The Ohio State University Aquatic Ecology Laboratory

Publications - Dr. Casey Pennock

Publications - Dr. Casey Pennock

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  1. Pennock, C. A., G. P. Thiede, P. Budy, A. Giblin, C. Luecke, and G. W. Kling. 2026. Ecological stability of zooplankton communities in changing arctic lakes over three decades. Ecology 107:e70500. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70500 
  2. Drake, S.A., L. A. Bruckerhoff, R. Miltner, N. F. Shoobs, and C. A. Pennock. 2026. Water quality improvements correspond with increased human use and occurrence of fish, aquatic insects, and freshwater mussels. Ecological Indicators 188:115034. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.115034
  3. Friesen, B., C. A. Pennock, and P. Budy. 2026. Invasion potential of nonnative fishes through a large western dam into an iconic and vulnerable ecosystem. Hydrobiologia 853:3249-3268. doi.org/10.1007/s10750-026-06137-8 
  4. Pennock, C. A., W. W. Macfarlane, P. Budy, J. Scamardo, and D. C. White. 2026. Bank dwelling beavers contribute to the wood regime in a dryland river. Ecology 107:e70396. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70396
  5. Furby, J., and C. A. Pennock. 2026. Spatiotemporal environmental gradients shape early life stage fish densities, assemblage structure, and growth in river-reservoir ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 83:1-16. doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2025-0189
  6. Miller, B. J., M. C. McKinstry, W. W. Macfarlane, S. Basset, P. Budy, and C. A. Pennock. 2025. Shrinking channels, growing threats: habitat degradation from channel narrowing and invasive vegetation in three dryland rivers. Journal of Environmental Management 392:126714. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126714
  7. Budy, P., C. A. Pennock, S. Messenger, H. Pehrson, E. Adler, G. P. Thiede, N. R. Christman, B. C. Crump, A. E. Giblin, and G. W. Kling. 2025. Rapid recovery of an arctic lake ecosystem from a pulse disturbance caused by thermokarst failure. Oecologia 207:82. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-025-05681-9
  8. Hood, E., J. M. Long, D. E. Shoup, C. A. Pennock, A. R. Dzialowski, and J. D. Schooley. 2025. The effect of turbidity on foraging by pre-rostrum, juvenile Paddlefish. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. DOI:10.1093/tafafs/vnae007
  9. Miller, B. J., M. C. McKinstry, P. Budy, and C. A. Pennock. 2024. Wood you believe it? Experimental nonnative wood addition enhances instream habitat for native dryland fishes. River Research and Applications. doi.org/10.1002/rra.4334
  10. Pennock, C. A., D. W. Speas, G. P. Thiede, and C. Michaud. 2024. Evaluation of post stocking re-encounters of an endangered fish using a large, multi-agency database to inform recovery. Endangered Species Research 55:55-66. doi.org/10.3354/esr01359 
  11. Chavez, M. J., P. Budy, C. A. Pennock, T. P. Archdeacon, and P. D. MacKinnon. 2024. Movement patterns of a small-bodied minnow suggest nomadism in a fragmented, sand bed river. Movement Ecology 12:52. doi.org/10.1186/s40462-024-00490-w 
  12. Bogaard, M. R., K. B. Gido, M. C. McKinstry, C. A. Pennock, A. Barkalow, S. M. Bonjour, J. Bowman, K. C. Creighton, B. A. Hines, and B. J. Schleicher. 2024. Capture-translocation restores spawning migration connectivity of Razorback Suckers in the fragmented San Juan River. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 153:405-421 (Cover article). doi.org/10.1002/tafs.10475
  13. Pennock, C. A., B. D. Healy, M. R. Bogaard, M. C. McKinstry, K. B. Gido, C. Nathan Cathcart, P. D. MacKinnon, and B. Hines. 2024. Translocation in a fragmented river leads to demographic benefits for an imperiled fish assemblage. Ecosphere 15:e4874. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4874
  14. Kelley, K., E. I. Gilbert, C. A. Pennock, M. C. McKinstry, P. D. MacKinnon, S. L. Durst, and N. R. Franssen. 2023. If you build it, will they pass? A systematic evaluation of fish passage efficiency for three large-bodied warm-water fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 80:1631-1643. doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2023-0030
  15. Pennock, C. A., B. Albrecht, R. J. Rogers, and M. C. McKinstry. 2023. Can spatial and temporal differences in fish assemblage structure inform conservation of an endangered sucker in a large western reservoir? Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 152:475-489. doi.org/10.1002/tafs.10413
  16. Bogaard, M. R., K. B. Gido, M. C. McKinstry, and C. A. Pennock. 2023. Water temperature predicts Razorback Sucker Xyrauchen texanus spawning migrations. Environmental Biology of Fishes 106:1503-1517. doi.org/10.1007/s10641-023-01424-y 
