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Carol Johnston
Associate Professor

(334)-844-1781
johnsc5@auburn.edu

Field of Specialization
Behavioral Ecology & Conservation

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  • Professional Affiliations
  • Special Honors & Awards
  • Research
  • Publications

Member:

Alabama Fisheries Association

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

Association of Southeastern Biologists

International Society of Behavioral Ecologists

Southeastern Fishes Council

Elected positions:

Board of Governors, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

President, Southeastern Division American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1998

President, Mississippi Chapter, American Fisheries Society,  1994-1996

Professional Service:

            Editorial Board, Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 2001-present

            Editorial Board, Copeia, 2001

Long-range planning committee, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

Chair, student awards committee, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 2003

National Science Foundation Panelist, Field Stations and Marine Labs, June 2001, May 2002, June 2004

Invited lecturer and meeting summary 'Linking ecology and individual behavior of freshwater fishes', Silkeborg, Denmark

Invited to organize symposium ‘Conservation and reproductive biology of minnows’, Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution of Fishes meeting, Athens, GA 2000


Golden Key Honor Society, Auburn University

Rise to the Future Award, USDA Forest Service, Washington; 1993

Stoye award for the best student paper in Ecology and Ethology, 1992 meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

            Excellent teacher rating, University of Illinois Biology program, 1992

            Edwin M. Banks Memorial Award for the outstanding graduate student in Ethology,                              Department of Ecology, Ethology and Evolution, University of Illinois, 1991.


Behavioral ecology and conservation of fishes, with emphasis on acoustic communication and spawning behavior of North American fishes.

