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Explore Mote Marine Laboratory's latest marine science by searching and browsing our peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, books and chapters.

This page launched in 2024 and is continually adding new citations. Thanks for your patience as we continue to upload Mote's collection dating back to the 1930s. See all citations by year in our annual reports.

2025 Scientific Publications

Nicholas R. Ohnikian, Christopher D. Sibley, R. Ben Freiberger, Kristen N. Buck, Alyssa Myers, Samantha Harlow, Donald M. Anderson, Richard Pierce, Jennifer H. Toyoda (2025). Brevetoxin Dynamics and Bioavailability from Floc Following PAC-Modified Clay Treatment of Karenia brevis Blooms. Toxins, 17(11), 560. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins17110560
Erinn Muller, Mark Ladd, Richard Karp, Phanor Montoya-Maya, Ilsa Kuffner, Andrew Baker, Erich Bartels, Amanda Bourque, Abigail Clark, Nikkie Cox, Martine D'Alessandro, Ben Daughtry, Beth Firchau, Leneita Fix, David Gilliam, Dalton Hesley, Cindy Lewis, Diego Lirman, Caitlin Lustic, Kevin Macauley, Jennifer Moore, Ken Nedimyer, Keri O'Neil, Kristene Parsons, Kylie Smith, Jason Spadaro, Bailey Thomasson, Joseph Unsworth, David Vaughan, Margaret Miller (2025). Success of restoration strategies in preventing extirpation of 2 critically endangered coral species. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70168
Cardeñosa, D., Babcock, E. A., Shea, S. K., Zhang, H., Feldheim, K. A., Yang, F., Gale, S. W., Fernando, D., Tanna, A., Warwick, L., Chapman, D. (2025). International trade regulations take a limited bite out of the shark fin trade. Science Advances, 11(45). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adz2821
Sydney Bell, Erin Shilling, Gabrielle Pantoni, Ryan Eckert, Alexis Sturm, William Sharp, Erinn Muller, David Gilliam, Diego Lirman, Amanda Bourque, Joshua Voss (2025). Genetic lineages do not predict stony coral tissue loss disease resistance or survivorship among coral restoration outplants in Florida. Restoration Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.70234
Manzello, D., Cunning, R., Karp, R., Baker, A., Bartels, E., Bonhag, R., Borreil, A., Bourque, A., Brown, K., Brucker, A., Corbett, B., D'Alessandro, M., Dahlgren, C., Dilworth, J., Geiger, E., Gilliam, D., Gomez, M., Hanson, G., Harrell, C., Hesley, D., Huebner, L., Kenkel, C., Koch, H., Kuehl, J., Kuffner, I., Ladd, M., Lee, S., Lesneski, K., Lewan, A., Lirman, D., Liu, H., Matsuda, S., Montoya-Maya, P., Moore, J., Muller, E., Nedimyer, K., Parkinson, J. E., Ruzicka, R., Spadaro, J., Spady, B., Stein, J., Unsworth, J., Waler, C., Wen, A., Williams, D., Williams, S., Williamson, O. (2025). Heat-driven functional extinction of Caribbean Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef. Science, 390(6771), 361-366. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adx7825
Emily R. Hall, Xinping Hu, Jennifer Vreeland-Dawson, Kimberly K. Yates, Mark Besonen, Jorge Brenner, Leticia Barbero, Sharon Z. Herzka, Jose Martın Hernandez-Ayon, Nuno Simoes and Patricia Gonzalez-Dıaz (2025). A tri-national initiative to advance understanding of coastal and ocean acidification in the Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12, 1676610. https//10.3389/fmars.2025.1676610
Morris, J.; Hagan, V.; Harrington, K.; Chapman, D. (2025). Electronic pulse device deters and delays shark feeding in a depredation context. Journal of Fish Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70220
Bankhead, K., McHugh, K. M., Wells, R. S., and Cantor, M. (2025). Foraging in proximity to humans can shape social centrality in wild dolphins. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 79, 99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03641-0
Collins, K. M., Hounshell, A. G., Kirkpatrick, B., Cook, A., Hubbard, K., Tomlinson, M., & Stumpf, R. P. (2025). Predicting Karenia brevis induced respiratory irritation at individual southwest Florida beaches using cell abundances plus wind direction and speed. GeoHealth. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.175882964.43331403/v1
Ryan W. Schloesser* , Nathan P. Brennan , Paula Caldentey , Kenneth M. Leber (2025). Best practices for common snook stock enhancement identified through iterative release experiments. Fisheries Research, 291, 107540. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2025.107540
