Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Understanding Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future

Marine Invasions Research

Principal Investigator

Gregory Ruiz

ruizg@si.edu

Specialty

Biogeography Invasion Biology Marine Ecology

Publications

Henderson, R. K., Baker, A., Murphy, Kathleen R., Hambly, A., Stuetz, R. M. and 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 and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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., Freestone, Amy L., Fofonoff, Paul W. and 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., Torchin, Mark E. and 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. and 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 and 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. and 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
Wirtz, Peter and Canning-Clode, João. (2009). The invasive bryozoan Zoobotryon verticillatum has arrived at Madeira Island . Aquatic Invasions, 4 (4) , 669-670. http://dx.doi.org/10.3391/ai.2009.4.4.11
Zabin, Chela J. (2009). Battle of the barnacle newcomers: niche compression in invading species in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 381 , 175-182.
Zabin, Chela J., Ashton, Gail V., Brown, Christopher W. and Ruiz, Gregory M. (2009). Northern range expansion of the Asian kelp Undaria pinnatifida (Harvey) Suringar (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae) in western North America . Aquatic Invasions, 4 (3) , 429-434. http://dx.doi.org/10.3391/ai.2009.4.3.1
Ashton, Gail V., Riedlecker, Eva I. and Ruiz, Gregory M. (2008). First non-native crustacean established in coastal waters of Alaska. Aquatic Biology, 3 (2) , 133-137. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/ab00070
Ashton, Gail V., Stevens, M. I., Hart, M. C., Green, D. H., Burrows, M. T., Cook, E. J. and Willis, K. J. (2008). Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Multiple Northern Hemisphere Introductions of Caprella mutica (Crustacea, Amphipoda) . Molecular ecology, 17 (5) , 1293-1303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03668.x

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