Rebecca Flitcroft, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Nathaniel Gillespie, Pauline Adams, Jen Croft, Rebecca Flitcroft, Johan Hogervorst, Paul Powers, David Callery. 2026. Integrating watershed restoration in wildfire management: opportunities, approaches, and examples
• Allison G. Swartz, Ashley A. Coble, Brooke Penaluna, Rebecca Flitcroft, Joseph L. Ebersole, Meg A. Krawchuk. 2025. Following megafires fishes thrive and amphibians persist even in severely burned watersheds
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Brooke Penaluna, Laura Hauck, Jay Munyon, James M. Capurso. 2025. Multi-species eDNA as a screening tool to facilitate early detection and eradication of aquatic invasive species in large water bodies
• Abigail J. Lynch, Devin Bartley, T. Douglas Beard Jr, Gabriel Borba, Steven J. Cooke, Ian G. Cowx, Vittoria Elliott, Holly Embke, Edith Gondwe, Zeb Hogan, Jonathan G. Low, Jamie C. Madden, Sui Phang, Emma D. Rice, Nicholas Sievert, Gretchen L. Stokes, Leonard Akwany, Edward H. Allison, Robert Arlinghaus, Robert Arthur, Vidyadhar Atkore, Mahatub Khan Badhon, Claudio Baigun, Jill L. Brooks, Leandro Castello, Somvilay Chanthalounnavong, Seila Chea, Soksan Chhorn, Michael S. Cooperman, Kim Crisafi, James Dalton, V Doughty, Jason Earl, Wasseem Emam, Rebecca Flitcroft, Daria Gundermann, Henry H. Hansen, Ian Harrison, Kathy Hughes, Külli Kangur, Ted Lawrence, Roman Lyach, Bonnie J.E. Myers, Muruganandam Muthiah, Nguyen Thi Kim Quyen, Vivian M. Nguyen, Elizabeth A. Nyboer, Julian D. Olden, Craig Paukert, Morgan L. Piczak, Yasmín Quintana, Vu Dang Ha Quyen, Shehu Latunji Akintola, Roshani Shrestha, Sokmoly Uon, Sophorn Uy, Cassie M. VanWynen. 2025. Opportunities to better integrate inland fish and fisheries in multilateral environmental agreements
• Shannon Claeson, Rebecca Flitcroft, Kate Meyer. 2025. Effect of river and floodplain restoration and reconnection on aquatic macroinvertebrates: seasonal responses over time
• Jay Munyon, Rebecca Flitcroft. 2025. Evaluating floodplain vegetation after valley‐scale restoration with unsupervised classification of National Agriculture Imagery Program data in semi‐arid environments
• 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
• Arif Jan, Guillermo Giannico, Ivan Arismendi, Rebecca Flitcroft. 2024. Unveiling climatic niches for deeper insights into invasion potential and enhanced distribution models of freshwater fishes
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Robin Abell, Tara Moberg, Ian Harrison, Ghamid AbdulBasat, Harmony Patricio, Michele Thieme, Natalie Shahbol. 2024. The role of OECMs for inland water biodiversity outcomes
• John Kirkland, Rebecca Flitcroft, Brooke Penaluna. 2024. Living water: Mapping aquatic biodiversity
• Michael J. Moore J., Rebecca Flitcroft, Emil Tucker, Katherine M. Prussian, Shannon Claeson, Alejandro Huertas Herrera. 2024. Same streams in a different forest? Investigations of forest harvest legacies and future trajectories across 30 years of stream habitat monitoring on the Tongass National Forest, Alaska
• Natasha Vizcarra, Rebecca Flitcroft. 2024. Resetting Oregon’s floodplains to rehabilitate native fish habitats
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Robin Abell, Ian Harrison, Ivan Arismendi, Brooke Penaluna. 2023. Making global targets local for freshwater protection
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Luke Whitman, James White, Rose Wallick, Laurel Stratton Garvin, Cassandra Smith, Robert Plotnikoff, Michael Mulvey, Tobias Kock, Krista Jones, Peter Gruendike, Carolyn Gombert, Guillermo Giannico, Andrew Dutterer, Daniel Brown, Hannah Barrett, Brian Bangs, Robert M. Hughes. 2023. Science to support conservation action in a large river system: The Willamette River, Oregon, USA
• Arif Jan, Ivan Arismendi, Guillermo Giannico, Rebecca Flitcroft. 2023. Habitat overlap among native and introduced cold-water fishes in the Himalayas
• Carolyn E. Gombert, Stephen T. Lancaster, Gordon Grant, Rebecca Flitcroft. 2023. Novel dimensionless index for physically based assessment of thermal refugia characterizes off‐channel habitat on gravel bed river
• Jason Dunham, Christine Hirsch, Sean Gordon, Rebecca Flitcroft, Nathan Chelgren, Marcia Snyder, David Hockman-Wert, Gordon Reeves, Heidi Andersen, Scott Anderson, William Battaglin, Tom A. Black, Jason Brown, Shannon Claeson, Lauren Hay, Emily Heaston, Charlie H. Luce, Nathan Nelson, Colin Penn, Mark Raggon. 2023. Northwest Forest Plan—the first 25 years (1994–2018): watershed condition status and trends
