Susan B. Adams, PhD
Team Leader / Research Fish Biologist
susan.adams@usda.gov
Treesearch Publications
- Zanethia C. Barnett, Clifford A. Ochs, Susan B. Adams. 2025. Impacts of Dams on Fish Species Assemblage and Functional Trait Composition Within Two Alabama Drainages
- Hampton L. Kennedy, Susan B. Adams. 2025. Interdisciplinary Approaches Improve Understanding of Cryptogenic Species: A Historical Case Study of Crayfish in Montana, USA
- Michael Ulyshen, Cory K. Adams, Jacqui Adams, Susan B. Adams, Mickey Bland, Don C. Bragg, Chuck Burdine, Mac A. Callaham, Richard Chaney, Gregg Chapman, Patsy Clinton, Cinnamon Dixon, Jacob Floyd, Phillip Jordan, Tara L. Keyser, Stephanie H. Laseter, Rachel Mallinger, Virginia McDaniel, Bryan Mudder, C. Dana Nelson, Katherine Odanaka, A. Christopher Oishi, Shawna L. Reid, Samm Reynolds, Kevin Robertson, Daniel Saenz, Mary Anne Sayer, Nathan Schiff, Brian Scholtens, Joel Scott, Martin Spetich, Melanie K. Taylor, John Willis, Andrew D. Young. 2024. Spatiotemporal patterns of forest pollinator diversity across the southeastern United States
- Caden J Noonan, Susan B. Adams, Mickey Bland, Ryan C Garrick, Patrick F Allison, Jr. 2024. Natural history notes: Storeria dekayi (DeKay’s Brown Snake). Habitat use
- Zanethia C. Barnett, Clifford Ochs, Gregory Easson, Susan B. Adams. 2023. Crayfish assemblages correlate with dam-induced effects on abiotic factors and predatory fish assemblages in Alabama streams
- Stacy A Schmidt, David A Schmetterling, Ivana M Barnes, Susan B. Adams. 2023. The first occurrence of the southern plains crayfish (Procambarus simulans) documented in Montana, USA
- Susan B. Adams, Rebecca L. Rosamond. 2022. Direct observation of Muskrat feeding on crayfish
- Zanethia C. Barnett, Susan B. Adams, Jason D. Hoeksema, Gregory L. Easson, Clifford A. Ochs. 2022. Effects of impoundments on stream crayfish assemblages
- Susan B. Adams, Scott G. Hereford, Chaz Hyseni. 2021. Burrow densities of primary burrowing crayfishes in relation to prescribed fire and mechanical vegetation treatments
- Laura Martín-Torrijos, María Martínez-Ríos, Gloria Casabella-Herrero, Susan B. Adams, Colin R. Jackson, Javier Diéguez-Uribeondo. 2021. Tracing the origin of the crayfish plague pathogen, Aphanomyces astaci, to the Southeastern United States
- Zanethia C. Barnett, Clifford A. Ochs, Jason D. Hoeksema, Susan B. Adams. 2021. Not all methods are created equal: assessment of sampling methods for crayfishes and fishes in southern Appalachian streams
- Susan B. Adams, Elaine M. Gelbard. 2021. American Beavers (Castor canadensis) use a hollow Baldcypress snag as a lodge
- Susan B. Adams, Robert Jones. 2021. Crayfishes of Mississippi: A provisional checklist with distributions and discussion of unresolved taxonomic issues
- Zanethia C. Barnett, Susan B. Adams. 2021. Review of dam effects on native and invasive crayfishes illustrates complex choices for conservation planning
- Zachary J. Loughman, Gregory Myers, Mael G. Glon, Susan B. Adams. 2020. Regina rigida sinicola (= Liodytes rigida sinicola) (Gulf Glossy Crayfish Snake) Diet and Habitat
- Susan B. Adams, Mickey Bland, Mael Glon, Greg Myers. 2020. Ophisaurus ventralis (Eastern Glass Lizard) habitat use.