  17. Pennock, C. A., G. P. Thiede, and P. Budy. 2023. Density-dependent processes and population dynamics of native sculpin in a mountain river. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 32:593-605. doi.org/10.1111/eff.12710
  18. Gido, K. B., S. C. Hedden, L. A. Bruckerhoff, C. A. Pennock, C. K. Hedden*, G. W. Hopper, E. A. Renner, E. R. Johnson, and B. Postlethwait. 2023. Removing a perched culvert facilitates dispersal of fishes in an intermittent prairie stream. Freshwater Science 42:33-43. doi.org/10.1086/723046
  19. Pennock, C. A., L. A. Bruckerhoff, K. B. Gido, A. L. Barkalow, M. J. Breen, P. Budy, W. W. Macfarlane, and D. L. Propst. 2022. Failure to achieve recommended environmental flows coincides with declining fish populations: long-term trends in a regulated and unregulated river. Freshwater Biology 67:1631-1643. doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13966
  20. Pennock, C. A., P. Budy, and W. W. Macfarlane. 2022. Effective conservation of desert riverscapes requires protection and rehabilitation of in-stream flows with rehabilitation approaches tailored to water availability. Frontiers in Environmental Science (invited) 10:870488. doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.870488
  21. Dean, E*. M., A. R. Cooper, L. Wang, W. M. Daniel, S. David, C. Ernzen, K. B. Gido, E. Hale, T. J. Haxton, W. Kelso, N. Leonard, C. Lido, J. Margraf, M. Porter, C. Pennock, D. Propst, J. Ross, M. D. Staudinger, G. Whelan, and D. M. Infante. 2022. The North American freshwater migratory fish database (NAFMFD): Characterizing the migratory life histories of freshwater fishes of Canada, the United States and Mexico. Journal of Biogeography 49:1193-1203. doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14367
  22. Hedden, S. C., K. B. Gido, C. K. Hedden*, C. A. Pennock, B. R. Duran, B. A. Hines, E. I. Gilbert, M. C. McKinstry, S. L. Durst, and N. R. Franssen. 2022. Determining resource intake of a nonnative fish highlights potential predatory and competitive interactions. Biological Invasions 24:2351-2364. doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02777-8
  23. Pennock, C. A., W. C. Saunders, and P. Budy. 2022. High densities of conspecifics buffer native fish from negative interactions with an ecologically similar invasive. Biological Invasions 24:1283-1297. doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02725-y
  24. Pennock, C. A., P. Budy, W. W. Macfarlane, M. J. Breen, J. Jimenez, and J. C. Schmidt. 2022. Native fish need a natural flow regime. Fisheries 47:118-123. doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10703
  25. Budy, P., C. A. Pennock, A. E. Giblin, D. White, C. Luecke, and G. W. Kling. 2022. Understanding the indirect effects of climate change via disturbance on pristine arctic lakes; delayed, multi-trophic level response and recovery to a ten-year, low-level fertilization experiment. Limnology and Oceanography 67:S224-S241. doi.org/10.1002/lno.11893
  26. Zhang, Q., J. Jin, P. Budy, S. E. Null, X. Wang, and C. A. Pennock. 2021. Predicting thermal responses of an arctic lake to whole-lake warming manipulation. Geophysical Research Letters 48:e2021GL092680. doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092680
  27. Bruckerhoff, L. A., C. A. Pennock, and K. B. Gido. 2021. Scaling of predator-prey interactions: does prey aggregation and movement mediate scale-dependent predator consumption rates? Journal of Animal Ecology 90:2391-2403. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13549
  28. Hedden, S. C., K. B. Gido, C. K. Hedden*, C. A. Pennock, E. I. Gilbert, M. K. McKinstry, S. L. Durst, and N. R. Franssen. 2021. Quantifying consumption of native fishes by nonnative Channel Catfish in a desert river. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 41:S82-S94. doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10514
  29. Pennock, C. A., Z. Ahrens*, M. C. McKinstry, P. Budy, and K. B. Gido. 2021. Trophic niches of native and nonnative fishes along a river-reservoir continuum. Scientific Reports 11:12140. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91730-1
  30. Pennock, C. A. and K. B. Gido. 2021. Spatial and temporal dynamics of fish assemblages in a desert reservoir over 38 years. Hydrobiologia. doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04514-z
  31. Pennock, C. A., P. Budy, C. Atkinson, and N. Barrett. 2021. Effects of increased temperature on arctic slimy sculpin Cottus cognatus is mediated by food availability: Implications for climate change. Freshwater Biology. doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13659
  32. Pennock, C. A., B. A. Hines, D. S. Elverud, T. A. Francis, M. C. McKinstry, B. J. Schleicher, and K. B. Gido. 2021. Reservoir fish assemblage structure across an aquatic ecotone: Can river-reservoir interfaces provide conservation and management opportunities? Fisheries Management and Ecology 28:1-13. doi.org/10.1111/fme.12444
