Odum School Faculty

Alan Covich Professor Odum School of Ecology University of Georgia Ecology Bldg. Athens, GA   30602-2202 (706) 542-6006 Fax: (706) 542-4819 e-mail: alanc@uga.edu Graduate Faculty Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program

Education
Ph.D. - Yale University

Research Interests
Impacts of natural disturbances on tropical stream food webs
Drought impacts on food webs in the Flint River, Georgia

Research Projects
I am working with colleagues in Puerto Rico on the effects of urban growth, harvesting of freshwater shrimps and crabs, and intersections of road networks on river networks.
NSF Biocomplexity Project: Modeling Complex Interactions of Overlapping River and Road Networks in a Changing Landscape.

Selected Publications
Covich, A.P., T.A. Crowl, and T. Heartsill-Scalley. 2006. Effects of drought and hurricane disturbances on headwater distributions of palaemonid river shrimp ( Macrobrachium spp.) in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25: 99-107.

Crowl, T.A., V. Welsh, T. Heartsill-Scalley, A.P. Covich. 2006. Effects of different types of conditioning on leaf-litter shredding by Xiphocaris elongata , a Neotropical freshwater shrimp. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25: 198-208.

Covich, A.P. 2005.   Ecosystem processes. Pp. 1535-156, IN: M.G. Anderson and J.J. McDonnell (eds.). Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences, John Wiley and Sons, New York.

Wall, D.H., E. Ayres, V. Behan-Pelletier, A.P. Covich and P. V. R. Snelgrove. 2005.   Soil, freshwater, and marine ecosystems: the need for integrative landscape science.   Marine Ecology Progress Series 304: 271-307.

Wright, M.S. and A. P. Covich. 2005. The effect of macroinvertebrate exclusion on leaf breakdown rates in a tropical headwater stream. Biotropica 37: 403-408.

Wright, M.S. and A.P. Covich. 2005. Relative importance of bacteria and fungi in a tropical headwater stream: Leaf decomposition and invertebrate feeding preference. Microbial Ecology 20: 1-11.

Beard, K.H., K.A. Vogt, D.J. Vogt, F.N. Scatena, A. P. Covich, R. Sigurdardottir, T.C. Siccama, and T.A. Crowl. 2005. The response of structural and functional characteristics of a tropical forested ecosystem to multiple, natural disturbances in legacy environments. Ecological Monographs 75:345-361.

Covich, A.P., K.C. Ewel, R.O. Hall, P.G. Giller, D. M. Merritt, and W. Goedkoop. 2004. Ecosystem services provided by freshwater benthos. Chapter 3, pp.45-72, IN: D. H. Wall (ed.) Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments. Island Press, Washington, D.C.

Covich, A.P., M.C. Austen, F. Barlocher, E. Chauvet, B.J. Cardinale, C.L. Biles, P. Inchausti, O. Dangles, M. Solan, M.O. Gessner, B. Statzner and B. Moss. 2004. The role of biodiversity in the functioning of freshwater and marine benthic ecosystems. BioScience 54: 767-775.

Smith, G.C., A.P. Covich, and A.M.D. Brasher. 2003. An ecological perspective on the biodiversity of tropical island streams. BioScience 53: 1048-1051.

Last Updated: January 29, 2007

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