STEPHEN E. DAVIS III

Associate Professor
Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Texas A&M University
TAMU 2258
College Station, TX 77843-2258
Office: Nagle Hall (map)
Phone: 979.458.3475
Fax: 979.845.4096
E-mail: sedavis@tamu.edu
Aquatic Ecology Group - Davis Lab
Department Web page

Keywords: Wetland ecology, ecosystem structure and function, estuarine ecology, estuarine inflows, in-stream flows, salt marsh and mangrove ecology, macrophyte community dynamics, water quality, nutrient exchanges or fluxes, sediment dynamics, tidal creek hydrodynamics

Interests:
Ecological research in my lab focuses on understanding the interrelationships between ecosystem structure and function. It considers the various biotic and abiotic drivers of lentic and lotic aquatic ecosystems and ranges from field studies comparing created and natural salt marsh function to controlled experiments of aquatic macrophyte growth and decay. Most all studies in my lab have applied aspects that pertain to ecosystem development and ecological restoration as modified by eutrophication or hydrological modifications. Currently, we have active studies in regions of the U.S. ranging from inland and coastal Texas to coastal wetlands of south Florida.

Selected publications:
Davis, S.E., C. Corronado-Molina, D.L. Childers, and J.W. Day, Jr. 2003. Temporal variability in C, N, and P dynamics associated with red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle L.) leaf decomposition. Aquatic Botany. 75:199-215.

Davis S.E. J. Cable, C. Childers, C. Coronado, J. Day, C. Hittle, C. Madden, E. Reyes, D. Rudnick, and F. Sklar. 2004. Importance of episodic storm events in controlling ecosystem structure and function in a Gulf Coast estuary. Journal of Coastal Research. 20(4):1198-1208.

Childers, D.L., J.N. Boyer, S.E. Davis, C. Madden, D. Rudnick, and F. Sklar. 2005. Nutrient concentration patterns in the oligotrophic "upside-down" estuaries of the Florida Everglades. Limnology and Oceanography. (In press)