RECENT PUBLICATIONS RECENT PUBLICATIONS Recent Published Papers
Crawford, S.M. and L.P. Sanford. 2001. Boundary shear velocities and fluxes in the MEERC experimental ecosystems. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 210:1-12.
Kemp, W.M., M.T. Brooks and R.R. Hood. 2001. Nutrient enrichment, habitat variability and trophic transfer efficiency in simple models of pelagic ecosystems. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 223:73-87.
Lawrence, A.L. and R.P. Mason. 2001. Factors controlling the bioaccumulation of mercury and methylmercury by the estuarine amphipod Leptocheirus plumulosus. Environ. Poll. 111:217-231.
Leaner, J.J. and R.P. Mason. 2001. The effect of thiolate organic compounds on methylmercury accumulation and redistribution in sheepshead minnows, Cyprinodon variegatus. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 20:1557-1563.
Petersen, J.E. 2001. Adding artificial feedback to a simple aquatic ecosystem: The cybernetic nature of ecosystems revisited. Oikos 94:533-547.
Petersen, J.E. and A. Hastings. 2001. Dimensional approaches to scaling experimental ecosystems: Designing mousetraps to catch elephants. Amer. Nat. 157:324-333.
Ray, S., Berec, L., Straskraba, M., and Ulanowicz, R.E. 2001. Evaluation of system performance through opotimizing ascendency in an aquatic ecosystem model. J. Biol. Systems. 9:269-290.
Sanford, A.M., J.A. Morgan, D. Evans and H.W. Ducklow. 2001. Bacterioplankton dynamics in estuarine mesocosms: Effects of tank shape and size. Microbial Ecol. 41:45-55.
Ulanowicz, R.E. 2001. Information theory in ecology. Computers and Chemistry.25:393-399.
Ulanowicz, R.E. 2001. The organic in ecology. Ludus Vitalis 9(15):183-204.
Abarca, L.G. and R.E. Ulanowicz. 2002. The effects of taxonomic aggregation on network analysis. Ecol. Model. 149:285-296.
Heymans, J.J., R.E. Ulanowicz, and C. Bondavalli. 2002. Network analysis of the South Florida graminoid marshes and comparison with nearby cypress ecosystems. Ecol. Model. 149:5-23.
Kearney, M.S., A.S. Rogers, J.R.G. Townshend, E. Rizzo, D. Stutzer, J.C. Stevenson and K. Sundberg. 2002. Landsat imagery shows decline of coastal marshes in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union. 83:173, 177-178.
Ulanowicz, R.E. 2002. The balance between adaptability and adaptation. BioSystems 64:13-22.
Ulanowicz, R.E. 2002. Ecology, a dialogue between the quick and the dead. Emergence 4:34-52.
Leaner, J.J. and R.P. Mason. 2002. Factors controlling the bioavailability of ingested methylmercury in channel catfish and Atlantic sturgeon. Environ. Sci. Technol. 36:5124-5129.
Fisher, T. R., A. B. Gustafson, G. R. Radcliffe, K. L. Sundberg and J. C. Stevenson. 2003. A long-term record of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and total solar energy at 38.6° N, 78.2° W. Estuaries 26:1450-1460.
McAloon, K.M. and R.Peter Mason. 2003. Investigations into the bioavailability and bioaccumulation of mercury and other trace metals to the sea cucumber, Sclerodactyla briareus, using in vitro solubilization. Mar. Poll. Bull. 46:1600-1608.
Petersen, J.E., W. M. Kemp, R. Bartleson, W. R. Boynton, C.-C. Chen, J. C. Cornwell, R.H. Gardner, D. C. Hinkle, E.D. Houde, T.C. Malone, W.P. Mowitt, L. Murray, L.P. Sanford, J.C. Stevenson, K.L. Sundberg and S.E. Suttles. 2003. Multiscale experiments in coastal ecology: Improving realism and advancing theory. BioScience 53:1181-1197.
Chen, C.-C. and W. M. Kemp. 2004. Periphyton communities in experimental marine ecosystems: Scaling the effects of removal from container walls. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 271:27-41.
