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Scott Grubbs, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Professor
Office: TCNW 117
Phone: 270-745-5048
Email: scott.grubbs@wku.edu
Courses
BIOL 122 - Biological Concepts: Evolution, Diversity & Ecology
BIOL 224 - Animal Biology & Diversity
BIOL 405 - Aquatic Insect Diversity
BIOL 497 - Aquatic Field Ecology
BIOL 505 - Aquatic Insect Ecology
Research
Current research in my lab focuses mainly on two themes: (a) food web and nutrient dynamics of karst riverine watershed and (b) systematics and biogeography of stoneflies (order Plecoptera).
Bio
Ph.D. - 1998, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biological Sciences
B.S. - 1990, Central Michigan University, Department of Biology
Recent Publications
Grubbs, S. A. 2011. A review of stonefly (Insecta; Plecoptera) taxonomic research in Alabama, with new state records and an updated checklist. Illiesia 7: 24–30.
Grubbs, S. A. 2011. Influence of flow permanence on headwater macroinvertebrate communities in a Cumberland Plateau watershed, USA. Aquatic Ecology 45: 185–195.
Grubbs, S. A. and R. E. DeWalt. 2011. Perlesta ouabache n. sp. (Plecoptera: Perlidae), a new species of stonefly from Indiana, U.S.A. Aquatic Insects 33: 75–79.
DeWalt, R. E. and S.A. Grubbs. 2011. Updates to the stonefly fauna of Illinois and Indiana. Illiesia 7: 31-50
Grubbs, S. A. 2010. Leuctra usdi n. sp., a new stonefly (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) of the L. tenuis (Pictet) species group from the southeastern U.S.A. plus three new Alabama state records. Zootaxa 2498: 59–64.
Grubbs, S. A. and S. W. Szczytko. 2010. A new species of eastern Nearctic Isoperla from Alabama and Mississippi, U.S.A. (Plecoptera: Perlodidae; Isoperlinae). Illiesia 6: 241–247.
Grubbs, S. A., O. D. Meier, and A. J. Meier. 2010. Assessing the influence of watershed-and reach-scale environmental variables on the speciose darter (Percidae: Etheostoma, Percina) assemblage of a central Kentucky (U.S.A.) landscape. Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie 30 (10): 1482–1486.
Ngulo, E. and S. A. Grubbs. 2010. Relationships between crayfish abundance patterns and environmental variables across two spatial scales in a central Kentucky river basin, USA. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 26: 285–295.
Grubbs, S. A. and A. L. Sheldon. 2009. Leuctra pinhoti, a new species of stonefly (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) from Alabama, U.S.A. Illiesia 5: 195–198.
