Dr. Harvey A. Bootsma
- Ph.D., Limnology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1993
- B.Sc., Marine Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 1985
Dr. Harvey Bootsma in a Canadian limnologist and is an Associate Professor in the School of Freshwater Science at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
Research interests via UWM profile:
"Most of my research is on large lakes, including the Laurentian Great Lakes, the African Great Lakes, and lakes in South America. Some of my specific interests include benthic carbon and nutrient dynamics, structure and function of aquatic food webs, and tropical limnology. However, I am generally interested in the interactions among physical, chemical and biological processes at the whole ecosystem scale, and so my research tends to be collaborative and multidisciplinary, with an emphasis on how land use, climate, and species composition affect ecosystem structure and function."
Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Bootsma has published the following:
Lavrentyev, P. J., H. A. Bootsma, T. H. Johengen, J. F. Cavaletto, and W. S. Gardner. 1998. Microbial plankton response to resource limitation: insights from the community structure and seston stoichiometry in Florida Bay, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 165: 45–57.