Colden Baxter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Ecology
baxtcold@isu.edu
(208) 251-5980
Room 310 Gale Life Sciences Bldg
Curriculum Vitae
Idaho State University Stream Ecology Center
Ecology of rivers; ecological linkages between water and land; landscape and community ecology; conservation and restoration ecology; philosophy of science and resource management
Education
B.A., Biology and Geology, 1993, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
M.S., Organismal Biology and Ecology, 1997, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
Ph.D., Fisheries Science, 2002, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Postdoc, Ecology, 2002-2005, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Baxter has been Assistant Professor of the ISU Stream Ecology Center since winter of 2005. His research focuses on rivers and streams, but more generally on the ecological linkages between water and land. He and his students study the vectors of aquatic-terrestrial connectivity, their ecological roles, and the consequences of their disruption. These reciprocal linkages are critical to watershed ecosystems, and they couple land and water in their vulnerability to the agents of global environmental change. Many of Dr. Baxter’s research projects focus on connections between streams, floodplains, and riparian forests, and the response of these linked systems to both natural and human-caused disturbances. His studies range across levels of biological organization, from organisms and populations to communities and ecosystems. Most of Dr. Baxter’s work is also set in the context of addressing human affects on native organisms and ecosystems, and aims to contribute to better-informed conservation and stewardship.
Teaching
Biol 192, Introduction to Ecology
Biol 496, Ecology Senior Seminar
Biol 462/562, Freshwater Ecology
Biol 604, Advanced River Ecology
Biol 599, History and Philosophy of Biology
Publications
Mineau, M.M., C.V. Baxter, A.M. Marcarelli. In press. A non-native riparian tree (Elaeagnus angustifolia) changes nutrient dynamics in streams. Ecosystems.
Marcarelli, A.M., R.W. Van Kirk and C.V. Baxter. 2010. Predicting effects of hydrologic alteration and climate change on ecosystem metabolism in a western U.S. river. Ecological Applications.
Malison, R.L. and C.V. Baxter. 2010. The “fire pulse:” wildfire stimulates flux of aquatic prey to terrestrial habitats driving increases in riparian consumers. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 67(3):570-579.
Malison, R.L., J. Benjamin, and and C.V. Baxter. 2010. Measuring adult insect emergence from streams: the influence of trap placement and a comparison with benthic sampling. Journal of North American Benthological Society 29(2):647–656.
Malison, R.L. and C.V. Baxter. 2010. Effects of wildfire of varying severity on benthic stream insect assemblages and emergence. Journal of North American Benthological Society 29:647-656.
Wipfli, M.S. and C.V. Baxter. 2010. Prey resources for riverine fishes: modeling spatial and seasonal change across drainage networks. Fisheries 35:373-387.
Benjamin, J.R. and C.V. Baxter. 2010. Do nonnative salmonines exhibit greater density and production than the natives they replace? A comparison of nonnative brook trout to native cutthroat trout. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139:641-651.
Fausch, K.D., C.V. Baxter, and M. Murakami. 2010. Multiple stressors in north temperate streams: lessons from linked forest-stream ecosystems in northern Japan. Freshwater Biology 55: 12-134.
Monroe, J.B., C. V. Baxter, J.D. Olden, and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. Freshwaters in the public eye: understanding the role of images and media in aquatic conservation. Fisheries 34:581-585.
Dunham, J.B., C.V. Baxter, and 10 coauthors. 2008. International perspectives on the ecology and conservation of bull trout, white-spotted charr, and Dolly Varden charr. Fisheries 33: 537-550.
Baxter, C.V., K.D. Fausch, M. Murakami and P.L. Chapman. 2007. Invading rainbow trout usurp a terrestrial prey subsidy to native charr and alter their behavior, growth, and abundance. Oecologia 153:461-470.
Torgersen, C.E., C.V. Baxter, H.W. Li, and B.A. McIntosh. 2006. Landscape influences on longitudinal patterns of stream fishes: spatially continuous analysis of fish-habitat relationships. In R. Hughes, L. Wang, and P. Seelbach, editors. Influences of landscapes on stream habitats and biological communities. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Baxter, C. V., K. D. Fausch, and W. C. Saunders. 2005. Tangled webs: reciprocal flows of invertebrate prey link streams and riparian zones. Freshwater Biology 50(2):201-220.
Laeser, S.R., C.V. Baxter and K.D. Fausch. 2005. Effects of stream channelization and riparian vegetation loss on web-weaving spiders in northern Japan. Ecological Research. 20:646-651.
Wright, K.K, C.V. Baxter, J. Li. 2005. Restricted hyporheic exchange in an alluvial river system: implications for stream ecology theory and watershed management. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 24:447-460.
Baxter, C.V., K.D. Fausch, M. Murakami and P.L. Chapman. 2004. Non-native stream fish invasion restructures stream and riparian forest food webs by interrupting reciprocal prey subsidies. Ecology 85: 2656-2663.