Alicia Perez-Fuentetaja

Appointent: Assistant Professor in Buffalo State College Biology Department

Office: 254 Science Building

Phone: (716) 878-4608

Email: perezfa at buffalostate edu

Home Page:http://www.buffalostate.edu/biology/perezfa.xml?username=perezfa

Research Interests:food web interactions (especially Great Lakes ecosystem); proliferation of type E botulism; food web transfer of bacteria that causes disease Clostridium botulinum type E; endocrine-disrupting chemicals on fish populations; impacts of aquatic invasive species; zooplankton/fish interactions

Recent Publications:

• Pérez-Fuentetaja, A., S. Lupton, M. Clapsadl, F. Samara, L. Gatto, and D. S. Aga. In Review. "Environmental Sentinels: PCBs, PBDE and Vitellogenin Levels in Wild Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) from Eastern Lake Erie." Submitted to Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
• Pérez-Fuentetaja, A., M.D. Clapsadl, D. Einhouse, P.R. Bowser, R. G. Getchell and W. T. Lee. 2006." Influence of Limnological Conditions on Clostridium botulinum Type E Presence in Eastern Lake Erie (Great Lakes, USA) Sediments." Hydrobiologia. 563 (1): 189-200.
• Ramcharan, C.W., A. Pérez-Fuentetaja, D.J. McQueen, N.D. Yan, E. Demers, and J.A. Rusak. 2001. "The Dorset food web piscivore manipulation project - Dynamics of zooplankton productivity under two different predatory regimes." Arch Hydrobiol. Spec. Issues Advanc. Limnol. 56: 151-169.

last updated: 3/09