Karl E. Havens

Florida Sea Grant College Program

University of Florida

.

Gainesville

FL

United States

khavens@ufl.edu

Research Interests

Food web structure in lakes, focusing on responses of plankton, plants and attached algae to anthropogenic and natural perturbations including eutrophication and toxic algae blooms, unnatural variation in water levels, climate cycles and tropical cyclones. Dr. Havens maintains collaborative research with scientists in Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Japan, and the Netherlands.

Awards and Honours

B.A. Biology, State University of New York at Buffalo, M.S. and Ph.D. Biology, West Virginia University. Founding Editor of the Freshwater Systems domain of The ScientificWorld Journal, Associate Editor of Environmental Pollution, Scientific Advisory Board member for the Korean Society of Limnology, recipient of the Edward Deevy Award for contribution to the scientific understanding of Florida lakes, appointed member of Florida Oceans Council, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences at University of Florida.

Keywords

food webs, aquatic communities, lake management, restoration evaluation, nutirent cycling, ecological trends

TSW Articles published

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	Plankton Food Web Responses to Experimental Nutrient Additions in a Subtropical Lake

	Stable Isotope Food Web Analysis of a Large Subtropical Lake: Alternative Explanations for 15N Enrichment of Pelagic vs. Littoral Fisheries

	Large-Scale Mapping and Predictive Modeling of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in a Shallow Eutrophic Lake

	Zooplankton Structure and Potential Food Web Interactions in the Plankton of a Subtropical Chain-of-Lakes

	Linking Science with Management of Freshwater Resources – A Forthcoming Collection of Papers in the Freshwater Systems Domain

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