Publications

Vaughn, Caryn C., Keith B. Gido, Kevin Bengstrom, Joshuah Perkin and Steven Platania. Southern Plains Rivers. Chapter in Rivers of North America, 2^nd edition. Accepted.

Ferreira-Rodríguez, Noé, Antonio J. Castro, Brent W. Tweedy, Christina Soriano and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2020. Mercury consumption and human health: linking pollution and social risk perception in the southeastern United States. Journal of Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111528

Olson, Patrick J. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2020. Population connectivity and effective population size of the threeridge mussel, Amblema plicata, assessed using microsatellites. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation doi: fmcs-23-02-08.ed. https://doi.org/10.31931/fmbc.v23i2.2020.124-133

Lopez, Jonathan W., Thomas B. Parr, Daniel C. Allen and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2020. Animal aggregations increase emergent plant growth at the aquatic-terrestrial interface. Ecology, e02126. Lopezetal.Ecology.2020

Sansom, Brandon J., Sean J. Bennett, Joseph F. Atkinson and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2020. Emergent hydrodynamics and positive density dependence in mussel covered river beds. Water Resources Research, doi: 10.1029/2019WR026252. Sansometal.WRR.2020

Parr, Thomas B., Caryn C. Vaughn and Keith B. Gido. 2019. Animal effects on dissolved organic carbon lability in an algal controlled ecosystem. Freshwater Biology 65:1298-1310. Parr_et_al-2019-Freshwater_Biology

DuBose, Traci P., Kathryn Ashford and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2019. Freshwater mussels increase survival of largemouth bass in drying pools. Ecology of Freshwater Fish DOI: 10.1111/eff.12508. DuBoseetal.EFF.2019

Hopper, Garrett W., Traci G. DuBose, Keith B. Gido and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2019. Freshwater mussels alter fish distributions at fine spatial scale through habitat subsidies. Freshwater Science 38:702-712, DOI: 10.1086/705666. Hopperetal.FWS.2019

Ferreira-Rodríguez, N., Akiyama, Y., Aksenova, O. A., Araujo, R., Barnhart, C., Bespalaya, Y., Bogan, A., Bolotov, I., Budha, P. B., Clavijo, C., Clearwater, S. J., Darrigran, G., Do, V., Douda, K., Froufe, E., Gumpinger, C., Henrikson, L., Humphrey, C. L., Johnson, N., Klishko, O., Klunzinger, M. W., Kovitvadhi, S., Kovitvadhi, U., Lajtner, J., Lopes-Lima, M., Moorkens, E., Nagayama, S., Nagel, K.-O., Nakano, M., Negishi, J., Ondina, P., Oulasvirta, P., Prié, V., Riccardi, N., Rudzite, M., Sheldon, F., Sousa, R., Strayer, D., Takeuchi, M., Taskinen, J., Teixeira, A., Tiemann, J., Urbanska, M., Varandas, S., Vinarski, M., Wicklow, B. J., Zajac, T., Vaughn, C. C. 2019. Research priorities for freshwater mussel conservation assessment. 2019. Biological Conservation 231:77-87. Ferreira-Rodriguez_et_al_2019 BIOC

DuBose, Traci P., Carla L. Atkinson, Caryn C. Vaughn and Steve Golladay. 2019. Drought-induced, punctuated loss of freshwater mussels alters ecosystem function across temporal scales. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2-19.00274 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2019.00274/full

Hopper, Garrett W., Keith B. Gido, Caryn C. Vaughn, Thomas B. Parr, Traci G. Popejoy, Kiza K. Gates, and Carla L. Atkinson. 2018. Biomass distribution of fishes and mussels mediates spatial and temporal heterogeneity in nutrient cycling in streams. 2018. Oecologia 188:1133-1144, doi.org/10.1001/s00442-018-4277-1. Hopperetal.Oecologia.2018

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Timothy J. Hoellein. 2018. Bivalve impacts in freshwater and marine ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 49:183-208. Vaughn&Hoellein.ARES.2018

Irmscher, Pascal and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2018. Effects of juvenile settling and drift rates on freshwater mussel dispersal. American Midland Naturalist 180:258-272. Irmscher&Vaughn.AMN2018

