Appling, A. P., R. O. Hall, C. B. Yackulic, and M. Arroita. 2018. Overcoming Equifinality: Leveraging Long Time Series for Stream Metabolism Estimation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 123:624–645.
Arizona Game & Fish. 2019. Status Definitions. https://www.azgfd.com/wildlife/planning/wildlifeguidelines/rankdefinitions/.
Barkalow, S. L. C., M. A. Brandenburg, S. P. Platania, and J. L. Kennedy. 2016. Reproductive ecology and early history of bluehead sucker and flannelmouth sucker in the San Juan River. Final Report:26.
Barneche, D. R., D. R. Robertson, C. R. White, and D. J. Marshall. 2018. Fish reproductive-energy output increases disproportionately with body size. Science 360:642–645.
Boeuf, G., and P.-Y. Le Bail. 1999. Does light have an influence on fish growth? Aquaculture 177:129–152.
Bower, M. R., W. A. Hubert, and F. J. Rahel. 2008. Habitat Features Affect Bluehead Sucker, Flannelmouth Sucker, and Roundtail Chub across a Headwater Tributary System in the Colorado River Basin. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 23:347–357.
Boyer, J. K., and D. L. Rogowski. 2018. Colorado River Fish Monitoring in the Grand Canyon, Arizona—2017 Annual Report.
Bureau of Reclamation. 2016, June. Species Accounts for the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation.
Campos, B. R. 2005. The evolution, demise, and restoration of the native fishes of the lower Colorado River. University of California, Davis:25.
Cargnelli, L. M., and M. R. Gross. 1996. The temporal dimension in fish recruitment: birth date, body size, and size-dependent survival in a sunfish (bluegill: Lepomis macrochirus) 53:8.
Carothers, S. W. 2000. Decommissioning Glen Canyon Dam: the key to Colorado River ecosystem restoration and recovery of endangered species? ARIZONA LAW REVIEW 42:25.
Chen, Y., D. A. Jackson, and H. H. Harvey. 1992. A Comparison of von Bertalanffy and Polynomial Functions in Modelling Fish Growth Data. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 49:1228–1235.
Childs, M. R., R. W. Clarkson, and A. T. Robinson. 1998. Resource Use by Larval and Early Juvenile Native Fishes in the Little Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 127:620–629.
Cooke, S. J., C. M. Bunt, S. J. Hamilton, C. A. Jennings, M. P. Pearson, M. S. Cooperman, and D. F. Markle. 2005. Threats, conservation strategies, and prognosis for suckers (Catostomidae) in North America: insights from regional case studies of a diverse family of non-game fishes. Biological Conservation 121:317–331.
Counihan, T. D., I. R. Waite, A. F. Casper, D. L. Ward, J. S. Sauer, E. R. Irwin, C. G. Chapman, B. S. Ickes, C. P. Paukert, J. J. Kosovich, and J. M. Bayer. 2018. Can data from disparate long-term fish monitoring programs be used to increase our understanding of regional and continental trends in large river assemblages? PLOS ONE 13:e0191472.
Cross, W. F., C. V. Baxter, E. J. Rosi-Marshall, R. O. Hall, T. A. Kennedy, K. C. Donner, H. A. Wellard Kelly, S. E. Z. Seegert, K. E. Behn, and M. D. Yard. 2013. Food-web dynamics in a large river discontinuum. Ecological Monographs 83:311–337.
Dauwalter, D. C., J. S. Sanderson, J. E. Williams, and J. R. Sedell. 2011. Identification and Implementation of Native Fish Conservation Areas in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Fisheries 36:278–288.
Douglas, M. E., and P. C. Marsh. 1998. Population and Survival Estimates of Catostomus latipinnis in Northern Grand Canyon, with Distribution and Abundance of Hybrids with Xyrauchen texanus. Copeia 1998:915.
Dzul, M. C., C. B. Yackulic, J. Korman, M. D. Yard, and J. D. Muehlbauer. 2017. Incorporating temporal heterogeneity in environmental conditions into a somatic growth model. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74:316–326.
Fraser, G. S., D. L. Winkelman, K. R. Bestgen, and K. G. Thompson. 2017. Tributary Use by Imperiled Flannelmouth and Bluehead Suckers in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 146:858–870.
Gelman, A., J. B. Carlin, H. S. Stern, and D. B. Rubin. 2009. Bayesian Data Analysis. Second edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Gelman, A., J. Hwang, and A. Vehtari. 2014. Understanding predictive information criteria for Bayesian models. Statistics and Computing 24:997–1016.
