PUBLICATIONS

Publications by Project:

East African Waters Publications

Amazon Riverscapes Publications

South Florida Ecosystems Publications

Full List of Lab Publications:

* indicates student co-author; lab co-authors in bold

2024

Herrera-R, G. A.*, Heilpern, S. A., Couto, T. B. A., Victoria-Lacy, L.*, Duponchelle, F., Correa, S. B., Farah-Pérez, A.*, López-Casas, S., Cañas-Alva, C. M., Doria, C. R. C., and Anderson, E. P. 2024. A synthesis of the diversity of freshwater fish migrations in the Amazon basin. Fish and Fisheries, 25, 114–133. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12795

2023

Fernandes S*, Couto TBA, Ferreira M, Pompeu PS, Athayde S, Anderson EP, Fernandes GW. Conserving Brazil's free-flowing rivers. Science. 2023. 379(6635):887. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi9117

Seeteram NA*, Anderson EP, Bhat M, Grove K, Sanders BF, Schubert JE, Hasan F, and Mach KJ. 2023. Living with water: Evolving adaptation preferences under increasing sea level rise in Miami-Dade County, FL, USA. Climate Risk Management 42: 100574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2023.100574

Subalusky, A.L., Sethi, S.A., Anderson, E.P. et al. Rapid population growth and high management costs have created a narrow window for control of introduced hippos in Colombia. 2023. Scientific Reports 13, 6193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33028-y

Richards, N.; Anderson, E.P.; Rouillé-Kielo, G.; McClain, M.; Mombo, F. 2023. From the Mau Forest to Lake Victoria: The Journey of the Mara River in East Africa. In: Wantzen, K.M. (ed.): River Culture – Life as a Dance to the Rhythm of the Waters. Pp. 191–211. UNESCO Publishing, Paris. DOI:10.54677/XIUX8536

AH Arthington, D Tickner, ME McClain, MC Acreman, EP Anderson, S Babu, CWS Dickens, AC Horne, N Kaushal, WA Monk, GC O'Brien, JD Olden, JJ Opperman, AG Owusu, NL Poff, BD Richter, SA Salinas-Rodríguez, B Shamboko Mbale, RE Tharme, and SM Yarnell. 2023. Accelerating environmental flow implementation to bend the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss. Environmental Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1139/er-2022-0126

Jennings CA, Anderson EP, Benke AC, Kwak TJ, Scott MC, and Smock LA. 2023. Chapter 3 - Atlantic Coast Rivers of the Southeastern United States. In Rivers of North America (second edition), pages 68-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818847-7.00024-0

2022

Correa, S.B., P. van der Sleen, S.F. Siddiqui, J.D. Bogotá-Gregory, C. Arantes, A. Barnett, T.B.A. Couto, M. Goulding, and E.P. Anderson. 2022. Biotic indicators for ecological state change in Amazonian floodplains. Bioscience 72(8):753-786. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac038

Jackson, S., E.P. Anderson, N.C. Piland, S. Carriere, L. Java, and T.D. Jardine. 2022. River rhythmicity: A conceptual means of understanding and leveraging the relational values of rivers. People and Nature 2022:00:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10335

Prestes L., Barthem R., Mello-Filho A., Anderson E.P., Correa S.B., Couto T.B.D., et al. 2022. Proactively averting the collapse of Amazon fisheries based on three migratory flagship species. PLoS ONE 17(3): e0264490. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.026449

Flecker, A.S. et al. 2022. Reducing adverse impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion. Science 375:753-760. PDF

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Companion article in Science: Holtgrieve, G.W. and M.E. Arias. 2022. Optimizing Amazonian dams for nature. Science 375:714-15. PDF

2021

Japoshvili, B., T.B.A. Couto, L. Mumladze, G. Epitashvili, M.E. McClain, C.N. Jenkins, and E.P. Anderson. 2021. Hydropower development in the Republic of Georgia and implications for freshwater biodiversity conservation. Biological Conservation 263:109359. PDF

Contributors to Science Panel for the Amazon. 2021. Amazon Assessment Report 2021. PDF

Tropical Rivers Lab. 2021. Reflections on Negotiating the Science-Society Relationship Together. Open Rivers Journal, volume 19. PDF

