Clint Muhlfeld's Research Projects

Clint Muhlfeld with bull trout.

  • CDFISH: A landscape genetics program to simulate gene flow in complex riverscapes under a wide range of environmental scenarios for aquatic organisms.
  • Predicting Effects of Climate Change on Aquatic Ecosystems in the Great Northern Landscape.
  • Rare, Cold-water Aquatic Macroinvertebrates in Glacier National Park: Vulnerability, Resilience, Persistence and Sustainability.
  • Assessment for Translocation of Imperiled Bull Trout Populations in Glacier National Park.
  • Genetic Status and Distribution of Native Westslope Cutthroat Trout in Glacier National Park.
  • Tradeoffs of using barriers to upstream movement to conserve native fishes at risk from nonnative fish invasions: Implications for conservation of native bull and cutthroat trout.
  • The potential impacts of climate change on native aquatic ecosystems of the northern Rocky Mountains.
  • The role of demographic, genetic, and environmental factors influencing the spread of hybridization between native westslope cutthroat and non-native rainbow trout.
  • Distribution, abundance and genetic diversity of bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout in Glacier National Park and the upper Flathead River system, Montana (USA) and British Columbia (Canada): Implications for coal mining and coalbed methane development in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem.
  • Preservation of bull trout in Glacier National Park: Experimental suppression of invasive lake trout in the Quartz Lake system.
  • Evaluation of alternative dam operations on the movement and habitat use of bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout in the Flathead River.
  • Risk-based monitoring and recovery of bull trout.

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    Erin L. Landguth, C. C. Muhlfeld and G. Luikart. 2011. CDFISH: an individual-based, spatiallyexplicit, landscape genetics simulator for aquatic species in complex riverscapes. Conservation Genetics Resources. DOI: 10.1007/s12686-011-9492-6

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    Muhlfeld, Clint C, J. Joseph Giersch, F. Richard Hauer, Gregory T. Pederson, Gordon Luikart, Douglas P. Peterson, Christopher C. Downs, and Daniel B. Fagre. 2011. Climate change links fate of glaciers and an endemic alpine invertebrate. Climatic Change. 106:337-345 DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0057-1



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    Muhlfeld, Clint C., Leslie Jones, Daniel Kotter, William J. Miller, Doran Geise, Joel Tohtz, and Brian Marotz. 2011. Assessing the impacts of river regulation on native bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) and westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) habitats in the upper Flathead River, Montana, USA. River Research and Applications. DOI: 10.1002/rra.1494