Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

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William H. Neill

William H. Neill
Title Professor
Expertise Fish physiology, behavior, autecology
Education B.S., University of Arkansas
M.S., University of Arkansas
Ph.D, University of Wisconsin
Office Phone (979) 845-5759
Office Fax  
Email w-neill@tamu.edu
Office 212B Nagle Hall
Web Site http://wfsc.tamu.edu/faculty/neill/neill.cfm

Current Research

Biophysical, physiological and behavioral bases of fish ecology, in the context both of fisheries and aquaculture. Special interests include fishes'

  1. mechanisms and capacity for growth and production;
  2. environmental optima and tolerance limits;
  3. physiological and behavioral responses to environmental heterogeneity; and,
  4. emergence of autecological relations at the levels of cohort, population and community. 

Approaches include computer-assisted experimentation and modeling. 

Recent Publications

  • Fontaine, L.P., K.W. Whiteman, P. Li, G.S. Burr, K.A. Webb, J. Goff, D.M. Gatlin III, W.H. Neill, K.B. Davis, and R.R. Vega.  2007.  Effects of temperature and feed energy on the performance of juvenile red drum. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 136:1193-1205.
  • Li, P., D.M. Gatlin III, and W.H. Neill.  2007.  Dietary supplementation of a purified nucleotide mixture transiently enhanced growth and feed utilization of juvenile red drum Sciaenops ocellatus.  J. World Aquacult. Soc.38:281-286. 
  • Ma, L., E. Saillant, D.M. Gatlin III, W.H. Neill, R.R. Vega, and J.R. Gold.  2007.  Heritability of cold tolerance in red drum.  N. Amer. J. Aquaculture 69: 381-387.
  • Cornick, L.A., W.H. Neill, and W.E. Grant.  2006. Assessing competition between Steller sea lions and the commercial groundfishery in Alaska: A bioenergetics modelling approach.  Ecol. Modelling 199:107-114
  • Bhuthimethee, M., N.O. Dronen, and W.H. Neill.  2005.  Metazoan parasite communities of sentinel bluegill caged in two urbanizing streams, San Antonio, Texas.  J. Parasitol. 91:1358-1367.