Duponchelle, F., V.J., Isaac, C. Rodrigues Da Costa Doria, P.A. Van Damme, G.A. Herrera‐R*, E.P. Anderson, R.E. Cruz, M. Hauser, T.W. Hermann, E. Agudelo, and C. Bonilla‐Castillo, 2021. Conservation of migratory fishes in the Amazon basin. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 31(5), pp.1087-1105. PDF

Siddiqui, S.F., X. Zapata‐Rios, S. Torres‐Paguay, A.C. Encalada, E.P. Anderson, M. Allaire, C.R. da Costa Doria, and D.A. Kaplan, Classifying flow regimes of the Amazon basin. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. PDF

Ruegg, J., C.C. Conn, E.P. Anderson, T.J. Battin, E.S. Bernhardt, M.B. Canadell, S.M. Bonjour, J.D. Hosen, N.S. Marzolf, and C.B Yackulic. 2021. Thinking like a consumer: linking aquatic basal metabolism and consumer dynamics.Limnology and Oceanography Letters. PDF

Subalusky, A.L., E.P. Anderson, G.L Jimenez-Romero, D.M. Post, L.F. Jimenez-Segura, D. Echeverri-Lopez, S. Garcia*, L.J. Nova-Leon*, J.F. Reatiga-Parrish*, A. Rojas*, and S.A. Solari-Torres. 2021. Potential ecological and socio-economic effectsof a novel megaherbivore introduction: the hippopotamus in Colombia. Oryx. PDF

2020

Rosa, C. E.P. Anderson and >200 co-authors. 2020. Neotropical Alien Animals: A dataset of occurrence and abundance of alien mammals in the Neotropics. Ecology. PDF

Herrera‐R, G.A., T. Oberdorf, E.P. Anderson, S. Brosse, F.M. Carvajal‐Vallejos., Frederico, R.G., Hidalgo, M., Jézéquel, C., Maldonado, M., Maldonado‐Ocampo, J.A. and Ortega, H., 2020. The combined effects of climate change and river fragmentation on the distribution of Andean Amazon fishes. Global Change Biology, 26(10), pp.5509-5523. PDF

Farah‐Pérez, A*., G. Umaña‐Villalobos, G. Picado‐Barboza, and E.P. Anderson, 2020. An analysis of river fragmentation by dams and river dewatering in Costa Rica. River Research and Applications, 36(8), pp.1442-1448. PDF

Jumani, S., M.J Deitch, D. Kaplan, E.P Anderson, Krishnaswamy, J., Lecours, V. and Whiles, M.R., 2020. River fragmentation and flow alteration metrics: a review of methods and directions for future research. Environmental Research Letters. PDF

Brownson, K., E.P Anderson, S. Ferreira, S. Wenger, L. Fowler, and L. German, 2020. Governance of Payments for Ecosystem Ecosystem services influences social and environmental outcomes in Costa Rica. Ecological Economics, 174, p.106659. PDF

Couto, T., M. Messager, J. Olden, 2020. Safeguarding migratory fish via strategic planning of future small hydropower in Brazil. Nature Sustainability. PDF

Mumladze, L., B. Japoshvili, and E.P. Anderson. 2020. Faunal biodiversity research in the Republic of Georgia: a short review of trends, gaps, and needs in the Caucasus biodiversity hotspot. Biologia PDF

2019

Seeteram, N.*, E.P. Anderson, P. Hyera, M. Lalika, and L. Kaaya. 2019. ConservingTanzania’s freshwater biodiversity. Water 11(12): 2612. PDF

Anderson, E.P., T. Osborne, J.A. Maldonado-Ocampo, M. Mills-Novoa*, L. Castello, M. Montoya, A.C. Encalada, and C.N. Jenkins. 2019. Energy development reveals blind spots for Amazon ecosystem conservation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17(9):521-29. PDF

Encalada, A.C., A.S. Flecker, N.L. Poff, E. Suarez, G.A. Herrera-R., B. Ríos-Touma, S. Jumani*, E.I. Larson, and E.P. Anderson. 2019. A global perspective on tropical montane rivers. Science 365:1124-29. PDF

