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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

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) , . 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
Blakeslee, April M. H. ; McKenzie, C. H. ; Darling, J. A. ; Byers, James E. ; Pringle, J. M. ; Roman, J. (2010). A hitchhiker’s guide to the Maritimes: anthropogenic transport facilitates long-distance dispersal of an invasive marine crab to Newfoundland . Diversity & Distributions, 16 (6) , 879-891. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00703.x
Canning-Clode, João ; Maloney, Kelly O. ; McMahon, Sean M. ; Wahl, Martin. (2010). Expanded view of the local-regional richness relationship by incorporating functional richness and time: a large-scale perspective . Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19 (6) , 875-885. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00560.x
Cook, Elizabeth J. ; Shucksmith, Richard ; Orr, Heather ; Ashton, Gail V. ; Berge, Jorgen. (2010). Fatty acid composition as a dietary indicator of the invasive caprellid, Caprella mutica (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Marine Biology, 157 (1) , 19-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-009-1292-0
Crooks, Jeffrey A. ; Chang, Andrew L. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2010). Aquatic pollution increases the relative success of invasive species . Biological Invasions, 13 (1) , 165-176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-010-9799-3
Davidson, Ian C. ; Zabin, Chela J. ; Chang, Andrew L. ; Brown, Christopher W. ; Sytsma, Mark D. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2010). Recreational boats as potential vectors of marine organisms at an invasion hotspot . Aquatic Biology, 11 (2) , 179-191. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/ab00302

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