Jessica Clasen
Instructor, Program Coordinator
Science and Technology
Biology
S3616
About
Institute of Urban Ecology Director
Instructor teaching:
- General biology
- Marine biology
- Ecology
- Anatomy and physiology
- Microbiology
Education and credentials
- PhD, British Columbia
- MSc, Arizona State
- BSc, North Carolina
Research summary
Research interests:
- Aquatic microbial ecology
- Microbiology
- Marine biology
- Oceanography
Publications and other research outputs
- Douglas College Human Anatomy & Physiology II
- Viral ecology of lakes: A descriptive and ecological study of viruses that infect phytoplankton
- Climate and anthropogenic change in aquatic environments: A cross ecosystem perspective
- Phosphorus limitation of Daphnia growth: Is it real?
- Carbon: Phosphorus stoichiometry and food chain production
- The effect of host Chlorella NC64A carbon: Phosphorus ratio on the production of Paramecium bursaria Chlorella Virus-1
- Independent gradients of producer, consumer, and microbial diversity in Lake Plankton
- Evidence that viral abundance across oceans and lakes is driven by different biological factors
- Isolation independent methods of characterizing phage communities 1: Strain typing using fingerprinting methods
- Identification of freshwater Phycodnaviridae and their potential phytoplankton hosts, using DNA pol sequence fragments and a genetic-distance analysis
- Infrequent marine–freshwater transitions in the microbial world
- Warming shifts top-down and bottom-up control of pond food web structure and function
- The vulnerability of ecosystem trophic dynamics to anthropogenically induced environmental change: A comparative approach
- Diversity and temporal dynamics of Southern California coastal marine cyanophage isolates
- Kelp forest size alters microbial community structure and function on Vancouver Island, Canada