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Anderson, E.P., S. Jackson, R. Tharme, M. Douglas, J.E. Flotemersch, M. Zwarteveen, C. Lokgariwar, M. Montoya, A. Wali, G.T. Tipa, T.D. Jardine, J.D. Olden, L. Cheng, J. Conallin, B. Cosens, C. Dickens, D. Garrick, D. Groenfeldt, J. Kabogo, D. Roux, A. Ruhi, and A.H. Arthington. 2019. Understanding rivers and their social relations: A critical step to advance environmental water management. WIREs Water e1381. PDF

Tognelli, M.F., Anderson, E.P., Segura, L.F.J., Correa, V., Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A., Vallejos, F.M.C., Rivadeneira, J.F., Lasso, C.A., Duarte, S., Cox, N.A., Hidalgo, M., Sarmiento, J., Velásquez, M.A. & Navarro, F.A.V. 2019. Assessing conservation priorities of endemic freshwater fishes in the Tropical Andes region. . Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Systems 1–10. PDF

2018

Companion article in Science: Fraser, B. 2018. Dams nudge Amazon’s ecosystems off-kilter. Science 359:508-09. PDF

Wu, X., J. Gomes-Selman, Q. Shi, Y. Xue, R. García-Villacorta, E.P. Anderson, S. Sethi, S. Steinschneider, A. Flecker, and C.P. Gomes. 2018. Efficiently Approximating the Pareto Frontier: Hydropower Dam Placement in the Amazon Basin. Proc. Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2–7 February 2018; pp. 849–858. PDF

2017

Kabogo, J., E.P. Anderson, P. Hyera, and G. Kajanja. 2017. Facilitating public participation in freshwater resources management: Reflections from Tanzania. Ecology and Society 22(4):26. PDF

2016

Jimenez-Segura, L.F., E.P. Anderson, and >15 coauthors. 2016. Ichthyofauna of the Tropical Andes. Pp: 23-56 in: Tognelli, M. et al. (eds). Estado de la Conservación de la Biodiversidad de Agua Dulce en los Andes Tropicales. Gland, Suiza, Cambridge, UK, and Arlington, USA. International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Anderson, E.P. and J.C. Veilleux. 2016. Cultural costs of tropical dams. Science 352:159. PDF

Neibaur, E.E.* and E.P. Anderson. 2016. Sustainability of domestic rainwater harvesting systems in a rural region of Mexico. Water Science and Technology 16:1388-1397. PDF

Auerbach, D., B. Buchanan, A. Alexiades, E.P. Anderson, A.C. Encalada, E. Larson*, R. McManamay, G. Poe, T. Walter, and A. Flecker. 2016. Towards rapid, rigorous and reproducible ecohydrologic classification of data scarce regions. Ecohydrology 9:1235-1247. PDF

Veilleux, J.C. and E.P. Anderson. 2016. 2015 Snapshot of water security in the Nile, Mekong, and Amazon Basins. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 25:8-14. PDF

2015

Gaiser, E.E., E.P. Anderson, E. Castañeda-Moya, L. Collado-Vides, J.W. Fouqurean, M.R. Heithaus, R. Jaffe, D. Lagomasino, N.J. Oehm, R.M. Price, V.H Rivera-Monroy, R.R. Chowdhury, and T.G. Troxler. 2015. New perspectives on an iconic landscape from comparative international long-term ecological research. Ecosphere 6(10):1-18. PDF

Pringle, C.M., E.P. Anderson, M. Ardon, R.J. Bixby, J.H. Duff, A.P. Jackman, P. Paaby, A. Ramirez, G.E. Small, M.N. Snyder, and F.J. Triska. 2015. Rivers of Costa Rica. In: Kappelle, M. and L.D. Gomez. Ecosystems of Costa Rica.

Salisbury, D.S., E.P. Anderson, R. Bilsborrow, C. Campbell, J. Maldonado-Ocampo, S. Perz, E. Diaz-Zuñiga. 2015. Transforming higher education for a changing Amazon. Investigación Universitaria. Edición Extraordinaria, Revista de la Universidad Nacional de Ucayali. 7-9. (In Spanish).

