Amanda Banet

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Courses Taught:

Sabbatical Fall 2022

• Aquatic Ecology (BIOL 404)
• Field Ecology (BIOL 484)
• Research in Biological Sciences (BIOL 600)
• Advanced Biology Seminar Series (BIOL 692)

Advising

• Advisor for the EEO option and the B.A. in Biological Sciences
• Ecology, Evolutionary, and Organismal

Research Interests:

• Fish Ecology
• Ecophysiology

Research Summary:

• The Banet Lab studies aquatic ecology, evolution, and physiology, with a focus on fish conservation. Much of our current research concentrates on the ecology and conservation physiology of Pacific salmon.

Publications:

* denotes student co-author

•  Stompe*, D.K., Estrada*, C.A., Roberts, J.D., Keller, D.M., Balfour*, N.M. and A.I. Banet.  In Press. Sacramento River Predator Diet Analysis: A Comparative Study. In press at San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science.
•  Banet, A.I., Healy*, S.J., Eliason, E.J., Roualdes, E.A., Patterson, D.A., and S.G. Hinch. 2019. Simulated maternal stress reduces offspring aerobic swimming performance in Pacific salmon. Conservation Physiology 7(1):coz95.
•  Segre, P.S. and A.I. Banet. 2018. The origin of avian flight: finding common ground. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125(2):452-454.
•  Hiney*, D.C., Kaczynski, K.M., and A.I. Banet. 2018. Using citizen science to estimate the Coastal Rainbow Trout population of the Grass Valley Creek Reservoir. California Fish and Game 104(2):75-85.
•  Banet, A.I., Svendsen, J.C., Eng*, K.J. and D.N. Reznick. 2016. Linking reproduction, locomotion, and habitat use in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Oecologia 181(1):87-96.
•  Heiner, C.E., Banet, A.I. and C. Wieman. 2014. Preparing students for class: How to get 80% of students to read the textbook before class. American Journal of Physics 82(10), 989-996.
•  Banet A.I. and J.C. Trexler. 2013. Space-for-time substitution works in Everglades ecological forecasting models. PLOS ONE 8(11), 1-10.
•  Svendsen, J.C., Banet, A.I., Christensen, R.H.B., Steffensen, J.F. and K. Aarestrup. 2013. Effects of intraspecific variation in reproductive traits, pectoral fin use and burst swimming on metabolic rates and swimming performance: a study on the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata Peters). Journal of Experimental Biology 216, 3564-3574.
•  Pires, M.N., Banet, A.I., Pollux B.J.A. and D.N. Reznick. 2011. A review of life history patterns in poeciliine fishes. In: Evans, J.P., Pilastro, A., and I. Schlupp, eds. Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes.
•  Banet, A.I., Au*, A. and D.N. Reznick. 2010. Is mom in charge? Implications of resource provisioning on the evolution of the placenta. Evolution 64(11), 3172-3182.
•  Pollux, B.J.A., Pires M.N., Banet, A.I. and D.N. Reznick. 2009. Evolution of placentas in the fish family Poeciliidae – An empirical study of macroevolution. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 40, 271-279.
•  Banet, A.I. and D.N. Reznick. 2008. Do placental species abort embryos? Testing an assumption of the Trexler-DeAngelis Model. Functional Ecology, 22, 323-331.

Link to External Website:

https://www.instagram.com/banetlab/