Ph. D., Iowa State University

   

Office:   312C Life Sciences Building

Phone:   1-419-372-8562

Email:     lowe@bgnet.bgsu.edu

   

 

Research:

Aquatic community ecology of benthic algae

   

 

Research and Personal Home Page

   

 

   

Research Interests:

Algal ecology and biodiversity. We are currently conducting research on algal biodiversity in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and on the South Island of New Zealand. More ecologically oriented research focuses on the implications of exotic species invasions in aquatic ecosystems in the Great Lakes watershed.

Selected Publications:

Johansen, J.R, R.L. Lowe, S.Carty, K. Fuciková, C.E. Olsen, M.H. Fitzpatrick, J.R. Ress and P.C. Furey (in revision). New Algal Species Records for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A., with An Annotated Checklist of all Reported Algal Species for The Park. . Southeastern Biology

Johansen, J.R. and R.L. Lowe (in press). Draparnaldia appalachiana sp. nov. (Chaetophoraceae, Chlorophyta) from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Algological Research.

Lowe, R.L., P.C. Furey, J.R. Ress and J.R. Johansen (in press). Diatom Biodiversity and Distribution on Wetwalls in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Southeastern Biology

Carrick, H.C., and R.L. Lowe. 2007. Nutrient limitation of benthic algae in Lake Michigan: the role of silica. J. Phycol. 43: 228-234.

Zampella, A. Robert, K. J. Laidig and R.L. Lowe. 2007. Distribution of diatoms in relation to land use and pH in blackwater coastal plain streams. Environmental Management 39: 369-384.

Lowe, R. L. and G. D. LaLiberte. 2006. Benthic Stream Algae: Distribution and Structure. In Lamberti, G. and F. R. Hauer, (eds.), Methods in Stream Ecology. Academic Press, pp. 327-356.

Lowe, R. L. 2006. Algology and algologists at Bowling Green, a short history. In Stevenson, R. J., Y. Pan and J. P. Kociolek (eds). Advances in Algal Biology: A Commemoration to the work of Rex Lowe. Hydrobiologia pp 1-11.

Greenwood, J. L. and R.L. Lowe. 2006 The effects of pH on a periphyton community in an acidic wetland, USA. . In Stevenson, R. J., Y. Pan and J. P. Kociolek (eds). Advances in Algal Biology: A Commemoration to the work of Rex Lowe. Hydrobiologia pp 71-82.

Knapp, J.M., P.C. Furey and R.L. Lowe. 2006. A comparison of the morphology and ultrastructure of the diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) Discostella stelligera (Cleve et Grunow) Houk et Klee and Discostella elentarii Alfinito et Tagliaventi from two New Zealand lakes in Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 40: 429-438.

Lowe, R.L., E. Morales, and C. Kilroy. 2006. Frankophila biggsii (Bacillariophyceae), a new diatom species from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 44: 1-6.

Holomuzki, J.R. R.L. Lowe and J.A.Ress. 2006. Comparing herbivory effects of stream macroinvertebrates on microalgal patch structure and recovery. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 40:357-367.

Luttenton, M.R. and R.L. Lowe. 2006. Response of a lentic periphyton community to nutrient enrichment at low N:P ratios. J. Phycol. 42: 1007-1015.