Publications

Planting ahead: evaluation of historical seed selection for reforestation in western US conifer forests

Metcalfe, A., Dobrowski, S., Rodman, K., Davis, K., Fornwalt, P., Stewart, J., Holden, Z., & Nigro, K. 2026.

Journal of Applied Ecology. In review; Accepted with minor revisions.

Trade-offs in designing a participatory acoustic study of bats: comparison of user engagement and data quality between two ultrasonic detectors

Metcalfe, A., Weller, T., Fritzinger, C., Holton, B., & Kennedy, T. 2025.

Journal of North American Bat Research, Special Issue 1: 89–99.

eZ flow metrics: using z-scores to estimate deviations from natural flow in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam

Palmquist, E.C., Deemer, B.R., Metcalfe, A.N., Kennedy, T.A., Bair, L.S., Fairley, H.C., Grams, P.E., Sankey, J.B., & Yackulic, C.B. 2024.

River Research and Applications.

Insectivorous bat foraging tracks the availability of aquatic flies (Diptera)

Metcalfe, A., Fritzinger, C., Weller, T., Dodrill, M., Szydlo, C., Muehlbauer, J., Yackulic, C., Holton, B., Durning, L., Sankey, J., & Kennedy, T. 2023.

Journal of Wildlife Management.

Colorado River Basin

Metcalfe, A., Muehlbauer, J., Ford, M., & Kennedy, T. 2023.

Book chapter in Rivers of North America (2nd ed.), DeLong, M. & Jardine, T. (Eds.). Wiley.

Taxonomic identity, biodiversity, and antecedent disturbances shape the dimensional stability of stream invertebrates

Allen, D., Gill, B., Metcalfe, A., Bonjour, S., Wang, J., Valentin, D., & Grimm, N. 2023.

Limnology and Oceanography Letters.

The Grand Caddis hatch of JASM 2022: Trichoptera natural history observations at the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting

Metcalfe, A., Kurthen, A., Freedman, J., & Orfinger, A. 2022.

Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 31(4): 101–106.

Applied citizen science in freshwater research

Metcalfe, A., Kennedy, T., Mendez, G., & Muehlbauer, J. 2022.

WIREs Water. Invited primer.

The application of metacommunity theory to the management of riverine ecosystems

Patrick, C., Anderson, K., Brown, B., Hawkins, C., Metcalfe, A., Saffarinia, P., Siqueira, T., Swan, C., Tonkin, J., & Yuan, L. 2021.

WIREs Water.

Net-spinning caddisfly distribution in large regulated rivers

Metcalfe, A., Muehlbauer, J., Kennedy, T., Yackulic, C., Dibble, K., & Marks, C. 2021.

Freshwater Biology.

Spatial genetic structuring of a widespread aquatic insect in the Colorado River Basin: evidence for a Hydropsyche oslari species complex

Metcalfe, A., Kennedy, T., Marks, C., Smith, A., & Muehlbauer, J. 2020.

Freshwater Science 39(2).

A spatially-explicit, individual-based demogenetic simulation framework for evaluating hybridization dynamics

Nathan, L., Mamoozadeh, N., Tumas, H., Gunselman, S., Klass, K., Metcalfe, A., Edge, C., Waits, L., Spruell, P., Lowery, E., & Connor, E. 2019.

Ecological Modelling 401: 40–51.

Citizen science terminology matters: exploring key terms

Eitzel, M., Cappadonna, J., Santos-Lang, C., Duerr, R., West, S., Virapongse, A., Kyba, C., Bowser, A., Cooper, C., Sforzi, A., Metcalfe, A., and others. 2017.

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 2: 1–20.

Phenology of the adult angel lichen moth (Cisthene angelus) in Grand Canyon, USA

Metcalfe, A., Kennedy, T., & Muehlbauer, J. 2016.

The Southwestern Naturalist 61: 233–240.

Flow management for hydropower extirpates aquatic insects, undermining river food webs

Kennedy, T., Muehlbauer, J., Yackulic, C., Lytle, D., Miller, S., Dibble, K., Kortenhoeven, E., Metcalfe, A., & Baxter, C. 2016.

BioScience. Editor's Choice; covered by USGS, Oregon State, and others.

Assessment of dragonfly and damselfly (Odonata) occupancy and habitat suitability at −12 Mile Slough, Glen Canyon NRA, Arizona

Metcalfe, A., Ford, M., Stevens, L., & Kennedy, T. 2025.

USGS Report No. 2025-1042.

Adult net-spinning caddisfly (Hydropsyche spp.) catch rates and morphology from large rivers of the southwestern United States, 2015–2016

Metcalfe, A. 2019.

USGS data release.

Locality-based caddisfly (Hydropsyche oslari) sampling data and CO1 sequences from the southwestern United States, 2013–2016

Metcalfe, A. 2019.

USGS data release.

Angel lichen moth abundance and morphology data, Grand Canyon, AZ, 2012

Metcalfe, A., Kennedy, T., & Muehlbauer, J. 2016.

USGS data release. DOI: 10.5066/F7154F5S.

Little bugs, big data, and Colorado River adaptive management: preliminary findings from the ongoing bug flow experiment at Glen Canyon Dam

Kennedy, T., Metcalfe, A., Deemer, B., Ford, M., Szydlo, C., & Yackulic, C. 2022.

Boatman's Quarterly Review 35(3): 26–31.

Bug flows: don't count your midges until they hatch

Metcalfe, A., Muehlbauer, J., Ford, M., & Kennedy, T. 2020.

Boatman's Quarterly Review 32(4): 8–11.

Moth Mystery Hour

Metcalfe, A., Kennedy, T., & Fritzinger, C. 2016.

Boatman's Quarterly Review 27(4): 15–16.

Aquatic insect subsidies mediate seasonal bat activity in the Grand Canyon

Mattson, M., Metcalfe, A., Ciarrachi, S., Holton, B., Lytle, D., Weller, T., & Kennedy, T. In prep.

Manuscript in preparation.

Aquatic insect distribution in the Colorado River Basin

Metcalfe, A. 2018.

M.S. Thesis, Northern Arizona University. Available from ProQuest.