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Articles from 2009

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Multidecadal climate oscillations detected in a transparency record from a subtropical Florida lake, Evelyn E. Gaiser, Nancy D. Deyrup, Roger W. Bachmann, Larry D. Battoe, and Hilary M. Swain

Effects of climate variability on transparency and thermal structure in subtropical, monomictic Lake Annie, Florida, Evelyn E. Gaiser, Nancy D. Deyrup, Roger W. Bachmann, Larry E. Battoe, and Hilary M. Swain

Physical factors influencing the distribution of a top predator in a subtropical oligotrophic estuary, Michael R. Heithaus, Bryan K. Delius, Aaron J. Wirsing, and Meagan M. Dunphy-Daly

Phosphorus Availability and Salinity Control Productivity and Demography of the Seagrass Thalassia testudinum in Florida Bay, D. A. Herbert and James W. Fourqurean

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Immunostaining for allatotropin and allatostatin-A and -C in the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Anopheles albimanus, Salvador Hernández-Martínez, Yiping Li, Humberto Lanz-Mendoza, Mario H. Rodriguez, and Fernando G. Noriega

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Three birds with one stone: moas, heteroblasty and the New Zealand flora, David W. Lee and Kevin Gould

Ecological indicators for assessing and communicating seagrass status and trends in Florida Bay, Christopher J. Madden, David T. Rudnick, Amanda A. MacDonald, Kevin M. Cunniff, and James W. Fourqurean

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Circadian and Social Cues Regulate Ion Channel Trafficking, Michael Markham, M. Lynne McAnelly, Philip K. Stoddard, and Harold H. Zakon

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Species Diversity and Conservation Status of Amphibians in Madre De Dios, Southern Peru, Rudolf Von May, Karen Siu-Ting, Jennifer M. Jacobs, Margarita Medina-Muller, Giuseppe Gagliardi, Lily O. Rodriguez, and Maureen A. Donnelly

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Animal pigment bilirubin discovered in plants, Cary Pirone, J. Martin E. Quirke, Horacio A. Priestap, and David W. Lee

Aquatic fauna as indicators for Everglades restoration: Applying dynamic targets in assessments, Joel C. Trexler and Charles W. Goss

Faculty Publications from 2008

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Approaches to analyse dynamic microbial communities such as those seen in cystic fibrosis lung, Melissa Doud, Erliang Zeng, Lisa Schneper, Giri Narasimhan, and Kalai Mathee

Comment on Estimating Ecological Thresholds for Phosphorus in the Everglades, Evelyn E. Gaiser, Robert F. Doren, Paul V. McCormick, Susan Newman, Jennifer H. Richards, and Joel C. Trexler

Ecosystem Structure and Function Still Altered Two Decades After Short-Term Fertilization of a Seagrass Meadow, Darrell A. Herbert and James W. Fourqurean

Macroinvertebrate community response to eutrophication in an oligotrophic wetland: An in situ mesocosm experiment, Shawn E. Liston, Susan Newman, and Joel C. Trexler

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Why Do Dolphins Carry Sponges?, Janet Mann, Brooke L. Sargeant, Jana J. Watson-Capps, Quincy A. Gibson, Michael R. Heithaus, Richard C. Connor, and Eric Patterson

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Why Do Dolphins Carry Sponges?, Janet Mann, Brooke L. Sargeant, Jana J. Watson-Capps, Quincy A. Gibson, Michael R. Heithaus, Richard C. Connor, and Eric Patterson

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Comparison of fish assemblages in two littoral habitats in a Neotropical morichal stream in Venezuela, Carmen G. Montaña, Craig A. Layman, and Donald C. Taphorn

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Dermatological remedies in the traditional pharmacopoeia of Vulture-Alto Bradano, inland southern Italy, Cassandra L. Quave, Andrea Pieroni, and Bradley C. Bennett

The effects of manipulation of sedimentary iron and organic matter on sediment biogeochemistry and seagrasses in a subtropical carbonate environment, Sergio Ruiz-Halpern, Stephen A. Macko, and James W. Fourqurean

Biotic and abiotic determinants of intermediate-consumer trophic diversity in the Florida everglades, Brooke L. Sargeant, Evelyn E. Gaiser, and Joel C. Trexler

