Bryan L. Brown Associate Professor, Aquatic Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech 2125 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061

(540) 231-2065 [email protected] https://mudbuglab.wordpress.com/

Academic Appointments Virginia Tech (Biological Sciences) Associate Professor 2017-present Virginia Tech (Biological Sciences) Assistant Professor 2011-2017 Clemson University (Forestry and Natural Resources) Assistant Professor 2006-2011 Education University of Texas (M. Leibold mentor) Integrative Postdoc 2004-2006 Dartmouth College (K. Cottingham advisor) Biological Sciences Ph.D. 2004 Appalachian State Unv. (R. Creed advisor) Biology MS 1999 Unv. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Biology BS 1995

Publications β = graduate student and postdoctoral authors from Brown lab; γ = undergraduate authors from Brown lab

Creed, R. P., and B. L. Brown. In Press. Multiple mechanisms can stabilize a freshwater cleaning symbiosis. Freshwater Science. Pitt, A. L., J. H. Howard, R. F. Baldwin, E. D. Baldwin, and B. L. Brown. In Press. Small parks as local social-ecological systems contributing to conservation of small isolated and ephemeral wetlands. Natural Areas Journal. Hopkins, M. C., C. A. Thomason, B. L. Brown, L. T. Kirkpatrick, S. L. Paulson, and D. M. Hawley. 2018. Experimental logging alters the abundance and community composition of ovipositing mosquitoes in the southern Appalachians. Ecological Entomology 43:463-472. Patrick, C. J., and B. L. Brown. 2018. Species pool functional diversity plays a hidden role in generating β-diversity. The American Naturalist 191: E159-E170. Brown, B. L., C. Wahl, and C. M. Swan. 2018. Experimentally disentangling the influence of dispersal and habitat filtering on benthic invertebrate community structure. Freshwater Biology 63: 48-61. *featured in special issue on network effects in river ecology Tornwall BMβ, Swan CM, Brown BL. 2017. Manipulation of local environment produces different diversity outcomes depending on location within a river network. Oecologia 184: 663-674 Swan CM and Brown BL. 2017. Metacommunity theory meets restoration practice: Isolation mediates how ecological communities respond to stream restoration. Ecological Applications 27: 2209-2219. Carey, C. C., B. L. Brown, and K. L. Cottingham. 2017. The cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia echinulata increases the stability and network complexity of phytoplankton communities. Ecosphere 8: e01830-n/a. Vander Vorste, R., P. McElmurrayβ, S. Bellβ, K. M. Eliason, and B. L. Brown. 2017. Communication breakdown: Does stream size really explain biodiversity patterns in lotic systems? Diversity 9: 26. doi: 10.3390/d9030026. Brown, B. L., E. R. Sokolβ, J. Skeltonβ, and B. Tornwallβ. 2017. Making sense of metacommunities: dispelling the mythology of a metacommunity typology. Oecologia 183: 643-652. Sokol, E. R.β, B. L. Brown, and J. E. Barrett. 2017. A simulation-based approach to understand how metacommunity characteristics influence emergent biodiversity patterns. Oikos 126: 723- 737. Skelton, Jβ., K. M. Geyer, J. T. Lennon, R. P. Creed, and B. L. Brown. 2017. Multi-scale ecological filters shape the crayfish microbiome. Symbiosis 72: 159-170. Brown, B. L., M. W. Turnbull, J. Skeltonβ, and R. P. Creed. 