Research Projects (Listed by Topic)

The list below is classified loosely into ten areas of research that are currently active. While this list is not exhaustive, visitors will see most of those areas of investigation that our department is currently conducting. Links in titles will take you to Web pages containing more detail about the research. Faculty or staff links will take you to the "personnel page" entries for the individuals responsible for the research.

Aquaculture and Genetics

  • Aquaculture wastes and effluents - Adelman
  • Suspended solids in recirculating aquaculture systems - Adelman
  • Temporal trends in genetic diversity - Kapuscinski

Biodiversity and Threatened and Endangered Species

  • Role of biodiversity in managing the Great Lakes fishery - Kapuscinski
  • Fish host requirements of rare Minnesota mussels - Hove
  • Biodiversity monitoring - Andersen
  • Bioassesment of Phalen Lakes watershed - Hove
  • Wildlife species response - Cuthbert

Ecological Modeling

  • Spatial models of forest ecosystem landscapes - Cohen

Education in Natural Resources

Exotic and Invading Species

Large Mammal Ecology

  • Free ranging whitetail deer/wolf - Del Giudice
  • Field test of global position collars on wolves/deer - Mech
  • Wild ungulates: relationships with timber - Jordan
  • Role of herbivory in conservation of native plants - Jordan
  • Deer control studies - Jordan
  • Tiger census in Nepal - Smith
  • Ecological separation of gaur and banteng in Thailand - Smith

Fisheries and Wildlife Management and Habitats

  • Macrophytes in Minnesota gamefish lakes - Newman
  • Land use, sediment and aquatic community relationships - Vondracek
  • Riparian project - Newman

Fish Physiology and Behavior

Fish Population Dynamics

  • Individual-based walleye simulation model - Adelman
  • Biochronology of Siberian cyprinids - Rivers, Spangler
  • Ecology and management of large lake fishery resources - Spangler, Ostazeski
  • Biochronology of Red Lakes yellow perch - Ostazeski, Spangler
  • Trophic relations in freshwater systems - Newman
  • Biochronology of freshwater fishes - Spangler, Rivers, Schrag, Ostazeski

Waterfowl and Wetland Ecology