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Staff Profile

Denise Breitburg

Scientist Emeritus

breitburgd@si.edu

Research Labs

Marine and Estuarine Ecology

Expert Areas

Chesapeake Bay

hypoxia

jellyfish

marine ecology

ocean acidification

oysters

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Breitburg, Denise L. ; Coen, L. D. ; Luckenbach, M. W. ; Mann, R. ; Posey, M. ; Wesson, J. A. (2000). Oyster reef restoration: Convergence of harvest and conservation strategies. Journal of Shellfish Research, 19 (1) , 371-377.
Keister, J. E. ; Houde, E. D. ; Breitburg, Denise L. (2000). Effects of bottom-layer hypoxia on abundances and depth distributions of organisms in Patuxent River, Chesapeake Bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 205 , 43-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps205043
Boynton, W. R. ; Hagy, J. D. ; Breitburg, Denise L. (2001). Issues of Scale in Land-Margin Ecosystems. Scaling Relations in Experimental Ecology (299-330) Columbia University Press .
Breitburg, Denise L. ; Pihl, L. ; Kolesar, S. E. (2001). Effects of low dissolved oxygen on the behavior, ecology and harvest of fishes: a comparison of the Chesapeake and Baltic-Kattegat systems. Coastal Hypoxia: Consequences for Living Resources and Ecosystems (241-267) http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/CE058p0241 American Geophysical Union .
Purcell, J. E. ; Breitburg, Denise L. ; Decker, M. B. ; Graham, W. M. ; Youngbluth, M. J. ; Raskoff, K. A. (2001). Pelagic cnidarians and ctenophores in low dissolved oxygen environments: A review . Coastal Hypoxia: Consequences for Living Resources and Ecosystems (77-100) American Geophysical Union .
(2002). Suspension feeders: A Workshop to Assess What We Know, Don't Know, and Need to Know to Determine Their Effects on Water Quality. STAC Publication .
Breitburg, Denise L.. (2002). Effects of hypoxia, and the balance between hypoxia and enrichment, on coastal fishes and fisheries . Estuaries, 25 (4b) , 767-781. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02804904
Breitburg, Denise L. ; Adamack, Aaron ; Rose, Kenneth A. ; Kolesar, Sarah E. ; Decker, Beth ; Purcell, Jennifer E. ; Keister, Julie E. ; Cowan, James H.. (2003). The pattern and influence of low dissolved oxygen in the Patuxent River, a seasonally hypoxic estuary . Estuaries, 26 (2A) , 280-297. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02695967
Breitburg, Denise L. ; Jordan, Thomas E. ; Lipton, D.. (2003). Preface - From ecology to economics: tracing human influence in the Patuxent River estuary and its watershed . Estuaries and Coasts, 26 (2) , 167-170. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02695959
Bundy, M. H. ; Breitburg, Denise L. ; Sellner, Kevin G.. (2003). The responses of Patuxent River upper trophic levels to nutrient and trace element induced changes in the lower food web . Estuaries, 26 (2A) , 365-384. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02695974
Decker, M. B. ; Breitburg, Denise L. ; Marcus, N. H. (2003). Geographical differences in behavioral responses to hypoxia: Local adaptation to an anthropogenic stressor? . Ecological Applications, 13 (4) , 1104-1109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/1051-0761(2003)13[1104:GDIBRT]2.0.CO;2
Riedel, Gerhardt ; Sanders, J. G. ; Breitburg, Denise L.. (2003). Seasonal variability in response of estuarine phytoplankton communities to stress: Linkages between toxic trace elements and nutrient enrichment . Estuaries, 26 , 323-338.
Wiegner, T. N. ; Seitzinger, S. P. ; Breitburg, Denise L. ; Sanders, J. G.. (2003). The effects of multiple stressors on the balance between autotrophic and heterotrophic processes in an estuarine system . Estuaries and Coasts, 26 (2) , 352-364.
(2004). Identifying and prioritizing research required to evaluate ecological risks and benefits of introducing diploid Crassostrea ariakensis to restore oysters to Chesapeake Bay. Chesapeake Bay Program. Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee .
(2004). River Basins and Coastal Systems Planning within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers . National Academies Press .

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