Odum School Faculty

Karen G. Porter Professor Emerita Odum School of Ecology University of Georgia Ecology Bldg. Athens, GA   30602-2202 (706) 546-5477 or (706) 542-3410 Fax: (706) 542-4819 e-mail: kgporter@earthlink.net Non-graduate Faculty

Education
Ph.D. - Yale University

Research Interests
Planktonic food webs, Microbial Loop, Limnology, Water resources
Microbial ecology, Tropical Marine Ecology, Air Quality

Research Projects
Research includes studies of filter feeding, cladocera, rotifers, myxotrophic flagellates, planktonic food webs and microbial communities in lakes and reservoirs, the Okefenokee Swamp, Everglades and coral reefs in the Florida Keys Reef Tract. Current projects include conservation of Florida and Caribbean reefs and air quality issues.

Selected Publications
Porter, J.W. and K.G. Porter, Eds. 2002. The Everglades, Florida Bay and Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys:   An Ecosystem Sourcebook.   CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 1,001 pp.

Porter, J.W., S.K. Lewis, and K.G. Porter 1999. The effect of multiple stressors on the Florida Keys coral reef ecosystems: A landscape hypothesis and a physiological test.   Limnology and Oceanography 44:941-949.

Porter. K.G., P.A. Saunders, K.A. Haberyan, A.E. Macubbin, T.R. Jacobsen, R.E. Hodson. 1996.   Annual cycle of autotrophic and heterotrophic production in a small monomictic Piedmont lake (Lake Oglethorpe):   Analog for the effects of climatic warming on dimictic lakes.   Limnology and Oceanography 41:1041-1051.

Sanders, R.W., K.G. Porter, S.J. Bennett, and A.E. DeBiase. 1989. Seasonal patterns of bactivory by flagellates, ciliates, rotifers, and cladocerans in a freshwater planktonic community. Limnology and Oceanography 34:673-687.

Gerritsen, J. and K.G. Porter. 1982.   The role of surface chemistry in filter feeding by zooplankton.   Science 21-:1225-1226.

Porter, K.G. and E.I. Robbins. 1981. Zooplankton fecal pellets link fossil fuels and phosphate deposits.   Science 212:931-933.

Porter, K.G. and Y.S. Feig. 1980.   The use of DAPI for identifying and counting bacteria and blue-green algae.   Limnology and Oceanography   25:943-948.

Porter, K.G., M.L. Pace, and J.F. Battey.   1979.   Ciliate protozoans as links in freshwater planktonic food chains.   Nature   227:563-565.

Porter, K.G.   1976.   Enhancement of algal growth and productivity by grazing zooplankton.   Science 192:1332-1334.

Porter, K.G. 1973.   Selective grazing and differential digestion of algae by zooplankton. Nature 244:179-180.


Last Updated: January 19, 2007

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