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Josef Daniel
Ackerman, PhD
Recent
Publications
Macrophyte Evolutionary Ecology
Nishihara, G.N. and J.D. Ackerman. 2009. Diffusive boundary layers do not limit the photosynthesis of the aquatic macrophyte, Vallisneria americana at moderate flows and saturating light levels. Limnology and Oceanography 54(6):1874-1882 (PDF).Nishihara, G.N. and J.D. Ackerman. 2007. On the determination of mass transfer in a concentration boundary layer. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 5:88-96 + Appendix (PDF).
Nishihara, G.N. and J.D. Ackerman. 2007. The interaction of CO2 concentration and spatial location on O2 flux and mass transport in the freshwater macrophytes Vallisneria spiralis and V. americana. Journal of Experimental Biology. 210(3):522-532.(PDF) Featured as A New Twist on Transport in Inside JEB (PDF)
Nishihara, G.N. and J.D. Ackerman. 2006. The effect of hydrodynamics on the mass transfer of dissolved inorganic carbon to the freshwater macrophyte Vallisneria americana. Limnology and Oceanography 51(6):2734-2745. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. 2006. Seagrass reproduction of seagrasses: Pollination in the marine context. pp. 89 – 109. In A.W.D. Larkum, J.J. Orth, and C.M. Duarte (eds.) Seagrasses: Biology, Ecology and Their Conservation. Springer. 691 pp. (PDF)
Koch, E.W., J.D. Ackerman, J. Verduin, and M. van Keulen. 2006. Fluid dynamics in seagrass ecology – from molecule to ecosystems. pp. 193 – 225. In A.W.D. Larkum, J.J. Orth, and C.M. Duarte (eds.) Seagrasses: Biology, Ecology and Their Conservation. Springer 691 pp. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. and P. Kevan. 2005. Abiotic Pollination. pp 435-438. In: A. Dafni, P. Kevan, and B. Husband (eds.) Practical Pollination Biology. Enviroquest,
Ackerman, J.D. 2005. Water Pollination. pp 465-480. In: A. Dafni, P. Kevan and B. Husband (eds.) Practical Pollination Biology. Enviroquest,
Palmer, M.R, H.M. Nepf, T.J.R. Pettersson, and J.D. Ackerman. 2004. Observations of particle capture on a cylindrical collector: Implications for particle accumulation and removal in aquatic systems. Limnology and Oceanography 49: 76-85.
Wyllie-Echeverria, S. and J. D. Ackerman. 2003. The seagrasses of the Pacific Coast of North America. pp. 199-206 In: E. P. Green and F. T. Short (eds.) World Atlas of Seagrasses: present status and future conservation. Prepared by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
Ackerman, J.D. 2002. Diffusivity in a marine macrophyte bed: Implications for submarine pollination and dispersal. American Journal of Botany 89(7): 1119-1127. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. 2000. Abiotic pollen and pollination: Ecological, functional, and evolutionary perspectives. Plant Systematics and Evolution 222(1-4): 167-185. (PDF)
(Also published as Ackerman, J.D. 2000. Abiotic pollen and pollination: Ecological, functional, and evolutionary perspectives. pp 167-185 In: A. Dafni, E. Pacini, and M. Hesse (eds.). Pollen and Pollination. Springer Verlag, Wein, 336 pp.)
Ackerman, J.D. 1998. Is the limited diversity of higher plants in marine systems due to biophysical limitations for reproduction or evolutionary and physiological constraints? Functional Ecology 12:979-982. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. 1997. Submarine pollination in the marine angiosperm, Zostera marina: Part I. The influence of floral morphology on fluid flow. American Journal of Botany 84:1099-1109 (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. 1997. Submarine pollination in the marine angiosperm, Zostera marina: Part II. Pollen transport in flow fields and capture by stigmas. American Journal of Botany 84:1110-1119 (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. 1995. Convergence of filiform pollen morphologies in seagrasses: Functional mechanisms. Evolutionary Ecology 9:139-153. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. 1993. Pollen germination and pollen tube growth in the marine angiosperm, Zostera marina L. Aquatic Botany 46:189-202. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. and A. Okubo. 1993. Reduced mixing in a marine macrophyte canopy. Functional Ecology 7:305-309. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. 1991. Pollination in aquatic vascular plants: Sex and fluids. Wildflower 7:28-31.
