Amanda Klemmer

Expertise

Coastal and marine topics, Ecology, Environmental sciences, Freshwater

Klemmer studies food webs that span land-water ecosystems. She focuses on how seaweed harvest impacts rockweed food webs in the rocky-intertidal of Maine, and how new species affect high-elevation pond food webs in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

Appointment details

Klemmer balances time between leadership in the Graduate School (50%), teaching courses about general ecology as an associate professor in the School of Biology and Ecology (25%), and research on food webs, aquatic / terrestrial connections, cross-ecosystem subsidies, and invertebrate communities (25%).

Klemmer’s work is supported by:

• The University of Maine Graduate School
• School of Biology and Ecology at the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture
• Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station

Experiment Station contributions

• Current project: Anthropogenic effects on food webs that cross aquatic-terrestrial ecosystems. Hatch project number ME022322.