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Dr. Jason Vokoun
| Assistant Professor

Education | Undergraduate Courses | Research Interests | Work Experience | Publications

| Technical Publications

 
Education
Ph.D. 2003

University of Missouri, Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences

M.S. 1999 University of Missouri, Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
B.S. 1996 University of Nebraska, Forestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife

Undergraduate Courses
NRME 205 Stream Ecology
NRME 235 Fisheries Management

Research Interests
Resource selection and habitat use by fishes; integrating bioenergetics into fish habitat use modeling; kernel estimation of fish space and habitat use; fish movement and migration; conservation of fish habitat in stream ecosystems; fish species of special conservation concern; fisheries management problems associated with sample sizes and data quality control

Work Experience
2004 - Present University of Connecticut, Assistant Professor
1999 - University of Missouri, Research Associate

Publications
Manuscripts

• Kanno,Y., and J.C. Vokoun. In press. Biogeography of Stream Fishes in Connecticut: Defining Ecological Drainage Units and Fish Assemblage Types. Northeastern Naturalist.

Vokoun, J.C., and C.F. Rabeni. 2006. Summer diel activity and movement paths of flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) in two Missouri streams. American Midland Naturalist 155:113-122.
Vokoun, J.C., and C.F. Rabeni. 2005. Home range and space use patterns of flathead catfish during the summer/fall period in two Missouri streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134:509-517.
• Vokoun, J.C., and C.F. Rabeni. 2005. Variation in an annual movement cycle of flathead catfish within and between two Missouri watersheds. North American Journal of Fisheries Management.
Vokoun, J.C., T.L. Guerrant, and C.F. Rabeni. 2003. Demographics and chronology of a spawning aggregation of blue sucker (Cycleptus elongatus) in the Grand River, Missouri, USA. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 18:567-575.
Vokoun, J.C., and C.F. Rabeni.  2003. Recovery of prairie fish assemblages at the transition from channelized to unchannelized: implications for conservation of natural channels. Natural Areas Journal 23:349:355.
• Vokoun, J.C.  2003. Kernel density estimates of linear home range for stream fishes: advantages and data requirements. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:1020-1029.
• Vokoun, J.C., and C.F. Rabeni.  2002. Distribution of channel catfish life stages in a prairie river basin. The Prairie Naturalist 34:47-58.
Vokoun, J.C., and D.B. Noltie.  2002. Evidence for the inheritance of alarm substance recognition in Johnny darter (Etheostoma nigrum). American Midland Naturalist 147:400-403.
Strange, K.T., J.C. Vokoun, and D.B. Noltie.  2002. Thermal tolerance and growth differences in orangethroat darter (Etheostoma spectabile) from thermally contrasting adjoining streams. American Midland Naturalist 148:120-128.
Vokoun, J.C., C.F. Rabeni, and J.S. Stanovick. 2001. Sample-size requirements for evaluating population size-structure. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 21:660-665.
Vokoun, J.C., and C.F. Rabeni. 2001. A standardized sampling protocol for channel catfish in prairie streams. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 21:188-197.
• Haney, D.C., J.C. Vokoun, and D.B. Noltie. 2001. Alarm pheromone recognition in a Missouri darter assemblage. Journal of Fish Biology 59:810-817.
Vokoun, J.C. 2000. Shortnose gar (Lepisosteus platostomus) foraging on periodical cicadas (Magicicada spp.): territorial defense of profitable pool positions.  American Midland Naturalist 143:261-265.
• Vokoun, J.C., and C.F. Rabeni. 1999. Catfish sampling in rivers and streams: a review of strategies, gears and methods. Pages 271-286 in E.R. Irwin, W.A. Hubert, C.F. Rabeni, H.L. Schramm Jr., and T. Coon, editors.  Catfish 2000: proceedings of the international ictalurid
symposium.  American Fisheries Society, Symposium 24, Bethesda, Maryland.


Technical Publications
• Vokoun, J.C., and C.F. Rabeni. 2000. Recovery of prairie fish assemblages at the transition from channelized to unchannelized: implications for conservation of natural channels. Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Completion Report. Columbia, Missouri. 25 pp
• Vokoun, J.C., and D.B. Noltie. 2000. Missouri state parks fish faunal survey. University of Missouri, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences. Completion Report. Columbia, Missouri. 169 pp
• Vokoun, J.C. 1999. A sampling protocol for channel catfish in small to medium prairie streams of Missouri including notes on watershed level movements. Master’s thesis. University of Missouri, Columbia. 113 pp
• Vokoun, J.C., S. Williams, L. Dorsey, S. Ermeling, and E. Nelson. 1997.  Sampling the catfishes (Ictaluridae): an indexed bibliography.  Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Columbia, Missouri. 27 pp



   
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Dr. Jason Vokoun
Assistant Professor

Department of Natural Resources Management and Engineering
The University of Connecticut
U-4087, 1376 Storrs Road
Storrs, CT 06269-4087
Tel: (860) 486-2840
Fax: (860) 486-5408
Email:Jason.Vokoun@uconn.edu



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