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Steve Wondzell, PhD

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Steve Wondzell, PhD
Research Ecologist Emeritus
Pacific Northwest Research Station
0000-0002-5182-5796

Treesearch Publications

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

  • Wondzell, S. M. 1984. Recovery of Desert Grasslands in Big Bend National Park Following 36 Years of Protection from Grazing of Domestic Livestock. MS Thesis, New Mexico State University.
  • Ludwig, J.A.; Wondzell, S.M. 1986. Vegetation Dynamics Following Establishment of Big Bend National Park U.S.A. In: P.J. Joss, P.W. Lynch, and O.B. Williams, eds. Rangelands: A Resource Under Siege. Proceedings of the Second International Rangeland Congress, Canberra, Australia: 13–15.
  • Wondzell, S.M.; Cunningham, G.L.; Bachelet, D. 1987. A Hierarchical Classification of Landforms: Some Implications for Understanding Local and Regional Vegetation Dynamics. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-150. United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station: 15–23.
  • Bachelet, D.; Wondzell, S.M.; Reynolds, J. F. 1988. A Simulation Model Using Environmental Cues to Predict Phenologies of Winter and Summer Annuals in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert. In: Marani, A., ed. Advances in Environmental Modelling. Elsevier: 235–260.
  • Wondzell, S.M.; Cunningham, G.L.; Cornelius, J.M. 1990. Vegetation patterns, microtopography, and soils on a Chihuahuan desert playa. Journal of Vegetation Science. 1:403–410.
  • Swanson, F.J.; Wondzell, S.M.; Grant, G.E. 1992. Landforms, Disturbance, and Ecotones. In: F. diCastri and A.J. Hansen, eds. Landscape boundaries: Consequences for biotic diversity and ecological flows. Springer-Verlag. 92:304–323.
  • Wondzell, S. 1994. Flux of ground water and nitrogen through the floodplain of a fourth-order stream. Ph.D. Thesis. Oregon State University, Corvallis OR.
  • Wondzell, S.; Ludwig, J.A. 1995. Community Dynamics of Desert Grasslands: Influences of Climate, Landforms, and Soils. Journal of Vegetation Science. 6:377–390.
  • Wondzell, S. M.; Cunningham, G.L.; Bachelet, D. 1996. Relationships between Landforms, Geomorphic Processes, and Vegetative Communities on a Watershed in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert. Landscape Ecology. 11:351–362.
  • Wondzell, S.M.; Swanson, F.J. 1996. Seasonal and storm dynamics of the hyporheic zone of a 4th-order mountain stream. I: Hydrologic processes. The Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 15:3–19.
  • Wondzell, S.; Swanson, F.J. 1996. Seasonal and storm dynamics of the hyporheic zone of a 4th-order mountain stream. II: Nitrogen cycling. The Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 15:20–34.
  • Pinay, G.; Ruffinoni, C.; Wondzell, S.M.; Gazelle, F. 1998. Change in groundwater nitrate concentration in a large river floodplain: Denitrification, uptake, or mixing? The Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 17:179–189.
  • Wondzell, S. M.; Swanson, F.J. 1999. Floods, Channel Change and the Hyporheic Zone. Water Resources Research. 35:355–368.
  • Johnson, S. L.; Swanson, F.J.; Grant, G.E.; Wondzell, S.M. 2000. Riparian forest disturbances by a mountain flood – the influence of floated wood. Hydrological Processes. 14:3031–3050.
  • Nakamura, F.; Swanson, F. J.; and Wondzell, S.M. 2000. Disturbance regimes of stream and riparian systems – a disturbance-cascade perspective. Hydrological Processes. 14:2849–2860.
  • Wondzell, S. M. 2001. The Influence of Forest Health and Protection Treatments on Erosion and Stream Sedimentation in Forested Watersheds of Eastern Oregon and Washington. Northwest Science. 75:128–140.
  • Haggerty, R.; Wondzell, S.M.; Johnson, M.A. 2002. Power-Law Residence Time Distribution in the Hyporheic Zone of a 2nd-Order Mountain Stream. Geophysical Research Letters. 29(13):18-1–18-4. doi:10.1029/2002GL014743
  • Kasahara, T.; Wondzell, S.M. 2003. Geomorphic Controls on Hyporheic Exchange Flows in Mountain Streams. Water Resources Research. 39(1): 1005. doi:10.1029/2002WR001386
  • Wondzell, S.M.; King, J.G. 2003. Post-fire Erosional Processes: Comparing the Pacific Northwest Region to the Interior Northwest and Northern Rocky Mountain Region. Forest Ecology and Management. 178:75–87.
  • Wondzell, S.M.; Bisson, P.A. 2003. Influence of Wood on Aquatic Biodiversity. In: S.V. Gregory, K.L. Boyer, and A.M. Gurnell, eds. The ecology and management of wood in world rivers. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 37, Bethesda, Maryland: 249–264.
