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Scientific Publications
From the experience and data generated through our studies, we
published over 30 scientific articles in peer-reviewed
scientific journals and symposia proceedings. These publications
cover topics ranging from general aquatic ecology to detailed
analysis of ecotoxicology issues (such as water quality criteria
setting).
Please see our list of selected publications below and contact
us if you would like a copy of one of our papers.
Ecotoxicology / Water Quality Criteria/Use-Attainability
Canton, S.P. 1999. Acute aquatic life criteria for selenium.
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 18: 1425-1432.
Canton, S.P. and W.D. Van Derveer. 1997. Selenium toxicology to
aquatic life: An argument for sediment-based water quality
criteria. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 16:
1255-1259.
Van Derveer, W.D. and S.P. Canton. 1997. Selenium sediment
toxicity thresholds and derivation of water-quality criteria for
freshwater biota of western streams. Environmental Toxicology
and Chemistry 16: 1260-1268.
Egan, J.T., S.P. Canton, T.F. Moore, G.Y. Michael, M.M. Grimes
and A.P. Rochette. 1992. Tailoring requirements to reality: The
Santa Ana River use attainability analysis. pp.223-234, IN:
Proceedings 65th Annual Water Environment Federation Conference
and Exposition, Surface Water Quality and Ecology Symposium,
Vol II, New Orleans.
Cook, M.F. and S.P. Canton. 1989. Calculations of percent gas
saturations in water using a spread sheet. Progressive
Fish-Culturist 50(4): 248-250.
Mining Effects
Chadwick, J.W., S.P. Canton, D.J. Conklin, and L.C. Bergstedt. 2005.
Determining Sources of Water Quality Impacts Using Biological Monitoring: The
Molycorp Questa Molybdenum Mine Example. Pages 211-223. IN: Proceedings of
a Joint Conference of American Society of Mining and Reclamation 22nd
Annual National Conference. June 19-23, 2005. Breckenridge, Colorado.
Canton, S.P., L.C. Bergstedt, J.W. Chadwick, and D.J. Conklin, Jr. 2005. The
Importance of Identifying Natural Variation in Aquatic Communities: The
Thompson Creek Molybdenum Mine Example. Pages 181-190. IN: Proceedings of a
Joint Conference of American Society of Mining and Reclamation 22nd
Annual National Conference. June 19-23, 2005. Breckenridge, Colorado.
Canton, S.P., J.W. Chadwick and D.J. Conklin, Jr.
1997. Section 7.3.2.3. Aquatic Biology and Fisheries. pp. 324-329
in Chapter 7, Environmental Permitting, D.W. Struhsacker (Chapter
ed.), IN: Marcus J.J. (senior ed.) Mining Environmental
Handbook: Effects of Mining on the Environment and American
Environmental controls on Mining. Imperial College Press,
London.
Chadwick, J.W., S.P. Canton and R.I. Dent. 1986.
Recovery of benthic invertebrate communities in Silver Bow Creek,
Montana, following improved metal mine waste-water treatment.
Water Air and Soil Pollution 28: 427-438.
Canton, S.P. and J.W. Chadwick. 1985. The aquatic
invertebrates of the upper Clark Fork River, 1972-1984. pp. 46-56.
IN: Carlson, C.E. and L.L. Bahls, (eds.) Proceedings of the Clark Fork River Symposium,
Montana Academy of Sciences, Montana College of Mines, Science and Technology,
Butte, MT.
Chadwick, J.W., S.P. Canton and J.W. Monarch. 1984.
Coal mine reclamation and a stream ecosystem in northwest Colorado.
pp. 195-200. IN: Comer, R.D., et. al. (eds.). Issues
and Technology in the Management of Impacted Western
Wildlife. Technical Publication #14, Thome Ecological
Institute, Boulder, Colorado.
Chadwick, J.W. and S.P. Canton. 1984. Inadequacy of
diversity indices in discerning metal-mine drainage effects on a
stream invertebrate community. Water Air and Soil
Pollution 22: 217-223.
Chadwick, J.W. and S.P. Canton. 1983. Coal mine drainage
effects on a lotic ecosystem in northwest Colorado, U.S.A.
