Publications

Brady, Beth A.; Ramos, Eric A.; Lasala, Jake A.; Ferrell, Zoe Nadine R.; Kaney, Nicholas A.; Martinez, E.; Illescas, Maria Renee Areolla; Arena, Joe (2025). Captive Male and Female West Indian Manatees Display Variable Vocal and Behavioral Responses to Playbacks of Conspecifics. Marine Mammal Science, e70038. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.70038

Alexi S. Pearson-Lund, Sara D. Williams, Katherine R. Eaton, Abigail S. Clark, Nathanial Hanna Holloway, Kristen A. Ewen, Erinn M. Muller (2025). Evaluating the effect of amoxicillin treatment on the microbiome of Orbicella faveolata with Caribbean yellow band disease. Applied and environmental microbiology, e02407-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02407-24

Erin T. Spencer, Lisa A. Hoopes, Jack J. Morris, Demian D. Chapman, Valerie Hagan, Mark Johnson, Nicholas L. Payne, Yuuki Y. Watanabe, Ruth E. Dunn & Yannis P. Papastamatiou (2025). Energetic benefit of prey choice for a shark-eating shark. Oecologia, 207(113). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05758-5

Scott Kraus (2025). Til death do us part? The critical value of long-term marine mammal studies. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1605709

Fields, C. Y. A., Cardeñosa, D., Bernard, A., Feldheim, K. A., Gale, S. W., Papastamatiou, Y. P., Shea, K. H., Shivji, M. S., Zhang, H., & Chapman, D. D. (2025). Mixed stock analysis of major markets and trade records reveals illegal trade of oceanic whitetip shark fins from the Atlantic ocean. Conservation Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-025-01714-1

Fields, C. Y. A., Cardeñosa, D., Bernard, A., Feldheim, K. A., Gale, S. W., Papastamatiou, Y. P., Shea, K. H., Shivji, M. S., Zhang, H., Chapman, D. D. (2025). Mixed stock analysis of major markets and trade records reveals illegal trade of oceanic whitetip shark fins from the Atlantic ocean. Conservation Genetics, 26, 943-952. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-025-01714-1

Sunni Patton, Denise P. Silva, Eddie Fuques, Grace Klinges, Erinn M. Muller, Rebecca L. Vega Thurber (2025). Antibiotic type and dose variably affect microbiomes of a disease-resistant Acropora cervicornis genotype. Environmental Microbiome, 20, 46. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-025-00709-2

Erin T. Spencer a, * , Lisa A. Hoopes b, Jack J. Morris c , Demian D. Chapman c, Valerie Hagan c, Yannis P. Papastamatiou a (2025). Searching day and night: diel hierarchical search patterns in a large marine predator that never stops swimming. Animal Behaviour, 223, 123152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123152

Spencer, E. T., Hoopes, L. A., Morris, J. J., Chapman, D. D., Hagan, V., & Papastamatiou, Y. P. (2025). Searching day and night: diel hierarchical search patterns in a large marine predator that never stops swimming. Animal Behaviour, 223, 123152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123152

Dziobak, M. K., Curtian, T., Wells, R. S., Takeshita, R., Smith, C. R., Zolman, E., Toms, C. N., Allen, R. F., Hart, L. B. (2025). Comparing phthalate exposure between bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) residing in urban and rural environments. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1554075

Wilkinson, K. A., Langan, J. N., Meegan, J. M., Toms, C. N., Faulkner Allen, R., Sweeney, J. C., Fauquier, D. A., Kiszka, J. J., Hostnik, E. T., Barratclough, A., Walsh, M. T., Wells, R. S. (2025). Case Report: Shark bite resulting in a urethral obstruction and urinary tract-body wall fistula in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in Sarasota Bay, Florida. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2025.1551129

Wilson, M. W., Bigler, M., Renaud-Byrne, G., Gutiérrez Plata, S., Hylkema, A., Patterson, J., Pilnick, A., Spadaro, A. J., & Williams, S. M. (2025). Employing invertebrates to restore herbivory on Caribbean coral reefs: recent developments and remaining barriers. Restoration Ecology, 33(4), e70025. http://doi.org/10.1111/rec.70025

Gulland, F. M. D., Asmutis-Silvia, R., Boehm, J., DiGiovanni Jr., R. A., Goertz, C. E. C., Huggins, J. L., Lovewell, G. N., Moore, K. M., & West, K. (2025). Marine Mammal Stranding Networks in the 21st Century: Whence and Whither?. Marine Mammal Science, 41(3), e70016. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.70016

Baldachini, M., Papale, E., Shearer, J. M., Wells, R. S., & Jensen, F. H. (2025). Drivers of biosonar click rates in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) over the West Florida Shelf. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1558655

Wells, R. S. and McHugh, K. A. (2025). Bottlenose dolphin community structure along Florida’s Gulf coast. Animal Behaviour, 225, 123229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123229

Kerri M. Scolardi, Krystan A. Wilkinson, William H. Aeberhard (2025). Long-term aerial monitoring of Florida manatees Trichechus manatus latirostris in a diverse Gulf Coast environment. Endangered Species Research, 56, 213-230. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01394

Pedram AziziHariri, Istiak Hossain, Faraz Burni, Srinivasa R. Raghavan, Vincent J. Lovko, Tim I. McLean, and Vijay T. John (2025). A Simple Method to Clear Harmful Algal Blooms: Sprayable Foams with Algaecides and Flocculants. Environmental Science & Technology; Water, 5(5), 2547-2555. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.5c00111

Tarnecki, A. M., Nathan P. Brennan, N. P., Guttman, L., Main, K. L. (2025). Variability in prokaryotic and eukaryotic periphyton communities in marine recirculating integrated multi-trophic aquaculture systems. Aquaculture, 600, 742210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2025.742210

Richard Karp, Fabrizio Lepiz-Conejo, Shayle B. Matsuda, Bryce Corbett, Alexandra D. Wen, Joseph D. Unsworth, Martine D'Alessandro, Ken Nedimyer, Amelia Moura, Erinn M. Muller, Zachary Craig, Diego Lirman, Ross Cunning, Andrew C. Baker (2025). Heat‑tolerant algal symbionts may prevent extirpation of the threatened elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, in Florida during intensifying marine heatwaves. Coral Reefs, 44, 953-965. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-025-02652-7

Devanshi Kasana, Hector Daniel Martinez, Julio Sánchez-Jiménez, Elisa M. Areano-Barillas, Kevin A. Feldheim, Demian D. Chapman (2025). Hunt for the Easter sharks: a genetic analysis of shark and ray meat markets in Guatemala. Fisheries Research , 283, 107300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2025.107300