Ed Emmons

Advisor: Tony Ives

Contact Information:
Department of Zoology
Birge Hall
430 Lincoln Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-9226
email: EMMONE@dnr.state.wi.us

Research Interests:
Ed studies the factors that govern the structure of lake communities in northern Wisconsin.  In particular, he has shown that the composition of the fish community is strongly influenced by lake development and access to fisherman.  Slthough human modification of the lake shoreline may increase the local diversity and abundance of fish (e.g. by increasing the complexity of habitat structure around docks, etc.), this local increase is confined to very small scales, and the favored fish are "weedy" species of generalists. At the scale of whole lakes, human impact is to greatly reduce fish diversity, particularly removing native specialists.

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