Jason Knouft, Ph.D.
Professor
Biology
Courses Taught
Biogeography, GIS in Biology, Advanced Ecology
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Research Interests
Current research interests are primarily focused on the effects of human activities (e.g., climate and land use change) on watershed hydrology, water quality, and the distribution of aquatic taxa across multiple spatial scales. A goal of this work is to develop hydrologically-based GIS applications for the study of aquatic biodiversity.
Labs and Facilities
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Publications and Media Placements
Botero-Acosta, A., Ficklin, D. L., Ehsani, N., and Knouft, J. H. 2022. Climate induced changes in streamflow and water temperature in basins across the Atlantic Coast of the United States: An opportunity for nature-based regional management. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 44:101202.
Baraza, T., Hernandez, N. F., Sebok, J. N., Wu, C-L, Hasenmueller, E. A., and Knouft, J. H. 2022. Integrating land cover, point source pollution, and watershed hydrologic processes data to understand the distribution of microplastics in riverbed sediments. Environmental Pollution 2022:119852.
Knouft, J. H., Botero-Acosta, A., Wu C. L., Charry, B., Chu, M. L., Dell, A. I., Hall, D. M., and Herrington S. J. 2021. Forested riparian buffers as climate adaptation tools for management of riverine flow and thermal regimes: a case study in the Meramec River basin. Sustainability 13:1877.
Wu C. L., Herrington S., Charry, B., Chu, M. L., and Knouft, J. H. 2021. Assessing the potential of riparian reforestation to facilitate watershed climate adaptation. Journal of Environmental Management 277:111431.
​Pagliaro, M. D. and Knouft, J. H. 2020. Differential effects of the urban heat island on thermal responses of freshwater fishes from unmanaged and managed systems. Science of the Total Environment 723:e138084.
Haake, D. and Knouft, J. H. 2019. Comparison of contributions to chloride in urban stormwater from winter brine and rock salt application. Environmental Science & Technology 53:11888−11895.
VanCompernolle, M, Knouft, J. H., and Ficklin, D. L. 2019. Multispecies conservation of freshwater fish assemblages in response to climate change in the southeastern United States. Diversity and Distributions 25:1388-1398.
Krause, K. P., Chien, H., Ficklin, D. L., Hall, D., Schuster, G., Swannack, T., Taylor, C. A.. and Knouft, J. H. 2019. Streamflow regimes and geologic conditions are more important than water temperature when projecting future crayfish distributions. Climatic Change 154:107-123.
Andres, K. J., Chien, H., and Knouft, J. H. 2019. Hydrology induces intraspecific variation in freshwater fish morphology under contemporary and future climate scenarios. Science of the Total Environment 671:421-430.
Neupane, R. P., Ficklin, D. L., Knouft, J. H., Ehsani, N., and Cibin, R. 2019. Hydrologic responses to projected climate change in ecologically diverse watersheds of the Gulf Coast, USA. International Journal of Climatology 39:2227-2243.
​Ficklin, D. L., Abatzoglou, J. T., Robeson, S. M., Null, S. E., and Knouft, J. H. 2018. Natural and managed watersheds show similar responses to recent climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115:8553-8557.
Knouft, J. H. and Ficklin, D. L. 2017. The potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity in flowing freshwater systems. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 48:111-133.
Knouft, J. H. and Anthony, M. M. 2016. Climate and local abundance in freshwater fishes. Royal Society Open Science 3:160093.
Ficklin, D. L., Robeson, S. M., and Knouft, J. H. 2016. Impacts of recent climate change on trends in baseflow and stormflow in United States watersheds. Geophysical Research Letters 43:5079-5088.
Ficklin, D. L., Barnhart, B. L., Knouft, J. H., Stewart, I. T., Maurer, E. P., Letsinger, S. L., and Whittaker, G. W. 2014. Climate change and stream temperature projections in the Columbia River basin: habitat implications of spatial variation in hydrologic drivers. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18:4897-4912.
Chien, H., Yeh, P. J., and Knouft J. H. 2013. Modeling the potential impacts of climate change on streamflow in agricultural watersheds of the Midwestern United States. Journal of Hydrology 491:73-88.
Chu, M. L., Knouft, J. H., Ghulam, A., Pan, Z., and Guzman, J. 2013. Impacts of urbanization on river flow frequency: A controlled experimental modeling-based evaluation approach. Journal of Hydrology 495:1-12.