- Zanethia C. Barnett, Clifford A. Ochs, Jason D. Hoeksema, Susan B. Adams. 2020. Multipass electrofishing sampling efficiency for stream crayfish population estimates
- MAEL G. GLON, Susan B. Adams, ZACHARY J. LOUGHMAN, GREG A. MYERS, CHRISTOPHER A. TAYLOR, GUENTER A. SCHUSTER. 2020. Two new species of burrowing crayfish in the genus Lacunicambarus (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from Alabama and Mississippi
- Susan B. Adams. 2020. An overview of native and invasive crayfish in Mississippi and Alabama
- Zanethia C. Barnett, Susan B. Adams, Clifford A. Ochs, Ryan C. Garrick. 2020. Crayfish populations genetically fragmented in streams impounded for 36–104 years
- Susan B. Adams, Scott Hereford. 2019. Digging deep for crayfish clues
- William R. Budnick, William E. Kelso, Susan B. Adams, Michael D. Kaller. 2018. A multigear protocol for sampling crayfish assemblages in Gulf of Mexico coastal streams
- Zanethia C. Barnett, Susan B. Adams. 2018. Comparison of Two Crayfish Trapping Methods in Coastal Plain Seasonal Wetlands
- Susan B. Adams, Robert L. Jones. 2018. Range extensions of three crayfishes (Faxonius yanahlindus, F. placidus, and F. erichsonianus) into Mississippi
- Susan B. Adams, Blake A. Davis, Darren A. Miller. 2018. Hobbseus yalobushensis, a crayfish of intermittent streams: Biotic and habitat associations, life history characteristics, and new localities
- Zanethia C. Barnett, Susan B. Adams, Rebecca L. Rosamond. 2017. Habitat use and life history of the vernal crayfish, Procambarus viaeviridis (Faxon, 1914), a secondary burrowing crayfish in Mississippi, USA
- Paul F. Mickle, Jacob F. Schaefer, Susan B. Adams, Brian R. Kreiser, Wiliam T. Slack. 2016. Environmental conditions of 2 river drainages into the Northern Gulf of Mexico during successful hatching of Alabama shad (Alosa alabamae)
- Andy Dolloff, Craig Roghair, Colin Krause, John Moran, Allison Cochran, Mel Warren, Susan B. Adams, Wendell R. Haag. 2016. Spatio-temporal variation in distribution of aquatic species and their habitats in a reservoir transition zone
- Susan B. Adams, Craig Roghair, Colin Krause, Mel Warren, J. Allison Cochran, Andy Dolloff, John Moran, Stuart W. McGregor, Guenter A. Schuester, Michael Gangloff, Dennis R. DeVries, Michael R. Kendrick, G. Lee Grove, Russell A. Wright. 2015. New crayfish species records from the Sipsey Fork drainage, including Lewis Smith Reservoir (Alabama, USA): Native or introduced species?
- Guenter A. Schuster, Christopher A. Taylor, Susan B. Adams. 2015. Procambarus (Girardiella) holifieldi, a new species of crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from Alabama with a revision of the Hagenianus Group in the subgenus Girardiella
- Susan B. Adams, David A. Schmetterling, David A. Neely. 2015. Summer stream temperatures influence sculpin distributions and spatial partitioning in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin, Montana
- Nadia I. Richman, Monika Böhm, Susan B. Adams, Fernando Alvarez, Elizabeth A. Bergey, John J. S. Bunn, Quinton Burnham, Jay Cordeiro, Jason Coughran, Keith A. Crandall, Kathryn L. Dawkins, Robert J. DiStefano, Niall E. Doran, Lennart Edsman, Arnold G. Eversole, Leopold Füreder, James M. Furse, Francesca Gherardi, Premek Hamr, David M. Holdich, Pierre Horwitz, Kerrylyn Johnston, Clive M. Jones, Julia P. G. Jones, Robert L. Jones, Thomas G. Jones, Tadashi Kawai, Susan Lawler, Marilu López-Mejía, Rebecca M. Miller, Carlos Pedraza-Lara, Julian D. Reynolds, Alastair M. M. Richardson, Mark B. Schultz, Guenter A. Schuster, Peter J. Sibley, Catherine Souty-Grosset, Christopher A. Taylor, Roger F. Thoma, Jerry Walls, Todd S. Walsh, Ben Cohen. 2015. Multiple drivers of decline in the global status of freshwater crayfish (Decapoda:Astacidea)
- Christopher A. Taylor, Susan B. Adams, Guenter A. Schuster. 2014. Systematics and biogeography of Orconectes, subgenus Trisellescens, in the southeastern United States, a test of morphology-based classification
- Susan B. Adams. 2014. Crayfish use of trash versus natural cover in incised, sand-bed streams
