Martha Mather, Professor
Assistant Unit Leader, Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
*Federal employee
Contact information
204B Leasure Hall
(785) 532-6522
mmather@k-state.edu
Lab website: https://www.k-state.edu/kscfwru/personnel/mather.html
Education
Ph.D., 1990, The Ohio State University. Zoology.
Area(s) of Specialization
Fish ecology, aquatic community ecology
Research Focus
Recent Publications
Hitchman, S.M, M.E. Mather, J.M. Smith. 2021. Does type, quantity, and location of habitat matter for fish diversity in a Great Plains riverscape? Fisheries (Published Online, July, 2021). https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fsh.10634
Mather, M.E., J.M. Smith, K.M. Gerber, R.B Taylor, C.G. Kennedy, S.M. Hitchman, J.S. Fencl, and H.M. Frank. 2021. Solving persistent fisheries and aquatic conservation problems by quantifying the spatial distribution of mobile organisms within aquatic landscapes. Fisheries (Published Online, August, 2021). https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/fsh.10645?download=true
Marschall, E.A., D.C. Glover, M.E. Mather, and D.L. Parrish. 2020. Modeling larval American shad recruitment in a large river. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 41(4):939-954. https://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10460
Gerber, K.M., M.E. Mather, J.M. Smith. 2019. Multiple metrics provide context for the distribution of a highly mobile fish predator, the blue catfish. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 128:141-155 https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12438
Gerber, K.M., M.E. Mather, J.M. Smith, Z. Peterson. 2019. Evaluation of a field protocol for internally-tagging fish predators using difficult-to-tag ictalurid catfish as examples. Fisheries Research Fisheries Research 209:58-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2018.09.003
Caldas, M., M. Mather, J. Bergtold, M. Daniels, G. Granco, J.A. Aistrup, D. Haukos, A.Y. Sheshukov, M.R. Sanderson, and J.L. Heier Stamm. 2019. Understanding the Central Great Plains as a coupled climatic-hydrological-human system: Lessons learned in operationalizing interdisciplinary collaboration. Pages 265-294 in Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science - Experiences Around the World, editor: Dr. Stephen Perz, University of Florida. Palgrave MacMillan
Taylor, R.B., M.E. Mather, J.M. Smith, and K.M. Gerber 2019. Confluences function as ecological hotspots: geomorphic and regional drivers can identify patterns of fish predator distribution within a seascape. Marine Ecology Progress Series 629:133-148. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13088
Granco. G., J. Heier Stamm, J. Bergtold, M. Daniels, M. Sanderson, A. Sheshukov, M. Mather, M. Caldas, S. Ramsey, R. Lehrter, D. Haukos, J. Gao, S. Chatterjee, J. Nifong, J. Aistrup. 2019. Evaluating environmental change and behavioral decision-making for sustainability policy using an agent-based model: a case study for the Smoky Hill River Watershed, Kansas. Science of the Total Environment 695, 133769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133769