James Karr—Publications

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Barbour, M, J Stribling, J Gerritsen, JR Karr. 1996. Biological Criteria: Technical Guidance for Streams and Small Rivers, revised ed. EPA 822-B-96-001. US EPA, Office of Water, Washington, DC.

Barbour, MT, J Stribling, JR Karr. 1995. Multimetric approach for establishing biocriteria and measuring biological condition. Pages 63-77 inW Davis, T Simon (eds), Biological Assessment and Criteria: Tools for Water Resource Planning and Decision Making. CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton.

Booth, DB, JR Karr, S Schauman, CP Konrad, SA Morley, MG Larson, SJ Burges. 2003. Management strategies for urban stream rehabilitation. Pages 20-28 in Proceedings, National Conference on Urban Storm Water: Enhancing Programs at the Local Level. EPA/626/R-03/003. Chicago, Illinois, 17-20 February 2003. Available at:
http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/pubs/625r03003/02Booth.pdf

Brawn, J, JR Karr, J Nichols. 1995. Demography of birds in a neotropical forest: effects of allometry, taxonomy, and ecology. Ecology 76:41-51.

Brawn, JD, JR Karr, JN Nichols, WD Robinson. 1999. Demography of forest birds in Panama: How do transients affect estimates of survival rates? In NJ Adams, RH Slotow (eds.). Proceedings of the 22nd International Ornithological Congress, Durban, South Africa.

Burger, J, TM Leschine, M Greenberg, JR Karr, M Gochfeld, CW Powers. 2003. Forum: Shifting priorities at the Department of Energy's bomb factories: protecting human and ecological health. Environ. Mgmt. 31:157-167.

Chu, EW, JR Karr. 2001. Environmental impact, concept and measurement of. Pages 557-577 in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Vol. 2. Academic Press.

Collares-Pereira, MJ, IG Cowx, MM Coelho (eds). 2002. Conservation of Freshwater Fishes: Options for the Future. Fishing News Books (Blackwell Science), Oxford. Reviewed: Quarterly Rev. Biol. 2004. 79:91-92.

DellaSala, DA, G Nagle, R Fairbanks, D Odiion, JE Williams, JR Karr, C Frissell, T Ingalsbee. 2006. The facts and myths of post-fire management: a case study of the Biscuit fire, southwest Oregon. Unpubl. Rep., World Wildlife Fund, Klamath–Siskiyou Program, 116 Lithia Way, Ashland, Oregon. 31 p.

Dellasala, DA, JR Karr, T Schoennagel, D Perry, RF Noss, D Lindenmayer, R Beschta, RL Hutto, ME Swanson, J Evans. 2006. Post-fire logging debate ignores many issues. Science 314:51-52.

Doberstein, CP, JR Karr, LL Conquest. 2000. The effect of fixed-count subsampling on macroinvertebrate biomonitoring in small streams. Freshwat. Biol. 44:355-371.

Fore, L, JR Karr, R Wisseman. 1996. Assessing invertebrate responses to human activities: evaluating alternative approaches. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 15:212-231.

Fore, LS, JR Karr, WS Fisher, P Bradley, WS Davis. 2009. Heeding a call to action for US coral reefs: The untapped potential of the Clean Water Act. Mar. Poll. Bull. 58:1421-1423.

Hawke, MA, JR Karr. 2000. Ecological responses and compensatory mechanisms: using ecological knowledge to improve remediation efforts. Pages 31-56 in M Swindoll, RG Stahl, Jr, SJ Ells (eds), Natural Remediation of Environmental contaminants: Its role in Ecological Risk Assessment and Risk Management. SETAC Press, Pensacola, Florida.

Hill, K, D White, M Maupin, B Ryder, JR Karr, K Freemark, R Taylor, S Schauman. 2002. In expectation of relationships: Centering theories around ecological understanding. Pages 271-303 in BR Johnson, K Hill (eds), Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Jameson, SC, MV Erdmann, JR Karr, KW Potts. 2001. Charting a course toward diagnostic monitoring: a continuing review of coral reef attributes and a research strategy for creating coral reef indexes of biotic integrity. Bul. Mar. Sci. 69:701-744.

Jennings, MJ, LS Fore, JR Karr. 1995. Biological monitoring of fish assemblages in Tennessee Valley reservoirs. Regulated Rivers: Res. Mgmt. 11:263-274.

Judd, NL, JR Karr, WC Griffith, EM Faustman. 2003. Challenge in defining background levels for human and ecological risk assessments. Human Ecol. Risk Assess. 9:1623-1632.