  33. Pennock, C. A., M. C. McKinstry, and K. B. Gido. 2020. Razorback Sucker exhibit multiple movement strategies across a river-reservoir habitat complex. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 149:620-634. doi.org/10.1002/tafs.10262
  34. Pennock, C. A., M. C. McKinstry, C. N. Cathcart, K. B. Gido, T. A. Francis, B. A. Hines, P. D. MacKinnon, S. C. Hedden, E. I. Gilbert, C. A. Cheek, D. W. Speas, K. Creighton, D. S. Elverud, and B. J. Schleicher. 2020. Movement ecology of imperiled fish in a novel ecosystem: river-reservoir movements by razorback sucker and translocations to aid conservation. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 30:1540-1551. doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3399
  35. Pennock, C. A., and L. A. Bruckerhoff. 2020. Qualitative observations of successful spawning by two species of small-bodied minnows following PIT tagging. Western North American Naturalist 80:253-256. doi.org/10.3398/064.080.0213
  36. Hopper, G. W., K. B. Gido, C. A. Pennock, S. C. Hedden, B. D. Frenette, N. Barts, C. K. Hedden*, and L. A. Bruckerhoff. 2020. Nowhere to swim: interspecific responses of prairie stream fishes in isolated pools during severe drought. Aquatic Sciences 82:42(2020). doi.org/10.1007/s00027-020-0716-2
  37. Hopper, G. W., K. B. Gido, C. A. Pennock, S. C. Hedden, J. P. Guinnip, M. A. Fisher, C. M. Tobler, C. K. Hedden*, and L. A. Bruckerhoff. 2020. Biomass loss and change in species dominance shift stream community excretion stoichiometry during severe drought. Freshwater Biology 65:403-416. doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13433
  38. Perkin, J. S., T. A. Starks, C. A. Pennock, K. B. Gido, G. W. Hopper, and S. C. Hedden. 2019. Extreme drought causes recruitment failure in a fragmented Great Plains riverscape. Ecohydrology 12: e2120. doi.org/10.1002/eco.2120
  39. Pennock, C. A., M. A. Farrington, and K. B. Gido. 2019. Feeding ecology of early life stage Razorback Sucker relative to other sucker species in the San Juan River, Utah. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 148:938-951. doi.org/10.1002/tafs.10188
  40. Dodds, W. K., L. Bruckerhoff, D. Batzer, A. Schechner, C. Pennock, E. Renner, F. Tromboni, K. Bigham, and S. Grieger. 2019. The freshwater biome gradient framework: predicting macroscale properties based on climate. Ecosphere 10:e02786. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2786
  41. Cathcart, C. N., C. A. Pennock, C. A. Cheek, M. C. McKinstry, P. D. MacKinnon, M. M. Conner, and K. B. Gido. 2018. Waterfall formation at a dynamic desert river delta isolates endangered fishes. River Research and Applications 34:948-956. doi.org/10.1002/rra.3341
  42. Pennock, C. A., S. L. Durst, B. R. Duran, B. A. Hines, C. N. Cathcart, J. E. Davis, B. J. Schleicher, and N. R. Franssen. 2018. Predicted and observed responses of a nonnative Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus population following managed removal to aid the recovery of endangered fishes. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 38:565-578. doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10056
  43. Pennock, C. A., C. N. Cathcart, S. C. Hedden, R. E. Weber*, and K. B. Gido. 2018. Fine-scale movement and habitat use of a prairie stream fish assemblage. Oecologia 186:831-842. doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4073-y
  44. Pennock, C. A., D. Bender, J. Hofmeier, J. A. Mounts, R. Waters, V. D. Weaver, and K. B. Gido. 2018. Can fishways mitigate fragmentation effects on Great Plains fish communities? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75:121-130. doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2016-0466
  45. Pennock, C. A., K. B. Gido, J. S. Perkin, V. D. Weaver, S. R. Davenport, and J. M. Caldwell. 2017. Collapsing range of an endemic Great Plains minnow, Peppered Chub Macrhybopsis tetranema. American Midland Naturalist 177:57-68. doi.org/10.1674/0003-0031-177.1.57
  46. Pennock, C. A. 2017. Beautification of Great Plains rivers: a perspective on the use and appreciation of aquatic resources. Fisheries 42:83-87. doi.org/10.1080/03632415.2017.1280284
  47. Pennock, C. A. and K. B. Gido. 2017. Density-dependence of herbivorous Central Stoneroller Campostoma anomalum in stream mesocosms. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 26:313-321. doi.org/10.1111/eff.12277
  48. Pennock, C. A. 2017. Effects of PIT tags on Red Shiner Cyprinella lutrensis and Sand Shiner Notropis stramineus. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 120:87-93. doi.org/10.1660/062.120.0111
  49. Pennock, C. A., B. D. Frenette, M. J. Waters*, and K. B. Gido. 2016. Survival of and tag retention in Southern Redbelly Dace Chrosomus erythrogaster injected with two sizes of PIT tags. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 36:1386-1394. doi.org/10.1080/02755947.2016.1227403