Biology Publications - 2009

Adimey, N., H. Rauschenberger, J.P. Reid, M. Ross, L.W. Keith and R.K. Bonde. 2009. Rescue, rehabilitation and release of Florida manatees: analysis of factors affecting survival. Abstract only. Eighteenth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, 12-16 October 2009, Quebec, Canada.

Barichivich, W.J., S.C. Walls and M.E. Brown. Effect of precipitation extremes and drought on late-season oviposition in a pond-breeding salamander: insight into potential impacts of climate change? Submitted, Herpetological Review.

Beck, C.A., A. Clark. 2009. Individual Identification of Sirenians. Chapter in Sirenian Conservation Book, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (in press).

Beck, C.A., M.T. Clementz. 2009. Techniques for the Determination of the Food Habits of Sirenians. Chapter in Sirenian Conservation Book, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (in press).

Blaustein, A.R., S.C. Walls, B.A. Bancroft, J.J. Lawler, C.L. Searle, and S.S. Gervasi. Direct and indirect effects of climate change on amphibian populations. Submitted, Diversity.

Bonde, R.K., A. Mignucci-Giannoni and G. Bossart. 2009. Sirenian pathology and mortality assessment. Chapter in Sirenian Conservation Book, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (in press).

Bonde, R.K., M.E. Kellogg, P.M. McGuire, J.A. Reid, A. Garrett, M. deWit, M.T. Walsh, A. Mignucci-Giannoni, N. Auil Gomez, J.A. Powell, B. Morales and J.M. Lanyon. 2009. Manatee biogeography and sirenian health assessment. Abstract only. International Sirenian Conservation Conference, 23-24 March 2009, Atlanta, Georgia.

Bonde, R.K., M.K. Hunter and P.M. McGuire. 2009. Manatee evolution and biogeography. Abstract only. Eighteenth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, 12-16 October 2009, Quebec, Canada.

Dorazio, R.M. 2009. On selecting a prior for the precision parameter of Dirichlet process mixture models. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (in press).

Dorcas, M.E., S.J. Price, S.C. Walls and W.J. Barichivich. 2009. Auditory Monitoring of Anuran Populations. Chapter 16 in C.K. Dodd, Jr. (ed.): Techniques in Ecology and Conservation. Pp. 281-298. Oxford University Press.

Faulkner, S., W. Barrow, B. Keeland, S. Walls, D. Telesco, and D. Fuller. Effects of conservation practices on wetlands in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Submitted, Ecological Applications.

Feng, Z., R. Liu, D. L. DeAngelis, J. P. Bryant, K. Kielland, F. Stuart Chapin III, and R. K. Swihart. 2009. Plant toxicity, adaptive herbivory, and plant community dynamics. Ecosystems 12:534-547.

Harvey, J.W., K.E. Harr, D. Murphy, M.T. Walsh, E.C. Nolan, R.K. Bonde, M.G. Pate, C.J. Deutsch, H.H. Edwards, and W.L. Clapp. 2009. Hematology of healthy Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus). Veterinary Clinical Pathology 38(2):183-193. (PDF Link)

Higgs, K.A., S.L. Barton, C.A. Beck. 2009. Partnering for Success: Florida Manatee Photo-identification. Box Essay within Chapter of Sirenian Conservation Book, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (in press).

Hossack, B.R., M.J. Adams, E.H.C. Grant, C.A. Pearl, J.B. Bettaso, W.J. Barichivich, W.H. Lowe, K. True, J.L. Ware, and P. S. Corn. Rarity of pathogenic chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in headwater amphibians of the USA. Journal of Herpetology: in press.

Hunter, M.K., D. Broderick, J. Ovenden, K.P. Tucker, R.K. Bonde, P.M. McGuire and J.M. Lanyon. In press. Characterization of highly informative cross-species microsatellite panels for the Australian dugong (Dugong dugon) and Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris). Molecular Ecology Resources.