Sansom, Brandon J., Joseph F Atkinson, Sean J. Bennett, and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2018. Long-term persistence of freshwater mussel beds in labile river channels. Freshwater Biology 63:1469-1481, doi: 10.1111/fwb.13175. Sansom_et_al-2018-Freshwater_Biology.2018

Popejoy, Traci, Charles R. Randclev, Thomas Neeson, and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2018. Prioritizing mussel beds to conserve based on similarity to the past and feasibility of protection. Conservation Biology 32:1118-1127, DOI 10.1111/cobi.13128. Popejoyetal.ConBio.2018

Castro, Antonio J., Carla L. Atkinson, Colden Baxter, Jodi Brand, Morey Burnham, Benis Egoh, Marina Garcia-Llorente, Jason P. Julian, Berta Martin Lopez, Albert Norstrom, Feliz Liao, Christina Quintas-Soriano, Katrina Running and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2018. Applying place-based social-ecological research to address water scarcity: insights for future research. Sustainability 10, 1516; doi: 10.3390/su10051516. Castroetal.Sustainability.2018

Castro, Antonio J., Jason P. Julian, C. Mikle-Martin and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2018. Supply and demand of ecosystem services across US-watersheds: a systematic review. Book chapter. Intech. Castroetal.ESUSWatersheds.2018

Atkinson, Carla L., Brandon J. Sansom, Caryn C. Vaughn and Kenneth J. Forshay. 2018. Consumer aggregations drive nutrient dynamics and ecosystem metabolism in nutrient-limited systems. Ecosystems 21:521-535. Atkinsonetal.Ecosystems.2018

Vaughn, Caryn C. 2018. Ecosystem services provided by freshwater mussels. Hydrobiologia 810:15-27. Vaughn.Hydrobiologia.2018

Sansom, Brandon J., Brent N. Tweedy and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2017 (published in 2018). Composition of fish communities on and off mussel beds in the Kiamichi River, Oklahoma. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 97:1-7. Sansometal.POAS.2017

Sansom, Brandon J., Carla L. Atkinson and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2016. Growth and age estimates for southeastern Oklahoma mussel populations. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation 19:19-26. Sansom et al. FMBC 2016 Vol 19 No 2 pp. 19-26

Castro, Antonio J., Caryn C. Vaughn, Marina García-Llorente, Jason P. Julian and Carla L. Atkinson. 2016. Willingness to pay for ecosystem services among stakeholder groups in a south-central U.S. watershed. Journal of Water Resource Planning and Management 05016006-1-8. Castroetal.WRENG.2016

Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society (contributing authors listed alphabetically: Bradley, Megan, Robert S. Butler, Heidi L. Dunn, Catherine Gatenby, Patricia A. Morrison, Teresa J. Newton, Matthew Patterson, Kathryn E. Perez, Caryn C. Vaughn, Daelyn A. Woolnough and Steve J. Zigler). 2016. A national strategy for the conservation of native freshwater mollusks. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation 19:1-21. FMCS National Strategy FMBC Vol. 19 No.1 pp.1-21

Castro, Antonio J., Caryn C. Vaughn, Jason P. Julian and Maria Garcia Llorente. 2016. Social demand of ecosystem services for watershed management. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 52: 209-221. Castroetal.JAWRA.2016

Irmscher, Pascal and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2015. Limited movement of freshwater mussel fish hosts in a southern US river. Hydrobiologia 757:223-233. Irmscher&Vaughn.Hydrobiologia.2015

Castro, Antonio J., Berta Martin-Lopez, Enrique Lopez-Carrique, Tobias Plieninger, Domingo Alcaraz-Segura, Caryn C. Vaughn and Javier Cabello. 2015. Do protected areas networks ensure the supply of ecosystem services? Evidence from two nature reserve systems in semi-arid Spain. Applied Geography. DOI 10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.02.012 Castroetal.AppliedGeography.2015

