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Luke Bower
Assistant Professor
Asst. Unit Leader - SC Cooperative Research Unit
Forestry and Environmental Conservation Department
Office: Lehotsky Hall 234
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Email: lmbower@clemson.edu
Vita: Download CV
Personal Website: http://researchgate.net/profile/Luke_Bower
Educational Background
PhD Wildllife and Fisheries
Texas A&M Unversity 2019
MS Biology
Southeastern Louisiana University 2013
BS Biology
Erskine College 2010
Courses Taught
Functional ecology
Research Interests
I apply community, evolutionary, and functional ecology concepts to inform the management and conservation of freshwater fishes. My research focuses on understanding how changes in environmental gradients influences assemblage and functional structure of aquatic systems across multiple scales. I explore how the flow regime influences population and assemblage change across landscape gradients to better inform state flow standards. Another major research focus is the use of functional traits to examine ecological questions, assemblage responses to environmental alteration, and describe patterns across levels of biological organization, niche dimensions, and spatial scales to inform the conservation and management of aquatic systems.
Publications
Stoczynski, L., Scott, M. C., Bower, L., & Peoples, B. (2023). Effects of environment and metacommunity delineation on multiple dimensions of stream fish beta diversity. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 182.
Winemiller, K. O., Andrade, M. C., Arantes, C. C., Bokhutlo, T., Bower, L. M., Cunha, E. R., Bower, L. M., & Robertson, C. R. (2023). Can spatial food web subsidies associated with river hydrology and lateral connectivity be detected using stable isotopes?. Food Webs, 34, e00264.
Bower, L. M., & Peoples, B. K. (2022). Microhabitat use of larval fish in a South Carolina Piedmont stream. Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 37(1), 583-596.
Grady, J. T., Bower, L. M., Gienger, C. M., & Blanton, R. E. (2022). Fish scale shape follows predictable patterns of variation based on water column position, body size, and phylogeny. Evolutionary Ecology, 1-24.
Kubicek, K. M., Britz, R., Pinion, A. K., Bower, L. M., & Conway, K. W. (2022). Three scleral ossicles in the West African Denticle herring Denticeps clupeoides (Clupeiformes: Denticipitidae). Journal of fish biology.
