Research interests:

Recruitment dynamics

Life-history trait variation

Ecological effects of eutrophication

Growth and condition of aquatic animals

Ecological modeling

 

 

Publications:

Wang, H.Y., and T.O. Höök. in press. Eco-genetic model to explore fishing-induced ecological and evolutionary effects on growth and maturation schedules. Evolutionary Applications.

Wang, H.Y., T.O. Höök, H.A. Cook, D.W. Einhouse, D.G. Fielder, K.A. Kayle, and L.G. Rudstam. in press. Inter-stock variation of maturation schedules of walleye in the Great Lakes region. North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

Höök, T.O., and S.A. Pothoven. 2009. Energy dynamics of young alewives in eastern Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake, a connected drowned river mouth lake. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 29:378–387. PDF

Roberts, J.J. T.O. Höök, S.A. Ludsin, S.A. Pothoven, H.A. Vanderploeg, and S.B. Brandt. in press. Effects of hypolimnetic hypoxia on foraging and distributions of Lake Erie yellow perch. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.

Vanderploeg, H.A., S.A. Ludsin, S.A. Ruberg, T.O. Höök, S.A. Pothoven, S. B. Brandt, G.A. Lang, J.R. Liebig, and J.F. Cavaletto. in press. Hypoxia affects spatial distribution of pelagic fish, zooplankton, and phytoplankton in Lake Erie. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.

Vanderploeg, H.A., S.A. Ludsin, J.F. Cavaletto, T.O. Höök, S.A. Pothoven, S. B. Brandt, J.R. Liebig, and G.A. Lang. in press. Hypoxic zones as habitat for zooplankton in Lake Erie: refuges from predation or exclusions zones? Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.

Pothoven, S.A., H.A. Vanderploeg, S.A. Ludsin, T.O. Höök, and S.B. Brandt. 2009. Feeding ecology of rainbow smelt and emerald shiner in Lake Erie’s central basin. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 35: 190-198.

Dufour, E., T.O. Höök, W. Patterson, and E.S. Rutherford. 2008. High-resolution isotope analysis of age-0 alewife Alosa pseudoharengus otoliths: assessment of temporal resolution and reconstruction of habitat occupancy and thermal history. Journal of Fish Biology. 73:2434-2451.  PDF

Wang, H.Y., T.O. Höök, M.P. Ebener, L.C. Mohr, and P.J. Schneeberger. 2008. Spatial and temporal variation of maturation schedules of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) in the Great Lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 65: 2157-2169. PDF

Pothoven, S.A., S.A. Ludsin, T.O. Höök, D.L. Fanslow, D.M. Mason, P. Collingsworth, and J.J. VanTassell. 2008. An evaluation of bioelectrical impedance analysis for estimating fish energy, lipid, and water content. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.137:1519–1529. PDF

Wilson, A.E., D.C. Gossiaux, T.O. Höök, J.P. Berry, P.F. Landrum, J. Dyble, and S.J. Guildford. 2008. Evaluation of the human health threat associated with the hepatotoxin, microcystin, in the muscle and liver tissues of yellow perch (Perca flavescens). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 65: 1487-1497. PDF

Höök, T.O., E.S. Rutherford, T.E. Croley, D.M. Mason, and C.P. Madenjian. 2008. Annual variation in habitat-specific recruitment success: Implications from an individual-based model of Lake Michigan alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 65: 1402-1412. PDF

Höök, T.O., E. Gorokhova, and S. Hansson. 2008. RNA:DNA ratios of Baltic herring larvae and copepods in embayment and open sea habitats. Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science. 76: 29-35. (doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2007.06.012)  (PDF available upon request)

Höök, T.O., E.S. Rutherford, D.M. Mason, and G. S. Carter. 2007. Hatch dates, growth rates, survival and over-winter mortality of age-0 alewives in Lake Michigan: Implications for habitat-specific recruitment success. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 136: 1298-1312.  PDF

Höök, T.O., M.J. McCormick, E.S. Rutherford, D.  Mason, and G. S. Carter. 2006. Short-term water mass movements in Lake Michigan: implications for larval fish transport. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 32: 728-737. PDF

Dufour, E., W. Patterson, T.O. Höök, and E.S. Rutherford. 2005. Early life history of Lake Michigan alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus) inferred from intra-otolith stable isotope ratios. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 62: 2362-2370. PDF

Madenjian, C. P., T.O. Höök, E.S. Rutherford, D.M. Mason, T.E. Croley II, E.B. Szalai,  and J.R. Bence. 2005. Recruitment variability of alewives in Lake Michigan. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 134: 218-230. PDF

Höök, T.O., E.S. Rutherford, C. Geddes, S.J. Brines, D.M. Mason, D.J. Schwab, and G.W. Fleischer. 2004. Landscape scale measures of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) bioenergetic growth rate potential in Lake Michigan and comparison with angler catch rates. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 30: 545-556. PDF

Höök, T.O., E.S. Rutherford, S.J. Brines, D.J. Schwab, and M.J. McCormick. 2004. Relationships between surface water temperature and steelhead distributions in Lake Michigan. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 24: 211-221. PDF

Höök, T.O., E.S. Rutherford, S.J. Brines, D.M. Mason, D.J. Schwab, M.J. McCormick, G.W. Fleischer, and T.J. DeSorcie. 2003. Spatially explicit measures of production of young alewives in Lake Michigan: Linkage between essential fish habitat and recruitment.  Estuaries. 26: 21-29. PDF

Vandermeer, J., M.A. Evans, P. Foster, T. Höök, M. Reiskind, and M.Wund. 2002. Increased competition may promote species coexistence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99: 8731-8736. PDF

Höök, T.O., N.M. Eagan, and P.W. Webb. 2001. Habitat and human influences on larval fish assemblages in northern Lake Huron coastal marsh bays.  Wetlands 21: 281-291. PDF

 

 

Recent funding:

Purdue Discovery Park, Interactive Effects of Climate Change and Land Use on Indiana’s Glacial Lakes. 2009-2010.

Lake Michigan Coastal Program, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Concurrent fine-scale mapping of nearshore water quality and larval fish dynamics: Insights to potential climate change impacts on fish recruitment. 2009-2011.

Great Lakes Fishery Trust, Mapping the condition of Diporeia: Insights to mechanisms of declines. 2008-2011.

NOAA Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research, Adaptive Integrated Framework (AIF): a new methodology for managing impacts of multiple stressors in coastal ecosystems. 2007-2012.

Great Lakes Fishery Trust, Historic and spatial variation of lake whitefish maturation schedules. 2005-2007.

National Sea Grant, The Influence of Seasonal Hypoxic Events in the Central Basin of Lake Erie on the Short-Term Growth of Organisms from Multiple Trophic Levels. 2005-2006.

Great Lakes Fishery Commission, River discharge as a predictor of Lake Erie yellow perch recruitment. 2006-2009.

NOAA Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research. Forecasting the causes, consequences, and potential solutions for hypoxia in Lake Erie. 2006-2011.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Great Lakes Restoration Act, Modelling historic and spatial variation of Great Lakes walleye maturation schedules. 2007-2007.

American Scandinavian Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Habitat-specific contributions of Baltic herring recruits. 2005. Host: S. Hansson (Stockholm University).

Tomas Höök

Purdue University, College of Agriculture,

Department of Forestry and Natural Resources