Hydrobiologia 107: 25-33.
Canton, S.P. and J.V. Ward. 1982. Comparative
limnology and biota of mine spoils ponds in Colorado.
Southwestern Naturalist 27: 33-42.
Canton, S.P. and J.V. Ward. 1981. The aquatic insects,
with emphasis on Trichoptera, of a Colorado stream affected by coal
strip-mine drainage. Southwestern Naturalist 25:
453-460.
Canton, S.P. and J.V. Ward. 1981. Benthos and
zooplankton of coal strip-mine ponds in the mountains of
northwestern Colorado, U.S.A. Hydrobiologia. 85:23-31.
Canton, S.P. and J.V. Ward. 1979. Environmental
effects of western coal mining, Part I. The limnology and biota of
mine spoils ponds in northwest Colorado. EPA-600/3-79-124. U.S. EPA
Environmental Research Laboratory, Duluth, Minnesota. 38 pp.
Canton, S.P. and J.V. Ward. 1979. Environmental
effects of western coal surface mining, Part II. The aquatic
macroinvertebrates of Trout Creek, Colorado. EPA-600/3-78-095. U.S.
EPA Environmental Research Laboratory, Duluth, Minnesota. 62
pp.
Ward, J.V., S.P. Canton and L.J. Gray. 1978. The
stream environment and macroinvertebrate communities: Contrasting
effects of mining in Colorado and the eastern United States. pp.
176-187. IN: Thorp. J.H., III and J.M. Gibbons (eds.) Energy and
Environmental Stress in Aquatic Systems. DOE Symposium Series 48.
(CONF-771114), National Technical Information Service, Springfield,
Virginia.
Canton, S.P. and J.V. Ward. 1977. Effects of coal mine
drainage on macroinvertebrates of Trout Creek, Colorado.
Environmental Research Series No. 9, Colorado State University, Ft.
Collins. 13 pp.
General Aquatic Ecology / Methodology
Wall, L.W., J.L. Tank, T.V. Royer, and M.J. Bernot. (2005). Spatial and temporal
variability in sediment denitrification within an agriculturally influenced
reservoir. Biogeochemistry (2005) 76: 85-111.
Bergstedt, L.C., J.W. Chadwick, D.J. Conklin, and S.P.Canton. 2005.
Improvements in Brown Trout and Invertebrate Populations in the Arkansas River
During Reclamation Efforts on California Gulch. Pages 54-73. IN:
Proceedings of a Joint Conference of American Society of Mining and Reclamation
22nd Annual National Conference. June 19-23, 2005.
Breckenridge, Colorado.
Canton, S.P. and R.J. Martinson. 1990. The effects of
varying current on weight loss from willow leaf packs. Journal
of Freshwater Ecology 5: 413-415.
Chadwick, J.W., S.P. Canton, D.J. Conklin, Jr. and D.
Kraus. 1989. Lake Ogallala, Nebraska. Lake Line. 9:
37-40.
Canton, S.P. and J.W. Chadwick. 1988. Variability in
benthic invertebrate density estimates from stream samples.
Journal of Freshwater Ecology 4: 291-297.
Canton, S.P., L.D. Cline, R.A. Short and J.V. Ward.
1984. The macroinvertebrates and fish of a Colorado stream during a
period of fluctuating discharge. Freshwater Biology 14:
311-316.
Canton, S.P. and J.W. Chadwick. 1984. A new modified
Hess sampler. Progressive Fish-Culturist 46:57-59.
Canton, S.P. and J.W. Chadwick. 1983. Seasonal and
longitudinal changes in invertebrate functional groups in the
Dolores River, Colorado. Freshwater Invertebrate Biology
2: 41-47.
Canton, S.P. and J.W. Chadwick. 1983. Aquatic insect
communities of natural and artificial substrates in a montane
stream. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 2:153-158.
Chadwick, J.W. and S.P. Canton. 1983. Comparisons of
multiplate and Surber samplers in a Colorado mountain stream.
Journal of Freshwater Ecology 2: 287-292.
Short, R.A., S.P. Canton and J.V. Ward. 1980. Detrital
processing and associated macroinvertebrates in a Colorado mountain
stream. Ecology 61: 727-732.