2016. Ectosymbiotic cleaning mutualists induce down regulation of crayfish immune response genes. Freshwater Crayfish 22: 43-51. Skelton, J.β, R. P. Creed, L. Landler, and B. L. Brown. 2016. Geographic patterns of crayfish symbiont diversity persist over half a century despite seasonal fluctuations. Freshwater Crayfish 22: 9- 18. Thomas, M. J., R. P. Creed, J. Skeltonβ, and B.L. Brown. 2016. Ontogenetic shifts and symbiont succession in a freshwater cleaning symbiosis mutualism. Ecology 97: 1507-1517. Brown, B. L. , A. L. Downing, and M. A. Leibold. 2016. Compensatory dynamics stabilize aggregate community properties in response to multiple types of perturbations. Ecology 97: 2021- 2033. Skelton, J.β, S. Doakγ, M. Leonardγ, R. P. Creed, and B.L. Brown. 2016. The rules for symbiont community assembly change along a mutualism-parasitism continuum. Journal of Animal Ecology 85: 843-853. Skelton, J.β, R.P. Creed, and B.L. Brown. 2015. A symbiont’s dispersal strategy: Condition- dependent dispersal underlies predictable variation in direct transmission among hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20152081. Creed, R. P., J. D. Lomonaco, M. J. Thomas, A. Meeks, and B.L. Brown. 2015. Reproductive dependence of a branchiobdellidan annelid on its crayfish host: Confirmation of a mutualism. Crustaceana 88:385-396. Tornwall, B.β, E. R. Sokolβ, J. Skeltonβ, and B.L. Brown. 2015. Trends in stream biodiversity research since the River Continuum Concept. Diversity 7: 16-35. Sokol, E. R.β, B.L. Brown, C. C. Carey, B. Tornwallβ, C. M. Swan, and J. E. Barrett. 2015. Linking management to biodiversity in built ponds using metacommunity simulations. Ecological Modelling 296: 36-45. Farrell, K. J., R. P. Creed, and B.L. Brown. 2014. Reduced densities of ectosymbiotic worms (Annelida: Branchiobellida) on reproducing female crayfish. Southeastern Naturalist 13:523-529. Swan, C. M., and B.L. Brown. 2014. Using rarity to infer how dendritic network structure shapes biodviersity in riverine communities. Ecography 37: 993-1001. Skelton, J. β, R. P. Creed, and B.L. Brown. 2014. Ontogenetic shift in host tolerance controls initiation of a cleaning symbiosis. Oikos 123: 677-686. Farrell, K.J., R.P. Creed, and B.L. Brown. 2014. Preventing overexploitation in a mutualism: Partner regulation in the crayfish-branchiobdellid symbiosis. Oecologia 174: 501-510. Downing, A., B.L. Brown, and M. A. Leibold. 2014. Multiple diversity-stability mechanisms enhance population and community stability in aquatic food webs. Ecology 95: 173-184. Skelton Jβ, K.J. Farrell, R.P. Creed, B.W. Williams, C. Ames, B.S. Helms, J. Stoekel, and B.L. Brown. 2013. Servants, scoundrels and hitchhikers: The manifold unsung roles of a crayfish ectosymbiont. Freshwater Science 32: 1345-1357. Thomas M.J., R.P. Creed, and B.L. Brown. 2013. The effects of environmental context and initial density on symbiont populations in a freshwater cleaning symbiosis. Freshwater Science 32: 1358-1366. Helms, B., Z. J. Loughman, B.L. Brown, and J. Stoeckel. 2013. Recent advances in crayfish biology, ecology, and conservation. Freshwater Science 32: 1273-1275. Brown, B. L. , R. P. Creed, J. Skeltonβ, M. A. Rollins, and K. J. Farrell. 