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Perkin, Joshuah Assistant Professor
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- Assistant Professor, Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Work in our lab focuses on the conservation and sustainable management of freshwater fish diversity, understanding reasons for its decline, and developing approaches for mitigating threats in Texas, the southern Great Plains, and beyond. We address questions regarding species- and community-level change across spatial and temporal scales using a variety of study approaches, including meta-analyses, field experiments, natural snapshot and trajectory experiments, landscape modeling, and molecular techniques. Our work strongly emphasizes how anthropogenic environmental manipulations, either destructive or restorative in nature, cause shifts in fish abundance, distribution, and community structure.
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Nguyen, E., Mayes, K. B., Smith, R., Trungale, J., & Perkin, J. S.
(2023).
The duality of drought: Pelagic and benthicspawning stream fishes show opposing responses to drought in the southern Great Plains
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Perkin, J. S., Acre, M. R., Ellard, J. K., Rodger, A. W., Trungale, J. F., Winemiller, K. O., & Yancy, L. E.
(2022).
Flowrecruitment relationships for Shoal Chub (Macrhybopsis hyostoma) and implications for managing environmental flows. North American Journal of Fisheries Management.
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Hay, A., Riggins, C. L., Heard, T., Garoutte, C., Rodriguez, Y., Fillipone, F., ... Perkin, J. S.
(2022).
Movement and mortality of invasive suckermouth armored catfish during a spearfishing control experiment. Biological Invasions.
24(10), 3119-3131.
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Steffensmeier, Z. D., Wedgeworth, M., Yancy, L., Santee, N., Brewer, S. K., & Perkin, J. S.
(2022).
Paradigm versus paradox on the prairie: testing competing stream fish movement frameworks using an imperiled Great Plains minnow. Movement Ecology.
10(1), 8.
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Roberts, H. C., Acre, M. R., Claus, M., Kappen, F. J., Winemiller, K. O., Daugherty, D. J., & Perkin, J. S.
(2022).
Tributary streams provide migratory fish with access to floodplain habitats in a regulated river: evidence from alligator gar, Atractosteus spatula. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES.
80(2), 393-407.
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Perkin, J. S., Montana, C. G., Nogueira, E. J., Brandao, B. B., Mattox, G., & Conway, K. W.
(2022).
Estimated richness and environmental correlates of miniature fish assemblages in the rio Jacunda, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology.
20(2),
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Best, A., Perkin, J. S., Pinion, A. K., Binkley, H., & Conway, K. W.
(2022).
First record of the Gangetic Swamp Eel, Ophichthys cuchia (Hamilton, 1822) (Teleostei: Synbranchidae), from Texas (USA) based on museum vouchered material, and confirmation of a second established non-native population in the USA. Check List.
18(3), 475-482.
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Troia, M. J., & Perkin, J. S.
(2022).
Can fisheries bioenergetics modelling refine spatially explicit assessments of climate change vulnerability?. Conservation Physiology.
10(1), coac035.
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Malone, E. W., Perkin, J. S., Keith Gibbs, W., Padgett, M., Kulp, M., & Moore, S. E.
(2022).
High and dry in days gone by: Life-history theory predicts Appalachian mountain stream fish assemblage transformation during historical drought. ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH.
31(1), 29-44.
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Nguyen, E., Perkin, J. S., Smith, R., Mayes, K. B., & Trungale, J.
(2021).
Characteristics of the natural flow regime paradigm explain occurrence of imperiled Great Plains fishes. Ecosphere.
12(9),
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Godwin, C. D., Walker, D. M., Romer, A. S., Grajal-Puche, A., Grisnik, M., Goessling, J. M., Perkin, J. S., & Murray, C. M.
(2021).
Testing the febrile response of snakes inoculated with Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, the causative agent of snake fungal disease. Journal of Thermal Biology.
100, 103065-103065.
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Perkin, J. S., Papraniku, I. F., Gibbs, W. K., Hoeinghaus, D. J., & Walker, D. M.
