Oklahoma Staff Member
Dr. Lindsey Bruckerhoff
Assistant Unit Leader
Phone: (405) 744 - 5768
Email: lbruckerhoff@usgs.gov
Faculty Email: lindsey.bruckerhoff@okstate.edu
Faculty Website
Education
- Ph D Kansas State University 2020
- MS University of Arkansas 2016
- BS Missouri State University 2012
Biography
Before joining the OK Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit as an Assistant Unit Leader in 2021, Dr. Bruckerhoff received her MS from the University of Arkansas, PhD from Kansas State University, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Utah State University. The primary theme of Dr. Bruckerhoff's research is using community ecology to inform the conservation and management of freshwater systems. Her research applies concepts from community ecology, population biology, and landscape ecology. Dr. Bruckerhoff's research aims to understand how anthropogenic stressors at multiple spatial and temporal scales interact to drive community structure and function in aquatic systems. Much of her research also aims to understand the role of biotic interactions, especially with non-native species, in driving population and community change across landscape gradients. Dr. Bruckerhoff uses a wide variety of tools, including comparative field studies, experiments in the field and laboratory, and simulation modeling. She works in a variety of systems including prairie, desert, and forested streams and rivers. Her teaching interests include community ecology, multivariate analyses, and stream ecology.
Areas of Expertise
Aquatic Ecology, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecological Flows, Fisheries Management, Invasive Species, Landscape Ecology, Managed Flows/Hydrology, Population Dynamics, Population and Community Ecology, Predator-Prey Dynamics, Species Distribution Modeling, Species Management, Species Status Assessments, Statistics and Modelling, Stream Ecology, T&E Species Management
Taxon Groups Studied
Freshwater Fishes, Gamefish, Invertebrates/Insects, Mussels, Nongame Fish/Wildlife, Species of Greatest Conservation Need
| Research Publications | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Wolfenkoehler, W., J.M. Long, R. Gary, R.A. Snow, J.D. Schooley, L. A. Bruckerhoff, and R.C. Lonsinger. 2023. Viability of side-scan sonar to enumerate Paddlefish, a large pelagic freshwater fish, in rivers and reservoirs. Fisheries Research 261:106639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2023.106639 | January 2023 |
| Wheeler, K., Kuhn, E., Bruckerhoff, L., Udall, B., Wang, J., Gilbert, L., Goeking, S., Kasprak, A., Mihalevich, B., Neilson, B. and Salehabadi, H., 2021. Alternative Management Paradigms for the Future of the Colorado and Green Rivers. Center for Colorado River Studies, White Paper, (6), pp.1-85. https://qcnr.usu.edu/coloradoriver/files/WhitePaper6.pdf | January 2021 |
| Schmidt, J.S., L.A., Bruckerhoff, H., Salehabadi, and J., Wang. 2022. Chapter 10: The Colorado River. In: Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management. (eds) A. Gupta. Wiley-Blackwell.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119412632.ch10 | February 2022 |
| S.C. Hedden, L.A. Bruckerhoff, and K.B. Gido. 2021. Assessing Linkages Between Small Impoundments and Long-term Trajectories of Prairie Stream Fish Assemblages. American Midland Naturalist 185 (2):187-200. https://doi.org/10.1674/0003-0031-185.2.187 | Abstract | April 2021 |
| Pennock, C.A. and Bruckerhoff, L.A., 2020. Qualitative observations of successful spawning by two species of small-bodied minnows following PIT tagging. Western North American Naturalist, 80(2), pp.253-256. https://doi.org/10.3398/064.080.0213 | April 2020 |
| Pennock, C.A, L. 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 regulated and unregulated rivers. Freshwater Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13966. USGS FSP IP- 134441 (LB). | Abstract | July 2022 |
| Long, J.M., P. Joyce, L.A. Bruckerhoff, R.C. Lonsinger, and W. Wolfenkoehler. 2024. Using down-scan capabilities from recreational -grade side-scan sonar systems to sample Paddlefish and evaluate depth use in a reservoir. Fisheries Research 269:106872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2023.106872 | September 2023 |
| Lindsey A. Bruckerhoff, Kevin Wheeler, Kimberly L. Dibble, Bryce A. Mihalevich, Bethany T. Neilson, Jian Wang, Charles B. Yackulic, and John. C. Schmidt. 2022. Water Storage Decisions and Consumptive Use May Constrain Ecosystem Management under Severe Sustained Drought . Journal of the American Water Resources Association. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13020 | Abstract | June 2022 |
