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Eric Scholl, PhD
Postdoctoral researcher U.S. Geological survey
My research bridges theory and application to explore how humans modify connections among the environment, biological communities, and ecosystem processes.
Current work:
Climate change and increasing water use are rapidly changing rivers across the western United States. My work combines large-scale empirical efforts with mechanistic modeling to predict how lowering reservoirs, increasing temperatures, and food availability interact to influence Salmonid populations in highly valued dam tailwater fisheries.….. Stay tuned for more updates as this project develops!
Past and ongoing projects:
• The Influence of flow alteration on stream communities and secondary production
• High resolution geomorphological mapping to quantify ecological ‘process domains’ in large rivers
• Linking geomorphology, animal biodiversity, and ecosystem function
• The importance of habitat heterogeneity for stabilizing food webs in nature
• The impact of river impoundments on downstream biodiversity and food web dynamics
• Estimating carrying capacity of the critically endangered Pallid Sturgeon using an energetic food web approach
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