Professional Interests:

Aquatic ecology, focused on:

• Community and ecosystem ecology of shallow lakes and wetlands.

• Role of food-web interactions in the alternative stable state model for shallow lakes. 

• Ecology of fish, aquatic invertebrates, and submerged macrophytes.

• Biotic and abiotic factors responsible for the structure of aquatic food webs.

• Biotic influences on species diversity in shallow lakes.

• Stoichiometric relationships in aquatic habitats.

• Modeling aquatic ecosystems and processes, biometry.