Ackerman, J.D. 1986. Mechanistic implications for pollination in the marine angiosperm, Zostera marina L. Aquatic Botany 24:343-353. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. Accepted. The role of fluid dynamics in dreissenid mussel biology. 38pp for: T.F. Nalepa and D.W. Schloesser (eds). Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impact, and Control. 2nd Ed.Schwalb, A.N., T.J. Morris, and J.D. Ackerman Accepted. In Press. The effect of settling velocity on larval mussel transport in a cobble-bed river: Water column and near-bed turbulence. Limnology and Oceanography:Fluids and Environments. 2:
Quinn, N.P. and J.D. Ackerman. 2011. The effect of near-bed turbulence on the external fertilization of broadcast spawning bivalves. Limnology and Oceanography:Fluids and Environments 1: 176-193 (PDF).
Quinn, N.P. and J.D. Ackerman. 2011. Biological and ecological mechanisms for overcoming sperm limitation in freshwater invertebrates. Aquatic Sciences DOI: 10.1007/s00027-011-0237-0 (PDF)
Schwalb, A.N., K. Cottenie, M.S. Poos and J.D. Ackerman. 2011. Dispersal limitation of unionid mussels and implications for their recovery. Freshwater Biology. 56(8): 1509–1518. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02587.x (PDF)
Schwalb, A.N., and J.D. Ackerman. 2011. Settling velocities of juvenile Lampsilini mussels (Mollusca: Unionidae): The influence of behavior. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30:702-209 (PDF)
Schwalb, A. N., M. S. Poos, and J. D. Ackerman 2011. Movement of logperch - the obligate host fish for endangered snuffbox mussels: Implications for mussel dispersal. Aquatic Sciences. 73:223–231. DOI 10.1007/s00027-010-0171-6 (PDF)
McNichols, K.A., G.L. Mackie, and J.D. Ackerman. 2011. Host fish quality may explain the status of endangered Epioblasma torulosa rangiana and Lampsilis fasciola (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in Canada. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30:60-70 (PDF)
Gillis, P.L. J.C. McGeer, G.L. Mackie, M.P. Wilkie, and J.D. Ackerman. 2010. The effect of natural dissolved organic carbon on the acute toxicity of copper to larval freshwater mussels (glochidia). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 29: 2519–2528 (PDF)
Schwalb, A.N., M. Garvie, and J.D. Ackerman. 2010. Dispersion of freshwater mussel larvae in a lowland river. Limnology and Oceanography 55(2):628-638 (PDF)
Gillis, P.L., Mitchell, R.J., Schwalb, A.N., McNichols, K.A., Mackie, G.L., Wood C.M., and Ackerman, J.D. 2008. Sensitivity of the glochidia (larvae) of freshwater mussels to copper: Assessing the effect of water hardness and dissolved organic carbon on the sensitivity of endangered species. Aquatic Toxicology 88:137–145. (PDF)
Hoftyzer, E., J.D. Ackerman, T.J. Morris, and G.L. Mackie. 2008. Genetic and environmental implications of reintroducing laboratory-raised unionid mussels to the wild. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:1217-1229. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. and M.T. Nishizaki. 2004. The effect of velocity on the suspension feeding and growth of the marine mussels Mytilus trossulus and M. californianus: Implications for competition and niche separation. Journal of Marine Systems 49:195-207. (PDF)
Ackerman,
J.D.,
Loewen, M.R., and P.F. Hamblin. 2001. Benthic-pelagic
coupling over a zebra mussel bed in the western basin of
Lake Erie. Limnology and Oceanography 46(4):
892-904. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. 1999. The effect of velocity on the filter feeding of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and D. bugensis): Implications for trophic dynamics. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 56:1551-1561. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D., B. Sim, S.J. Nichols, and R. Claudi. 1994. A review of the early life history of the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha): Comparisons with marine bivalves. Canadian Journal of Zoology 72:1169-1179. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. 1993. Preliminary observations on the hydrodynamics of filter feeding in zebra mussels. pp. 513-514 In: R.F. Dame (ed.) Bivalve Filter Feeders in Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystem Processes (NATO ASI Series, Ecological Sciences, Vol. G 33). Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Ackerman, J.D., C.R. Ethier, D.G. Allen, and J.K. Spelt. 1993. The biomechanics of byssal adhesion in Dreissena polymorpha. pp. 265-282 In: T.F. Nalepa and D.W. Schloesser (eds). Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impact, and Control. Lewis Press, Boca Raton, FL, 810 pp.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Poos, M., A.J. Dextrase, A.N. Schwalb, and J. Ackerman. 2010. Secondary invasion of the round goby into high diversity Great Lakes tributaries and species at risk hotspots: Potential new concerns for endangered freshwater species. Biological Invasions 12:1269-1284 (PDF)
Nishihara, G.N., and J.D. Ackerman. 2008. Mass transport in aquatic environments. pp. 299 – 326 In: C. Gualtieri and D.T. Mihailovic (eds.) Fluid Mechanics of Environmental Interfaces. Taylor & Francis.
