Louise Firth
Louise Firth
Post-doctoral Fellow, Bell Lab
Contact
Office: SCA 324
Phone: 813/974-5420
Email:
Education
PhD, University College Dublin, Ireland, (Marine Ecology) 2007
Research
I am an experimental benthic ecologist with interests in both soft-bottom and rocky inter-tidal habitats. My research focuses on the role of species interactions in shaping the distribution of marine communities and how these might change in response to global climate change.
Recent Publications
L. B. Firth, T. P. Crowe, P. Moore, R. C. Thompson & S. J. Hawkins. Competition between key species on temperate rocky shores: a proposed method to identify potential effects of climate change. In preparation for Global Change Biology
L. B. Firth & T. P. Crowe. Competition, habitat-suitability and the coexistence of key species on temperate rocky shores. In preparation for submission to Ecological Monographs
L. B. Firth & T. P. Crowe. Coexistence of key species on rocky shores: small scale patterns of segregation with respect to habitat. Submitted to Hydrobiologia, July 2007
L. B. Firth & G. A. Williams. The effect of temperature and salinity on mass mortalities of Cellana toreuma in Hong Kong. In preparation for Marine Ecology Progress Series