Faculty/Staff Profile

James Layzer

Professor and Unit Leader, TN Cooperative Fishery Research Unit

(931) 372-3032
Expertise in effects of stream regulation on aquatic biota; ecology and conservation of freshwater mussels; restoring and maintaining aquatic biodiversity; ecology of stream fishes

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Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 1982.

Research interests: fish ecology; instream flow needs; evolutionary ecology; endangered species; mussel ecology.

Current research projects: life histories of endangered mussels and fish; determining instream flow needs of fish and mussels; propogation of mussels; recovery of endangered species.

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