Associate Professor

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

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

Hartman, J. H., Corush, J., Larson, E. R., Tiemann, J. S., Willink, P. W., & Davis, M. A. (2024). Niche conservatism and spread explain introgression between native and invasive fish. Molecular ecology, 33(11), Article e17363. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17363

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