Research & Publications

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Climate Change

We have explored using the species distribution models in climate change applications, projecting species' climatic suitability onto projected future conditions. This work is intended to provide information on the direction and magnitude of climatic suitability shifts considering extreme and conservative projected global greenhouse gas emission scenarios.

Colorado River Basin Cyprinids – a clean-up of the occurrence data for cyprinids from the Colorado basin, with an emphasis on examining whether or not N. oxyrhynchus are native there

Waller Creek Xiphophorus  – the first documented occurrence of Xiphophorus variatus in Texas and exploration into how it has survived in Waller Creek on the UT campus for many years.

Mexican Trout – ‘Truchas Mexicanas’ is a binational group aimed at gathering information about the under-studied native trout of Mexico

Cuatro Cienegas – a website created in 1995, as part of the Desert Fishes Council, providing basic information on the biodiversity and various research projects taking place in the central Coahuila valley

American Eel - documenting historic and modern occurrences of Anguila rostrata in Texas and more generally along the Gulf Coast

Data gap sampling in TX - based on the data held in our Fishes of Texas database we are sampling in areas of the state that are historically poorly sampled