Publications from the Seagrass Ecosystems Research Lab at FIU

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• Murdoch, T.J.T. , A.F. Glasspool, M. Outerbridge, J. Ward, S. Manuel, J. Gray, A. Nash, K. A. Coates, J. Pitt, J.W. Fourqurean, P.A. Barnes, M. Vierros., K. Holzer, and S.R. Smith. 2007. Large-scale decline of offshore seagrass meadows in Bermuda . Marine Ecology Progress Series 339:123-130.
• Collado-Vides, L., V.G. Caccia, J.N. Boyer and J.W. Fourqurean. 2007. Distribution and trends in macroalgal components of tropical seagrass communities in relation to water quality. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 73:680-694.
• Heithaus, M.R., A. Frid, A.J. Wirsing, L.M. Dill, J.W. Fourqurean, D.Burkholder, J. Thomson and L. Bejder. 2007. State-dependent risk-taking by green sea turtles mediates top-down effects of tiger shark intimidation in a marine ecosystem. Journal of Animal Ecology 76(5):837-844. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01260.x
• Fourqurean, J.W., N. Marbà, C.M. Duarte, E. Diaz-Almela, E. and S. Ruiz-Halpern, 2007. Spatial and temporal variation in the elemental and stable isotopic content of the seagrasses Posidonia oceanica and Cymodocea nodosa from the Illes Balears, Spain. Marine Biology 151:219-232. DOI:10.1007/s00227-006-0473-3
• Arkema, K.K., S.C. Abramson and B.M. Dewsbury. 2006. marine ecosystem-based management: from characterization to implementation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Envionment 4(10):525-532.
• Frankovich, T.A., E.E. Gaiser, J.C. Zieman and A.H. Wachnicka . 2006. Spatial and temporal distributions of epiphytic diatoms growing on Thalassia testudinum Banks ex Konig: relationships to water quality Hydrobiologia 569: 259-271
• Orth, R.J., T.J.B. Carruthers, W.C. Dennison, C.M. Duarte, J.W. Fourqurean, K.L. Heck, Jr., R. Hughes, G. Kendrick, W.J. Kenworthy, S. Olyarnik, F.T. Short, M. Waycott and S.L. Williams. 2006. A global crisis for seagrass ecosystems. BioScience 56(12):987-996.
• Peterson, B.J., C.M. Chester, F.J. Jochem and J.W. Fourqurean. 2006. Potential role of the sponge community in controlling phytoplankton blooms in Florida Bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series 328:93-103.
• Armitage, A.R and J.W. Fourqurean. 2006. The short-term influence of herbivory near patch reefs varies between seagrass species. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 339:65-74; doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2006.07.013.
• Johnson, M.W., K.L. Heck, Jr., J.W. Fourqurean. 2006. Nutrient content of seagrasses and epiphytes in the northern Gulf of Mexico: evidence of phosphorus and nitrogen limitation. Aquatic Botany 85(2):103-111.
• Price, R.M., P.K. Swart and J.W. Fourqurean. 2006. Coastal groundwater discharge – an additional source of phosphorus for the oligotrophic wetlands of the Everglades. Hydrobiologia 569:23-36.
• Gil, M., A.R. Armitage, and J.W. Fourqurean. 2006. Nutrients increase epifaunal abundance and shift species composition in a subtropical seagrass bed. Hydrobiologia 569:437-447. 45. Armitage, A.R., T.A. Frankovich and J.W. Fourqurean. 2006. Variable responses within epiphytic and benthic microalgal communities to nutrient enrichment. Hydrobiologia 569:423-435.
• Duarte, C.M., J.W. Fourqurean, D. Krause-Jensen and B. Olesen. 2005. Dynamics of seagrass stability and change. Pp. 271-294 In Larkum, A.W.D., Orth, R.J., and C.M. Duarte. Seagrasses: Biology, ecology and conservation. Springer
• Carruthers, T.J.B., P.A.G. Barnes, G.E. Jacome and J.W. Fourqurean. 2005. Lagoon scale processes in a coastally influenced Caribbean system: implications for the seagrass Thalassia testudinum. Caribbean Journal of Science 41(3): 441-455.
