Brenda Konar

Brenda Konar

Alaska EPSCoR Project Director

Professor

Marine Biology
Marine Invertebrates
Marine Mammals
Marine Plants
Scientific Diving


College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
225 O'Neill
PO Box 757220
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7220
907-474-5028
907-474-5804 (fax)
bhkonar@alaska.edu

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Selected Publications

* = student author

Edwards, M., B. Konar, J-H Kim, S. Gabara, G. Sullaway, T.A. McHugh, M. Spector, and S.L. Small. 2020. Marine deforestation leads to widespread loss of ecosystem function. PLoS ONE.

Ulaski,* B.P., B. Konar, and E.O. Otis. 2020. Seaweed reproduction and harvest rebound in southcentral Alaska: implications for wild stock management. Estuaries and Coasts.

Bland,* A., B. Konar, and M. Edwards. 2019. Spatial trends and environmental drivers of epibenthic shelf community structure across the Aleutian Islands. Continental Shelf Research 175:12鈥29.

Metzger,* J.R., B. Konar, and M.S. Edwards. 2019. Assessing a macroalgal foundation species: community variation with shifting algal assemblages. Marine Biology 166:156.

Duffy, J.E., L. Benedetti-Cecchi, J. Trinanes, F.E. Muller-Karger, R. Ambo-Rappe, C. Bostr枚m, A.H. Buschmann, J. Byrnes, R.G. Coles, J. Creed, L.C. Cullen-Unsworth, G. Diaz-Pulido, C.M. Duarte, G.J. Edgar, M. Fortes, G. Goni, C. Hu, X. Huang, C.L. Hurd, C. Johnson, B. Konar, et al. 2019. Toward a coordinated global observing system for seagrasses and marine macroalgae. Frontiers in Marine Science 6:317.

Konar, B., T.J. Mitchell,* K. Iken, H. Coletti, T. Dean, D. Esler, M. Lindeberg, B. Pister, and B. Weitzman.* 2019. Wasting disease and static environmental variables drive sea star assemblages in the Northern Gulf of Alaska. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 520:151209.

Ebert, T.A., L.M. Barr, J.L. Bodkin, D. Burcham, D. Bureau, H.S. Carson, N. Caruso, J.E. Caselle, J.T. Claisse, S. Clemente, K. Davis, et al. 2018. Size, growth, and density data for shallow鈥恮ater sea urchins from Mexico to the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 1956鈥2016. Ecology 99(3): 761鈥761.