A5000449306- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
- Plant and animal studies
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
NOAA National Ocean Service
2018-2022
James Sprunt Community College
2022
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2018-2022
NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
2018-2022
North Carolina State University
2015-2020
Morehead State University
2017
Abstract Species invasions in marine ecosystems pose a threat to native fish communities and can disrupt the food webs that support valuable commercial recreational fisheries. In Gulf of Mexico, densities invasive Indo-Pacific Lionfish, Pterois volitans P. miles, are among highest their invaded range. workshop setting held over 2-week period, we adapted an existing trophic dynamic model West Florida Shelf, located eastern simulate lionfish (both species) invasion community effects range...
Lionfish, native to reef ecosystems of the tropical and sub-tropical Indo-Pacific, were introduced Florida waters in 1980s, have spread rapidly throughout northwestern Atlantic, Caribbean Sea Gulf Mexico. These invasive, carnivorous fish significantly reduce other benthic invertebrate biomass, recruitment, species richness ecosystems. Fisheries resource managers proposed establishment a commercial fishery lionfish populations mitigate adverse effects on communities. The potential for is...
The harmful algal bloom species, Karenia brevis, forms annual, often intense blooms in the Gulf of Mexico, particularly along west Florida shelf. Though ability K. brevis to cause mass mortalities juvenile fish are well documented, direct effect concentrations on larval has not been studied extensively. To better understand potential survival, laboratory spawned red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) larvae from 4–26 days post-hatch were exposed observed field for either 24 or 48 h. This species is...