(2021).
Temporal trajectories in metacommunity structure: Insights from interdisciplinary research in intermittent streams. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water.
8(4),
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Mollenhauer, R., Brewer, S. K., Perkin, J. S., Swedberg, D., Wedgeworth, M., & Steffensmeier, Z. D.
(2021).
Connectivity and flow regime direct conservation priorities for pelagophil fishes. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.
31(11), 3215-3227.
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Parker, S. D., Perkin, J. S., Bean, M. G., Lutz-Carrillo, D., & Acre, M. R.
(2021).
Temporal distribution modelling reveals upstream habitat drying and downstream non-native introgression are squeezing out an imperiled headwater fish. 27(3), 533-551.
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Acre, M. R., Perkin, J. S., & Bean, M. G.
(2021).
Multiple survey methods reveal greater abundance of endangered pupfish in restored habitats. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.
31(1), 198-209.
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Perkin, J. S., Acre, M. R., Graham, J., & Hoenke, K.
(2020).
An integrative conservation planning framework for aquatic landscapes fragmented by road-stream crossings. Landscape and Urban Planning.
202, 103860-103860.
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Blanton, C. S., Perkin, J. S., Menchaca, N., & Kollaus, K. A.
(2020).
A Gap in the Armor: Spearfishing Reduces Biomass of Invasive Suckermouth Armored Catfish. Fisheries.
45(6), 293-302.
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Santee, N. S., Yancy, L. E., Steffensmeier, Z. D., & Perkin, J. S.
(2020).
TESTING RESTRICTED MOVEMENT OF PLAINS KILLIFISH (FUNDULUS ZEBRINUS). Southwestern Naturalist.
65(3-4), 271-+.
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Perkin, J. S., Gibbs, W. K., Ridgway, J. L., & Cook, S. B.
(2019).
Riverscape correlates for distribution of threatened spotfin chub Erimonax monachus in the Tennessee River Basin, USA. Endangered Species Research.
40, 91-105.
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Perkin, J. S., Starks, T. A., Pennock, C. A., Gido, K. B., Hopper, G. W., & Hedden, S. C.
(2019).
Extreme drought causes fish recruitment failure in a fragmented Great Plains riverscape. Ecohydrology.
12(6),
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Wellemeyer, J. C., Perkin, J. S., Jameson, M. L., Costigan, K. H., & Waters, R.
(2019).
Hierarchy theory reveals multiscale predictors of Arkansas darter (Etheostoma cragini) abundance in a Great Plains riverscape. Freshwater Biology.
64(4), 659-670.
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Perkin, J. S., Murphy, S. P., Murray, C. M., Gibbs, W. K., & Gebhard, A. E.
(2019).
If you build it, they will go: A case study of stream fish diversity loss in an urbanizing riverscape. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.
29(4), 623-638.
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McManamay, R. A., Perkin, J. S., & Jager, H. I.
(2019).
Commonalities in stream connectivity restoration alternatives: an attempt to simplify barrier removal optimization. Ecosphere.
10(2),
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George, S. D., Pinion, A. K., Conway, K. W., Heard, T. C., & Perkin, J. S.
(2019).
Observations on habitat use of age-0 Rio Grande Blue Sucker (Cycleptus sp. cf . elongates). WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN NATURALIST.
79(3), 463-469.
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Thacker, J. H., Krosnick, S. E., Maynord, S. C., Call, G. P., & Perkin, J. S.
(2019).
Pollination biology and reproductive phenology of the federally endangered endemic Physaria globosa (Brassicaceae) in Tennessee. The journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.
146(1), 27-40.
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Merchant, M., Savage, D., Cooper, A., Slaughter, M., Perkin, J. S., & Murray, C. M.
(2018).
Nest Attendance Patterns in the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Copeia.
106(3), 421-426.
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Curtis, W. J., Gebhard, A. E., & Perkin, J. S.
(2018).
