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Todd W. Anderson

Associate 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:  recruitment processes, population ecology of temperate and tropical reef fishes, influence of habitat structure and complexity on demographic processes 

Lower Division, Upper Division, and Graduate Courses:

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

Current Graduate Students:

Jeff Barr (Ph.D.), Joshua Brower (M.S.), Violet Compton (Ph.D.), Colin Jones (M.S.), Levi Lewis (M.S.), Dana Morton (M.S.), Jason Webber (Ph.D.), Sarah Wheeler (Ph.D.)

Select Publications:

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.  

Andrews, K.S., and T.W. Anderson. 2004. Habitat-dependent recruitment of two temperate reef fishes at multiple spatial scales. Marine Ecology Progress Series 277:231-244.  

Anderson, T.W., C.T. Bartels, M.A. Hixon, E. Bartels, M.H. Carr, and J.M. Shenker. 2002.  Current velocity and catch efficiency in sampling settlement-stage larvae of coral-reef fishes.  Fishery Bulletin 100:404-413.

Carr, M.H., T.W. Anderson, and M.A. Hixon. 2002. Biodiversity, population regulation, and the stability of coral-reef fish communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:11241-11245.

Anderson, T.W. 2001. Predator responses, prey refuges, and density-dependent mortality of a marine fish. Ecology 82:245-257.