Staff Member
Doug Leasure
Post Doc
Email: dleasure@uark.edu
Biography
Bachelor's of science in biology earned from University of Arkansas--Fort Smith. Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Arkansas studying spatial ecology of endangered American burying beetles. . Multi-scale landscape ecology and predictive modeling using a combination of field observations, GIS scripting, and statistical analyses. Current research applications include hydrological modeling to establish environmental flow standards and also conservation and distribution modeling of the terrestrial endangered American burying beetle and the aquatic Sulphur springs diving beetle. . Past lab courses taught include Biometry, Zoology, Principles of Biology, Mammalogy, and Fish Biology.
| Research Publications | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Lynch, D.T., D.R. Leasure and D.D. Magoulick. 2019. Flow alteration-ecology relationships in Ozark Highland streams: Consequences for fish, crayfish, and macroinvertebrate assemblages. Science of the Total Environment 672:680-697. DOI.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.383 | April 2019 |
| Lynch, D.T., D.R. Leasure and D.D. Magoulick. 2018. The influence of drought on flow-ecology relationships in Ozark Highland streams. Freshwater Biology 63:946–968. DOI:10.1111/fwb.13089 | July 2018 |
| Leasure, D.R., D.D. Magoulick and S. D. Longing. 2016. Natural flow regimes of the Ozark-Ouachita Interior Highlands region. River Research and Applications 32:18-35. DOI:10.1002/rra.2838 | January 2016 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A., D.R. Leasure and D.D. Magoulick. 2019. Flow-ecology relationships are spatially structured and differ among flow regimes. Journal of Applied Ecology 56:398-412. DOI:10.1111/1365‐2664.13297 | February 2019 |
| Presentations | Presentation Date |
|---|---|
| Magoulick, D.D. and D.R. Leasure. 2016. Temporal variation in flow alteration of intermittent and perennial streams in the Interior Highlands. Plenary-Themed Special Session on Eco-hydrology of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams in the face of a changing climate, Society for Freshwater Sciences Meeting, Sacramento, California. | May 2016 |
| Magoulick, D.D. and D.R. Leasure. 2016. Flow alteration of intermittent and perennial streams in the Interior Highlands. Arkansas Wildlife Action Plan Meeting, Mount Magazine, Arkansas. | September 2016 |
| Lynch, D.T., D.R. Leasure and D.D. Magoulick. 2016. The influence of drought on flow-ecology relationships in Ozark Highland streams. Symposium on Ecological Flow Science and Policy: Protecting Stream Systems Today; Preparing for Tomorrow, American Fisheries Society, Kansas City, Missouri. | August 2016 |
| Lynch, D.T., D.R. Leasure and D.D. Magoulick. 2016. The influence of drought on flow-ecology relationships in Ozark Highland streams. Plenary-Themed Special Session on Climate and drought effects on mountain stream ecosystems, Society for Freshwater Sciences Meeting, Sacramento, California. | May 2016 |
| Leasure, D.R. and D.D. Magoulick. 2014. A foundation for Arkansas E-flows: Hydrologic classification and flow alteration modeling. Special Session on Environmental Flows: What, Why and How?, Arkansas Water Resources Conference, Fayetteville, Arkansas. | July 2014 |
| Leasure, D.R. and D.D. Magoulick. 2014. A foundation for Arkansas E-flows: Hydrologic classification and flow alteration modeling. Arkansas Wildlife Action Plan Conference, Mount Magazine, Arkansas. | September 2014 |
| Dodd, A.K., D.R. Leasure, D.D. Magoulick and M.A. Evans-White. 2017. Stream metabolism in two dominant north Arkansas flow regimes. Symposium on Moving forward in flow ecology: identifying and testing key hypotheses, Society for Freshwater Science, Raleigh, North Carolina. | June 2017 |
| Dodd, A.K., D.R. Leasure, D.D. Magoulick and M.A. Evans-White. 2016. Characterizing two natural flow regimes of the Ozark Highlands and Boston Mountains, Arkansas, USA. Society for Freshwater Science, Sacramento, California. | May 2016 |
| Classification of Arkansas Flow Regime, Regional Ecological-flow Response Relationships and Environmental Flows Assessment of the Ozark Region. Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Annual Meeting. Mayflower, Arkansas. April 2015. | April 2015 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A., D.R. Leasure and D.D. Magoulick. 2016. Spatial auto-correlation of fish traits across hydrologic regimes and implications for developing ecological-flow relationships. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. New Orleans, Louisiana. | July 2016 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A., D.R. Leasure and D.D. Magoulick. 2016. Hydrologic regimes as potential drivers of morphologic divergence in fish. Symposium on Ecological Flow Science and Policy: Protecting Stream Systems Today; Preparing for Tomorrow, American Fisheries Society, Kansas City, Missouri. | August 2016 |
| Bruckerhoff, L.A., D.D. Magoulick and D.R. Leasure. 2015. Trait composition of fish assemblages across hydrologic regimes. Symposium on Recent Advances in Establishing Fish-Habitat Relationships in Lotic Systems, American Fisheries Society, Portland, Oregon. | August 2015 |
| Baecher, J., D.R. Leasure, D.T. Lynch, and D.D. Magoulick. 2014. Influence of land use and hydrologic disturbance on crayfish assemblages. Plenary-Themed Special Integrated Session on Large-scale limnology – Integrating across landscapes to understand regional controls on biodiversity and nutrient cycles, Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon. | May 2014 |
| Technical Publications | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Leasure, D.R. and L.A. Bruckerhoff. 2016. Quantification of hydrologic alteration and relationships to biota in Arkansas streams: Development of tools and approaches for un-gaged streams. Final Report prepared for the State Wildlife Grant program of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Little Rock, Arkansas. | December 2016 |