Professor of Biology

B.Sc., McGill University

M.F.S., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Schedule for Fall Semester 1998

BIOL 3001-R Marine Biology

Wednesdays, 11:00am-12:29pm, Science 201

Fridays, 9:30am-10:59am, Science 205 (Lab)

 

BIOL 3002-R Ecological Principles

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30am-10:59pm, Science 214

 

Schedule for Spring Semester 1999

BIOL 3001-R Marine Biology

Wednesdays, 11:00am-12:29pm, Science 201

Fridays, 9:30am-10:59am, Science 205 (Lab)

 

BIOL 3003-R Atoms to Humans: The Evolution of Life

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30am-10:59pm, Science 214

Research Interests

Population and community ecology of coral reef fishes. Field research on tube blennies (genus Acanthemblemaria) in Belize, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Special interest in factors promoting diversity, particularly competition avoidance thro ugh habitat and niche segregation. I have recently become interested in the ways in which physiological and behavioral differences influence ecological interactions.

Selected Publications

Clarke, R.D. in press. Diets and metabolic rates of four Caribbean tube blennies, genus Acanthemblemaria (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae). Bulletin of Marine Science

Clarke, R.D. 1996. Population shifts in two competing fish species on a degrading coral reef. Marine Ecology Progress Series 137:51-58.

Clarke, R. D. 1992. Effects of microhabitat and metabolic rate on food intake, growth and fecundity of two competing coral reef fishes. Coral Reefs 11:199-205.

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