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Gwendolynn W. Bury, Linda A. Joyce, Shannon Kay, Michael Knowles, Mark D. D. Nelson, Travis Warziniack. 2023. Biodiversity: Wildlife and Aquatic Biota
• Brittany E. Pugh, Megan Colley, Stephen J. Dugdale, Patrick Edwards, Rebecca Flitcroft, Andrés Holz, Matthew Johnson, Michela Mariani, Mickey Means‐Brous, Kate Meyer, Kevan B. Moffett, Lisa Renan, Franziska Schrodt, Colin Thorne, Samuel Valman, Upekala Wijayratne, Richard Field. 2022. A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Jay Munyon, Shannon Claeson, Adelaide C. Johnson, Michael Moore, Emil Tucker, Katherine Prussian, Sheila Jacobson, Heidi Lombard. 2022. Forest legacies and climate realities: spatial and temporal variation in fish populations and habitat characteristics on the Tongass National Forest, Alaska
• John Kirkland, Rebecca Flitcroft. 2022. Goldilocks and coho salmon: What conditions are “Just Right” for migration and spawning?
• Daniel N. Scott, Scott Shahverdian, Rebecca Flitcroft, Ellen Wohl. 2022. Geomorphic heterogeneity as a framework for assessing river corridor processes and characteristics
• 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.
• Mary V Santelmann, Alessandra G. Harewood, Rebecca Flitcroft. 2022. Effects of stream enhancement structures on water temperature in South Sister Creek, Oregon
• Paul F. Hessburg, Susan Charnley, Andrew Gray, Thomas Spies, David W. Peterson, Rebecca Flitcroft, Kendra Wendel, Jessica Halofsky, Eric M. White, John Marshall. 2021. Climate and wildfire adaptation of inland Northwest US forests
• Mackenzie B. Butler, Rebecca Flitcroft, Guillermo Giannico. 2021. The relationship between hydroregime and coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) redd construction in the Smith River, Oregon
• Gwendolynn W. Bury, Rebecca Flitcroft, Mark D. D. Nelson, Ivan Arismendi, Evan B. Brooks. 2021. Forest-associated fishes of the conterminous United States
• Henriette I Jager, Jonathan W. Long, Rachel L. Malison, Brendan P. Murphy, Ashley Rust, Luiz G. M. Silva, Rahel Sollmann, Zachary Steel, Mark D. Bowen, Jason B. Dunham, Joseph L. Ebersole, Rebecca Flitcroft. 2021. Resilience of terrestrial and aquatic fauna to historical and future wildfire regimes in western North America
• John Kirkland, Rebecca Flitcroft, Gordon Grant. 2021. Let the fish do the talking: How fish behavior is linked to patterns of temperature and stream discharge
• Steven J. Seybold, Susan J. Frankel, Deanna H. Olson, Rebecca Flitcroft, Becky K. Kerns, Jana C. Lee, Karen L. Ripley, Steve Munson. 2021. Regional Summaries: Northwest Region
• Anne S. Marsh, Deborah C. Hayes, Patrice N. Klein, Nicole Zimmerman, Aliso Dalsimer, Douglas A. Burkett, Cynthia Huebner, Robert Rabaglia, Laura A. Meyerson, Bonnie L. Harper-Lore, Jamie L. Davidson, Marla R. Emery, Travis Warziniack, Rebecca Flitcroft, Becky K. Kerns, Vanessa M. Lopez. 2021. Sectoral Impacts of Invasive Species in the United States and Approaches to Management
• Rachel M. LovellFord, Rebecca Flitcroft, Sarah A. Lewis, Mary V Santelmann, Gordon Grant. 2020. Patterns of river discharge and temperature differentially influence migration and spawn timing for Coho Salmon in the Umpqua River basin, Oregon
• Paul F. Hessburg, Susan Charnley, Kendra Wendel, Eric M. White, Peter Singleton, David W. Peterson, Jessica Halofsky, Andrew Gray, Thomas Spies, Rebecca Flitcroft, Rachel White. 2020. The 1994 Eastside Screens large-tree harvest limit: review of science relevant to forest planning 25 years later
• John Kirkland, Rebecca Flitcroft. 2020. Location, location, location: For coho salmon, it’s all about the neighborhood
• Mary V Santelmann, Brett A. Boisjolie, Rebecca Flitcroft, Megan Gomez. 2019. Relationships between salt marsh vegetation and surface elevation in Coos Bay estuary, Oregon
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Michael S. Cooperman, Ian J. Harrison, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli, Philip J. Boon. 2019. Theory and practice to conserve freshwater biodiversity in the Anthropocene
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Sarah A. Lewis, Ivan Arismendi, Chante Davis, Guillermo Giannico, Brooke Penaluna, Mary Santelmann, Mohammad Safeeq, Jeff Snyder. 2019. Using expressed behaviour of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) to evaluate the vulnerability of upriver migrants under future hydrological regimes: Management implications and conservation planning
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Ivan Arismendi, Mary V Santelmann. 2019. A review of habitat connectivity research for Pacific salmon in marine, estuary, and freshwater environments