Karr, JR. 2010. Vignette 11.2. Biological integrity and ecological health. Pages 324–329 in M. C. Neuman. Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology, Third Edition. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, Florida.

Karr, JR. 1994-95. Restoring wild salmon: we must do better. Illahee 10:316-319.

Karr, JR. 1995. Clean water is not enough. Illahee 11:51-59.

Karr, JR. 1995. Risk assessment: we need more than an ecological veneer. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 1:436-442.

Karr, JR. 1995. Protecting aquatic ecosystems: clean water is not enough. Chap. 2. Pages 7-13 inWS Davis, TP Thomas (eds), Biological Assessment and Criteria: Tools for Water Resource Planning and Decision Making. CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton.

Karr, JR. 1995. Using biological criteria to protect ecological health. Pages 137-152 inDJ Rapport, C Gaudet, P Calow (eds), Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large Scale Ecosystems. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Karr, JR. 1995. Migrant birds: where have we been, where are we going, and can we get there fast enough. Pages 249-252 inMH Wilson, SA Sader (eds), Conservation of Neotropical Migratory Birds in Mexico. Misc. Publ. 727, Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Sta., Univ. Maine, Orono.

Karr, JR. 1995. Book review: Biological Diversity: The Coexistence of Species on Changing Landscape. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York. Trends in Ecol. Evol. 10:299-300.

Karr, JR. 1995. Book review: The Third World in Global Environmental Politics, MAL Miller. J. Developing Areas 30:233-234.

Karr, JR. 1995. Disturbance and riparian corridors. Pages 43-46 inSB Laursen (ed), At the Water's Edge: The Science of Riparian Forestry. Conference, Duluth, MN, June 19-20, 1995. Publ. #BU-6637-S. Minnesota Extension Service, Univ. Minnesota, St. Paul.

Karr, JR. 1995. Making meaning of all the science. Pages 149-152 inSB Laursen (ed), At the Water's Edge: The Science of Riparian Forestry. Proceedings of a conference, Duluth, Minnesota, June 19-20, 1995. Minnesota Extension Service, Univ. Minnesota, St. Paul, Publ BU-6637-S.

Karr, JR. 1995. Understanding Earth key to humans' survival. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 22 Feb.

Karr, JR. 1995. Clean water is not enough. American Rivers 23:5.

Karr, JR. 1995. Assessing risk requires much broader view. Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce 24 August:B23-B24.

Karr, JR. 1996. Ecological integrity and health are not the same. Pages 97-109 inPC Schulze (ed), Engineering Within Ecological Constraints. National Academy of Engineering, National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

Karr, JR. 1996. Book review: Forest Ecosystems, DA Perry. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore. Northw. Sci. 70:70-71.

Karr, JR. 1996. Book review: The Food Web of a Tropical Rain Forest, DP Reagan, RB Waide (eds). Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. Trends Ecol. Evol. 11:79-80.

Karr, JR. 1996. Forest health is not synonymous with tree health. The Forestry Source (Soc. American Foresters, Bethesda, Maryland) July/August:7.

Karr, JR. 1996. Restoring connections: beyond the binocular view. Observer (Point Reyes Bird Observatory) 106:4, 9.

Karr, JR. 1997. Book review: Natural Capital and Human and Human Economic Survival. T Prugh, R Costanza, JH Cumberland, H Daly, R. Goodland, and R. Norgaard. International Soc. Ecological Economics, Solomons, Maryland. 1997. EcoScience 4: 126-127.

Karr, J. 1997. Bridging the gap between human and ecological health. Ecosys. Health 3:197-199.

Karr, JR. 1997. Extinction of birds on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Essay 5A (pp. 131-132) in GK Meffe and GR Carroll (eds), Principles of Conservation Biology, 2nd edition. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.

Karr, JR. 1997. Measuring biological integrity. Essay 14A. Pages 483-485 inGK Meffe and GR Carroll (eds), Principles of Conservation Biology, 2nd edition. Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts..

Karr, JR. 1997. The future is now: biological monitoring to ensure healthy waters. Pp. 31-36 in Streamkeepers: Aquatic insects as biomonitors. Xerces Society, Portland, OR. Reprinted Northwest Science 71: 244-247.

Karr, JR. 1998. Biological integrity: a long-neglected aspect of environmental program evaluation. Pages 148-175 inGJ Knaap, TJ Kim (eds), Environmental Program Evaluation: A Primer. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

Karr, JR. 1998. Rivers as sentinels: using the biology of rivers to guide landscape management. Pages 502-528 in RJ Naiman, RE Bilby (eds.), River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecosystems. Springer, New York.