Castro, A.J., Caryn C. Vaughn, Jason P. Julian, Marine Garcia Llorente, and Kelsey N. Bowman. 2015. Social perception and supply of ecosystem services: a watershed approach for carbon related ecosystem services. Biodiversity and Ecosystems – Linking Structure and Function. Lo, Y., J.A. Blanco and S. Roy (editors). Intech. Castroetal.CarbonChap.2015-2

Vaughn, Caryn C., Carla L. Atkinson and Jason P. Julian. 2015. Drought-induced changes in flow regimes lead to long-term losses in mussel-provided ecosystem services. Ecology and Evolution 5:1291-1305. Vaughnetal.EcolEvol.2015 Vaughnetal2015-correctedtable

Gates, Kiza K., Caryn C. Vaughn and Jason P. Julian. 2015. Incorporating species traits in a guild approach to develop environmental flow recommendations for freshwater mussels. Freshwater Biology 60:620-635. Gatesetal.FWB.2015

Atkinson, Carla L. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2015. Biogeochemical hotspots: temporal and spatial scaling of the impact of a multispecies community of freshwater mussels on ecosystem function. Freshwater Biology 60:563-574. Atkinson&Vaughn.FWB.2015

Castro, Antonio J., Peter H. Verburg, Berta Martín-López, Marina García-Llorente, Caryn C. Vaughn and Javier Cabello. 2014. Ecosystem service trade-offs from the supply to the demand-side: a landscape-scale spatial analysis. Landscape and Urban Planning 132:102-110. Castroetal.Landscape&UrbanPlanning.2014

Atkinson, Carla L., Jason P. Julian and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2014. Species and function lost: role of drought and land cover structuring stream communities. Biological Conservation 176:30-38. Atkinsonetal.BC.2014

Atkinson, Carla L., Jeffrey F. Kelly and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2014. Tracing consumer-derived nitrogen in riverine foodwebs. Ecosystems 17:485-496. Won Hyne’s award from the Society for Freshwater Science. Atkinsonetal.Ecosystems.2014

Atkinson, Carla L., Alan D. Christian, Daniel E. Spooner and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2014. Long-lived organisms provide an integrative footprint of agricultural land use. Ecological Applications 24:375-384. Atkinsonetal.EcoApps.2014

Newton, Teresa J., Caryn C. Vaughn, Daniel E. Spooner and Michael Arts. 2013. Profiles of biochemical tracers in unionid mussels across a broad geographic range. Journal of Shellfish Research 32:497-507. Newtonetal.JSR.2013

Atkinson, C.L., K.J. Forshay, and C.C. Vaughn. 2013. Native mussels alter nutrient availability and reduce blue-green algae abundance. EPA Science Brief. EPA/600/F-13/231. EPAScienceBrief

Allen, Daniel C., Heather S. Galbraith, Caryn C. Vaughn and Daniel E. Spooner. 2013. A tale of two rivers: implications of water management practices for mussel biodiversity outcomes during droughts. Ambio 42:881-891. Allen et al 2013 AMBIO

Atkinson, Carla L., Caryn C. Vaughn, Kenneth J. Forshay and Joshua T. Cooper*. 2013. Aggregated filter-feeding consumers alter nutrient limitation – Consequences for ecosystem and community dynamics. Ecology 94:1359-1369. Highlighted by the Faculty of 1000. Atkinsonetal.Ecology.2013

Capps, K.A., C.L. Atkinson, A. Rugenski, C. Baxter, K.S. Boersma, C.C. Carey, P.B. Mcintyre, J.W. Moore, W.H. Nowlin and C.C. Vaughn. 2012. Impacts of species addition and species loss on ecosystem function in freshwater systems. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 93:402-408. Cappsetal.ESABull.2012

Atkinson, Carla L., Jason P. Julian and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2012. Scale-dependent longitudinal patterns in mussel communities. Freshwater Biology 57:2272-2289. Atkinsonetal.FWBiol.2012

Allen, Daniel C., Caryn C. Vaughn, Jeffrey F. Kelly, Joshua T. Cooper* and Michael H. Engel. 2012. Bottom-up biodiversity effects increase resource subsidy flux between ecosystems. Ecology 93:2165-2174. Selected by the Faculty of 1000 as a “must read” paper. Won Hyne’s award from the Society for Freshwater Science. Allenetal.Ecology.2012

