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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Understanding Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future

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

Crooks, Jeffrey A. (2001). Oh what a tangled web...The invasion of the mussel Musculista senhousia into marine ecosystems. Dreissena, 11 , 1-15.
Drake, L. A. ; Keun-Hyung, G. M. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Dobbs, F. C. (2001). Global redistribution of bacterioplankton and virioplankton communities. Biological Invasions, 3 , 193-199.
Hines, Anson H. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Lin, J. (2001). Introduction to biodivsersity and biogeography of marine organisms in China. Marine species and their distribution in China's seas (2-14) Krieger Publishing .
Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Crooks, Jeffrey A. (2001). Biological invasions of marine ecosystems: patterns, effects and management. Waters in peril (1-17) Kluwer Academic Press .
Wonham, M. J. ; Walton, W. C. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Frese, A. M. ; Galil, B. (2001). Going to the source: role of the invasion pathway in determining potential invaders . Marine Ecology Progress Series, 215 , 1-12.
Grosholz, Edwin D. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Dean, Cheryl A. ; Shirley, Kim A. ; Maron, John L. ; Connors, Peter G. (2000). Impacts of a nonindigenous marine predator in a California bay . Ecology, 81 (5) , 1206-1224.
Miller, A. Whitman ; Ambrose, R. F. (2000). Sampling patchy distributions: comparison of sampling designs in rocky intertidal habitats . Marine Ecology Progress Series, 196 , 1-14.
Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Fofonoff, Paul W. ; Carlton, James T. ; Wonham, Marjorie J. ; Hines, Anson H. (2000). Invasion of coastal marine communities in North America: apparent patterns , processes, and biases . Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 31 , 481-531.
Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Rawlings, T. K. ; Dobbs, F. C. ; Drake, L. A. ; Mullady, T. ; Huq, A. ; Colwell, Rita R. (2000). Worldwide transfer of microorganisms by ships . Nature, 408 , 49-50.
Wasson, K. ; Von Holle, B. ; Toft, J. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2000). Detecting invasions of marine organisms: kamptozoan case histories . Biological Invasions, 2 , 59-74.
Wonham, M. J. ; Carlton, James T. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Smith, L. David. (2000). Fish and ships: relating dispersal frequency to success in biological invasions . Marine Biology, 36 (6) , 1111-1121.
Fofonoff, Paul W. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Hines, Anson H. ; McCann, L. (1999). Overview of biological invasions in the Chesapeake Bay region: Summary of impacts. Conservation of biological diversity: a key to the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay and beyond (168-180) Maryland Department of Natural Resources .
Lavoie, D. M. ; Smith, L. David ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (1999). Potential for intracoastal transfer of nonindigenous species in the ballast water of ships. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 48 , 551-564.
Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Fofonoff, Paul W. ; Hines, Anson H. ; Grosholz, Edwin D. (1999). Non-indigenous species as stressors in estuarine and marine communities: Assessing invasion impacts and interactions . Limnology and Oceanography, 44 (3) , 950-972.
Smith, L. David ; Wonham, M. J. ; Mccann, L. D. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Hines, Anson H. ; Carlton, James T. (1999). Invasion pressure to a ballast-flooded estuary and an assessment of inoculant survival . Biological Invasions, 1 , 67-87.

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