Ecosystems Processes Division
Summer Student Intern Opportunities
Chief: Beth Phelan
James J. Howard Laboratory
(732) 872-3179
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The Behavioral Ecology Branch employs a multidisciplinary, experimental, and
community-based approach to investigate mechanisms that affect recruitment,
distribution, and abundance of economically significant marine fishes and
invertebrates.
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The Branch conducts field and laboratory studies on habitat
requirements and preferences, predator-prey relationships, movement and
migration patterns, reproductive behavior, and other behavioral responses that
influence populations of resource species.
Emphasis is placed on interactions
among managed species, their predators and prey, and environmental parameters
such as sediments, macrophytes, water column characteristics, and hydrography.
Both qualitative and quantitative aspects of the habitat are explored, and
behavioral processes at all stages of animal development are considered. The
behavioral norms established in the research serve as baselines against which
the effects of environmental perturbations can be measured or predicted.
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