WILLIAM H. NEILL

Specialty:

Fish Biology and Ecology

Education:

B.S., University of Arkansas, 1965; M.S., 1967; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1971.

Other Professional Experience:

Fishery Biologist (Research), National Marine Fisheries Service, Honolulu Laboratory.

Research Direction: 

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

Approaches include computer-assisted experimentation and modeling. 

Selected Publications:

NEILL, W.H., J.J. MAGNUSON, and G.G. CHIPMAN.  1972.  Behavioral thermoregulation by fishes:  A new experimental approach.  Science 176:1443 1445.

NEILL, W.H., and J.J. MAGNUSON. 1974. Distributional ecology and behavioral thermoregulation of fishes in relation to heated effluent from a power plant at Lake Monona, Wisconsin. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 103:663-710.

NEILL, W.H., and E.D. STEVENS. 1974.  Thermal inertia versus thermoregulation in "warm" turtles and tunas. Science 184:1008-1010. 

STEVENS, E.D., and W.H. NEILL. 1978. B ody-temperature relations of tunas, especially skipjack, p. 315-359. In Fish Physiology (W.S. Hoar and D.J. Randall, eds.),  Vol.7. Academic Press, N.Y., NY. 

NEILL, W.H. 1979. Mechanisms of fish distribution in heterothermal environments. American Zoologist 19:305-317.

FECHHELM, R.G., and W.H. NEILL. 1982. Predicting body-core temperature in fish subjected to fluctuating ambient temperature. Physiological Zoology 55:229-239.

NEILL, W.H. 1984. Behavioral enviroregulation's role in fish migration, p. 61-66. In Mechanisms of Migration in Fishes (J.D. McCleave, G.P. Arnold, J.J. Dodson, and W.H. Neill, eds.). Plenum Press, N.Y., NY. 

BRYAN, J.D., S.W. KELSCH, and W.H. NEILL. 1990. The maximum power principle in behavioral thermoregulation by fishes. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 119:611-621.

HAM, K.D., and W.H. NEILL. 1993. Photoregulatory behavior of bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus, in a virtual light gradient. Environmental Biology of Fishes 37:205-211.

NEILL, W.H., J.M. MILLER, H.W. VAN DER VEER, and K.O. WINEMILLER. 1994. Ecophysiology of marine fish recruitment: A conceptual framework for understanding interannual variability. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 32:135-152.

STARLING, S.M., R.M. BRUCKLER, R.K. STRAWN, and W.H. NEILL. 1995. Predicting the lethality of fluctuating low temperatures to blue tilapia. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 124:112-117.

DOOLEY, K.E., and W.H. NEILL.  1999.  Systems modeling by interdisciplinary teams: Innovative approaches to learning and instruction at a distance.  Journal of Natural Resources and Life Science Education 28:3-8.

KAMPS, R.H., and W.H. NEILL.  1999.  Aquacultural effluents:  Directive signals to the system downstream?  Journal of Chemical Ecology 25:2041-2050.

BUENTELLO, J.A., D.M. GATLIN III, and W.H. NEILL.  2000.  Effects of water temperature and dissolved oxygen on daily feed consumption, feed utilization and growth of channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus). Aquaculture 182:339-352.

WU, H., B.-L. LI, T.A. SPRINGER, and W.H. NEILL.  2000.  Modelling animal movement as a persistent random walk in two dimensions: expected magnitude of net displacement.  Ecological Modelling 132:115-124.

NEILL, W.H., E.L. OBORNY JR., S.R. CRAIG, M.D. MATLOCK, and D.M. GATLIN III.  2003.  Estimating metabolism of fish in aquacultural production systems.  International Journal of Recirculating Aquaculture 4:25-32.

NEILL, W.H., and 14 co-authors.  2004.  Ecophys.Fish:  A simulation model of fish growth in time-varying environmental regimes. Reviews in Fisheries Science 12:233-288.

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