Richardson, John
Professor Emeritus
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences
Forest Sciences Centre 3002
2424 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
work phone: 604-822-6586
We are interested in the ecological processes that limit populations and contribute to the assembly of communities, and how land use impacts those processes. We use experimental manipulations of small streams and their riparian areas as our study system, and we have manipulated inputs, species composition, abiotic factors, physical structure, etc., to test hypotheses about these processes and how they contribute to biodiversity and ecosystem function.
Areas of research include:
- Stream ecology
- Riparian ecosystems
- Community and population ecology
- Benthic invertebrates, amphibians, fish
- Detrital-based food webs and donor-controlled systems
- Restoration ecology
Projects
Ecology and management of riparian-stream ecosystems
A large-scale experiment using alternative streamside management techniques
Influence of reserve strip width on riparian and stream ecosystems: Amphibian communities
Ecology of tailed frogs and the effects of forest practicesStream benthos responses to riparian management
Resource limitation in streams and the role of organic matter
Fish communities as ecosystem indicators for a changing system: The lower Fraser River