Kate Dwire
Research Riparian Ecologist at the Fort Collins Laboratory

e-mail: kadwire [at]fs.fed.us
phone:970-498-1016

Personal Research Program

Briefing Papers

Recent Publications

• Aquatic Ecology
  • Distribution of riparian plant species in relation to environmental variables, management, and disturbance.
  • Organic matter dynamics (surface and subsurface) in stream-riparian ecosystem.
• Watershed Processes
  • Effects of wildland fire on stream-riparian processes and biota; post-fire recovery of riparian vegetation.
  • Large wood Debris
  • dynamics in Rocky Mountain streams; influence of riparian condition, management, and disturbance.
  • Characterization of riparian, alpine, and slope wetlands and linkages to streams in Rocky Mountain headwater basins.

Large In-Stream Wood Studies - A Call for Common Metrics

Kauffman, J. Boone; Heider, Chris; Cole, Thomas G.; Dwire, Kathleen A.; Donato, Daniel C.  2011. Ecosystem carbon stocks of micronesian mangrove forests. Wetlands. 31: 343-352.

Nelson, Monique LaPerriere; Rhoades, Charles C.; Dwire, Kathleen A. 2011. Influence of bedrock geology on water chemistry of slope wetlands and headwater streams in the southern Rocky Mountains. Wetlands. 31: 251-261.

Ryan, Sandra E.; Dwire, Kathleen A.; Dixon, Mark K.  2011. Impacts of wildfire on runoff and sediment loads at Little Granite Creek, western Wyoming. Geomorphology. 129: 113-130.

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Stone, Katharine R.; Pilliod, David S.; Dwire, Kathleen A.; Rhoades, Charles C.; Wollrab, Sherry P.; Young, Michael K. 2010. Fuel reduction management practices in riparian areas of the western USA. Environmental Management. 46: 91-100.

Dwire, Kathleen A.; Rhoades, Charles C.; Young, Michael K.  2010.  Potential effects of fuel management activities on riparian areas.   In: Elliot, William J.; Miller, Ina Sue; Audin, Lisa, eds. Cumulative watershed effects of fuel management in the western United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-231. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 175-205..

Wohl, Ellen; Cenderelli, Daniel A.; Dwire, Kathleen A.; Ryan-Burkett, Sandra E.; Young, Michael K.; Fausch, Kurt D.  2010.  Large in-stream wood studies: A call for common metrics.   Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 35: 618-625..

Mayer, Paul M.; Todd, Albert H.; Okay, Judith A.; Dwire, Kathleen A.  2010.  Introduction to the featured collection on riparian ecosystems & buffers.   Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 46(2): 207-210.

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Wiener, J.D., K.A. Dwire, S.K. Skagen, R.R. Crifasi, and D. Yates. 2008. Riparian ecosystem consequences of water redistribution along the Colorado Front Range. Water Resources Impact 10(3): 18-21.

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Dwire, K. A., J. B. Kauffman, and J. Baham. 2006. Plant species distribution in relation to water table depth and soil redox potential in montane riparian meadows. Wetlands 26 (1): 131 – 146.

Dwire, Kathleen A.; Lowrance, Richard R.  2006.  Riparian ecosystems and buffers - multiscale structure, function, and management: introduction.   Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 42(1): 1-4.

Dwire, Kathleen A.; Parks, Catherine G.; McInnis, Michael L.; Naylor, Bridgett J.  2006.  Seed production and dispersal of sulfur cinquefoil in northeast Oregon.   Rangeland Ecology & Management. 59(1): 63-72.

Dwire, K. A., S. E. Ryan, L. J. Shirley, D. Lytjen, N. Otting, and M. K. Dixon. 2006. Influence of herbivory on regrowth of riparian shrubs following a wildland fire. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 42 (1): 201-212.

Elder, Kelly; Dwire, Kate; Hubbard, Robert; Rhoades, Charles; Ryan, Sandra; Young, Mike; Porth, Laurie; Dixon, Mark; Goodbody, Angue  2006.  Second interagency conference on research in the watersheds.   Second Interagency Conference On Research in the Watersheds, May 16-19, 2006, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Otto, NC. 202 p..

Perkins, Dana L.; Parks, Catherine G.; Dwire, Kathleen A.; Endress, Bryan A.; Johnson, Kelsi L.  2006.  Age structure and age-related performance of sulfur cinquefoil (Potentilla recta).  Weed Science. 54: 87-93.

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Parks, C. G., S. R. Radosevich, B. A. Endress, B. J. Naylor, D. Anzinger, L. J. Rew, B. D. Maxwell, K. A. Dwire. 2005. Natural and land-use history of the Northwest mountain ecoregions (USA) in relation to patterns of plant invasions. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 7: 137-158.

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Dwire, K. A., J. B. Kauffman, E. N. J. Brookshire and J. Baham. 2004. Plant biomass and species composition along an environmental gradient in montane riparian meadows. Oecologia 139(2): 309-317.

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Dwire, K. A. and J. B. Kauffman. 2003. Fire and riparian ecosystems in landscapes of the western USA. Forest Ecology and Management 178 (1-2): 61-74.

Brookshire, E. N. J. and K. A. Dwire. 2003. Controls on patterns of coarse organic particle retention in headwater streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 22(1): 17-34.

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