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Current State of Conservation Knowledge on Threatened Amphibian Species in Peru, Rudolf von May, Alessandro Catenazzi, Ariande Angulo, Jason L. Brown, Jorge Carrillo, German Chavez, Jesus H. Cordova, Aleyda Curo, Amanda Delgado, Marco A. Enciso, Roberto Gutierrez, Edgar Lehr, Jorge L. Martinez, Margarita Medina-Muller, Alfonso Miranda, Daniel R. Neira, Jose A. Ochoa, Aaron J. Quiroz, Daniel A. Rodriguez, Lily O. Rodriguez, Antonio W. Salas, Tracie Seimon, Anton Seimon, Karen Siu-Ting, Juana Suarez, Claudia Torres, and Evan Twomey

Articles from 2007

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Tropical seagrass-associated macroalgae distributions and trends relative to water quality, Ligia Collado-Vides, Valentina G. Caccia, Joseph N. Boyer, and James W. Fourqurean

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Importance of water source in controlling leaf leaching losses in a dwarf red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle L.) wetland, Stephen E. Davis and Dan Childers

Crayfish assemblage shifts in a large drought-prone wetland: the roles of hydrology and competition, Nathan J. Dorn and Joel C. Trexler

Occurrence and distribution of novel botryococcene hydrocarbons in freshwater wetlands of the Florida Everglades, Min Gao, Bernd R.T. Simoneit, Miroslav Gantar, and Rudolf Jaffe´

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The BRCA1 Ashkenazi founder mutations occur on common haplotypes and are not highly correlated with anonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms likely to be used in genome-wide case-control association studies, Lutecia H. Mateus Pereira, Marbin A. Pineda, William H. Rowe, Liabia R. Fonseca, Mark H. Greene, Kenneth Offit, Nathan A. Ellis, Jinghui Zhang, Andrew Collins, and Jeffery P. Struewing

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Phylogenetic review of tonal sound production in whales in relation to sociality, Laura Johanna May-Collado, Ingi Agnarsson, and Douglas Wartzok

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The identity, distribution, and impacts of non-native apple snails in the continental United States, Timothy A. Rawlings, Kenneth A. Hayes, Robert H. Cowie, and Timothy M. Collins

Patterns of phosphorus, nitrogen and δ15N along a peat development gradient in a coastal mire, Panama, Tiffany Troxler-Gann

Articles from 2006

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Variable responses within epiphytic and benthic microalgal communities to nutrient enrichment, Anna R. Armitage, Thomas A. Frankovich, and James W. Fourqurean

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Hydrologic measurements and implications for tree island formation within Everglades National Park, Jose Bazante, Gary Jacobi, Helena M. Solo-Gabriele, David Reed, Sherry Mitchell-Bruker, Daniel L. Childers, Lynn Leonard, and Michael Ross

A synthesis of long-term research by the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program, Dan Childers

Relating precipitation and water management to nutrient concentrations in the oligotrophic ‘‘upside-down’’ estuaries of the Florida Everglades, Dan Childers, Joseph N. Boyer, Stephen E. Davis, Christopher J. Madden, David T. Rudnick, and Fred H. Sklar

Responses of sawgrass and spikerush to variation in hydrologic drivers and salinity in Southern Everglades marshes, Dan Childers, David Iwaniec, David Rondeau, Gustavo Rubio, Emilie Verdon, and Christopher J. Madden

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The contribution of leaching to the rapid release of nutrients and carbon in the early decay of wetland vegetation, Stephen E. Davis, Dan Childers, and Gregory B. Noe

Exploring the role of large predators in marsh food webs: evidence for a behaviorally-mediated trophic cascade, Nathan J. Dorn, Joel C. Trexler, and Evelyn E. Gaiser

Spatial and temporal patterns of aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) along two freshwater-estuarine transects in the Florida Coastal Everglades, Sharon M.L. Ewe, Dan Childers, Evelyn E. Gaiser, David Iwaniec, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, and Robert R. Twilley