Holden, P. B., and C. B. Stalnaker. 1975. Distribution of Fishes in the Dolores and Yampa River Systems of the Upper Colorado Basin. The Southwestern Naturalist 19:403.
Hooten, M. B., and N. T. Hobbs. 2015. A guide to Bayesian model selection for ecologists. Ecological Monographs 85:3–28.
Kennedy, T. A. 2013. Native and nonnative fish populations of the Colorado River are food limited: evidence from new food web analyses. Fact Sheet, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Korman, J., M. D. Yard, and T. A. Kennedy. 2017. Trends in Rainbow Trout Recruitment, Abundance, Survival, and Growth during a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in a Tailwater Fishery. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 146:1043–1057.
Makinster, A. S., W. R. Persons, L. A. Avery, and A. J. Bunch. 2010. Colorado river fish monitoring in Grand Canyon, Arizona - 2000 to 2009 summary. Open-File Report, United States Geological Survey.
Minckley, W. L., and J. E. Deacon, editors. 1991. Battle against extinction: native fish management in the American West. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Mommsen, T. P. 2001. Paradigms of growth in fishଝ. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 129:207–219.
Mueller, G. A. 2005. Predatory fish removal and native fish recovery in the Colorado River mainstem: what have we learned? Fisheries 30:10–19.
Mueller, G. A., and R. Wydoski. 2004. Reintroduction of the Flannelmouth Sucker in the Lower Colorado River. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24:41–46.
National Parks Service. 2018, July 24. Grand Canyon’s Native Fish. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/fish-native.htm.
Paukert, C., and R. S. Rogers. 2004. Factors Affecting Condition of Flannelmouth Suckers in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24:648–653.
Poff, N. L., J. D. Allen, M. B. Bain, J. R. Karr, K. L. Prestegaard, B. D. Richter, R. E. Sparks, and Stromberg, Juliet C. 1997. The natural flow regime: a paradigm for river conservation and restoration. BioScience 47.
R Core Development Team. 2019. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
Robinson, A. T., and M. R. Childs. 2001. Juvenile Growth of Native Fishes in the Little Colorado River and in a Thermally Modified Portion of the Colorado River. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 21:809–815.
Roff, D. A. 1983. An Allocation Model of Growth and Reproduction in Fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 40:1395–1404.
Rogowski, D. L., and J. K. Boyer. 2019. Colorado River Fish Monitoring in the Grand Canyon, Arizona—2018 Annual Report. Page 46. Technical Report, Arizona Game and Fish.
Sabo, J. L., M. Caron, R. Doucett, K. L. Dibble, A. Ruhi, J. C. Marks, B. A. Hungate, and T. A. Kennedy. 2018. Pulsed flows, tributary inputs and food-web structure in a highly regulated river. Journal of Applied Ecology 55:1884–1895.
Schmidt, J. C., R. H. Webb, R. A. Valdez, G. R. Marzolf, and L. E. Stevens. 1998. Science and Values in River Restoration in the Grand Canyon. BioScience 48:735–747.
Schmidt, J., T. A. Kennedy, B. E. Ralston, and T. S. Melis. 2011. Effects of three high-flow experiments on the Colorado River ecosystem downstream from Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona. Circular, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
Seegert, S. E. Z., E. J. Rosi-Marshall, C. V. Baxter, T. A. Kennedy, R. O. Hall, and W. F. Cross. 2014. High Diet Overlap between Native Small-Bodied Fishes and Nonnative Fathead Minnow in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 143:1072–1083.
Seelbach, P. W. 1987. Effect of winter severity on steelhead smolt yield in Michigan: an example of the importance of environmental factors in determining smolt yield. American Fisheries Society Symposium 1:441–450.
Thompson, J. M., E. P. Bergersen, C. A. Carlson, and L. R. Kaeding. 1991. Role of size, condition, and lipid content in the overwinter survival of age-0 Colorado squawfish. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 120:346–353.
Topping, D. J., D. M. Rubin, and L. E. Vierra Jr. 2000. Colorado River sediment transport 1. Natural sediment supply limitation and the influence of Glen Canyon Dam. Water Resources Research 36:515–545.
Ward, D. L., O. E. Maughan, and S. A. Bonar. 2002. Effects of Temperature, Fish Length, and Exercise on Swimming Performance of Age‐0 Flannelmouth Sucker. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131:492–497.
Wootton, R. J. 1979. Energy cost of egg production and environmental determinant of fecundity in teleost fishes. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 44:133–159.
Yard, M. D., G. E. Bennett, S. N. Mietz, L. G. Coggins, L. E. Stevens, S. Hueftle, and D. W. Blinn. 2005. Influence of topographic complexity on solar insolation estimates for the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, AZ. Ecological Modelling 183:157–172.
