Odum School Faculty

Byron J. Freeman Senior Public Service Associate Odum School of Ecology University of Georgia Ecology Bldg. Athens, GA   30602-2202 Director Georgia Museum of Natural History (706) 583-0978 Fax: (706) 542-4819 e-mail: bud@ttrout.ecology.uga.edu Ph.D. - University of Georgia Non-Graduate Faculty Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program Water Resources Faculty

Education
Ph.D. - University of Georgia

Research Interests
The distribution and abundance of fishes endemic to southeastern systems, in the context of preserving species diversity, and function in streams and rivers increasingly affected by human population development; quantifying basin characteristics in southeastern watersheds harboring remnant endemic communities; systematics and taxonomy of southeastern freshwater fishes.

Selected Publications
Laerm, J., B. J. Freeman, L. Vitt, and L. Logan. 1980. Vertebrates of the Okefenokee Swamp. Brimleyana, December: 47-73.

Freeman, B. J., H. S. Greening, and J. Douglas Oliver. 1984. Comparison of three methods for sampling fishes and macroinvertebrates in a vegetated freshwater wetland. J. Freshwater Ecology 2(6): 603-609.

Laerm, J., B. J. Freeman, L. Vitt, and L. E. Logan. 1984. Checklist of the vertebrates of the Okefenokee Swamp. pp 682-701. In A. D. Cohen, D. J. Cassagrande, M. S. Andrejko, and G. R. Best, eds. Okefenokee Swamp: Its natural History,
geology, and geochemistry. Wetland Surveys. Los Alamos.

Freeman, Byron J. and Mary C. Freeman. 1985. Production of fishes in a subtropical blackwater ecosystem: the Okefenokee Swamp. Limnology and Oceanography 30:686-692.

Laerm, J. and B. J. Freeman. 1986. Fishes of the Okefenokee Swamp. University of Georgia Press. 128 pp. Athens, Georgia.

Freeman, B. J. 1989. Okefenokee Swamp Fishes: abundance and production dynamics in an aquatic macrophyte prairie. pp 529-540. In: Freshwater Wetlands and Wildlife, R. R. Sharitz and J. W. Gibbons (Eds.). CONF-8603101, DOE Symposium Series, No. 61.

Wiegert, Richard G. and Byron J. Freeman. 1990. Tidal salt marshes of the SE. Atlantic Coast: A community profile. USFWS Biological Report 85(7.29) 70 pp.

Winkler, K., M. Freeman, and B. Freeman. 1990. Studies under way to recover two Conasauga River fishes. Endangered Species Technical Bulletin. Vol. XV, No. 2.

Burkhead, N. M., J. D. Williams, and B. J. Freeman. 1992. A river under siege. Georgia Wildlife 2(2):10-17.

Freeman, B. J. and M. C. Freeman. 1994. Habitat use by an endangered riverine fish and implications for species protection. Ecology of Freshwater Fish. 3:49-58.

Curriculum Vitae


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