Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and technical reports

In Review

Zillig, K. W., Lassar, S. S., Watson, S. M., Baird, S. E., Schneider, A. D., Fangue, N. A. Comparison of juvenile white sturgeon blade strike survival through a conventional and a novel hydropower turbine. In Review

Journal of Ecohydrology

Naslund, A. W., Zillig K. W., Mandic, M., Frazier, A. J., Todgham, A. E. Differential temperature preferences exhibited in the juvenile Antarctic notothenioids Trematomus bernacchii and Trematomus pennellii. In Review

Scientific Reports

2025

2025

Zillig, K. W., Bell, H. N.*, FitzGerald, A. M., and Fangue, N. A. Patterns of interpopulation variation and physiological trade-offs of the acute thermal tolerance of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). In Review

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2025

Arai, K., Willmes, M., Whitman G. E., Zillig, K. W., Cooper, C. J., Matsuda, N., Bell E. A., McKeegan, K. D., Lewis, L. S., Jeffres C. A., and Johnson, R. C. Inter-method differences (SIMS vs. IRMS) in oxygen isotope fractionation: insights from Chinook salmon otoliths.

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2025

Zillig, K. W., Fukumoto, J. A.*, McInturf, A. G., Burman, S. G., Steel A. E., Cocherell D. E., and Fangue N. A. A laser-equipped tunnel for the assessment of multiple burst swimming traits in fishes.

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2025

Frazier A. J., Naslund, A. W., Mandic M., Zillig K. W., Siu, B. C., Todgham A. E. Physiological and behavioral drivers of niche differentiation in juvenile Antarctic fishes.

Journal of Fish Biology

2025

McInturf, A. M., Cantor, M., Bouyoucos, I., Chapple, T., Debaere, S., Eustache, K., Mourier, J., Planes, S., Sulikowski, J., Fangue, N., Zillig, K. W., Rummer, J. Catch data can unravel elasmobranch aggregation dynamics and group behaviours.

Ecology and Evolution

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2025

Buford B., Lehman, B., Zillig, K.W., Lo, V.K., McInturf, A.G., Kwan, G., Cocherell, D.E., Fangue, N.A., Michel, C. Leveraging physiological sensitivities to improve ecological fitness.

Nature Communications

2024

2024

Zillig, K. W., Hannan, K.D., Baird, S.E., Cocherell, D. E., Poletto, J.B., and Fangue, N. A. Effects of acclimation temperature and feed restriction on the metabolic performance of Green Sturgeon.

Conservation Physiology

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2024

Lo, V. K., Zillig, K. W., Cocherell, D. E., Todgham, A. E., and Fangue, N. A. Persistent Effects of Low Incubation Temperature on Growth and Metabolism of Larval Green Sturgeon (Acipenser Medirostris).

Journal of Comparative Physiology B

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2024

Zillig K. W. Temperature and fish biology: Insights from metabolism.

Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology, ISBN 9780128096338

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2024

Kwan G. T., Mauduit F., Zillig K. W., Yanagitsuru Y. R., Baird S. E., Cocherell D. E., Fangue N. A. Developing Respirometry Methodology for Delta Smelt Conservation: Air Pocket for a Non-Air-Breathing Fish. In Review

2023

2023

Zillig, K. W., FitzGerald, A. M., Lusardi, R. L., Cocherell D. E., Fangue, N. A. Intraspecific variation among Chinook salmon populations indicates physiological adaptation to local environmental conditions.

Conservation Physiology, 11(1)

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2023

Zillig, K. W., Lusardi, R. L., Cocherell D. E., Fangue, N. A. Interpopulation variation in thermal physiology among seasonal runs of Chinook salmon.

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

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2022

2022

McInturf, A. G., Zillig, K. W., Cook, K.*, Fukumoto, J. A.*, Jones, A.A*, Patterson, E.*, Cocherell, D. E., Michel, C., Caillaud, D., Fangue, N. A. In hot water? Assessing the link between fundamental thermal physiology and predation risk of juvenile Chinook salmon.

Ecosphere, 13(11)

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2021

2021

Zillig, K.W., Lusardi, R.A., Moyle, P., Fangue, N.A. One-size does not fit all: variation in thermal eco-physiology among Pacific salmonids.

Reviews in Fisheries and Fish Biology, 31(1)

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2021

Siefert, A., Friesen, M.L., Zillig, K.W., Aguilar, J., and Strauss, S.Y. An experimental test of stabilizing forces in the field niche.

Ecology, 102(4)

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2020

2020

Hansen, M. J., Ligocki, I. Y., Zillig, K. W., Steel, A. E., Todgham, A. E., & Fangue, N. A. Risk-Taking and Locomotion in Foraging Threespine Sticklebacks (Gasterosteus Aculeatus): The Effect of Nutritional Stress Is Dependent on Social Context.

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74(12)

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2020

Dai, J.*, Degtyarev, D.*, Gao, J.*, Wang, A.*, Burman, S., Zillig, K., & Ghosal, D. Design and Implementation of RAP — a Randomized Asynchronous Protocol for Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks.

2020 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), IEEE

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2019

2019

Siefert, A., Zillig, K.W., Friesen, M.L., and Strauss, S.Y. Mutualists stabilize coexistence of congeneric legumes.

American Naturalist, 193(2)

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2018

2018

Siefert, A., Zillig, K.W., Friesen, M.L., and Strauss, S.Y. Soil microbial communities alter conspecific and congeneric competition consistent with patterns of field coexistence in three Trifolium congeners.

Journal of Ecology, 106(5)

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Technical Reports

2020

Zillig, K. W., Cocherell, D. E., & Fangue, N. A. Interpopulation Variation among Juvenile Chinook Salmon from California and Oregon.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 — Pacific Southwest Region, San Francisco, CA

2018

Zillig, K. W., Lusardi, R. A., & Fangue, N. A. Variation in Thermal Eco-Physiology among California Salmonids: Implications for Management.

California State Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento, CA

* Undergraduate mentee author  ·  Bold = corresponding/first author