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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Marine Invasions Research

Principal Investigator

Gregory Ruiz

Chief Scientist

ruizg@si.edu

Specialty

Biogeography, Invasion Biology, Marine Ecology

Amy Freestone

Managing Director

FreestoneA@si.edu

443-482-2262

Specialty

Community Ecology, Macroecology, Invasion Ecology

Publications

Brawley, Susan H. ; Coyer, James A. ; Blakeslee, April M. H. ; Hoarau, Galice ; Johnson, Ladd E. ; Byers, James E. ; Stam, Wytze T. ; Olsen, Jeanine L. (2009). Historical invasions of the intertidal zone of Atlantic North America associated with distinctive patterns of trade and emigration . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106 (20) , 8239-8244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812300106
Cohen, A. N. ; Zabin, Chela J. (2009). Oyster shells as vectors for exotic organisms. Journal of Shellfish Research, 28 (1) , 163-167. http://dx.doi.org/10.2983/035.028.0106
Davidson, Ian C. ; Brown, Christopher W. ; Sytsma, Mark D. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2009). The role of containerships as transfer mechanisms of marine biofouling species. Biofouling, 25 (7) , 645-655. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08927010903046268
Fofonoff, Paul W. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Hines, Anson H. ; Steves, Brian D. ; Carlton, James T. (2009). Four centuries of biological invasions in tidal waters of the Chesapeake Bay region. Biological invasions in marine ecosystems (479) Springer-Verlag .
Grosholz, Edwin D. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2009). Multlitrophic effects of invasions in marine and estuarine systems. Biological Invasions in Marine Ecosystems (305) Springer-Verlag .
Henderson, R. K. ; Baker, A. ; Murphy, Kathleen R. ; Hambly, A. ; Stuetz, R. M. ; Khan, S. J. (2009). Fluorescence as a potential monitoring tool for recycled water systems: A review . Water research, 43 (4) , 863-881. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2008.11.027
Miller, A. Whitman ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2009). Differentiating successful and failed invaders: Species pools and the importance of defining vector, source and recipient regions. Biological Invasions in Marine Ecosystems (153) Springer-Verlag .
Murphy, Kathleen R. ; Boehme, Jennifer R. ; Noble, Monaca ; Smith, George E. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2009). Deducing ballast water sources in ships arriving in New Zealand from southeastern Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 390 , 39-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps08178
Riedlecker, Eva I. ; Ashton, Gail V. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2009). Geometric morphometric analysis discriminates native and non-native species of Caprellidae in western North America. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 89 (3) , 535-542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315408002452
Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Freestone, Amy L. ; Fofonoff, Paul W. ; Simkanin, Christina. (2009). Habitat distribution and heterogeneity in marine invasion dynamics: The importance of hard substrate and artificial structure . Marine Hard Bottom Communities (321-332) Springer Berlin Heidelberg .
Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Hewitt, Chad. (2009). Latitudinal Patterns of Biological Invasions in Marine Ecosystems: A Polar Perspective . Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year Science (347-358) http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.097884601X.26
Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Torchin, Mark E. ; Grant, Katharine. (2009). Using the Panama Canal to Test Predictions about Tropical Marine Invasions . Proceedings of the Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium (291-299) Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press .
Santagata, Scott ; Bacela, Karolina ; Reid, David F. ; Mclean, Kevin A. ; Cohen, Jill S. ; Cordell, Jeffery R. ; Brown, Christopher W. ; Johengen, Thomas H. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2009). Concentrated sodium chloride brine solutions as an additional treatment for preventing the introduction of nonindigenous species in the ballast tanks of ships declaring no ballast on board . Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 28 (2) , 346-353. http://dx.doi.org/10.1897/08-140.1
Simkanin, Christina ; Davidson, Ian C. ; Falkner, Maurya ; Sytsma, Mark ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2009). Intra-coastal ballast water flux and the potential for secondary spread of non-native species on the US West Coast . Marine pollution bulletin, 58 (3) , 366-374. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2008.10.013
Willis, Kate J. ; Woods, Chris M. C. ; Ashton, Gail V. (2009). Caprella mutica in the Southern Hemisphere: Atlantic origins, distribution, and reproduction of an alien marine amphipod in New Zealand. Aquatic Biology, 7 (3) , 249-259. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/ab00197

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