Rick Relyea

Research Summary

Our research group combines long-term field surveys, experiments, and computer models to investigate topics related to understanding and protecting freshwater ecosystems. Our areas of interest are wide ranging and include foundational and applied approaches that have major conservation implications: community ecology, limnology, ecotoxicology, phenotypic plasticity, sexual selection, animal mating systems, forest inputs to wetlands, disease ecology, and invasive species. We approach this work from multiple disciplines and we work with a diversity of aquatic organisms.