Dane Bowker, Research Technician

San Diego State University Department of Biology

Fish Ecology Lab

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The Fish Ecology Lab focuses on several areas of research concerning the population ecology and assemblage structure of coastal fishes, especially concerning the early life stages of rocky reef and estuarine fishes. To learn about several of our projects, click on the links below:

Current Projects

Southern California

--    Consequences of predation threat to macrophyte-associated fishes

--    Ecological consequences of toxicant exposure in estuarine fishes

--     Impacts of anthropogenic and natural sounds on juvenile coastal fishes

--     Role of habitat area and topographic complexity on the distribution and abundance of rocky reef fishes

Northern California

-- Modeling fish population movement and persistence in marine protected areas

-- Temporal variation in larval quality of recently settled rockfishes

Past Projects

Southern California

--     Consequences of habitat disturbance and recovery to recruitment and the abundance of kelp forest fishes

--     Ecological implications of physiological condition in temperate fishes

--     Effects of habitat fragmentation and patch size on recruitment and the abundance of kelp forest fishes

--     Evaluating eelgrass site quality by the settlement, performance, and survival of a marine fish

--     Fish-habitat associations and the role of disturbance in surfgrass beds

--     Fish production and habitat structure on a large-scale experimental artificial reef

--     Habitat-dependent recruitment of two reef fishes at multiple spatial scales

--     Habitat structure and recruitment of temperate reef fishes

--     Habitat structure, predation, and the distribution of an intertidal sculpin

--     Larval supply, settlement, and recruitment of fishes in eelgrass beds in a southern California embayment

--     Linking swimming performance to population demography in fishes

--     Patterns of invertebrate settlement in kelp forests

--     Positive indirect effects of reef fishes on kelp performance

--     Predation by fishes and trophic ecology in eelgrass beds

--     Predator-mediated recruitment and size of kelp-associated fishes

--     Predator size and recruitment of temperate reef fishes

--     Relative importance of habitat attributes to predation risk in a temperate reef fish

--     Swimming performance and the ecology of the early life stages of temperate fishes

Northern California

-- Effects of toxicant exposure and habitat structural complexity in predation of an estuarine fish

California

-- Genetic structure of leopard shark (Triakis semifasciata) populations in California waters

-- Trophic ecology of the common thresher (Alopias vulpinus) and shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus)

Hawaii

-- Habitat associations and aggregation of recruit fishes on Hawaiian coral reefs

-- Recruitment and habitat associations of reef fishes in the main and northwest Hawaiian Islands

Publications ( * denotes graduate student, ** denotes undergraduate student)

Hunsicker, M.E., L. Ciannelli, K.M. Bailey, J.A. Buckel, J.W. White, J.S. Link, T.E. Essington, S.Gaichas, T.W. Anderson, R.D. Brodeur, K.S Chan, K. Chen, G. Englund, K.T. Frank, V. Freitas, M.A. Hixon, T. Hurst, D.W. Johnson, J.F. Kitchell, D. Reese, G.A. Rose, H. Sjodin, W.J. Sydeman, H.W. van der Veer, K. Vollset, and S. Zador. 2011. Functional responses and scaling in predator–prey interactions of marine fishes: contemporary issues and emerging concepts. Ecology Letters 14:1288-1299.

DeMartini, E.E., T.W. Anderson, A.M. Friedlander, and J.P. Beets. 2011. Predator biomass, prey density, and species composition effects on group size in recruit coral reef fishes. Marine Biology 158:2437-2447.

White, J.W., L.W. Botsford, M.L. Baskett, L.A.K. Barnett, *R.J. Barr, and A. Hastings. 2011. Linking models and monitoring data for assessing performance of no-take marine reserves. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9:390–399.

DeMartini, E.E., T.W. Anderson, J.C. Kenyon, J.P. Beets, and A.M. Friedlander. 2010. Management implications of juvenile reef fish habitat preferences and coral susceptibility to stressors. Marine and Freshwater Research 61:1-9.

*Deza, A.A., and T.W. Anderson. 2010. Habitat fragmentation, patch size, and the distribution and abundance of kelp forest fishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 416:229-240.