• Brett A. Boisjolie, Rebecca Flitcroft, Mary V Santelmann. 2019. Patterns of riparian policy standards in riverscapes of the Oregon Coast Range
• Helen W. Beeson, Rebecca Flitcroft, Mark A. Fonstad, Joshua J. Roering. 2018. Deep-Seated landslides drive variability in valley width and increase connectivity of salmon habitat in the Oregon Coast Range
• Rebecca Flitcroft. 2018. Vignette: Rebecca Flitcroft, Research Fish Biologist, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR
• 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
• Chanté D. Davis, Clinton W. Epps, Rebecca Flitcroft, Michael A. Banks. 2018. Refining and defining riverscape genetics: How rivers influence population genetic structure
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Patrick Clinton, Kelly Christiansen. 2018. Adding to the toolbox for tidal-inundation mapping in estuarine areas
• 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
• John Kirkland, Rebecca Flitcroft, Gordon Reeves, Paul F. Hessburg. 2017. Adaptation to wildfire: A fish story
• Ashley Steel, Ariel Muldoon, Rebecca Flitcroft, Julie C. Firman, Kara J. Anlauf-Dunn, Kelly Burnett, Robert J. Danehy. 2017. Current landscapes and legacies of land-use past: understanding the distribution of juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and their habitats along the Oregon Coast, USA
• Brett A. Boisjolie, Mary V. Santelmann, Rebecca Flitcroft, Sally L. Duncan. 2017. Legal ecotones: A comparative analysis of riparian policy protection in the Oregon Coast Range, USA
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Jeffrey A. Falke, Gordon Reeves, Paul F. Hessburg, Kris M. McNyset, Lee E. Benda. 2016. Wildfire may increase habitat quality for spring Chinook salmon in the Wenatchee River subbasin, WA, USA
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Sarah A. Lewis, Ivan Arismendi, Rachel LovellFord, Mary V. Santelmann, Mohammad Safeeq, Gordon Grant, Kyle A. Young. 2016. Linking hydroclimate to fish phenology and habitat use with ichthyographs
• Diego Juffe-Bignoli, Ian Harrison, Stuart HM Butchart, Rebecca Flitcroft, Virgilio Hermoso, Harry Jonas, Anna Lukasiewicz, Michele Thieme, Eren Turak, Heather Bingham, James Dalton, William Darwall, Marine Deguignet, Nigel Dudley, Royal Gardner, Jonathan Higgins, Ritesh Kumar, Simon Linke, G Randy Milton, Jamie Pittock, Kevin G Smith, Arnout van Soesbergen. 2016. Achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 to improve the performance of protected areas and conserve freshwater biodiversity
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Daniel L. Bottom, Karen L. Haberman, Ken F. Bierly, Kim K. Jones, Charles A. Simenstad, Ayesha Gray, Kami S. Ellingson, Erin Baumgartner, Trevan J. Cornwell, Lance A. Campbell. 2016. Expect the unexpected: place-based protections can lead to unforeseen benefits
• Jeffrey A. Falke, Rebecca Flitcroft, Jason B. Dunham, Kristina M. McNyset, Paul F. Hessburg, Gordon Reeves, C. Tara Marshall. 2015. Climate change and vulnerability of bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus ) in a fire-prone landscape
• Rebecca Flitcroft, K. Burnett, J. Snyder, Gordon Reeves, L. Ganio. 2014. Riverscape patterns among years of juvenile coho salmon in midcoastal Oregon: implications for conservation
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Guillermo Guannico. 2013. Keeping pace with future environmental conditions in coastal Oregon, USA
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Kelly Burnett, Kelly Christiansen. 2013. A simple model that identifies potential effects of sea-level rise on estuarine and estuary-ecotone habitat locations for salmonids in Oregon, USA
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Kelly Burnett, Gordon Reeves, Lisa M. Ganio. 2012. Do network relationships matter? Comparing network and instream habitat variables to explain densities of juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in mid-coastal Oregon, USA
• Marie Oliver, Rebecca Flitcroft. 2011. Watershed councils: it takes a community to restore a watershed
• A.H. Fullerton, Kelly Burnett, Ashley Steel, Rebecca Flitcroft, G.R. Pess, B.E. Feist, C.E. Torgersen, D.J. Miller, B.L. Sanderson. 2010. Hydrological connectivity for riverine fish: measurement challenges and research opportunities
• Rebecca Flitcroft, Dana C. Dedrick, Courtland L. Smith, Cynthia A. Thieman, John P. Bolte. 2009. Social infrastructure to integrate science and practice: the experience of the Long Tom Watershed Council