Vaughn, Caryn C. 2012. Life history traits and abundance can predict local colonization and extinction rates of freshwater mussels. Freshwater Biology 57:982-992. Vaughn.FWBiol.2012

Spooner, Daniel E. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2012. Species traits and environmental gradients interact to govern primary production in freshwater mussel communities. Oikos 121:403-416. Spooner&Vaughn.Oikos.2012

Spooner, Daniel E., Caryn C. Vaughn and Heather S. Galbraith. 2012. Species traits and environmental conditions govern the relationship between biodiversity effects across trophic levels. Oecologia 168:533-548. Spooneretal.Oecologia.2012

Allen, Daniel C. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2011. Density-dependent biodiversity effects on physical habitat modification by freshwater bivalves. Ecology 92:1013-1019. Nature highlight of this article, January 27 2011, 469:466. Allen & Vaughn 2011 Ecology

Galbraith, Heather S. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2011. Effects of reservoir management on the condition and reproductive traits of downstream mussel populations. River Research and Applications 27:193-201. Galbraith&Vaughn.RiverResAppli.2011

Galbraith, Heather S., Daniel E. Spooner and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2010. Synergistic effects of regional climate patterns and local water management on freshwater mussel communities. Biological Conservation 143:1175-1183. Galbraithetal.BiolCons.2010

Allen, Daniel C. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2010. Complex hydraulic and substrate parameters limit freshwater mussel species richness: a test of the substrate stability hypothesis. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 29:383-394. Allen&Vaughn.JNABS.2010

Vaughn, Caryn C. 2010. Biodiversity losses and ecosystem function in freshwaters: emerging conclusions and research directions. BioScience 60:25-35. Vaughn.BioScience.2010

Matthews, William J., Caryn C. Vaughn, Keith B. Gido and Edith Marsh-Matthews. 2010. Southern Plains Rivers, pp. 118-135, in: Field Guide to Rivers of North America, A. C. Benke and C. E. Cushing, editors. Academic Press, Burlington, MA.

Vaughn, Caryn C., Daniel C. Allen, Pascal Irmscher and Carrie J. Miller. 2009. Review of Freshwater Mussel Ecology: A Multifactor Approach to Distribution and Abundance by David L. Strayer. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28:515-516. Strayer Book Review

Galbraith, Heather S. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2009. Temperature and food interact to influence gamete development in freshwater mussels. Hydrobiologia 636:35-47. Galbraith&Vaughn.Hydrobiol.2009

Vaughn, Caryn C. Mollusca. 2009. Encyclopedia of Inland Waters. Likens, G.E. (Editor), Elsevier, Oxford. 2:361-371.

Galbraith, Heather S., Sarah Frazier, Brenda Allison** and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2009. Comparison of gill surface morphology across a guild of suspension feeding bivalves. Journal of Molluscan Studies 75:103-107. Galbraithetal.JMollStud.2009

Spooner, Daniel E. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2009. Species richness increases secondary production of freshwater mussels through complementarity: A partitioning approach applied to natural communities. Ecology 90:781-790. Spooner&Vaughn.Ecology.2009

Allen, Daniel C. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2009. Burrowing behavior of freshwater mussels in experimentally manipulated communities. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28:93-100. Allen&Vaughn.JNABS.2009

Allen, Daniel C., Dane Morris and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2008. Nerodia sipedon (Northern Water Snake) killed by mussel. Herpetological Review 39:471-472. Allen et al 2008 Herp Rev

Spooner, Daniel E. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2008. A trait-based approach to species’ roles in stream ecosystems: climate change, community structure, and material cycling. Oecologia 158:307-317. Spooner&Vaughn.Oecologia.2008

Vaughn, Caryn C., S. Jerrine Nichols and Daniel E. Spooner. 2008. Community and foodweb ecology of freshwater mussels. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 27:409-423. Vaughnetal.JNABS.2008

