Vita
Education
University of Illinois 1964-1969 B.S.
Biology
University of Illinois 1969-1970 M.S.
Zoology
University of North Carolina 1970-1971 Ph.D.
Environmental Biology
1974-1979
Professional Positions
Aquatic Biology Branch 1972-1974 Aquatic
Biologist
U.S. Army Environmental
Hygiene Agency
Edgewood, Maryland
Virginia Commonwealth University 1979-1985 Assistant Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University 1985-1990 Associate Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University 1990-present Professor and Chair
Professional Affiliations
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society of Limnology and
Oceanography
Ecological Society of America
North American Benthological
Society
Societas Internationalis Limnologie
Honors and Awards
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Recent Publications
Kirk, D.J. and L.A. Smock. In press. Interspecific and intraspecific
interactions between crayfish and hellgrammites and the influence of
predatory fish. American Midland Naturalist.
Benke, A.C., A.D. Huryn, L.A. Smock and J.B. Wallace. 1999.
Length-mass relationships for freshwater macroinvertebrates in North
America with particular reference to the southeastern United States.
Journal of the North American Benthological Society 18:308-343.
Smock, L.A. 1999. Integrating wetlands into benthic science.
Bulletin of the North American Benthological Society 16:269-274.
Smock, L.A. 1999. Riverine floodplain forests of the southeastern
United States: invertebrates in an aquatic-terrestrial ecotone.
Chapter 7 in D. Batzer and S. Wissinger (editors).
Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and
Management. John Wiley & Sons.
Pagels, J.F., L.A. Smock and S.H. Sklarew. 1998. The water shrew,
Sorex palustris Richardson (Insectivora:Soricidae), and its
habitat in Virginia. Brimleyana 25:120-13.
Smock, L.A. 1997. Organic matter dynamics in Buzzards Branch, a
blackwater stream in Virginia, USA. In J.R. Webster and J.L. Meyer
(editors). Stream organic matter budgets. Journal of the North
American Benthological Society 16:54-58.
Smock, L.A. 1996. Macroinvertebrate movements: drift, colonization
and emergence. Chapter 17 in F. R. Hauer and G. A. Lamberti
(editors). Methods in Stream Ecology. Academic Press, San Diego.
Fuss, C.L. and L.A. Smock. 1996. Spatial and temporal variation of
microbial metabolism in a blackwater stream. Freshwater Biology
36:339-349.
Smock, L.A. and S. B. Gazzera. 1996. Effects of experimental
acidification on a southeastern U.S.A. blackwater stream. Journal of
Freshwater Ecology 11:81-90.
Balfour, D.L. and L.A. Smock. 1995. Distribution, age structure, and
movements of the freshwater unionid mussel Elliptio complanata
(Mollusca:Unionidae) in a headwater stream. Journal of Freshwater
Ecology 10:255-268.
Smock, L.A. 1994. Movements of invertebrates between stream channels
and forested floodplains. Journal of the North American
Benthological Society 13:524-531.
Smock, L.A., L.C. Smith, J.B. Jones, Jr., and S.M. Hooper. 1994.
Effects of drought and a hurricane on a coastal headwater stream.
Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 131:25-38.
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