Rate My Professor Jennifer Rehage

As a coastal and fish ecologist working within Biology, Rehage investigates how hydroclimatic variation, water management decisions, seagrass die-offs, nutrient enrichment, and other disturbances influence fish individuals, behavior, populations, communities, ecosystem roles, and recreational fisheries in the Everglades and South Florida coastal systems. Her studies on species such as Common Snook, Bonefish, juvenile Atlantic Tarpon, Florida Largemouth Bass, and Jack Crevalle incorporate angler involvement, local ecological knowledge, and citizen science. Rehage has been principal investigator on extensive grants from the National Park Service, Environmental Protection Agency, South Florida Water Management District, Everglades Foundation, Bonefish and Tarpon Trust, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, supporting projects on bonefish declines, coastal lake habitats, pharmaceuticals in fisheries, marsh-mangrove refuges, and seascape transformations. Key publications include "Predator–prey naïveté, antipredator behavior, and the ecology of predator invasions" (Oikos, 2010), "Ecological novelty and the emergence of evolutionary traps" (Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2013), "Dispersal behavior, boldness, and the link to invasiveness: a comparison of four Gambusia species" (Biological Invasions, 2004), "Climate extremes drive changes in functional community structure" (Global Change Biology, 2014), and "Seascape heterogeneity and predictability drive movement strategy selection in estuarine predators" (Journal of Animal Ecology, 2025). She received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (1999-2002), Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2002-2003), and Lyman T. Johnson Minority Fellowship (2002-2003).