Dr. Bryan L. Brown Assistant Professor, Aquatic Ecology Department of Forestry & Natural Resources Phone:  864-656-7333 Fax:  (864) 656-3304 Email:  bbrown3@clemson.edu Personal Web Page:  http://people.clemson.edu/~bbrown3/

Academic Education Background

Degrees	Institutions	Major fields of study	Dates of degrees
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

Work Experience

2006-present	Clemson University	Assistant Professor	Forestry & Natural Resources
2004-2006	University of Texas, Austin	Postdoctoral Associate	Integrative Biology

Research Areas

• Context dependence, trophic structure, & temporal variability at multiple scales
• Evaluating stream restoration practices
• Community and ecosystem effects of a keystone mutualism.
• Community ecology of streams and lakes
• Disturbance ecology
• Consequences of mutualisms on community structure and ecosystem functioning
• Importance of habitat heterogeneity and complexity for communities and ecosystems
•  Stability-generating mechanisms in both zooplankton and stream macroinvertebrate communities
• Experimental design, data analysis and synthesis of ecological data

Selected Publications

1. 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.


2. 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.


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


4. Brown, B.L., R.P. Creed Jr., and W.E. Dobson. 2002. Branchiobdellid annnelids and their crayfish hosts:  Are they engaged in a cleaning symbiosis?  Oecologia 132:  250-255.


5. 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.

Selected Presentations

1. Clemson University, Department of Ecotoxicology.  2007.  An argument for diversity:  Community and ecosystem stability in experimental plankton communities. 
2. Clemson University, Department of Biological Sciences.  2006.  An argument for diversity:  Community and ecosystem stability in experimental plankton communities. 
3. University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry.  2006.  Community and ecosystem stability in experimental plankton communities.
4. Appalachian State University, Department of Biology.  2006.  Community and ecosystem stability in experimental plankton communities.
5. Clemson University, Forestry and Natural Resources.  2006.  Structure, function, and variability in aquatic communities.
6. Texas State University, Biological Sciences.  2006.  Structure, function, and variability in aquatic communities. 

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Courses Taught

Achievements

Professional Affiliations

• Ecological Society of America
• North American Benthological Society