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Faculty & Staff
Karen Wilson 
Biographical Sketch:
Karen Wilson is an assistant research faculty with the Department of Environmental
Science and a scientist in the Aquatic Systems Research Group at USM. She is
currently teaching ESP 341 Limnology and will teach ESP 303 Wetlands Ecology
in the spring of 2006.
Karen has a Ph.D. in Limnology/Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
where she studied the long-term impacts of an invasive crayfish on lake communities.
Since receiving her degree, Karen has taught at a small liberal arts college in the
Midwest and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Zoology, University
of Toronto, and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto, Ontario. Karen's current
research focuses on:
- freshwater-marine linkages and anadromous alewife
- saltmarsh restoration and impacts on marsh-marine linkages
- freshwater crayfish in Maine
Education:
Ph.D., Limnology/Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses Taught at USM:
- ESP 411-Methods of Field Analysis
- ESP 303-Wetlands Ecology
- ESP 341-Limnology
Representative Publications:
Wilson, K.A., E. Todd Howell and Donald A. Jackson. Replacement of zebra mussels by
quagga mussels in the Canadian nearshore of Lake Ontario: distribution and correlations
with substrate, round goby abundance and upwelling frequency. Accepted, Journal of Great
Lakes Research, 2005.
Wilson, K.A., Magnuson, J.J., Lodge, D.M., Hill, A.M., Kratz., Perry, W.L. and T.V.
Willis. Long-term effects of a rusty crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) invasion: dispersal
patterns and community changes in a North Temperate lake. Canadian Journal of Fisheries
and Aquatic Sciences. 61(11): 2255-2266.
Hrabik, T.R., Greenfield, B.K., Lewis, D.B., Pollard, A.I., Wilson, K.A. and T.K. Kratz.
Species diversity in four groups of aquatic organisms in north temperate lakes: physical,
chemical and biological properties as sources of variability. Ecosystems. In press (2005).
Vander Zanden, M.J., Wilson, K.A., Casselman, J.M., and Yan, N.D. 2004. Chapter 13: Species
introductions and their impacts in North American Shield lakes. Pages 239-264 in Gunn, J.M.,
Steedman, R.J., and Ryder, R.A., editors. Boreal shield watersheds: lake trout ecosystems in
a changing environment. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Wilson, K.A., Hrabik, T.R., and J.J. Magnuson. Ecological change and exotic invaders:
long-term external drivers of lake ecology in Magnuson, J.J., Kratz, T.M. and B. Benson, eds.
Long-Term Dynamics of Lakes in the Landscape. Oxford University Press. In press (2005).
Byron, C.J. and K.A. Wilson. 2001. Rusty crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) movement within
and between habitats in Trout Lake, Vilas County, Wisconsin. Journal of the North American
Benthological Society. 20(4):606-614.
Puth, L. and K.A. Wilson. 2001. Boundaries and corridors: a review of streams and their
role in the landscape. Conservation Biology. 15(1):21-30.
Carpenter, S.R., Oldson, M., Cunningham, P., Gafny, Herwig, B., S., Nibbelink, N., Pellett,
T., Storlie, C., Trebitz, A., Wilson K. 1998. Managing macrophytes to increase fish growth:
a multi-lake experiment. Fisheries. 23(2):6-12.
Email: kwilson@usm.maine.edu
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