A5018365520- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Insect Pheromone Research and Control
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Marine animal studies overview
- Crustacean biology and ecology
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
2015-2023
McCormick (United States)
2007-2016
University of Virginia
2007-2016
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
2007-2013
Global trade by merchant ships is a leading mechanism for the unintentional transfer of marine organisms, including non-indigenous species, to bays and estuaries worldwide. To reduce likelihood new invasions, are increasingly being required manage their ballast water (BW) prior discharge in coastal waters. In United States, most overseas arrivals have been BW since 2004, primarily through exchange (BWE), which flushes out tanks open ocean (>200 miles from shore). Studies found BWE generally...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 339:123-130 (2007) - doi:10.3354/meps339123 Large-scale decline in offshore seagrass meadows Bermuda T. J. Murdoch1,*, A. F. Glasspool1, M. Outerbridge1, Ward2, S. Manuel2, Gray2, Nash2, K. Coates1,2, Pitt3, W. Fourqurean4, P. Barnes5, Vierros6, Holzer3,7, R. Smith3,8 1Bermuda Zoological Society, PO Box FL...
Abstract Aim We characterised protistan taxa in ships’ ballast water ( BW ) arriving to port systems across three U.S. coasts. Our goals were compare (1) diversity and (2) community composition of protists among between systems. Location Chesapeake Bay Virginia (Port Hampton Roads), Galveston Texas (Ports City, Houston Bayport) Prince William Sound Alaska Valdez). Methods collected 61 samples from 39 vessels May August 2013. conducted amplicon‐based high‐throughput sequencing HTS using the...
Management of invasive species, whether prevention, population reduction, or eradication, requires assessment the species' status and an probability success management options.Perceptions a permanence in environment lack thereof frequently drives how limited time, financial, personnel resources are allocated to such efforts.Language we use describe non-native largely defines these perceptions sets boundaries, real perceived, potential actions.Here discuss particular term -"established"when...
Seagrass canopies harbor many different mollusc species, but information about the interaction of these seagrass residents with their host plants remains scarce. Most gastropods inhabiting meadows are believed to feed on epiphytes rather than directly living tissues. In laboratory experiments, we demonstrate that gastropod Smaragdia viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) feeds preferentially three species common in Caribbean and Bermuda, including Thalassia testudinum, Halodule wrightii, Syringodium...
Characterizing biodiversity conveyed in ships' ballast water (BW), a global driver of biological invasions, is critically important for understanding risks posed by this key vector and establishing baselines to evaluate changes associated with BW management. Here we employ high throughput sequence (HTS) metabarcoding the 18S small subunit rRNA test quantify differences accumulation BW-borne among three distinct recipient port systems United States. These were located on different coasts...
Citizen scientists may provide unique opportunities for surveillance and early detection of management-relevant biological invasions.Here, we report results a classroom citizen science program that detected the first record invasive red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) from northern Idaho, United States.Secondary school students trapping storm water ponds in public park Lewiston, Idaho an unusual they identified as P. clarkii.We confirmed this identification by morphology...