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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

Cohen, C. Sarah ; McCann, Linda ; Davis, Tammy ; Shaw, Linda ; Ruiz, Gregory M.. (2011). Discovery and significance of the colonial tunicate Didemnum vexillum in Alaska . Aquatic Invasions, 6 (3) , 263-271. http://dx.doi.org/10.3391/ai.2011.6.3.03
de Rivera, Catherine E. ; Steves, Brian P. ; Fofonoff, Paul W. ; Hines, Anson H. ; Ruiz, Gregory M.. (2011). Potential for high‐latitude marine invasions along western North America . Diversity and Distributions: A Journal of Conservation Biogeography, 17 (6) , 1198-1209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00790.x
Fowler, Amy E. ; Gerner, Nadine V. ; Sewell, Mary A.. (2011). Temperature and salinity tolerances of Stage 1 zoeae predict possible range expansion of an introduced portunid crab, Charybdis japonica, in New Zealand . Biological Invasions, 13 (3) , 691-699. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-010-9860-2
Freestone, Amy L. ; Osman, Richard W. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Torchin, Mark E.. (2011). Stronger predation in the tropics shapes species richness patterns in marine communities . Ecology, 92 (4) , 983-993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/09-2379.1
Miller, A. Whitman ; Frazier, Melanie ; Smith, George E. ; Perry, Elgin S. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Tamburri, Mario N.. (2011). Enumerating Sparse Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water: Why Counting to 10 Is Not So Easy . Environmental science & technology, 45 (8) , 3539-3546. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es102790d
Miller, A. Whitman ; Minton, Mark S. ; Ruiz, Gregory M.. (2011). Geographic Limitations and Regional Differences in Ships' Ballast Water Management to Reduce Marine Invasions in the Contiguous United States . Bioscience, 61 (11) , 880-887. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/bio.2011.61.11.7
Muirhead, Jim R. ; Lewis, Mark A. ; MacIsaac, Hugh J.. (2011). Prediction and error in multi-stage models for spread of aquatic non-indigenous species. Diversity & Distributions, 17 (2) , 323-337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00745.x
Murphy, Kathleen R.. (2011). A Note on Determining the Extent of the Water Raman Peak in Fluorescence Spectroscopy . Applied Spectroscopy, 65 (2) , 233-236. http://dx.doi.org/10.1366/10-06136
Panova, Marina ; Blakeslee, April M. H. ; Miller, A. Whitman ; Maekinen, Tuuli ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Johannesson, Kerstin ; Andre, Carl. (2011). Glacial History of the North Atlantic Marine Snail, Littorina Saxatilis, Inferred from Distribution of Mitochondrial DNA Lineages . PloS One, 6 (3) , 1-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017511
Pringle, James M. ; Blakeslee, April M. H. ; Byers, James E. ; Roman, Joe. (2011). Asymmetric dispersal allows an upstream region to control population structure throughout a species' range. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (37) , 15288-15293. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1100473108
Rivera, Catherine E. de ; Grosholz, Edwin D. ; Ruiz, Gregory M.. (2011). Multiple and long-term effects of an introduced predatory crab . Marine Ecology Progress Series, 429 , 145-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps09101
Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Fofonoff, Paul W. ; Steves, Brian ; Dahlstrom, Alisha. (2011). Marine crustacean invasions in North America: a synthesis of historical records and documented impacts. In the wrong place - alien marine crustaceans: distribution, biology and impacts (215-250) Springer .
Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Fofonoff, Paul W. ; Steves, Brian ; Foss, Stephen F. ; Shiba, Sharon N.. (2011). Marine invasion history and vector analysis of California: a hotspot for western North America . Diversity & Distributions, 17 (2) , 362-373. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00742.x
(2010). Density Matters: Review of Approaches to Setting Organism-Based Ballast Water Discharge Standards. EPA, Office of Research and Development .
Ashton, Gail V. ; Burrows, Michael T. ; Willis, Kate J. ; Cook, Elizabeth J.. (2010). Seasonal population dynamics of the non-native Caprella mutica (Crustacea, Amphipoda) on the west coast of Scotland . Marine and Freshwater Research, 61 (5) , 549-559. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF09162

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