Dr. Ernest B. Fish

Research Interests

My students and I were involved in interdisciplinary research programs encompassing environmental inventories, geographic information systems applications, land use analysis, and land management planning in the southwestern region of the United States. Much of this work was conducted in my role as Director of the Geospatial Technologies Laboratory.

Service

I served as the Director of the Geospatial Technologies Lab.

Recent Publications

Zartman, R. E, C. A. Moffet, D. B. Wester, R. E. Sosebee, E. B. Fish, and W. Jaynes. 2012. Influence of Surface Biosolids Application on Infiltration. Applied and Environmental Soil Science, vol. 2012, Article ID 642791, 9 pages. doi:10.1155/2012/642791

Schwalm, D. L., W. B. Ballard, E. B. Fish, and H. A. Whitlaw. 2012. Distribution of the Swift Fox (Vulpes velox) in Texas. The Southwestern Naturalist. 57(4):393-398.

Wester, D. B., R. E. Sosebee, R. E Zartman, E. B. Fish, J. C. Villalobos, R. Mata-Gonzalez, P. Jurado, and C. A. Moffet. 2011. "Biosolids Effects in Chihuahuan Desert Rangelands: A Ten-Year Study, Applied and Environmental Soil Science, vol. 2011, Article ID 717863, 13 pages. doi:10.1155/2011/717863

Phillips, R. S., W. B. Ballard, M. C. Wallace, J. H. Brunjes, E. B. Fish, N. E. Mcintyre, and S. J. DeMaso. 2011. Rio Grande wild turkey habitat associations during dispersal. Proceedings of the National Wild Turkey Federation. 10:213-225.

Rice, M. B., W. B. Ballard, E. B. Fish, N. E. McIntyre, and D. Holdermann. 2009. Habitat-distribution modeling of a recolonizing black bear, Ursus americanus, population in the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 123:246-254.

Rice, M. B., W. B. Ballard, E. B. Fish, N. E. McIntyre, and D. Holdermann. 2008. The importance of accurate landuse/landcover maps for assessing habitat suitability for black bear (Ursus americanus) in the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas. Wildlife Biology in Practice 4(2):48-56.

Rice, M. B., W. B. Ballard, E. B. Fish, D. B. Wester, and D. Holdermann. 2007. Landowner attitudes toward black bears in the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 12:405-415.

Brenton, C. M., E. B. Fish, and R. Mata-Gonzalez. 2007. Macronutrient and trace element leaching following biosolids application on semiarid rangeland soils.  Arid Land Research and Management 21(2):143-156.

Rice, M. B., W. B. Ballard, E. B. Fish, D. B. Wester, and D. Holdermann. 2007. Landowner attitudes toward black bears in the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas.  Human Dimensions of Wildlife 12:405-415.

Jurado, P., D. B. Wester, and E. B. Fish. 2006.  Soil nitrate-nitrogen dynamics after biosolids application in a tobosagrass desert grassland.  Journal of Environmental Quality 35:641-650.

Hall, D. L., M. R. Willig, D. L. Moorhead, R. W. Sites, E. B. Fish, and T. R. Mollhagen.  2004.  Aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity of playa wetlands: the role of landscape and island biogeographic characteristics.Wetlands 24(1):77-91.

Arzani, H., M. Zohdi, E. Fish, G. H. Zahedi Amiri, A. Nikkhah, and D. Wester.  2004.  Phenological effects on forage quality of five grass species. Journal of Range Management 57(6):624-629.

Kamler, J. F., W. B. Ballard, E. B. Fish, P. R. Lemons, K. Mote, and C. C. Perchellet.  2003. Habitat use, home ranges, and survival of swift foxes in a fragmented landscape: conservation implications. Journal of Mammalogy84(3):989-995.

Avey, J. T. , W. B. Ballard, M. C. Wallace, M. H. Humphrey, P. R. Krausman, F. Harwell, and E. B. Fish.  2003.  Habitat relationships between sympatric mule deer and white-tailed deer in Texas. The Southwestern Naturalist48(4):644-653.