Select, representative publications by major research themes are listed below. For complete publications, visit my Google Scholar profile or refer to my CV. Please contact me to request PDFs of any papers you can’t access.
Environmental DNA
Reves, O.P., M.A. Davis and E.R. Larson. 2026. Rainfall has contrasting effects on aquatic and terrestrial environmental DNA recovered from streams. Ecological Applications 36:e70169 (link)
Rounds, C.I., T.W. Arnold, C.L. Chun, J. Dumke, A. Totsch, A. Keppers, K. Edblad, S.M. García, E.R. Larson, J.K.R. Nelson and G.J.A. Hansen. 2024. Aquatic invasive species exhibit contrasting seasonal detectability patterns based on eDNA: Implications for monitoring. Freshwater Biology 69:1479-1493. (link)
Curtis, A.N., M.A. Davis, S. Douglass, J.S. Tiemann and E.R. Larson. 2021. High stream flows dilute environmental DNA (eDNA) concentrations and reduce detectability. Diversity and Distributions 27:1918-1931. (link)
Long-term rusty crayfish monitoring
Sawyer, E.K., T.A. Kreps, D.M. Lodge and E.R. Larson. 2025. Long-term declines in body size of the invasive rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus) in temperate lakes. Freshwater Biology. 70:e14366. (link)
Szydlowski, D.K., A.K. Elgin, D.M. Lodge, J.S. Tiemann and E.R. Larson. 2023. Long-term macrophyte and snail community responses to population declines of invasive rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus). Ecological Applications 33:e2818. (link)
Larson, E.R., T.A. Kreps, B. Peters, J.A. Peters and D.M. Lodge. 2019. Habitat explains patterns of population decline for an invasive crayfish. Ecology 100:e02659. (link)
Invasive species
Hartman, J.H. and E.R. Larson. 2023. Overlooked invaders? Ecological impacts of nongame, native transplant fishes in the United States. Fisheries 48:62-71. (link)
Larson, E.R., B.M.Graham, R. Achury, J.J. Coon, M.K. Daniels, D.K. Gambrell, K.L. Jonasen, G.D. King, N. LaRacuente, T.I.N. Perrin-Stowe, E.M. Reed, C.J. Rice, S.A. Ruzi, M.W. Thauru, J.C. Wilson and A.V. Suarez. 2020. From environmental DNA (eDNA) to citizen science: Emerging tools for the early detection of invasive species. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18:194-202. (link)
Daniels, M.K. and E.R. Larson. 2020. Effects of forest windstorm disturbance on invasive plants in protected areas of southern Illinois, USA. Journal of Ecology 108:199-211. (link)
Pacifastacus crayfishes
Larson, E.R., C.L. Abbott, S.R. Gilmore, C.C. Helbing, M.L.D. Lopez, H. MacIntosh, L.M. Stenhouse, B.W. Williams and N. Usio. 2025. Genome skimming supports two new crayfish species from the genus Pacifastacus Bott, 1950 (Decapoda: Astacidae). Zootaxa 5632:501-521. (link)
Principe, N.G., K.T. Ash, M.A. Davis, R.M. Egly and E.R. Larson. 2021. A molecular and morphological guide to the pilose crayfishes of western North America. Western North American Naturalist 81:344-360. (link)
Egly, R.M. and E.R. Larson. 2018. Distribution, habitat associations, and conservation status updates for the pilose crayfish Pacifastacus gambelii (Girard, 1852) and Snake River pilose crayfish Pacifastacus connectens (Faxon, 1914) of the western United States. PeerJ 6:e5668.(link)
Protected areas and conservation science
Reves, O.P., M.A. Davis, N.J. Iacaruso and E.R. Larson. 2025. Environmental DNA quantifies the terrestrial biodiversity co-benefit of forested riparian buffers in agricultural landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology 62:3469-3479. (link)
Larson, E.R., S. Howell, P. Kareiva and P.R. Armsworth. 2016. Constraints of philanthropy on determining the distribution of biodiversity conservation funding. Conservation Biology 30:206-215. (link)
Larson, E.R., A.G. Boyer and P.R. Armsworth. 2014. A lack of response of the financial behaviors of biodiversity conservation nonprofits to changing economic conditions. Ecology and Evolution 4:4429-4443. (link)
Species distribution modeling
Bloomer, C.C., E.R. Larson and C.A. Taylor. 2025. Supraspecific ecological niche models as a tool for predicting burrowing crayfish habitat. Freshwater Biology. 70:e70154. (link)
Larson, E.R. 2025. Predicting potential distributions of freshwater invasive species in novel environments Freshwater Science. 44:251-264. (link)
Hartman, J.H., J. Corush, E.R. Larson, J.S. Tiemann, P.W. Willink, and M.S. Davis. 2024. Niche conservatism and spread explain introgression between native and invasive fish. Molecular Ecology. 33:e17363. (link)
Stable isotopes, behavior, and food webs
Adey, A.K. and E.R. Larson. 2021. Testing the relationship between intraspecific competition and individual specialization across both behavior and diet. Ecology and Evolution 11:11310-11322. (link)
Adey, A.K. and E.R. Larson. 2020. Dominance and diet are unrelated within a population of invasive crayfish. Hydrobiologia 847:1587-1602. (link)
Glon, M.G., E.R. Larson and K.L. Pangle. 2016. Connecting laboratory behavior to field function through stable isotope analysis. PeerJ 4:e1918. (link)
Traits and life histories
Dong, Y.-W., J. García Molinas, E.R. Larson, Q. Lin, X. Liu, G. Sarà, Q. Cai, Z. Zhang, A. Zhan, B. Helmuth and A. Bates. 2022. Biological traits, geographic distributions, and species conservation in aquatic ecosystems. Diversity and Distributions 28:1516-1523. (link)
Taylor, C.A., R.J. DiStefano, E.R. Larson and J. Stoeckel. 2019. Towards a cohesive strategy for the conservation of the United States’ diverse and highly endemic crayfish fauna. Hydrobiologia 846:39-58. (link)
Moore, M.J., R.J. DiStefano and E.R. Larson. 2013. An assessment of life-history studies for USA and Canadian crayfishes: Identifying biases and knowledge gaps to improve conservation and management. Freshwater Science 32:1276-1287. (link)