  • Bisson, P.A.; Wondzell, S.M.; Gregory, S.V.; Reeves, G.H. 2003. Trends in Using Wood to Restore Aquatic Habitats and Fish Communities in Western North American Rivers. In: S.V. Gregory, K.L. Boyer, and A.M. Gurnell, eds. The ecology and management of wood in world rivers. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 37, Bethesda, Maryland: 391–406.
  • Gooseff, M.N.; Wondzell, S.M.; Haggerty, R.; Anderson, J. 2003. Comparing Transient Storage Modeling and Residence Time Distribution (RTD) Analysis in Geomorphically Varied Reaches in the Lookout Creek Basin, Oregon, USA. Advances in Water Resources. 26:925–937.
  • Thompson, J.; Duncan, S. 2004. Following a river wherever it goes: beneath the surface of mountain streams, based on science by Steve Wondzell. Science Findings #67.
  • Wondzell, S.M.; Howell, P.J. 2004. Developing a decision support model for assessing condition and prioritizing the restoration of aquatic habitat in the interior Columbia Basin. PNW-GTR-610. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 73–81. Chapter 6.
  • Shibata, H.; Sugawara, O.; Toyoshima, H.; Wondzell, S.M.; Nakamura, F.; Kasahara, T.; Swanson, F.J.; Sasa, K. 2004. Nitrogen dynamics in the hyporheic zone of a forested stream during a small storm, Hokkaido, Japan. Biogeochemistry. 69:83–104.
  • Gooseff, M.N.; Anderson, J.K.; Wondzell, S.M.; LaNier, J.; Haggerty, R. 2005. A modeling study of hyporheic exchange pattern and sequence, size, and spacing of stream bedforms in mountain stream networks. Hydrological Processes. 19:2915–2929.
  • Anderson, J.K.; Wondzell, S.M.; Gooseff, M.N.; Haggerty, R. 2005. Patterns in stream longitudinal profiles and implications for hyporheic exchange flow at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, USA. Hydrological Processes. 19:2931–2949.
  • Moore, R.D.; Wondzell, S.M. 2005. Physical hydrology and the effects of forest harvesting in the Pacific Northwest: A Review. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 41:763–784.
  • Thompson, J. 2005. Keeping it cool: unraveling the influences on stream temperature, based on science by Sherri Johnson and Steve Wondzell. Science Findings #73.
  • Wondzell, S.M. 2006. Effect of morphology and discharge on hyporheic exchange flows in two small streams in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, USA. Hydrological Processes. 20:267–287.
  • Harris, R.M.; Clifton, C.; Wondzell, S.M. 2007. Hillslope Erosion Rates in Areas with Volcanic Parent Materials and the Effects of Prescribed Fires in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon and Washington, USA. PNW-GTR-689. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.
  • Wondzell, S.M.; Burnett, K.M.; Kline, J.D. 2007. Landscape analysis: Projecting the effects of management and natural disturbances on forest and watershed resources of the Blue Mountains, OR, USA. Landscape and Urban Planning. 80:193–197.
  • Wondzell, S.M.; Hemstrom, M.A.; Bisson, P.A. 2007. Simulating riparian vegetation and aquatic habitat dynamics in response to natural and anthropogenic disturbance regimes in the Upper Grande Ronde River, Oregon, USA. Landscape and Urban Planning. 80:249–267.
  • Houlahan, J.E.; Cottenie, K.; Cumming G.S.; Currie, D.J.; Ernest, S.K.M.; Findlay, C.S.; Fuhlendorf, S.D.; Gaedke, U.; Legendre, P.; Magnuson, J.J.; McArdle, B.H.; Muldavin, E.H.; Noble, D.; Russell, R.; Stevens, R.D.; Willis, T.J.; Woiwod, I.P.; Wondzell, S.M. 2007. Compensatory dynamics are rare in natural ecological communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104:3273–3277.
  • Wondzell, S.M.; Gooseff, M.N.; McGlynn, B.L. 2007. Flow velocity and the hydrologic behavior of streams during baseflow. Geophysical Research Letters. 34: L24404. doi:10.1029/2007GL031256
  • Thompson, J. 2007. Simulating the consequences of land management, based on science by Steven Wondzell, Miles Hemstrom, and Pete Bisson. Science Findings #92.
  • Gooseff, M.N.; Bencala, K.E.; Wondzell, S.M. 2008. Solute Transport Along Stream and River Network. In: S. Rice, A. Roy, and B. Rhoads, eds. River Confluences, Tributaries and the Fluvial Network. John Wiley and Sons: Chichester, U.K.: 397–417. Chapter 18.