Nishizaki, M.T. and J.D. Ackerman. 2007. Juvenile-adult associations in sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus and S. droebachiensis): Protection from predation and hydrodynamics in S. franciscanus. Marine Biology 151:135-145 (PDF)
Nishizaki, M.T. and J.D. Ackerman. 2005. A secondary chemical cue facilitates juvenile–adult postsettlement associations in red sea urchins. Limnology and Oceanography 50(1):354–362. (PDF)
Nishizaki, M.T. and J.D. Ackerman. 2004. Juvenile-adult associations in sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus and S. droebachiensis): The role of nutrition. Marine Ecology Progress Series 268:93-103. (PDF)
Okubo, A., J.D. Ackerman, and D.P. Swaney. 2002. Passive Diffusion in Ecosystems. pp. 31-106 in A. Okubo and S. Levin (eds.) Diffusion and Ecological Problems: New Perspectives, 2nd Ed. Springer Verlag. 467 pp. (PDF)
Nishizaki, M.T. and J.D. Ackerman. 2001. Gimme shelter: Factors influencing juvenile sheltering in Strongylocentrotus franciscanus. pp 515-520 in Mike Barker (ed.) Echinoderms 2000. Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse. 590 pp.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Brinkhurst, M.,
P. Rose, G. Maurice, and J.D. Ackerman. 2011.
Achieving campus sustainability: Top-down, bottom-up,
or neither? International
Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 12(4):338-354.(PDF)
Schindler, R.J.
and J.D. Ackerman. 2010. The environmental
hydraulics of turbulent boundary layers. pp 87-126 In:
D.T. Mihailovic and C. Gualtieri (eds.) Advances in
Environmental Fluid Mechanics. World
Scientific, London. 380 pp. Invited.
Hoover, S.R., L.G. Wilson, and J.D. Ackerman. 2007. The effect of forestry practices on invertebrate drift in mountain streams: Implications for trophic transport. Aquatic Sciences 69(4):544-553. (PDF)
Loewen,
M.R.,
Ackerman, J.D., and P.F. Hamblin. 2007.
Environmental implications of stratification and
turbulent mixing in a shallow lake basin. Canadian Journal of
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64(1):43-57.
(PDF)
Wang,
Y.Q., P. Jackson, and J.D. Ackerman. 2006. Numerical
Investigation of flow over a sphere using LES and the
Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model. Computational Fluid
Dynamics Journal
15(1):198-205.
