Black Darter Article Accepted For Review By SE Naturalist

I just received an email from Anne, an editor at Southeastern Naturalist, that they have accepted the manuscript on black darter reproduction for review. That’s a good sign from them in my experience, not a guaranteed final acceptance but they think it’s a contender.

 

On other fronts, I’ve kicked the telescope shiner manuscript into near-final shape for resubmission. My major editorial work in the last two days has been discussing the importance of stream flow as a major regulator of stream temperature and also physical environment in general, thus influencing reproductive success of shiners. I’ve found a recent body of work I wasn’t familiar with on this subject especially on an endangered shiner in Texas, the smalleye shiner in the Brazos River. Bart Durham and his doctoral advisor, G.R. Wilde, at Texas Tech have published several works on how impoundments and general alterations of the Brazos have negatively affected the reproductive success of the smalleye shiner and other native species largely by restricting stream flow in the summer. Many of the same concepts are applicable to local stream fishes, although not as directly. For instance, Hurricane Creek is a wonderful environment for telescope shiners precisely because it hasn’t been altered in any big way. So that’s the gist of my new additions to the manuscript.