Lars Rudstam.

研究焦点

Rudstam认为他的研究是基础和应用科学之间的界面。他的整体研究目标涉及食物网络动态以及渔业管理与生态系统过程之间的互动。食物网是由在不同空间和时间尺度上运行的生物组成。他希望了解不同生物体对空间和时间的反应的异质性如何影响水生系统中的食物网络动态。目前，他使用声学调查和空间模型来解决空间方面;他通过分析onida长期数据集来解决时间方面。他还涉及与纽约州和其他地方有关的渔业管理相关的更多应用问题。示例包括通过捕食者储存，跨湖泊盆地的声学方法的标准化来评估Alewife管理，以及鸬鹚捕食对Walleye-Perch捕食者 - 猎物系统的影响。这种基本和应用科学的组合是对他刺激的。地理位置，他的大部分研究活动现在都在纽约州，专注于奥迪亚湖和劳伦蒂安大湖（安大略省和伊利），虽然他偶尔也适用于其他系统（例如波罗的海和贝加尔湖）。 He plans on continuing his research on long-term dynamics of the fish populations in Oneida Lake and associated mechanistic investigations. In addition, he plans on pursuing one or two other major projects (such as his recent Sea Grant funded projects in Lakes Ontario and Champlain). Possible research projects include the use of Finger Lakes as model ecosystems to understand food web interactions in deep lakes, importance of edges of distributions to predator-prey interactions in pelagic systems, and the role of invertebrate predators in aquatic food webs. His current effort assignment is 80% research and 20% teaching. He will continue teaching Fish Ecology, Conservation and Management with Jackson in the spring semester, continue involvement with undergraduate interns and thesis students and continue mentoring graduate students. This includes organizing seminar courses. He also plans to stay involved with extension activities, particularly as related to advising DEC fisheries managers and continuing education of professionals through workshops, web site (currently developing acoustics unpacked), etc.