Indiana Biological Survey

Staff/Researchers

• Ronda Dufour, M.S., Senior Research Scientist

  
  

  Phone (812) 824-8500	Fax	E-mail rondadufour@gmail.com
  Mailing Label		Additional Information
  Ronda Dufour 6440 S. Fairfax Rd. Bloomington, IN 47401		Organization Indiana Biological Survey - Aquatic Research Center
  EDUCATION Degree B.S. Biology Year Awarded 1992 Granting University Ball State University		Department Division of Fishes
  		Specialty Ecological indicators
  Professional Status	Practicing Professional
  Profession	Senior Research Scientist
  Geographical Expertise	Eastern North America
  Other Areas	Indiana
  Natural Communities Expertise	Ecology and taxonomy of North American Freshwater fishes
  Ecological Expertise
  System	Freshwater
  Habitat Status	Lentic and lotic systems
  Level	Species - Community
  Approach	Biological criteria and environmental indicator development; effects of pollution; and management of freshwater natural resources. Applied research on the ecology and conservation of freshwater fish and the application of the results to practical problems in water pollution and resource management
  Ecological Research	Ecology of North American Freshwater fishes including studies of: 1) community structure, 2) trophic relations, and 3) land use characteristics
  Endangered & Threatened Species	North American fishes
  Systematic Expertise
  Systematic Specialty	Not applicable
  Systematic Research	Not applicable
  Methodology	Not applicable
  Biodiversity Information	Collection - Specimen-based database
  Recent Publications	Moffett, M.F., R.L. Dufour, and T. P. Simon. 2006. Classification of wetlands in Laurentian Great Lakes. In T.P. Simon and P.M. Stewart (eds.). Coastal Wetlands: Health, Habitat, and Indicators. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. Simon, T.P., R.L. Dufour, R. F. Thoma, and D.A. Carlson. 2006. Classification of freshwater fish species of the Great Lakes Basin for use in the development of indices of biological integrity for coastal wetlands, In T.P. Simon and P.M. Stewart (eds.). Coastal Wetlands: Health, Habitat, and Indicators. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. Simon, T.P. and R.L. Dufour. 2006. Development of an index of biotic integrity for drowned river mouth wetlands in Lake Superior, In T.P. Simon and P.M. Stewart (eds.). Coastal Wetlands: Health, Habitat, and Indicators. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. Simon, T.P., R.L. Dufour, P.M. Stewart, and M.L. Moffett. 2006. Distribution and classification rationale for coastal wetlands in Lake Michigan. In T. Edsall and M. Munawar (Eds.). The Lake Michigan Ecosystem: Health, Indicators, and Assessment. Ecovision Press, The Netherlands. Pp. 479-502. Simon,T.P., R.L. Dufour, and P. M. Stewart. 2006. Development of an index of biotic integrity coastal wetlands of the St. Clair River Estuary, Lake St. Clair, and Detroit River, In T.P. Simon and P.M. Stewart (eds.). Coastal Wetlands: Health, Habitat, and Indicators. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. Simon, T.P., R.L. Dufour, and P.M. Stewart. 2006. Development of an index of biotic integrity for drowned river mouth wetlands in Lake Michigan, In T.P. Simon and P.M. Stewart (eds.). Coastal Wetlands: Health, Habitat, and Indicators. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. Simon, T.P., P. M. Stewart, and R.L. Dufour. 2006. Effects of ecoregion on the structure and function of coastal wetland fish assemblages: Lake Michigan during a low water year. In T.P. Simon and P.M. Stewart (eds.). Coastal Wetlands: Health, Habitat, and Indicators. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. Simon, T.P., R.L. Dufour, and B.E. Fisher. 2005. Changes in the biological integrity of fish communities in the Patoka River drainage as a result of anthropogenic disturbance from 1888 to 2001. In R.M. Hughes, J. Rinne, and R. Calamusso (Editors). Historical changes in Large River fish assemblages of the Americas. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD. Simon, T.P. and R.L. Dufour. 2005. Development of an index of biotic integrity for fish assemblages in drowned river mouth wetlands of Lake Huron, In T.P. Simon and P.M. Stewart (eds.). Coastal Wetlands: Health, Habitat, and Indicators. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. R.L. Dufour, T.P. Simon, and S.A. Newhouse. 2003. Evaluating the effects of thermal discharges on aquatic life: Patterns in multimetric indices from three case studies in large and great rivers of the midwestern United States. Pp. 487-508. In T.P. Simon (Ed.). Biological Response Signatures: Indicator Patterns Using Aquatic Communities. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.


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