Kim, E-H., R.P. Mason, E.T. Porter and H.L. Soulen. 2004. The effect of resuspension on the fate of total mercury and methyl mercury in a shallow estuarine ecosystem: a mesocosm study. Mar. Chem. 86:121-137.
Leaner, J.J. and R.P. Mason. 2004. Methylmercury uptake and distribution kinetics in sheepshead minnows, C. variegatus, after exposure to CH3Hg-spiked food. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 23: 2138-2146.
Porter E.T., L.P. Sanford, G. Gust and F.C. Porter. 2004. Combined water-column mixing and benthic boundary-layer flow in mesocosms: Key for realistic benthic-pelagic coupling studies. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 271:43-60.
Porter, E.T, J.C. Cornwell and L.P. Sanford. 2004. Effect of oysters Crassostrea virginica and bottom shear velocity on benthic–pelagic coupling and estuarine water quality. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 271:61-75.
Ulanowicz, R.E. 2004. On the nature of ecodynamics. Ecological Complexity 1:341-354.
Bartleson, R.D., W.M. Kemp and J.C. Stevenson. 2005. Use of a simulation model to examine effects of nutrient loading and grazing on Potamogeton perfoliatus L. communities in microcosms. Ecol. Model. 185:483-512.
Kim, E.-H., R.P. Mason, E.T. Porter and H.L. Soulen. 2006. The impact of resuspension on sediment mercury dynamics, and methylmercury production and fate: A mesocosm study. Mar. Chem. (in press).
Mowitt, W.P., E.D. Houde, D.C. Hinkle and A. Sanford. 2006. Growth of planktivorous bay anchovy Anchoa mitchilli, top-down control, and scale-dependence in estuarine mesocosms. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 308:255-269.
Chapters in Books
Boynton, W.R., J.D. Hagy and D.L. Breitburg. 2001. Issues of scale in land-margin ecosystems. Pages 299-330 in R.H. Gardner, W.M. Kemp, V.S. Kennedy and J.E. Petersen (eds.). Scaling Relations in Experimental Ecology. Columbia University Press, NY.
Frost, T.M., R.E. Ulanowicz, S.C. Blumenshine, T.F.H. Allen, F. Taub and J.H. Rodgers, Jr. 2001. Scaling issues in experimental ecology: Freshwater ecosystems. Pages 253-279 in R.H. Gardner, W.M. Kemp, V.S. Kennedy and J.E. Petersen (eds.). Scaling Relations in Experimental Ecology. Columbia University Press, NY.
Gardner, R. H. and S. Walters. 2001. Neutral landscape models. Pages 112-128 in S. E. Gergel and M. G. Turner, editors. Learning Landscape Ecology: A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques. Springer Verlag, NY.
Heath M.R. and E.D. Houde. 2001. Evaluating and modeling foraging performance of planktivorous and piscivorous fish: Effects of containment and issues of scale. Pages 191-222 in
Kemp, W.M., J.E. Petersen and R.H. Gardner. 2001. Scale-dependence and the problem of extrapolation: Implications for experimental and natural coastal ecosystems. Pages 3-57 in R.H. Gardner, W.M. Kemp, V.S. Kennedy and J.E. Petersen (eds.). Scaling Relations in Experimental Ecology. Columbia University Press, NY.
King, A. W., R. H. Gardner, C. A. Hatfield, S. Naeem, J. E. Petersen and J. Wiens. 2001. Terrestrial perspectives on issues of scale in experimental ecology. Pages 281-298 in R.H. Gardner, W.M. Kemp, V.S. Kennedy, and J.E. Petersen (eds.). Scaling Relations in Experimental Ecology. Columbia University Press, NY.
Scheurer, D.L., D.C. Schneider and L.P. Sanford. 2001. Scaling issues in marine experimental ecosystems: The role of patchiness. Pages 331-360 in R.H. Gardner, W.M. Kemp, V.S. Kennedy and J.E. Petersen (eds.). Scaling Relations in Experimental Ecology. Columbia University Press, NY.
Gardner, R. H. and D. L. Urban. (in press). Model validation and testing: Past lessons, present concerns, future prospects. Pages xx-xx in C. D. Canham, J. J. Cole, and W. K. Lauenroth (eds.). Understanding Ecosystems: The Role of Quantitative Models in Observation, Synthesis, and Prediction. Academic Press, NY.
