Professor and Assistant Leader
Oregon Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, National Biological Service
Year Hired: 1979
Organizations:Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildife Research Unit, Biological Resources Division, U.S.G.S. Ecology Advisory Panel for the National Science Foundation 1984-1987 Associate Editor for Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 1986-1988 Foley-Hatfield Team on Eastside Forest Health Assessment, 1992-1993 Independent Science Panel for Washington Governor's Salmon Recovery Office 1999 -present. American Fisheries Society Book Editorial Board 2002-present. Ecological Society of America American Fisheries Society North American Benthological Society Native American Fish and Wildlife Society Union of Concerned Scientists Referee for 14 primary journals
Specialty: Ecology of streams, fish communities and invasive species. Qualitative mathematical models for management of communities Bioenergetics
Research Interests:
Hierarchical organization of land and riverscapes ("From the macroscope to microscope"). The role of stream temperature on aquatic communities of high desert streams. Factors affecting restoration of fish habitats. Qualitative mathematical analyses of aquatic communities, especially exotic species.
Oregon State University
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
104 Nash Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331-3803
Courses Taught: Team teaches Graduate Student Orientation Even numbered years: FW473/573 Fish Ecology (Spring Quarter) Odd numbered years:
FW 599 Community Ecology of Freshwater Fishes (with Dr. Peter Bayley)
Degrees:
A.A. Biology, City College of San Francisco, 1964
A.B. Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 1966;
M.S. Fishery and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, 1969
Ph.D. Ecology, University of California, Davis, 1973
Personal Interests:
Clawhammer banjo, slide guitar, American musical forms, canoes, sailboats and outdoor sports, reading
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Other: Recent Publications (past 5 years)
Dambacher, J.M, H.W. Li and P.A. Rossignol. In Press. Qualitative predictions in model ecosystems. Ecological Modeling.
Dambacher, J.M., H.W. Li and P.A. Rossignol. In Press. Qualitative stability and ambiguity in model ecosystems. American Naturalist.
Gamperl, A.K., K.J. Rodnick, H.A. Faust, E.C. Venn, M.T. Bennett, L.I. Crawshaw, E.R. Keeley, M.S. Powell, and H.W. Li. In Press. Metabolism, swimming performance, and tissue biochemistry of high desert redband trout: evidence for phenotypic differences in physiological function. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology75(4)
Close, D.A., M.F. Fitzpatrick and H.W. Li. 2002. Cultural and ecological significance of the Pacific lamprey (Lampetra tridentata). Fisheries (Bethesda) 27(7):19-25.
Dambacher, J.M., H.W. Li and P.A. Rossignol. 2002. Relevance of community structure in assessing interminacy of ecological predictions. Ecology 83:1372-1385.
Fauch, K.D., C.E. Torgersen, C.V. Baxter, and H.W. Li. 2002. Landscapes to riverscapes: bridging the gap between research and conservation of stream fishes. BioScience. 52:1-16.
Gregory, S.V., H.W. Li and J.L. Li. 2002. Conceptual basis for ecological responses to dam removal. BioScience 52:713-723.
Bateman, D. and H.W. Li. 2001. Nest site selection by reticulate sculpin in Oregon streams of different geologies. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 130:823-832.
Dambacher, J.M., P.A. Rossignol, H.W. Li, and J.M. Emlen. 2001. Dam breaching and chinook salmon recovery. Science 291:939. www.sciencemag.org.
Castillo, G.C., H.W. Li and P.A. Rossignol. 2000. Absence of overall feedback in a benthic estuarine community: a system potentially buffered from impacts of biological invasions. Estuaries 23: 275-291.
Castillo, G.C., H.W. Li, J.W. Chapman, and T.W. Miller. 2000. Predation on native and nonindigenous amphipod crustaceans by a native estuarine-dependent fish. Pages 177-185, in J. Pederson (ed.). Marine bioinvasions. MIT Sea Grant Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA.
Walks, D.J., H.W. Li, and G.H. Reeves. 2000. Trout, summer flows and irrigation canals: a study of habitat condition and trout populations within a complex system. Pages 115-125, in I.G. Cowx, (eds) Proceedings of the symposium
Dambacher, J.M., H.W. Li, J.O. Wolff, and P.A. Rossignol. 1999. Parsimonious interpretation of the impact of vegetation, food and predation on snowshoe hare. Oikos. 84:530-532.
Torgersen, C.E., D. Price, H.W. Li and B.A. McIntosh. 1999. Multiscale thermal refugia and stream habitat associations of chinook salmon in northeastern Oregon. Ecological Applications 9:301-319.
Li, H.W., P.A. Rossignol and G. Castillo. 1999. Risk analysis of species introduction: Insights from qualitative modeling. Pages 431-447, in Claudi R., and Leach J. (eds). Non?indigenous Fresh Water Organisms in North America; Vectors of Introduction, Biology and Impact. Lewis Press, Boca Raton FL.
Li, H.W. and P.B. Moyle. Chapter 13. Management of Exotics, (2nd Edition). 1999. Pages 345-374, in C. Kohler and W. Hubert , editors.Inland Fisheries Management in North America. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda MD.
Currens, K.P., A.R. Hemmingsen, R.A. French, D.V. Buchanan, C.B. Schreck, and H.W. Li. 1997. Susceptibility to disease and introgression in a wild population of rainbow trout. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 17:1065-1078.