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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

(2007). Final report for the project 'Identifying, verifying, and establishing options for best management practices for NOBOB Vessels'. Great Lakes Protection Fund by University of Michigan, Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research .
(2007). Northward spread of marine NIS along western North America: Forecasting risk of colonization in Alaskan waters using environmental niche modeling. Aquatic Invasion Research & Policy Institute, Portalnd State University .
Altman, S. ; Whitlatch, Robert B. (2007). Effects of small-scale disturbance on invasion success in marine communities . Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 342 , 15-29.
Blum, J. C. ; Chang, Andrew L. ; Liljesthrom, M. ; Schenk, M. E. ; Steinberg, M. K. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2007). Non-native solitary ascidian Ciona intestinalis (L.) depresses species richness . Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 342 , 5-14.
Bullard, S. G. ; Lambert, G. ; Carman, M. R. ; Byrnes, J. ; Whitlatch, Robert B. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Miller, R. J. ; Harris, L. ; Valentine, P. C. ; Collie, J. S. ; Pederson, J. ; McNaught, D. C. ; Cohen, A. N. ; Asch, R. G. ; Dijkstra, Jennifer A. ; Heinonen, K. (2007). Colonial ascidian Didemnum sp. A: Current distribution, basic biology and potential threat to marine communities of northeast and west coasts of North America . Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 342 , 99-108.
Cook, Elizabeth J. ; Jahnke, Marlene ; Kerckhof, Francis ; Minchin, Dan ; Faasse, Marco ; Boos, Karin ; Ashton, Gail. (2007). European expansion of the introduced amphipod Caprella mutica Schurin 1935 . Aquatic Invasions, 2 (4) , 411-421. http://dx.doi.org/10.3391/ai.2007.2.4.11
deRivera, C. E. ; Hitchcock, N. G. ; Teck, S. J. ; Hines, Anson H. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2007). Larval development rate predicts range expansion of an introduced crab . Marine Biology, 150 , 1275-1288.
Field, M. P. ; LaVigne, M. ; Murphy, Kathleen R. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Sherrell, R. M. (2007). Direct determination of P, V, Mn, As, Mo, Ba and U in seawater by SF-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spevtrometry, 22 (9) , 1145-1152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b617597j
Herborg, L-M ; Jerde, C. L. ; Lodge, D. M. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; MacIsaac, H. J. (2007). Predicting invasion risk using measures of introduction effect and environmental niche models . Ecological Applications, 17 , 663-674.
Maggiore, Francesca ; Keppel, Erica. (2007). Biodiversity and distribution of polychaetes and molluscs along the Dese estuary (Lagoon of Venice, Italy) . Hydrobiologia, 588 (1) , 189-203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-0662-1
McCann, L. D. ; Hitchcock, Natasha G. ; Winston, Judith E. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2007). Non-native bryozoans in coastal embayments of the southern United States: New records for the Western Atlantic . Bulletin of Marine Science, 80 , 319-342.
McCollin, T. ; Quilez-Badia, G. ; Josefsen, K. D. ; Gill, M. E. ; Mesbahi, E. ; Frid, C. L. J. (2007). Ship board testing of a deoxygenation ballast water treatment. Marine pollution bulletin, 54 , 1170-1178.
Miller, A. Whitman ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Minton, Mark S. ; Ambrose, Richard F. (2007). Differentiating successful and failed molluscan invaders in estuarine ecosystems . Marine Ecology Progress Series, 332 , 41-51.
Rawlings, T. K. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Colwell, Rita R. (2007). Association of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor and O139 Bengal with the copepods Acartia tonsa and Eurytemora affinis . Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73 , 7926-7933.
Zabin, Chela J. ; Altieri, Andrew. (2007). Hawaiian limpet facilitates recruitment of a competitively dominant invasive barnacle . Marine Ecology Progress Series, 337 , 175-185.

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