Peter Kiffney / Staff/ Ansatte / Campus Evenstad / English / hihm

Professor of Freshwater Ecology

E-mail: peter.kiffney@hihm.no
Phone: +47 624 30896
Fax: +47 624 30851

Mailing address:

Hedmark University College
Faculty of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Campus Evenstad
Postbox 400
2418 Elverum
Norway

Research interests:

Freshwater ecology, fish ecology, food web ecology, river restoration, stream-riparian interactions, ecotoxicology

Teaching:

(Ecology, Freshwater Ecology)

Selected publications:

Pess, G.*, P. Kiffney, M. Lierman, T. Bennett, J. Anderson* and T. Quinn. (In press) The influences of body size, habitat quality, and competition on the movement and apparent survival of juvenile coho salmon ( Oncorhynchus kisutch ) during the early stages of stream re-colonization. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.

Macneale, K., P. Kiffney and N. Scholz. 2010. Pesticides, aquatic food webs and the conservation of Pacific salmon. Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment 8:475-482.

Kiffney, P.M., G. Pess*, J. Anderson*, P. Faulds, K. Burton and S. Riley. 2009. Changes in fish communities following recolonization of the Cedar River, WA, USA by Pacific salmon after 103 years of local extirpation. River Research and Applications 25: 438-452.

Kiffney, P. M. 2008. Response of lotic producer and consumer trophic levels in headwater streams of southwestern British Columbia in response to gradients of resource supply and predation pressure. Oikos 114:1428-1440.

Anderson, J.*, P. Kiffney, G. Pess*, and T. Quinn 2008. Distribution and growth of juvenile coho salmon ( Oncorhynchus kisutch ) during colonization of newly accessible habitat. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 137: 722-781.

Zuellig, R. E.*, D. R. Kashian, P. M. Kiffney, and W. H. Clements. 2008. Contaminant exposure history and the influence of ultraviolet-B radiation on benthic community responses in Rocky Mountain streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 27: 120-134.

Kiffney, P. M. C. Greene, J. Hall and J. Davies. 2006. Gradients in habitat heterogeneity, productivity, and biodiversity at tributary junctions. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63:2518-2530.

Kiffney, P. M., J. S. Richardson, and J. P. Bull 2003. Responses of periphyton and insect consumers to experimental manipulation of riparian buffer width along headwater streams. Journal of Applied Ecology 40:1060-1076.


Professor of Freshwater Ecology E-mail: peter.kiffney@hihm.no Phone: +47 624 30896 Fax: +47 624 30851 Mailing address: Hedmark University College Faculty of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Campus Evenstad Postbox 400 2418 Elverum Norway

Research interests: Freshwater ecology, fish ecology, food web ecology, river restoration, stream-riparian interactions, ecotoxicology

Teaching: (Ecology, Freshwater Ecology)

Selected publications: Pess, G., P. Kiffney, M. Lierman, T. Bennett, J. Anderson and T. Quinn. (In press) The influences of body size, habitat quality, and competition on the movement and apparent survival of juvenile coho salmon ( Oncorhynchus kisutch ) during the early stages of stream re-colonization. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. Macneale, K., P. Kiffney and N. Scholz. 2010. Pesticides, aquatic food webs and the conservation of Pacific salmon. Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment 8:475-482. Kiffney, P.M., G. Pess, J. Anderson, P. Faulds, K. Burton and S. Riley. 2009. Changes in fish communities following recolonization of the Cedar River, WA, USA by Pacific salmon after 103 years of local extirpation. River Research and Applications 25: 438-452. Kiffney, P. M. 2008. Response of lotic producer and consumer trophic levels in headwater streams of southwestern British Columbia in response to gradients of resource supply and predation pressure. Oikos 114:1428-1440. Anderson, J., P. Kiffney, G. Pess, and T. Quinn 2008. Distribution and growth of juvenile coho salmon ( Oncorhynchus kisutch ) during colonization of newly accessible habitat. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 137: 722-781. Zuellig, R. E.*, D. R. Kashian, P. M. Kiffney, and W. H. Clements. 2008. Contaminant exposure history and the influence of ultraviolet-B radiation on benthic community responses in Rocky Mountain streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 27: 120-134. Kiffney, P. M. C. Greene, J. Hall and J. Davies. 2006. Gradients in habitat heterogeneity, productivity, and biodiversity at tributary junctions. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63:2518-2530. Kiffney, P. M., J. S. Richardson, and J. P. Bull 2003. Responses of periphyton and insect consumers to experimental manipulation of riparian buffer width along headwater streams. Journal of Applied Ecology 40:1060-1076.