2012. The fine line between mutualism and parasitism: Complex effects in a cleaning symbiosis demonstrated by multiple field experiments. Oecologia 170: 199-207. Howard J.H., Baldwin R.F., Brown B.L. 2012. Exploratory analysis for complex-life-cycle amphibians: Revealing complex forest-reproductive effort relationships simplified by model selection. Forest Ecology and Management 270: 175-182. Pitt, A. L. β, R. F. Baldwin, D. J. Lipscomb, B.L. Brown, J. E. Hawley, C. M. Allard-Keese, and P. B. Leonard. 2012. The missing wetlands: Using local ecological knowledge to find cryptic ecosystems. Biodiversity and Conservation 21: 51-63. Brown, B. L. , C. M. Swan, D. A. Auerbach, E. H. Campbell Grant, N. P. Hitt, K. O. Maloney, and C. Patrick. 2011. Metacommunity theory as a multispecies, multiscale framework for studying the influence of river network structure on riverine communities and ecosystems. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30: 310-327. Swan, C. M. and B.L. Brown. 2011. Advancing theory of community assembly in spatially structured environments: local vs regional processes in river networks. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30: 232-234. Brown, B. L. and C. M. Swan. 2010. Dendritic network structure constrains metacommunity properties in riverine ecosystems. Journal of Animal Ecology 79: 571-580. Brown, B.L. and R. L. Lawsonβ. 2010. Habitat heterogeneity and activity of an omnivorous ecosystem engineer control stream community dynamics. Ecology 91: 1799-1810. Swan, C. M., B.L. Brown, and C. A. DePalma. 2009. Identifying the relative importance of leaf versus shredder species loss on litter decomposition in streams. International Review of Hydrobiology 94: 452-471. Downing, A.L., Brown, B.L. , Perrin, E.M., Keitt, T.H. & Leibold, M.A. 2008. Environmental fluctuations induce scale-dependent compensation and increase stability in plankton ecosystems. Ecology 89: 3204-3214. Brown, B. L. 2007. Habitat heterogeneity and disturbance influence patterns of community temporal variability in a small temperate stream. Hydrobiologia 586: 93-106. Yoder, J. A., J. L. Tank, B.L. Brown, and H. H. Hobbs III. 2007. Water exchange pertaining to host attachment sites and stream preference in crayfish-associated branchiobdellids, Cambarincola fallax, and Cambarincola ingens (Annelida: Clitellata). Hydrobiologia 592: 523- 533. Cottingham, K. L., J. T. Lennon, and B.L. Brown. 2005. Knowing when to draw the line: designing more informative ecological experiments. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3: 145-152. Brown, B. L., and R. P. Creed. 2004. Host preference by an aquatic ectosymbiotic annelid on 2 sympatric species of host crayfishes. Journal of the North Americian Benthological Society 23: 90-100. Brown, B. L. 2003. Spatial heterogeneity reduces temporal variability in stream insect communities. Ecology Letters 6: 1-10. Brown, B.L., R.P. Creed Jr., and W.E. Dobson. 2002. Branchiobdellid annnelids and their crayfish hosts: Are they engaged in a cleaning symbiosis? Oecologia 132: 250-255. Cottingham, K. L., B.L. Brown, and J. T. Lennon. 2001. Biodiversity may regulate the temporal variability of ecological systems. Ecology Letters 4: 72-85.