The river continuum concept predicts prey assemblage structure for an insectivorous fish along a temperate riverscape. Freshwater Science.
37(3), 618-630.
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Malone, E. W., Perkin, J. S., Leckie, B. M., Kulp, M. A., Hurt, C. R., & Walker, D. M.
(2018).
Which species, how many, and from where: Integrating habitat suitability, population genomics, and abundance estimates into species reintroduction planning. Global Change Biology.
24(8), 3729-3748.
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Wellemeyer, J. C., Perkin, J. S., Fore, J. D., & Boyd, C.
(2018).
Comparing assembly processes for multimetric indices of biotic integrity. ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS.
89, 590-609.
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Perkin, J. S.
(2018).
Synthesizing stream fish community dynamics in the southern Great Plains and beyond. ECOLOGY.
99(3), 763-764.
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Worthington, T. A., Echelle, A. A., Perkin, J. S., Mollenhauer, R., Farless, N., Dyer, J. J., Logue, D., & Brewer, S. K.
(2018).
The emblematic minnows of the North American Great Plains: A synthesis of threats and conservation opportunities. Fish and Fisheries.
19(2), 271-307.
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Pinion, A. K., George, S. D., Perkin, J. S., & Conway, K. W.
(2018).
First record of the Conchos Shiner Cyprinella panarcys (Hubbs & Miller, 1978) from the mainstem of the Rio Grande along the USAMexico border. Check List.
14(6), 1123-1129.
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Krosnick, S. E., Perkin, J. S., Schroeder, T. S., Campbell, L. G., Jackson, E. B., Maynord, S. C., Waters, C. G., & Mitchell, J. S.
(2017).
New insights into floral morph variation in Passiflora incarnata L. (Passifloraceae) in Tennessee, USA. Flora.
236-237, 115-125.
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Gebhard, A. E., & Perkin, J. S.
(2017).
Assessing riverscape-scale variation in fish life history using banded sculpin (Cottus carolinae). Environmental Biology of Fishes.
100(11), 1397-1410.
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Perkin, J. S., Gido, K. B., Falke, J. A., Fausch, K. D., Crockett, H., Johnson, E. R., & Sanderson, J.
(2017).
Groundwater declines are linked to changes in Great Plains stream fish assemblages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
114(28), 7373-7378.
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Wells, W. G., Johnson, T. C., Gebhard, A. E., Paine, R., Hix, L. A., Ferrell, H. N., Engle, A. N., & Perkin, J. S.
(2017).
March of the sculpin: measuring and predicting short-term movement of banded sculpin Cottus carolinae. ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH.
26(2), 280-291.
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Gebhard, A. E., Paine, R., Hix, L. A., Johnson, T. C., Wells, W. G., Ferrell, H. N., & Perkin, J. S.
(2017).
Testing Cross-System Transferability of Fish Habitat Associations using Cottus carolinae (Banded Sculpin). Southeastern Naturalist.
16(1), 70-86.
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Perkin, J. S., Knorp, N. E., Boersig, T. C., Gebhard, A. E., Hix, L. A., & Johnson, T. C.
(2017).
Life history theory predicts long-term fish assemblage response to stream impoundment. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES.
74(2), 228-239.
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Pennock, C. A., Gido, K. B., Perkin, J. S., Weaver, V. D., Davenport, S. R., & Caldwell, J. M.
(2017).
Collapsing Range of an Endemic Great Plains Minnow, Peppered Chub Macrhybopsis tetranema. American Midland Naturalist.
177(1), 57-68.
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Wellemeyer, J. C., Harty, C. R., & Perkin, J. S.
(2016).
Occurrence of Lepomis miniatus (Redspotted Sunfish) in the Cumberland River Basin of Tennessee. Southeastern Naturalist.
15(3), N33-N36.
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Perkin, J. S., & Bonner, T. H.
(2016).
Historical Changes in Fish Assemblage Composition Following Water Quality Improvement in the Mainstem Trinity River of Texas. River Research and Applications.
