The roles of large top predators in coastal ecosystems: new insights from long term ecological research

AE Rosenblatt, MR Heithaus, ME Mather, P Matich… - Oceanography, 2013 - JSTOR
During recent human history, human activities such as overhunting and habitat destruction
have severely impacted many large top predator populations around the world. Studies from …

Use of estuarine resources by top predator fishes. How do ecological patterns affect rates of contamination by microplastics?

GVB Ferreira, M Barletta, ARA Lima - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
This study assessed the seasonal patterns of habitat utilization, feeding ecology and
microplastic contamination in different ontogenetic phases of sympatric snooks …

Multi-tissue stable isotope analysis and acoustic telemetry reveal seasonal variability in the trophic interactions of juvenile bull sharks in a coastal estuary

P Matich, MR Heithaus - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2014 - JSTOR
1. Understanding how natural and anthropogenic drivers affect extant food webs is critical to
predicting the impacts of climate change and habitat alterations on ecosystem dynamics. 2 …

Climate extremes drive changes in functional community structure

RE Boucek, JS Rehage - Global change biology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The response of communities to climate extremes can be quite variable. Much of this
variation has been attributed to differences in community‐specific functional trait diversity, as …

Long-term ecological research and evolving frameworks of disturbance ecology

EE Gaiser, DM Bell, MCN Castorani, DL Childers… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Detecting and understanding disturbance is a challenge in ecology that has grown more
critical with global environmental change and the emergence of research on social …

Ecological niche partitioning within a large predator guild in a nutrient‐limited estuary

P Matich, JS Ault, RE Boucek, DR Bryan… - Limnology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Within oligotrophic ecosystems, resource limitations coupled with interspecific variation in
morphology, physiology, and life history traits may lead to niche partitioning among species …

Regional-scale variability in the movement ecology of marine fishes revealed by an integrative acoustic tracking network

C Friess, SK Lowerre-Barbieri, GR Poulakis… - Marine Ecology …, 2021 - int-res.com
Marine fish movement plays a critical role in ecosystem functioning and is increasingly
studied with acoustic telemetry. Traditionally, this research has focused on single species …

Resilience of a tropical sport fish population to a severe cold event varies across five estuaries in southern Florida

PW Stevens, DA Blewett, RE Boucek, JS Rehage… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
For species that are closely managed, understanding population resilience to environmental
and anthropogenic disturbances (ie, recovery trajectories across broad spatial areas) can …

The effects of temperature and flooding duration on the structure and magnitude of a floodplain prey subsidy

RJ Rezek, JA Massie, JA Nelson, RO Santos… - Freshwater …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Riverine floodplains serve as an important link between terrestrial and aquatic systems, as
the rising and falling of water drive spatial food web subsidies that are critical to the …

Hydrology-mediated ecological function of a large wetland threatened by an invasive predator

MR Pintar, NJ Dorn, JL Kline, JC Trexler - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Invasive species are one of the greatest threats to ecosystems, disrupting ecosystem
function and leading to the collapse and extinction of native species. While populations of …