KIRK O. WINEMILLER

Regents Professor
Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Texas A&M University
TAMU 2258
College Station, TX 77843-2258 USA
Office: 110D Heep (map)
Phone: 979.862.4020
Fax: 979.845.4096
E-mail: k-winemiller@tamu.edu
Winemiller Aquatic Ecology Lab

Keywords: Trophic Ecology and Food Web Theory; Regulation of Populations and Community Structure; Dynamics of River Floodplain and Estuarine Ecosystems; Life History Theory; Feeding and Reproductive Biology of Fishes; Fish Systematics; Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources.

Interests:
The Winemiller Lab investigates community ecology, fish ecology, fish evolution, and ecosystem ecology in freshwater and estuarine habitats. Our research is strongly field oriented, with studies conducted at sites throughout Texas, Latin America, and Africa. Field research adopts descriptive, comparative and experimental approaches to investigate fish reproduction/life history strategies, feeding ecology, ecological morphology, habitat use, species interactions, assemblage structure, and food web ecology.

Disciplines:
Community Ecology & Population Biology, Conservation Biology, Phylogenetics & Systematics

Courses:
RENR 205: Fundamentals of Ecology
WFSC 624: Population Dynamics
WFSC 681: Seminar in Ecology

Selected publications:
Zeug, S.C., D. Peretti, and K.O. Winemiller. 2009. Movement into floodplain habitats by gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) revealed by dietary and stable isotope analyses. Environmental Biology of Fishes 84:307-314.

Schneider, K. and K.O. Winemiller. 2008. Structural complexity of woody debris patches influences fish and macroinvertebrate species richness in a temperate floodplain river. Hydrobiologia 610:235-244.

Hoeinghaus, D.J., K.O. Winemiller, and A.A. Agostinho. 2008. Hydrogeomorphology and river impoundment affect food-chain length in diverse Neotropical food webs. Oikos 117:984-995.

Winemiller, K.O., H. Lopez Fernandez, D.C. Taphorn, L.G. Nico, and A. Barbarino Duque. 2008. Fish assemblages of the Casiquiare River, a corridor and zoogeographic filter for dispersal between the Orinoco and Amazon basins. Journal of Biogeography 35:1551-1563.

Zeug, S.C. and K.O. Winemiller. 2008. Can allochthonous carbon sources support large river food webs? Ecology 89:1733-1743.

Akin, S. and K.O. Winemiller. 2008. Body size and trophic position in a temperate estuarine food web. Acta Oecologia 33:144-153.

Zeug, S.C. and K. O. Winemiller. 2008. Relationships between hydrology, spatial heterogeneity, and fish recruitment dynamics in a temperate floodplain river. River Research and Applications 24:90-102.

Robertson, C.R., S.C. Zeug, and K.O. Winemiller. 2008. Associations between hydrological connectivity and resource partitioning among sympatric gar species (Lepisosteidae) in a Texas river and associated oxbows. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 17:119-129.

Winemiller, K.O., A.A. Agostinho, and E. Pellegrini Caramaschi. 2008. Fish ecology in tropical streams, Chapter 5, Pages 107-146 in: Tropical Stream Ecology, D. Dudgeon, editor. Elsevier/Academic Press, San Diego, CA.