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

Staff Member

Sean Hitchman

Sean Hitchman
PhD
Email: hitchman@ksu.edu

Research Publications Publication Date
Mather, M. E., J. M. Smith, K. M. Boles, R. B Taylor, C. G. Kennedy, S. M. Hitchman, J. S. Rogosch, and H. M. Frank. 2021. Merging scientific silos: Integrating specialized approaches for thinking about and using spatial data that can provide new directions for persistent fisheries problems. Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10645 June 2021
Hitchman, Sean, M., Martha E. Mather, Joseph M. Smith. 2021. Does type, quantity, and location of habitat matter for fish diversity in a Great Plains riverscape? Fisheries. https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fsh.10634 August 2021
Hitchman, S.M, M. E. Mather, J. Smith, and J. Fencl. 2018. Identifying keystone habitats with a mosaic approach can improve biodiversity conservation in disturbed ecosystems. Global Change Biology 2017;1–14. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13846; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13846/epdf July 2017
Hitchman, S. M., M. E. Mather, J. M. Smith, J. S. Fencl. 2018. Habitat mosaics and path analysis can improve biological conservation of aquatic biodiversity in ecosystems with low-head dams. Science of the Total Environment 619–620: 221–231 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.272; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896971732990X April 2018
Fencl, J., M. Mather, J. Smith, and S. Hitchman. 2017. The blind men and the elephant examine biodiversity at low-head dams: are we all dealing with the same dam reality? Ecosphere 8 (1): 1-17; DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1973; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.1973/full November 2017
Project Completion Date
Developing and Testing a Spatially-Explicit, Science-Based, Decision-Support Tool for Making Riverscape-Scale Management Decisions: How Dams and Culverts Affect a Threatened Native Stream Fish, the Neosho Madtom, and Select Tributary Fish Species February 2019
Developing communities of expert practice (COEP) to apply intergenerational expertise to challenging aquatic conservation problems. PI: M. E, Mather, Collaborators: Sean Hitchman, Joseph Smith, Dan Shoup, Quinton Phelps, John Dettmers, Kristen Faull-Chestnut. 2021-2025. December 2025
A strategic process for fisheries management and aquatic conservation. PI: M. E. Mather, 2018-2025. December 2025
Presentations Presentation Date
Smith, J. S., M. E. Mather, S. M. Hitchman. Operationalizing Riverscapes. Invited symposium paper, 2016 American Fisheries Society Meeting, August 21-25, 2016 August 2016
Smith, J. M., M. E. Mather, and S. M. Hitchman. 2021. Review, evaluation, and reimagining the landscape of practical approaches to spatial scale: where we have been and where we can go. Invited Presentation for a Symposium entitled “Scale V.2021: Status, Options, and Knowledge Gaps for Choosing and Matching Scales in Aquatic Field Data,” 151<sup>st</sup> Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, November 6-10, 2021, Baltimore, MD . November 2021
Pope, K. L., M. P. Carey, D. R. DeVries, J. E. Garvey, M. Henderson, S. Hitchman, M. E. Mather, J. M. Smith, and R. W. Tingley. 2022. Researchers and managers: co-development of science-based management. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Virtual). May 2022
Nifong, J.C., M. E. Mather, J. M. Smith, S. M. Hitchman. 2018. Integrating spatial patterns into future conservation, restoration, and management programs. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, KS February 2018
Mapes, R., M. Mather, S. Hitchman, J. M. Smith, A. Earl, J. Romaine. 2015. Is all heterogeneity created equal? How types of habitat heterogeneity differentially alter distribution, abundance, and diets of age-0 largemouth bass. August 2015
Luginbill, J.L., E Johnson, S. M. Hitchman, M. E. Mather Effective aquatic conservation requires fisheries research in the “scape” American Fisheries Society Meeting, Kansas City, August 2016 August 2016
Hitchman, S., M. Mather, J. Smith. 2022. Status quo vs innovation when creating best practices. 152nd American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Spokane, WA. August 21-25, 2022 August 2022
Hitchman, S., M. Mather, J. Smith, J. Fencl. 2016. Viewing streams as a habitat mosaic; implications for riverscape ecology and stream conservation. Invited Symposium, American Fisheries Society, August 21-25, 2016 August 2016
Hitchman, S., M. E. Mather, J. M. Smith, K. L. Pope, D. R. DeVries, M. P. Carey, and J. E. Garvey. 2022. Scale: direction and progress for impactful science-based conservation. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Virtual).​​​​ May 2022
Hitchman, S. M., M. E. Mather, and J. M. Smith. 2021. Scale V.2021: Identifying current issues that address future needs for making scale choices that facilitate effective field sampling<b>. </b>Invited Presentation for a symposium entitled “Scale V.2021: Status, Options, and Knowledge Gaps for Choosing and Matching Scales in Aquatic Field Data,” 151<sup>st</sup> Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, November 6-10, 2021, Baltimore, MD. November 2021
Hitchman, S. M., M. E. Mather, J. S. Fencl, J. M. Smith. 2015. Are riffles keystone habitats in a low-gradient prairie stream?; implications for riverscape ecology and stream conservation August 2015
Hitchman, S. M., M. E. Mather, J. S. Fencl, J. M. Smith. Does heterogeneity in habitat type, size, and arrangement influence patterns of fish biodiversity in the Neosho River, Kansas? August 2014
DeVries, D. R., M. P. Carey, J. E. Garvey, S. Hitchman, M. E. Mather, K. L. Pope, J. M. Smith, and R. W. Tingley. 2022. Connecting biology to policy: linking scales for data collection to scales needed for the decision-making process. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Virtual). May 2022