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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

Riedlecker, Eva I. ; Ashton, Gail V. ; 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. ; Freestone, Amy L. ; Fofonoff, Paul W. ; 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. ; 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. ; Torchin, Mark E. ; 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. ; 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 ; 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. ; 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 ; 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. ; 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. ; 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, Mark I. ; Hart, Mark C. ; Green, David H. ; Burrows, Michael T. ; Cook, Elizabeth J. ; Willis, Kate 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
Blakeslee, April M. H. ; Byers, James E. (2008). Using parasites to inform ecological history: Comparisons among three congeneric marine snails . Ecology, 89 , 1068-1078.
Blakeslee, April M. H. ; Byers, James E. ; Lesser, Michael P. (2008). Solving cryptogenic histories using host and parasite molecular genetics: The resolution of littorina littorea's North American origin. Molecular Ecology, 17 (16) , 3684-3696. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03865.x
Davidson, Ian C. ; McCann, L. D. ; Fofonoff, Paul W. ; Sytsma, M. D. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2008). Potential for hull-mediated species transfers by obsolete ships on their final voyages . Diversity & Distributions, 14 , 518-529.

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