McClain, M.E. and E.P. Anderson. 2015. The gap between best practice and actual practice in the allocation of environmental flows in integrated water resources management. In: Setegn, S.G. and M.C. Donoso (eds), Sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management: Water Governance, Climate, and Ecohydrology. PDF

2010-2014

McClain, M.E., A. Subalusky, E.P. Anderson, P. Ndomba, J. Mtamba, R. Tamatamah, C. Mligo, and J. Ayieko. 2014. Comparing flow regime, channel hydraulics and biological communities to infer flow-ecology relationships in the Mara River of Kenya and Tanzania. Hydrological Sciences Journal 59:1-19. PDF

Anderson, E.P. (ed). 2014. Inambari: Towards an Integrated Approach to River Basin Management. Wildlife Conservation Society. 23 pages. PDF

Anderson, E.P. and J.A. Maldonado-Ocampo. 2013. Returning to the Colombian Amazon. Science 342:692-693. PDF

Snyder, M.N., E.P. Anderson, and C.M. Pringle. 2011. A migratory shrimp’s perspective on habitat fragmentation in the Neotropics: Extending knowledge from Puerto Rico. New Frontiers in Crustacean Biology 169-182. PDF

Anderson, E.P. and J.A. Maldonado-Ocampo. 2011. A regional perspective on diversity and conservation of tropical Andean fishes. Conservation Biology 25:30-39. PDF

Anderson, E.P., J.A. Marengo, R. Villalba, S. Halloy, B. Young, D. Cordero, F. Gast, E. Jaimes, and D. Ruiz. 2011. Consequences of climate change for ecosystems and ecosystem services in the tropical Andes. Chapter 1 in: Herzog, S.K., R. Martinez, P.M. Jorgensen, and H. Tiessen (eds). Climate change effects on the biodiversity of the tropical Andes: An assessment of the status of scientific knowledge. Inter-American Institute of Global Change Research (IAI) and Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE). San Jose dos Campos and Paris. PDF

Anderson, E.P., A. Encalada, J.A. Maldonado-Ocampo, M.E. McClain, H. Ortega, and B.P. Wilcox. 2011. Environmental flows: A concept for addressing effects of river alterations and climate change in the Andes. Chapter 23 in: Herzog, S.K., R. Martinez, P.M. Jorgensen, and H. Tiessen (eds). Climate change effects on the biodiversity of the tropical Andes: An assessment of the status of scientific knowledge. Inter-American Institute of Global Change Research (IAI) and Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE). San Jose dos Campos and Paris. PDF

2006-2009

Stiefel, J.M., A.M. Melesse, M.E. McClain, R.M. Price, E.P. Anderson, and N.K. Chauhan. 2009. Effects of rainwater-harvesting induced artificial recharge on the groundwater of wells in Rajasthan, India. Hydrogeology Journal 17:2061-2073. PDF

Anderson, E.P., M. Montoya, A. Soto, H. Flores and M.E. McClain. 2009. Challenges and opportunities for co-management of a migratory fish, Prochilodus nigricans, in the Peruvian Amazon. American Fisheries Society Symposium 69:741-756. PDF

C. Vriesendorp, W. Alverson, D. Moskovits, D. Stotz, S. Fuentes, B. Coronel-Tapia, and E.P. Anderson, editors. 2009. Ecuador: Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 21. The Field Museum, Chicago. Download: http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/rbi/results_21.asp

Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A., A. Torres-Noboa, and E.P. Anderson. 2009. Fishes. In: C. Vriesendorp, W. Alverson, D. Moskovits, D. Stotz, S. Fuentes, B. Coronel-Tapia, and E.P. Anderson, editors. Ecuador: Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 21. The Field Museum, Chicago. Download: http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/rbi/results_21.asp

Wali, A., S. Paladino, E.P. Anderson, S.V. Poats, C. James, P. Pilco, F. Espinosa, L. Narvaez, and R. Aguinda. 2009. Social Assets and Resource Use. In: C. Vriesendorp, W. Alverson, D. Moskovits, D. Stotz, S. Fuentes, B. Coronel-Tapia, and E.P. Anderson, editors. Ecuador: Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 21. The Field Museum, Chicago. Download: http://fm2.fmnh.org/rbi/results_21.asp

Beard, T.D., H. Allan, E.P. Anderson, and K.L. Smith. 2009. Tradeoffs in management of freshwater ecosystem services under international environmental conventions: The case of inland waters fisheries. In: Schechter, M.G., W.W. Taylor, and N.J. Leonard (eds). International governance of fisheries ecosystems: Learning from the past, finding solutions for the future. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.

