Professor
Department of Biology

B.S. University of North Carolina, 1968
M.S. University of Kentucky, 1970
Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 1972

Office: Bush Science Center, Room 209
Phone: (407) 646-2433
E-Mail: jsmall@rollins.edu

Courses Taught:

• General Biology
• Biostatistics
• Animal Physiology
• Human Physiology
• Marine Biology
• Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
• Biological Aspects of Nutrition
• Biology Journal Club

Professional and Personal Interests:

I am an ecological physiologist, combining these disciplines in the study of fish energetics and ecology in lakes and streams.   I have done extensive studies on the ecology of Central Florida lakes and the management of exotic plants with grass carp.   I am an American Rose Society Horticultural Judge and Consulting Rosarian, growing approximately 90 rose bushes in a home garden and exhibiting them in rose shows throughout the state of Florida. 

Selected Publications:

• Karleskint, George, Turner, Richard and Small, James. 2010.  Introduction to Marine Biology, 3nd Edition.  Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, Belmont , CA .
• Small, J. W., Jr., Richard, D. I. and Osborne, J. A. 1985.  The effects of vegetation removal by grass carp and herbicides on the water chemistry of four central Florida lakes.  Freshwater Biology, 15: 587-596.
• Richard, D. I. , Small, J. W., Jr. and Osborne, J. A. 1985.  Response of zooplankton to the reduction and elimination of submerged vegetation by grass carp and herbicide in  four Florida lakes.  Hydrobiologia, 123:97-108.
• Richard, D. I. , Small, J. W., Jr. and Osborne, J. A. 1984.  Phytoplankton responses to reduction and elimination of submersed vegetation by herbicides and grass carp in four Florida lakes.  Aquatic Botany, 20:307-319. 
• Small, J. W., Jr. 1975. Energy dynamics of benthic fishes in a small Kentucky stream. Ecology, Vol. 56(4): 827-840.
• Kuehne, R. A. and Small, J. W., Jr. 1971.  Etheostoma barbouri, a new darter (Percidae, Etheostomatini) from the Green River system with notes on the subgenus Catonotus.  Copeia 1971(1): 18-26.