UCSB Environmental Studies

Lecturer, Environmental Studies Program and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology

Specialist Researcher Marine Science Institute and Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies

Office:	Call for current location
Phone:	(805) 570-9910
Fax:	none
E-mail:	muller@lifesci.ucsb
Website:	http://www.es.ucsb.edu/faculty/muller
Mailing Address:	Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4160
Courses:	ES 120 Toxics in the Environment EEMB 30 Concepts in Statistics

Erik Muller investigates ecological problems using a modeling approach. He is especially interested in how toxics affect the performance of organisms and how this leads to effects on the level of populations, communities and ecosystems. He also studies the effects of environmental change on the stability of symbiosis in corals. Before turning to ecology, Erik was a microbiologist studying the treatment of domestic waste water.

Erik is also a tutor in science and math.

Education:
M.S. and Ph.D. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Biological Sciences)

Selected pubications

Muller, E.B., Nisbet, R.M. and Berkley, H.A. Modeling sublethal toxicant effects with dynamic energy budgets. Submitted. PDF

Doubledee, R.A., Muller, E.B. and Nisbet, R.M. (2003) Bullfrogs, catastrophes and the persistence of California red-legged frogs. Journal of Wildlife Management, 67(2):424-438. PDF

Muller, E.B., Nisbet, R.M., Kooijman, S.A.L.M., Elser, J.J. and McCauley, E. (2001) Stoichiometric Food Quality and Herbivore Dynamics. Ecology Letters, 4:519-529. PDF

Hanegraaf, P. P. F., and Muller, E. B. (2001) The Dynamics of the Macromolecular Composition of Biomass. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 212:237-251. PDF

Nisbet, R. M., Muller, E. B., Lika, K. and Kooijman, S. A. L. M. (2000) From molecules to ecosystems through dynamics energy budget models. Journal of Animal Ecology, 69:913-926. PDF

Muller, E.B., Nisbet, R.M. (2000) Survival and Production in Variable Resource Environments. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 62:1163-1189. PDF

Nisbet, R.M., Muller, E.B., Brooks, A.J. and Hosseini, P. (1997) Models relating individual and population response to contaminants. Environmental Modeling and Assessment 2, 7-12. PDF

Muller, E.B. and Nisbet, R.M. (1997) Modeling the Effect of Toxicants on the Parameters of Dynamic Energy Budget Models, In Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment: Modeling and Risk Assessment (Sixth Volume), p 71-81, F.James Dwyer, Thomas R. Doane and Mark L. Hinman Eds., American Society for Testing and Materials.

Muller E.B., Stouthamer A.H., van Verseveld H.W. and Eikelboom D.H. (1995) Aerobic domestic waste water treatment in a pilot plant with complete sludge retention by cross-flow filtration. Wat. Res. 29, 1179-1189. PDF

Muller E.B., Stouthamer A.H. and van Verseveld H.W. (1995) A novel method to determine maximal nitrification rates by sewage sludge at a non-inhibitory nitrite concentration applied to determine maximal rates as a function of the nitrogen load. Wat. Res. 29, 1191-1197. PDF

Muller E.B., Stouthamer A.H. and van Verseveld H.W. (1995) Simultaneous NH3 oxidation and N2 production at reduced O2 tensions by sewage sludge subcultured with chemolithotrophic medium. Biodegradation 6, 339-349. PDF