Mark Kuhlmann

Professor of Biology

Recent courses taught:

• BIOL 192 Introduction to Organismal Biology
• BIOL 293 Introduction to Ecology & Evolution
• BIOL 240 Island Biogeography (J Term off-campus)
• BIOL 308 Aquatic Ecology
• BIOL 322 Marine Biology
• BIOL 395 Research Methods in Biology
• BIOL 379 Seminar in Biology: Behavioral Ecology

Selected publications:

• Kuhlmann, M. L. 2021. The dynamics of the invasion of the rusty crayfish, Faxonius rusticus (Girard, 1852) (Decapoda: Astacidea), in two New York state, USA stream systems. Journal of Crustacean Biology.
• Griffing D., Kuhlmann M., Dexter T., editors. 2023. The Proceedings of the Third Joint Symposium on the Natural History and Geology of The Bahamas. Vol. 3. Gerace Research Centre, San Salvador, The Bahamas. 167 pp.
• Kuhlmann M. L., and B. M. McCabe ’14. 2017. Spatial variation in the diet of Octopus vulgaris at San Salvador, The Bahamas. Proceedings of the 1st Joint Symposium on the Natural History and Geology of The Bahamas (2015): 49-58
• Kuhlmann, M. L. 2016. Invasion-related change in crayfish density affects a stream macroinvertebrate community. Northeastern Naturalist 23:434-453.
• Dresser, C. M. (‘10), M. L. Kuhlmann, and B. J. Swanson. 2016. Variation in native crayfish agonistic response to the invasion of the rusty crayfish Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852). Journal of Crustacean Biology.
• Kuhlmann, M. L., and B. M. McCabe (’14). 2014. Diet specialization in Octopus vulgaris at San Salvador, Bahamas. Marine Ecology Progress Series 516:229-237
• Allen, M. E., and M. L. Kuhlmann. 2014. Search for the missing sea otters: An ecological detective story. in C. F. Herreid, N. Schiller, and K. F. Herreid, editors. Science Stories You Can Count On: 51 Case Studies with Quantitative Reasoning in Biology. NSTA Press.
• Kuhlmann, M. L., and D. A. Hamilton.  2013. Observations of extremely shallow-water habitat use by ocean triggerfish, Canthidermis sufflamen, at San Salvador Island, The Bahamas.  Proceedings of the 14th Natural History of the Bahamas Conference
• Kuhlmann, M. L.  2009. Fish as fertilizer: the impacts of salmon on coastal ecosystems. Published online at the Case Study Collection – National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (http://www.sciencecases.org/salmon_forest/case.asp)
• Kuhlmann, M. L., S. M. Badylak (’02), and E. L. Carvin (’05). 2008. Testing the differential predation hypothesis for the invasion of rusty crayfish in a stream community: laboratory and field experiments. Freshwater Biology 53:113-128.

College service and professional affiliations:

• Chair, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
• Member: Ecological Society of America

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