Eric R Larson
Assistant Professor
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois at urbana champaign
United States of America
Biography
He has done his PhD, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, 2011, M.S., Biology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2007, B.S., Fishery Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, 2004.
Research Interest
I am an ecologist and conservation scientist with a focus on freshwater species, communities, and ecosystems. I am particularly interested in preventing and managing species invasions, anticipating and adapting to the consequences of climate change, and understanding how habitat structure and land use change affects ecological processes. I also work with practitioners to evaluate conservation effectiveness from both economic and ecological perspectives.
Publications
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Larson, E.R., C.L. Abbott, N. Usio, N. Azuma, K.A. Wood, L.-M. Herborg and J.D. Olden. 2012. The signal crayfish is not a single species: Cryptic diversity and invasions in the Pacific Northwest range of Pacifastacus leniusculus. Freshwater Biology. 57:1823-1838
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Larson, E.R., R.V. Gallagher, L.J. Beaumont and J.D. Olden. 2014. Generalized “avatar†niche shifts improve distribution models for invasive species. Diversity and Distributions. 11:1296-1306.
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Larson, E.R., S. Howell, P. Kareiva and P.R. Armsworth. In press. Constraints of philanthropy on determining the distribution of biodiversity conservation funding. Conservation Biology.
