Paul Bourdeau Ph.D. - Graduate Coordinator

• 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