Ecosystems Research Division

Biographical Information

Name: Brenda Rashleigh
Title: Ecologist

Contact information: Phone: 706/355-8148 FAX: 706/355-8104 Email: Rashleigh.Brenda@epa.gov

Education:

Expertise/Research Interests: Aquatic ecology, ecological modeling, predictive habitat models

Professional Activities:

Ecological Society of America, International Society for Ecological Modeling, Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (Vice Chair of Membership Committee for SETAC - North America), Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society, Society for Conservation Biology

Embassy Science Fellow 2008, Embassy Pretoria/Council for Scientific Research (CSIR), South Africa

Senior Fellow, Southeastern Regional Network, Environmental Leadership Program
(http://www.elpnet.org/southeastnetwork/ )

Selected Publications:

Rashleigh, B., M.J Cyterski, L.M. Smith, J. Nestlerode. 2009. Modeling fish and shellfish distributions in the Mobile Bay estuary, USA. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 150:181-192.

Rashleigh, B., M.C. Barber, and D.M. Walters. 2009. Foodweb modeling for PCBs in the Twelvemile Creek Arm of Lake Hartwell. Ecological Modeling. 220(2):254-264.

Rashleigh, B. 2008. Nestedness in riverine freshwater mussel communities: patterns across sites and fish hosts. Ecography 31:1-8.

Walters, D.M., M.J. Blum, B. Rashleigh, B.J. Freeman, B.A. Porter, and N.M. Burkhead. 2008. Red shiner invasion and hybridization with blacktail shiner in the upper Coosa River, USA. Biological Invasions DOI 10.1007/s10530-007-9198-6.

Gonenc, I.E., V. Koutitonsky, B. Rashleigh, R.A. Ambrose, and J.P. Wolflin 2007. Assessment of the fate and effects of toxic agents on water resources. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Rashleigh, B. 2007. Assessment of lake ecosystem response to toxic events with the AQUATOX model. Pages 293-299 in: I.E. Gonenc, V. Koutitonsky, B. Rashleigh, R.A. Ambrose, and J.P. Wolflin (eds), Assessment of the fate and effects of toxic agents on water resources. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Rashleigh, B., and D.L. DeAngelis. 2007. Conditions for coexistence of freshwater mussel species via partitioning of fish host resources. Ecological Modelling 201/2:171-178.

Rashleigh, B., R. Parmar, J. M. Johnston, and M.C. Barber. 2005. Predictive habitat models for the occurrence of stream fishes in the Mid-Atlantic Highlands. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:1353-1366.

Rashleigh, B., and G.D. Grossman. 2005. An individual-based simulation model for mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi) in a southern Appalachian stream. Ecological Modelling 187:247-258.

Rashleigh, B., and D. Randall. 2005. Population dynamics of fish in Lake Peipsi. Pages 49-53 in: R.M. Russo and R. Lekevicius (Eds.), Modeling nutrient loads and response in river and estuary systems. Report No. 271, North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Rashleigh, B. 2004. Fish groups in the Upper Tennessee River basin. Southeastern Naturalist 3(4):621-636

Rashleigh, B. 2004. Relation of fish community structure to environmental characteristics in the upper French Broad River basin, North Carolina. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 93:139-156.

Rashleigh, B. 2003. Application of AQUATOX, a process-based model for ecological assessment, to Contentnea Creek in North Carolina. Freshwater Ecology 18(4):515-522.