• Fourqurean, J.W. S.P. Escorcia, W.T. Anderson and J.C. Zieman. 2005. Spatial and seasonal variability in elemental content, d¹³C and d¹⁵N of Thalassia testudinum from south Florida. Estuaries 28(3):447-461.
• Armitage, A.R., Frankovich, T.A., Heck, K.L. Jr., Fourqurean, J.W. 2005. Complexity in the response of benthic primary producers within a seagrass community to nutrient enrichment. Estuaries 28(3):422-434.
• Romero, L.M., T.J. Smith, III.,and J.W. Fourqurean 2005. Changes in mass and nutrient content of wood during decomposition in a South Florida mangrove forest. Journal of Ecology. 93(3):618-631.
• Collado-Vides, L., L.M. Rutten and J.W. Fourqurean. 2005. Spatiotemporal variation of the abundance of calcareous green macroalgae in the Florida Keys: A study of synchrony within a macroalgal functional-form group. Journal of Phycology 41(4):742-752.
• Fourqurean, J.W. and L.M. Rutten. 2004. The impact of Hurricane Georges on soft-bottom, back reef communities:  site- and species-specific effects in South Florida seagrass beds.  Bulletin of Marine Science 75(2):239-257.
• Borum, J., O. Pedersen, T.M. Greve, T.A. Frankovich, J.C. Zieman, J.W. Fourqurean and C.J. Madden. 2005. Oxygen and sulfide dynamics in the tropical seagrass, Thalassia testudinum, Florida Bay (USA). Journal of Ecology 93(1):148-158.
• Ferdie, M. and J.W. Fourqurean. 2004. Responses of seagrass communities to fertilization along a gradient of relative availability of nitrogen and phosphorus in a carbonate environment. Limnology and Oceanography 49(6):2082-2094.
• Zieman, J.C., J.W. Fourqurean and T.A. Frankovich. 2004. Reply to B.E. Lapointe and P.J. Barile (2004). Comment on J.C. Zieman, J.W. Fourqurean and T.A. Frankovich, 1999. Seagrass die-off in Florida Bay: Long-term trends in abundance and growth of turtlegrass, Thalassia testudinum. Estuaries 27(1)165-172
• Armitage A.R., P. Fong. 2004. Upward cascading effects of nutrients: shifts in a benthic microalgal community and a negative herbivore response. Oecologia 139 (4): 560-567.
• Fourqurean, J.W., J.E. Schrlau. 2003.  Changes in nutrient content and stable isotope ratios of C and N during decomposition of seagrasses and mangrove leaves along a nutrient availability gradient in Florida Bay.  Chemistry and Ecology 19:373-390.
• Fourqurean, J.W., N. Marbà, and C.M. Duarte. 2003. Elucidating seagrass population dynamics: Theory, constraints, and practice. Limnology and Oceanography 48(5): 2070-2074.
• Fourqurean, J.W., J.N. Boyer, M.J. Durako, L.N. Hefty, and B.J. Peterson. 2003. Forecasting the response of seagrass distribution to changing water quality: statistical models from monitoring data. Ecological Applications 13(2): 474–489.
• Anderson, W.T. and J.W. Fourqurean. 2003. Intra- and interannual variability in seagrass carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes from south Florida, a preliminary study. Organic Geochemistry 34(2):185-194.
• Peterson, B.J., C. D. Rose, L.M. Rutten and J.W. Fourqurean. 2002. Disturbance and recovery following catastrophic grazing: studies of a successional chronosequence in a seagrass bed. Oikos 97:361-370.
• Fourqurean, J.W. and J. C. Zieman. 2002. Seagrass nutrient content reveals regional patterns of relative availability of nitrogen and phosphorus in the Florida Keys, FL, USA. Biogeochemistry 61:229-245.
• Fourqurean, J.W. and L.M. Rutten. 2003. Competing goals of spatial and temporal resolution: monitoring seagrass communities on a regional scale . Pp 257-288 in: Busch, D. E. and J.C. Trexler, eds. Monitoring ecosystems: interdisciplinary approaches for evaluating ecoregional initiatives. Island Press, Washington, D. C. 447 pp.
