Kansas State University

Martha Mather's Projects

Recently Completed Projects

Effects of habitat heterogeneity on fish communities in the Upper Neosho River Basin at multiple scales

Using the land mosaic concept to test how type, size, and arrangement of habitat patches influence largemouth bass distribution, abundance, diet within a central Great Plains reservoir

Links between food web structure, biodiversity, and resilience: effects of anthropogenic disturbance on aquatic communities in the Smoky Hill River, KS

Can confluence dynamics create a functionally-important spatial mosaic of top-down predator interactions?

Mather lab celebrates the end of a great spring semester as they prepare for a productive 2016 summer field season.

Completed Projects

Blue Catfish Movements in Kansas Reservoirs

Discontinuities concentrate predators within the seascape: quantifying spatially-explicit patterns of physical complexity and striped bass distribution to understand the ecological significance of geomorphology for higher trophic levels within a north temperate estuary.

Examining fish community distribution and coalescence in coastal streams and estuaries using network theory.

Improving strategies for coastal river restoration: tracking anadromous river herring in a coastal Massachusetts stream

Applying video technology to improve the accuracy of biological data collection for monitoring anadromous river herring: challenges and opportunities