Contact Information
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Affiliate, Illinois Natural History Survey
Recent Publications
Douglass, S. A., Palmer, S., McCallum, A. R., Reves, O. P., Robinson, H. A., Rutledge, A. J., Hartman, J. H., Larson, E. R., & Davis, M. A. (2025). Environmental DNA reveals the Salamander Mussel Simpsonaias ambigua alive in Illinois, USA, after a century in obscurity. Ecology, 106(7), Article e70145. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70145
Larson, E. R., Abbott, C. L., Gilmore, S. R., Helbing, C. C., Lopez, M. L. D., Macintosh, H., Stenhouse, L. M., Williams, B. W., & Usio, N. (2025). Genome skimming supports two new crayfish species from the genus Pacifastacus Bott, 1950 (Decapoda: Astacidae). Zootaxa, 5632(3), 501-521. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5632.3.4
Sawyer, E. K., Kreps, T. A., Lodge, D. M., & Larson, E. R. (2025). Long-Term Declines in Body Size of the Invasive Rusty Crayfish (Faxonius rusticus) in Temperate Lakes. Freshwater Biology, 70(1), Article e14366. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.14366
García, S. M., Curtis, A. N., Hartman, J. H., Reinhofer, J. P., Sawyer, E. K., & Larson, E. R. (2024). Does Crayfish Molting Affect Environmental DNA Detectability? Freshwater Crayfish, 29(1), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.5869/fc.2024.v29-1.37
García, S. M., Chun, C. L., Dumke, J., Hansen, G. J. A., Quebedeaux, K. B., Rounds, C., Totsch, A., & Larson, E. R. (2024). Environmental DNA storage and extraction method affects detectability for multiple aquatic invasive species. Environmental DNA, 6(3), Article e557. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.557