Nislow, Keith
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Fishery Biologist, USDA Forest Service
Northerneastern Research Station
Primary interests
Dr. Nislow conducts research on the relationship between land use, aquatic habitat, and the distribution, abundance of fish and aquatic invertebrates. Specializing in establishing explicit, mechanistic links between environmental variation with the behavior, growth, and survival of stream salmonid fishes, Dr. Nislow is particularly interested in using basic science to assist restoration, conservation, and management. Dr. Nislow currently serves as a technical adviser to the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission, and the Green and White Mountain National Forests, and as an Associate Editor of the North American Journal of Fisheries Management.
Current Projects
- Bioenergetics approaches to habitat suitability modeling for juvenile salmonids
- Effects of stream restoration on habitats, invertebrates, and fish
- Relative importance of environmental vs. heritable variation in juvenile Atlantic salmon performance
- Using genetic and stable isotope markers to understand Atlantic salmon movement and dispersal between habitats
- Effects of logging history on brook trout populations
Current Student Projects
Interactive effects of community dynamics and habitat structure on juvenile Atlantic salmon growth and population density. Darren Ward, PhD (Dartmouth College – Biology)
Movement and dispersal strategies of wild trout. Jason Coombs, PhD (UMASS-OEB)
Invertebrate prey phenology and seasonal growth in three co-occurring salmonid species. Jeffrey Ojala, MS (UMASS-WFCON)
The effects of LWD addition on fish community structure in the Green Mountain National Forest . Dana Jedlicka, MS (UMASS-WFCON)
Selected Recent Publications
Ward, D.M., Nislow, K.H., Einum, S., Armstrong, J.D., and C.L. Folt. Submitted . Is the shape of the density-growth relationship inconsistent with interference conpetition for space? Journal of Animal Ecology
Armstrong, J.D. and K.H. Nislow. Submitted . Critical habitat during the transition from maternal provisioning for freshwater fishes. Journal of Zoology
Magilligan, F.J. and K.H. Nislow. In press . Changes in flood regime by dams. Geomorphology
Einum, S., Sundt-Hansen, L. and K.H. Nislow. In press . The partitioning of density-dependent survival, growth, and dispersal through ontogeny in highly fecund organisms. Oikos
Sotiropoulos, J., Nislow, K.H. and M.R. Ross. In press . Brook trout microhabitat selection and diet under low summer stream flows. Fisheries Management and Ecology.
Nislow, K.H. and W.H. Lowe. 2006. Influence of logging history and riparian forest characteristics on macroinvertebrates and brook trout. Freshwater Biology 51: 388-397.
Nislow, K.H. 2005. Forest change and stream fish habitat: lessons from ‘Olde’ and New England . Journal of Fish Biology 67: 186-204
Einum. S. and K.H. Nislow. 2005. Local-scale density dependent survival of mobile organisms in continuous habitats: an experimental test using Atlantic salmon. Oecologia 143: 203 – 210.
Lowe, W.H., Nislow, K.H. and Likens, G.E. 2005. Forest structure and stream salamander diets: Implications for terrestrial-aquatic connectivity. Proceedings of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology 29: 279 – 286
Kennedy, B.P., Chamberlain, C.P., Blum, J.D., Nislow, K.H. and C.L. Folt. 2005. Comparing naturally-occurring isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, and strontium as markers for the rearing locations of Atlantic salmon. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62: 48-57.
Nislow, K.H., Armstrong, J.D. and S. McKelvey. 2004. Transport of phosphorus by migratory Atlantic salmon: the role of management and demography. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61: 2401 – 2410.
Letcher, B.H. Dubreuil, T., O’Donnell, M. Obedzinski, M. and K.H. Nislow. 2004. Long-term consequences of variation in timing and manner of fry introduction for juvenile Atlantic salmon growth, survival, and life-history expression. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61: 2288 – 2301.
Lowe, W., Nislow, K.H. and D.T. Bolger. 2004. Stage-specific and interactive effects of sedimentation and trout on the abundance of a headwater stream salamander . Ecological Applications 14:164 – 172
Nislow, K.H., Sepulveda, A. and C.L. Folt. 2004. Linking hydrologic regime mechanistically to summer growth of age-0 Atlantic salmon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 133:79-88
Nislow, K.H., Einum, S. and C.L. Folt. 2004. Testing predictions of the critical period for survival concept using experiments with stocked fish. Journal of Fish Biology 65(Supplement A) : 188-200
Magilligan, F.J., Nislow, K.H. and B.E. Graber. 2003. A scale-independent assessment of discharge reduction and riparian disconnectivity following regulation by dams. Geology 7: 569-572
Nislow, K.H. and Lowe, W. 2003. Influences of logging history and stream pH on brook trout abundance in 1 st order streams in New Hampshire . Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 132: 166-171
Last updated July 17, 2009 by Roxann Cormier
