Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member

Dr. Preston Bean

Dr. Preston Bean
Post Doc
Phone: (325) 446 - 2301
Email: preston.bean@ttu.edu

Biography

Preston is stationed at the Texas Tech - Junction campus. His research focuses on evaluating the fitness and physiological performance of Guadalupe bass relative to Guadalupe bass X smallmouth bass hybrids. He is also conducting research on the population dynamics of Guadalupe bass in the South Llano River as well as the reproductive ecology of centrarchid fishes (sunfishes and basses) in that system.

Research Publications Publication Date
Pease JE, TB Grabowski, AP Pease, & PT Bean. 2018. Changing environmental gradients over forty years alter ecomorphological variation in Guadalupe Bass Micropterus treculii throughout a river basin. Ecology and Evolution 8:8508-8522. doi: 10.1002/ece3.4349. | Abstract | Publisher Website July 2018
Pease AA, JE Pease, PT Bean, & TB Grabowski. 2022. Endemic Guadalupe Bass (Micropterus treculii) are supported by isotopically distinct resources in tributary versus mainstem river food webs. River Research and Applications. doi: 10.1002/rra.4015 | Abstract June 2022
Cheek BD, TB Grabowski, PT Bean, JR Groeschel, & SJ Magnelia. 2016. Evaluating habitat associations of a fish assemblage at multiple spatial scales in a minimally disturbed stream using low-cost remote sensing. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 26:20-34. doi: 10.1002/aqc2569 | Abstract | Publisher Website January 2016
Bean PT, & TB Grabowski. 2015. Evaluation and Refinement of Guadalupe Bass Conservation Strategies to Support Adaptive Management. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Cooperator Science Series FWS/CSS-114-2015, Washington, D.C. April 2015
Project Completion Date
Variation and plasticity and their interaction with urbanization in Guadalupe bass populations on and off the Edwards Plateau December 2016
Evaluation and refinement of Guadalupe bass conservation strategies to support adaptive management August 2014
Evaluating habitat associations of a fish assemblage at multiple scales in a minimally distrubed stream on the Edwards Plateau August 2013
Guadalupe bass habitat use patterns at a landscape scale August 2013
Recruitment dynamics and reproductive ecology of Blue Sucker in Texas, with a focus on the Big Bend region of the Rio Grande August 2018
Presentations Presentation Date
Wolff JP, LC Elkins, JS Perkin, JE Pease, TB Grabowski, PT Bean, NG Smith, & KM Metizen. Multiple tracking methods reveal Guadalupe Bass dispersal is consistent with the restricted movement paradigm. Annual Meeting of the Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society. Norfolk, Virginia. 1-5 February 2023. February 2023
Wolff JP, LC Elkins, JS Perkin, JE Pease, TB Grabowski, PT Bean, NG Smith, & KM Metizen. Guadalupe Bass (<i>Micropterus treculii</i>) movement is predictable: implications for conservation. Annumal Meeting of the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. Hunt, Texas. 3-5 February 2022. February 2022
Wolff JP, LC Elkins, JS Perkin, JE Pease, TB Grabowski, & PT Bean. Guadalupe Bass (<i>Micropterus treculii</i>) movement is predictable: implications for conservation. 151st Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Baltimore, Maryland. 6-10 November 2021. August 2021
Pease JE, TB Grabowski, A Pease, & PT Bean. Movements and habitat use of Guadalupe Bass using radio telemetry in the lower Colorado River, Texas. 146th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Kansas City, KS. 22-25 August 2016. August 2016
Pease JE, TB Grabowski, A Pease, & PT Bean. Movement patterns and habitat associations of Guadalupe Bass populations in the lower Colorado River. 2016 Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. Kerrville, Texas. 21-23 January 2016. January 2016
Pease J, TB Grabowski, A Pease, & PT Bean. Potential hydrologic impacts of urbanization on Guadalupe Bass populations within the Colorado River Basin. Joint Meeting of the Texas and Oklahoma Chapters of the American Fisheries Society. Pottsborro, Texas. 13-15 February 2014. February 2014
Pease J, TB Grabowski, A Pease, & PT Bean. Population responses of Guadalupe Bass Micropterus treculii to potential hydrologic impacts of urbanization within the Colorado River Basin, central Texas. Sixth Annual Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences. Tampa, FL. 25-29 August 2014. August 2014
Miyazono, S, S Fritts, TB Grabowski, B Grisham, K Mayes, & PT Bean. N-mixture modeling for juvenile Rio Grande Blue Sucker in the Trans-Pecos region of the Rio Grande. 2016 Annual Meeting of the Desert Fishes Council. Albuquerque, NM. 15-19 November 2016. November 2016
Miyazono, S, S Fritts, TB Grabowski, B Grisham, K Mayes, & PT Bean. Habitat associations of juvenile Rio Grande Blue Sucker in the Trans-Pecos region of the Rio Grande. 2017 Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. Corpus Christi, Texas. 19-21 January 2017. January 2017
Miyazono S, A Pease, S Fritts, TB Grabowski, B Grisham, K Mayes, S Magnelia, & PT Bean. Habitat associations of young-of-the-year Rio Grande Blue Sucker in the Trans-Pecos region of the Rio Grande. 2018 Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. College Station, Texas. 25-26 January 2018. January 2018
Grabowski TB, T Birdsong, PT Bean, BD Cheek, & J Groeschel. Endemic black basses as drivers of watershed conservation and restoration: combining emerging technologies and traditional fisheries techniques to evaluate the use of Guadalupe Bass as a keystone species in Texas streams. 2013 Spring Meeting of the Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society. Nashville, Tennessee. 7-10 February 2013. February 2013
Grabowski TB, PT Bean, B Grisham, and JR Groeschel. Linking low-cost side scan sonar habitat data with occupancy-based population models. 145th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Portland, Oregon. 16-20 August 2015. August 2015
Grabowski TB, BD Cheek, JR Groeschel, PT Bean, & S Magneila. Evaluating the habitat associations of a stream fish assemblage at multiple spatial scales using low-cost side scan sonar. Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society Spring Meeting 2015. Savannah, GA. 29 January-01 February 2015. January 2015
Bean PT, TB Grabowski, and D. Lutz-Carrillo. 2015. Contribution and integration of hatchery-reared Guadalupe Bass to a native population in the South Llano River, Texas. 145th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Portland, Oregon. 16-20 August 2015. August 2015
Bean PT and TB Grabwski. 2013. Age and growth of gray redhorse in the South Llano River, Texas. 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Little Rock, Arkansas. 8-12 September 2013. September 2013
Bean PT & TB Grabowski. Age and growth of Gray Redhorse in the South Llano River, Texas. Joint Meeting of the Texas and Oklahoma Chapters of the American Fisheries Society, Pottsborro, Texas. 13-15 February 2014. February 2014