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James F. Kitchell 680 North Park Street |
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My current research interests emphasize predator-prey interactions and their role in food web structure. This includes modeling techniques that allow quantitative estimates of interaction strength at the ecosystem scale. I am also involved in large scale experimental manipulation of lakes as a test of the ideas developed through modeling. Currently, I am pursuing these interests through field studies on the Great Lakes, the experimental lakes at the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, a project on Apex Predators in Pelagic Systems of the central Pacific and work centered on the Great Lakes. Students supervised who have recently earned graduate degrees:Greg Sass, M.S. in Zoology, December 2001; Ph.D. in Zoology, August 2004 Isaac Kaplan, Ph.D. in Limnology and Marine Sciences, October 2004 Jeff Jorgensen, MS in Limnology and Marine Sciences, May 2005 Brian Roth, M.S. in Limnology and Marine Sciences, August 2001; Ph.D. in Limnology and Marine Sciences, May 2005 Caitlin Gille, MS in Zoology, August 2005 Graduate students currently supervised:Brian Weidel, Limnology and Marine Sciences Olaf Jensen, Limnology and Marine Sciences Justin Fox, Limnology and Marine Sciences Molli MacDonald, Water Resource Management Jeff Watters, Limnology and Marine Sciences Selected Publications:Kitchell, James F., S. J. D. Martell, C. J. Walters, O. P. Jensen, I. C. Kaplan, J. R. Watters, T. E. Essington and C. H. Boggs. 2006. Billfishes in an ecosystem context. Bull. Mar. Sci. 79:669-682. Sass, G. G., J. F. Kitchell, S. R. Carpenter, T. R. Hrabik, A. Sugden-Newberry and M. G. Turner. 2006. Fish community and food web responses to a whole-lake removal of coarse woody habitat. Fisheries 26:321-330. Hrabik, T. R., O. P. Jensen, S. J. D. Martell, C. J. Walters and J. F. Kitchell. Diel migration in the Lake Superior pelagic community. 2006. I. Variability in the extent of vertical migration by Coregonids in response to varying predation risk. Can. J. Fish. Aquat Sci. 63:2286-2295. Jensen, O. P., T. R. Hrabik, S. J. D. Martell, C. J. Walters and J. F. Kitchell. Diel migration in the Lake Superior pelagic community. 2006. II. Modeling trade-offs at an intermediate trophic level. Can. J. Fish. Aquat Sci. 63:2296-2307. Walters, C. J., V. Christensen, S. J. Martell and J. F. Kitchell. 2005. Possible ecosystem impacts of applying MSY policies from single-species assessment. ICES Journal of Marine Science 62:558-568. Jorgensen, J. C. and J. F. Kitchell. 2005. Growth potential and host mortality of the parasitic phase of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in Lake Superior. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 62:2343-2353. Martell, S. J. D., T. Essington, B. Lessard, J. F. Kitchell, C. J. Walters and C. H. Boggs. 2005. Interactions of productivity, predation risk and fishing effort in the efficacy of marine protected areas for the central Pacific. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 62:1320-1336. Pace, M. L. J. J. Cole, S. R. Carpenter, J. F. Kitchell, J. R. Hodgson, M. Van de Bogert, D. L. Bade, E. S. Kritzberg and D. Bastviken. 2004. Whole lake carbon-13 additions reveal terrestrial support of aquatic food webs. Nature 427:240-243. Hinke, J. T., I. C. Kaplan, K. Aydin, G. M. Watters, R. J. Olson, and J. F. Kitchell. 2004. Visualizing the food-web effects of fishing for tunas in the Pacific Ocean . Ecology and Society (formerly Conservation Ecology)9(1): 10. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art10 Kitchell, J. F., I. Kaplan, S. P. Cox, S. J. D. Martell, T. E. Essington, C. H. Boggs and C. J. Walters. 2004. Ecological and economic components of alternative fishing methods to reduce by-catch of marlin in a tropical pelagic ecosystem. Bull. Mar. Sci.74(3):607-619. Harvey, C.J., P.C. Hanson, T.E. Essington, P.B. Brown, and J.F. Kitchell. 2002. Using bioenergetics models to predict stable isotope ratios in fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59:115-124. Walters, C. J., and J. F. Kitchell. 2001. Cultivation/depensation effects on juvenile survival and recruitment. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 58:39-50. Kitchell, J. F., S. P. Cox, C. J. Harvey, T. B. Johnson, D. M. Mason, K. K. Schoen, K. Aydin, C. Bronte, M. Ebener, M. Hansen, M. Hoff, S. Schram, D. Schreiner and C. J. Walters. 2000. Sustainability of the Lake Superior fish community: Interactions in a food web context. Ecosystems 3:545-560. Pace, M. L., J. J. Cole, S. R. Carpenter and J. F. Kitchell. 1999. Trophic cascades revealed in diverse ecosystems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14:483-488. Carpenter, S.R., and J.F. Kitchell (eds.). 1993. The Trophic Cascade in Lakes. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge , England . 385 p. Kitchell, J.F. (ed.). l992. Food Web Management: A Case Study of Lake Mendota . Springer-Verlag , New York . 553 p. |