Dr. F. Richard Hauer

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Dr. Hauer at Anapurna, Nepal.

F. Richard Hauer

Professor of Limnology
Holds FLBS Endowed Chair in Limnology

Flathead Lake Biological Station

The University of Montana
32125 Bio Station Lane
Polson, MT 59860-9659
(406) 982-3301

Research Interests

My research interests encompass the fields of stream and wetland ecology. By the nature of its scope, aquatic ecology spans a broad array of subdisciplines such as geomorphology, hydrology, nutrient cycling, bioenergetics, energy flow through food webs, and population and community ecology. The continuing goal of my research is a synthesis of these many areas of organismal biology and ecology and their application toward holistic understanding of stream and wetland environments. This goal has led me to investigate a broad range of topics, for example the interaction of temperature and stream hydrologic cycles on growth and production of stream invertebrates; nutrient and organic matter dynamics in disturbed stream systems; the role of large wood debris in bull trout spawning habitat; and the role of hydrology and geomorphology on wetland vegetation structure and function.

Teaching Interests

Teaching has always been an important part of my professional life. I have taught across a range of students and courses from General Biology for non-majors to upper level undergraduate and graduate level courses in Stream Ecology and Limnology. I find teaching to be exciting and a new challenge each year with a different cohort of students with varied personalities and backgrounds. Currently, I teach stream ecology each summer at Flathead Lake Biological Station, and have done so since summer 1983. Teaching stream ecology within the Flathead Lake Biological Station teaching environment stimulated the conception and development of the book Methods in Stream Ecology, which I co-edited with my colleague, Dr. Gary Lamberti.

	Most Recent Publications
2006	Hauer, F. R., J. A. Stanford, M. S. Lorang, B. K. Ellis, and J. A.Craft. 2006. Aquatic Ecosystem Health. (IN T. Prato and D. Fagre, Eds). Sustaining Rocky Mountain Landscapes: Science, Policy and Management of the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem. RFF Press. (IN PRESS)
2005	Stanford, J. A., M. S. Lorang, and F. R. Hauer. 2005. The Shifting Habitat Mosaic of River Ecosystems. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 29:123-136.
2005	Lorang, M. S., D. C. Whited, F. R. Hauer, J. S. Kimball, J. A. Stanford. 2005. Using airborne multispectral imagery to evaluate geomorphic work across flood plains of gravel-bed rivers. Ecological Applications: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 1209–1222.
2005	Stanford, J.A., F.R. Hauer, S.V. Gregory, and E. Snyder. 2005. The Columbia River. IN: Benke, A.C. and C.E. Cushing (eds.), Rivers of North America. Elsevier Press.
2004	Beschta, R. L., J. J. Rhodes, J. B. Kauffman, R. E. Gresswell, G. W. Minshall, J. R. Karr, D. A. Perry, F.R. Hauer, and C. A. Frissell. 2004. Postfire management on forested public lands of the western USA. Conservation Biology 18 (4): 957-967.
2004	Hauer, F. R. and M.S. Lorang. 2004. River regulation, decline of ecological resources, and potential for restoration in a semi-arid lands river in the western USA. Aquat. Sci. 66:388–401.
2004	Karr, J. R., J. J. Rhodes, G. W. Minshall, F. R. Hauer, R. L. Beschta, C. A. Frissell, D. A. Perry, and J. B. Kauffman. 2004. Postfire salvage logging and aquatic ecosystems in the American West. BioScience 54(11):1029-1033.
2003	Lorang, M. S. and F.R. Hauer. 2003. Flow competence evaluation of steambed stability: An assessment of the technique and limitations of application. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. In press (December 2003 issue).
2003	Baxter, C. V. and F. R. Hauer, and W. W. Woessner. 2003. New techniques for installing piezometers, estimating hydraulic conductivity and detecting patterns in groundwater-stream water exchange. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 132 (3): 493-502.
2003	Hauer, F. R., D. B. Fagre and J. A. Stanford. 2003. Hydrologic processes and nutrient dynamics in a pristine mountain catchment. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 28(3):1490-1493.
2003	Hauer, F. R., C. N. Dahm, G. A. Lamberti and J. A. Stanford. 2003. Landscapes and ecological variability of rivers in North America: factors affecting restoration strategies, pp. IN: Wissmar, R. C. and P. A. Bisson (ed.), Strategies for Restoring River Ecosystems: Sources of Variability and Uncertainty in Natural and Managed Systems. American Fisheries Society. pp 81-105.
2003	Ellis, B. K., J. A. Stanford, J. A. Craft, D. W. Chess, F. R. Hauer and D. C. Whited. 2003. Plankton communities of alpine and subalpine lakes in Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A., 1984 - 1990. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 28(3):1542-1550.
2003	Spencer, C.N., K.O. Gabel, and F.R. Hauer. 2003. Wildfire effects on stream food webs and nutrient dynamics in Glacier National Park, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 178:141-153.
2002	Stevenson, R. J. and F. R. Hauer. 2002. Integrating Hydrogeomorphic and Index of Biotic Integrity approaches for environmental assessment of wetlands. Journal of North American Benthological Society 21(3):502-513.
2002	Stafford, C. P., J. A. Stanford, F. R. Hauer and E. B. Brothers. 2002. Changes in lake trout growth associated with Mysis relicta establishment: a retrospective analysis using otoliths. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131:994-1003.
2002	Pepin, D. M. and F. R. Hauer. 2002. Benthic responses to groundwater - surface water exchange in two alluvial rivers. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 21(3):370-383.