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Caroly Shumway

Senior Scientist -
New England Aquarium
Adjunct Professor - Boston University

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  Adam Dobberfuhl     Graduate Student

  Justin Scace
Research Assistant

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Pollen AA, Dobberfuhl AP, Igulu MM, Scace J, Renn SCP, Shumway CA, Hofmann HA (2006, in revision) Environmental complexity and social organization sculpt the brain in Lake Tanganyikan cichlid fish. Brain Behav Evol.

Shumway, C.A., H.A. Hofmann, A. P. Dobberfuhl (2006, in revision). A new video-based technique for quantifying habitat complexity in aquatic ecosystems. Freshwater Biology.

Dobberfuhl, A., J. Ullmann, C.A. Shumway (2005). Visual acuity, environmental complexity, and social organization in African cichlid fishes . Behav. Neurosci . 119(6).1648-1655. (.PDF)

Shumway, C.A., J. Morissette, and J.M. Bower (2005). Mechanisms underlying reorganization of fractured tactile cerebellar maps following deafferentation in developing and adult rats. J. of Neurophysiology. 94:2630-2643. (.PDF)

Shumway, C.A., C. Leveque, D. Paugy, G.G. Teugels, M. Poll and J.-P. Gosse (2004) Field Guide to the Fishes of theDemocratic Republic of Congo, Excluding Lake Tanganyika. Report financed by USAID. CREDP is implemented by Innovative Resources Management. New England Aquarium Press, Boston. 139 pp.

Shumway, C.A., D. Musibono, S. Ifuta, J. Sullivan, R. Schelly, J. Punga, J.-C. Palata, and V. Puema (2003). Congo River Environment and Development Project (CREDP). Biodiversity survey: Systematics, Ecology, and Conservation Along the Congo River. Sept.-Oct. 2002. Report financed by USAID. CREDP is implemented by Innovative Resources Management. New England Aquarium Press, Boston. 160 pp.

Shumway, C.A. (2001). The role of aquariums in aquatic conservation. Invited paper. Marine Technology Society Journal. 35(1): 63-68.

Shumway, C.A. (1999) Forgotten Waters: Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems in Africa. Strategies for Biodiversity Conservation. A Boston University publication. Edited and printed with support from USAID, the Biodiversity Support Program (a USAID-funded consortium of the World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and World Resources Institute), and the New England Aquarium. 173 pp.

Shumway, C.A. (1999) A neglected science: applying behavior to aquatic conservation. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 55(1-2): 183-201.

Shumway, C.A., Morissette, J., P. Gruen , and J.M. Bower (1999) Plasticity in cerebellar tactile maps in adult rats. J. of Comp. Neurol. 413: 583-592.

Shumway, C.A., M. Wilson, and L. Kaufman (1998) Training in Aquatic Conservation Science and Resource Management. The Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology, Boston University, Working Paper #1. A report produced for the Packard Foundation, under contract to The Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia University.

Shumway, C.A. (1995) The conservation and utilization of biological resources in PNG: An exploration of the problems, pitfalls, and successes in conserving biodiversity with income-generating activities. Proceedings of the 20th Waigani Seminar on Environment and Development in PNG: up to 2000 and beyond, Univ. of Papua New Guinea Press, Papua New Guinea.

Gonzalez, L., C. Shumway, J. Morissette, and J.M. Bower (1993) Developmental plasticity in cerebellar tactile maps: fractured maps retain a fractured organization. J. Comp. Neurol. 332:487-498.

Boyd, R., D. Dahlsten, and C. Shumway (1991) Deforestation and reforestation in Costa Rica: The TRIALS project at La Selva, Costa Rica. In Tropical Diversity and Conservation OTS 90-10, edited by D. Gill.

Shumway, C.A. (1989) Multiple electrosensory maps in the medulla of weakly electric gymnotiform fish. II. Anatomical differences. J. of Neuroscience 9(12):4400-4415.

Shumway, C.A. (1989) Multiple electrosensory maps in the medulla of weakly electric gymnotiform fish. I. Physiological differences. J. of Neuroscience 9(12):4388-4399.

Shumway, C.A. and L. Maler (1989) GABAergic inhibition shapes temporal and spatial response properties of pyramidal cells in the electrosensory lateral line lobe of gymnotiform fish. J. Comp. Physiol. 164:391-407.

Shumway, C.A. (1988) Multiple sensory maps in weakly electric gymnotiform fish. Ph.D. thesis, University of California, San Diego.

Shumway, C.A. and R. Zelick (1988) Sex recognition and neural coding of electric coding of electric organ discharge waveforms in the pulse-type weakly electric fish, Hypopomus occidentalis. J. Comp. Physiol. 163:465-478.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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