Our lab is focuses on the role of organisms in maintaining vital ecosystem processes and how flow regime alterations and land use and climate change may interact to influence these processes.
We are particularly interested in how species traits, especially stoichiometric traits, influence structure and function within aquatic systems.
Research in my laboratory addresses both basic and applied ecology and currently follows two main themes:
- Physiological Stress Due to Changed Thermal and Nutrient Regimes
- Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages via Amphibians
My lab is interested in patterns and processes in aquatic ecosystems.
We are particularly interested in how species traits, especially stoichiometric traits and thermal preferences, influence structure and function within aquatic systems.
I study the ecology, evolution, and conservation of aquatic ecosystems with particular focus in rivers and geographically isolated wetlands.
My lab's research spans the influence of hydrologic patterns and landscape patterns on community assembly, resource availability, feeding roles of invertebrates, nutrient cycling, invasive species interactions, and the impacts of land use on water chemistry.