Gardner, R.H. and S. Walters. (in press). Identifying patches and connectivity of landscapes. Pages xx-xx in S.E. Gergel, R.A. Reed, and M.G. Turner (eds.). Learning Landscape Ecology: A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques. Springer-Verlag.
Stevenson, J.C., M.S. Kearney and E.W. Koch. (in press). Impacts of sea-level rise on tidal wetlands and shallow water habitat: A case study from Chesapeake Bay. In: N. McGinn (ed.). Fisheries in a Changing Environment. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda MD.
Ulanowicz, R.E. (in press.). A revolution in the middle kingdom? Pages xxx-xxx in H. Lillienstroem and U. Svedin (eds.). Systems and micro-macro relations. World Scientific, London.
Ulanowicz, R.E. (in press.). On the nature of ecodynamics. Pages xxx-xxx in J.A. Drake, C.R. Zimmermann, S. Gavrilets, and T. Fukami (eds.). Complexity Emerging: a Paradigm for Ecological Thought. Columbia University Press, NY.
Stevenson, J.C., M.S. Kearney and E.W. Koch. 2002. Impacts of sea level rise on tidal wetlands and shallow water habitats: A case study from Chesapeake Bay. Pages 23-36 in N. A. McGinn (ed.). Fisheries in a Changing Climate. American Fisheries Society Symposium No. 32. Bethesda MD.
Ulanowicz, R.E. 2005. A revolution in the middle kingdom? Pages 73-90 in H. Lillienstroem and U. Svedin (eds.). Micro-Meso-Macro: Addressing Complex Systems Couplings. World Scientific, London.
Gardner, R.H., W.M. Kemp, V.S. Kennedy and J.E. Petersen (eds.). 2001. Scaling Relations in Experimental Ecology. Columbia University Press, NY. 373 pages.
Turner, M.G., R.H. Gardner and R.V. O'Neill (eds.). 2001. Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process. Springer-Verlag, NY. 416 pages.
Abarca, L.G. 2000. Comparing Networks and Food Web Analysis: Ecosystems Patterns, Trends and scale Considerations. (Ph.D.)
Schmitz, J.P. 2000. Meso-Scale Community Organization and Response to Burning in Mesocosms and a Field Salt Marsh. (M.S.)
Leaner, J.J. 2001. The Bioavailability of Methylmercury to Fish. (Ph.D.)
McAloon, K. 2001. The Bioavailability of Mercury and Other Trace Metals to Benthic Invertebrates. (M.S.)
Muffley, B.W. 2002. Scale-Dependent Predatory Effects of the Atlantic Silversides, Menidia menidia, and Lobate Ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi, on Plankton Communities in Estuarine Mesocosms. (M.S.)
Sveinsdottir, A. 2002. The relationship between concentrations of methylmercury in largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) and physical and chemical characteristics of Maryland reservoirs. (M.S.)
Bartleson, R. L. Sanford, W. M. Kemp, J. C. Stevenson. Patch scale influence on the interaction of seagrass ecosystems and the water column. Estuarine Research Federation. St. Pete Beach FL. November 2001.
Bartleson, R. L. Walstad, L. Sanford, W.M. Kemp and J.C. Stevenson. Effects of seagrass bed size and flow regime on local water quality: Preliminary model study and field corroboration. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. Albuquerque NM. February 2001.
Cerco, C., W. M. Kemp, L Harding, M. Lomas. Modeling primary production in Chesapeake Bay. Estuarine Research Federation. St. Pete Beach FL. November 2001.
Hagy, J. W. Boynton, W. M. Kemp, R. Ulanowicz. Effects of hypoxia on food web structure and efficiency during summer in mesohaline Chesapeake Bay: An assessment using network analysis. Estuarine Research Federation. St. Pete Beach FL. November 2001.
Houde, E. D. Mesocosms and marine research. Symposium Honoring John H. Steele. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. May 2001.
Kemp, W. M. and J. Petersen. Scaling relationships in natural and experimental coastal ecosystems. Estuarine Research Federation. St. Pete Beach FL. November 2001.