Hunter, M.K., R.K. Bonde and P.M. McGuire. 2009. Phylogenetic structure and reduced genetic diversity in Trichechus manatus populations. Abstract only. Eighteenth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, 12-16 October 2009, Quebec, Canada.

Irons, K.S., DeLain, S.A., Gittinger, E., Ickes, B.S., Kolar, C.S., Ostendorf, D., Ratcliff, E.N., and Benson, A.J., 2009, Nonnative fishes in the Upper Mississippi River System: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009–5176, 68 p.

Johnson, F. A. 2009. Variation in population growth rates of mottled ducks in Texas and Louisiana. Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USGS Administrative Report. 26pp.

Kellogg, M.E., R.K. Bonde and P.M. McGuire. 2009. Reduced genetic diversity and delineation of management units in populations of West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus). Abstract only. International Sirenian Conservation Conference, 23-24 March 2009, Atlanta, Georgia.

Kuffner, I.B., V.J. Paul, R. Ritson-Williams, T.D. Hickey, and L.J. Walters. 2009. Reef communities in the Dry Tortugas (Florida, USA): baseline surveys for the new no-take area. Coral Reefs, special issue: Proceedings of the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 7-11 July 2008 (in press).

Langtimm, C. A. 2009. Non-random temporary emigration and the robust design: Conditions for bias at the end of a time series. Pages 745-761. In Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations. Series: Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Vol. 3. Thomson, D. L., E. G. Cooch, M. J. Conroy (Eds.). Springer.

Lanyon, J.M., H. Sneath, J.R. Ovenden, D. Broderick and R.K. Bonde. 2009. Sexing sirenians: validation of visual and molecular sex determination in both wild dugongs (Dugong dugon) and Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris). Aquatic Mammals 35(2):187-192.

Lefebvre, L.W., Reynolds III, J.E., Ragen, T.J., Langtimm, C.A., and Valade, J.A., eds., 2009, Manatee Population Ecology and Management Workshop Proceedings: U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL, April 2002, 66 p.

Murie, D. J., D. C. Parkyn, L. G. Nico, J. J. Herod, and W. F. Loftus. 2009. Age, differential growth and mortality rates in unexploited populations of Florida gar, an apex predator in the Florida Everglades. Fisheries Management and Ecology 16(4):315-322.

Murie, D.J., D.C. Parkyn, W.F. Loftus and L.G. Nico. 2009. Variable growth and longevity of yellow bullhead (Ameiurus natalis) in the Everglades of south Florida, USA. Journal of Applied Ichthyology (in press).

Nico, L.G., H.L. Jelks, and T. Tuten. 2009. Non-Native suckermouth armored catfishes in Florida: Description of nest burrows and burrow colonies with assessment of shoreline conditions. Aquatic Nuisance Species Research Bulletin 9: 1-30. (PDF File)

Nico, L.G., W.F. Loftus, & J.P. Reid. 2009. Interactions between non-native armored suckermouth catfish (Loricariidae: Pterygoplichthys) and native Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in artesian springs. Aquatic Invasions (in press).

Nourisson, C., B. Morales-Vela, J. Padilla-Saldivar, K.P. Tucker, A.M. Clark, R.K. Bonde and P.M. McGuire. 2009. Genetic studies and population structure of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) in Mexico and their impact for conservation. Abstract only. Eighteenth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, 12-16 October 2009, Quebec, Canada.

Schofield, P. J. 2009. Geographic extent and chronology of the invasion of non-native lionfish (Pterois volitans [Linnaeus 1758] and P. miles [Bennett 1828]) in the Western North Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. Aquatic Invasions 4: 473-479. Avail. Online

Schofield, P.J., and L.G. Nico. 2009. Salinity tolerance of non-native Asian Swamp Eels (Teleostei: Synbranchidae) in Florida, USA: Comparison of three populations and implications for dispersal. Environmental Biology of Fishes (in press).

Schofield, P. J., J. A. Morris, Jr. and L. Akins. 2009. Field Guide to Nonindigenous Marine Fishes of Florida. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 92.

