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Professor and Chair of Zoology
Phone: (405)325-6200/0786
Fax: (405)325-6202RM/Lab:SH106A
Dr. Matthews' Web Page
Current Research Interests and Subject Areas Available for Graduate Research
My research is focused on ecology, distribution, and systematics of North American fishes, with emphasis on midwestern or southwestern taxa and systems. The broad areas in which I have greatest interest are (1) structure and long-term stability of local fish assemblages, (2) effects of fish in ecosystems, (3) zoogeography and distributional ecology of native fishes, and (4) ecology of fishes in river-reservoir ecosystems, with emphasis on Lake Texoma (Oklahoma-Texas). I am a Professor of Zoology and a Resident Scientist at the University of Oklahoma Biological Station at Lake Texoma. At the Biological Station I continue to work with (1) two decades of study of community structure and basic ecology of fishes in the reservoir, and (2) experimental studies of effects of fish in stream systems, with focus on large, outdoor artificial streams in our Research Park.
The reservoir research has resulted in large, long-term data sets of fish distribution based on gill netting, electrofishing, shoreline seining, and larval fish trawling, and my graduate students have carried out experimental studies of the effects of fish in the Lake Texoma ecosystem. In the artificial streams, my graduate students, collaborators, and I have carried out experiments on the potential effects of prairie-stream fishes in the Interior Highlands in the event of global change; on the effects of red shiner minnows (Cyprinella lutrensis) within stream ecosystems or on native fishes where it is introduced outside its range; and on dynamics of temporal change in replicated fish communities. Also, with Dr. Edie Marsh-Matthews and Dr. Keith Gido, we have recently carried out experiments on effects of density and of drought conditions on growth, survival, or reproduction of native stream fishes. In addition, research in the experimental streams system now is expanding from my previous work on the algivorous minnow, Campostoma anomalum, to examine effects of other functional groups of fishes in stream ecosystems. PhD candidate Chad Hargrave is currently carrying out experiments in our artificial streams to define the effects of fish diversity and of community composition on ecology of streams.
I would be happy to accept graduate students in any of the areas above, and can accommodate their research in a large new laboratory I have available on the main campus in Norman or as students in residence at the Biological Station, where large, modern laboratories and dorms are available.
To learn more about this research, visit Dr. Matthews' web page.
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
M.S., Arkansas State University
B.S.E., Arkansas State University
Selected publications:
W. J. Matthews and E. Marsh-Matthews. 2006. Temporal chanage in replicated experimental stream fish assemblages: Predictable of not? Freshwater Biology 51:1605-1662.
W. J. Matthews, C. C. Vaughn, K. B. Gido, and E. Marsh-Matthews. 2005. Southern Plains Rivers. Chapter 7 in: Rivers of North America, A. C. Benke and C. E. Cushing, editors. Elsevier Press, Amsterdam.
- W. J. Matthews, K. B. Gido, and F. P. Gelwick. 2004. Fish assemblages of reservoirs, illustrated by Lake Texoma (Oklahoma-Texas, USA) as a representative system. Lake and Reservoir Management 20:219-239.
Matthews, W. J. and E. Marsh-Matthews. 2003. Effects of drought on fish across axes of space, time, and ecological complexity. Freshwater Biology 48:1232-1253.
Matthews, W. J., K. B. Gido and E. Marsh-Matthews. 2001. Density-dependent overwinter survival and growth of red shiners from a southwestern river. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 130:478-488.
Gido, K. B. and W. J. Matthews. 2001. Ecosystem effects of water column minnows in experimental streams. Oecologia 126:247-253.
Gido, K. B., W. J. Matthews and W. C. Wolfinbarger. 2000. Long-term variation in fish assemblages of an artificial reservoir: stability in an unpredictable environment. Ecological Applications 10:1517-1529.
Marsh-Matthews, E. and W. J. Matthews. 2000. Aquatic, terrestrial, and "global" landscape factors: Which most influence local stream fish assemblages?. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 9:9-21.
Matthews, W. J. 1998. Patterns in Freshwater Fish Ecology. Chapman and Hall, New York. (Second Printing by Kluwer Academic Press). 756 pages.
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