| 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(3): 403-416. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13433 | Abstract | March 2020 |
| Hopper, G.W., Gido, K.B., Pennock, C.A., Hedden, S.C., Guinnip, J.P., Fisher, M.A., Tobler, C.M., Hedden, C.K. and Bruckerhoff, L.A., 2020. Biomass loss and change in species dominance shift stream community excretion stoichiometry during severe drought. Freshwater Biology, 65(3), pp.403-416. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13433 | December 2020 |
| Hopper, G.W., Gido, K.B., Pennock, C.A., Hedden, S.C., Frenette, B.D., Barts, N., Hedden, C.K. and Bruckerhoff, L.A., 2020. Nowhere to swim: interspecific responses of prairie stream fishes in isolated pools during severe drought. Aquatic Sciences, 82(2), pp.1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-020-0716-2 | March 2020 |
| Havel, J.E., Bruckerhoff, L.A., Funkhouser, M.A. and Gemberling, A.R., 2014. Resistance to desiccation in aquatic invasive snails and implications for their overland dispersal. Hydrobiologia, 741(1), pp.89-100.DOI 10.1007/s10750-014-1839-z | March 2014 |
| Frenette, B.D., Bruckerhoff, L.A., Tobler, M. and Gido, K.B., 2019. Temperature effects on performance and physiology of two prairie stream minnows. Conservation physiology, 7(1), p.coz063. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coz063 | July 2019 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A., Kamees, L.K., Holycross, A.T. and Painter, C.W., 2021. Patterns of Survival of a Communally Overwintering Rattlesnake Using an Artificial Hibernaculum. Ichthyology & Herpetology, 109(1), pp.64-74. https://doi.org/10.1643/h2019301 | March 2021 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A., Gido, K.B., Estey, M. and Moore, P. 2021. Disentangling effects of predators and landscape factors as drivers of stream fish community structure. Freshwater Biology 66(4): 656:658. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13668 | April 2021 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A., D.R. Leasure and D.D. Magoulick. 2019. Flow-ecology relationships are spatially structured and differ among flow regimes. Journal of Applied Ecology 56:398-412. DOI:10.1111/1365‐2664.13297 | February 2019 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A., Connell, R.K., Guinnip, J.P., Adhikari, E., Godar, A., Gido, K.B., Boyle, A.W., Hope, A.G., Joern, A. and Welti, E., 2020. Harmony on the prairie? Grassland plant and animal community responses to variation in climate across land‐use gradients. Ecology, 101(5), p.e02986. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2986 | May 2020 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A., C. A. Pennock, and K.B. Gido. 2021. Do fine-scale experiments underestimate predator consumption rates?. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi:0.1111/1365-2656.13549 | Abstract | Publisher Website | May 2021 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A. and Gido, K.B. 2019. Assessing Site-Selection Strategies for Modeling the Influence of Landscape Factors on Stream Fish Assemblages. In: Advances in Understanding Landscape Influences on Freshwater Habitats and Biological Assemblages. (Eds) Hughes, Infante, Wang, Chen, and de Freitas Terra. American Fisheries Society Symposium 90. https://doi.org/10.47886/9781934874561.ch9 | September 2019 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A. and D.D. Magoulick. 2017. Hydrologic regimes as potential drivers of morphologic divergence in fish. Evolutionary Ecology 31:517-531. DOI:10.1007/s10682-017-9897-0 | August 2017 |
| Bruckerhoff, L., Havel, J. and Knight, S., 2015. Survival of invasive aquatic plants after air exposure and implications for dispersal by recreational boats. Hydrobiologia, 746(1), pp.113-121. DOI 10.1007/s10750-014-1947-9 | July 2014 |
| Presentations | Presentation Date |
|---|---|
| Yarra, A.N., L.A. Bruckerhoff and D.D. Magoulick. 2016. Influence of flow regime, geomorphology and habitat on crayfish assemblages of the Ozark Highlands. Society for Freshwater Science, Sacramento, California. | May 2016 |
| Yarra, A.N., L.A. Bruckerhoff and D.D. Magoulick. 2015. Crayfish occupancy in response to hydrologic regime and geomorphology in Ozark streams. Symposium on Conservation, Ecology, and Taxonomy of Southeastern Crayfish, Southern Division American Fisheries Society, Savannah, Georgia. | January 2015 |
| Torolski, H., J.M. Long, R.C. Lonsinger, and L.A. Bruckerhoff. 2023. Freshwater mussel abundance and composition in the Verdigris River. Oklahoma Chapter of the American Fisheries Society annual meeting. Grand Lake, Oklahoma. | August 2023 |
