Charles R. Berry, Jr.

Leader and Adjunct Professor

U. S. Geological Survey

South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

South Dakota State University

Northern Plains Biostress Laboratory

SNP 138, Box 2140B

Brookings, SD   57007-1696

Voice: (605) 688-4785/Fax: (605) 688-4515

email: charles.berry@sdstate.edu

Dr. Berry is Professor and Leader of the South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. He has been a faculty member in the Department since 1985. His teaching responsibilities involve graduate-level courses Fish Structure and Function (WL 714) and Stream Ecology and Management (WL 719). Dr. Berry also advises and mentors graduate students.

Dr. Berry’s research expertise is primarily in fish ecology and physiology. His current research includes extensive work on fish communities in South Dakota streams and rivers. He has been instrumental in developing an aquatic Gap project in South Dakota. He also has Unit administrative responsibilities.

Under his leadership the South Dakota Cooperative Unit received the 1994 Division of Cooperative Research Award for Outstanding Science and the 2003 South Dakota Conservation Educator of the Year Award from the South Dakota Wildlife Federation. Dr. Berry was also named as a 1998 Berg Fellow by the Soil and Water Conservation Society.

Specialties:

Effects of Environmental Contaminants and Riverine Habitat Alteration on Aquatic Organisms

Education:

Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1976

 

M.S., Fordham University, 1970

 

B.S., Randolph-Macon College, 1967

Other Professional Experience:

Assistant Unit Leader/Acting Unit Leader, Utah Coop Unit, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Logan, UT

 

Instructor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA

 

Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, Richmond, VA

 

Pollution Control Specialist, Assistant Biology Section Leader, Virginia Water Control Board, Richmond, VA

Courses Taught at SDSU :

• WL 714 Fish Structure and Function

• WL 719 Stream Ecology and Management

Selected Publications:

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Hoagstrom, C. W., C-A. Hayer, and C. R. Berry Jr. 2009. Criteria for determining native distributions of biota: the case of the northern plains killifish in the Cheyenne River drainage, North America. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 19:88-95.

Hoagstrom, C. W. and C. R. Berry. 2008. Morphological diversity among fishes in a great plains river drainage. Hydrobiologia 596:367-386.

Rasmus, R.A., Q. E. Phelps, J. P. Duehr, and C. R. Berry Jr. 2008. Population characteristics of lotic orangespotted sunfish. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 23(3):459-461.

Hoagstrom, C. W., A. C. DeWitte, N. J. C. Gosch, and C. R. Berry Jr. 2007. Historical fish assemblage flux in the Cheyenne River below Angostura Dam. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 22(2):219-229.

Hoagstrom, C. W., N. J. C. Gosch, A. C. DeWitte, C. R. Berry Jr., and J. P. Duehr. 2007. Biodiversity, biogeography, and longitudinal fish faunal structure among perennial, warmwater streams of the Cheyenne River drainage. The Prairie Naturalist 39(3/4):117-144.

Hoagstrom, C. W., S. S. Wall, J. G. Kral, B. G. Blackwell, and C. R. Berry Jr. 2007. Zoogeographic patterns and faunal change of South Dakota fishes. Western North American Naturalist 67(2):161-184.

Bouchard, M. A., K. F. Higgins, D. M. Gardner, C. R. Berry Jr., and S. R. Chipps. 2006. An annotated bibliography: published articles (1861-2004) about the fish resources of South Dakota. South Dakota State University. Pp 136.

Hayer, C-A., B. C. Harland, and C. R. Berry Jr. 2006. Recent range extensions, name changes and status updates for selected South Dakota fishes. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 85:247-265.

Hoagstrom, C. W. and C. R. Berry Jr. 2006. Island biogeography of native fish faunas among great plains drainage basins: basin scale features influence composition. American Fisheries Society Symposium 48:221-264.

Hoagstrom, C. W., A. C. DeWitte, N. J. C. Gosch, and C. R. Berry Jr. 2006. Perennial-warmwater fish communities of the Cheyenne River drainage: a seasonal assessment. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 85:213-245.

Hoagstrom, C. W., C-A. Hayer, J. G. Kral, S. S. Wall, and C. R. Berry Jr. 2006. Rare and declining fishes of South Dakota: a river drainage scale perspective. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 85:171-211.  

Hoagstrom, C. W., S. S. Wall, J. P. Duehr, and C. R. Berry Jr. 2006. River size and fish assemblages in southwestern South Dakota. Great Plains Research 16:117-126.

Sylvester, R. M. and C. R. Berry Jr. 2006. Comparison of white sucker age estimates from scales, pectoral fin rays, and otoliths. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 26:24-31.

Wall, S. S. and C. R. Berry Jr. 2006. The importance of multiscale habitat relations and biotic associations to the conservation of an endangered fish species, the Topeka shiner. American Fisheries Society Symposium 48:305-322.  

