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SES Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series
10/29/04
Biodiversity and the Role of Benthic Invertebrates in Organic Matter Processing in Stream Ecosytems
Alan Covich – University of Georgia
3:00 PM Lillie Auditorium
Alan P. Covich is Director and Professor at the Institute of Ecology, College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia, Athens. Before coming to University of Georgia in 2003, he was head of Colorado State University’s Dept. of Fishery and Wildlife Biology and Assistant Chair of the Zoology Department at the University of Oklahoma. His research interests include assembly and function of stream food webs; chemosensory communication between predator and prey; and the effects of individual species on detrital processing and decay in streams. His current research focuses on the biocomplexity of long-term food-web dynamics in tropical
streams and impacts of road networks on river networks.
Covich served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the North American Benthological Society, and as chair of the Aquatic Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America. He is a member of the National Research Council panel on Freshwater Ecosystem Services, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of INTECOL.
He received the Icko Iben Award of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Work by the American Water Resources Association in 1997 and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science in 1999. Covich co-edited two editions of the Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates (Academic Press) and published reviews on freshwater ecosystems in Water in Crisis: A Guide to the World’s Freshwater Resources (Oxford University Press) and the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Academic Press). Covich has recently participated in several international workshops on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and on effects of climate change on freshwater ecosystems.
SUGGESTED READING
Covich, A.P., M.A. Palmer and T.A. Crowl (1999). Role of benthic invertebrate species in freshwater ecosystems. Bioscience 49:119-127.
Palmer, M.A. et al. (2000). Linkages between aquatic sediment biota and life above sediments as potential drivers of biodiversity and ecological processes. Bioscience 50:1062-1075.
Crowl, T.A., W.H. McDowell and A.P. Covich (2001). Species-specific responses in leaf litter processing in a tropical headwater stream (Puerto Rico). Ecology 82:775-783.
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