THOMAS J. KWAK

Selected Publications

 

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Holliman, F.M., T.J. Kwak, W.G. Cope, and J.F. Levine. 2007. Exposure of unionid mussels to electric current: assessing risks associated with electrofishing. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136: 1593-1606.


Kwak, T.J. and J.T. Peterson.  2007.  Community indices, parameters, and comparisons. Pages 677-763 in C.S. Guy and M.L. Brown, editors. Analysis and interpretation of freshwater fisheries data. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
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Hayes, D.B., J.R. Bence, T.J. Kwak, and B.E. Thompson. 2007. Abundance, biomass, and production estimation. Pages 327-374 in C.S. Guy and M.L. Brown, editors. Analysis and interpretation of freshwater fisheries data. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
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Gustafson, L., W. Showers, T. Kwak, J. Levine, and M. Stoskopf. 2007. Temporal and spatial variability in stable isotope compositions of a freshwater mussel: implications for biomonitoring and ecological studies. Oecologia 152: 140-150.


Pine, W.E, III, T.J. Kwak, and J.A. Rice. 2007. Modeling management scenarios and the effects of an introduced apex predator on a coastal riverine fish community. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136: 105-120.


Hewitt, A.H., W.G. Cope, T.J. Kwak, T. Augspurger, P.R. Lazaro, and D. Shea. 2006.
Influence of water quality and associated contaminants on survival and growth of the endangered Cape Fear shiner (Notropis mekistocholas). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 25: 2288-2298.


Kwak, T.J., W.E. Pine, III, and D.S. Waters. 2006. Age, growth, and mortality of introduced flathead catfish in Atlantic rivers and a review of other populations. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 26: 73-87.


Kwak, T.J. and F.J. Margraf. 2006. Fisheries employment in Cooperative Research Units: where agency meets academia. Pages 109-121 in D.A. Hewitt, W.E. Pine, III, and A.V. Zale, editors. The American Fisheries Society guide to fisheries employment, second edition. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
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Brown J.J., J. Perillo, T.J. Kwak, and R.J. Horwitz. 2005. Implications of Pylodictis olivaris (flathead catfish) introduction into the Delaware and Susquehanna drainages. Northeastern Naturalist 12: 473-484.


Bringolf, R.B., T.J. Kwak, W.G. Cope, and M.S. Larimore. 2005. Salinity tolerance of flathead catfish: implications for dispersal of introduced populations. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134: 927-936.


Pine, W.E, III, T.J. Kwak, D.S. Waters, and J.A. Rice. 2005. Diet selectivity of introduced flathead catfish in coastal rivers. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134: 901-909.


Radwell A.J. and T.J. Kwak. 2005. Assessing ecological integrity of Ozark rivers to determine suitability for protective status. Environmental Management 35: 799-810.
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Heltsley, R.M., W.G. Cope, D. Shea, R.B. Bringolf, T.J. Kwak, and E.G. Malindzak. 2005. Assessing organic contaminants in fish: comparison of a non-lethal tissue sampling technique to mobile and stationary passive sampling devices. Environmental Science and Technology 39: 7601-7608.


Gustafson, L.L., M.K. Stoskopf, A.E. Bogan, W. Showers, T.J. Kwak, S. Hanlon, and J.F. Levine. 2005. Evaluation of a nonlethal technique for hemolymph collection in Elliptio complanata, a freshwater bivalve (Mollusca: Unionidae). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 65: 159-165.


Gustafson, L.L., M.K. Stoskopf, W. Showers, G. Cope, C. Eads, R. Linnehan, T.J. Kwak, B. Andersen, and J.F. Levine. 2005. Reference ranges for hemolymph chemistries from Elliptio complanata of North Carolina. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 65: 167-176.


Barwick, R.D., T.J. Kwak, R.L. Noble, and D.H. Barwick. 2004. Fish populations associated with habitat-modified piers and natural woody debris in Piedmont Carolina reservoirs. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24: 1120-1133.


Waters, D.S., T.J. Kwak, J.B. Arnott, and W.E. Pine. 2004. Evaluation of stomach tubes and gastric lavage for sampling diets from blue catfish and flathead catfish. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24: 258-261.


Pine, W.E., K.H. Pollock, J.E. Hightower, T.J. Kwak, and J.A. Rice. 2003. A review of tagging methods for estimating fish population size and components of mortality. Fisheries 28(10): 10-23.


Holliman, F.M., J.B. Reynolds, and T.J. Kwak. 2003. A predictive risk model for electroshock-induced mortality of the endangered Cape Fear shiner. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23: 905-912.


Holliman, F.M., J.B. Reynolds, and T.J. Kwak. 2003. Electroshock-induced injury and mortality in the spotfin chub, a threatened minnow. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23: 962-966.


Quinn, J.W. and T.J. Kwak. 2003. Fish assemblage changes in an Ozark river after impoundment: a long-term perspective. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 132: 110-119.


Pender, D.R. and T.J. Kwak. 2002. Factors influencing brown trout reproductive success in Ozark tailwater rivers. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131: 698-717.


Quinn, J.W. and T.J. Kwak. 2000. Use of rehabilitated habitat by brown trout and rainbow trout in an Ozark tailwater river. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 20: 737-751.


Peterson, J.T. and T.J. Kwak. 1999. Modeling the effects of land use and climate change on riverine smallmouth bass. Ecological Applications 9: 1391-1404.


Kwak, T.J. and J.B. Zedler. 1997. Food web analysis of southern California coastal wetlands using multiple stable isotopes. Oecologia 110: 262-277.


Kwak, T.J. and T.F. Waters. 1997. Trout production dynamics and water quality in Minnesota streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 126: 35-48.


Kwak, T.J. and M.G. Henry. 1995. Largemouth bass mortality and related causal factors during live-release fishing tournaments on a large Minnesota lake. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 15: 621-630.


Kwak, T.J. 1993. The Kankakee River: a case study and management recommendations for a stream diverse in habitat, fauna, and human values. Pages 123-141 in L.W. Hesse, C.B. Stalnaker, N.G. Benson, and J.R. Zuboy, editors. Restoration planning for the rivers of the Mississippi River ecosystem. U.S. National Biological Survey Biological Report 19. Washington, DC.


Waters, T.F., J.P. Kaehler, T.J. Polomis, and T.J. Kwak. 1993. Production dynamics of smallmouth bass in a small Minnesota stream. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 122: 588-598.


Kwak, T.J. 1992. Modular microcomputer software to estimate fish population parameters, production rates and associated variance. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 1: 73-75.


Kwak, T.J., M.J. Wiley, L.L. Osborne, and R.W. Larimore. 1992. The application of diel feeding chronology to habitat suitability analysis of warmwater stream fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 49: 1417-1430.


Kwak, T.J. and T.M. Skelly. 1992. Spawning habitat, behavior, and morphology as isolating mechanisms of the golden redhorse, Moxostoma erythrurum, and the black redhorse, M. duquesnei, two syntopic fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes 34: 127-137.


Kwak, T.J. 1991. Ecological characteristics of a northern population of the pallid shiner. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 120: 106-115.


Kwak, T.J. 1988. Lateral movement and use of floodplain habitat by fishes of the Kankakee River, Illinois. American Midland Naturalist 120: 241-249.




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