concentrations in stream-dwelling Atlantic salmon
Melissa Laser, James Jordan, Keith Nislow. 2009. Riparian forest and instream large wood characteristics, West Branch Sheepscot River, Maine, USA
Keith Nislow, A.J. Sepulveda, C.L. Folt. 2004. Mechanistic linkage of hydrologic regime to summer growth of age-0 Atlantic salmon
Keith Nislow, John D. Armstrong, Simon McKelvey. 2004. Phosphorus flux due to Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in an oligotrophic upland stream: effects of management and demography
Keith Nislow, Winsor H. Lowe. 2003. Influences of logging history and stream pH on brook trout abundance in first-order streams in New Hampshire

Dartmouth College, Ph.D., 1997
University of New Mexico, M.S., 1989
University of New Mexico, B.S., 1987

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Keith Nislow, PhD

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