Peter Lindeman, PhD

Peter V. Lindeman is a Professor of Biology who joined the faculty in 1999.  He is an Oklahoma native who earned a B.S. in Zoology and a B.A. in Honors German from Eastern Illinois University in 1985, an M.S. in Zoology from the University of Idaho in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Biology from the University of Louisville in 1997.  Prior to coming to Edinboro, he was an Associate Professor of Biology at Madisonville Community College in western Kentucky for ten years.

Dr. Lindeman’s research is focused on the ecology, evolution, life history, and conservation biology of freshwater turtles.  In particular, much of his work in recent years has concerned the map turtles and sawbacks, a diverse genus (Graptemys) of river-dwelling turtles of the eastern and central North America.  These turtles are distinguished by their dietary diversity, replicated patterns of co-occurrence in Gulf Coast river drainages, and exceptional sexual size differences.  Most recently, he has worked on field projects on Graptemys species and other turtles at Presque Isle State Park on Lake Erie in Pennsylvania, the Pearl and Pascagoula river drainages of southern Mississippi, and the Colorado and Guadalupe river drainages of central Texas.  His past field projects have been conducted in Idaho, Washington, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.  He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles on freshwater turtles as well as The Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas: Ecology, Evolution, Distribution, and Conservation, which was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2013.

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