Dr. Rick Relyea
 
Director, Johnny Morris Institute of Fisheries, Wetlands, and Aquatic Systems

William J. Rucker Professor in Fisheries and Wildlife
School of Natural Resources
University of Missouri - Columbia
 

Our research group combines long-term field surveys, experiments, and computer models to investigate topics related to understanding and protecting freshwater ecosystems.  Our areas of interest are wide ranging and include foundational and applied approaches that have major conservation implications:  community ecology, limnology, ecotoxicology, phenotypic plasticity, sexual selection, animal mating systems, forest inputs to wetlands, disease ecology, and invasive species.  We approach this work from multiple disciplines and we work with a diversity of aquatic organisms..