Kaufman, Les

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Boston University

Our laboratory is devoted to understanding the creation, maintenance, extinction, and conservation of aquatic diversity.

Effects of human activities on structure and function of aquatic ecosystems; marine reserves and zoning schemes as adaptive management experiments.
- New diagnostics for marine ecosystem health and resilience
- Spatial scaling of animal movements, population structure, and food web dynamics
- Functional biology of fishes and marine invertebrates
- Response of marine communities to the components of climate change

Evolutionary Ecology
- Macroevolutionary processes in African great lakes cichlids
- Spatial effects in diversity maintenance and cladogenesis
- Brood capture and parent-offspring relationships in neotropical cichlids
- Structural plasticity and life history in tropical rainforest trees

Home Page:

Les Kaufman's website

CHANS Projects:

The Potential for Aquaculture in Lake Victoria and Implications for Wild Fisheries and Fish Commodity Markets

CNH-Ex: Conflict and Fisheries in the Lake Victoria Basin

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National Science Foundation (NSF) - The only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. We are tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow.

Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University - A center of excellence that integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography, and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national, to global scales.

Global Land Project - A joint research project for land systems in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme.

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