Meet the Fisheries and Wildlife Faculty
Craig Paukert, Ph.D.
Cooperative Associate Professor
Fisheries and Wildlife
- Phone: 573-882-3524
- E-mail: paukertc@missouri.edu
- Address: 302 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building
- Personal Website: http://web.missouri.edu/~paukertc/
Education
- Ph.D., 2001, South Dakota State University
Research
- Conservation and management of stream and river fishes, applied fisheries science and management, linking fish ecology and fisheries management.
Research Summary
- Paukert's research focuses on meeting the needs of the cooperators of the Missouri Cooperative Research Unit. These needs have primarily focused on conservation and management of large river fishes, stream fish conservation at the local and landscape scale, and management of sport fishes in rivers and reservoirs. Much of his recent research has involved endangered and other native river and stream fishes in the Midwest and Southwest. Most of the research is applied and answers questions relevant to conservation and management agencies.
- Current projects that Paukert, his students and post-docs are working on include 1) identifying the role of floodplain connectivity and tributaries on recruitment of large river fishes, 2) conservation of endangered and threatened fish such as humpback chub in Grand Canyon and Niangua darter in Missouri, 4) conservation planning fish fishes at the landscape level in the Missouri and Colorado River basin, 5) potential for invasion of Asian carp in the Great Lakes, 6) identifying ecologically-relevant flow metrics for streams, and 7) the effects of climate change on fish (communities and species such as smallmouth bass) and fish habitat from the national to local scale.
- Paukert's research often is in collaboration with other scientists and agencies. Recent collaborations have included other academic institutions and departments (Kansas State University, Geography and Biology; Penn State University, University of Washington, University of Minnesota-Duluth, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Michigan State) and federal (US Geological Survey, US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, US Bureau of Reclamation) and state (Missouri Department of Conservation, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, Iowa DNR, Michigan DNR, Minnesota DNR) agencies.
Selected Publications
Books and book chapters
- Paukert, C. P., and G. Scholten, editors. 2009.
Paddlefish Management, Propagation, and Conservation in the 21st Century: Building from 20 years of Research and Management. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. - Paukert, C. P. and D. Galat. 2010.
Warmwater rivers. Pages 699-730 In: W. Hubert and M. Quist, editors. Inland Fisheries Management in North America, 3rd edition. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. - Isermann, D. and C. P. Paukert. 2010.
Regulating harvest. Pages 185-212 In: W. A. Hubert and M. C. Quist, editors. Inland Fisheries Management in North America, third edition. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. - Peterson, J. T., and C. P. Paukert. 2009.
Converting nonstandard fish sampling data to standardized data. Pages 195-214 in: S. A. Bonar, D. W. Willis, and W. A. Hubert, editors. Standardized Sampling Methods in North America. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
Journal articles
- Cooke, S., C. Paukert, and Z. Hogan. In press.
Endangered river fish: Factors hindering conservation and restoration. Endangered Species Research. - Schloesser, J. T., C. P. Paukert, W. J. Doyle, T. D. Hill, K. D. Steffensen, and V. H. Travnichek. 2012.
Heterogeneous detection probabilities for imperiled Missouri River fishes: implications for large river monitoring programs. Endangered Species Research 16:211-224. - Schloesser, J. T., C. P. Paukert, W. J. Doyle, T. D. Hill, K. D. Steffensen, and V. H. Travnichek. 2011.
Fish assemblages at engineered and natural channel structures in the Lower Missouri River: implications for modified dike structures. River Research and Applications - Strecker, A., J. Olden, J. Whittier, and C. Paukert. 2011.
Defining conservation priorities for freshwater fishes according to taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity. Ecological Applications 21:3002-3013. - Paukert, C. P., K. L. Pitts, J. B. Whittier, and J. D. Olden. 2011.
Development and assessment of a landscape-level ecological threat index of the Lower Colorado River Basin. Ecological Indicators 11:304-310. - Eitzmann, J. L., and C. P. Paukert. 2010.
Urbanization in a Great Plains river: effects on fishes and food webs. River Research and Applications 26:948-959. - Jeffress, M. R., C. P. Paukert, B. K. Sandercock, and P. Gipson. In press.
Factors affecting the detectability of river otters during sign surveys. Journal of Wildlife Management. - Eitzmann, J. L., and C. P. Paukert. 2010.
Longitudinal differences in habitat complexity and fish assemblage structure of a Great Plains river. American Midland Naturalist 163:14-32. - Bouska, W. W., and C. P. Paukert. 2010.
Road crossing designs and their impact on fish assemblages of Great Plains streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139:214-222. - Fischer, J.R., and C. P. Paukert. 2009.
Spatial scale of stream fish assemblage and abundance estimates: effects of sampling effort, community structure, and habitat heterogeneity. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66:277-290. - White, K., J. Gerken, C. Paukert, and A. Makinster. 2010.
Fish community structure in natural and engineered habitats in the Kansas River. River Research and Applications 26:797-805. - Petersen, J. H., D. L. DeAngelis, and C. P. Paukert. 2008.
Developing bioenergetics and life history models for rare and endangered species. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137:244-253. - Petersen, J. H., and C. P. Paukert. 2005.
Development of a bioenergetics model for humpback chub and evaluation of water temperature changes in the Grand Canyon, Colorado River. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134:960-974.