Zoe Almeida

The Ohio State University, Ph.D., Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, May 2021

Purdue University, M.Sc., Forestry and Natural Resources: Aquatic Sciences, Ecological Sciences and Engineering Program, May 2016

Scripps College, B.A., Biology, May 2011

Broadly, Zoe’s research aims to advance knowledge relevant to aquatic resource conservation and management, primarily freshwater fish, by addressing fundamental questions in ecology. Her questions build across levels of biological organization from individuals to populations to ecosystems: 1) individual behavioral and physiological responses to environmental conditions; 2) cohort effects and population dynamics informed by individual responses; and 3) synthesizing ecological trends across populations, ecosystems, and species. To address these themes, she examines physiological and behavioral ecology in laboratory and field experiments, quantifies the effect of individual responses on cohorts and populations, uses simulation modeling to evaluate larger population or community-level implications, and integrates findings across studies to illuminate broader ecological patterns.

Currently, her research focuses on warmwater fish ecology and management throughout the state of New York.

      Selected Publications

• Almeida, L.Z., S.A. Ludsin, M.D. Faust, E.A. Marschall. 2024. Lingering legacies: Past growth and parental experience influence somatic growth in a fish population. Journal of Animal Ecology, 93, 1462-1474. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.14143.
• Almeida, L.Z., B.J. Laurel, H.L. Thalmann, J.A. Miller. 2024. Warmer, earlier, faster: Cumulative effects of Gulf of Alaska heatwaves on the early life history of Pacific Cod. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 12(1). DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2023.00050.
• Krabbenhoft, C.A., S.A. Ludsin, E.A. Marschall, R.R. Budnick, L.Z. Almeida, C.L. Cahill, … G.J.A. Hansen. 2023. Synthesizing professional opinion and published science to build a conceptual model of Walleye recruitment. Fisheries, 48(4), 141-156. DOI: 10.1002/fsh.10884.
• Almeida, L.Z., T.M. Sesterhenn, D.K. Rucinski, T.O. Höök. 2022. Nutrient loading effects on fish habitat quality: Trade-offs between production and hypoxia in Lake Erie, North America. Freshwater Biology, 67, 784-800. DOI: 10.1111/FWB.13881.
• Almeida, L.Z., S.M. Hovick, S.A. Ludsin, E.A. Marschall. 2021. Which factors determine the long-term effects of poor early life nutrition? A meta-analytic review. Ecosphere, 12(8):e03694. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3694.