Biology Publications - 2012

Beck, C.A. and A. Clark. 2012. Individual Identification of Sirenians. Chapter 15. Pages 133-138 in Hines, Reynolds, Aragones, Mignucci-Giannoni, Marmontel, eds., Sirenian Conservation: Issues and Strategies in Developing Countries. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 326 pp.

Beck, C.A. and M.T. Clementz. 2012. Techniques for Determining the Food Habits of Sirenians. Chapter 14. Pages 126-132 in Hines, Reynolds, Aragones, Mignucci-Giannoni, Marmontel, eds., Sirenian Conservation: Issues and Strategies in Developing Countries. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 326 pp.

Bonde, R.K., A. Mignucci-Giannoni and G. Bossart. 2012. Sirenian Pathology and Mortality Assessment. Chapter 17. Pages 148-156 in Hines, Reynolds, Aragones, Mignucci-Giannoni, Marmontel, eds., Sirenian Conservation: Issues and Strategies in Developing Countries. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 326 pp.

Burgess, O. T., Pine, W. E. and Walsh, S. J. (2012), Importance of Floodplain Connectivity to Fish Populations in the Apalachicola River, Florida. River Res. Applic.. doi: 10.1002/rra.2567. [Journal Abstract]

Garrison, V.H., Ward, G. 2012. Transplantation of storm-generated coral fragments for coral conservation: A successful method but not the solution. Revista Biologia Tropical (Int. J. Trop. Biol) 60 (Suppl. 1): 59-70.

Hart KM, Lamont ML, Fujisaki I, Tucker AD, Carthy RR. 2012. Common coastal foraging areas for loggerheads in the Gulf of Mexico: Opportunities for marine conservation. Biological Conservation 145: 185-194. [Journal Abstract]

Hart, K.M., P.J. Schofield and D.R. Gregoire. 2012. Experimentally derived salinity tolerance of hatchling Burmese pythons (Python molurus bivittatus) from the Everglades, Florida (USA). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 413: 56-59. [Journal Article]

Marmontel, M., J. Reid, J.K. Sheppard and B. Morales-Vela. 2012. Tagging and Movement of Sirenians. Chapter 13. Pages 116-125 in Hines, Reynolds, Aragones, Mignucci-Giannoni, Marmontel, eds., Sirenian Conservation: Issues and Strategies in Developing Countries. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 326 pp.

McClain Counts, J.P., and Demopoulos, A.W., 2012, Connectivity of tropical marine ecosystems: An overview of interdisciplinary research to understand biodiversity and trophic relationships in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2012-3016, 2 p.

Poulos, Helen, M., Barry Chernoff, Pam L. Fuller and David Butman. 2012. Ensemble forecasting of potential habitat for three invasive fishes. Aquatic Invasions 7(1): 59–72. [Journal Article]

Randall, M.T. and K.J. Sulak. 2012. Evidence of autumn spawning in Suwannee River Gulf sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi (Vladykov, 1955). Journal of Applied Ichthyology, (1-7). [Journal Abstract]

Rogers CS, Muller EM (2012) Bleaching, disease and recovery in the threatened scleractinian coral Acropora palmata in St. John, US Virgin Islands: 2003–2010. Coral Reefs. DOI 10.1007/s00338-012-0898-8. [Journal Abstract]

Rood, K.A., S.L. Barton, and C.A. Beck. 2012. Partnering for Success: Florida Manatee Photo-identification. Box 3.3. Page 32 in Hines, Reynolds, Aragones, Mignucci-Giannoni, Marmontel, eds., Sirenian Conservation: Issues and Strategies in Developing Countries. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 326 pp.

Ross, S.W., Demopoulos, A.W.J., Kellogg, C.A., Morrison, C.L., Nizinski, M.S., Ames, C.L., Casazza, T.L., Gualtieri, D., Kovacs, K., McClain, J.P., Quattrini, A.M., Roa-Varón, A.Y., and Thaler, A.D., 2012, Deepwater Program: Studies of Gulf of Mexico lower continental slope communities related to chemosynthetic and hard substrate habitats: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1032, 301 p.