Karr, JR. 1999. Defining and measuring river health. Freshwat. Biol. 41:221-234.

Karr, JR. 1999. Restoring Life in Running Waters: Better Biological Monitoring. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Karr, JR. 1999. Rivers as sentinels: Using the biology of rivers to measure ecological health. Pages 46-48 (Appendix E) in CL Soskolne, R Bertollini (eds.), A Discussion Document: Global Integrity and Sustainable Development: Cornerstones of Public Health. Based on Int. Workshop, World Health Org., Rome Italy 3-4 December 1998.

Karr, JR. 2000. Book review: Continental Conservation: Scientific Foundations of Regional Reserve Networks, ME Soulé, J Terborgh (eds), Island Press, Washington, DC. Northw. Sci. 74:169-170.

Karr, JR. 2000. Ecological health, public health, and societal well-being. Washington Publ. Health 17:30-31.

Karr, JR. 2000. Health, integrity, and biological assessment: The importance of whole things. Pages 209-226 in D Pimentel, L Westra, RF Noss (eds), Ecological Integrity: Integrating Environment, Conservation, and Health. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Karr, JR. 2000. Book review: Measuring the Natural Environment, I Strangeways, Cambridge Univ. Press. 2000. Ecoscience 7:518-519.

Karr, JR. 2001. Protecting life: Weaving together environment, people, and law. Pages 175-185 in RG Stahl, Jr, RA Bachman, AL Barton, JR Clark, PL deFur, SJ Ells, CA Pittinger, MW Slimak, RS Wentsel (eds.), Risk Management: Ecological Risk-Based Decision-Making. SETAC Press, Pensacola, Florida.

Karr, JR. 2002. Understanding the consequences of human actions: indicators from GNP to IBI. Pages 98-110 in P Miller, L Westra (eds), Just Ecological Integrity: The Ethics of Maintaining Planetary Life. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD.

Karr, JR. 2002. What from ecology is relevant to design and planning? Pages 133-172 in BR Johnson, K Hill (eds), Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Karr, JR. 2006. Seven foundation of biological monitoring and assessment. Biol. Ambient. 20:7-18.

Karr, JR. 2006. When government ignores science, scientists should speak up. BioScience 56:287-288.

Karr, JR. 2008. Ecological health indicators. Pages 1037–1041 in SE Jørgensen, BD Fath (Editor-in-Chief). Ecological indicators. Vol. 2, Encyclopedia of Ecology. Elsevier, Oxford.

Karr, JR. 2009. Natural: a benchmark, not a bias. Northw. Sci. 83(3):294-297.

Karr, JR, JD Allen, AC Benke. 2000. River conservation in the United States and Canada. Pages 3-39 in PJ Boon, BR Davies, GE Petts (eds.), Global Perspectives on River Conservation: Science, Policy, and Practice. J. Wiley, New York.

Karr, JR, EW Chu. 1995. Ecological integrity: reclaiming lost connections. Pages 34-48 inL Westra, J Lemons (eds), Perspective on Ecological Integrity. Kluwer Academic Publ., Netherlands.

Karr, JR, EW Chu. 1995. Eastside forests require protection. Wild Fish & Forests (Pac. NW Regional Off., The Wilderness Soc.) Spring:16-17.

Karr, JR, EW Chu. 1996. Book review: A Primer of Conservation Biology, RB Primack. Sinauer Assoc., Sunderland, Massachusetts. Ecosys. Health 2:159-160.

Karr, JR, EW Chu. 1997. Biological monitoring: essential foundation for ecological risk assessment. Human Ecolog. Risk Assess. 3:993-1004.

Karr, JR, EW Chu. 2000. Sustaining living rivers. Hydrobiologia 422/423:1-14.

Karr, J. R. 2006. Sustaining Living Systems: Challenge for the Twenty-first Century. In Ecologia. Atti del XV Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Ecologia (Torino, 12-14 settembre 2005) a cura di Claudio Comoglio, Elena Comino, e Francesca Bona [online] URL: http://www.xvcongresso.societaitalianaecologia.org/articles/Karr.pdf.

Karr, JR. 2007. Review: Ziglio, G, G Flaim, M Siligardi (eds). 2006. Biological Monitoring of Rivers: Applications and Perspectives. Wiley, New York. Ecol. Engineer. 31:140-141.

Karr, JR, E Morishita Rossano. 2001. Applying public health lessons to protect river health. Ecol. Civil Eng. 4:3-18.

