Garrett Barr
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
The Environmental Program
King's College
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
This site is a work in progress

Summer / Fall 2008:
A mark-recapture study of lsalamander density in the presence and absence of fish
The nighttime feeding behavior of trout and larval salamanders
Spring 2008:
The behavioral antipredator response of stream invertebrates to fish and salamanders
Causes of changing Paroxetine concentrations in aquatic experiments in the laboratory
Earlier projects at King's College:
The nighttime feeding behavior of trout and larval salamanders
A mark-recapture study of larval two-lined salamander density
Effects of the antidepressant, Paroxetine, on smallmouth bass feeding behavior
The effects of acid deposition on stream salamander and brook trout populations in northeastern Pennsylvania
The effects of trout on larval salamander feeding in streams
Predator-prey interactions: trout
impacts on salamander foraging and morphology
Varela J *, R Potosky *, H Ridall *, and G Barr. 2008. Effects of paroxetine on the predatory behavior of smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu). Poster presented at the Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Ecological Society of America. Wilkes University
Barr GE and KJ Babbitt. 2007. Brook trout and two-lined salamander larvae as predators in streams. Poster presented at the USDA Forest Service, Bartlett Experimental Forest 75th Anniversary Conference, Bartlett, NH.
Barr GE and KJ Babbitt 2007. Trout affect the density, activity, and feeding of a larval Plethodontid salamander. Freshwater Biology 52:1239-48.
Barr GE and KJ Babbitt 2006. Large-scale impacts of trout on stream macroinvertebrate drift and benthic density. Presented at the North American Benthological Society's annual meeting, Anchorage, Alaska.
Barr G. E. & Babbitt K. J. (2002) Effects of biotic and abiotic factors on the distribution and abundance of larval two-lined salamanders (Eurycea bislineata) across spatial scales. Oecologia, 133, 176-185. pdf
Barr G. E. & Babbitt K. J. (2001) A comparison of 2 techniques to sample larval stream salamanders. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 29, 1238-1242.
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