Publications
2025
2024
Perez Rocha, M., K. Cottenie, K. Clein, L. Elkins, R. Mangold, W. Nowlin, J. S. Perkin, K. Wright, and A. N. Schwalb. (2024). Using a nested sampling design across spatial scales to gain insights into distribution patterns of fishes, mussels and macroinvertebrates in a riverine system. Journal of Biogeography 51(12): 2456-2468. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15003
Cushway, K. C., Harris, A. E., Piercy, C. D., Mitchell*, Z. A., and A. N. Schwalb. (2024). Go with the flow: impacts of high and low flow conditions on freshwater mussel assemblages and distribution. PLOS One 19.2, e0296861. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296861
Cushway, K. C., and A. N. Schwalb. (2024). When rivers run dry: perennial pools as ecological refuges for freshwater mussels during drought. Freshwater Biology 69:226-239. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.14206
Cushway, K. C., Geist, J., & Schwalb, A. N. (2024). Surviving global change: a review of the impacts of drought and dewatering on freshwater mussels. Biological Reviews, 100, 275-307. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13142
K.E. Perez, V. Cantu, V. Saenz, R. Gibson, P. Duncan, B.T. Hutchins (2024). Invertebrate diversity from deep wells of the southern boundary of the Edwards Aquifer of south-central Texas. Texas Journal of Science 76(1): article 2. https://doi.org/10.32011/txjsci_76_1_Article2
Santee, N.S., K.W. Conway, W.H. Nowlin, D. Smith, and J.S. Perkin. (2024). Alterations to water quality and quantity elicit similar stream fish functional trait responses in three North American rivers. Ecological Indicators 169:112917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112917
Stancheva, R., Cantonati, M., Manoylov, K., Furey, P. C., Cahoon, A. B., Jones, R. C., Gillevet, P., Amsler, C. D., Wehr, J. D., Salerno, J. L., Krueger-Hadfield, S. A. (2024). The Importance of Integrating Phycological Research, Teaching, Outreach, and Engagement in a Changing World. Journal of Phycology, 60, 1335–1348. https://doi. org/10.1111/jpy.13507
Bowles, D.H., and W.H. Nowlin. 2023. Ecology of aquatic invertebrates in springs and headwater streams: imperiled habitats in a changing world. Hydrobiology 2:463-466. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrobiology2030030
Mitchell, Z., K. Cottenie, and A.N. Schwalb. 2023. Trait-based and multi-scale approach provides insight on responses of freshwater mussels to environmental heterogeneity. Ecosphere 14(7): e4533. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4533
Perez, K.E., R. Castañeda, Y. Guerrero, P. Diaz, R. Gibson, B. Schwartz, and B. Hutchins. 2023. Two new phreatic snails (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Cochliopidae) from the Edwards and Edwards-Trinity Aquifers, Texas. Subterranean Biology 47: 1-27. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.47.113186
Perez Rocha, M., K. Cottenie, T. Morris, A.N. Schwalb. 2023. Limitations of beta diversity in conservation site selection. Ecological Indicators 154: 110732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110732
Evans, H. A., Booknis, M. I., Santee, N. S., Mangold, R. D., Roberts, H. C., Wolff, J. P., Ellard, J. K., Smith, D., & Perkin, J. S. (2023). Mesohabitat and macroecological correlates for blue sucker (Cycleptus elongatus) occurrence in regulated rivers. River Research and Applications 39:2102-2109. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4205
2023
Riggins, C.L., Perkin, J.S., Nowlin, W.H., & Smith, K.K. (2025). Population ecology and life history of Macrobrachium carcinus Linnaeus, 1758 (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) in a spring-fed, headwaters river of central Texas, USA. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 45(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruaf013
DiNicola, M., C. L. Riggins, C. Garoutte, B. M. Crookstone, & B. A. Lane. (in review). Using 3D printed replicates to assess subadult freshwater mussel mobilization thresholds in a flume.
Austin-Bingamon, E., B. Schwartz, B. Hutchins, & S. Alman. (in review). Classifying flow regime by modelling hydrological indices at ungauged stream segments.
Hutchins, B., Schwartz, B., and Külköylüoğlu, O. (in review). The conservation status of Texas groundwater ostracods. Texas Journal of Science.
Perez, K.E., Saenz, V., Gonzales, L., Guerrero, E., Diaz, P., Hutchins, B.T., & Schwartz, B.F. (2025). New and revised groundwater snails (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Cochliopidae) from karst and associated hyporheic habitats in western Texas and northern Mexico. Subterranean Biology 50: 1119-151. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.50.138174
DiNicola, M., Riggins, C., Garouette, C., Crookston, B., & Lane, B. (in review) Using 3D printed replicates to assess subadult freshwater mussel mobilization thresholds in a flume. Journal of Ecohydraulics.
Wright, K.L.M., P. Nair, T.M. Swannack, & Nowlin, W.H. (In review). Assessing drivers of spatial variation in macroinvertebrate community structure in spring-fed subtropical rivers. Aquatic Ecology.