32(1), 85-99.
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Perkin, J. S., Troia, M. J., Shaw, D., Gerken, J. E., & Gido, K. B.
(2016).
Multiple watershed alterations influence fish community structure in Great Plains prairie streams. ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH.
25(1), 141-155.
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Costigan, K. H., Ruffing, C. M., Perkin, J. S., & Daniels, M. D.
(2016).
Rapid Response of a Sand-Dominated River to Installation and Removal of a Temporary Run-of-the-River Dam. River Research and Applications.
32(1), 110-124.
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Perkin, J. S., Gido, K. B., Costigan, K. H., Daniels, M. D., & Johnson, E. R.
(2015).
Fragmentation and drying ratchet down Great Plains stream fish diversity. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.
25(5), 639-655.
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Perkin, J. S., Gido, K. B., Cooper, A. R., Turner, T. F., Osborne, M. J., Johnson, E. R., & Mayes, K. B.
(2015).
Fragmentation and dewatering transform Great Plains stream fish communities. Ecological Monographs.
85(1), 73-92.
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Osborne, M. J., Perkin, J. S., Gido, K. B., & Turner, T. F.
(2014).
Comparative riverscape genetics reveals reservoirs of genetic diversity for conservation and restoration of Great Plains fishes. Molecular Ecology.
23(23), 5663-5679.
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Costigan, K. H., Daniels, M. D., Perkin, J. S., & Gido, K. B.
(2014).
Longitudinal variability in hydraulic geometry and substrate characteristics of a Great Plains sand-bed river. Geomorphology.
210, 48-58.
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Alexander, A. M., & Perkin, J. S.
(2013).
Notes on the Distribution and Feeding Ecology of a Relict Population of the Cardinal Shiner, Luxilus cardinalis (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), in Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science.
116(12), 11-21.
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Perkin, J. S., Shattuck, Z. R., Gerken, J. E., & Bonner, T. H.
(2013).
Fragmentation and Drought Legacy Correlate with Distribution of Burrhead Chub in Subtropical Streams of North America. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.
142(5), 1287-1298.
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Dodds, W. K., Perkin, J. S., & Gerken, J. E.
(2013).
Human impact on freshwater ecosystem services: a global perspective. Environmental Science and Technology.
47(16), 9061-9068.
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Perkin, J. S., Gido, K. B., Al-Ta'ani, O., & Scoglio, C.
(2013).
Simulating fish dispersal in stream networks fragmented by multiple road crossings. ECOLOGICAL MODELLING.
257(C), 44-56.
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Perkin, J. S., & Gido, K. B.
(2012).
Fragmentation alters stream fish community structure in dendritic ecological networks. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS.
22(8), 2176-2187.
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Heard, T. C., Perkin, J. S., & Bonner, T. H.
(2012).
INTRA-ANNUAL VARIATION IN FISH COMMUNITIES AND HABITAT ASSOCIATIONS IN A CHIHUAHUA DESERT REACH OF THE RIO GRANDE/RIO BRAVO DEL NORTE. WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN NATURALIST.
72(1), 1-15.
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Perkin, J. S., Shattuck, Z. R., & Bonner, T. H.
(2012).
Life History Aspects of a Relict Ironcolor Shiner Notropis chalybaeus Population in a Novel Spring Environment. American Midland Naturalist.
167(1), 111-126.
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Perkin, J. S., & Gido, K. B.
(2011).
Stream Fragmentation Thresholds for a Reproductive Guild of Great Plains Fishes. Fisheries.
36(8), 371-383.
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Perkin, J. S., & Bonner, T. H.
(2011).
LONG-TERM CHANGES IN FLOW REGIME AND FISH ASSEMBLAGE COMPOSITION IN THE GUADALUPE AND SAN MARCOS RIVERS OF TEXAS. River Research and Applications.
27(5), 566-579.
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Perkin, J. S., Shattuck, Z. R., Bean, P. T., Bonner, T. H., Saraeva, E., & Hardy, T. B.