Saha, A.K., Moses, C.S., Price, R.M., Engel, V., Smith, T.J., III & Anderson, G.H. 2012. A hydrological budget (2002-2008) for a large subtropical wetland ecosystem indicates marine groundwater discharge accompanies diminished freshwater flow. Estuaries and Coasts. DOI 10.1007/s12237-011-9454-y

Stamper, M.A. and R.K. Bonde. 2012. Health Assessment of Captive and Wild-Caught West Indian Manatees (Trichechus manatus). Chapter 16. Pages 139-147 in Hines, Reynolds, Aragones, Mignucci-Giannoni, Marmontel, eds., Sirenian Conservation: Issues and Strategies in Developing Countries. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 326 pp.

Thompson, K. A., J. E. Hill, and L. G. Nico. 2012. Eastern mosquitofish resists invasion by nonindigenous poeciliids through agonistic behaviors. Biological Invasions. On-line first_DOI 10.1007/s10530-012-0176-2. [Journal Article]

Watts, A.C., L.N. Kobziar, and J.R. Snyder. 2012. Fire reinforces structure of pondcypress (Taxodium distichum var. imbricarium) domes in a wetland landscape. Wetlands (Online First). DOI 10.1007/s13157-012-0277-9.

White, H.K., P. Hsing, W. Cho, T.M. Shank, E.E. Cordes, A.M. Quattrini, R.K. Nelson, R. Camilli, A.W.J. Demopoulos, C.R. German, J.M. Brooks, H.H. Roberts, W. Shedd, C.M. Reddy, and C.R. Fisher. 2012. Impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a deep-water coral community in the Gulf of Mexico. PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.1118029109. [Journal Abstact]

Wong, A.W., R.K. Bonde, J. Siegal-Willott, M.A. Stamper, J. Colee, J.A. Powell, J.P. Reid, C. Deutsch, and K.E. Harr. 2012. Monitoring oral temperature, heart rate, and respiration rate of West Indian manatees during capture and handling in the field. Aquatic Mammals 38(1):1-16, DOI: 10.1578/AM.38.1.2012.1.

Biology Publications - 2011

Austin, J.D., H.L. Jelks, B. Tate, A.R. Johnson, and F. Jordan. 2011. Population genetic structure and conservation genetics of threatened Okaloosa darters (Etheostoma okaloosae). Conservation Genetics 12:981-989. [Journal Abstract]

Burkhead, N.M., T. Hoehn, W. Tate. 2011. Blackmouth Shiner Biological Status Review Report. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee.

Burkhead, N.M., T. Hoehn, W. Tate. 2011. Bluenose Shiner Biological Status Review Report. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee.

Capps, K. A., L. G. Nico, M. Mendoza-Carranza, W. Arévalo-Frías, A. J. Ropecki, S. A. Heilprin, and R. Rodiles-Hernández. 2011. Salinity tolerance of non-native suckermouth armoured catfish (Loricariidae: Pterygoplichthys) in south-eastern Mexico: implications for invasion and dispersal. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 21(6):528-540. [Journal Abstract]

Cherkiss, M.S., S.S. Romañach, and F.J. Mazzotti. 2011. The American Crocodile in Biscayne Bay, Florida. Estuaries and Coasts 34:529-535. doi: 10.1007/s12237-011-9378-6.

DeAngelis, D. L., J. Jiang, S. Y. Teh, H. L. Koh, T. J. Smith, C. Langtimm, E. Swain, M. D. Krohn, and B. Stith. 2011. Modeling the effects of storm surges. Pages 8-18 in Tsunami Simulation for Impact Assessment, Editors K. H. Lye, P. L-F Liu, and T. S. Yean. Proceeding Series. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang.

Demopoulos, A.W.J., Foster, A.M., Jones, M.L., and Gualtieri, D.J., 2011, Geospatial characteristics of Florida's coastal and offshore environments: Coastal habitats, artificial reefs, wrecks, dumping grounds, harbor obstructions and offshore sand resources: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3167, 10 p.

Demopoulos, A.W.J., Foster, A.M., Jones, M.L., and Gualtieri, D.J., 2011, Geospatial characteristics of Florida's coastal and offshore environments: Distribution of important habitats for coastal and offshore biological resources and offshore sand resources: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3166, 11 p.