Arizona Game & Fish. 2019. Status Definitions. https://www.azgfd.com/wildlife/planning/wildlifeguidelines/rankdefinitions/.
Barkalow, S. L. C., M. A. Brandenburg, S. P. Platania, and J. L. Kennedy. 2016. Reproductive ecology and early history of bluehead sucker and flannelmouth sucker in the San Juan River. Final Report:26.
Barneche, D. R., D. R. Robertson, C. R. White, and D. J. Marshall. 2018. Fish reproductive-energy output increases disproportionately with body size. Science 360:642–645.
Boeuf, G., and P.-Y. Le Bail. 1999. Does light have an influence on fish growth? Aquaculture 177:129–152.
Bower, M. R., W. A. Hubert, and F. J. Rahel. 2008. Habitat Features Affect Bluehead Sucker, Flannelmouth Sucker, and Roundtail Chub across a Headwater Tributary System in the Colorado River Basin. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 23:347–357.
Boyer, J. K., and D. L. Rogowski. 2018. Colorado River Fish Monitoring in the Grand Canyon, Arizona—2017 Annual Report.
Bureau of Reclamation. 2016, June. Species Accounts for the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation.
Campos, B. R. 2005. The evolution, demise, and restoration of the native fishes of the lower Colorado River. University of California, Davis:25.
Cargnelli, L. M., and M. R. Gross. 1996. The temporal dimension in fish recruitment: birth date, body size, and size-dependent survival in a sunfish (bluegill: Lepomis macrochirus) 53:8.
Carothers, S. W. 2000. Decommissioning Glen Canyon Dam: the key to Colorado River ecosystem restoration and recovery of endangered species? ARIZONA LAW REVIEW 42:25.
Chen, Y., D. A. Jackson, and H. H. Harvey. 1992. A Comparison of von Bertalanffy and Polynomial Functions in Modelling Fish Growth Data. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 49:1228–1235.
Childs, M. R., R. W. Clarkson, and A. T. Robinson. 1998. Resource Use by Larval and Early Juvenile Native Fishes in the Little Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 127:620–629.
Cooke, S. J., C. M. Bunt, S. J. Hamilton, C. A. Jennings, M. P. Pearson, M. S. Cooperman, and D. F. Markle. 2005. Threats, conservation strategies, and prognosis for suckers (Catostomidae) in North America: insights from regional case studies of a diverse family of non-game fishes. Biological Conservation 121:317–331.
Counihan, T. D., I. R. Waite, A. F. Casper, D. L. Ward, J. S. Sauer, E. R. Irwin, C. G. Chapman, B. S. Ickes, C. P. Paukert, J. J. Kosovich, and J. M. Bayer. 2018. Can data from disparate long-term fish monitoring programs be used to increase our understanding of regional and continental trends in large river assemblages? PLOS ONE 13:e0191472.
Cross, W. F., C. V. Baxter, E. J. Rosi-Marshall, R. O. Hall, T. A. Kennedy, K. C. Donner, H. A. Wellard Kelly, S. E. Z. Seegert, K. E. Behn, and M. D. Yard. 2013. Food-web dynamics in a large river discontinuum. Ecological Monographs 83:311–337.
Dauwalter, D. C., J. S. Sanderson, J. E. Williams, and J. R. Sedell. 2011. Identification and Implementation of Native Fish Conservation Areas in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Fisheries 36:278–288.
Douglas, M. E., and P. C. Marsh. 1998. Population and Survival Estimates of Catostomus latipinnis in Northern Grand Canyon, with Distribution and Abundance of Hybrids with Xyrauchen texanus. Copeia 1998:915.
Dzul, M. C., C. B. Yackulic, J. Korman, M. D. Yard, and J. D. Muehlbauer. 2017. Incorporating temporal heterogeneity in environmental conditions into a somatic growth model. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74:316–326.
Fraser, G. S., D. L. Winkelman, K. R. Bestgen, and K. G. Thompson. 2017. Tributary Use by Imperiled Flannelmouth and Bluehead Suckers in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 146:858–870.
Gelman, A., J. B. Carlin, H. S. Stern, and D. B. Rubin. 2009. Bayesian Data Analysis. Second edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Gelman, A., J. Hwang, and A. Vehtari. 2014. Understanding predictive information criteria for Bayesian models. Statistics and Computing 24:997–1016.
Holden, P. B., and C. B. Stalnaker. 1975. Distribution of Fishes in the Dolores and Yampa River Systems of the Upper Colorado Basin. The Southwestern Naturalist 19:403.