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Tracking rates of ecotone migration due to salt-water encroachment using fossil mollusks in coastal South Florida, Evelyn E. Gaiser, Angelikie Zafiris, Pablo L. Ruiz, Franco A.C. Tobias, and Michael S. Ross

Nutrient impacts on epifaunal density and species composition in a subtropical seagrass bed, Melissa Gil, Anna R. Armitage, and James W. Fourqurean

Comparative study of periphyton community structure in long and short-hydroperiod Everglades marshes, Andrew D. Gottlieb, Jennifer H. Richards, and Evelyn E. Gaiser

Spatial patterns of fish communities along two estuarine gradients in southern Florida, David P.J. Green, Joel C. Trexler, Jerome J. Lorenz, Carole C. McIvor, and Tom Philippi

Effects of hydrologic and water quality drivers on periphyton dynamics in the southern Everglades, David M. Iwaniec, Dan Childers, David Rondeau, Christopher J. Madden, and Colin Saunders

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Characteristics of surface-water flows in the ridge and slough landscape of Everglades National Park: implications for particulate transport, Lynn Leonard, Alexander L. Croft, Dan Childers, Sherry Mitchell-Bruker, Helena Solo-Gabriele, and Michael S. Ross

Interactions between nutrient availability and hydroperiod shape macroinvertebrate communities in Florida Everglades marshes, Shawn E. Liston

Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of Dissolved Organic Carbon Leached from Senescent Plants in an Oligotrophic Wetland, Nagamitsu Maie, Rudolf Jaffe´, Toshikazu Miyoshi, and Dan Childers

Chemical characterization of dissolved organic nitrogen in an oligotrophic subtropical coastal ecosystem, Nagamitsu Maie, Kathleen J. Parish, Akira Watanabe, Heike Knicker, Ronald Benner, Tomonori Abe, Karl Kaiser, and Rudolf Jaffe´

Potential role of sponge communities in controlling phytoplankton blooms in Florida Bay, Bradley J. Peterson, Charles M. Chester, Frank J. Jochem, and James W. Fourqurean

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Coastal groundwater discharge – an additional source of phosphorus for the oligotrophic wetlands of the Everglades, René M. Price, Peter K. Swart, and James W. Fourqurean

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Assessing the net effect of anthropogenic disturbance on aquatic communities in wetlands: community structure relative to distance from canals, Jennifer S. Rehage and Joel C. Trexler

Controls on herbaceous litter decomposition in the estuarine ecotones of the Florida Everglades, Gustavo Rubio and Daniel L. Childers

Using soil profiles of seeds and molecular markers as proxies for sawgrass and wet prairie slough vegetation in Shark Slough, Everglades National Park, Colin J. Saunders, MIn Gao, Jason A. Lynch, Rudolf Jaffe´, and Daniel L. Childers

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Epidemiology of recreational exposure to freshwater cyanobacteria – an international prospective cohort study, Ian Stewart, Penelope M. Webb, Philip J. Schulter, Lora E. Fleming, John W. Burns Jr., Miroslav Gantar, Lorraine C. Backer, and Glen R. Shaw

Influence of teleost abundance on the distribution and abundance of sharks in Florida Bay, USA, Leigh G. Torres, Michael R. Heithaus, and Bryan Delius

Interaction of hydrology and nutrients in controlling ecosystem function in oligotrophic coastal environments of South Florida, Joel C. Trexler, Evelyn E. Gaiser, and Dan Childers

Relationships Between Hydrology and Soils Describe Vegetation Patterns in Seasonally Flooded Tree Islands of the Southern Everglades, Florida, Tiffany Troxler-Gann and Dan Childers

A preliminary analysis of the correlation of food-web characteristics with hydrology and nutrient gradients in the southern Everglades, Alissa J. WIlliams and Joel C. Trexler

Articles from 2005

Carbon isotopic composition of cypress trees from South Florida and changing hydrologic condition, William T. Anderson, Leonel S. Sternberg, M. C. Pinzon, Tiffany Troxler-Gann, Daniel L. Childers, and M. Duever

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Experimental nutrient enrichment causes complex changes in seagrass, microalgae, and macroalgae community structure in Florida Bay, Anna R. Armitage, Thomas A. Frankovich, Kenneth L. Heck Jr., and James W. Fourqurean