Data and Tools

• Dashboard
  

  Resources Planning Act Assessment Data Explorer

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/dataandtools/resources-planning-act-assessment-data-explorer
• Tool
  

  National Aquatic Biodiversity Assessment Storymap

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/products/dataandtools/national-aquatic-biodiversity-assessment-storymap
• Dashboard
  

  National Aquatic Biodiversity Assessment Dashboard

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/products/dataandtools/national-aquatic-biodiversity-assessment-dashboard

• Center or Group
  

  Northwest Water Research Initiative

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

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Cold Enough for Ya? Remote Temperature Sensing Advancements for Trout Habitat Management

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/trouthabitat
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  West-Side Fire and Climate Adaptation Research Initiative

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

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Wildfire and Native Fish

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/wildfire-and-native-fish
  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
• Project
  

  Estuaries, Climate Change, and Native Fish

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/estuaries-climate-change-and-native-fish
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Program
  

  Watershed and Aquatic Sciences

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

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Aquatic Biodiversity

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/aquatic-biodiversity
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Assessing wildfire risk to municipal drinking water sources

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/wildfireriskmunicpaldrinkingwater
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Linking Fish, Forests, Fire, and Stream Function

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/linking-fish-forests-fire-stream-function
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station

Multimedia

• Webinars

  Science x Wildlife: Wildlife in Aquatic Systems

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-wildlife-wildlife-aquatic-systems
• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Planning for Forests of the Future: Rangeland Resources and Biodiversity

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-planning-forests-future-rangeland-resources-and-biodiversity
• Webinars

  PNW SciCast Webinar: Outcomes of Restoration to a Stage 0 Condition: What Can We Expect?

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/products/multimedia/webinars/pnw-scicast-webinar-outcomes-restoration-stage-0-condition-what

• Oregon State University, Ph.D., Fisheries and Wildlife, 2008
• Oregon State University, M.S., Natural Resource Economics, 1999
• Willamette University, B.S., Environmental Science and Economics, 1994