Hooten, M. B., and N. T. Hobbs. 2015. A guide to Bayesian model selection for ecologists. Ecological Monographs 85:3–28.
Kennedy, T. A. 2013. Native and nonnative fish populations of the Colorado River are food limited: evidence from new food web analyses. Fact Sheet, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Korman, J., M. D. Yard, and T. A. Kennedy. 2017. Trends in Rainbow Trout Recruitment, Abundance, Survival, and Growth during a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in a Tailwater Fishery. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 146:1043–1057.
Makinster, A. S., W. R. Persons, L. A. Avery, and A. J. Bunch. 2010. Colorado river fish monitoring in Grand Canyon, Arizona - 2000 to 2009 summary. Open-File Report, United States Geological Survey.
Minckley, W. L., and J. E. Deacon, editors. 1991. Battle against extinction: native fish management in the American West. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Mommsen, T. P. 2001. Paradigms of growth in fishଝ. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 129:207–219.
Mueller, G. A. 2005. Predatory fish removal and native fish recovery in the Colorado River mainstem: what have we learned? Fisheries 30:10–19.
Mueller, G. A., and R. Wydoski. 2004. Reintroduction of the Flannelmouth Sucker in the Lower Colorado River. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24:41–46.
National Parks Service. 2018, July 24. Grand Canyon’s Native Fish. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/fish-native.htm.
Paukert, C., and R. S. Rogers. 2004. Factors Affecting Condition of Flannelmouth Suckers in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24:648–653.
Poff, N. L., J. D. Allen, M. B. Bain, J. R. Karr, K. L. Prestegaard, B. D. Richter, R. E. Sparks, and Stromberg, Juliet C. 1997. The natural flow regime: a paradigm for river conservation and restoration. BioScience 47.
R Core Development Team. 2019. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
Robinson, A. T., and M. R. Childs. 2001. Juvenile Growth of Native Fishes in the Little Colorado River and in a Thermally Modified Portion of the Colorado River. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 21:809–815.
Roff, D. A. 1983. An Allocation Model of Growth and Reproduction in Fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 40:1395–1404.
Rogowski, D. L., and J. K. Boyer. 2019. Colorado River Fish Monitoring in the Grand Canyon, Arizona—2018 Annual Report. Page 46. Technical Report, Arizona Game and Fish.
Sabo, J. L., M. Caron, R. Doucett, K. L. Dibble, A. Ruhi, J. C. Marks, B. A. Hungate, and T. A. Kennedy. 2018. Pulsed flows, tributary inputs and food-web structure in a highly regulated river. Journal of Applied Ecology 55:1884–1895.
Schmidt, J. C., R. H. Webb, R. A. Valdez, G. R. Marzolf, and L. E. Stevens. 1998. Science and Values in River Restoration in the Grand Canyon. BioScience 48:735–747.
Schmidt, J., T. A. Kennedy, B. E. Ralston, and T. S. Melis. 2011. Effects of three high-flow experiments on the Colorado River ecosystem downstream from Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona. Circular, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
Seegert, S. E. Z., E. J. Rosi-Marshall, C. V. Baxter, T. A. Kennedy, R. O. Hall, and W. F. Cross. 2014. High Diet Overlap between Native Small-Bodied Fishes and Nonnative Fathead Minnow in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 143:1072–1083.
Seelbach, P. W. 1987. Effect of winter severity on steelhead smolt yield in Michigan: an example of the importance of environmental factors in determining smolt yield. American Fisheries Society Symposium 1:441–450.
Thompson, J. M., E. P. Bergersen, C. A. Carlson, and L. R. Kaeding. 1991. Role of size, condition, and lipid content in the overwinter survival of age-0 Colorado squawfish. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 120:346–353.
Topping, D. J., D. M. Rubin, and L. E. Vierra Jr. 2000. Colorado River sediment transport 1. Natural sediment supply limitation and the influence of Glen Canyon Dam. Water Resources Research 36:515–545.
Ward, D. L., O. E. Maughan, and S. A. Bonar. 2002. Effects of Temperature, Fish Length, and Exercise on Swimming Performance of Age‐0 Flannelmouth Sucker. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131:492–497.
Wootton, R. J. 1979. Energy cost of egg production and environmental determinant of fecundity in teleost fishes. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 44:133–159.
Yard, M. D., G. E. Bennett, S. N. Mietz, L. G. Coggins, L. E. Stevens, S. Hueftle, and D. W. Blinn. 2005. Influence of topographic complexity on solar insolation estimates for the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, AZ. Ecological Modelling 183:157–172.