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Winston, M. R., C. M. Taylor and J. Pigg (1991). Upstream extirpation of four minnow species due to damming of a prairie stream. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 120:98-105.

A spatially intensive survey in 1989 of 52 sites in the Red River drainage in southwest Oklahoma and surveys in all years from 1978 to 1987 on four sites in the drainage provided evidence that construction of Altus Dam on the North Fork of the Red River caused changes in fish community structure in the river above the dam. Twenty-five species were collected in the North Fork above Altus Dam, compared to 33 in the Salt Fork and 34 in the North Fork below the dam. The speckled chub Macrhybopsis (formerly Hybopsis) aestivalis and the chub shiner Notropis potteri were absent in the North Fork above Altus Dam but fairly common in similar streams elsewhere in the area. The plains minnow Hybognathus placitus and the Red River shiner Notropis bairdi were among the most common fish species found in southwest Oklahoma, but were not collected above Altus Dam in the 1989 survey and were collected only intermittently and in small numbers in the long- term survey.