Today's Messages

Please join the Biology Department and the Great Lakes Center for the seminar “The influence of spatiotemporal variability on freshwater food webs of the New York Adirondacks,” presented by Dr. Emily Arsenault on Monday, February 9, at 3:00 p.m. in SAMC 151. 

Research Seminar Abstract: Our freshwater ecosystem ecology lab at SUNY ESF investigates how different components of freshwater food webs, including energy flow, trophic interactions, and foraging behavior, respond to variability over longitudinal, lateral, vertical, and temporal ecosystem dimensions. I will share a few examples of our research in these dimensions from the SUNY ESF Cranberry Lake Biological Station in the New York Adirondacks. Highlights include brook trout foraging response to changing oxythermal habitat, impacts of beaver ecosystem engineering on aquatic insect food webs, and flux of pollutants across the aquatic-terrestrial interface.