Galbraith, Heather S., Daniel E. Spooner and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2008. Status of rare and endangered freshwater mussels in southeastern Oklahoma rivers. Southwestern Naturalist 53:45-50. Galbraithetal.SWNat.2008

Galbraith, Heather S., Caryn C. Vaughn and C. Kate Meier. 2008. Environmental variables interact across spatial scales to structure trichopteran assemblages. Hydrobiologia 596:401-411. Galbraithetal.Hydrobiologia.2008

Vaughn, Caryn C., Daniel E. Spooner and Heather S. Galbraith. 2007. Context‑dependent species identity effects within a functional group of filter-feeding bivalves. Ecology 88:1654-1662. Vaughnetal.Ecology.2007

Elderkin, Curt L., Alan D. Christian, Caryn C. Vaughn, Janice L. Metcalfe-Smith and David J. Berg. 2007. Population genetics of the freshwater mussel Amblema plicata (Say 1817)(Bivalvia: Unionidae): evidence of high dispersal and post-glacial colonization. Conservation Genetics 8:355-372. Elderkinetal.ConserGen.2006

Spooner, Daniel E. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2007. Mussels of the Mountain Fork River, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Publications of the Oklahoma Biological Survey 8:14-18. Spooner&Vaughn.POBS.2007

Vaughn, Caryn C. 2007. The Oklahoma Biological Survey. Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Daniel E. Spooner. 2006. Unionid mussels influence macroinvertebrate assemblage structure in streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25:691-700. vaughn&spooner.JNABS.2006

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Daniel E. Spooner. 2006. Scale-dependent associations between native freshwater mussels and invasive Corbicula. Hydrobiologia 568:331-339. Vaughn&Spooner.Hydrobiologia.2006

Spooner, Daniel E. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2006. Context‑dependent effects of freshwater mussels on the benthic community. Freshwater Biology 51:1016-1024, 1188. Spooner&Vaughn.FWBiol.2006. Corrigendum.Spooner&Vaughn.FWB.2006

Graening, G.O., Dante B. Fenolio, Elizabeth A. Bergey and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2006. Annotated checklist of the amphipod crustaceans of Oklahoma, with emphasis on groundwater habitats. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 86:65-74. Graeningetal.POAS.2006

Matthews, William J., Caryn C. Vaughn, Keith B. Gido and Edie Marsh-Matthews. 2005. Southern Plains rivers. Pages 283 – 325 in, Rivers of North America, A.C. Benke and C.E. Cushing (eds). Elsevier, 1168 pp.

Vaughn, Caryn C. 2005. Freshwater mussel populations in southeastern Oklahoma: population trends and ecosystem services. Proceedings of Oklahoma Water 2005, Tulsa, OK. Paper #18. Oklahoma Water Resources Institute, Stillwater, OK. 12 pp. Vaughn.WatConfProc.2005

Martinez, A. David., Daniel E. Spooner*, Todd G. Adornata, Suzanne Y. Duding and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2004. Occurrence of the Rock Pocketbook mussel, Arcidens confragosus (Bivalvia: Unionidae), in the Poteau and Deep Fork Rivers of Oklahoma. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences 84:79-80. Martinezetal.POAS.2004

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Daniel E. Spooner. 2004. Status of the mussel fauna of the Poteau River and implications for commercial harvest. American Midland Naturalist 152:136-152. Vaughn&Spooner.AMN.2004.Poteau

Vaughn, Caryn C., Keith B. Gido and Daniel E. Spooner. 2004. Ecosystem processes performed by unionid mussels in stream mesocosms: species roles and effects of abundance. Hydrobiologia 527:35-47. Vaughnetal.Hydrobiol.2004

Vaughn, Caryn C. 2003. The mussel fauna of the Glover River, Oklahoma. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences 83:1-6. Vaughn.POAS.2003

Vaughn, Caryn C., Daniel E. Spooner and Bruce W. Hoagland. 2002. River weed growing epizooically on freshwater mussels. Southwestern Naturalist 47:604-605. Vaughnetal.SWN.2002.Riverweed

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Christine C. Hakenkamp. 2001. The functional role of burrowing bivalves in freshwater ecosystems. Freshwater Biology 46:1431-1446. Vaughn&Hakenkamp.FWBiol.2001