Schofield, P. J., W. F. Loftus and J. A. Fontaine. 2009. Salinity effects on behavioural response to hypoxia in the non-native Mayan cichlid (Cichlasoma urophthalmus) from Florida Everglades wetlands. Journal of Fish Biology (in press).

Shu Ju and Donald L. DeAngelis. 2009. The R* rule and energy flux in a plant-nutrient ecosystem. Journal of Theoretical Biology 256:326-332.

Smith, C.P., D.R. Gregoire, and M.S. Gunzburger 2009. Baiting differentially influences capture rates of large aquatic salamanders, Siren and Amphiuma. Herpetological Review 40:304-306.

Smith, T.J., III. 2009. Many other plants grow in mangrove forests too! In Kruczynski, W. & Fletcher, P. South Florida Marine Environments: An ecological synthesis. University of Maryland Press. Annapolis, MD (in press).

Smith, T.J., III. & Whelan, K.R.T. 2009. Natural disturbances to mangroves. In Kruczynski, W. & Fletcher, P. South Florida Marine Environments: An ecological synthesis. University of Maryland Press. Annapolis, MD (in press).

Stamper, M.A. and R.K. Bonde. 2009. Health assessment of captive and wild-caught West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus). Chapter in Sirenian Conservation Book, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (in press).

Sulak, K.J., and Randall, M., 2009, The Gulf Sturgeon in the Suwannee River—Questions and Answers: U.S. Geological Survey General Information Product 72, 12 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/72/

Swihart, R. K., D. L. DeAngelis, Z. Feng, and J. P. Bryant. 2009. Troublesome toxins: Time to rethink plant-herbivore interactions in vertebrate ecology. BMC Commentary 9:5.

Takeuchi, N.Y., M.T. Walsh, M. deWit, R.K. Bonde and D.S. Barber. 2009. Evaluation of copper, zinc, arsenic, and selenium in the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) and the expression of metallothionein. Abstract only. Eighteenth Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, 12-16 October 2009, Quebec, Canada.

Tucker, K.P., M.K. Hunter, R.K. Bonde, A.M. Clark, C.A. Beck, M.K. Oli and P.M. McGuire. In Press. The endangered Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) has little genetic differentiation. Conservation Genetics.

Waddle, J.H., R.M. Dorazio, S.C.Walls, K.G. Rice, J. Beauchamp, M.J. Schuman, and F.J. Mazzotti. A new parameterization for estimating co-occurrence of interacting species. Ecological Applications, in press.

Walls, S.C. 2009. The role of climate in the dynamics of a hybrid zone in Appalachian salamanders. Global Change Biology 15:1903-1910.

Walls, S.C., J.H. Waddle, and R.M. Dorazio. Estimating occupancy dynamics in an anuran assemblage. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Walsh, S.J., Buttermore, E.N., Burgess, O.T., and Pine, W.E., III, 2009, Composition of Age-0 Fish Assemblages in the Apalachicola River, River Styx, and Battle Bend, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1145, 28 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1145/

Walsh, S.J., Knowles, Leel Jr., Katz, B.G., and Strom, D.A., 2009, Hydrology, Water Quality, and Aquatic Communities of Selected Springs in the St. Johns River Water Management District, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5046, 116 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2009/5046/

Whelan, K.R.T., T.J. Smith III, G.H. Anderson and M.L. Ouelette. 2009. Hurricane Wilma's impact on overall soil elevation and zones within the soil profile in a mangroves forest. Wetlands, 29(1): 16-23.

Wong, A.W., R.K. Bonde, J. Siegal-Willott, M.A. Stamper, J. Colee, J. Powell, J.P. Reid, C. Deutsch and K. Harr. 2009. Oral temperature, heart rate, and respiration rate of manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris, T. m. manatus) exposed to capture and handling in the field. Abstract only. International Sirenian Conservation Conference, 23-24 March 2009, Atlanta, Georgia.

Zhang, J., J. Jiang, D. Liu, and D.L. DeAngelis. 2009. Vegetation coverage influence on rainfall-runoff relation based on wavelet analysis. Journal of American Science 5:97-104.