Demopoulos, A.W.J., Gualtieri, D.J., Neils, A., and Huge, D., 2011, Comprehensive summary of beach renourishment and offshore sand removal impacts for Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1135, 183 p.

Dona, M.G., M. Rehtanz, N.M. Adimey, G.D. Bossart, A.B. Jensen, R.K. Bonde and S. Ghim. 2011. Seroepidemiology of TmPV-1 infection in captive and wild Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 47:673-684. [Journal Abstract]

Dorazio, R.M., N.J. Gotelli, and A.M. Ellison. 2011. Modern methods of estimating biodiversity from presence-absence surveys. In Biodiversity / Book 4, O. Grillo (ed.), InTech, ISBN 978-953-307-1427-1.

Faulkner, S., W. Barrow, Jr., B. Keeland, S. Walls, and D. Telesco. 2011. Effects of conservation practices on wetland ecosystem services in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Ecological Applications 21:S31–S48.

Feng, Z., Z. Qiu, R. Liu, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2011. Dynamics of a plant-herbivore-predator system with plant-toxicity. Mathematical Biosciences (doi:10:1016/j.mbs.2010.12.005).

Fujisaki, I, FJ Mazzotti, RM Dorazio, KG Rice, M Cherkiss, B Jeffery. 2011. Estimating trends in alligator populations from nightlight survey data. Wetlands 31:147-155.

Garrison, V.H., Beets, J., Friedlander, A.M., and Canty, S., 2011, Data from in situ Observations of Fish Traps Set by Fishermen in St. John Waters, U.S. Virgin Islands, 1992-94: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 642.

Garrison, V.H., Foreman, W.T., Genualdi, S.A., Majewski, M.S., Mohammed, Azad, and Simonich, S.M., 2011, Concentrations of semivolatile organic compounds associated with African dust air masses in Mali, Cape Verde, Trinidad and Tobago, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, 2001-2008: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 571, 1 DVD.

Harr, K.E., R. Rember, P.E. Ginn, J. Lightsey, M. Keller, J. Reid and R.K Bonde. 2011. Serum amyloid A (SAA) as a biomarker of chronic infection due to boat strike trauma in a free-ranging Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) with incidental polycystic kidneys. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 47:1026-1031.

Hart KM, Crowder LB (2011). Mitigating the by-catch of terrapins in crab pots. Journal of Wildlife Management 75(2):264–272, DOI:10.1002/jwmg.49.

Huge, D.H., and Rauschenberger, R.H., Wieser, C.M., and Hemming, J.M., 2011, A comparison of mercury burdens between St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge and St. Andrew Bay, Florida: Evaluation of fish body burdens and physiological responses in largemouth bass, spotted seatrout, striped mullet, and sunfish: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1056, 35 p.

Jelks H, Tate B, and Jordan F. 2011. Weapons testing and endangered fish coexist in Florida. Endangered Species Bulletin 36(1): 46-47. [Available Online]

Johnson, F. A., D. R. Breininger, B. W. Duncan, J. D. Nichols, M. C. Runge, and B. K. Williams. 2011. A Markov decision process for managing habitat for Florida scrub-jays. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 2:234-246.

Kuffner IB, Hickey TD, Paul VJ, Morrison JM, Walters LJ, Grablow KR, Turner T, Parish ER. 2011. Half-dead colonies of Montastraea annularis release viable gametes on a degraded reef in the US Virgin Islands. Bull Mar Sci 87:855-856.

Langtimm, C. A., R. Dorazio, B. Stith, T. Doyle. 2011. New aerial survey and hierarchical model to estimate manatee abundance. Journal of Wildlife Management 75:299-312.

Martin, J., P. L. Fackler, J. D. Nichols, B. C. Lubow, M. J. Eaton, M. C. Runge, B. M. Stith, C. A. Langtimm. 2011. Structured decision making as a proactive approach to dealing with sea level rise in Florida. Climatic Change 107:185-202.

Melillo-Sweeting, Kelly, James P. Reid, Lester Gittens, Nicole Adimey, and Jared Z. Dillet. 2011. Observations and Relocation of a West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus) off Bimini, The Bahamas. Aquatic Mammals, 37(4), 502-505.