• Fourqurean, J.W., M.D. Durako, M.O. Hall and L.N. Hefty. 2002.  Seagrass distribution in south Florida: a multi-agency coordinated monitoring program. pp 497-522 In: The Everglades, Florida Bay, and the coral reefs of the Florida Keys, edited by J. W. Porter and K. G. Porter. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
• Fourqurean, J.W. and Y. Cai.  2001.  Arsenic and phosphorus in seagrass leaves from the Gulf of Mexico. Aquatic Botany. 71:247-258.
• Peterson, B.J., K.R. Thompson, J.H. Cowan and K.L. Heck. 2001. Comparison of predation pressure in temperate and subtropical seagrass habitats based on chronographic tethering.  Marine Ecology Progress Series. 224:77-85.
• Davis, B.C. and J.W. Fourqurean. 2001.  Competition between the tropical alga, Halimeda incrassata, and the seagrass Thalassia testudinum.  Aquatic Botany. 71(3):217-232.
• Chambers, R.M., J.W. Fourqurean, S.A. Macko, and R. Hoppenot. 2001. Biogeochemical effects of iron availability on primary producers in a shallow marine carbonate environment. Limnology and Oceanography 46: 1278-1286.
• Fourqurean, J.W., A. Willsie, C.D. Rose and L.M. Rutten. 2001. Spatial and temporal pattern in seagrass community composition and productivity in south Florida. Marine Biology 138:341:354.
• Peterson B. J. and K. L. Heck, Jr. 2001. Positive interactions between suspension-feeding bivalves and seagrass - a facultative mutualism. Marine Ecology Progress Series 213: 143-155.
• Peterson B. J. and J. W. Fourqurean. 2001. Large-scale patterns  in seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) demographics in south Florida. Limnology and Oceanography 46: 1077-1090.
• Peterson B.J. and K. L. Heck, Jr. 2001. An experimental test of the mechanism by which suspension feeding bivalves elevate seagrass productivity. Marine Ecology Progress Series 218: 115-125.
• Cai, Y., Georgiadis, M. and J.W. Fourqurean. 2000.  Determination of arsenic in seagrass using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.  Spectrochimica Acta Part B 55:1411-1422.
• Nuttle, W.K., J.W. Fourqurean, B.J. Cosby, J.C. Zieman, and M.B. Robblee. 2000. Influence of net freshwater supply on salinity in Florida Bay. Water Resources Research 36(7):1805-1822.
• Peterson, B.J.; and Heck Jr., K.L. 1999. The potential for suspension feeding bivalves to increase seagrass productivity. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 240:37-52. 
• Fourqurean, J.W. and M. B. Robblee. 1999. Florida Bay: a history of recent ecological changes. Estuaries 22(2B):345-357.
• Rose, C.D., and C. J. Dawes. 1999. Effects of community structure on the seagrass Thalassia testudinum.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 184:83-95.
• Corbett, D. R., J. Chanton, W. Burnett, K. Dillon, C. Rutkowski and J.W. Fourqurean. 1999. Patterns of groundwater discharge into Florida Bay. Limnology and Oceanography 44(4):1045-1055.
• Rose, C.D., W.C. Sharp, W.J. Kenworthy, J.H. Hunt, W.G. Lyons, E.J. Prager, J.F. Valentine, M.O. Hall, P. Whitfield, and J.W. Fourqurean. 1999. Sea urchin overgrazing of a large seagrass bed in outer Florida Bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series 190:211-222.
•  Zieman, J.C., J.W. Fourqurean and T.A. Frankovich. 1999. Seagrass dieoff in Florida Bay: long term trends in abundance and productivity of turtlegrass, Thalassia testudinum. Estuaries 22(2B):460-470.
• Boyer, J.N., J.W. Fourqurean and R.D. Jones. 1999. Seasonal and long-term trends in the water quality of Florida Bay (1989-1997). Estuaries 22(2B):417-430
• Hall, M.O., M.D. Durako, J.W. Fourqurean and J.C. Zieman. 1999. Decadal scale changes in seagrass distribution and abundance in Florida Bay. Estuaries 22(2B):445-459.
