Dr. Bryan L. Brown

Assistant Professor, Aquatic Ecology

Education:
Ph.D. Dartmouth College, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology - 2004
M.S. Appalachian State University, Invertebrate Zoology and Ecology - 1999
B.S. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Biology - 1995

Research interest:
Current Research Areas include: 1. Context dependence, trophic structure, & temporal variability at multiple scales, 2. Community and ecosystem effects of a keystone mutualism, 3. Community ecology of streams and lakes, 4. Disturbance ecology, 5. Consequences of mutualisms on community structure and ecosystem functioning, 6. Importance of habitat heterogeneity and complexity for communities and ecosystems, 7. Stability-generating mechanisms in both zooplankton and stream macroinvertebrate communities, 8. Experimental design, data analysis and synthesis of ecological data.

Publications:
Cottingham, K. L., J. T. Lennon, and B. L. Brown. 2005. Knowing when to draw the line: designing more informative ecological experiments. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3:145-152.

Brown, B. L. 2007. Habitat heterogeneity and disturbance influence patterns of community temporal variability in a small temperate stream. Hydrobiologia 586:93-106.

Downing, A. L., B. L. Brown, E. M. Perrin, T. H. Keitt, and M. A. Leibold. 2008. Time-scale dependence of compensatory community dynamics in fluctuating plankton ecosystems. Ecology In press.

Downing, A. L., B. L. Brown, E. M. Perrin, T. H. Keitt, and M. A. Leibold. 2008. Time-scale dependence of compensatory community dynamics in fluctuating plankton ecosystems. Ecology In press.

Brown, B. L., and R. P. Creed. 2004. Host preference by an aquatic ectosymbiotic annelid on 2 sympatric species of host crayfishes. Journal of the North Amercian Benthological Society 23:90-100.

Brown, B. L. 2003. Spatial heterogeneity reduces temporal variability in stream insect communities. Ecology Letters 6:1-10.

Cottingham, K. L., B. L. Brown, and J. T. Lennon. 2001. Biodiversity may regulate the temporal variability of ecological systems. Ecology Letters 4:72-85.

Professional society activity:
Ecological Society of America
North American Benthological Society

Honors and awards:
2005: Selected as a participant in DIALOG VII Symposium (Dissertations Initiative for
1999: Cratis T. Williams Thesis Award for best graduate thesis in the College of Arts

Courses:
WFB 462 Wetland Wildlife Biology (Spring 2007)
ENR 302 Natural Resources Measurements
FOR 893, WFB 861 - Multivariate Analysis for the Natural Sciences

Websites:
http://people.clemson.edu/~bbrown3/

Page maintained by: Candace Cummings, ccmmngs@clemson.edu