Aquatic Conservation and Ecology Team

This team conducts research on the life histories, community dynamics, and ecological functions of terrestrial and aquatic animals within bottomland hardwood ecosystems. The research is organized within an ecological hierarchy encompassing species communities/assemblages, ecosystems, and landscapes. The effects of forest management are evaluated at each level.

Emphases are:

• Identifying species-specific life history attributes or strategies that affect resilience of populations
• Examining patterns of animal community composition and structure in relation to habitat and biological interactions
• Determining baseline habitat conditions and associated levels of variability in populations, communities, and assemblages of animals along gradients of space and/or time
• Providing technology transfer of methods for evaluating and maintaining biodiversity in a multiple-resource context