Bobbi Peckarsky

Position title: Honorary Fellow, Departments of Integrative Biology & Entomology

Email: peckarsky@wisc.edu

Research Summary

Observational and experimental field studies in Rocky Mountain streams on the life history, behavior, population and community ecology of stream-dwelling organisms; recruitment limitation of population size of stream insects; mechanisms, direct and indirect consequences and evolution of predator-prey, grazer-algal and parasite-host interactions; non-consumptive effects of predators on mayfly life history traits, behavior and population dynamics; invertebrates as indicators of stream water quality; effects of disturbance and climate change on stream organisms; causes and consequences of proliferation of the nuisance diatom (Didymosphenia geminata).

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