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Research Interests
Hydrologic effects of forest and range land uses, water quality and stream temperatures,
riparian area management and channel morphology, restoration of riparian ecosystems, Professional Hydrologist (AIH#317)
Current Programs
Large wood and channel morphology, interactions of stream and subsurface water in eastern
Oregon, riparian restoration, historical assessments of channels and riparian systems
Selected Recent Publications
Beschta, R.L. 2005. Reduced cottonwood recruitment following
extirpation of wolves in Yellowstone's northern range. Ecology
86(2) pp. 391-403.
Beschta, R.L., J.J. Rhodes, J.B. Kauffman, R.E. Gresswell, G.W.
Minshall, J.R. Karr, D.A. Perry, F.R. Haeur, and C.A. Frissell.
2004.
Postfire Management on Forested Public Lands of the Western United
States. Conservation Biology 18:957-967.
Karr, J.R., J.J.Rhodes, G.W.Minshall, F.R. Hauer, R.L. Beschta,
C.A. Frissell, D.A. Perry. 2004. The effects of post fire salvage
logging on aquatic ecosystems in the American west. Bioscience
54(11) pp.1029-1033.
Ripple, William J., and Robert L. Beschta. 2004.
Wolves and the Ecology of Fear: Can Predation Risk Structure Ecosystems?
BioScience 54:755-766
Ripple, William J., and Robert L. Beschta. 2004.
Wolves, elk, willows, and
trophic cascades in the upper Gallatin Range of Southwestern Montana, USA.
Forest Ecology and Management 200:161-181.
Ripple, William J., and Robert L. Beschta. 2003.
Wolf reintroduction, predation risk, and cottonwood recovery in Yellowstone National Park.
Forest Ecology and Management 184:299-313.
Beschta, R.L. 2003. Cottonwoods, elk, and wolves in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park.
Ecological Applications 13(5): 1295-1309.
http://www.cof.orst.edu/aspen/Beschta%20cottonwood%20EA.pdf
Wissmar, R.C., J.H. Braatne, R.L. Beschta, and S.B.Rood. 2003.
Variability of riparian ecosystems: implications for restoration.
Pp. 107-127 in R.C. Wissmar and P.A. Bisson (eds). Strategies
for Restoring River Ecosystems: Sources of Variability and Uncertainty
in Natural and Management Systems. American Fisheries Society,
Bethesda, Maryland.
Brinson, M.M., L.J. MacDonnell, D.J. Austen, R.L. Beschta, T.A.
Dillaha, D.L. Donahue, S.V. Gregory, J.W. Harvey, M.C. Molles,
Jr., E.I. Rogers, and J.A. Stanford. 2002. Riparian areas: functions
and strategies for management. National Research Council, National
Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 428 pp.
Beschta, R.L., B.A. McIntosh, and C.E. Torgersen. 2002. Comment:
"Perspectives on water flow and the interpretation of FLIR images" Journal of Range
Management 55:106-111 2002. Journal of Range Management 56:97-99.
Chapin, D.M., R.L. Beschta, and H.W. Shen. 2002. Relationships between flood
frequencies and riparian plant communities in the upper Klamath Basin, Oregon.
Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38(3):603-617.
Beschta, R.L., M.R. Pyles, A.E. Skaugset, and C.G. Surfleet.
2000. Peakflow responses to forest practices in the western cascades
of Oregon, USA. Journal of Hydrology 233:102-120.
Beschta, R.L. 2000. Watershed management in the Pacific Northwest;
the historical legacy. Pp. 109-116. In: Land Stewardship in the
21st Century: Contributions of Watershed Management, USDA Forest
Service Rocky Mountain Research Station Proceedings RMRS-P-13.
Benner, D.A., and R.L. Beschta. 2000. Effects of channel morphology
on evaporative heat loss from arid-land streams. IN: P.J. Wigington and
R.L. Beschta (eds), Proceedings of the AWRA International Conference on
Riparian Ecology and Management in Multi-Land Use Watersheds, American
Water Resources Association, Bethesda, Maryland.
Beschta, R.L. 1999. Chapter 11; Long-term changes in the morphology
of gravel-bed river channels: Results of three case studies. Pp. 229-256.
IN: P.C. Klingeman, R.L. Beschta, P. Komar, and J. Bradley (eds), Gravel-bed
Rivers in the Environment. Water Resources Publications, Colorado.
Committee of Scientists (R.L. Beschta and others). 1999. Sustaining
the people's lands: recommendations for stewardship of the national
forests and grasslands into the next century. US Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 193 pp.
Beschta, R.L. 1998. Forest hydrology in the Pacific Northwest:
Additional research needs. Journal of the American Water Resources
Assoc., 34:729-741.
Beschta, R.L. 1997. Restoration of riparian and aquatic systems
for improved aquatic habitats in the Upper Columbia River Basin.
pp. 475-491. IN: D.J. Stouder, P.A. Bisson, and R.J. Naiman (eds).
Pacific Salmon and their Ecosystems: Status and future options,
Chapman and Hill, New York.
Kauffman, J.B., R.L. Beschta, N. Otting, and D. Lytjen. 1997.
An ecological perspective of riparian and stream restoration in
the Western United States. Fisheries 22(5):12-24.
Beschta, R.L., C.A. Frissell, R. Gresswell, R. Hauer, J.R. Karr,
G.W. Minshall, D.A. Perry, and J.J. Rhodes. 1995. Wildfire and salvage
logging: recommendations for ecologically sound post-fire salvage logging
and other post-fire treatments on federal lands in the West. Unpublished report,
16 pp.
http://www.saveamericasforests.org/congress/Fire/Beschta-report.htm
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