Natural History / Species Distribution
De Jong, G.D., S.P. Canton, and J.W. Chadwick. 2005.
Macroinvertebrates Occurring in Sunbeam Hot Springs, an Absolutely Hot Spring in
Idaho, U.S.A. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 20 (3): 611-613.
Canton, S.P., and G.D. De Jong. (in review). Tropical
vs. Temperate Streams - A Comparison of the Benthic Invertebrate
Communities in the Rio Caldera, Chiriqui, Republic of
Panamá, and the St. Vrain River,
Colorado, U.S.A. Journal of the North American Benthological
Society 24(4): [invited paper for special issue, "New Vistas
in Neotropical Stream Ecology"].
Chadwick, J.W. and L.C. Bergstedt, D.J. Conklin, and
S.P. Canton. 2004. Drought and Trout - Sometimes Less Is More. pp.
1-13, IN: Proceedings International Congress on the Biology of
Fish, Fish Communities and Fisheries, Manaus Brazil.
Bergstedt, L.C., R.G. White, and A.V. Zale. 2004. Development
of an index of biotic integrity for measuring biological conditions on the
Missouri River. Volume 7. Population structure and habitat use of
benthic fishes along the Missouri and lower Yellowstone rivers. U.S.
Geological Survey, Cooperative Research Units, Department of Ecology, Montana
State University, MT.
De Jong, G.D. 2002. Variation in
Abdominal sa2 and sa3 Setation in Larvae of Arctopsyche grandis
(Banks) (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae). Proceedings of the
Entomological Society of Washington 104(1):
242-243.
Canton, S.P. and J.W. Chadwick. 2000. Distribution of
the subterranean amphipod, Stygobromus, in central Colorado
streams, with notes on the interstitial community. Western
North American Naturalist.
De Jong, G.D., and J.W. Chadwick. 1999. Decomposition
and Arthropod Succession on Exposed Rabbit Carrion During Summer at
High Altitudes in Colorado, U.S.A. Journal of Medical
Entomology 36(6): 833-845.
De Jong, G.D., and J.W. Chadwick. 1999. New northern
records for Necrodes surinamensis (Coleoptera: Silphidae)
and Nitidula nigra (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) from the
Northwest Territories, Canada. Entomological News 110(4):
236.
Chadwick, J.W., D.J. Conklin, Jr., P.L. Winkle, and
S.P. Canton. 1997. Fish species composition in the central Platte
River, Nebraska. The Southwestern Naturalist 42 (3):
280-290.
Canton, S., J. Chadwick and L. Britton. 1981. A new
distributional record for Taenioptyeryx (Plecoptera:
Taeniopterygidae) from Colorado. Entomological News 92:
155-157.
Canton, S.P. and J.V. Ward. 1981. Emergence of
Trichoptera from Trout Creek, Colorado, USA. pp. 39-45. IN:
Moretti, G.P. (ed.). Proc. 3rd. Internat. Symp. Trichop.,
Series Entomol. Vol. 20. Dr. W. Junk, Publ., the Hague.
Whole Effluent Toxicity
Moore, T.F., S.P. Canton, and M. Grimes. 2000.
Investigating the incidence of Type-I errors for chronic whole
effluent toxicity testing using Ceriodaphnia dubia.
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 19:118-122.
Canton, S.P., D.D. Dantin, and T.F. Moore. 2000.
Chronic whole effluent toxicity (WET) test organism performance,
with notes on WET test statistics. Water Environment
Research (in review).
Instream Flow Determination/Analysis
Conklin, D.J., Jr., S.P. Canton, J.W. Chadwick, and
W.J. Miller. 1995. Habitat suitability curves for selected fish
species in the central Platte River, Nebraska. Rivers 5:
250-266.
Miller, W.J., J.W. Chadwick, S.P. Canton, D.J.
Conklin, Jr. and E.Y. Chrisp. 1991. The use of IFIM for evaluating
effects of a flow alternative on fish habitat in a river system
with competing water demands. pp. 122-131. IN: Waterpower
'91, ASCE, Denver.
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