Publications (non-peer reviewed) Pitt, A. L.β, C. M. Allard, J. E. Hawley, R. F. Baldwin, and B.L. Brown. 2011. Notophthalmus viridescens (Eastern Newt) Lithobates sylvaticus (Wood Frog) predation. Herpetological Review 42: 263. Pitt, A. L.β, J. E. Hawley, C. M. Allard, R. F. Baldwin, and B.L. Brown. 2011. Notophthalmus viridescens (Eastern Newt) necrophilia and cannibalism. Herpetological Review 42: 258. Cottingham, K. L., J. T. Lennon, and B.L. Brown. 2005. Regression versus ANOVA: The authors reply. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3:358.

Extramural Funding 2017-2020 National Science Foundation (DEB-1655927). Temporal stability of riverine communities in dendritic networks at multiple spatial scales. [Co PIs: Chris Swan (UMBC), Kurt Anderson (UC-Riverside), Eric Sokol (NEON)]. $765,000 ($280,740 to BLB). 2015-2016 Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research: Appalachian Research Initiative for Environmental Science. Evaluation of metrics for assessing stream restoration success and failure in mined areas. [Co PI: Cully Hession (VT)]. $60,000 ($23,000 to BLB) 2014-2015 National Science Foundation (DEB-1406770). Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (student = James Skelton): The axe and wedge of competition shapes symbiont diversity. $20,668 2013-2014 National Science Foundation, LTER Network. A synthesis of LTER community data to test metacommunity theory under different ecological conditions. [Co PIs: Eric Sokolβ and Jeb Barrett (VT)]. $49,000 2010-2014 National Science Foundation (DEB-1025958/1202930). The role of network topology and environmental filtering in shaping the ecology of spatially structured communities. [Co PIs: C. Swan and M. Baker (University of Maryland, Baltimore Co.)], $600,000 ($198,000 to BLB) 2010-2014 National Science Foundation (DEB-0949780/1202930). Parasite or Partner? Causes and consequences of conditional outcomes in a cleaning symbiosis. [Co PIs: Robert Creed (Appalachian State U.), James Stoekel, Brian Helms (Auburn U.)], $596,466 ($204,000 to BLB) 2009-2010 National Park Service. Survey of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates at Kings Mountain National Military Park. [Co PI: John Morse (Clemson Entomology)], $24,873 2008-2011 Environmental Protection Agency. Map inventory and assessment system for geographically isolated wetlands in the Upper Piedmont and Foothills of South Carolina. [Co PIs: Robert Baldwin (Clemson U.)], $203,805 2007-2008 South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Statewide aquatic resources assessment. [Co PIs: Rocky English and Jeremy Pike (Clemson U.)], $40,000

Competitive Intramural Funding 2018 Catawba Sustainability Center. Effects of agricultural runoff on non-native crayfish invasions. $3,975 2017 VT Global Systems Science Destination Area Concept Funding. Working Group on the Science and Policy of Biological Invasions (SciPoBI). [Co-PIs: Erin Hotchkiss, Scott Salom David Haak, Jacob Barney], $10,000 2017 VT Global Change Center Seed Funding. Microbial diversity response to a coal-mining induced salinity gradient in Appalachian headwater streams with possible implications for leaf litter breakdown. $13,863 2017 VT Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science. Base cations as drivers of microbial ecology in freshwater systems: Implications for water quality management and ecosystem resilience. [Co-PIs: Meredith Steele, Brian Badgley, Leigh-Anne Krometis], $40,000 2012 Virginia Bioinformatics/Fralin Institute Small Grants Program. Deciphering the complexity of a Cleaning Symbiosis: Combining Next-Gen Sequencing with Field Experimentation to Elucidate the Microbial Component, $14,156 2012 Fralin Institute Organismal Biology and Ecology. The Core Issue: Biodiversity in the urban hydroscape. [Co-PI: Cayelan Carey (VT)], $7,300 2007 Clemson University Research Committee Grant. State shifts in stream ecosystems through changes in a mutualism involving a strongly-interacting-species, $9,800

Invited Presentations/Organized Sessions (Last 5 years) Ferrum College, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. November 2017. Using a freshwater cleaning symbiosis to understand the biodiversity of symbionts West Virginia State University, College of Science. October 2017. Benthic invertebrates in riverine systems: biology, water quality, and model for community ecology Western Carolina University, Department of Biology. September 2017. Biodiversity and multi- scale assembly processes in symbiotic communities Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Biology. February 2017. Biodiversity and multi- scale assembly processes in symbioses Symposium on Crayfish Biology. March 2016. The crayfish microbiome: Variation due to site, body region, and the influence of ectosymbionts. Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society, Wheeling, WV. L'Université du Québec à Montréal. January 2016. Embracing the complexity of symbiotic systems by combining the ecology of interactions with macroecology. Liberty University. October 2015. Unraveling symbiosis: Symbiosis is aggressive, complicated, and often the furthest thing from pretty. Pennsylvania State University. May 2015. Small things writ large: From pairwise interactions to landscapes in the study of symbiosis. University of California, Riverside. October 2014. Why are there so many kinds of animals…on animals? Society for Ecological Restoration, organized session on urban stream restoration, New Orleans, LA. 2014. Does where matter more than how? Spatial context alters the efficacy of urban stream restoration. Plenary Themed Session: Large Scale Limnology. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR. 2014. Limnologists who get the drift: The structure of river networks dictates the process of community assembly. Clemson University (at invitation of Entomology GSA). April 2013. Macroecology of macroinvertebrates: It’s not all about habitat. James Madison University. October 2012. Fickle Food on a Shifting Plate: Costs, benefits, and regulation of partner activities in a freshwater cleaning symbiosis Virginia Tech, Department of Forestry. November 2011. Fickle food on a shifting plate: Shifting outcomes in the relationship between crayfish and their symbionts.

