Title
Assistant Professor

Department
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management


Faculty URL
https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people/1573578

Research Group
https://nature.berkeley.edu/ruhilab/

Email
albert.ruhi@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 664-5381


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Research Expertise and Interest
freshwater ecology, biodiversity conservation, global change biology, Drought

Research Description
The Ruhi lab studies how aquatic biodiversity is responding to global change--focusing on the effects of?hydrologic alteration and drought. They are particularly interested in?the interactive effects of local drought stress and?landscape-level habitat fragmentation. They study this question via a combination of monitoring, field experiments, and modeling?of long-term?hydrological and?ecological data.?Funded projects focus on advancing our understanding of the ecological consequences of?flow intermittency, the potential of wetland ecosystem restoration (i.e., breaching) to recover food-web structure, and the impacts that dams have on flow regimes and native biodiversity in?dendritic river networks.