Galat, D. L., C. R. Berry Jr., E. J. Peters, and R. G. White. 2005. Missouri River Basin. Pp 427-480 in A. C. Benke and C. E. Cushing, editors. Rivers of North America, Elsevier Academic Press, New York, New York.  

Galat, D. L., C. R. Berry, W. M. Gardner, J. C. Hendrickson, G. E. Mestl, G. J. Power, C. Stone, and M. R. Winston. 2005. Spatiotemporal patterns and changes in Missouri River fishes. American Fisheries Society Symposium 45:249-291.  

Kral, J. G. and C. R. Berry Jr. 2005. Fishes at randomly selected sites on wadeable streams in South Dakota. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 84:305-313.

Rasmus, R. A., Q. E. Phelps, J. P. Duehr, and C. R. Berry Jr. 2005. Population characteristics of lotic orangespotted sunfish in South Dakota. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 84:349.

Sylvester, R. M., S. E. Freeling, and C. R. Berry Jr. 2005. First record of the plains minnow, Hybognathus placitus, in Canada. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 119:219-223.

Berry, C. R. Jr. and B. Young. 2004. Fishes of the Missouri National Recreational River, South Dakota and Nebraska. Great Plains Research 14:89-114.

Freeling, S. E., C. R. Berry Jr., R. M. Sylvester, S. S. Wall, and J. A. Jenks. 2004. Surveys to evaluate fish distribution models for the upper Missouri River basin aquatic GAP project. Gap Analysis Program Bulletin 12:4-7.

Harland, B. and C. R. Berry Jr. 2004. Fishes and habitat characteristics of the Keya Paha River, South Dakota-Nebraska. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 19(2):169-177.

Morey, N. M. and C. R. Berry Jr. 2004. New distributional record of the northern redbelly dace in the northern great plains. The Prairie Naturalist 36(4):257-260.  

Wall, S. S. and C. R. Berry Jr. 2004. Road culverts across streams with the endangered Topeka shiner, Notropis topeka, in the James, Vermillion, and Big Sioux River basins. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 83:125-135.  

Wall, S. S. and C. R. Berry Jr. 2004. Threatened fishes of the world: Notropis topeka Gilbert, 1884 (Cyprinidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 70:246.

Wall, S. S., C. R. Berry Jr., C. M. Blausey, J. A. Jenks, and C. J. Kooplin. 2004. Fish-habitat modeling for gap analysis to conserve the endangered Topeka shiner (Notropis topeka). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61:954-973.

Berry, C. R. Jr. 2003. Missouri River ecosystem. Wetlands 23(1):208-211.  

Shearer, J. S. and C. R. Berry Jr. 2003. Fish community persistence in eastern North and South Dakota rivers. Great Plains Research 13:139-159.

Arterburn, J. E. and C. R. Berry Jr. 2002. Effect of hook style, bait type, and river location on trotline catches of flathead and channel catfish. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 22:573-578.

Arterburn, J. E., D. J. Kirby, and C. R. Berry Jr. 2002. A survey of angler attitudes and biologist opinions regarding trophy catfish and their management. Fisheries 27(5):10-21.

Berry, C. R. and J. Shearer. 2002. AFS and the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS). Fisheries 27(5):28-29.

Berry, C. R. Jr. 2002. The American Fisheries Society: an AIBS member society promoting fisheries science and education since 1870. BioScience 52(8):758-760.

Shearer, J. S. and C. R. Berry Jr. 2002. Index of biotic integrity utility for the fishery of the James River of the Dakotas. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 17(4):575-588.

Arterburn, J. E., D. J. Kirby, and C. R. Berry Jr. 2001. Biologist opinions and angler attitudes concerning catfish and their management in the Mississippi River basin. Mississippi Interstate Cooperative Resource Associate Final Report.

Juni, S. and C. R. Berry. 2001. A biodiversity assessment of compensatory mitigation wetlands in eastern South Dakota. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 80:185-200.

Milewski, C. L., C. R. Berry, and D. Dieterman. 2001. Use of the index of biological integrity in eastern South Dakota rivers. The Prairie Naturalist 33(3):135-152.  

Berry, C. R. Jr. 2000. Great plains rivers and fishes of South Dakota. South Dakota Conservation Digest 67(3):14-19.

Berry, C. R. Jr. and S. C. Juni. 2000. Guidelines for restoring and creating wetlands associated with highway projects in South Dakota. Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin B734. Pp 21.

Dieterman, D. J. and C. R. Berry. 2000. Summer habitat associations of rare fishes in South Dakota tributaries to the Minnesota River. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 79:103-110.

Doorenbos, R., C. R. Berry, and G. Wickstrom. 1999. Ictalurids in South Dakota. American Fisheries Society Symposium 24:377-389.

Loomis, T. M., C. R. Berry Jr., and J. Erickson. 1999. The fishes of the upper Moreau River basin. The Prairie Naturalist 31(4):193-214.

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