  • Gooseff, M.N.; Wondzell, S.M.; McGlynn, B.L. 2008. On the Relationships Among Temporal Patterns of Evapotranspiration, Stream Flow and Riparian Water Levels in Headwater Catchments During Baseflow [Abstract]. International Association of HydroGeologists Congress, Toyama, Japan. Oct. 26–Nov. 1, 2008.
  • Houlahan, J.E.; Cottenie, K.; Cumming, G.S.; Currie, D.J.; Findlay, C.S.; Gaedke, U.; Legendre, P.; Magnuson, J.J.; McArdle, B.H.; Stevens, R.D.; Woiwod, I.P.; Wondzell, S.M. 2008. The utility of covariances: A response to Ranta et al. Oikos. 117(12): 1912–1913. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.17078.x
  • Wondzell, S.M.; LaNier, J.; Haggerty, R. 2009. Evaluation of alternative groundwater flow models for simulating hyporheic exchange in a small mountain stream. Journal of Hydrology. 364:142–151, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.10.011
  • Jencso, K.J.; McGlynn, B.L.; Gooseff, M.N.; Wondzell, S.M.; Bencala, K.E. 2009. Hydrologic Connectivity between landscapes and streams: Transferring reach and plot scale understanding to the catchment scale. Water Resources Research. W04428. doi:10.1029/2008WR007225
  • Wondzell, S.M.; LaNier, J.; Haggerty, R.; Woodsmith, R.D.; Edwards, R.T. 2009. Changes in hyporheic exchange flow following experimental wood removal in a small low gradient stream. Water Resources Research. 45: W05406. doi:10.1029/2008WR007214
  • Payn, R.A.; Gooseff, M.N.; McGlynn, B.L.; Bencala, K.E.; Wondzell, S.M. 2009. Channel water balance and exchange with subsurface flow along a mountain headwater stream in Montana, USA. Water Resources Research. 45: W11427. doi:10.1029/2008WR007644
  • Anjozian, L-N. 2009. Angle of Repose: Testing erosion and prescribed fire in eastern Oregon and Washington’s Blue Mountains. Based on science by Steve Wondzell, Caty Clifton, and Robin Harris. Joint Fire Sciences Program, Fire Science Brief #44.
  • Parks, N. 2009. Exploring connections between landscapes and streams, based on science by Steve Wondzell, Kelsey Jensco, and Rob Payn. Science Findings #119.
  • Wondzell, S.M.; Gooseff, M.N.; McGlynn, B.L. 2010. An analysis of alternative conceptual models relating hyporheic exchange flow to diel fluctuations in discharge during baseflow recession. Hydrological Processes. 24: 686–694.
  • Jencso, K.J.; McGlynn, B.L.; Gooseff, M.N.; Bencala, K.E.; Wondzell, S.M. 2010. Hillslope hydrologic connectivity controls riparian groundwater turnover: Implications of catchment structure for riparian buffering and stream water sources. Water Resources Research. 46:W10524. doi:10.1029/2009WR008818
  • Wondzell, S.M. 2010. Water and sustainability: Reflections from the Western United States. Northwest Science. 84(3): 310–312.
  • Wondzell, S.M. 2011. The role of the hyporheic zone across stream networks. Hydrological Processes. 25: 3525–3532.
  • Zarnetske, J.P.; Haggerty, R.; Wondzell, S.M.; Baker, M.A. 2011. Dynamics of nitrate production and removal as a function of residence time in the hyporheic zone. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences. 116: G01025. doi:10.1029/2010JG001356
  • Zarnetske, J.P.; Haggerty, R.; Wondzell, S.M.; Baker, M.A. 2011. Labile dissolved organic carbon supply limits hyporheic denitrification, Journal of Geophysical Research. 116: G04036. doi:10.1029/2011JG001730
  • Janisch, J.E.; Wondzell, S.M.; Ehinger, W.J. 2012. Headwater stream temperature: Interpreting response after logging, with and without riparian buffers, Washington, USA. Forest Ecology and Management. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2011.12.035
  • Zarnetske, J.P.; Haggerty, R.; Wondzell, S.M.; Bokil, V.A.; González-Pinzón, R. 2012. Coupled transport and reaction kinetics control the nitrate source-sink function of hyporheic zones. Water Resources Research. 48: W11508. doi:10.1029/2012WR011894
  • Payn, R.A.; Gooseff, M.N.; McGlynn, B.L.; Bencala, K.E.; Wondzell, S.M. 2012. Exploring changes in the spatial distribution of stream baseflow generation during a seasonal recession. Water Resources Research. 48: W04519. doi:10.1029/2011WR011552
  • Diabat, M.; Haggerty, R.; Wondzell, S. M. 2012. Diurnal timing of warmer air under climate change affects magnitude, timing and duration of stream temperature change. Hydrological Processes. doi:10.1002/hyp.9533
  • Wondzell, S.M.; Przeszlowska, A.; Pflugmacher, D.; Hemstrom, M.A.; Bisson, P.A. 2012. Modeling the Dynamic Responses of Riparian Vegetation and Salmon Habitat in the Oregon Coast Range with State and Transition Models. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-869. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 173–196.