Invited Working Groups and Workshops sUrBioCity-Deciphering drivers of urban biodiversity across multiple scales. 2017-2019. Funded by sDiv, the Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biology Research. Leipzig, Germany. Organized by Chris Swan and Sandrine Poivone. Ecological Indicators of Restoration Working Group. 2016-2018. Organized by Stefanie Kroll, Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexler University. Chesapeake Bay Program, Conference on Stream Restoration. 2014. Annapolis, Maryland. At

invitation of SESYNC. DIALOG (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography) VII Symposium. 2005. Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL.

Journal Editorships 2016-present Associate Editor, Oecologia 2015-present Associate Editor, Freshwater Science

Mentored Graduate Students and Postdocs (β = grad degree completed) Degree Duration Research topic Savannah Justus M.S. 2017-present Effects of Rhododendron removal on aquatic systems Sara Cathey Ph.D. 2017-present Community stability in river networks Phil McElmurray M.S. 2016-present Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Spencer Bell M.S. 2015-present Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Chelsea Taylorβ M.S. 2013-2016 Dominant species effects in metacommunities Eric Sokol Postdoc 2012-2014 Metacommunities in urban waterbodies Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Brett Tornwallβ Ph.D. 2011-2016 Community structure in riverine networks James Skeltonβ Ph.D. 2010-2015 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Amber Pitt Postdoc 2009-2011 Isolated wetlands Jenna Stanekβ M.S. 2008-2010 Benthic invertebrate metacommunities Raven Lawson M.S. 2007-2009 Priority effects in benthic invertebrate communities

Undergraduate Students in Honors and UG Research Brown lab has mentored a total of 34 undergraduates since 2008 including UG Research, paid, and volunteers Course Duration Research topic Will Martin UG Res 2017-2018 Crayfish invasions Lauren Krauss UG Res 2017-2018 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Brandon Guevara UG Res 2017 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Brigid Emmanuel UG Res 2016-2017 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Leigh Vogelbein UG Res 2015 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Holly Byers UG Res 2014 Community structure in riverine networks Kyle Hicks UG Res 2014 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Leigh Vogelbein Honors 2014 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Kavya Mathur UG Res 2013 Urban Waterbodies Sam Doak UG Res 2012-2014 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Meredith Leonard UG Res 2013-2014 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Nigel Temple UG Res 2013 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Miranda Flood UG Res 2013 Urban Waterbodies Alicia Peters UG Res 2012 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Kerry Jeffries UG Res 2012-2013 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Patty Whitener UR Res 2010-2011 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis Cassandra Smith Honors 2007 Crayfish/branchiobdellidan symbiosis

Awards 2014 Virginia Tech, College of Science Diversity Award 2008 Clemson University Research Grant Committee Award (for funding pilot research). 1999 Cratis T. Williams Award for best Thesis in Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State U. Courses as Primary Instructor Invertebrate (undergraduate, 2011-present). Diversity, function and evolutionary relationships among the invertebrate phyla. We also tend to focus on the odd and strange among the inverts as examples of novel evolutionary strategies.

Core Literature in Ecology (graduate, 2017-present). Seminar focused on historically important work in ecology, evolution, and behavior.

Science and Policy of Invasions (Graduate, 2017). Special topics, team taught, workshop oriented course on exploring issues related to multiple aspects of the invasive species problem.

Quantitative Ecology (graduate; 2007-present). Survey course covering the methodology, usage and application of major statistical techniques in ecology not covered in typical biostatistics courses. Topics include diversity metrics and partitioning, similarity and distance, PCA, NMDS, PCoA, Clustering, and Variation Partitioning. I place a particular emphasis on community field data.

