Journal Articles

List and links to my journal articles. Also see my Google Scholar or ResearchGate profiles.

2025

Abundance estimates and habitat associations for two least-disturbed Redside Dace (Clinostomus elongatus) populations in tributaries of Lake Huron (Ontario, Canada)

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe and D. Andrew R. Drake
Journal: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Habitat stratification for maximizing the power to detect proportional declines in occupancy of an imperilled freshwater fish species

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Matthew M. Guzzo, Neil J. Mochnacz, and D. Andrew R. Drake
Journal: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

2022

Stage‐specific abiotic and biotic associations of the imperilled Silver Shiner Notropis photogenis in an urban drainage

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe and D. Andrew R. Drake
Journal: Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 31(3), 571-582

2021

The translocation trade-off for eastern sand darter (Ammocrypta pellucida): balancing harm to source populations with the goal of re-establishment

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Adam S. van der Lee, D. Andrew R. Drake, and Marten A. Koops
Journal: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 78(9), 1321-1331

Occupancy and detection of Wavyrayed Lampmussel Lampsilis fasciola in Ontario, Canada

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Kelly A. McNichols-O’Rourke, and Todd J. Morris
Journal: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 78(9), 1305-1311

Fifteen years of Canada’s Species at Risk Act: evaluating research progress for aquatic species in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin

Authors: D. Andrew R. Drake, Karl A. Lamothe, Kristin E. Thiessen, Todd J. Morris, Marten A. Koops, Thomas C. Pratt, Scott M. Reid, Donald A. Jackson, and Nicholas E. Mandrak
Journal: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 78(9), 1205-1218

Letter to the editor: Using classification systems to integrate ecosystem services with decision making

Authors: John Finisdore, Karl A. Lamothe, Charles R. Rhodes, Carl Obst, Pieter Booth, Roy Haines-Young, Marc Russell, Joel Robert Houdet, Simone Maynard, Jeffrey Wielgus, and Petrina Rowcroft
Journal: Ecosystem Services, 48, 101257

Freshwater fish functional and taxonomic diversity above and below Niagara Falls

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Justin A. G. Hubbard, and D. Andrew R. Drake
Journal: Environmental Biology of Fishes, 104(6), 637-649

2020

The 18 benefits from using ecosystem services classification systems

Authors: John Finisdore, Charles Rhodes, Roy Haines-Young, Simone Maynard, Jeffrey Wielgus, Anthony Dvarskas, Fabien Quétier, Joel Houdet, Karl A. Lamothe, Helen Ding, François Soulard, George Van Houtven, and Petrina Rowcroft
Journal: Ecosystem Services, 45, 101160

Abiotic and biotic associations between the round goby Neogobius melanostomus and tubenose goby Proterorhinus marmoratus with the endangered northern madtom Noturus stigmosus in Canada

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Jacob P. Ziegler, Robin Gáspárdy, Jason Barnucz, and D. Andrew R. Drake
Journal: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 30(4), 691-700

Habitat associations of the Threatened pugnose minnow (Opsopoeodus emiliae) at the northern edge of the species range

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe and D. Andrew R. Drake
Journal: Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 29(2), 289-298

2019

Reintroduction of fishes in Canada: a review of research progress for SARA-listed species

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, D. Andrew R. Drake, Trevor E. Pitcher, Jeremy E. Broome, Alan J. Dextrase, Ashley Gillespie, Nicholas E. Mandrak, Mark S. Poesch, Scott M. Reid, and Nathalie Vachon
Journal: Environmental Reviews, 27(4), 575-599
Selected as an “Editor’s Choice” paper in Environmental Reviews for the paper’s particularly high caliber and topical importance.

Aggregation of two imperfectly detected imperilled freshwater fishes: Understanding community structure and co-occurrence for multispecies conservation

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Alan J. Dextrase, and D. Andrew R. Drake
Journal: Endangered Species Research, 40, 123-132

Characterizing species co-occurrence patterns of imperfectly detected stream fishes to inform species reintroduction efforts

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Alan J. Dextrase, and D. Andrew R. Drake
Journal: Conservation Biology, 33(6), 1392-1403

Evaluating functional diversity conservation for freshwater fishes resulting from terrestrial protected areas

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Karen M. Alofs, and Cindy Chu
Journal: Freshwater Biology, 64(11), 2057-2070

Moving repatriation efforts forward for imperilled Canadian freshwater fishes

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe and D. Andrew R. Drake
Journal: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 76(10), 1914-1921

Linking the ball-and-cup analogy and ordination trajectories to describe ecosystem stability, resistance, and resilience

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Keith M. Somers, and Donald A. Jackson
Journal: Ecosphere, 10(3), e02629

Demand for non-provisioning ecosystem services as a driver of change in the Boreal Zone, Canada

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Haibin Dong, Oscar Senar, Sonja Teichert, Irena F. Creed, David P. Kreutzweiser, Fiona K.A. Schmiegelow, and Lisa Venier
Journal: Environmental Reviews, 27(1), 106-123

2018

Intermediate ecosystem services: the origin and meanings behind an unsettled concept

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe and Ira J. Sutherland*
Journal: International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management, 14(1), 179-187
*Equal authorship

Functional diversity and redundancy of freshwater fish communities across biogeographic and environmental gradients

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Karen M. Alofs, Donald A. Jackson, and Keith M. Somers
Journal: Diversity and Distributions, 24(11), 1612-1626

Are research networks worth the time for graduate students?

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Vanessa Bourne, Andrew T.M. Chin, Kristin Daoust, Catherine M. Dieleman, Camille Ouellet Dallaire, and Stephanie A. Tomscha
Journal: Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 99(3), 343-350

Long-term directional trajectories among lake crustacean zooplankton communities and water chemistry

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Donald A. Jackson, and Keith M. Somers
Journal: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 75(11), 1926-1939

Undervalued and under pressure: a plea for greater attention toward regulating ecosystem services

Authors: Ira J. Sutherland, Amy M. Villamagna, Camille Ouellet Dallaire, Elena M. Bennett, Andrew T.M. Chin, Stephanie A. Tomscha, Karl A. Lamothe, Alex C.Y. Yeung, and Roland Cormier
Journal: Ecological Indicators, 94(Part 2), 23-32

2017

Utilizing gradient simulations for developing measures of community-level resistance and resilience to disturbance

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Donald A. Jackson, and Keith M. Somers
Journal: Ecosphere, 8(9), e01953

Authors: Patricia Szczys, Karl A. Lamothe, Alexey Druzyaka, Martin J.M. Poot, Valeri Siokhin, and Jan van der Winden
Journal: Journal of Ornithology, 158(2), 365-378

2016

Stocking for a trophy bass fishery: searching for size differences among largemouth bass and hybrids in southern Arkansas reservoirs

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Ryan M. Allen, Kelly Winningham, Colton Dennis, and Ronald L. Johnson
Journal: Lake and Reservoir Management, 32(2), 194-207

2013

Microsatellite analysis of trophy largemouth bass from Arkansas reservoirs

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe and Ronald L. Johnson
Journal: Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science, 67, 71-80

2012

Shifting genetic composition of largemouth bass populations in dendritic arms of two large Arkansas reservoirs through stocking of Florida largemouth bass

Authors: Karl A. Lamothe, Ryan M. Allen, Christopher Cato, Kelly Winningham, Colton Dennis, and Ronald L. Johnson
Journal: Proceedings of Annual Conference of Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, 66, 82-87