Philip Lienesch    Associate Professor, Department of Biology Western Kentucky University. Bowling Green, KY 42101 (270) 745-6006 (w) (270) 745-6856 (fax) TCNW 213 email: Philip.Lienesch@wku.edu Office Hours

Education: BS Towson State University, 1989 MS James Madison University, 1991 PhD University of Oklahoma, 1997

Instructional Areas:

• Current Semester Courses
• Bio 224 ANIMAL BIOLOGY AND DIVERSITY
• Bio 224  HONORS ANIMAL BIOLOGY AND DIVERSITY 
• Bio 225 ANIMAL BIOLOGY AND DIVERSITY LAB
• Bio 458(G)  FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
  

• Bio 122 BIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS: EVOLUTION, DIVERSITY, AND ECOLOGY
• Bio 224 ANIMAL BIOLOGY AND DIVERSITY
• Bio 224  HONORS ANIMAL BIOLOGY AND DIVERSITY 
• Bio 225 ANIMAL BIOLOGY AND DIVERSITY LAB
• Bio 456(G) ICHTHYOLOGY
• Bio 458(G) FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
  
• Bio 675 PRINCIPLES OF ICHTHYOLOGY
  
• Bio 475/675 WATERSHED ECOLOGY
• Bio 475/675  MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC LANDS
• Bio 475/475G VERTEBRATE NATURAL HISTORY
• Study Abroad - The Splendors of Coral Reefs - May 2005
• Study Abroad - German Language and Culture - May 2009
  

• Jacob Fose,  MS 2013, Evaluation of reproduction in a failing fishery.
  
• Derek Rupert, MS 2011, Fisheries management in reclaimed strip mines.
  

• Pete Zervas, MS 2010, Life history of yellow bass in Barren River Lake. Environmental Consultant, Murfreesboro, TN.
  
• Kerstin Edberg, MS 2009, The effects of a reservoir on genetic isolation in two species of darters. PhD student at the St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO.
  
• Mario Sullivan, MS 2008, Effects of dams on stream fish communities upstream.  PhD student at Texas State University, San Marcos.
  
• Michael Ruhl, MS 2005, Flow Reversal Events Increase the Abundance of Nontroglobitic Fish in the Subterranean Rivers of Mammoth Cave National Park.  Fisheries Biologist, Yellowstone National Park, WY.
  
• Zacchaeus Compson, MS 2004, Trophic Interactions Within Mammoth Cave National Park.  PhD Candidate, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.

Research Interests:  Fish assemblages in Mammoth Cave National Park Community structure and food webs in arctic Alaskan lakes Distribution of stream fishes in response to anthopogenic changes to the environment

Publications:

Lienesch,  Philip W., Michael E. McDonald, Anne E. Hershey, W. John O'Brien & Neil D. Bettez. 2005. Effects of whole-lake experimental fertilization on lake trout in a small oligotrophic arctic lake.  Hydrobiologia  548:51-66.

Lienesch, Philip W. and M. Gophen. 2005.  Size-selective predation by inland silversides on an exotic cladoceran, Daphnia lumholtzi. The Southwestern Naturalist.  The Southwestern Naturalist 50(2):158-165.

Hershey, Anne E. and 13 others. 2006. Effects of landscape factors on fish distributions in arctic Alaskan lakes.  Freshwater Biology 51:39-55.

Lienesch, Philip W. and M. Gophen. 2001. Predation by inland silversides on an exotic cladoceran, Daphnia lumholtzi, in Lake Texoma, U.S.A. Journal of Fish Biology 59:1249-1257.

Hobbie, John E., Anne E. Hershey, Philip W. Lienesch, Michael E. McDonald, George W. Kling, and W. John O'Brien. 2001.  Studies of Freshwaters on the North Slope. In:Fifty more years below zero: tributes and meditations on the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory's first half century at Barrow, Alaska. Edited by Dave Norton. U. of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.

Lienesch, Philip W., William I. Lutterschmidt, and Jacob F. Schaefer. 2000. Seasonal and long-term changes in the fish assemblage of a small stream isolated by a reservoir.  The Southwestern Naturalist 45(3):274-288.

Lienesch, Philip W. and William J. Matthews. 2000. Daily fish and zooplankton abundances in the littoral zone of Lake Texoma, Oklahoma-Texas, in relation to abiotic variables.  Environmental Biology of Fishes 59(3):271-283.

Gido, Keith B., Jacob F. Schaefer, Kirsten Work, Philip W. Lienesch, Edie Marsh-Matthews, and William J. Matthews. 1999. Effects of red shiners (Cyprinella lutrensis) on Red River pupfish (Cyprinodon rubrofluviatilis). The Southwestern Naturalist 44:287-295.

Taylor, Christopher M. and Philip W. Lienesch. 1996. Regional parapatry of the congeneric cyprinids Lythrurus snelsoni and L. umbratilis: Species replacement along a complex environmental gradient. Copeia 1996:493-496.

Taylor, Christopher M. and Philip W. Lienesch. 1995. Environmental correlates of distribution and abundance for Lythrurus snelsoni: a range-wide analysis of an endemic fish species. The Southwestern Naturalist 40(4): 373-378.

Leisure Interests:Outdoor activities (fishing, mountain biking, canoeing, camping, and hiking with dog).