- Susan B. Adams. 2013. Effects of small impoundments on downstream crayfish assemblages
- Paul F. Mickle, Jacob Schaefer, Donald A. Yee, Susan B. Adams. 2013. Diet of juvenile Alabama shad (Alosa alabamae) in two northern Gulf of Mexico drainages
- Susan B. Adams, Christopher A. Taylor, Chris Lukhaup. 2010. Crayfish fauna of the Tennessee River drainage in Mississippi, including new state species records
- P. F. Mickle, J.F. Schaefer, Susan B. Adams, B.R. Kreiser. 2010. Habitat use of age 0 Alabama shad in the Pascagoula River drainage, USA
- Susan B. Adams. 2008. Female reproductive characteristics of three species in the Orconectes subgenus Trisellescens and comparisons to other Orconectes species
- Dwayne W. Meadows, Susan B. Adams, Jacob F. Schaefer. 2007. Threatened fishes of the world: Alosa alabamae (Jordan and Evermann, 1896) (Clupeidae)
- Bruce E. Rieman, Daniel J. Isaak, Susan B. Adams, Dona Horan, David E. Nagel, Charlie H. Luce, Deborah Myers. 2007. Anticipated climate warming effects on bull trout habitats and populations across the interior Columbia River basin
- Susan B. Adams, David A. Schmetterling. 2007. Freshwater sculpins: phylogenetics to ecology
- Susan B. Adams, Paul Hamel, Kris Connor, Bryce Burke, Emile S. Gardiner, David Wise. 2007. Potential roles of fish, birds, and water in swamp privet (Forestiera acuminata) seed dispersal
- Susan B. Adams. 2006. Direct and indirect effects of channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) on native crayfishes (Cambaridae) in experimental tanks
- Susan B. Adams. 2006. Dainties of the first order
- Susan B. Adams, Melvin L. Warren. 2005. Recolonization by warmwater fishes and crayfishes after severe drought in upper coastal plain hill streams
- Susan B. Adams, David A. Schmetterling, Michael K. Young. 2005. Instream movements by boreal toads (Bufo boreas boreas)
- Susan B. Adams. 2005. Katrina: boon or bust for freshwater fish communities?
- Lance R. Williams, Melvin L. Warren, Susan B. Adams, Joseph L. Arvai, Christopher M. Taylor. 2004. Basin Visual Estimation Technique (BVET) and Representative Reach Approaches to Wadeable Stream Surveys: Methodological Limitations and Future Directions
- Susan B. Adams, Melvin L. Warren, Wendell R. Haag. 2004. Spatial and temporal patterns in fish assemblages of upper coastal plain streams, Mississippi, USA
- David A. Schmetterling, Susan B. Adams. 2004. Summer Movements within the Fish Community of a Small Montane Stream
- Jason B. Dunham, Susan B. Adams, Robert E. Schroeter, Douglas C. Novinger. 2002. Alien invasions in aquatic ecosystems: toward an understanding of brook trout invasions and potential impacts on inland cutthroat trout in western North America
- Susan B. Adams, Christopher A. Frissell. 2001. Thermal Habitat Use and Evidence of Seasonal Migration by Rocky Mountain Tailed Frogs, Ascaphus montanus, in Montana
- Susan B. Adams, Christopher A. Frissell, Bruce E. Rieman. 2001. Geography of invasion in mountain streams: consequences of headwater lake fish introductions
- Melvin L. Warren, Wendell R. Haag, Susan B. Adams. 2000. Forest linkages to diversity and abundancein lowland stream fish communities
- Susan B. Adams, Christopher A. Frissell, Bruce E. Rieman. 2000. Movements of nonnative brook trout in relation to stream channel slope
- Susan B. Adams, Theodore C. Bjornn. 1997. Bull trout distributions related to temperature regimes in four central Idaho streams
Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications
- Elkins, D.C., et al. 2016. The southeastern aquatic biodiversity conservation strategy. Final report. Athens, GA, University of Georgia River Basin Center: 237 pages. (Adams served on the project advisory board and contributed data and expertise to the project)
- The University of Montana, Missoula, Ph.D., Organismal Biology and Ecology, 1999
- University of Idaho, Moscow, M.S., Fisheries Resources, 1994
- Carleton College, Northfield, MN, B.A., Biology, 1986
Last updated June 9, 2026