Micheal S. Allen, Mark W. Rogers, Matthew J. Catalano, Daniel G. Gwinn & Stephen J. Walsh (2011): Evaluating the Potential for Stock Size to Limit Recruitment in Largemouth Bass, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 140:4, 1093-1100 [Journal Abstract]

Misra, V., L. Moeller, L. Stefanova, S. Chan, J. J. O'Brien, T. J. Smith III, and N. Plant (2011), The influence of the Atlantic Warm Pool on the Florida panhandle sea breeze, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D00Q06, doi:10.1029/2010JD015367. [Available Online]

Nico, L. G., A. Demopulos, D. Gualtieri, and C. Wieser. 2011. Use of stable isotopes and mercury to assess trophic positions of black carp and other large fishes in the Red-Atchafalaya River system, Louisiana, USA. Pages 105-119 in D. C. Chapman, and M. H. Hoff, editors. Invasive Asian Carps in North America. American Fisheries Society Symposium 74, Bethesda, Maryland.

Nico, L. G., and H. L. Jelks. 2011. The black carp in North America: an update. Pages 89-104 in D. C. Chapman, and M. H. Hoff, editors. Invasive Asian Carps in North America. American Fisheries Society Symposium 74, Bethesda, Maryland.

Nico, L.G. and S.J. Walsh. 2011. Nonindigenous freshwater fishes on tropical Pacific islands: a review of eradication efforts. Pages 97-107 in C. R. Veitch, M. N. Clout, and D. R. Towns, editors. Island Invasives: Eradication and Management. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland and Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity (CBB), Auckland, New Zealand. [Available Online]

Nico, L. G., P. Sharp, and T. M. Collins. 2011. Imported Asian swamp eels (Synbranchidae: Monopterus) in North American live food markets: Potential vectors of non-native parasites. Aquatic Invasions 6(1):69-76. [Available: http://www.aquaticinvasions.net/2011/AI_2011_6_1_Nico_etal.pdf]

Nourisson, C., B. Morales-Vela, J. Padilla-Saldivar, K.P. Tucker, A.M. Clark, L.D. Olivera, R.K. Bonde and P. McGuire. 2011. Evidence of two genetic clusters of manatees with low genetic diversity in Mexico and implications for their conservation. Genetica 139:833-842, DOI 10.1007/s10709-011-9583-z.

Obaza, A., D. L. DeAngelis, and J. C. Trexler. 2011. Using data from an encounter sampler to model fish dispersal. Journal of Fish Biology 78:495-513.

Oliveira-Santos, L.G.R., R.M. Dorazio, W.M. Tomas, G. Mourao, and F.A.S. Fernandez. 2011. No evidence of interference competition among the invasive feral pig and two native peccary species in a neotropical wetland. Journal of Tropical Ecology 27: 557-561. [Journal Article]

Paul VJ, Kuffner IB, Walters LJ, Ritson-Williams R, Beach KS, Becerro MA (2011) Chemically-mediated interactions between macroalgae Dictyota spp. and multiple life-history stages of the coral Porites astreoides. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 426:161-170.

Pawlitz, R.J., 2011, Southeast Ecological Science Center: Who we are, what we do: U.S. Geological Survey General Information Product 120, 20 p.

Reed RN, Hart KM, Rodda GH, Mazzotti FJ, Snow RW, Cherkiss M, Rozar R, Goetz S. (2011). A field test of attractant traps for invasive Burmese pythons (Python molurus bivittatus) in southern Florida. Wildlife Research 38:114-121.

Rice, K. G., J. H. Waddle, M. W. Miller, M. E. Crockett, F. J. Mazzotti, and H. F. Percival. 2011. Recovery of native treefrogs after removal of nonindigenous Cuban treefrogs, Osteopilus septentrionalis. Herpetologica 67:105-117.

Richards, T. M., J. M. Krebs, and C. C. McIvor. 2011. Microhabitat associations of a semi-terrestrial fish, Kryptolebias marmoratus (Poey 1880) in a mosquito-ditched mangrove forest, west-central Florida. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 401:48-56.

