Michael T Bogan

Michael Bogan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Education

B.Sc. 2001. California State University Monterey Bay

M.Sc. 2005. Oregon State University

PhD. 2012. Oregon State University

Research Description:

My research focuses on how disturbance and dispersal processes shape local population, community, and metacommunity patterns in streams. I’m most interested in how life-history traits of aquatic organisms (e.g. dispersal modes) interact with stream flow variability to produce the highly-diverse communities that often we find in streams. Understanding these interactions is critical in the face of altered flow regimes resulting from climate change and anthropogenic water withdrawals. While much of my work focuses on drought and arid-land stream invertebrate communities, I study a number of different systems (e.g. subalpine and coastal streams), taxa (e.g. fish and amphibians), and types of physical and biotic disturbance (e.g. wildfires, floods, invasive species). I also love good old-fashioned biodiversity surveys, especially in places which are little-visited and highly vulnerable to anthropogenic disturbances.

Selected Publications

Bogan, M.T., J.L. Hwan, & S.M. Carlson. In press. High aquatic biodiversity in an intermittent coastal headwater stream at Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California. Northwest Science.

Bogan, M.T., N. Noriega-Felix, S.L. Vidal-Aguilar, L.T. Findley, D.A. Lytle, O.G. Gutierrez-Ruacho, J.A. Alavarado-Castro, & A. Varela-Romero. 2014. Biogeography and conservation of aquatic fauna in spring-fed tropical canyons of the southern Sonoran Desert, Mexico. Biodiversity and Conservation 23: 2705-2748.

Hammock, B.G. & M.T. Bogan. 2014. Black fly larvae facilitate community recovery in a mountain stream. Freshwater Biology 59: 2162–2171.

Bogan, M.T., K.S. Boersma, and D.A. Lytle. 2013. Flow intermittency alters longitudinal patterns of invertebrate diversity and assemblage composition in an arid-land stream network. Freshwater Biology 58: 1016-1028

Bogan, M.T. & D.A. Lytle. 2011. Severe drought drives novel community trajectories in desert stream pools. Freshwater Biology 56: 2070-2081.

Honors and Awards

2014 David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship, Society for Conservation Biology

2013 Hynes Award for New Investigators, Society for Freshwater Science

2010 P.F. & Nellie Buck Yerex Fellowship

2007 Carl Hubbs Award, Desert Fishes Council