A5074221246- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Marine and fisheries research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Marine animal studies overview
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
University of Florida
2013-2024
Florida Sea Grant
2018-2023
Australian National University
1997-2010
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2009
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
2003
Invasive species generate significant environmental and economic costs, with maintenance management constituting a major expenditure. Such costs are generated by invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois spp.) that further threaten already stressed coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Sea. This brief review documents rapid range expansion potential impacts of lionfish. In addition, preliminary experimental data from targeted removals contribute to debates about management....
We examined factors associated with the occurrence of tree hollows in four eucalypt species from temperate forest southeastern New South Wales and East Gippsland. A total 1 256 standing trees 328 felled was examined. The proportion containing small entrances (2-5 cm) significantly negatively dbh, while medium (5-10 large (>10 positively dbh. There a significant, but weak, relationship between hollow depth minimum entrance width that improved addition to model variables branch diameter...
The statistical power of single‐locus paternity analyses has previously been assessed by calculating an expected exclusion probability ( E ), the excluding a randomly chosen nonfather. This ‐statistic assumes that putative sires are random selection individuals from panmictic study population. In species display male natal philopatry, closely related may be principal competitors for paternity. such structured populations, statistic will overestimate because males competing more than A suite...
Surficial accumulations of marine mollusk shells archive information about ecosystems from previous centuries and millennia can be used not only to measure recent human impacts but also detect habitats that have remained relatively unaltered. In this case study, we applied near-time conservation paleobiology approach assess the status seagrass meadows form structured along northern Gulf coast Florida. Previous studies suggest in study area may We tested “pristine...
Vegetated coastal ecosystems, including mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses, store large amounts of carbon in plant biomass underlying sediments, known as blue carbon. There is increasing interest among policymakers natural resource managers quantifying monetizing the stored ecosystems. However, cycling marine environment complex. This complexity logistical issues accurately measuring limit our ability to manage restore ecosystems nature-based tools for climate change mitigation....
We show how random terms, describing both yearly variation and overdispersion, can easily be incorporated into models for mark-recovery data, through the use of Bayesian methods. For recovery data on lapwings, we that incorporation terms greatly improves goodness fit. Omitting lead to overestimation significance weather survival, overoptimistic prediction intervals in simulations future population behavior. Random effects provide a natural way modeling overdispersion-which is more...
Four Canadian studies have suggested that receipt of seasonal influenza vaccine increased the risk laboratory-confirmed infection with 2009 pandemic A(H1N1). During season in Victoria, Australia, this virus comprised 97% all circulating viruses for which sub-typing was available. We found no evidence of, or provided protection against, virus. Ferret experiments against A(H1N1) from multiple prior infections but not vaccination. Modelling suggest leads to heterosubtypic temporary immunity is...
Oyster and shoreline restoration is occurring around the globe to recover lost ecosystem services. In state of Florida, USA, dozens estuarine habitat projects are underway. These have traditionally relied on both natural man-made materials, including plastics. As impacts plastics marine ecosystems better understood, practitioners increasingly focused plastic-free restoration. To understand this transition, we surveyed Florida in April 2021 capture current non-plastic project trends their...
Natural shorelines provide ecosystem services that are integral to maintaining healthy and resilient coastal ecosystems communities. However, anthropogenic environmental stressors reducing the extent of natural shorelines, thus, their capacity critical services. Unfortunately, most common shoreline management strategies involve hardened structures (e.g., bulkheads seawalls) known impair ecosystems. Living offer a more environmentally friendly alternative this hardening. To increase adoption...
Abstract Organisms, such as fishes and invertebrates including their larval stages, listen to underwater soundscapes detect information about nearby habitats. Such may be influenced by habitat degradation or enhancement, which can lead acoustically mediated feedback loops affecting the overall ecosystem. Despite importance of sounds on ecological functioning, there have been limited studies documenting intertidal ecosystems few, if any, living shoreline soundscapes. Living shorelines would...
Abstract Seagrass meadows represent globally important stores of carbon. However, environmental heterogeneity in shallow, estuarine environments may shape the quantity, composition, and postdepositional processing organic carbon stocks (C org ) such meadows. Along a persistent gradient total phosphorus concentrations water column parallel seagrass morphology, we measured bulk parameters , dry density, %C C : N, δ 13 C) lignin biomarkers Thalassia testudinum tissues sediments beneath these...
Stochastic scenario trees are a new and popular method by which surveillance systems can be analyzed to demonstrate freedom from pests disease. For multiple component systems-such as combination of serological survey systematically collected observations-it difficult represent the complete system in tree because many branches required complex conditional relationships. Here we show that some have identical outcomes therefore redundant. We how prune derive compact representations using matrix...
In this study, we use data drawn from a series of trapping events on four 0.5-ha grids surveyed in the wet eucalypt forests central Victoria, south-eastern Australia, to identify relationships between capture probabilities and several factors interest for three species small mammals that are common throughout region: agile antechinus (Antechinus agilis), dusky swainsonii) bush rat (Rattus fuscipes). The design our study – regular generated spatio-temporal with binary responses many...
We compared the efficacy of two different designs hair-tube for detecting medium-sized, terrestrial marsupials in a range forest types south-east New South Wales. The were large-diameter PVC pipe (large hair-tube) and tapered hair-funnel. In addition, relative abundance forage-diggings same was estimated simultaneously order to provide an independent assessment their distribution within study area. Only hair-tubes out 620 contained hair that could be attributed target fauna, both from...
Sea Grant programs across the United States and its territories are working with coastal communities to enhance their resilience hazards weather extremes exacerbated by climate change. Drawing on expertise of authors, many whom have multiple years or decades experience in network, article identifies five key strategies that employ support process extreme adaptation resilience-building. The application these strategies, most which roots historical legacy extension, then illustrated through...
Seagrasses form vast meadows of structurally complex habitat that support faunal communities with greater numbers species and individuals than nearby unstructured habitats. The Gulf coast peninsular Florida represents a natural laboratory ideally suited to the study processes shape seagrass-associated invertebrate fish within single seagrass, Thalassia testudinum . This suitability arises from pronounced structural chemical gradient exists over ecologically relevant spatial temporal scales,...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 570:57-70 (2017) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12112 Environmental influences on growth and morphology of Thalassia testudinum Savanna C. Barry1,2,*, Charles A. Jacoby3,4, Thomas K. Frazer2,4 1Nature Coast Biological Station, University Florida, Cedar Key, FL 32625, USA 2Fisheries Aquatic Sciences...