Montaña Aquatic Ecology Lab
Stephen F. Austin State University
Stephen F. Austin State University
Banita Creek, Nacogdoches County TX. 27 May 2022.
From right to left: Erin Shepta (MS student), Conner Young (Undergrad), Dr. Montana (center), Faith Rodarte (Undergrad), and Andy Lara (Undergrad).
The Montaña Lab has broad interests within the fields of freshwater fish ecology, and community and evolutionary ecology. In particular, we are interested in understanding the mechanisms structuring ecological communities across spatial and temporal scales and quantifying such relationships. We use both natural and human-impacted freshwater ecosystems to investigates how environmental, historical, and anthropogenic factors influence community organization, food-web structure, and ecosystem functions.
We use fishes as model organisms to understand how communities are structured, altered, and can be restored. Our research program is field-based oriented and given the diversity of freshwater systems we work in, our research uses multiple integrative techniques (e.g., stoichiometry, stable isotopes, dietary analysis, morphological traits, null models) and combines descriptive, quantitative, and experimental approaches.
We use fishes as model organisms to understand how communities are structured, altered, and can be restored. Our research program is field-based oriented and given the diversity of freshwater systems we work in, our research uses multiple integrative techniques (e.g., stoichiometry, stable isotopes, dietary analysis, morphological traits, null models) and combines descriptive, quantitative, and experimental approaches.
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Links of interest:
Schalk Lab at Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX 75962. SFASU, Department of Biology, Nacogdoches, TX 75962. Winemiller Aquatic Ecology Lab, Department of Wildlife & Fisheries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Department of Wildlife & Fisheries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Fishes of Texas Project (FoT) Texas Chapter American Fisheries Society |
Collaborators
Dr. Kirk O. Winemiller - Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, TX, USA Dr. Joshuah Perkin. Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, TX, USA Dr. Kevin Conway. Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, TX, USA Dr. Friedrich Wolfgang - University of Wisconsin- Madison Dr. David Hoeinghaus. Deparment of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, TX, USA Dr. Christopher Schalk - US Forest Servicey, Nacogdoches Texas, USA Kevin Mayes- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Texas David Peterson - National Forests and Grasslands in Texas, Southern Research Station, TX, USA Dr. Madhusudhan Choudhary - Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA Dr. Donald Taphorn - UNELLEZ-Guanare, Venezuela Dr. Hernan Lopez-Fernandez - The Royal Ontario Museum, Canada Dr. Crispulo Marrero - UNELLEZ-Guanare, Venezuela Dr. Monica Cevenica-Bastos - Universidad Estadual Paulista, San Jose Rio Preto, Brazil Dr. Craig A. Layman -Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, USA Dr. Chouly Ou - Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA Dr. Rocio Rodiles - ECOSUR- Mexico MSc. Elford Liverpool - University of Guyana, Guyana |