| Long, J.M., W. Wolfenkoehler, P. Joyce, R. Gary, J. Schooley, R. Snow, R. Lonsinger, and L. Bruckerhoff. 2024. Utility of side-scan and down-scan sonar for monitoring Paddlefish. Southern Division American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Chattanooga, Tennessee. | February 2024 |
| Long, J.M., W. Wolfenkoehler, P. Joyce, R. Gary, J. Schooley, R. Snow, R. Lonsinger, and L. Bruckerhoff. 2023. Utility of side-scan and down-scan sonar for monitoring Paddlefish. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan. | August 2023 |
| Lindsey A. Bruckerhoff, Kevin Wheeler, Kimberly L. Dibble, Bryce A. Mihalevich, Bethany T. Neilson, Jian Wang, Charles B. Yackulic, and John. C. Schmidt. Response of Colorado River Ecosystems to Water Storage Decisions and Consumptive Use Constrain Ecosystem Management under Severe Sustained Drought. Desert Fishes Council Annual Meeting, November 2021. Virtual. | November 2021 |
| L. Bruckerhoff, C. Yackulic, D. Eppehimer, K. Bestgen, and J. Schmidt. 2022. Identifying demographic uncertainties and vulnerabilities in an invasive Smallmouth Bass population: Implications for reservoir management and mechanical removal efforts. Desert Fishes Council, St. George Utah. | November 2022 |
| Kelly, B. and L. A. Bruckerhoff. Community Shifts and Environmental Drivers of Fish Communities in Intermittent Streams of Southeast Oklahoma. Oklahoma Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. | August 2022 |
| Joyce, P., J.M. Long, R.C. Lonsinger, and L.A. Bruckerhoff. 2023. Utility of Down-Scan Sonar for Identifying and Counting Paddlefish in a Large Reservoir. Oklahoma Clean Lakes and Watershed annual meeting. Stillwater, Oklahoma. | April 2023 |
| Eastep, J. and L. A. Bruckerhoff. Diet Variability in Green Sunfish Across a Gradient of Body Size and Stream Size in the Kansas River Basin. Oklahoma State University Undergraduate Research Symposium. | April 2022 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A., D.R. Leasure and D.D. Magoulick. 2016. Spatial auto-correlation of fish traits across hydrologic regimes and implications for developing ecological-flow relationships. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. New Orleans, Louisiana. | July 2016 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A., D.R. Leasure and D.D. Magoulick. 2016. Hydrologic regimes as potential drivers of morphologic divergence in fish. Symposium on Ecological Flow Science and Policy: Protecting Stream Systems Today; Preparing for Tomorrow, American Fisheries Society, Kansas City, Missouri. | August 2016 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A., D.D. Magoulick and D.R. Leasure. 2015. Trait composition of fish assemblages across hydrologic regimes. Symposium on Recent Advances in Establishing Fish-Habitat Relationships in Lotic Systems, American Fisheries Society, Portland, Oregon. | August 2015 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A. and D.D. Magoulick. 2015. Morphological variation in Campostoma anomalum across hydrologic regimes. Special Session on Biotic Response to Flow, Society for Freshwater Science, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | May 2015 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A. and D.D. Magoulick. 2015. Morphological variation in Campostoma anomalum across hydrologic regimes. Arkansas American Fisheries Society, Benton, Arkansas. | February 2015 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A. and D.D. Magoulick. 2015. Morphological variation in Campostoma anomalum across hydrologic regimes. American Fisheries Society, Portland, Oregon. | August 2015 |
| Bruckerhoff, L., C. Yackulic, D. Eppehimer, K. Bestgen, B. Neilson, B. Mihalevich, J. Schmidt, J. Wang, and K. Wheeler. Two-species population models predict native fish responses to interactive effects of climate change and non-native species in the Colorado River basin. 2022. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids Michigan. | May 2022 |
| Bruckerhoff, L. A., C.A. Pennock, and K.B., Gido. 2021. Do fine scale experiments underestimate consumption rates? Oklahoma American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. | September 2021 |
| Technical Publications | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Leasure, D.R. and L.A. Bruckerhoff. 2016. Quantification of hydrologic alteration and relationships to biota in Arkansas streams: Development of tools and approaches for un-gaged streams. Final Report prepared for the State Wildlife Grant program of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Little Rock, Arkansas. | December 2016 |
| Gido, K.B., L.A. Bruckerhoff, J.S. Perkin, G. Suleiman, and J. Luginbill. 2021. Barrier prioritization to enhance habitat for Topeka shiner in Flint Hills Streams, Kansas. Final report to USFWS, Manhattan, KS. | September 2021 |