**Farlin, J.P., *L.S. Lewis, T.W. Anderson, and C.T. Lai. 2010. Functional diversity in amphipods revealed by stable isotopes in an eelgrass ecosystem. Marine Ecology Progress Series 420:277–281.

*Floyd, E.Y., and T.W. Anderson. 2010. Interactive effects of nutritional condition and refuge availability on survival of a temperate reef goby. Marine Ecology Progress Series 407:257-269.

*O'Connor, K.C., and T.W. Anderson. 2010. Consequences of habitat disturbance and recovery to recruitment and the abundance of kelp forest fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 386:1-10.

*Floyd, E.Y., J.P. Geist, and I. Werner. 2008. Acute, sublethal exposure to a pyrethroid insecticide alters behavior, growth, and predation risk in larvae of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 27:1780-1787.

*Galst, C.A., and T.W. Anderson. 2008. Fish-habitat associations and the role of disturbance in surfgrass beds. Marine Ecology Progress Series 365:177-186.

Anderson, T.W. 2007. Guide to identification and surveying of near shore fishes. In Sampling biodiversity in coastal communities -- NaGISA protocols for seagrass and macroalgal habitats (P.R. Rigby, K. Iken, and Y. Shirayama, eds.). Kyoto University Press, Kyoto p. 90-92.

Anderson, T.W.‡, M.H. Carr‡, and M.A. Hixon‡. 2007. Patterns and mechanisms of variable settlement and recruitment of a coral reef damselfish, Chromis cyanea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 350:109-116 (‡ signifies that authors contributed equally to this work).

*Davenport, A.C., and T.W. Anderson. 2007. Positive indirect effects of reef fishes on kelp performance: the importance of mesograzers. Ecology 88:1548-1561.

DeMartini, E.E., and T.W. Anderson. 2007. Habitat associations and aggregation of recruit fishes on Hawaiian coral reefs. Bulletin of Marine Science 81:139-152.

*Floyd, E.Y., R. Churchwell, and J.J. Cech, Jr. 2007. Effects of water velocity and trash rack architecture on fish passage and interactions: a simulation. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:1177-1186.

*Lewallen, E.A., T.W. Anderson, and A.J. Bohonak. 2007. Genetic structure of leopard shark (Triakis semifasciata) populations in California waters. Marine Biology 152:599-609.

*Webber, J.D., S.N. Chun, T.R. MacColl, L.T. Mirise, A. Kawabata, E.K. Anderson, T.S. Cheong, L. Kavvas, M.M. Rotondo, K.L. Hochgraf, R. Churchwell, and J.J. Cech, Jr. 2007. Upstream swimming performance of adult white sturgeon: effects of partial baffles and a ramp. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:402-408.

Reed, D.C., S.C. Schroeter, D. Huang, T.W. Anderson, and R.F. Ambrose. 2006. Quantifying the performance of different artificial reef designs in mitigating losses to kelp bed fishes in southern California. Bulletin of Marine Science 78:133-150.

Steele, M.A., and T.W. Anderson. 2006. Predation. In Ecology of marine fishes: California and adjacent waters (L.G. Allen, M.H. Horn, and D.J. Pondella II, eds.). University of California Press, Berkeley, p. 428-448.

*Andrews, K.S., and T.W. Anderson. 2004. Habitat-dependent recruitment of two temperate reef fishes at multiple spatial scales. Marine Ecology Progress Series 277:231-244.

Anderson, T.W., C.T. Bartels, M.A. Hixon, E. Bartels, M.H. Carr, and J.M. Shenker. 2002. Current velocity and catch efficiency in sampling settlement-stage larvae of coral-reef fishes. Fishery Bulletin 100:404-413.

Carr, M.H.‡, T.W. Anderson‡, and M.A. Hixon‡. 2002. Biodiversity, population regulation, and the stability of coral-reef fish communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:11241-11245 (‡ signifies that authors contributed equally to this work).

Anderson, T.W. 2001. Predator responses, prey refuges, and density-dependent mortality of a marine fish. Ecology 82:245-257.

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