David Kesler | Professor
Office: 106 Frazier Jelke W |  Phone: 843-3557  | Email: kesler@rhodes.edu

Education

B.S., Denison University
M.S., University of Rhode Island 
Ph.D., University of Michigan
(Ecology, limnology, behavior, coral reef ecology)


Courses
  • Biology 105 - BIO THRU BEES WITH LAB
  • Biology 105 - BIOL THROUGH BEES WITH LAB
  • Biology 105 - BIOLOGY THROUGH BEES W/LAB
  • Biology 121 - ZOOLOGY
  • Biology 140 - BIOLOGY II
  • Biology 141 - BIOLOGY II LABORATORY
  • Biology 253 - CORAL REEF ECOLOGY
  • Biology 254 - CORAL REEF ECOLOGY WITH LAB
  • Biology 315 - ECOLOGY
  • Biology 315 - ECOLOGY LAB
  • Biology 451 - RESEARCH IN BIOLOGY
  • Biology 485 - SR SEMINAR:LIMNOLOGY
  • Geology 253 - CORAL REEF ECOLOGY
  • Interdepartmental 222 - GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Selected Publications

Kesler, D.H. and G.L. Verschuur. 1996. Hypolimnetic oxygen deficits and anoxic factors in Garner Lake, a west Tennessee reservoir. J. Lake and Reservoir Managment 12:462-467.

Kesler, D.H., and D. Manning. 1996. A New Mussel Record for Tennessee: Lampsilis siliquoidea (Mollusca: Unionidae) from the Wolf River. J. Tennessee Acad. Sci. 71:90-94.

Kesler, D.H. and J.A. Downing. 1997. Internal shell annuli yield inaccurate growth estimates in the freshwater mussels Elliptio complanata and Lampsilis radiata. Freshwater Biology 37:325-332.

Kesler, D.H. and N. Van Tol. 2000. Growth of the freshwater mussel Pyganodon grandis (Unionidae) in two west Tennessee borrow pits. J. Tennessee Acad. Sci. 75(3-4):71-75.

Rine, H.E. and D.H. Kesler. 2001. A long-term study of larval Chaoborus punctipennis (Diptera:Insecta) vertical migration and the role of critical oxygen concentration. J. Freshwater Ecol. 16:145-150.

Kesler, D.H., D. Manning, N. Van Tol, L. Smith, and B. Sepanski. 2001. Freshwater mussels (Unionidae) of the Wolf River in western Tennessee and Mississippi. J. Tennessee Acad. Sci. 76:38-46.

Anthony, J.L., D.H. Kesler, W.L. Downing, and J.A. Downing. 2001. Length-specific growth rates in freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae): extreme longevity or generalized growth cessation? Freshwater Biology 46:1349-1359.

Kesler, D.H. 2004. Influence of a lentic area on the condition indices of Corbicula fluminea in the Wolf River, Tennessee. J. Freshwater Ecol.19:445-453.

Kesler, D.H., N. v. Tol, D. Manning, and D. Hubbs. 2005. Freshwater mussels of the Hatchie River in western Tennessee. Tennessee Academy of Science Meeting, Martin, Tennessee.

Kesler, D.H. and W. Sheftall. 2006. Does the Eastern Elliptio (Elliptio complanata) form an annulus every year? Ellipsaria 8:6-7.

Kesler, D.H., T.J. Newton, and L. Green. 2007. Long-term monitoring of growth in the Eastern Elliptio, Elliptio complanata (Bivalvia:Unionidae), in Rhode Island: a transplant experiment. J. N. Amer. Benthol. Soc. 26:123-133.

Stratton, M.A. and D.H. Kesler. 2007. The role of light and oxygen in Chaoborus punctipennis (Insecta: Diptera) diel vertical migration. J. Freshwater Ecol. 22:101-106.