Temporal variation in development of ecosystem services from oyster reef restoration

MK La Peyre, AT Humphries, SM Casas… - Ecological …, 2014 - Elsevier
Restoration ecology relies heavily on ecosystem development theories that generally
assume development of fully functioning natural systems over time, but often fail to identify …

Case study: the 2010 deepwater horizon oil spill and its environmental developmental impacts

JP Incardona, NL Scholz - Development and environment, 2018 - Springer
Field and laboratory studies following the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William
Sound, Alaska, revealed new insights into the interactions between aquatic pollution and …

Assessing reproductive behavior important to fisheries management: a case study with red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus

SK Lowerre‐Barbieri, SL Walters Burnsed… - Ecological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Spawning site selection and reproductive timing affect stock productivity and structure in
marine fishes but are poorly understood. Traditionally, stock assessments measure …

Habitat-and bay-scale connectivity of sympatric fishes in an estuarine nursery

MA Dance, JR Rooker - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Acoustic telemetry was used to examine habitat-and bay-scale connectivity for co-occurring
juvenile fishes, southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) and red drum (Sciaenops …

Elemental concentrations of water and otoliths as salinity proxies in a northern Gulf of Mexico estuary

TR Nelson, SP Powers - Estuaries and coasts, 2020 - Springer
To use elements as salinity proxies, relationships of elemental concentrations with salinity
must be known and vary from freshwater to marine endmembers. To extend these proxies to …

Fish resources of the Gulf of Mexico

Y Chen - Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Gulf of Mexico has a dynamic ichthyofaunal community of more than 1443
finfish species, over 51 shark species, and at least 49 species of rays and skates. The Gulf of …

Assessing red drum spawning aggregations and abundance in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico: a multidisciplinary approach

SK Lowerre-Barbieri, MD Tringali… - ICES Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Many marine fish form spawning aggregations (FSAs) and exhibit meta-population stock
structure, affecting reproductive resilience and the optimal spatial scale of management …

Patterns and consequences of life history diversity in salinity exposure of an estuarine dependent fish

TR Nelson, CL Hightower, J Coogan… - … Biology of Fishes, 2021 - Springer
While it is common knowledge that Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) inhabit oligohaline
waters (salinity< 5), lifetime reconstructions of salinity histories have been lacking, and this …

Validation of species specific otolith chemistry and salinity relationships

TR Nelson, SP Powers - Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), and their ratios to calcium (Ca) may be used as indirect
proxies of salinity in otoliths, given that generally Sr: Ca is positively and Ba: Ca is negatively …

The effect of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on two ecosystem services in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

M Rohal, C Ainsworth, B Lupher, PA Montagna… - … Modelling & Software, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill likely affected ecosystem services in the
Gulf of Mexico. To test this hypothesis, we configured a “Ecopath with Ecosim” model and …