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Lytle Lab

Department of Biology
Oregon State University

Under Construction 08/2023: Our website is receiving updates and a facelift this summer. All the information from the previous website is still here but it may be more difficult to navigate. Thanks for your patience!

Welcome

Our lab uses evolutionary ecology to understand how organisms and communities are shaped by disturbances such as floods, droughts, and dams. Much of our focus is on aquatic insects, but lab members also work on projects involving fish, frogs, and riparian plants. Current projects examine the evolution of species in regulated rivers, population dynamics and biodiversity estimation in desert streams, management of dammed rivers with prescribed flow regimes, and theory of interaction-neutral community models.

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