Alan P Covich
Dr. Alan P. Covich is a professor emeritus of ecology and former director of the Institute of Ecology in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. Since 1987 he has helped document the effects of multiple disturbances on tropical stream food webs in Puerto Rico (Luquillo Mountains). He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul in Campo Grande, Brazil studying stream food webs in the Serra da Bodoquena, Pantanal and the Amazonian streams during 2028-2022. Covich received a Ph.D. in Biology from Yale University and A.B. degree from Washington University. He chaired Colorado State University's Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology and was on the faculty of the University of Oklahoma and Washington University. Covich is a past-president of the International Association of Ecology, the Ecological Society of America, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, and the North American Benthological Society (now the Society for Freshwater Science). He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Ecological Society of America, and the Society for Freshwater Science. Covich co-edited three editions of the Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, as well as reviews on climate change and drought impacts for Resources for the Future, and book chapters (Water in Crisis, Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Encyclopedia of Islands, Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, and the Encyclopedia of Hydrologic Processes).
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