• Frankovich, T.A. and J.W. Fourqurean. 1997. Seagrass epiphyte loads along a nutrient availability gradient, Florida Bay, FL, USA. Marine Ecology - Progress Series 159:37- 50.
• Fourqurean, J.W., T.O. Moore, B. Fry, and J.T. Hollibaugh. 1997. Spatial and temporal variation in C:N:P ratios, d¹⁵N, and d¹³C of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) as indicators of ecosystem processes, Tomales Bay, CA, USA. Marine Ecology - Progress Series 157:147-157.
• Boyer, J.N., J.W. Fourqurean, and R.D. Jones. 1997. Spatial characterization of water quality in Florida Bay and Whitewater Bay by multivariate analyses: Zones of similar influence. Estuaries 20(4):743- 758.
• Fourqurean, J.W., K.L. Webb, J.T. Hollibaugh and S.V. Smith. 1997. Contributions of the plankton community to ecosystem respiration, Tomales Bay, California. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 44:493-505.
• Chambers, R.M., J.W. Fourqurean, J.T. Hollibaugh and S.M. Vink. 1995. Importance of terrestrially-derived, particulate phosphorus to P dynamics in a west coast estuary. Estuaries. 18(3):518-526.
• Fourqurean, J.W., G.V.N. Powell, W.J. Kenworthy and J.C. Zieman. 1995. The effects of long-term manipulation of nutrient supply on competition between the seagrasses Thalassia testudinum and Halodule wrightii in Florida Bay. Oikos 72:349-358.
• Zieman, J.C., R. Davis, J.W. Fourqurean and M.B. Robblee. 1994. The role of climate in the Florida Bay seagrass dieoff. Bulletin of Marine Science 54(3):1088.
• Fourqurean, J.W., R.D. Jones and J.C. Zieman. 1993. Processes influencing water column nutrient characteristics and phosphorus limitation of phytoplankton biomass in Florida Bay, FL, USA: Inferences from spatial distributions. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 36:295-314.
• Fourqurean, J.W., J.C. Zieman and G.V.N. Powell. 1992. Relationships between porewater nutrients and seagrasses in a subtropical carbonate environment. Marine Biology 114:57-65.
• Fourqurean, J.W., J.C. Zieman and G.V.N. Powell. 1992. Phosphorus limitation of primary production in Florida Bay: evidence from the C:N:P ratios of the dominant seagrass Thalassia testudinum. Limnology and Oceanography 37(1):162-171
• Chambers, R.M. and J.W. Fourqurean. 1991. Alternative criteria for assessing nutrient limitation of a wetland macrophyte (Peltandra virginica (L.)) Kunth. Aquatic Botany 40:305-320.
• Fourqurean, J.W. and J.C. Zieman. 1991. Photosynthesis, respiration and the whole plant carbon budget of the seagrass Thalassia testudinum. Marine Ecology - Progress Series 69(1-2):161-170.
• Powell, G.V.N, J.W. Fourqurean, W.J. Kenworthy and J.C. Zieman. 1991. Bird colonies cause seagrass enrichment in a subtropical estuary: observational experimental evidence. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 32(6):567-579.
• Robblee, M.B., T.R. Barber, P.R. Carlson, M.J. Durako, J.W. Fourqurean, L.K. Muehlstein, D. Porter, L.A. Yarbro, R.T. Zieman and J.C. Zieman. 1991. Mass mortality of the tropical seagrass Thalassia testudinum in Florida Bay (USA). Marine Ecology - Progress Series 71:297-299.
• Powell, G.V.N., W.J. Kenworthy and J.W. Fourqurean. 1989. Experimental evidence for nutrient limitation of seagrass growth in a tropical estuary with restricted circulation. Bulletin of Marine Science 44(1):324-340.
• Zieman, J.C., J.W. Fourqurean and R.L. Iverson. 1989. Distribution, abundance and productivity of seagrasses and macroalgae in Florida Bay. Bulletin of Marine Science 44(1):292-311.