The potential role of plant oxygen and sulphide dynamics in die-off events of the tropical seagrass, Thalassia testudinum, J. Borum, O. Pederson, T. M. Greve, T. A. Frankovich, J. C. Zieman, James W. Fourqurean, and C. J. Madden

Spatiotemporal variation of the abundance of calcareous green macroalgae in the Florida Keys: A study of synchrony within a macroalgal functional-form group, Ligia Collado-Vides, Leanne M. Rutten, and James W. Fourqurean

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Spatial and seasonal variability in elemental content, δ13C, and δ15N ofThalassia testudinum from South Florida and its implications for ecosystem studies, James W. Fourqurean, Susie Escorcia, William T. Anderson, and Joseph C. Zieman

Cascading ecological effects of low-level phosphorus enrichment in the Florida Everglades, Evelyn E. Gaiser, Joel C. Trexler, Jennifer H. Richards, Daniel L. Childers, David W. Lee, Adrienne L. Edwards, Leonard J. Scinto, Krish Jayachandran, Gregory B. Noe, and Ronald D. Jones

Spatiotemporal patterns in community structure of macroinvertebrates inhabiting calcareous periphyton mats, Shawn E. Liston and Joel C. Trexler

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Patterns of cetacean sighting distribution in the Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone of Costa Rica based on data collected from 1979-2001, Laura Johanna May-Collado, Tim Gerrodette, John Calambokidis, Kristin Rasmussen, and Irena Sereg

Changes in mass and nutrient content of wood during decomposition in a south Florida mangrove forest, Luz M. Romero, Thomas J. Smith, and James W. Fourqurean

Disturbance frequency and community structure in a twenty-five year intervention study, Joel C. Trexler, William F. Loftus, and Sue Perry

Ecosystem structure, nutrient dynamics, and hydrologic relationships in tree islands of the southern Everglades, Florida, USA, Tiffany Troxler-Gann, Dan Childers, and David Rondeau

Articles from 2004

Spatial scale and abundance patterns of large fish communities in freshwater marshes of the Florida Everglades, John H. Chick, Carl R. Ruetz, and Joel C. Trexler

Ecological effects of low-level phosphorus additions on two plant communities in a neotropical freshwater wetland ecosystem, Robert J. Daoust and Dan Childers

Importance of storm events in controlling ecosystem structure and function in a Florida gulf coast estuary, Stephen E. Davis, Jaye E. Cable, Daniel L. Childers, Carlos Coronado-Molina, John W. Day Jr., Clinton D. Hittle, Christopher J. Madden, Enrique Reyes, David Rudnick, and Fred Sklar

Responses of seagrass communities to fertilization along a gradient of relative availability of nitrogen and phosphorus in a carbonate environment, Meredith Ferdie and James W. Fourqurean

The Impact of Hurricane Georges on Soft-Bottom, Back Reef Communitites: Site- and Species-Specific Effects in South Florida Seagrass Beds, James W. Fourqurean and Leanne M. Rutten

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Early diagenesis of plant-derived dissolved organic matter along a wetland, mangrove, estuary ecotone, Norman M. Scully, Nagamitsu Maie, Susan K. Dailey, Joseph N. Boyer, Ronald D. Jones, and Rudolf Jaffe´

Hydroperiod and seasonal effects on fish decomposition in an oligotrophic Everglades marsh, Chris Stevenson and Dan Childers

Articles from 2003

Intra- and interannual variability in seagrass carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes from south Florida, a preliminary study, William T. Anderson and James W. Fourqurean

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The role of nearshore ecosystems as fish and shellfish nurseries, Michael W. Beck, Kenneth L. Heck, Kenneth W. Able, Daniel L. Childers, David B. Eggleston, Bronwyn M. Gillanders, Benjamin S. Halpern, Cynthia G. Hayes, Kaho Hoshino, Thomas J. Minello, Robert J. Orth, Peter F. Sheridan, and Michael P. Weinstein

Decadal Change in Vegetation and Soil Phosphorus Pattern across the Everglades Landscape, Dan Childers, Robert F. Doren, Ronald Jones, Gregory B. Noe, Michael Rugge, and Leonard J. Scinto

