Education

Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley (1990)
M.Sc. - University of North Texas (1983)
B.Sc. - SUNY, College at Oneonta (1976)

Research & Teaching Interests

• Effects of watershed disturbance and restoration on stream communities.
• Ecology of benthic invertebrates in temporary habitats.
• Biological interactions and life history patterns of aquatic invertebrates.
• Influence of aquatic invertebrate grazers on stream ecosystems.
• Experimental design and analysis of aquatic ecological studies.

Selected Publications

Helms, B.S, D. C. Werneke, M. M. Gangloff, E. E. Hartfield, and J. W. Feminella. 2011. The influence of low-head dams on fish assemblages in streams across Alabama. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30:1095-1106.

Gangloff, M. M., E. E. Hartfield, D. C. Werneke, and J. W. Feminella. 2011. Associations between small dams and mollusk assemblages in Alabama streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30:1107-1116.

Holomuzki, J. M., J. W. Feminella, and M. E. Power. 2010. Biotic interactions in freshwater benthic habitats. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 29:220-244.

Ewald, M., J. W. Feminella , K. K. Lenertz, and R. P. Henry. 2009. Acute physiological responses of the freshwater snail Elimia flava (Mollusca: Pleuroceridae) to environmental calcium and pH. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C 150:231-236. 

Helms, B. S., J. E. Schoonover, and J. W. Feminella. 2009. Seasonal variability of landuse impacts on stream macroinvertebrate assemblages in streams of western Georgia, USA. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28:991-1006. 

Helms, B. S., J. E. Schoonover, and J. W. Feminella. 2009. Assessing influences of hydrology, physiocochemistry, and habitat on stream fish assemblages across a changing landscape. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 45:157-169.

Gangloff, M. M., K. K. Lenertz,  and J. W. Feminella. 2008. Parasitic mite and trematode abundance are associated with reduced reproductive output and physiological conditions of freshwater mussels. Hydrobiologia. DOI 10.1007/s10750-008-9419-8.

Gangloff, M. M. and J. W. Feminella. 2007. Stream channel geomorphology influences mussel abundance in southern Appalachian streams, U.S.A. Freshwater Biology 52:64-74. 

Maloney K. O. and J. W. Feminella. 2006. Evaluation of single- and multi-metric benthic macroinvertebrate indicators of catchment disturbance at the Fort Benning Military Installation, Georgia, USA. Ecological Indicators 6:469-484.

Fritz, K. M. and J. W. Feminella. 2006. Differential response of stream periphyton and invertebrate grazers to habitat modification by the emergent macrophyte Justicia americana. Marine and Freshwater Research 57:207-214.

Walsh, C. J., A. H. Roy, J. W. Feminella, P. D. Cottingham, P. M. Groffman, and R. P. Morgan. 2005. The urban stream syndrome: current knowledge and the search for a cure. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 24:706-723.

Maloney, K. O., P. J. Mulholland, and J. W. Feminella. 2005. Influence of catchment-scale military land use on stream physical and organic matter variables in small Southeastern Plains catchments (USA). Environmental Management 35:677-691.

Feminella, J. W. 2000. Correspondence between stream macroinvertebrate assemblages and four ecoregions of the southeastern USA. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 19:442-46.

Feminella, J. W.  1996. Comparison of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in small streams of contrasting hydrologic permanence. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 15:651-669.

Feminella, J. W. and C. P. Hawkins. 1995. Interactions between stream herbivores and periphyton: a quantitative analysis of past experiments. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 14:465-509.

Courses