Karr, JR, JJ Rhodes, GW Minshall, FR Hauer, RL Beschta, CA Frissell, DA Perry. 2004. The effects of postfire salvage logging on aquatic ecosystems in the American west. BioScience 54:1029-1033.

Karr, JR, T Thomas. 1996. Economics, ecology, and environmental quality. Ecol. Appl. 6:31-32.

Karr, JR, CO Yoder. 2004. Biological assessment and criteria improve total maximum daily load decision making. J. Environ. Engineer. 130:594-604.

Kimberling, DN, JR Karr, LS Fore. 2001. Measuring human disturbance using terrestrial invertebrates in the shrub–steppe of eastern Washington (USA). Ecol. Indic. 1:63-81.

May, CW, RR Horner, JR Karr, BW Mar, and EB Welch. 1997. Effects of urbanization on small streams in the Puget Sound lowland ecoregion. Watershed Protect. Tech. 2(4):483-494.

Meretsky, VJ, RL Fischman, JR Karr, DM Ashe, JM Scott, RF Noss, RL Schroeder. 2006. New directions in conservation for the National Wildlife Refuge system. Bioscience 56:135-143.

Morley, SA, JR Karr. 2002. Assessing and restoring the health of urban streams in the Puget Sound basin. Cons. Biol. 16:1498-1509.

Naiman, RJ, JJ Magnuson, DM McKnight, JA Stanford, and JR Karr. 1995. Policy forum: Freshwater ecosystems and their management. Science 270:584-585.

Perry, DA, MG Henjum, JR Karr, DL Bottom, JC Bednarz, SG Wright, SA Beckwitt, and E Beckwitt. 1995. Interim protection for late-successional forests, fisheries, and watersheds: a summary of the report of the Eastside Forests Scientific Society Panel. Pages 103-114 inProceedings, Ecosystem Management in Western Interior Forests, Spokane, WA, May 3-5, 1994. Dep. Natural Resource Sciences, Washington State Univ.

Poff, NL, JD Allan, MB Bain, JR Karr, KL Prestegaard, BD Richter, RE Sparks, JC Stromberg. 1997. The natural flow regime: A paradigm for river conservation and restoration. BioScience 47(11):769-784.

Rapport, DJ, G Bohm, D Buckingham, J Cairns, Jr, R Costanza, JR Karr, HAM de Kruijf, R Levins, AJ McMichael, NO Nielsen, WG Whitford. 2000. Ecosystem health: the concept, the ISEH, and the important tasks ahead. Ecosys. Health 5:82-90.

Rapport, DJ, G Bohm, D Buckingham, J Cairns, Jr, R Costanza, JR Karr, HAM de Kruijf, R Levins, AJ McMichael, NO Nielsen, WG Whitford. 2000. Reply to Calow: Critics of ecosystem health misrepresented. Ecosys. Health 6:5-6.

Rapport, DJ, N Christensen, JR Karr, GP Patil. 1999. 1999. The centrality of ecosystem health in achieving sustainability in the 21st century: concepts and new approaches to environmental management. Trans. Royal Soc. Can. VI(IX):3-40.

Rapport, DJ, C Gaudet, JR Karr, JS Baron, C Bohlen, W Jackson, B Jones, RJ Naiman, B Norton, MM Pollock. 1998. Evaluating landscape health: integrating societal goals and biophysical processes. J. Environ. Mgmt. 53:1-15.

Sieving, KE, and JR Karr. 1997. Avian extinction and persistence mechanisms in lowland Panama. Pages 156-170 inWF Laurence and RO Bierregaard, Jr. (eds), Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management and Conservation of Fragmented Communities. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Westra, L, P Miller, JR Karr, WE Rees, RE Ulanowicz. 2000. Ecological integrity and the aims of the global integrity project. Pages 19-41 in D Pimentel, L Westra, and RF Noss (eds), Ecological Integrity: Integrating Environment, Conservation, and Health. Island Press, Washington, DC.

White, RJ, JR Karr, and W Nehlsen. 1995. Better roles for fish stocking in aquatic resource management. American Fisheries Society Symposium 15: 527-547.

White, RJ, JR Karr, and W Nehlsen. 1996. Hatchery reform in the Northwest: Issues, opportunities, and recommendations. Final Report to Oregon Trout, Portland, Oregon.

White, RJ, W Nehlsen, and JR Karr. 1995. Why wild trout matter. Pages 105-114 inR Barnhart, B Shake, RH Hamre (eds), Wild Trout V: Wild Trout in the 21st Century. Proceedings of a symposium, Yellowstone National Park, Sept. 26-27, 1994. American Fisheries Society.

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