(2010).
Movement and Microhabitat Associations of Guadalupe Bass in Two Texas Rivers. North American Journal of Fisheries Management.
30(1), 33-46.
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Perkin, J. S., Williams, C. S., & Bonner, T. H.
(2009).
Aspects of Chub Shiner Notropis potteri Life History with Comments on Native Distribution and Conservation Status. American Midland Naturalist.
162(2), 276-288.
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Nguyen, E., Mayes, K. B., Smith, R., Trungale, J., & Perkin, J. S.
(2023).
The duality of drought: Pelagic and benthicspawning stream fishes show opposing responses to drought in the southern Great Plains
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chapter
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Vaughn, C. C., Gido, K. B., Bestgen, K. R., Perkin, J. S., & Platania, S. P.
(2023).
Chapter 7 Southern Plains Rivers. Rivers of North America.
(pp. 272-312).
Elsevier.
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Gido, K. B., Whitney, J. E., Perkin, J. S., & Turner, T. F.
(2016).
Fragmentation, connectivity and fish species persistence in freshwater ecosystems. CONSERVATION OF FRESHWATER FISHES.
(pp. 292-323).
Cambridge University Press (CUP).
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Vaughn, C. C., Gido, K. B., Bestgen, K. R., Perkin, J. S., & Platania, S. P.
(2023).
Chapter 7 Southern Plains Rivers. Rivers of North America.
(pp. 272-312).
Elsevier.
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conference paper
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Labay, B. J., Perkin, J. S., Hendrickson, D. A., Cooper, A. R., Garrett, G. P., & Birdsong, T. W.
(2019).
Who's Asking? Interjurisdictional Conservation Assessment and Planning for Great Plains Fishes. American Fisheries Society Symposium.
57-83.
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Curtis, S. G., Perkin, J. S., Bean, P. T., Sullivan, M. L., & Bonner, T. H.
(2015).
Guadalupe Bass Micropterus treculii (Valliant & Bocourt, 1874). American Fisheries Society Symposium.
55-60.
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Labay, B. J., Perkin, J. S., Hendrickson, D. A., Cooper, A. R., Garrett, G. P., & Birdsong, T. W.
(2019).
Who's Asking? Interjurisdictional Conservation Assessment and Planning for Great Plains Fishes. American Fisheries Society Symposium.
57-83.
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institutional repository document
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Shepta, E., Perkin, J. S., Mayes, K. B., Schalk, C. M., & Montana, C. G.
(2022).
The ecological niche of native and invasive fish congeners in Texas streams: evidence from morphology, stable isotope analysis, and stomach contents analysis
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Shepta, E., Perkin, J. S., Mayes, K. B., Schalk, C. M., & Montana, C. G.
(2022).
The ecological niche of native and invasive fish congeners in Texas streams: evidence from morphology, stable isotope analysis, and stomach contents analysis
Research
Teaching
teaching activities
- ECCB285 Directed Studies Instructor
- ECCB485 Directed Studies Instructor
- ECCB491 Research Instructor
- ECCB631 Ecological Applications In R Instructor
- ECCB681 Seminar Instructor
- ECCB685 Directed Studies Instructor
- ECCB691 Research Instructor
- ECCB691 Research Instructor
- ESSM691 Research Instructor
- RWFM410 Prin Of Fisheries Mgmt Instructor
- WFSC410 Prin Of Fisheries Mgmt Instructor
- WFSC484 Internship Instructor
- WFSC491 Research Instructor
- WFSC631 Ecological Applications In R Instructor
- WFSC685 Directed Studies Instructor
- WFSC689 Sptp: Eco Applications In R Instructor
- WFSC691 Research Instructor
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Biology, Kansas State University - (Manhattan, Kansas, United States) 2012
Contact
first name
- Joshuah
has last name
- Perkin
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences
2258 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2258
USA
Other
- jperkin@tamu.edu