Sharla Sugierski, Chad Campbell, Emily R. Hall, Matthew McLean and Nicole D. Fogarty (2025). Microplastic exposure under future oceanic conditions further threatens an endangered coral, Acropora cervicornis. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12, 1615308. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1615308
Victoria Devillier, Emily R. Hall, Cynthia A. Heil, Jessica D. Frankle, Sarah Klass, Jennifer H. Toyoda, Rich Pierce (2025). Lessons learned from mesocosm experiments with curcumin: Pilot studies of a harmful algal bloom mitigation technique. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10731
Patton, P. T., K. Pacifici, R. W. Baird, E. M. Oleson, J. B. Allen, E. Ashe, A. Athayde, C. J. Basran, E. Cabrera, J. Calambokidis, J. Cardoso, E. L. Carroll, A. Cesario, B. J. Cheney, T. Cheeseman, E. Corsi, J. J. Currie, J. W. Durban, E. A. Falcone, H. Fearnbach, K. Flynn, T. Franklin, W. Franklin, B. Galletti Vernazzani, T. Genova, M. Hill, D. R. Johnston, E. L. Keene, C. Lacey, S. D. Mahaffy, T. L. McGuire, L. McPherson, C. Meyer, R. Michaud, A. Miliou, G. L. Olson, D. N. Orbach, H. C. Pearson, M. H. Rasmussen, W. J. Rayment, C. Rinaldi, R. Rinaldi, S. Siciliano, S. H. Stack, B. Tintore, L. G. Torres, J. R. Towers, R. B. Tyson Moore, C. R. Weir, R. Wellard, R. S. Wells, K. M. Yano, J. R. Zaeschmar, and L. Bejder. (2025). Optimizing automated photo identification for population assessments. Conservation Biology, 39(4), e14436. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14436
Elizabeth K. Wright‑Fairbanks, Natalie Lord, Darcy Dugan, Kaitlin Goldsmith, Emily R. Hall, Alex Harper, Janet J. Reimer, Samantha Siedlecki, Elizabeth J. Turner, Jennifer Vreeland‑Dawson, Kirstin Wakefield, Kimberly K. Yates (2025). Management considerations for establishing a coastal acidification monitoring system from U.S. Coastal Acidification Networks. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 197, 990. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-025-14434-3
Mary Hagedorn, Nikolas Zuchowicz, Michael Henley, Claire Lager, Riley Perry, Harvey Blackburn, Jessica Bouwmeester, Olivier Brunel, Claire Carter, Kathryn M. Rodriguez-Clark, Pierre Commizzoli, Beth Firchau, Dean Miller, Jennifer Moore, Erinn Muller, Keri O'Neil, Andrea Quattrini, Didier Zoccola, Anastazia Banaszak, Kristen Marhaver, Rebecca Hobbs, Justine O'Brien, Jonathan Daly (2025). Conservation of coral genetic diversity through a global biorepository network. BioScience, biaf117. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf117
Avens, L., Lamont, M. M., Lovewell, G., Shaver, D. J., Wallace, A. A., Foley, A. M., Stacy, B. A., & Vander Zanden, H. B. (2025). Regional differentiation in somatic growth and maturation attributes for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Northwest Atlantic. Marine Biology, 172, 149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-025-04684-7
Toth, L., Johnson, S., Lyons, E., Spadaro, J., Stathakopoulos, A., Bloomer, S., Mallon, J., Jenkins, C., Williams, S., Combs, I., Craig, Z., & Muller, E. (2025). Coral restoration can drive rapid increases in reef accretion potential. Scientific Reports, 15, 28353. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-04818-3
Allyson DeMerlis, Michael S. Studivan, Kevin Wong, Nash Soderberg, David Ehrens, Lys M. Isma, Katrina Rosing, Katrina Sophia Cocson, Rowan Thomas, Danielle Dvorkin, Patrick M. Kiel, Joseph D. Unsworth, Martine D'Alessandro, Ana M. Palacio-Castro, Diego Lirman, Andrew Baker, Erinn M Muller, Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Ian Enochs (2025). Differences in Molecular Responses to a Thermally Variable Preconditioning Treatment for Two Caribbean Coral Species. Ecology and Evolution, 15(11). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72108
Hampton, C. M.; DeGroot, B. C.; Brewster, L. R.; Bassos-Hull, K.; Metzger, B. A.; Mooney, T. A.; Ajemian, M. J. (2025). Sticking with it: a multi-sensor tag to reveal the foraging ecology and fine-scale behavior of elusive durophagous stingrays. Animal Biotelemetry, 13, 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-025-00416-2
Kathleen S. Rein, Ricardo Colon, Carlos R. Romagosa, Nicholas R. Ohnikian, Kirstie T. Francis, and Samuel R. Rein (2025). Comparative Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of High and Low Toxin-Producing Karenia brevis Strains Reveals Differences in Polyketide Synthase Abundance and Redox Status of the Proteome. Marine Drugs, 23(7), 291. https://doi.org/10.3390/md23070291