All Rights Reserved. Please see the source code for details. All Rights Reserved. Please see the source code for details. We focus on invertebrates and fishes as endpoints and integrators of ecological conditions.
Studies examine the relation of fish distribution and abundance to local and landscape features.
We are using an Ozark stream to examine habitat and trophic dynamic elements of crayfish and other invertebrates important to sportfish.- especially smallmouth bass. Our accumulating knowledge is being put to use in ecologically-based biological monitoring and assessment programs. Rabeni, C. F. and M. A. Smale. 1995 Effects of siltation on stream fishes and potential mitigating role of the buffering riparian zone. Rabeni, C. F. and S.P. Sowa.