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Rika Muhl
- Lecturer
- Focus Area: Aquatic ecology, urban wildlife and biodiversity
- Office:
- HFSB 324
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- (979) 845-5033
Education
- Undergraduate Education
- B.A. Anthropology, Biology Minor, Texas A&M University
- Graduate Education
- M.A. Middle East Studies, University of Texas-Austin
- Ph.D. Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University
Areas of Expertise
- Aquatic science
- Harmful algal blooms
- Plankton ecology
Professional Summary
Rika Muhl, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management. She teaches courses about aquatic ecosystems, urban wildlife and fisheries management, and the impact of people on the ecosystems they live in. Her courses span three tracks within the RWFM curriculum, and she emphasizes anthropogenic and cultural influences on community biodiversity and ecosystem health, particularly in urban contexts. Her goal for her students is to learn to be critical thinkers about how natural resources are used and managed, and to create solution-oriented natural resource stewards to address conservation needs.
Selected Publications
Roelke, D.L., Cagle, S.E., Muhl, R.M.W., Sakavara, A. and Tsirtsis, G. 2019. Resource
fluctuation patterns influence emergent properties of phytoplankton assemblages
and their resistance to harmful algal blooms. Marine Fisheries Reivew Journal.
doi.org/10.1071/MF18386.
Muhl, R.M.W., Daniel L. Roelke, Tamar Zohary, Maria Moustaka-Gouni, Ulrich
Sommer, Gábor Borics, Ursula Gaedke, Frances G. Withrow, Joydeb
Bhattacharyya. 2018. Resisting annihilation: Relationships between functional
trait dissimilarity, assemblage competitive power and allelopathy. Ecology
Letters, 21:1390-1400. doi: 10.1111/ele.13109.
Cagle, S. E., Roelke, D.L. and Muhl, R.M.W. 2018. Compounding effects of co-occurring disturbances on populations of a harmful bloom-forming mixotrophic protist. Hydrobiologia, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-018-3732-7.
Bhattacharyya, J., Roelke, D.L., Muhl, R.M.W. and Withrow, F.G. 2018. Exploitative competition of invaders differentially influences the diversity of lumpy and intransitive phytoplankton assemblages in spatially heterogeneous environments. Ecological Modelling, 370, 59-66.
Withrow, F.G. Roelke, D. L., Muhl, R. M.W. and Bhattacharyya, J. 2018. Water column
processes differentially influence richness and diversity of neutral, lumpy and
intransitive phytoplankton assemblages. Ecological Modelling, 370:C, 22-32.