Title Journal Year
Geographical divergence of acoustic signals in Cyprinella galactura, the whitetail shiner (Cyprinidae)  Animal Behavior  2008 
Learned or innate production of acoustic signals in fishes: a test using a cyprinid  Environmental Biology of Fish  2007 
Habitat Use of the Shoal Bass, Micropterus cataractae, in an Alabama Stream  Journal of Freshwater Ecology  2007 
Production of acoustic signals during aggression in Coosa bass, Micropterus coosae  Evironmental Biology of Fishes  2007 
Sound production and associated behaviors in Cyprinella galactura  Environmental Biology of Fishes  2007 
Susceptibility of Ten Fish Species to Electroshock-Induced Mortality  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  2004 
Fish assemblage recovery and persistence  Ecology of Freshwater Fish  2004 
Changes in the Fish Assemblage of Bear Creek (Tennessee River Drainage) Alabama and Mississippi: 1968-2000  Southeastern Naturalist  2004 
Sound production in Codoma ornata (Girard) (Cyprinidae)  Environmental Biology of Fishes  2003 
Sound production in sturgeon Scaphirhynchus albus and S. platorynchus (Acipenseridae)  Environmental Biology of Fishes  2003 
Seasonal, diel and spawning habitat of the rare muscadine darter (Percina sp.) in the Conasauga river, Georgia.  Southeastern Fishes Council Proceedings  2002 
Nest site selection and aspects of the reproductive biology of the pygmy sculpin (Cottus paulus) in Coldwater Spring, Calhoun County, Alabama  Ecology of Freshwater Fish  2001 
Allopaternal Care in the Pygmy Sculpin (Cottus pygmaeus)  Copeia  2000 
Sound Production during the Spawning Season in Cavity-Nesting Darters of the Subgenus Catonotus (Percidae: Etheostoma)  Copeia  2000 
Sound Production in Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque) (Cyprinidae)  Copeia  2000 
Movement patterns of imperiled blue shiners ( Pisces: Cyprinidae ) among habitat patches  Ecology of Freshwater Fish  2000 
Movement Patterns of Stream-Dwelling Sunfishes: Effects of Pool Size  Journal of Freshwater Ecology  2000 
Movement Patterns of Stream Fishes in a Ouachita Highlands Stream: An Examination of the Restricted Movement Paradigm  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  1999 
The relationship of spawning mode to conservation of North American minnows (Cyprinidae)  Environmental Biology of Fishes  1999 
Laboratory observations of spawning behavior in two species of snubnose darters, Etheostoma colorosum, and, E. tallapoosae  Southeastern Fishes Council Proceedings  1999 
Retention of passive integrated transponder ( PIT ) tags for individual identification of warmwater stream fishes  Southeastern Fish Council Proceedings  1999 
Life-History Traits of the Bluenose Shiner, Pteronotropis welaka (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)  Copeia  1999 
Observational notes on the spawning behavior of the blue shiner ( Cyprinelle caerulea ) and the holiday darter ( Etheostoma brevirostrum ), two rare fishes of the Conasauaga River, Georgis and Tennessee  Southeastern Fishes Council Proceedings  1997 
MICROHABITAT PARAMETERS AND LIFE-HISTORY CHARACTERISTICS OF FALLICAMBARUS GORDONI FITZPATRICK, A CRAYFISH ASSOCIATED WITH PITCHER-PLANT BOGS IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI  Journal of Crustacean Biology  1997 
Parallel swims as a means of intra- and interspecific assessment in stream fishes  Environmental Biology of Fishes  1996 
Life history of the Yazoo darter ( Percidae: Etheostoma raneyi ), a species endemic to North-central Mississippi  Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany  1996 
Spawning behavior of the paleback darter, Etheostoma pallididorsum, ( Percidae )  The Southwestern Naturalist  1995 
Introduced species of fishes in the southern appalachians: consequences for conservation  Journal of the Tennessee Acadmy of Science  1995 
Nest association in fishes: evidence for mutualism  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  1994 
The benefit to some minnows of spawning in the nests of other species  Enviornmental Biology of Fishes  1994 
Spawning behavior of the goldstripe darter ( Etheostoma parvipinne Gilbert and Swain )  Copeia  1994 
REPRODUCTIVRE BEHAVIOR OF THE RAINBOW SHINER (NOTROPIS CHROSOMUS) AND THE ROUGH SHINER (NOTROPIS BAILEYI), NEST ASSOCIATES OF THE BLUEHEAD CHUB (NOCOMIS LEPTOCEPHALUS) (PISCES: CYPRINIDAE) IN THE AlABAMA RIVER DRAINAGE  Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science  1994 
The evolution of complex reproductive stategies in north american minnows ( Cyrinidae )  (Book chapt.) Systematics, historical ecology, and North American freshwater fishes  1992 
Discovery of the threespine stickleback ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ) ( Pisces: Gasterosteidae ) in the Lake Michigan drainage, Illinois  Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science  1991 
Spawning activities of Notropis chlorocephalus, Notropis chiliticus and Hybopsis hypsinotus, nest associates of Nocomis leptocephalus in the southeastern United States, with comments on nest association ( Cypriniformes: Cyrinidae  Brimleyana  1991 
Spawning in the creek chubsucker, Erimyzon oblongus, with a review of spawning behavior in suckers (Catostomidae)  Enviornmental Biology of Fishes  1990 
Redescription of Semotilus thoreauianus Jordan, 1877, a Cyprinid fish of the southeastern United States  Copeia  1990 
THE BREEDING BEHAVIOR OF OPSOPOEODUS EMILLAE (CYPRINIDAE) AND ITS PHYLOGENETIC IMPLICATIONS.  Copeia  1990 
The spawning behavior of the Saffron darter ( Etheostoma flavum )  Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Science  1989 
Spawning in the eastern sand darter, Ammocrypta pellucida ( Pisces: Percidae ), with comments on the phylogeny of Ammocrypta and related taxa  Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Science  1989 
SPAWNING IN THE BANDFlN SHINER, NOTROPIS ZONISTIUS (PISCES: CYPRINIDAE)  Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science/jpeg  1988 

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