Peter B. Moyle (born 1942 in Minnesota) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology and associate director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California-Davis. He has studied the ecology and conservation of fishes in freshwater and estuarine habitats in California (US) for over forty years. He has taken a special interest in salmon and various other anadromous fishes. Moyle has authored or co-authored more than 220 publications covering topics such as watersheds, inland fishes, biological invasions, and biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems. His primary areas of research include ecosystems, conservation of aquatic species, habitats, and various ecological impacts.
Moyle's primary areas of research include conservation efforts, development of novel aquatic ecosystems, the biology of freshwater and estuarine fishes native to California, and various effects on ecosystems such as that caused by invasions of alien aquatic species. His work has also focused on the effects of drought and climate change on California's rivers and streams, on the ecology and management of floodplains, and applying reconciliation ecology to the San Francisco Estuary.
Books and other publications
Moyle, P. B. 2002. Inland Fishes of California. Berkeley: University of California Press 502 pp.
Moyle, P. B. and J. J. Cech, Jr. 2004. Fishes: an Introduction to Ichthyology. 5th Edition. Prentice-Hall: Upper Saddle River, N. J. 590 pp.
Mosepele, K.; Moyle, P. B.; Merron, G. S.; Purkey, D.; Mosepele, B. (2009). "Fish, floods, and ecosystem engineers: aquatic conservation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana". BioScience. 59: 53–64. doi:10.1525/bio.2009.59.1.9.
Lund, J., E. Hanak, W. Fleenor, W. Bennett, R. Howitt, J. Mount, and P. Moyle. 2010 Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Berkeley, University of California Press.
Marchetti, M. P. and P. B. Moyle. 2010. Protecting life on Earth: an introduction to conservation science. Berkeley: University of California Press. 232 pp
Hanak, E., J. Lund, A. Dinar, B. Gray, R. Howitt, J. Mount, P. Moyle, and B. Thompson. 2011. Managing California's Water from Conflict to Reconciliation. San Francisco, PPIC. 482 pp.
Moyle, P.B.; Katz, J. V. E.; Quiñones, R. M. (2011). "Rapid decline of California's native inland fishes: a status assessment". Biological Conservation. 144: 2414–2423. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.06.002.
Purdy, S.E.; Moyle, P. B.; Tate, K. W. (2011). "Montane meadows in the Sierra Nevada: comparing terrestrial and aquatic assessment methods". Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. doi:10.10078/s10661-011-2473.
Moyle, P. B. , W. Bennett, J. Durand, W. Fleenor, B. Gray, E. Hanak, J. Lund, J. Mount. 2012. Where the wild things aren’t: making the Delta a better place for native species. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California. 53 pp.
Jeffres, C.A.; Moyle, P.B. (2012). "When good fish make bad decisions: coho salmon in an ecological trap". North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 32: 87–92. doi:10.1080/02755947.2012.661389.
Kiernan, J.D.; Moyle, P. B.; Crain, P. K. (2012). "Restoring native fish assemblages to a regulated California stream using the natural flow regime concept". Ecological Applications. 22: 1472–1482. doi:10.1890/11-0480.1.
Kiernan, J. D.; Moyle, P. B. (2012). "Flows, droughts, and aliens: factors affecting the fish assemblage in a Sierra Nevada, California, stream". Ecological Applications. 22: 1146–1161. doi:10.1890/11-1047.1.
Börk; Krovoza, K.S. J. F.; Katz, J. V.; Moyle, P. B. (2012). "The rebirth of California Fish & Game Code 5937: water for fish". University of California Davis Law Review. 45: 809–913.
Carmona-Catot, G.; Moyle, P. B.; Simmons, R. E. (2012). "Long-term captive breeding does not necessarily prevent reestablishment: lessons learned from Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout". Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 22: 325–342. doi:10.1007/s11160-011-9230-x.
Katz, J; Moyle, P. B.; Quiñones, R. M.; Israel, J.; Purdy, S. (2012). "Impending extinction of salmon, steelhead, and trout (Salmonidae) in California". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 96: 1169–1186. doi:10.1007/s10641-012-9974-8.
Thompson, L.C.; Escobar, M. I.; Mosser, C. M.; Purkey, D. R.; Yates, D.; Moyle, P.B. (2012). "Water management adaptations to prevent loss of spring-run Chinook salmon in California under climate change". Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 138: 465–478. doi:10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0000194.
Moyle, P.B.; Kiernan, J. D.; Crain, P. K.; Quiñones, R. M. (2013). "Climate change vulnerability of native and alien freshwater fishes of California: a systematic assessment approach". PLOS ONE. 8: e63883. PMC 3661749 . PMID 23717503. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063883.
Quiñones, R. M.; Holyoak, M.; Johnson, M. L.; Moyle, P. B. (2014). "Potential factors affecting survival differ by run-timing and location: linear mixed-effects models of Pacific salmonids (Oncorhynchus spp.) in the Klamath River, California". PLoS ONE. 9 (5): e98392. PMC 4035341 . PMID 24866173. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098392.
Moyle, P.B., A. D. Manfree, and P. L. Fiedler. 2014. Suisun Marsh: Ecological History and Possible Futures. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Moyle, P.B., R. M. Quiñones, J.V.E. Katz, and Jeff Weaver. 2014 (in press). Fish Species of Special Concern in California. Sacramento: California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
