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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

Herborg, L-M ; Jerde, C. L. ; Lodge, D. M. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; MacIsaac, H. J. (2007). Predicting invasion risk using measures of introduction effect and environmental niche models . Ecological Applications, 17 , 663-674.
Maggiore, Francesca ; Keppel, Erica. (2007). Biodiversity and distribution of polychaetes and molluscs along the Dese estuary (Lagoon of Venice, Italy) . Hydrobiologia, 588 (1) , 189-203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-0662-1
McCann, L. D. ; Hitchcock, Natasha G. ; Winston, Judith E. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2007). Non-native bryozoans in coastal embayments of the southern United States: New records for the Western Atlantic . Bulletin of Marine Science, 80 , 319-342.
McCollin, T. ; Quilez-Badia, G. ; Josefsen, K. D. ; Gill, M. E. ; Mesbahi, E. ; Frid, C. L. J. (2007). Ship board testing of a deoxygenation ballast water treatment. Marine pollution bulletin, 54 , 1170-1178.
Miller, A. Whitman ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Minton, Mark S. ; Ambrose, Richard F. (2007). Differentiating successful and failed molluscan invaders in estuarine ecosystems . Marine Ecology Progress Series, 332 , 41-51.
Rawlings, T. K. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Colwell, Rita R. (2007). Association of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor and O139 Bengal with the copepods Acartia tonsa and Eurytemora affinis . Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73 , 7926-7933.
Zabin, Chela J. ; Altieri, Andrew. (2007). Hawaiian limpet facilitates recruitment of a competitively dominant invasive barnacle . Marine Ecology Progress Series, 337 , 175-185.
Zabin, Chela J. ; Zardus, J. ; Pitombo, F. B. ; Fread, V. ; Hadfield, M. G. (2007). Tale of three seas: consistency of natural history traits in a Caribbean-Atlantic barnacle introduced to Hawaii . Biological Invasions, 9 , 523-544.
Bullard, S. G. ; Lambert, G. ; Carman, M. R. ; Byrnes, J. ; Whitlatch, Robert B. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Miller, R. J. ; Harris, L. ; Valentine, P. C. ; Collie, J. S. ; Pederson, J. ; McNaught, D. C. ; Cohen, A. N. ; Asch, R. G. ; Dijkstra, Jennifer A. ; Heinonen, K. (2006). Colonial ascidian Didemnum sp A: Current distribution, basic biology and potential threat to marine communities of the northeast and west coasts of North America. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 342 , 99-108.
Herwig, R. P. ; Cordell, J. R. ; Perrins, J. C. ; Dinnel, P. A. ; Gensemer, R. W. ; Stubblefield, W. A. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Kopp, J. A. ; House, M. L. ; Cooper, W. J. (2006). Ozone treatment of ballast water on the oil tanker S/T Tonsina: chemistry, biologiy and toxicity . Marine Ecology Progress Series, 324 , 37-55.
McGee, Steven ; Piorkowski, R. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2006). Analysis of recent vessel arrivals and ballast water discharge in Alaska: Toward assessing ship-mediated invasion risk. Marine pollution bulletin, 52 , 1634-1645.
Murphy, I. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. ; Dunsmuir, W. T. M. ; Waite, T. D. (2006). Optimized parameters for fluorescence-based verification of ballast water exchange by ships. Environmental Science & Technology, 40 (7) , 2357-2362. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es0519381
(2005). Broad-scale nonindigenous species monitoring along the west coast in National Marine Sanctuaries and National Estuarine Research Reserves . National Fish and Wildlife Foundation .
(2005). Biological study of container ships arriving to the Port of Oakland. Final Report. Port of Oakland .
Carlton, James T. ; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2005). Vector science and integrated vector management in bioinvasion cology: conceptual frameworks. Invasive alien species (36-58) Island Press .

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