RESEARCH PROJECTS

My research interests lie in all areas of insect ecology and biology. Current work includes studies in community structure, biodiversity, faunistics and symbiosis. My major current research projects are as follows

1. Detecting human-induced insults in running water ecosystems

2. Hurricane effects on terrestrial insect communities

3. Spatial ecological of insects

4. Symbiotic interactions in lotic ecosystems

5. Total insect bio-inventory project (TIBP) of the Mobile/Tensaw Delta

6. University of South Alabama Arthropod Depository (USAAD):

7. North American black fly data-base

8. Dragonfly fauntics of coastal Alabama

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS

McCreadie JW, Adler PH, Grillet ME, Hamada N. 2007. Sampling and statistics in understanding the distribution of black flies (Simuliidae). Acta Entomol. Serbica Supp. (in press).

Vojvodic S, McCreadie JW. 2007.  The effect of temperature and host species on the development of the trichomycete Smittium culisetae (Zygomycota). Mycologia (accepted)

Vojvodic S,  Nelder MP, McCreadie JW. 2007.  Influence of fixation of the fixation of the blackfly Similium vittatum on morphological characters of the trichomycete Simulium culisetae Acta Entomol. Serbica Supp. (in press).

Vojvodic S, McCreadie JW. 2007.  The effect of temperature and host species on the development of the trichomycete Smittium culisetae (Zygomycota). Mycologia (in press)

McCreadie JW and Adler PH. 2006. Ecoregions as Predictors of Lotic Assemblages of Blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae). Ecography 29: 603-613.

Nelder MP, Beard CE, Adler PH, Kim S and McCreadie JW. 2006. Harpellales (Zygomycota: Trichomycetes) associated with black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae): world review and synthesis of their ecology and taxonomy. Fungal Diversity 22: 121-169.

Reeves WK, Scarbrough AG and McCreadie JW. 2006. New records for Leptopteromia

americana Hardy (Diptera: Asilidae) in Alabama. Proceedingof the Entomological Society of Washington. 108: 739.

Major KM, Kirkwood AE, Major CS,  McCreadie JW and Henley WJ. 2005. In situ studies of algal biomass in relation to physicochemical characteristics of the Great Salt Plains, Oklahoma, USA Saline Systems, 1 (11) 1-10.

McCreadie JW, Adler PH, Hamada N. 2005. Patterns of species richness for blackflies

(Diptera:Simuliidae) in the Nearctic and Neotropical regions. Ecological Entomology 30: 201-209.

McCreadie JW,  Beard CE and Adler PH. 2005. Context-dependent symbiosis between black  flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) and trichomycete fungi (Harpellales: Legeriomycetaceae) Oikos 108: 362-370.

McCreadie JW, Ihle DT and Adler PH. 2005. A preliminary survey of the larval dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) of the lower Mobile/Tensaw Delta. Southeastern Naturalist 4: 321-334.

MP Nelder, McCreadie JW and Beard CE. 2005. Laboratory investigations of trichomycete prevalence, abundance, and fecundity in a Smittium-simuliid model. Mycologia 97: 338-345.

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CURRENT FUNDING

National Science Foundation. A bio-inventory of the Mobile / Tensaw delta before and after Hurricane Katrina $ 97,730

National Science Foundation. Research Experience for Undergraduates. $ 6,000

Enivironmental Protection Agency.  Biodiversity of Diptera and Odonata in relation to ecosystem health of the Mobile/Tensaw Delta (EPA) $ 56,028

Enivironmental Protection Agency. A multifacted approach for detecting Human-induced insults in the Mobile/Tensaw Delta. $ 242,893

Enivironmental Protection Agency (supplement). A bio-inventory of the Mobile / Tensaw delta before and after Hurricane Katrina $ 20,000