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Christopher M. Taylor. 2000. Macroecology of a host-parasite relationship. Ecography 23:11-20. Vaughn&Taylor.Ecography.2000

Vaughn, Caryn C. 2000. Changes in the mussel fauna of the middle Red River drainage: 1910 – present. Pages 225-232 in Tankersley, R.A, Warmolts, D.I., Watters, G.T., Armitage, B.J., Johnson, P.D., and Butler, R.S. (Editors). Freshwater Mollusk Symposium Proceedings. Ohio Biological Survey, Columbus, Ohio. 274 pp. Vaughn.RRChanges.2000

Vaughn, Caryn C. 2000. Two siphons up, review of The Freshwater Mussels of Tennessee by Paul Parmalee and Arthur Bogan. BioScience 50:263-264.

Spooner, Daniel E. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2000. Impact of drought conditions on a mussel bed in the Kiamichi River, southeastern Oklahoma. Ellipsaria, fall 2000, 10-11.

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Christopher M. Taylor. 1999. Impoundments and the decline of freshwater mussels: a case study of an extinction gradient. Conservation Biology 13:912-920. Vaughn&Taylor.CB.1999

Pyron, Mark, Caryn C. Vaughn, Matthew R. Winston* and Jimmie Pigg. 1998. The long-term fish assemblage of the Kiamichi River, Oklahoma. The Southwestern Naturalist 43:46-53. Pyronetal.SWN.1998

Vaughn, Caryn C. 1998. The Kiamichi River. In, Master, Lawrence L. Stephanie R. Flack and Bruce A. Stein (editors). Rivers of Life: Critical Watersheds for Protecting Freshwater Biodiversity. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia. https://www.natureserve.org/biodiversity-science/publications/rivers-life-critical-watersheds-protecting-freshwater-biodiversity

Vaughn, Caryn C. 1997. Catastrophic decline of the mussel fauna of the Blue River, Oklahoma. Southwestern Naturalist 42:333-336. Vaughn.SWN.1997.BlueRiver

Vaughn, Caryn C. 1997. Regional patterns of mussel species distributions in North American rivers. Ecography 20:107-115. Vaughn.Ecography.1997.

Vaughn, Caryn C., Christopher M. Taylor and Kelly J. Eberhard. 1997. A comparison of the effectiveness of timed searches vs. quadrat sampling in mussel surveys. Pages 157-162, in Cummings, K.S., A.C. Buchanan, C.A. Mayer and T.J. Naimo (eds), Conservation and Management of Freshwater Mussels II: Initiatives for the Future. Proceedings of a UMRCC symposium, 16-18 October 1995, St. Louis, Missouri. Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee, Rock Island, Illinois. Vaughnetal.Sampling.1997

Vaughn, Caryn C., Charles M. Mather, Mark Pyron, Patricia Mehlhop, and Estelle K. Miller. 1996. The current and historical mussel fauna of the Kiamichi River, Oklahoma. Southwest Naturalist 41:325-328. Vaughnetal.SWN.1996.Kiamichi

Johnson, Sherri L. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 1995. A hierarchical analysis of macroinvertebrate recolonization of disturbed patches along longitudinal gradients in a prairie stream, USA. Freshwater Biology 34:531-540. Johnson&Vaughn.FWB.1995

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Mark Pyron. 1995. Population ecology of the endangered Ouachita Rock Pocketbook Mussel, Arkansia wheeleri (Bivalvia: Unionidae), in the Kiamichi River, Oklahoma. American Malacological Bulletin 11:145-151. Vaughn&Pyron.AMB.1995

Kawakatsu, Masaharu, Caryn C. Vaughn and Robert W. Mitchell. 1995. Dendrocoelopsis americana (Hyman, 1939) from Christian School Cave, the Ozark Plateau, U.S.A. Bulletin of the Fuji Women’s College, No. 33, Ser. II. (December 1995), 71-78.

