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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

 

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Personal Research Program
  • 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.

 

 

Briefing Papers

 

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

 

 

Publications

 

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.

 

 

 

Research Scientists

 

bulletBuffington, John

bulletDare, Matt

bulletDwire, Kate

bulletElder, Kelly

bulletElliot, William

bulletFoltz, Randy

bulletGoode, Jaime

bulletHubbard, Robert

bulletIsaak, Daniel

bulletLuce, Charlie

bulletMagana, Hugo

bulletMcCormick, Frank

bulletMcKean, James

bulletMusselman, Bob

bulletNeary, Daniel

bulletOverton, Kerry

bulletRhoades, Chuck

bulletRieman, Bruce

bulletRinne, John

bulletRobichaud, Pete

bulletRyan-Burkett, Sandra

bulletThurow, Russ

bulletWagenbrenner, Joe

bulletWagenbrenner, Natalie

bulletYoung, Mike


RESEARCH SUBJECT AREAS

 

 

Resources

 

Stream Temperature Modeling Website

 

Bull Trout and Climate Change - Risks, Uncertainties and Opportunities for Mapping the Future

 

Upper Verde River: Review of Stream-Riparian Monitoring Efforts

 

Technology Transfer Program

 

Western Watersheds and Climate Change Workshop - November 17-19, 2009

 

 


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