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Wendy S. Brown

Bugs Unlimited, LLC
and
The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL)
PO Box 1451
Crested Butte, CO 81224
wsbrown ª frontier. net

A beautiful day on East Maroon Pass with a friend's dog. :-)

Current Projects

The Aquatic Insects of Gunnison County, Colorado http://www.gunnisoninsects.org (continually under construction :-) 1993-2011
Bugs Unlimited, LLC - Aquatic Entomology consulting. 1990-2011
Including aquatic insect identification, data analysis and writing for The Coal Creek Watershed Coalition.
Field research on stream insects with Bobbi Peckarsky (University of Wisconsin) Angus McIntosh (University of Canterbury) Maruxa Álvarez, Marge Penton, Brad Taylor (Dartmouth) and other friends studying streams at RMBL 1986-2011.
I'm interested in the effects of Mining on Aquatic Insects.

Project History

Mix of field research at RMBL. See list of acknowledgments. 1985-2011
The Rocky Mountain Biological Lab website
http://www.rmbl.org Much improved by Ann Zweig and Dan Jones since then! 1999-2003
Studying buffer zones around wetlands (original, under construction version) and commenting about wetlands on Snodgrass mountain at Mt Crested Butte Planning commission meetings. 1998-1999
Field research at the Mexican Cut Nature Preserve aquatic insects with Dr. Scott Wissinger (Allegheny College) and students at RMBL. 1991-1998
Drift of stream mayflies with Dr. Dave Allan (University of Maryland), Alex Flecker and crew at RMBL. 1985-1990
Soil compaction after skyline logging on three different soil types with Leo Cummins (University of Montana)1983-1984
B.S. in Forest Resource Management, Minor in Geology. University of Montana. 1979-1984

Brad Taylor, Angus McIntosh, Bobbi Peckarsky, Jen Moslemi

Publications

Whiteman, H.H.; Wissinger, S.A., Brown, W.S. 1996 Growth and foraging consequences of facultative paedomorphosis in the tiger salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum. Evolutionary Ecology (10) 433-446. PDF (190 KB)

Wissinger, S.A., W.S. Brown, and J.E. Jannot. 2003. Caddisfly life histories along permanence gradients in high altitude wetlands in Colorado (U.S.A.). Freshwater Biology 48(2) PDF (427 KB)

Wissinger, S.A., Bohonak, A. Whiteman,H. H. Brown, W.S. 1999 Subalpine Wetlands in Colorado. In: Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and Management. (Eds: Batzer,D; Rader,R; Wissinger,S) John Wiley & Sons,, 757-790. PDF (3407 KB)

Wissinger, S.A., Sparks, G.B., Rouse, G.L., Brown, W.S., Steltzer, H. 1996 Intraguild predation and cannibalism among larvae of detritivorous caddisflies in subalpine wetlands. Ecology 77(8) 2421-2430. Abstract PDF (1372 KB)

Wissinger, S.A., J. Steinmetz, J.S. Alexander and W.S. Brown. 2004. Larval cannibalism, time constraints, and adult fitness in caddisflies that inhabitat temporary wetlands. Oecologia 138: 39-47. PDF (198 KB)

Wissinger, S.A., Whiteman, H.H., Sparks, G.B., Rouse,G.L., Brown, W.S. 1999 Foraging trade-offs along a predator-permanence gradient in subalpine wetlands. Ecology 80(6) 2102-2116. Abstract PDF (2543 KB)

Wissinger, S.A., J. Whissel, C. Eldermire, and W. Brown. 2006 Predator defense along a permanence gradient: roles of case structure, behavior, and developmental phenology in caddisflies, Oecologia, Pages 1 - 12. Abstract PDF (311 KB)

Published Abstracts

Wissinger, S.A., G. Sparks, G. Rouse, and W. Brown 1995. Salamander predation mediates caddisfly coexistence in subalpine wetlands. Bulletin of the North American Benthological Society 12:137.

Wissinger, S.A., J. Whissel, C. Eldermire, and W. Brown. 1998. The role of caddis cases in deterring predators along a predator-permanence gradient in high-elevation wetlands. Bulletin of the North American Benthological Society 15:142. Abstract

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