Contact Info
Email: lbower88@neo.tamu.edu/ luke.bower@selu.edu
Office phone: (979) 847-8846
Office location: 112 Old Heep Bldg.
Luke M. Bower
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Texas A&M University
2258 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-225
Education
In progress – Ph.D., Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University.
Advisor: Dr. Kirk O. Winemiller
2013 – M.S., Biological sciences, Southeastern Louisiana University. Hammond, LA. Advisor: Kyle Piller
2010 – B.S. in Biology, Erskine College. Due West, South Carolina.
Research interests
Interests in conservation, community ecology, and evolutionary ecology of stream fishes, specifically local and regional patterns of fish assemblage structure and ecomorphology.
Publications
Bower, L. M., & Piller, K. R. (2015). Shaping up: a geometric morphometric approach to assemblage ecomorphology. Journal of fish biology, 87(3), 691-714.
Winemiller, K. O., Fitzgerald, D. B., Bower, L. M., & Pianka, E. R. (2015). Functional traits, convergent evolution, and periodic tables of niches. Ecology letters, 18(8), 737-751.
Foster, K., Bower, L., & Piller, K. (2015). Getting in shape: habitat‐based morphological divergence for two sympatric fishes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 114(1), 152-162
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