Ackerman, J.D. and T. Hoover. 2001. Measurement of local bed shear stress in streams using a Preston-static tube. Limnology and Oceanography 46(8):2080-2087. (PDF)
Arocena, J. and J.D. Ackerman. 1998. Use of statistical tests to describe the basic distribution patterns of iron oxide nodules in soil thin section. American Soil Science Society Journal 62:1346-1350. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D., C.M. Cottrell, C.R. Ethier, D.G. Allen, and J.K. Spelt. 1996. Attachment strength of zebra mussels on natural, polymeric and metallic materials. Journal of Environmental Engineering (ASCE) 122:141-148. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D., C.M. Cottrell, C.R. Ethier, D.G. Allen, and J.K. Spelt. 1995. A wall jet to measure the attachment strength in zebra mussels. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 52:126-135. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D., L. Wong, C.R. Ethier, D.G. Allen, and J.K. Spelt. 1994. Preston-static tubes for the measurement of wall shear stress. Journal of Fluids Engineering (ASME) 116:645-649.(PDF)
Ackerman,
J.D.,
C.R. Ethier, D.G. Allen, and J.K. Spelt. 1992.
Investigation of zebra mussel adhesion strength using a
rotating disk. Journal of Environmental
Engineering 118:708-724. (PDF)
Ackerman,
J.D.
and M.T. Nishizaki. 1999. How Stiff is a French Fry? –
Teaching Biomechanics to Biology Students. Journal
of Biological Education 34:36-40. (PDF)
Ackerman,
J.D.
2010. Spatial and
Temporal Analysis in Ecology: A Primer.
(IBIO*6000 Advances in Ecology and Behaviour: A Class
Project). Department of Integrative Biology, University
of Guelph, Canada, 99 pp. (PDF)
Wüest, Alfred and Josef D. Ackerman. 2007. Lake Brienz Project: An Interdisciplinary Catchment-to-Lake Study. special issue of Aquatic Sciences 69(2): 173 – 288; 7 articles - 116 pp. (PDF)
Ackerman, J.D. and W. Chesworth. 2005. Health and the Planet, The 2005 Kenneth Hammond Lecture Series. Faculty of Environmental Sciences,
Ackerman, J.D., C.L. Stevens, and C.L. Hurd). 2004. Biophysical Factors Affecting the Growth and Survival of Aquatic Organisms. special issue of the Journal of Marine Systems 49(1-4): 16 articles -- 228 pp. (PDF)
Recent Conference Publications
Ackerman, J.D., and M.R. Loewen. 2006. Biological consequences of turbulence and mixing in lakes. pp. 193-200 In: F.J. Rueda Valdivia (ed.) 10th European Workshop on Physical Processes in Natural Waters. Universidad de Granada, Granada. 264 pp.
Ackerman, J.D. 2005. Rays of things to come: A postscript. pp 137-145 In: J.D. Ackerman and W. Chesworth. 2005. Health and the Planet. Faculty of Environmental Sciences,
Wang, Y.Q., P. Jackson, and J.D. Ackerman. 2005. Numerical Investigation of flow over a sphere using LES and the Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model. 13th Annual Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Ackerman, J.D., M.R. Loewen, and P. Hamblin. 2000. Biological Evidence for Benthic-Pelagic Coupling over a Zebra Mussel Reef in Western Lake Erie. p. 249-254 in Proc. 5th International Symposium on Stratified Flows. UBC.
Loewen, M.R., P. Hamblin, and J.D. Ackerman. 2000. Field Observations of Stratification Over a Zebra Mussel Bed in the Western Basin of Lake Erie. pp. 255-260 in Proc. 5th International Symposium on Stratified Flows. UBC.
Ackerman, J.D. 2000. The Efficacy of Riparian Reserves in the Mitigation of Forestry Practices in Stream Ecosystems. Watersheds 2000. Water Environment Federation, Alexandria, VA. 15 pp.
Ackerman, J.D. 2000. The Response of Aquatic Organisms to Turbulence: The Universality of Fluid Dynamic Sensing. Mechanics of Plants, Animals and Their Environments: Sensors and Sensing in the Natural and Fabricated Worlds. Engineering Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA. 4 pp.
Lee,
J.S. and J.D. Ackerman. 2000. Freshwater molluscs
at risk: Three examples of “risk”. pp 67-73 In L.M
Darling (ed.) At Risk: Proc. Biology and Management
of Species and Habitats at Risk. B.C. Ministry of
Environment, Lands and Parks & University College of
the Cariboo, Victoria. 974 pp. (PDF)