Brian D. S. Graeb
Assistant Professor
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
South Dakota State University
Northern Plains Biostress Laboratory
SNP 138, Box 2140B
Brookings, SD 57007-1696
Voice: (605) 688-6121/Fax: (605) 688-4515
email: brian.graeb@sdstate.edu
Dr. Graeb is an Assistant Professor who joined the Department in 2007. His primary teaching responsibilities include Integrated Natural Resource Management (ABS 475), Introduction to Wildlife and Fisheries (WL 220), and Environmental Conservation (WL 110). Dr. Graeb will advise and mentor both undergraduate and graduate students. He has a 75% teaching and 25% research appointment.
As a fisheries ecologist, Dr. Graeb employs ecological theory and approaches to answer management questions. His research ranges from basic (e.g., foraging ecology) to applied (e.g., harvest regulation evaluation) and from controlled experiments to observational research, but are generally linked in a larger context. Dr. Graeb has many interests in fisheries ecology, many of which pertain to factors affecting populations (particularly recruitment and mortality of fishes), communities (e.g., food web ecology), and landscapes and ecosystems (e.g., the influence of large reservoirs on riverine landscape). Integration of information across multiple scales allows Dr. Graeb to build models to better predict effects of management actions and to better understand ecological processes.
Specialties:
Ecology and management of large lakes, rivers, and reservoirs, foraging ecology and competition, fish recruitment.
Education:
Ph.D., South Dakota State University, 2006
M.S., University of Illinois, 2003
B.S., Colorado State University, 1998
Professional Experience:
Postdoctoral Research Associate, South Dakota State University, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. 2006
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, South Dakota State University. 2003-2006
Graduate Research Assistant, Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign. 1999-2003
Fisheries Research Technician, Colorado Division of Wildlife. 1998-1999
Research Technician, Colorado State University, 1997-1999
Courses Taught at SDSU:
Selected Publications: (undergraduate students in bold text)
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Graeb, B. D. S. and D. W. Willis. In press. Sauger spawning in the upper Missouri River: the importance of temperature and turbidity. River Research and Applications.
Graeb, B. D. S., M. T. Mangan, J. C. Jolley, D. H. Wahl, and J. M. Dettmers. In press. Ontogenetic diet shifts in yellow perch as influenced by changes in relative energetic return of prey. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.
Kaemingk, M. A., B. D. S. Graeb, C. W. Hoagstrom, and D. W. Willis. In press. Patterns of fish diversity in a mainstem Missouri River reservoir and associated delta. River Research and Applications.
Phelps, Q. E., B. D. S. Graeb, K. R. Edwards, and D. W. Willis. In press. First-Year growth and overwinter survival of common carp in two glacial lakes. Fisheries Management and Ecology.
Edwards, K.
R., Q. E. Phelps, B. D. S. Graeb, and D. W. Willis. 2007. Asynchronous
bluegill recruitment in four South Dakota impoundments. Journal of Freshwater
Ecology 22:19-22.
Czensy, S., B. D. S. Graeb, and J. M. Dettmers. 2005.
Ecological consequences of swim bladder non-inflation for age-0 fishes.
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134:1011-1020.
Graeb, B. D. S., J. L. Shepherd, D. W. Willis,
and J. S. Sorensen. 2005. Delayed mortality of tournament-caught walleyes. North
American Journal of Fisheries Management. 25:251-255.
Graeb, B. D. S., T. Galarowicz, D. H. Wahl, J. M.
Dettmers, and M. J. Simpson. 2005. Foraging behavior, morphology, and
life history variation determine the ontogeny of piscivory in two closely
related predators. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
62:2010-2020.
Billington, N., R. N. Koigi, B. D. S. Graeb, and D. W.
Willis. 2004. Hybridization between sauger and walleye in Lewis and Clark Lake,
South Dakota, determined by protein electrophoresis. Pages 115-116 in T.
P. Barry and J. A. Malison, editors. Proceedings of Percis III: The Third
International Percid Fish Symposium. University of Wisconsin Sea Grant
Institute, Madison.
Billington, N., R. N. Koigi, F. White, D. Porter,
B. D. S. Graeb, and D. W. Willis. 2004. Use of isozyme markers to document
hybridization between walleye and sauger in three Missouri River reservoirs in
South Dakota. Gene Families and Isozymes Bulletin 37:26.
Graeb, B. D. S., J. M. Dettmers, D. H. Wahl, and C. E.
Cáceres. 2004. Fish size and prey availability affect growth, survival, prey
selection, and foraging behavior of larval yellow perch. Transactions of the
American Fisheries Society 133:504-514.
Cooke, S. J., B. D. S. Graeb, C. D. Suski, and K. G. Ostrand. 2003. Effects of suture material on incision healing, growth and survival of juvenile largemouth bass implanted with miniature radio transmitters: case study of a novice and experienced fish surgeon. Journal of Fish Biology 62:1366-1380.
MacRury, N. K., B. D. S. Graeb, B. M. Johnson, and W. H. Clements. 2002. Comparison of dietary mercury exposure in two sympatric top predator fishes, largemouth bass and northern pike: a bioenergetics modeling approach. Journal of Ecosystem Stress and Recovery 9:137-147.