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Dr. Brandon Ruehle worked as a Natural Resource Scientist, focusing on freshwater ecological management and monitoring, for Te Kaunihera ā rohe o Te Taitokerau – Northland Regional Council in Te Taitokerau Northland, New Zealand. Leading up to this position, he spent a summer as a Freshwater Fisheries Technician at the Waikato Regional Council monitoring freshwater fish populations throughout the Waikato Region of New Zealand. He completed his PhD in Zoology at the University of Otago – Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo in Ōtepoti Dunedin, New Zealand where he investigated the impacts of an eye-dwelling parasite on the behavior of its fish host. Prior to New Zealand, he completed a MSc in Biological Sciences at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas and wrote a thesis on the impacts of parasitic infection on the reproductive output of freshwater fishes. Throughout this time, Dr. Ruehle has taught laboratory sections in Anatomy and Physiology, Introductory Biology, Animal Behaviour, and Freshwater Ecology as a graduate assistant at the respective universities and an adjunct faculty member at Collin and Navarro Colleges in Texas. He also taught Introductory Biology lectures at Collin College as an adjunct professor. Dr. Ruehle is broadly interested in freshwater ecology, behavior, and the role parasites play in affecting them.

Pohe S, Tong S, Ruehle B (2023). Mt Taika insect survey. Technical Report.  Pohe Environmental and Northland Regional Council.

Ruehle B (2023). Database and eDNA records for freshwater species of conservation interest. Technical Report. Northland Regional Council.

Ruehle B (2023). Northland Freshwater Fish Monitoring: Summer 2022/2023. Technical Report. Northland Regional Council.

Ruehle B (2023). Northland Freshwater Fish Monitoring 2021/2022. Technical Report. Northland Regional Council.

Ruehle B, Presswell B, Bennett J (2021). Distribution and diversity of diplostomids in New Zealand. The Journal of Parasitology. 107 (6), 933-942.

Ruehle B, Poulin R (2021). Hunger Games: Foraging behavior and shelter use in fish under the context dependent influence of parasitism. Parasitology Research. 120, 3681-3692.

Stumbo A, Poulin R, Ruehle B (2021). Altered neuronal activity In the visual processing region of eye-fluke-infected fish. Parasitology. 148 (1), 115-121.

Ruehle B, Poulin R (2020). Potential multidimensional behavioural impacts of differential infection in two fish populations. Behaviour. 157 (10-11), 901-922.

Doherty JF, Ruehle B (2020). An integrated landscape of fear and disgust: The evolution of avoidance behaviors amidst a myriad of natural enemies. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8, 564343.

Giari L, Ruehle B, Fano EA, Castaldelli G, Poulin R (2020). Temporal dynamics of species associations in the parsite community of European eels, Anguilla anguilla, from a coastal lagoon. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. 12, 67-75.

Poulin R, Bennett J, Dutra DA, Doherty JF, Fillion A, Park E, Ruehle B (2020). Evolutionary signature of ancient parasite pressures, or the ghosts of parasitism past. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8, 195.

Ruehle B, Poulin R (2020). Risky Business: Influence of eye flukes on use of risky microhabitats and conspicuousness of a fish host. Parasitology Research. 119 (2), 423-430.

Ruehle B, Poulin R (2019). No impact of a presumed manipulative parasite on the responses and the susceptibility of fish to simulated predation. Ethology. 125 (10), 745-754.

Selbach C, Jorge F, Dowle E, Bennett J, Chai X, Doherty JF, Eriksson A, Fillion A, Hay E, Herbison R, Lindner J, Park E, Presswell B, Ruehle B, Sobrinho PM, Wainwright E, Poulin R (2019). Parasitological research in the molecular age. Parasitology. 146 (11), 1361-1370.

Ruehle B, Herrmann KK, Higgins CL (2017). Helminth parasite assemblages in two cyprinids with different life history strategies. Aquatic Ecology. 51, 247-256.