Dr. Bruce Stallsmith
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Research Areas
Aquatic biology and fisheries biology
Research Description
1) Ecology of freshwater fishes of North America, especially of Campostoma species stoneroller minnows and killifishes of the genus Fundulus and their close relatives.
2) Effects of acidic precipitation on freshwater fishes in New England ponds, especially Lepomis -gibbosus, the pumpkinseed sunfish, and L. macrochirus, the bluegill sunfish. This includes assessments of the trophic relationships in ponds with different sensitivities to acidic processes.
Selected Publications
Stallsmith, Bruce W.; Forster, Jason; Fisher, Kelly. 2002.Larval Development in an Alabama population of the largescale stoneroller, Campostoma oligolepis. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Kansas City, MO, July 3 ? 8, 2002, Program Book and Abstracts, page 282.
Stallsmith, Bruce. 2002. Killifishes of Nantucket. American Currents, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 21-22.
Stallsmith, Bruce. 2001. Where the Killifish Aren’t: A Pictorial Essay on How The Growth of Downtown Huntsville, Alabama, Destroyed the Habitat of the Now-Extinct Whiteline Topminnow, Fundulus albolineatus. American Currents, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 14?18.