Rivera-Monroy, V.H., Twilley, R.R., Davis, S.E., III, Childers, D.L., Simard, M, Chambers, R., Jaffe, R., Boyer, J.N., Rudnick, D., Zhang, K., Castañeda-Moya, E., Ewe, S., Price, R.M., Coronado-Molina, C., Ross, M., Smith, T.J., III, Michot, B., Meselhe, E., Nuttle. W., Troxler, T. & Noe, G.B. 2011. The Role of the Everglades Mangrove Ecotone Region (EMER) in Regulating Nutrient Cycling and Wetland Productivity in South Florida. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science & Technology. 41: 633-669.

Rolland, V., J. A. Hostetler, T. C. Hines, F. A. Johnson, H. F. percival, M. K. Oli. 2011. Effects of harvest and climate on population dynamics of northern bobwhites in south Florida. Wildlife Research 38:396-407.

Romañach, S.S., Conzelmann, C., Daugherty, A., Lorenz, J.L., Hunnicutt, C., and Mazzotti, F.J. 2011, Joint Ecosystem Modeling (JEM) Ecological Model Documentation Volume 1: Estuarine Prey Fish Biomass Availability v1.0.0: U.S Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1272, 20 p.

Romañach, S.S., Conzelmann, Craig, Daugherty, Adam, Lorenz, J.L., Hunnicutt, Christina, and Mazzotti, F.J., 2011, Joint Ecosystem Modeling (JEM) Ecological Model Documentation Volume 2: Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) Landscape Habitat Suitability Index v1.0.0: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1273, 23 p.

Schofield, P.J. and D.H. Huge. 2011. Low-temperature tolerance of two non-native fishes (Hoplosternum littorale [Hancock 1828], Cichlasoma bimaculatum [Linnaeus 1758]) established in Florida. Florida Scientist 74: 73-83.

Schofield, P.J., M. S. Peterson, M. R. Lowe, N. J. Brown-Peterson and W. T. Slack. 2011. Survival, growth and reproduction of non-indigenous Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus 1758).I. Physiological capabilities in various temperatures and salinities. Marine and Freshwater Research 62: 439-449. [Journal Abstract]

Shea C.P., Peterson, J.T., Wisniewski, J.M., and N.A. Johnson. 2011. Misidentification of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia:Unionidae): contributing factors, management implications, and potential solutions. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30(2): 446-458.

Slone, D.H. 2011. Increasing accuracy of dispersal kernels in grid-based population models. Ecological Modeling. 222(3): 573-579. DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.11.023.

Stefanova, L., Misra, V., Chan, S., O’Brien, J.J., Griffin, M. & Smith, T.J., III. "Online first.". 2011. A Proxy for High-Resolution Regional Reanalysis for the Southeast United States: Assessment of Precipitation Variability. Climate Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s00382-011-1230-y.

Susan C. Walls, J. Hardin Waddle and Robert M. Dorazio. 2011. Estimating Occupancy Dynamics in an Anuran Assemblage from Louisiana, USA. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 75(4):751-761. 2011.

Walls, S.C., W.J. Barichivich, and M.E. Brown. 2011. Ambystoma talpoideum (Mole Salamander). Oviposition mode and timing. Herpetological Review 42(4):579-580.

Weil E., Rogers C. 2011. Coral reef diseases in the Atlantic-Caribbean. Part 5. Pages 465-491. In: (editors Zvy Dubinsky, Noga Stambler) Coral Reefs: An Ecosystem in Transition. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-014-4_27. [Journal Abstract]

Wilson, R.C., J.E. Reynolds III, D.L. Wetzel, L Scheurzke-Wade, R.K. Bonde, K.F. Breuel and W.E. Roudebush. 2011. Secretion of anti-Müllerian hormone in the Florida manatee Trichechus manatus latirostris, with implications for assessing conservation status. Endangered Species Research 14:107-112, DOI: 10.3354/esr00346.

Witmer, G.W. and P.L. Fuller. 2011. Vertebrate species introductions in the United States and its territories. Current Zoology 57(5):559-567. [Journal Abstract]

Woodward, AR, HF Percival, RH Rauschenberger, TS Gross, KG Rice, and R Conrow. 2011. Abnormal alligators and organochlorine pesticides in Lake Apopka, Florida. Pages 153-188 in JE Elliott, CA Bishop, and CA Morrissey, eds. Wildlife Ecotoxicology: Forensic Approaches. Springer. New York, NY.