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Factors affecting the concentration and flux of materials in two southern Everglades mangrove wetlands, Stephen E. Davis III, Daniel L. Childers, John W. Day Jr., David T. Rudnick, and Fred H. Sklar

Forecasting Responses of Seagrass Distributions to Changing Water Quality Using Monitoring Data, James W. Fourqurean, Joseph N. Boyer, Michael J. Durako, and Lee N. Hefty

Pigment dynamics and autumn leaf senescence in a New England deciduous forest, eastern USA, David W. Lee, John O’Keefe, N. Michele Holbrook, and Taylor S. Feild

Molecular characterization of dissolved organic matter in freshwater wetlands of the Florida Everglades, X. Q. Lu, N. Maie, J. V. Hanna, D. L. Childers, and Rudolf Jaffe´

Phosphorus cycling and partitioning in an oligotrophic Everglades wetland ecosystem: a radioisotope tracing study, Gregory B. Noe, Leonard J. Scinto, Johnathon Taylor, Dan Childers, and Ronald D. Jones

Human disturbance and forest diversity in the Tansa Valley, India, Radha Veach, David W. Lee, and Tom Philippi

Articles from 2002

Controls on fish distribution and abundance in temporary wetlands, Mathew J. Baber, Daniel L. Childers, Kimberly J. Babbitt, and D. H. Anderson

Nutrient content of the seagrass Thalassia testudinum reveals regional patterns of relative availability of nitrogen and phosphorus in the Florida Keys USA, James W. Fourqurean and Joseph C. Zieman

Anthocyanins in Autumn Leaf Senescence, David W. Lee

Anthocyanins in Leaves: Distribution, Phylogeny and Development, David W. Lee

Shade promotes thorn development in a tropical liana, Artabotrys hexapatalus (Annonaceae), David W. Lee, Jack B. Fisher, and Usher Posluszny

Anthocyanins in Leaves and Other Vegetative Organs: An Introduction, David W. Lee and Kevin S. Gould

Why leaves turn red. Pigments called anthocyanins probably protect leaves from light damage by direct shielding and by scavenging free radicals, David W. Lee and Kevin S. Gould

Short-term changes in phosphorus storage in an oligotrophic Everglades wetland ecosystem receiving experimental nutrient enrichment, Gregory B. Noe, Dan Childers, Adreienne L. Edwards, Evelyn E. Gaiser, Krish Jayachandran, David W. Lee, John Meeder, Jennifer H. Richards, Leonard J. Scinto, Joel C. Trexler, and Ronald D. Jones

Short-term changes in phosphorus storage in an oligotrophic Everglades wetland ecosystem receiving experimental nutrient enrichment, Gregory B. Noe, Daniel L. Childers, Adrienne L. Edwards, Evelyn Gaiser, Krish Jayachandran, David W. Lee, John Meeder, Jennifer Richards, Leonard J. Scinto, Joel C. Trexler, and Ronald D. Jones

Articles from 2001

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Biogeochemical effects of iron availability on primary producers in a shallow marine carbonate environment, Randolph M. Chambers; James W. Fourqurean; Stephen A. Macko; and Biology Department, Fairfield University

Plant secondary compounds in the canopy and understorey of a tropical rain forest in Gabon, Kelsey Downum, David W. Lee, Francis Hallé, Martin Quirke, and Neil Towers

Why Leaves Turn Red in Autumn. The Role of Anthocyanins in Senescing Leaves of Red-Osier Dogwood, Taylor S. Feild, David W. Lee, and N. Michele Holbrook

Phylogenetic and ontogenetic influences on the distribution of anthocyanins and betacyanins in leaves of tropical plants, David W. Lee and Timothy M. Collins

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Short Tandem Repeat-based Identification of Individuals and Parents, Martin Tracey

Faculty Publications from 2000

A natural history of the Ramayana, David W. Lee

Effects of irradiance and spectral quality on leaf structure and function in seedlings of two Southeast Asian Hopea species, David W. Lee, Steven F. Oberbauer, Paulette Johnson, Baskaran Krishnapilay, Marzalina Mansor, Haris Mohamad, and Son Kheong Yap