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Todd W. Anderson

Professor of Biology

Ph.D., Biology, University of California,
Santa Barbara (1993)

Email:  todda@sunstroke.sdsu.edu


Homepage  http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~todda
Fish Ecology Lab Homepage -- http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~kelpbass

Research Interests:

Marine ecology: population and community ecology of coastal fishes; processes that influence recruitment success; interactions between habitat structural complexity and demographic processes; the role of individual condition and performance on predator-induced mortality; trophic interactions

Lower Division, Upper Division, and Graduate Courses:

Biostatistics (LD), Life in the Sea (UD-GE), Ecology and the Environment (UD), Biology of Fishes (UD/G), Ecology of Fishes and Fisheries Biology (UD/G), Kelp Forest Ecology (UD/G), Seminar (G), Seminar in Aquatic Ecology (G), Theory and Principles of Ecology (G)

Current Graduate Students:

Jeff Barr (Ph.D.), Joshua Brower (M.S.), Violet Compton (Ph.D.), Dana Morton (M.S.), Tye Nichols (M.S.), Katie Sievers (M.S.), Sarah Wheeler (Ph.D.)

Select Publications (* denotes graduate students):

DeMartini, E.E., T.W. Anderson, J.C. Kenyon, A.M. Friedlander, and J.P. Beets. 2010. Management implications of juvenile reef fish habitat preferences and coral susceptibility to stressors. Marine and Freshwater Research 61:1-9.

*Floyd, E.Y., and T.W. Anderson. 2010. Interactive effects of nutritional condition and refuge availability on survival of a temperate reef goby. Marine Ecology Progress Series 407:257-269.

*O'Connor, K.C., and T.W. Anderson. 2010. Consequences of habitat disturbance and recovery to recruitment and the abundance of kelp forest fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 386:1-10.

*Galst, C.J, and T.W. Anderson. 2008. Fish-habitat associations and the role of disturbance in surfgrass beds. Marine Ecology Progress Series 365:177-186.

Anderson, T.W., M.H. Carr, and M.A. Hixon. 2007. Patterns and mechanisms of variable settlement and recruitment of a coral reef damselfish, Chromis cyanea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 350:109-116.

*Davenport, A.C., and T.W. Anderson. 2007. Positive indirect effects of reef fishes on kelp performance: the importance of mesograzers. Ecology 1548-1561.

DeMartini, E.E., and T.W. Anderson. 2007. Habitat associations and aggregation of recruit fishes on Hawaiian coral reefs. Bulletin of Marine Science 81:139-152.

*Lewallen, E.A., T.W. Anderson, and A.J. Bohonak. 2007. Genetic structure of leopard shark (Triakis semifasciata) populations in California waters. Marine Biology 152:599-609.

Reed, D.C., S.C. Schroeter, D. Huang, T.W. Anderson, and R.F. Ambrose. 2006. Quantifying the performance of different artificial reef designs in mitigating losses to kelp bed fishes. Bulletin of Marine Science 78:133-150.

Steele, M.A., and T.W. Anderson. 2006. Predation. In Ecology of marine fishes: California and adjacent waters (L.G. Allen, M.H. Horn, and D.J. Pondella III, eds.) University of California Press, Berkeley, p. 428-448.