Research and Teaching Interests
Dr. Huckins’s current research is focused on two primary
areas; 1) population and community ecology and of fishes and the rehabilitation
of coaster brook trout (coasters) in Lake Superior and 2) the ecology of
stream ecosystems involving the scale-dependent interactions among fish,
macroinvertebrates, CPOM dynamics, stream habitat features, watershed conditions
and land use in riparian systems within northern mixed hardwood forests.
He has been the PI on over $495,000 in funding for MTU research and graduate
and undergraduate education. Dr. Huckins teaches undergraduate courses in
general biology, principles of ecology, fishery biology and our senior capstone
course, and graduate courses in aquatic ecology and discussions in ecology.
Related Activities
Institutional Team Member of the Faculty Institutes for Reforming
Science Teaching (FIRST II, http://www.first2.org/) Program funded by
the National Science Foundation.
Steering Committee member of COASTER, a Lake Superior basin-wide project
to synthesis and disseminate scientific information on coaster brook trout
for the coordination of research, funding and management efforts
Selected Publications
Osenberg, C. W., C. J F. Huckins, A. Kaltenberg, and A. Martinez.
2004. Resolving within and between population variation in feeding ecology
with a biomechanical model of crushing force. Oecologia. 141:57-65.
Bub, B.R., D. J. Flaspohler, and C. J. F. Huckins. 2004. Riparian and upland
breeding-bird assemblages along headwater streams in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Journal of Wildlife Management 68:383-392.
Huckins, C. J and J. B. K. Leonard. 2003. Efforts to rehabilitate and study
coaster brook trout along Lake Superior’s south central shore. Invited
Article: Michigan Trout, Trout Unlimited 23(4):11-13.
Flaspohler, D. J., C. J F. Huckins, B. R. Bub, and P. J. Van Dusen. 2002.
Temporal patterns in aquatic and avian communities following selective logging.
Forest Science 48:339-350.
Klinger, R. C., R. F. Floyd, V. S. Blazer, and C. J F. Huckins. 2001. Nutritional
disease of a Lake Victorian Cichlid, Haplochromis (Prognathrochromis
perrieri);
a clinical assessment. Journal of Aquariculture and Aquatic Sciences 9:228-236.
Huckins, C. J F., C. W. Osenberg, and G. G. Mittelbach. 2000. Species introductions
and ecological consequences: an example with congeneric sunfish. Ecological
Applications 10:612:625.
Huckins, C. J F. 1997. Linkages between morphology, feeding performance,
diet, and competitive ability of molluscivorous sunfish. Ecology 78:2401-2414.
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