Jared Arthur Ross

• MS
• Research Assistant at Michigan State University

Effective conservation of stream fishes and their habitats is complicated by the fact that human stressors alter the way in which natural factors such as stream size, catchment geology, and regional climate influence stream ecosystems. Consequently, efforts to assess the condition of stream fishes and their habitats must not only attempt to charact...

Globally, dams fragment river networks, threatening migratory fishes which require access to distinct habitats to complete their life cycles. Efforts to understand how cumulative effects of multiple dams affect migratory fishes across large regions, such as a country or continent, could help to identify locations for connectivity‐enhancing actions...

Aquatic foods are critical for food and nutrition security in Malawi, but it is unclear which populations benefit from different aquatic foods and what factors shape food access. Spatial analysis of food flows across value chains from Lake Malawi to domestic consumers shows that usipa (Engraulicypris sardella) reaches more consumers than chambo (Or...

Aquatic foods are critical for food and nutrition security in Malawi, but it is unclear which populations benefit from different aquatic foods and what factors shape food access. Spatial analysis of food flows across value chains from Lake Malawi to domestic consumers shows that usipa (Engraulicypris sardella) reaches more consumers than chambo (Or...

Aim Migratory freshwater fishes are those that must access discrete habitats to complete their life cycles. Freshwater fish migrations occur around the world and provide numerous ecosystem services for humans and natural systems; however, many migratory species are in decline globally. A limiting factor to successfully conserve freshwater migratory...

Michigan's Water Withdrawal Assessment Program (WWAP) is charged to restrict new, large-quantity water withdrawals to those not causing individual or cumulative Adverse Resource Impacts (ARIs) to affected stream segments. Currently, the WWAP's assessment of impacts of expected flow depletions is limited to adjacent water management areas (WMAs) whi...

Habitat degradation combined with climate change increases the threat of extinction for stream fishes. In response to these threats, efforts to reestablish species within formerly occupied streams or translocation to suitable areas may be effective conservation strategies. In the absence of historic species presence data, identifying locations wher...

Populations of stream organisms across trophic levels, including microbial taxa, are adapted to physical and biotic stream features, and are sentinels of geological and hydrological landscape processes and anthropogenic disturbance. Stream bacterial diversity and composition can have profound effects on resident and migratory species in Great Lakes...

In many applications, conservation organizations depend on one species to indicate the presence of another. While extensive research has gone into methods for selecting these indicator species, few studies have directly measured the performance of indicator species in guiding conservation actions. Here, we evaluated whether a small number of indica...

Fluvial threat assessments characterize the potential for fluvial habitat conditions to be degraded by differing types and intensities of anthropogenic activities occurring on the landscape, ultimately affecting stream biota. We present a threat assessment for fluvial habitats in Alaska based on six anthropogenic disturbance indices representing ur...

Currently, much is known about influences of landscape attributes , including timber harvest practices, on large wood dynamics in streams. Comparatively, much less is known about influences of catchment attributes on Southeast Alaska streams, in part because of a historical lack of consistent catchment-scale data available for the region. As in for...

Logging regulations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska have evolved over time to alleviate negative effects that historic harvest practices have had on stream habitat. While natural landscape factors largely control stream habitat, timber harvest can alter these influences, underscoring the importance of clarifying effects of both for understandin...

Conservation practitioners face difficult choices in apportioning limited resources between rare species (to ensure their existence) and common species (to ensure their abundance and ecosystem contributions). We quantified the opportunity costs of conserving rare species of migratory fishes in the context of removing dams and retrofitting road culv...

Western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB) is the most intensively farmed region of the Great Lakes. Because of the flat topography and poorly-drained soils many farmers rely on drainage management practices (e.g., subsurface tile drainage, ditch channelization) to maintain productive agriculture. However, these practices also facilitate the delivery of excess...

Viable large-scale crop production in the United States requires artificial drainage in humid and poorly drained agricultural regions. Excess water removal is generally achieved by installing tile drains that export water to open ditches that eventually flow into streams. Drainage water management (DWM) is a conservation practice that allows farmer...

It’s well-known that stream characteristics are controlled by features of landscapes, and local conditions within streams are influenced by hydrologic and geomorphic processes occurring within watersheds. In southeast Alaska, a local habitat factor accepted as improving a stream’s ability to support salmonids is large wood. Historically, research o...

Catchment Creation and Data Attribution for Stream Reaches in Southern Alaska: Generating Data to Facilitate Stream Research and Management Kyle Herreman1, Jared Ross1, Dana Infante1, Wes Daniel1, Arthur Cooper1, Dan Wieferich1 1Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823 Increasingly, research...

Landscape factors, both natural and anthropogenic, affect stream habitats and the biota they support. Land uses in the riparian zone, for example, have been shown to directly affect amounts and types of woody debris and substrate in streams. In the Pacific Northwest, timber harvest in riparian zones is acknowledged as having negative effects on aqu...