Aquatic ecology, linkages between community and ecosystem ecology, biogeography

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My lab group focuses on freshwater aquatic ecology with interests in community and ecosystem level response of primary producers in rivers and lakes. This research focuses on two areas: biological interactions and responses of primary producers (and increasingly, more foodweb-based response)  in aquatic ecosystems, and biogeography and systematics of micro-organisms. I use diatoms as powerful and sensitive bioindicators of local-, regional-, and landscape-scale change; increasingly, these organisms are used to predict and examine effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbance.

NEWS!

September 2011
  • Summer is admitted into the Honor's Program at UNM!  Woot!
  • Congratulations to Kayla who has received travels funds from UNM Career Services S-CAP funds and NADS travel funds to attend the North American Diatom Symposium at Flathead Lake Biological Station, MT!
Dr. Becky Bixby, Department of Biology, Museum of Southwestern Biology, MSC03 2020,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 87131
bbixby@unm.edu, (505) 277-8158