Wetlands Biology (undergraduate/graduate; 2006-2011). Reviews the fundamentals of wetlands biology including soils, , biota, ecology, policy, delineation, and human usage.

Introduction to Methods in Natural Resources: Aquatics (undergraduate; 2006-2011). Introduction to fundamental field practices in aquatic ecology and natural resources. Topics include sampling of benthic macroinvertebrates and their use in water quality measurements, measurement of algae and organic matter, habitat assessment, as well as some selected topics in limnology.

Foundations of Ecology (graduate; 2009). Seminar course focusing on concepts presented in foundational papers in the field of ecology and understanding the current state of those concepts using current literature and discussion.

Programming in R (graduate; 2013). Seminar course offering development in programming and analysis using the R language for statistical computing.

Contributed Papers (last 5 years) Silknetter, Sam, Bryan L. Brown, Robert P. Creed, Emmanuel Frimpong, James Skelton, Brandon Peoples. Mutualism in freshwaters: Current knowledge and future research directions. Annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Detroit, MI. Philip McElmurray, Robert P. Creed, Spencer Bell, Sara Cathey, Savannah Justus, Bryan L. Brown. Motility tradeoffs in symbioses: A collection of interesting hypotheses. Annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Detroit, MI. Brown, Bryan L., Lauren Krauss, Robert P. Creed. 2018. Priority effects in a freshwater cleaning symbiosis. Annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Detroit, MI. Justus, Savannah, Sara Cathey, Bryan L. Brown. 2018. Dynamics of macroinvertebrate drift in stream networks. Annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Detroit, MI. Swan, Christopher M. and Bryan L. Brown. 2017. Spatial constraints on consumer community structure and associated carbon processing in a river network. Annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Raleigh, NC. Bell, Spencer, Robert P. Creed, Bryan L. Brown. 2017. Determining how invasion affects native hosts and their symbionts: A tale of crayfish and their symbiotic worms. Annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Raleigh, NC. Brown, Bryan L., James Skelton, Spencer Bell, Robert P. Creed. 2017. A metacommunity framework for investigating the spread of aquatic invasives. Annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Raleigh, NC. McElmurray, Philip, Robert P. Creed, Bryan L. Brown. 2017. Pinchy patches: Exploring the assembly of symbiotic metacommunities. Annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Raleigh, NC. Brown, B.L., Tornwall, B., and C.M. Swan. 2016. Community traits deviate in response to a disturbance at different locations within a stream network. Annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Sacramento, CA. Tornwall, B., E. Sokol, J. Skelton, B.L. Brown. 2015. Trends in stream biodiversity research since the River Contunuum Concept: A literature review. Annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Milwaukee, WI. Brown, B.L., R.P. Creed, J. Skelton. 2015. Embedded metacommunities in the crayfish- branchiobdellidan cleaning symbiosis: A multi-scale framework for understanding symbiont diversity. Annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Milwaukee, WI. Tornwall, B.M., B.L. Brown, C.M. Swan. 2014. The effect of network location: Manipulation of a local environmental factor leads to different diversity outcomes in headwater and mainstem streams. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR. Skelton, J., R.P. Creed, S.M. Doak, and B.L. Brown. 2014. Size matters and location is everything: Competition and prudent dispersal explain transmission in a freshwater cleaning symbiosis. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR. Landler, L., J. Skelton, M.S. Painter, P.W. Youmans, R. Muheim, B.L. Brown and J.B. Phillips. 2014. Is your worm compass aligned? Ectosymbionts alter crayfish response to Earth’s magnetic fields. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR. Swan, C.M. and B.L. Brown. 2014. Isolation in river networks mediates how ecological communities respond to stream restoration. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR. Sokol, E.R., B.L. Brown, C.C. Carey, B. Tornwall, C.M. Swan. 2014. Linking management to biodiversity in built ponds by coupling field surveys with metacommunity simulations. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR. Thomas, M.J., R.P. Creed, and B.L. Brown. 2014. Ontogenetic shifts in a freshwater cleaning symbiosis mutualism. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR. Brown, BL, CM Swan, and C Wahl. 2013. Metacommunities in river networks. Oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Creed, RP and BL Brown. 2013. Multiple mechanisms of partner regulation may maintain symbiont densities at beneficial levels in a cleaning symbiosis. Oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Skelton, J, BL Brown and RP Creed. 2013. Ontogenetic shifts in partner regulation mechanisms in a freshwater cleaning symbiosis. Oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Brown, BL, RP Creed, and J Skelton. 2013. Ectosymbionts of crayfish influence community structure and ecosystem properties. Oral presentation at Annual Meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Jacksonville, FL. Farrell, KJ, RP Creed, BL Brown. 2013. Microbial inhibition by crayfish hemolymph may explain symbiont loads and partner control behaviors in a cleaning symbiosis. Oral presentation at Annual Meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Jacksonville, FL. Skelton, J, BL Brown, and RP Creed. 2013. Partner control and ontogenetic shifts in a cleaning symbiosis involving crayfish. Oral presentation at Annual Meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Jacksonville, FL. Thomas, MJ, Creed, RP, and BL Brown. 2013. The crayfish-branchiobdellid symbiosis: The effects of worm density and environmental conditions on worm populations. Poster presentation at Annual Meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science, Jacksonville, FL. Sokol, ER, Tornwall, B, Carey, CC, Brown, BL, and CM Swan. 2013. Linking management to metacommunity dynamics in ponds. Oral presentation for Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER meeting, Baltomore, MD. Brown, BL and Swan, CM. 2013. Tests of metacommunity theory using stream restoration sites of the BES. Poster presentation for Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER meeting Service and Leadership Professional 2012-2013 Freshwater Science: Guest editor for special issue on Advances in organizations Crayfish Biology 2011-2015 Society for Freshwater Science: SFS Hynes Award Committee 2009-2010 JNABS: Editor and organizer for special issue on stream metacommunities 2008-2009 North American Benthological Society: Long Range Planning Committee 2006-2007 North American Benthological Society: Organizing and planning committee for 2007 annual meeting

