Research Interests

Process of fish habitat formation in streams, limiting factors of trout and salmon production, effects of land use practices on stream ecosystems, and zoogeography of freshwater fishes.

Selected Publications:

Bilby, R.E., B.R. Fransen, and P.A. Bisson. Incorporation of nitrogen and carbon from spawning coho salmon into the trophic system of small streams: evidence from stable isotopes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. (in press)

Naiman, R.J., P.A. Bisson, R.G. Lee, and M.G. Turner. Approaches to management at the watershed scale. In: J.F. Franklin, editor. Forest Ecology. (in press)

Bisson, P.A., G.H. Reeves, R.E. Bilby, and R.J. Naiman. 1997. Watershed management and salmon dynamics: desired future conditions. In: D.A. Stouder, P.A. Bisson, and R.J. Naiman, editors. Pacific Salmon and Their Ecosystems. Chapman and Hall, New York.

Stouder, D.A., P.A. Bisson, and R.J. Naiman, editors. 1995. Pacific Salmon and Their Ecosystems. Chapman and Hall, New York.

Bilby, R.E., and P.A. Bisson. 1992. Relative contribution of allochthonous and autochthonous organic matter to the trophic support of fish populations in clear-cut and old-growth forested headwater streams. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 49:540-551.

Bisson, P.A., T.P. Quinn, G.H. Reeves, and S.V. Gregory. 1992. Best management practices, cumulative effects, and long-term trends in fish abundance in Pacific Northwest river systems. Pages 189-232, in R.J. Naiman, editor. Watershed Management: Balancing Sustainability and Environmental Change. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Naiman, R.J., T.J. Beechie, L.E. Benda, D.R. Berg, P.A. Bisson, L.H. MacDonald, M.D. O'Connor, P.L. Olson, and E.A. Steel. 1992. Fundamental elements of ecologically healthy watersheds in the Pacific Northwest coastal ecoregion. Pages 127-188, in: R.J. Naiman, editor. Watershed Management: Balancing Sustainability and Environmental Change. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Hicks, B.J., J.D. Hall, P.A. Bisson and J.R. Sedell. 1991. Response of salmonid populations to habitat changes. In: W.R. Meehan, editor. Influences of forest and rangeland management on salmonid fishes and their habitat. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 19:483-518.

Bisson, P.A. 1991. Streams and rivers. Pages 135-143, in: J. Stolz and J. Schnell, editors. Trout. Stakpole Books, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

Bisson, P.A., J.L. Nielson, and J.W. Ward. 1988. Summer production of coho salmon stocked in Mount St. Helens streams 3-6 years after the 1980 eruption. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 117:322-335.

Bisson, P.A., K. Sullivan, and J.L. Nielson. 1988. Channel hydraulics, habitat use, and body form of juvenile coho salmon, steelhead, and cutthroat trout in streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 117:262-273.

Bilby, R.E., and P.A. Bisson. 1987. Emigration and production of hatchery coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) stocked in streams draining an old-growth and clear-cut watershed. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 44:1397-1407.

Bisson, P.A., R.E. Bilby, M.D. Bryant, C.A. Dolloff, G.B. Grette, R.A. House, M.L. Murphy, K.V. Koski, and J.R. Sedell. 1987. Large woody debris in forested streams in the Pacific Northwest: past, present, and future. Pages 143-190, in: E.O. Salo, and T.W. Cundy, editors. Streamside Management: Forestry and Fishery Interactions. Contribution 57, Institute of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.