Anderson, E.P., C.M. Pringle, and M.C. Freeman. 2008. Quantifying the extent of river fragmentation by hydropower dams in the Sarapiquí River Basin, Costa Rica. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Systems 18:408-417. PDF

Seares, J., K. Smith, E.P. Anderson, and C.M. Pringle. 2007. Effects of globalization on freshwater biodiversity and strategies for conservation. In Taylor, W.W., M.G. Schechter, and L.G. Wolfson (eds). Globalization: Effects on Fisheries Resources. Cambridge University Press.

Anderson, E.P., C.M. Pringle, and M. Rojas. 2006. Transforming tropical rivers: An environmental perspective on hydropower development in Costa Rica. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Systems 16:679-693. PDF

Anderson, E.P., M.C. Freeman, and C.M. Pringle. 2006. Ecological consequences of hydropower development in Central America: Impacts of small dams and water diversion on Neotropical stream fish assemblages. River Research and Applications 22:397-411. PDF

Technical reports

Anderson, E.P. (ed). 2016. A Rapid Assessment of the Aquatic and Riparian Biota of the Wami-Ruvu Basin, Tanzania. Global Water for Sustainability Program. 66 pages.

Anderson, E.P. (ed). 2014. Environmental Flow Recommendations for the Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania. Global Water for Sustainability Program. 52 pages.

Anderson, E.P. (ed). 2014. Wami River Sub-Basin: Environmental Flow Assessment Phase II. Global Water for Sustainability Program. 66 pages.

Anderson, E.P. 2013. Hydropower development and ecosystem services in Central America. Inter-American Development Bank Technical Note 513. 41 p. PDF

Subalusky, A., E.P. Anderson, and M.E. McClain. 2012. An Environmental Flow Assessment for the Mara River Basin, Kenya and Tanzania. Global Water for Sustainability Program, Miami, FL.

Herzog, S.K., P.M. Jørgensen, R. Martinez Güingla, C. Martius, E.P. Anderson, D.G. Hole, T.H. Larsen, J.A. Marengo, D. Ruiz Carrascal, and H. Tiessen. 2011. Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the tropical Andes: the state of scientific knowledge. Summary for decision makers and policy makers. Inter-American Institute for Climate Change Research (IAI), São Paulo, Brazil.

Rivadeneira, J.F., E.P. Anderson, and S. Davila. 2010. Peces de la cuenca del río Pastaza. Fundación Natura, Quito, Ecuador. PDF

Anderson, E.P. and J. Sarmett. 2008. An initial environmental flow assessment for the Wami River sub-Basin, Tanzania. Technical report prepared for the Tanzanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation.

Saunders, T.J., E.P. Anderson, and J.E. Celi. 2007. Status and trends of water quality in the Pastaza River Basin, Ecuador. Technical report prepared for the Global Water for Sustainability Program. 150 p.

Anderson, E.P., C.G. McNally, B. Kalangahe, H, Ramadhani, and H. Mhitu. 2007. The Wami River Estuary, Tanzania: A rapid ecological assessment. Technical report prepared for the Tanzania Coastal Management Partnership and the Coastal Resources Center, University of Rhode Island. 35 p.

Other

Litzinger, M., E.P. Anderson, B. Martinez-Guerrero, and J.A. Maldonado-Ocampo. 2014. Where the Andes meet the Amazon. The Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden magazine.

Anderson, E.P., J. Sarmett, D. Robadue, and J. Tobey. 2008. How much water do we need for nature, livelihoods and people? Assessing the environmental flow of rivers in the Wami River Basin. Basins and Coasts 2:18-23.

McClain, M.E., E.P. Anderson, and D. Ombara. 2006. Securing water for the environment in the Mara River Basin of East Africa. Basins and Coasts 1:4-5.

Anderson, E.P. 2002. Electricity sector reform means more dams for Costa Rica. World Rivers Review 17:3. PDF