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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.
2023 Scientific Publications
Bruce E. Kurtz, James E. Landmeyer, James K. Culter (2023). Precipitation, submarine groundwater discharge of nitrogen, and red tides along the southwest Florida Gulf coast..
Heliyon,
9, e16046.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16046
Fahlman, A., Tyson Moore, R. B., Stone, R., Sweeney, J., Faulkner Trainor, R., Barleycorn, A. A., McHugh, K., Allen, J. B., Wells, R. S. (2023). Deep diving by offshore bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops spp.).
Marine Mammal Science.
https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.13045
Nicolas R. Evensen, Katherine E. Parker, Thomas A. Oliver, Stephen R. Palumbi, Cheryl A. Logan, James S. Ryan, Courtney N. Klepac, Gabriela Perna, Mark E. Warner, Christian R. Voolstra , Daniel J. Barshis (2023). The Coral Bleaching Automated Stress System (CBASS): A low-cost, portable system for standardized empirical assessments of coral thermal limits.
Limnology and Oceanography: Methods,
21, 421–434.
https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10555
Vivier, F., Wells, R. S., Hill, M. C., Yano, K. M., Bradford, A. L., Leunissen, E. M., Pacini, A., Booth, C. G., Rocho-Levine, J., Currie, J. J., Patton, P. T., Bejder, L. (2023). Quantifying the age structure of free-ranging delphinid populations: Testing the accuracy of Unoccupied Aerial System photogrammetry.
Ecology and Evolution,
13.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10082
Thomas Parkerton, Michel Boufade, Trond Nordtug, Carys Mitchelmore, Kat Colvin, Dana Wetzel, Mace G Barron, Gail E Bragin, Benjamin de Jourdan, Jennifer Loughery (2023). Recommendations for advancing media preparation methods used to assess aquatic hazards of oils and spill response agents.
Aquatic toxicology,
259, 106518.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2023.106518
Benjamin M. Binder, Guillaume Rieucau, James V. Locascio, J. Christopher Taylor, Kevin M. Boswell (2023). Active acoustic surveys reveal coastal fish community resistance to an environmental perturbation in South Florida.
PeerJ,
11(e14888), 1-22.
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14888
Ali Salem Altaher, Hanqui Ahuang, Ali K. Ibrahim, Ali Muhamed Ali, Ahmed Altaher, James Locascio, Michael P. McCallister, Matthew J. Ajemian, Laurent M. Cherubin (2023). Detection and localization of Goliath Grouper using their low-frequency pulse sounds.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
153(4), 2190-2202.
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017804
Ashley Barratclough, Wayne E. McFee, Megan Stolen, Aleta A. Hohn, Gretchen N. Lovewell, Forrest M. Gomez, Cynthia R. Smith, Daniel Garcia-Parraga, Randall S. Wells, Celeste Parry, Risa Daniels, Sam H. Ridgway, and Lori Schwacke (2023). How to estimate age of old bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus); by tooth or pectoral flipper?.
Frontiers in Marine Science,
10, 1135521.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1135521
Fhalman, A., Allen, A., Blawas, A., Sweeny, J., Stone, Rae., Faulkner Trainor, R., Jensen, F. H., McHugh, K., Allen, J. B., Barleycorn, A. A., Wells, R. S. (2023). Surface and diving metabolic rates, and dynamic aerobic dive limits (dADL) in near- and off-shore bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops spp., indicate that deep diving is energetically cheap..
Marine Mammal Science,
1-18.
https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.13023
Shikha Grover, Thao Pham, Anna Jones, Cristina Sinobas-Pereira, Marina Villoch Diaz Maurino, Evan C. Garrad, Nyasha J. Makoni, Antanisha Parks, Ryan J. Domalewski, Gabriel Riggio, Hannah An, Kunhua Chen, Michael R. Nichols (2023). A new class of monoclonal Aβ antibodies selectively target and trigger deposition of Aβ protofibrils.
Journal of Neurochemistry.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jnc.15817
Dr. Kenneth Hoadley, Grant Lockridge, Audrey McQuagge, K. Blue Pahl, Sean Lowry, Sophie Wong, Zachary Craig, Chelsea Petrik, Courtney Klepac, Erinn Muller (2023). A phenomic modeling approach for using chlorophyll-a fluorescence-based measurements on coral photosymbionts.
