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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Ginny L. Adams

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Professor and Environmental Science Program Director

Also affiliated: Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2001–2006); Southern Illinois University System (2001); United States Army (2003); U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (2003)

11 h-index 35 pubs 415 cited

  • Rivers
  • Animals
  • Physician's Role
  • Nurse's Role
  • Missouri
  • Water Pollutants, Chemical
  • Diet
  • Perciformes
  • Food Chain
  • Female
  • Male
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Diagnostic Errors
  • Humans

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Ginny L. Adams' research primarily focuses on aquatic ecology and conservation, with a notable emphasis on fish species in Missouri's Ozark streams. Her work investigates the distribution, morphology, and conservation status of troglomorphic sculpins and the movement patterns of southern redbelly dace. Adams has also studied the critical swimming speed and behavior of juvenile sturgeon species and the metabolic rates of cave-dwelling amphipods. Her publications address the impacts of catastrophic floods on stream fish communities and the passive sampling of organic chemicals in cave streams. Collaborating with faculty members from the University of Central Arkansas, including Matthew H. Connolly and Steven R. Adams, her research contributes to understanding freshwater ecosystems and their inhabitants. Adams' scholarship metrics include an h-index of 12, with 36 total publications and 509 total citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 11
  • Publications: 35
  • Citations: 415

Positions

Selected Publications

  • Stream macroinvertebrate associations with water chemistry and habitat in low-gradient basins with minimal anthropogenic land use (2025)
    Hydrobiologia 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Taxonomic and functional homogenization of fish assemblages in an Ozark river associated with pasture land use and constructed water bodies (2024)
    Ecology Of Freshwater Fish 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Environmental correlates with fish assemblage change and biotic homogenization across 40 years in an Ozark, <scp>Gravel‐Bed</scp> river basin (2024)
    Ecology Of Freshwater Fish 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Fish assemblage shifts in an Ozark river over 80 years amidst a mosaic of forest regeneration and persistent pasture (2022)
    Ecology Of Freshwater Fish 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Tale of Two Sylamores: Understanding Relationships Among Land Use, Nutrients, and Aquatic Communities Across a Subsidy-Stress Gradient (2019)
    Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Stream Size and Network Position Affect Fish Assemblage Diversity Differently in Headwater Streams of the Interior Highlands, USA (2019)
    Copeia 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Temporal and spatial dynamics of fish community structure during watershed alteration in two Ouachita River systems (2019)
    Ecology Of Freshwater Fish 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Population demographics of American eels <i>Anguilla rostrata</i> in two Arkansas, U.S.A., catchments that drain into the Gulf of Mexico (2016)
    Journal of Fish Biology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Two Catastrophic Floods: Similarities and Differences in Effects on an Ozark Stream Fish Community (2014)
    Copeia 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Population genetics of grotto sculpin (Cottus specus), a new cave-adapted fish species (2014)
    Environmental Biology of Fishes 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Ecological factors influencing movement of creek chub in an intermittent stream of the <scp>O</scp>zark <scp>M</scp>ountains, <scp>A</scp>rkansas (2014)
    Ecology Of Freshwater Fish 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Population ecology and seasonal demography of the endangered grotto sculpin (<i>Cottus specus</i>) (2014)
    Ecology Of Freshwater Fish 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Ecology of the redfin darter and a potential emerging threat to its habitat (2014)
    Environmental Biology of Fishes 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of pool isolation on trophic ecology of fishes in a highland stream (2014)
    Journal of Fish Biology 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Cottus specus, a new troglomorphic species of sculpin (Cottidae) from southeastern Missouri. (2013)
    Zootaxa 8 citations DOI OpenAlex

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