Todd Wellnitz

Education

• Ph.D. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - 1997
• M.S. Middlebury College - 1991
• B.S. University of Minnesota -1985

Courses

• Biol 110 Ecology & Evolution
• Biol 320 Studies in Tropical Environments
• Biol 345 Invertebrate Zoology
• Biol 491 Medicine: Practice, Perception & the Popular Imagination

Research - Aquatic Community Ecology

• Algal-grazer interactions
• The role of herbivory and spatial heterogeneity in ecosystem function
• Species “redundancy” within herbivore guilds
• Parasite-altered behaviors and the ecology and evolution of the host-parasite conflict 
• Selected Publications:
  

  Wellnitz T and NL Poff. (2006). “Herbivory, current velocity and algal regrowth: how does periphyton grow when the grazers have gone?” Freshwater Biology 51: 2114–2123.

  Wellnitz T, L Giari, B Maynard and B Dezfuli.  (2003).  A parasite spatially structures its host population.  Oikos 100: 263-268.

  Wellnitz T and NL Poff.  (2001).  Functional redundancy in heterogeneous environments: implications for conservation.  Ecology Letters 4: 177-179.

Contact information:
Phillips Hall 345
Department of Biology
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
Ph: 715-836-3021
Fax: 715-836-5089
email: wellnita@uwec.edu