Frontiers in Marine Science,
10, 379.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1092202
Stephanie M. Rosales, Lindsay K. Huebner, James S. Evans, Amy Apprill, Andrew C. Baker, Cynthia C. Becker, Anthony J. Bellantuono, Marilyn E. Brandt, Abigail S. Clark, Javier del Campo, Caroline E. Dennison , Katherine R. Eaton, Naomi E. Huntley, Christina A. Kellogg, Mónica Medina, Julie L. Meyer, Erinn M. Muller, Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty, Jennifer L. Salerno, William B. Schill, Erin N. Shilling, Julia Marie Stewart and Joshua D. Voss (2023). A meta-analysis of the stony coral tissue loss disease microbiome finds key bacteria in unaffected and lesion tissue in diseased colonies.
ISME Journal,
3, 19.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00220-0
J. Grace Klinges1,2*, Shalvi H. Patel1 , William C. Duke1 , Erinn M. Muller2,3 & Rebecca L.VegaThurber1 (2023). Microbiomes of a disease – resistant genotype of Acropora cervicornis are resistant to acute, but not chronic, nutrient enrichment.
Scientific Reports,
13, 3617.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30615-x
Brianna V. Cahill1, 4,*, Kayla L. McCulloch2, Breanna C. DeGroot1, Kim Bassos-Hull3, Matthew J. Ajemian1 (2023). Breaking bags and crunching clams: assessing whitespotted eagle ray interactions with hard clam aquaculture gear.
Aquaculture Environment Interactions,
Vol. 15 , 59–71.
https://doi.org/10.3354/aei00452
Brendan S. Talwar, Mark E. Bond, Sean Williams, Edward J. Brooks, Demian D. Chapman, Lucy A. Howey, Ryan Knotek, Jim Gelsleichter (2023). Reproductive timing and putative mating behavior of the oceanic whitetip shark Carcharhinus longimanus in the eastern Bahamas.
Endangered Species Research,
50, 181-194.
https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01231
D. Cardenosa, Y. L. Robles, D. A. Ussa, C. M. del Valle, S. Caballero, & D. D. Chapman (2023). Pre-export shark fin processing to conceal CITES-listed species: a case-study from a shark fin seizure in Colombia.
Animal Conservation,
26, 781-788.
https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12864
Kiel, P., Formel, N., Jankulak, M., Baker, A., Cunning, R., Gilliam, D., Kenkel, C., Langdon, C., Lirman, D., Lustic, C., Maxwell, K., Moudling, A., Moura, A., Muller, E., Schopmeyer, S., Winters, S., Enochs, I. (2023). Acropora cervicornis Data Coordination Hub, an open access database for evaluating genet performance.
Bulletin of marine science of the gulf and carribbean,
99(2), 119-136.
https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2022.0064
Oliver N. Shipley, Philip Matich, Nigel E. Hussey, Annabelle M. L. Brooks, Demian Chapman, Michael G. Frisk, Annie E. Guttridge , Tristan L. Guttridge, Lucy A. Howey, Sami Kattan, Daniel J. Madigan, Owen O’Shea, Nicholas V. Polunin, Michael Power, Matthew J. Smukall, Eric V. C. Schneider, Brendan D. Shea, Brendan S. Talwar, Maggie Winchester, Edward J. Brooks and Austin J. Gallagher (2023). Energetic connectivity of diverse elasmobranch populations- implications for ecological resilience.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B,
290, 20230262.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0262
Ackerman, A., K. Yarincik, S. Murphy, I. Cetinić, A. Fundis, A. Miller, E. Shroyer, A. Busse, Q. Covington, A. DeSilva, A. Haupt, L. Johnson, C. Lee, L. Lorenzoni, B. Murphy, J. Ramarui, B. Rosenheim, and D. Steinberg. (2023). Know before you go: A community-derived approach to planning for and preventing sexual harassment at oceanographic field sites.
Oceanography,
36(1), 38-48.
https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2023.112