Adam Heathcote
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514-987-3000, ext 1651
Université du Québec à Montréal
Pavillon des sciences biologiques, SB-2375
2080 St-Urbain
Montréal, Québec
H2X 3X8
Canada
Postdoctoral fellow
B.Sc. 2005 Iowa State University, Major in Animal Ecology
Ph.D. 2013 Iowa State University, Major in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Minor in Statistics, dissertation title: "Anthropogenic eutrophication and ecosystem functioning in lakes"
Carbon biogeochemistry in freshwater lakes
I am looking at differences in carbon burial and storage across regions and trophic states
Use of paleolimnological methods to reconstruct impacts of eutrophication on aquatic systems
I am assessing how changing land use practices influence the rate of eutrophication and their combined effect on ecosystem function (i.e., nutrient cycling, energy transfer, community structure)
Effects of biodiversity and evenness on ecosystem functioning between trophic levels in pelagic plankton communities
I am researching the mechanisms behind the reduction in efficiency of energy transfer between primary producers and herbivores in pelagic systems undergoing eutrophication and how resource use efficiency (RUE) relates to biodiversity and evenness between trophic levels.
Use of multivariate statistics to analyze environmental and ecological data
I use multivariate statistical techniques to visualize and disentangle relationships between complex ecological data and environmental gradients
Juggins S, Anderson NJ, Ramstack Hobbs JM, and Heathcote AJ. Reconstructing epilimnetic total phosphorus using diatoms: statistical and ecological constraints. Journal of Paleolimnology (in press).
Heathcote AJ, Filstrup CT, Downing JA. 2013. Watershed sediment losses to lakes accelerating despite agricultural soil conservation efforts. PLOS ONE 8 (1): 1-4.
Filstrup CT, Harpole WS, Heathcote AJ, Shurin J, Kondoh M. 2012. Emerging Issues Workshop Report: Causes and consequences of biodiversity loss across ecosystems. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 21 (4): 98-99.
Heathcote AJ and Downing JA. 2012. Impacts of Eutrophication on Carbon Burial in Freshwater Lakes in an Intensively Agricultural Landscape. Ecosystems 15 (1): 60-70.
Heathcote AJ, Filstrup CT, Downing JA. 2012. Historic water quality conditions in Iowa’s natural lakes. Submitted to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines, IA
Downing JA, Poole KE, Filstrup CT, Heathcote AJ, Wagner M. 2010. Lower Chain lakes diagnostic/feasibility study. Submitted to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines, IA.
Downing JA, Poole KE, Heathcote AJ, Wagner M. 2008. A diagnostic/feasibility study of the restoration of Lizard Lake. Submitted to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines, IA.
Heathcote AJ. 2012. Anthropogenic eutrophication and ecosystem functioning in lakes. PhD seminar for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program at Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Heathcote AJ, Downing JA. Changes in Organic and Inorganic Carbon Burial in Thirty-three Natural Lakes Over a 150 Year History of Eutrophication. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, 2012, Otsu, Japan
Heathcote AJ, Downing JA. 2012. Discovering the history of Iowa’s natural lakes by coring and paleolimnology. Invited speaker at the Iowa Water Conference, Ames, IA
Heathcote AJ, JA Downing, and MB Balmer. 2011. The effects of eutrophication on carbon burial and atmospheric carbon exchange in shallow lakes. Invited speaker at GSA meeting, Minneapolis, MN
Heathcote AJ, Kendall DL, Filstrup CT, Downing JA. 2011. Examining the role of phytoplankton size and community composition in determining crustacean zooplankton biomass in eutrophic lakes. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, San Juan, PR
Downing JA, Heathcote AJ, Balmer MB, Filstrup CT. 2011. Eutrophication is inverting the carbon-role of lakes in the biosphere. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, San Juan, PR
Heathcote AJ, Downing JA. 2010. Impacts of landscape change on carbon burial in freshwater lakes. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe, NM
Church JO, Heathcote AJ. 2010. Detrending without detrending: Re-examining the ‘arch effect’ in ecological ordination. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe, NM
Bell TA, McKnight DM, Heathcote AJ. 2010. A shift in diatom composition due to increased weathering and nitrogen deposition. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe, NM
Heathcote AJ, Downing JA. 2009. Paleo-reconstruction of post-settlement degradation of water quality under intensive agriculture. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Nice, France
Heathcote AJ, Filstrup CT, Kendall DL, Downing JA. 2011. Examining the role of Cyanobacteria size and abundance on limiting heterotroph:autotroph biomass ratios in eutrophic lakes. ESA meeting, Austin, TX
Spaulding SA, Edlund MB, Ashworth M, Colon-Ortiz L, Daley A, Heathcote AJ, Konfirst M, Laub B, Menicucci A, Miyazaki R, Powell R, Smith J, Stanish L. 2007. Notes on Iowa diatoms: comparison of the morphological range of modern populations with specimens in the Reimer Iowa Collection. 19th North American Diatom Symposium, Pellston, MI