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Portrait of Paul Bourdeau Ph.D. - Graduate Coordinator

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peb112@humboldt.edu
  • SciB 234
  • Biological Sciences
  • Marine Lab
  • Marine Sciences

Paul Bourdeau Ph.D. - Graduate Coordinator

Assoc. Professor - Marine Biology & Ecology

Paul was born and raised in southeastern Massachusetts, just outside of Boston. He got his undergraduate and master's degrees in Biology and Marine Biology, respectively, at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a PhD in Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University. After a four-year post-doc in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University, he began teaching at Humboldt in 2014.

  • BS (1997) University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Biology
  • MS (1999) University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Marine Biology
  • PhD (2009) Stony Brook University, Ecology and Evolution
  • Marine Biology (BIOL 255)
  • Invertebrate Zoology (ZOOL 314)

How marine organisms respond to environmental change brought about by human activities, such as the introduction of non-native species and climate change.View Paul's research page

  • Hollander J and PE Bourdeau (2016) Evidence of weaker phenotypic plasticity by prey to novel cues from non-native predators. Ecology and Evolution 6:5358-5365.
  • Bourdeau PE, MT Bach, and SD Peacor (2016) Predator presence dramatically reduces copepod abundance through condition-mediated non-consumptive effects. Freshwater Biology 61:1020-1031.
  • Bourdeau PE, KL Pangle, and SD Peacor (2015) Factors affecting the vertical distribution of the zooplankton assemblage in Lake Michigan: The role of the invasive predator Bythotrephes longimanus. Journal of Great Lakes Research 41:115-124.
  • Bourdeau PE, RK Butlin, C Bronmark, TC Edgell, JT Hoverman, and J Hollander (2015) What can aquatic gastropods tell us about phenotypic plasticity? A review and meta-analysis. Heredity 115:312-321
  • Miehls, ALJ, AG McAdam, PE Bourdeau, and SD Peacor (2013) Plastic response to a proxy cue of predation risk when direct cues are unreliable. Ecology 94:2237-2248.
  • Bourdeau PE, KL Pangle, EM Reed, and SD Peacor (2013) Finely-tuned response of native prey to an invasive predator in a pelagic freshwater system. Ecology 97:1449-1455.
  • Bourdeau PE (2013) Morphological defense influences absolute, not relative, non-consumptive effects in marine snails. Behavioral Ecology 24:505-510.
  • Bourdeau PE and F Johansson (2012) Predator-induced morphological defences as by-products of prey behaviour. Oikos 121:1175-1190.
  • Bourdeau PE (2012) Intraspecific trait cospecialization of constitutive and inducible morphological defenses in a marine snail from habitats with different predation risk. Journal of Animal Ecology 81:849-858.
  • Mach ME and PE Bourdeau (2011) To flee or not to flee? Risk-sensitive predator-avoidance decisions in a marine snail. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 409:166-171.
  • Bourdeau PE, KL Pangle, and SD Peacor (2011) The invasive predator Bythotrephes induces changes in the vertical distribution of native copepods in Lake Michigan. Biological Invasions 13:2533-2545.
  • Bourdeau PE (2011) Constitutive and inducible defensive traits in co-occurring marine snails distributed across a vertical rocky intertidal gradient. Functional Ecology 25:177-185.
  • Bourdeau PE (2010) Cue reliability, risk sensitivity and inducible morphological defense in a marine snail. Oecologia 162:987-994.
  • Bourdeau PE (2010) An inducible morphological defence is a passive by-product of behaviour in a marine snail. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 277:455-462.
  • Bourdeau PE (2009) Prioritized phenotypic responses to combined predators in a marine snail. Ecology 90:1659-1669.
  • Przeslawski R, PE Bourdeau, MH Doall, J Pan, L Perino, and DK Padilla (2008) The effects of a harmful alga on bivalve larval lipid stores. Harmful Algae 7:802-807.
  • Bourdeau PE and NJ O'Connor (2003) Predation by the non-indigenous Asian shore crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus on macroalgae and molluscs. Northeastern Naturalist 10:319-334.

Graduate Students

Current: Rose Harman, Bailey McCann, Sandra Traverso, Jake Vargas

Former Students:
Andrea Fieber, Wesley Hull, Angela Jones, Tharadet Man,Lily McIntire, Timothy McClure, Kindall Murie, Johnny Roche, Tayler Tharaldson