Mehlhop, Patricia and Caryn C. Vaughn. 1994. Threats to and sustainability of ecosystems for freshwater mollusks. Pp. 68-77 in Covington, W. and L.F. Dehand (eds)., Sustainable Ecological Systems: Implementing an Ecological Approach to Land Management. General Technical Report Rm-247 for Rocky Mountain Range and Forest Experimental Station. U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, CO. 363 pp. Mehlhop&Vaughn.1994

Covich, Alan P., Todd A. Crowl, James E. Alexander and Caryn C. Vaughn. 1994. Predator-avoidance responses in freshwater decapod-gastropod interactions mediated by chemical stimuli. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 13:283-290. Covichetal.JNABS.1994

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Susan M. Glenn. 1993. Heritage programs and NABS members: Think globally, act locally. Bulletin of the North American Benthological Society 10:358-360.

Vaughn, Caryn C., Frances P. Gelwick and William J. Matthews. 1993. Effects of algivorous minnows on production of grazing stream invertebrates. Oikos 65:119-128. Vaughnetal.Oikos.1993

Vaughn, Caryn C., Susan M. Glenn and I. Butler. 1993. Distribution and characterization of prairie mole cricket chorusing sites in Oklahoma. American Midland Naturalist 130:364-371. Vaughnetal.SWM.1993.Crickets

Vaughn, Caryn C. 1993. Can biogeographic models be used to predict the persistence of mussel populations in rivers? Pp. 117-122 in, Cummings, K.S., A.C. Buchanan and L. M. Koch (eds)., Conservation and Management of Freshwater Mussels. Proceedings of a UMRCC symposium, 12-14 October 1992, St. Louis, Missouri. Upper Miss. River Cons. Com., Rock Island, IL. 189 pp. Vaughn.Mussel Metapopulation book chapter. 1993

Creighton, J. Curtis, Caryn C. Vaughn and Brian R. Chapman. 1993. Habitat preference of the endangered American Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) in Oklahoma. Southwestern Naturalist 38:275-277. Creightonetal.SWN.1993

Vaughn, Caryn C. 1992. Prairie mole crickets doing ok in Oklahoma. Okla. Conservator News 18:11.

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Frank M. Fisher. 1992. Dispersion of the salt marsh periwinkle Littoraria irrorata (Say): effects of water level, size and season. Estuaries 15:246-250. Vaughn&Fisher.Estuaries.1992

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Frank M. Fisher. 1988. Vertical migration as a refuge from predation in intertidal marsh snails: a field test. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 123:163‑176. Vaughn&Fisher.JEMBE.1988

Vaughn, Caryn C. 1987. Substratum preference of the caddisfly Helicopsyche borealis (Hagen)(Trichoptera: Helicopsychidae). Hydrobiologia 154:201‑205. Vaughn.Hydrobiologia.1987

Vaughn, Caryn C. 1986. The role of periphyton abundance and quality in the microdistribution of a stream grazer, Helicopsyche borealis (Trichoptera: Helicopsychidae). Freshwater Biology 16:485‑493. Vaughn.FWBIol.1986

Vaughn, Caryn C. 1985. Life history of Helicopsyche borealis (Hagen) (Trichoptera: Helicopsychidae) in Oklahoma. American Midland Naturalist 113:76‑83. Vaughn.AMN.1985

Vaughn, Caryn C. 1985. Evolutionary ecology of case architecture in the snailcase caddisfly, Helicopsyche borealis (Trichoptera: Helicopsychidae). Freshwater Invertebrate Biology (renamed Journal of the North American Benthological Society with volume 5) 4:178‑186. Vaughn.FIB.1985

Vaughn, Caryn C. 1982. Distribution of chironomids in the littoral zone of Lake Texoma, Oklahoma and Texas. Hydrobiologia 89:177‑188. Vaughn.HYdrobiologia.1982

Covich, Alan P., William Shepard, Elizabeth A. Bergey and Caryn S. Carpenter (Vaughn). 1978. Effects of fluctuating flow rates and water levels on chironomids: direct and indirect alterations of habitat stability. In, Energy and Environmental Stress in Aquatic Systems, ed. by J.H. Thorp and J.W. Gibbons, ERDA Symp Series, Oak Ridge Press. pp. 141‑156.