Department of Biology

Faculty

Reid Adams, Ph.D. Assistant Professor 123 LSC University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035-5003 (501) 450-5933 Email: radams@uca.edu

My general research approach bridges basic biological studies of freshwater fishes and current conservation/management issues. I am particularly interested in the ecology, physiology, and behavior of fishes in large rivers, streams, and wetlands. Examples of previous research are studies of fish swimming performance and behavior, impacts of commercial barge traffic on larval fish, and effects of water level management on backwater faunas of the Mississippi River. Current research projects include early life history studies of lotic fishes, the life history and conservation of spring cavefish, and diel movements of riverine fishes.

COURSES TAUGHT: General Ecology, Vertebrate Zoology, Principles of Biology II, and Aquatic Ecology

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• Adams, S.R., J.E. Garvey, M.B. Flinn, B.M. Burr, M. Whiles, and R.J. Sheehan. Fish responses to water-level management and moist-soil plant production in Pool 25, Mississippi River. Environmental Management. (in review)

• Adams, S. R., G. L. Adams, and J. J. Hoover. 2003. Oral grasping: a distinctive behavior of cyprinids for maintaining station in flowing water. Copeia 2003(4): 851-857

• Adams, S. R., Adams, G. L., and Parsons, G. R. 2003. Critical swimming speed and behavior of juvenile shovelnose sturgeon and pallid sturgeon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 132(2): 392-397.

• Adams, S.R., J.J. Hoover, and K.J. Killgore. 2000. Swimming performance of the Topeka shiner (Notropis topeka), an endangered midwestern minnow. American Midland Naturalist 144:178-186.