Kim, E.-H., R.P. Mason, E.T. Porter, H.S. Soulen. The effect of resuspension on the fate of total and methyl mercury in sediments. Mercury 2001. Japan. October 2001.
Kim, E.-H., R.P. Mason, E.T. Porter and H.S. Soulen. The effect of resuspension on the fate of total and methyl mercury in sediments. Estuarine Research Federation. St. Pete Beach FL. November 2001.
Morris, J.T., R.R. Christian, and R.E. Ulanowicz. Complexity and the ecological properties of randomly constructed stable food webs. Estuarine Research Federation. St. Pete Beach FL. November 2001.
Petersen, J. E., and Kemp, W. M. Multiscale experiments in estuarine research: Improving realism and advancing theory. Ecological Society of America. Madison WI. August 2001.
Porter, E.T., L.P. Sanford, R.P. Mason, F.S. Porter. A sediment resuspension mesocosm for scaled benthic-pelagic coupling studies with realistic flow and turbulence. Estuarine Research Federation. St. Pete Beach FL. November 2001.
Sanford, L.P., Chang, M.-L., and Porter, E.T. Influences of resuspension-deposition cycling and boundary-layer diffusion on benthic-pelagic coupling in muddy environments. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. Albuquerque NM. February 2001.
Scheurer, D.L, R.H. Gardner and D.A. Fiscus. Response of an NPZD model to spatially and temporally varying nutrient input. Estuarine Research Federation. St. Pete Beach FL. November 2001.
Schulte, K. L. Murray, W. M. Kemp. The relationship of seagrass bed patchiness to primary production and nutrient pools. Estuarine Research Federation. St. Pete Beach FL. November 2001.
Stribling, J.M., J. Cornwell, O. Glahn and M. Chen. Microscale spatial variability in sediment biogeochemistry of two estuarine marshes. Estuarine Research Federation Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL, Nov 2001.
Ulanowicz, R.E. Networks as tokens of infodynamics. Networking the "Invisible Colleges": Application of Network Theory to Biocomplexity. Duke Marine Laboratory. Beaufort NC. 2001.
Ulanowicz, R.E. A world of propensities: Habits arising. The Integration of Information Processing. Semiosis, Evolution and Energy (SEE) Conference. Toronto, Ontario. October 2001.
2002
Kemp, W. M. Eutrophication and trophic transfer efficiency in aquatic ecosystems. Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Millbrook NY. March 2002.
Porter, E.T. A new sediment resuspension mesocosm and scaled benthic-pelagic coupling studies with realistic flow and turbulence. Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. Solomons MD. April 2002.
Porter, E.T., R.P. Mason, H.L. Soulen, E.-H. Kim, L.P. Sanford. The effect of muddy sediment resuspension in scaled benthic-pelagic coupling studies with realistic flow and turbulence. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. Victoria, Canada. June 2002.
Scheurer, D.L, L.P. Sanford and R.H Gardner. A novel grid-based method for simulating idealized turbulence in aquatic system. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. Victoria, Canada. June 2002.
Suttles, S.E. and L.P. Sanford. Comparison of turbulent dissipation rates in different flow environments in Chesapeake Bay, USA. AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu HI. February 2002.
Taub, F.B, J.E. Petersen, W. M. Kemp and D. Hinkle. Community metabolism: Properties of scale (size/shape) and data analyses. Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research. Vancouver, Canada. January 2002.
Taub, F. B, J. E. Petersen, W. M. Kemp, and D. Hinkle. Photosynthesis and respiration interactions in aquatic ecosystems. VIII International Congress of Ecology. Seoul, Korea. August 2002.
Kemp, W. M. and W. R. Boynton, Co-chairs. "Scaling relationships in estuarine ecosystems," Special Session (8 papers). Estuarine Research Federation. St. Pete Beach FL. November 2001.
Gardner, R.H. and J.E. Petersen, Co-chairs. “Observation, manipulation, experimentation and extrapolation: Limitations and opportunities in ecosystem-level studies”. Special Session (8 papers). Ecological Society of America. Madison WI. August 2001.
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