  • Wondzell, S.M. 2012. Hyporheic Zones in Mountain Streams: Physical Processes and Ecosystem Functions. Stream Notes January-April 2012, Stream System Technology Center, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ft. Collins, CO.
  • Bisson, P.A.; Claeson, S.M.; Wondzell, S.M.; Foster, A.D.; Steel, A. 2013. Evaluating Headwater Stream Buffers: Lessons Learned from Watershed-scale Experiments in Southwest Washington. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-880. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 165–184.
  • Ward, A.S.; Payn, R.A.; Gooseff, M.N.; McGlynn, B.L; Bencala, K.E.; Kelleher, C.A.; Wondzell, S.M.; Wagener, T. 2013. Variations in surface water‐ground water interactions along a headwater mountain stream: Comparisons between transient storage and water balance analyses. Water Resources Research. 49: 3359–3374. doi:10.1002/wrcr.20148
  • Wondzell, S.M.; Gooseff, M.N. 2013. Geomorphic Controls on Hyporheic Exchange across Scales - Watersheds to Particles. In: Shroder, J., ed. Treatise on Geomorphology, Vol. 9, Fluvial Geomorphology. Academic Press: San Diego, CA: 203–218.
  • Mazza, R. 2014. The Stream Subsurface: Nitrogen Cycling and the Cleansing Function of Hyporheic Zones, based on science by Jay Zarnetske, Steven Wondzell, and Roy Haggerty. Science Findings #166.
  • Zarnetske, J.P.; Haggerty, R.; Wondzell, S.M. 2015. Coupling multiscale observations to evaluate hyporheic nitrate removal at the reach scale. Freshwater Science. 34(1): 172–186.
  • Larned, S.T.; Gooseff, M.N.; Packman, A.I.; Rugel, K.; Wondzell, S.M. 2015. Groundwater—surface-water interactions: current research directions. Freshwater Science. 34(1): 92–98.
  • Wondzell, S.M. 2015. Groundwater–surface-water interactions: perspectives on the development of the science over the last 20 years. Freshwater Science. 34(1): 368–376.
  • Ward, A.S.; Schmadel, N.M.; Wondzell, S.M.; Harman, C.; Gooseff, M.N.; Singha, K. 2016. Hydrogeomorphic controls on hyporheic and riparian transport in two headwater mountain streams during base flow recession. Water Resources Research. 52: 1479–1497. doi:10.1002/2015WR018225
  • Penaluna, B.E.; Olson, D.H.; Flitcroft, R.L.; Weber, M.; Bellmore, J.R.; Wondzell, S.M.; Dunham, J.B.; Johnson, S.L.; Reeves, G.H. 2016. Aquatic biodiversity in forests: A weak link in ecological and ecosystem resilience. Biodiversity and Conservation. 26(13): 3125–3155.
  • Argerich, A.; Haggerty, R.; Johnson, S.L.; Wondzell, S.M.; Dosch, N.; Corson-Rikert, H.; Ashkenas, L.R.; Pennington, R.; Thomas, C.K. 2016. Comprehensive multiyear carbon budget of a temperate headwater stream. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences. 121. doi:10.1002/2015JG003050
  • Corson-Rikert, H.A.; Wondzell, S.M.; Haggerty, R.; Santelmann, M. 2016. Carbon dynamics in the hyporheic zone of a headwater mountain stream in the Cascade Mountains, Oregon. Water Resources Research. 52: 7556–7576. doi:10.1002/2016WR019303
  • Ludwig, J.A.; Wondzell, S.M.; Muldavin, E.H.; Blanche, K.R.; Chauvin, Y. 2017. Native desert grassland plant species declines and accelerated erosion in the Paint Gap Hills of southwest Texas. The Southwestern Naturalist. 62(1): 53–61.
  • Schmadel, N.M.; Ward, A.S.; Wondzell, S.M. 2017. Hydrologic controls on hyporheic exchange in a headwater mountain stream. Water Resources Research. 53: 6260–6278. doi:10.1002/2017WR020576
  • Ward, A.S.; Schmadel, N.M.; Wondzell, S.M.; Gooseff, M.N.; Singha, K. 2017. Dynamic hyporheic and riparian flow path geometry through base flow recession in two headwater mountain stream corridors. Water Resources Research. 53: 3988–4003. doi:10.1002/2016WR019875

Data and Tools

  • Oregon State University, Ph.D., Forest Ecology/Hyporheic Zones, 1994
  • New Mexico State University, M.S., Plant Community Ecology, 1984
  • New Mexico State University, B.S., Range Science, 1981
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