Research Publications

Bowens-Stevens, S.R., Gannon, D.P., Hazelkorn, R.A., Lovewell G.,Volker, K.M., Smith, S., Tumlin, M.C., and J. Litz. Diet of Common Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, that stranded in and Near Barataria Bay, Louisiana, 2010-2012. Southeastern Naturalist, 20 (1) 117-134, 2021.

McHugh, K. A., Barleycorn, A.A., Allen, J.B., Bassos-Hull, K., Lovewell, G., Boyd, D., Panike, A., Cush, C., Fauquier, D., Mase,B., Lacy, R.C.,Greenfield, M.R., Rubenstein, D.I., Weaver, A., Stone A., Oliver, L., Morse, K., and R.S. Wells.Staying Alive: Long-Term Success of Bottlenose Dolphin Interventions in Southwest Florida. Frontiers in Marine ScienceVol 7. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2020.624729, DOI=10.3389/fmars.2020.624729, January, 2021.

Moncada, F., Nodarse, G., Valido, L., Byrd, L., Lovewell, G., Blackburn, J., and A.DL. Kincaid. Juvenile Loggerhead (Caretta Caretta) Head-started in Cuba Recaptured in Florida. Marine Turtle Newsletter, 163:15-17, 2021.

Powell, JWB, Duffield, DA, Kaufman, JJ, Luo, G, Lovewell, GN, McFee, WE. Bone mineral density of the common bottlenosedolphin radius: A primary skeletal site for clinical bone densitometry and preliminary descriptive data set using archival specimens. Mar Mam Sci. 2021; 37: 374–384. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12769

Hazelkorn, R.A., Wells, R.S., Siders, Z.A., DeLynn, R.E., and G.N. Lovewell. Physical maturity in common bottlenose dolphins(Tursiops truncatus) from Sarasota Bay, Florida. Marine Mammal Science, Vol 36, No 4, pp 1309-1321. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.12733. October 2020

Christiansen, F., McHugh, K.A., Bejder, L., Siegan, E.M., Lusseau, D., McCabe, E.B., Lovewell, G., and R.S. Wells. Food provisioning increases the risk of injury in a long-lived marine top predator. Royal SocietyPublishing, open sci. 2016 3 160560; DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160560. Published 21 December 2016

Colegrove, K.M, Venn-Watson, S., Litz, J., Kinsel, M.J., Terio, K.A., Fougeres, E., Ewing, R., Pabst, D.A., McLellan, W.A., Raverty, S., Saliki, J., Fire, S., Rappucci, G., Bowen-Stevens, S., Noble, L., Costidis, A., Barbieri, M., Field, C., Smith, S.,Carmichael, R., Chevis, C., Hatchett, W., Shannon, D., Tumlin, M., Lovewell, G., McFee, W., and T.K. Rowles. Fetal distress and in utero Brucellapneumonia in perinatalbottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) during the Northern Gulf ofMexico unusual mortality event: 2010 through 2013. DOA 119:1-16, April 2016

Servis, J.A., Lovewell, G.N., and A.D. Tucker. Diet analysis of subadult Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) turtles from West-Central Florida. Chelonian Conservation and Biology. Vol. 14, No 2, pp173-181. December 2015

Venn-Watson S., Colegrove K.M., Litz, J., Kinsel M., Terio K., Saliki J., Fire S., Carmichael R., Chevis, C., Hatchett W., Pitchford J., TumlinM., Field C., Smith S., Ewing R., Fauquier D., Lovewell G., Whitehead H., Rotstein D., McFee W., Fougeres E., and T. Rowles. Adrenal gland and lung lesions on Gulf of Mexico common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus) found dead following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126538. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126538dol:10.1371/journal.pone.0083645. 2015

Wells, R.S., Allen, J.B., Lovewell, G.N, Gorzelany, J., Delynn, R.E., Fauquier, D.A., and N.B. Barros. 2014. Carcass-recovery rates from resident bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay, Florida. Marine Mammal Science, Vol. 31. No 1, pp 355-368. January 2015

Delynn, R. A., Lovewell, G. N., Wells, R. S., and Early, G. Congenital Scoliosis in a Bottlenose Dolphin. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 41:4 979-983 October 2011

Begeman, L., St. Leger, J. A., Blyde, D. J., Jauniaus, T.P., Lair, S., Lovewell, G. N., Raverty, S., Seibel, H., Siebert, U., Staggs, L., Martelli, P., and Keesler, R. I. Intestinal volvulus in cetaceans. Veterinary Pathology 50:4 590-596 July 2013

Amaral, A. R., Lovewell, G., Coelho, M.M., Amato, G., and Rosenbaum, H.C. Hybrid speciation in a marine mammal: the Clymene dolphin (Stenella clymene). PLoS ONE 9(1): e83645. dol:10.1371/journal.pone.0083645

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