Departmental & 2016-present VT Faculty Senate representative to University Council University 2015-present VT Faculty Senate 2015-2016 VT Transportation and Parking advisory board 2013-2014 VT Biological Sciences Executive Committee 2011-present VT Biological Sciences Diversity Committee 2012-2014 VT Ecology and Evolution Seminar Coordinator 2010-2011 Faculty Senate Select Committee on Workload, Clemson University 2008-2010 ACC UG Research Committee, Clemson University 2008-2009 Faculty advisor for Natural Resources Graduate Student Association, Clemson University 2008-2011 Departmental assessment committee. Clemson University, Forestry and Natural Resources 2007-2010 Departmental Curriculum committee, Clemson University, Forestry and Natural Resources 2007-2008 Ecology Reading Group Coordinator, Clemson University

Peer Reviews Science The American Naturalist Ecology Ecological Applications Ecology Letters Proceedings of the Royal Society Ecological Monographs Oecologia Journal of Animal Ecology Oikos Ecography Ecosphere Ecology and Evolution Limnology and Oceanography Freshwater Biology Ecoscience JNABS/Freshwater Sci. Can. J. Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Trans. Am. Fisheries Society Journal of Plankton Research Aquatic Ecology Hydrobiologia Biological Invasions Aquatic Invasions W. North American Naturalist J. Lake and Reservoir Management Symbiosis J. Applied Ecology Zoological Science Parasites and Vectors

Proposal Reviews 2016 NSF, OPUS (review) and Review Panels 2016 NSF, Dimensions of Biodiversity (review) 2015 NSF, Population and Community Ecology (panel) 2013 CONICYT, Chilean Science Foundation (review) 2012 NSF, Dimensions of Biodiversity (review) 2010 NSF, Population and Community Ecology (review) 2007 NSF, Ecosystem Sciences (review) 2005 Sea Grant (review)

Memberships and Societies Ecological Society of America Society for Freshwater Science American Society for Astacology