Contact – Lovvorn Lab

James R. Lovvorn
Professor
Department of Zoology and Center for Ecology

Southern Illinois University
1125 Lincoln Drive, MC 6501
Carbondale, IL 62901

Office: (618) 453-4127
Cell: (307) 399-7441
Fax: (618) 453-2806

http://lovvornlab.siu.edu

Current Research Interests

Selected Publications

Lovvorn JR, Rocha AR, Jewett SC, Dasher D, Oppel S, Powell AN (2015) Limits to benthic feeding by eiders in a vital Arctic migration corridor due to localized prey and changing sea ice. Progress in Oceanography 136:162-174.

Lovvorn, J. R., A. R. Rocha, A. R. Mahoney, and S. C. Jewett. 2018. Sustaining ecological and subsistence functions in conservation areas: eider habitat and access by Native hunters along landfast ice. Environmental Conservation 45:361-369.

Lovvorn, J. R., C. A. North, J. M. Grebmeier, L. W. Cooper, and J. M. Kolts. 2018. Sediment organic carbon integrates changing environmental conditions to predict benthic assemblages in shallow Arctic seas. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 28:861-871.

Lovvorn JR, North CA, Kolts JM, Grebmeier JM, Cooper LW, Cui X (2016) Projecting the effects of climate-driven changes in organic matter supply on benthic food webs in the northern Bering Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 548:11-30.

Lovvorn JR, Anderson EM, Rocha AR, Larned WW, Grebmeier JM, Cooper LW, Kolts JM, North CA (2014) Variable wind, pack ice, and prey dispersion affect the long-term adequacy of protected areas for an Arctic sea duck. Ecological Applications 24:396-412.

North CA, Lovvorn JR, Kolts JM, Brooks ML, Cooper LW, Grebmeier JM (2014) Deposit-feeder diets in the Bering Sea: potential effects of climatic loss of sea ice-related microalgal blooms. Ecological Applications 24:1525-1542.

Lovvorn JR, De La Cruz SEW, Takekawa JY, Shaskey LE, Richman SE (2013) Niche overlap, threshold food densities, and limits to prey depletion for a diving duck assemblage in an estuarine bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series 476:251-268.

Lovvorn JR, Grebmeier JM, Cooper LW, Bump JK, Richman SE (2009) Modeling marine protected areas for threatened eiders in a climatically changing Bering Sea. Ecological Applications 19:1596–1613.

Anderson EM, Lovvorn JR, Esler D, Boyd WS (2009) Using predator distributions and diet biomarkers to define marine protected areas: sea ducks and spawning herring. Marine Ecology Progress Series 386:287–302.

Corcoran RM, Lovvorn JR, Heglund PJ (2009) Long-term change in limnology and invertebrates in Alaskan boreal wetlands. Hydrobiologia 620:77–89.

Hart EA, Lovvorn JR (2005) Patterns of macroinvertebrate abundance in inland saline wetlands: a trophic analysis. Hydrobiologia 541:45–54.

Richman SE, Lovvorn JR (2004) Relative foraging value to Lesser Scaup ducks of native and exotic clams from San Francisco Bay. Ecological Applications 14:1217–1231.

Lovvorn JR, Hart EA (2004) Irrigation, salinity, and landscape patterns of natural palustrine wetlands. Pages 105-129 in McKinstry MC, Hubert WA, Anderson SH, eds. Wetland and riparian areas of the Intermountain West: ecology and management. Univ. of Texas Press, Austin. 319 pp.

Hart EA, Lovvorn JR (2003) Algal vs. macrophyte inputs to food webs of inland saline wetlands. Ecology 84:3317–3326.

Peck DE, Lovvorn JR (2001) The importance of flood irrigation in water supply to wetlands in the Laramie Basin, Wyoming. Wetlands 21:370-378.