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2008

Montaña, C.G., Layman, C.A., and Taphorn, D.C. 2008. Comparison of fish assemblages in two littoral habitats in a Neotropical morichal stream in Venezuela. Neotropical Ichthyology 6(4):577-582.

Layman, C.A. and Post, D.M. 2008. Can stable isotope ratios provide for community-wide measures of trophic structure? Reply. Ecology 89(8):2358-2359.

Rypel, A.L. and Layman, C.A. 2008. Degree of hydrologic connectivity loss determines population-level characteristics of gray snapper in tidal creeks. Canadian Journal of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences 65:335-339.

2007

Layman, C.A., Quattrochi, J.P., Peyer, C.M., and Allgeier, J.E. 2007. Niche width collapse in a resilient top predator following ecosystem fragmentation. Ecology Letters.

Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., Montaña, C.G., Post, D.M. 2007. Can Stable Isotope Ratios Provide for Community-wide Measures of Trophic Structure? Ecology 88(1): 42-48.

Post, D.M., Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., Takimoto, G., Quattrochi, J., and Montaña, C.G.2007. Getting to the fat of the matter: models, methods and assumptions for dealing with lipids in stable isotope analyses. Oecologia 152:179–189

Rypel, A.L., Layman, C.A., and Arrington, D.A. 2007. Water depth modifies relative predation risk for
a motile fish taxa in Bahamian tidal creeks.  Estuaries and Coasts 30(3):1-8.  

Valentine-Rose, L., Cherry, J.A., Culp, J.J., Perez, K.E., Pollock, J.B., Arrington, D.A., and Layman,
C.A. 2007. Floral and faunal differences between fragmented and unfragmented Bahamian tidal creeks. Wetlands 27(3):702-718.

Haney, R.A., Silliman, B.R., Fry, A.J., Layman, C.A.,  and Rand, D.M. 2007. The Pleistocene history
of the sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus): Non-equilibrium evolutionary dynamics
within a diversifying species complex.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

Layman, C.A. 2007. What can stable isotope ratios reveal about mangroves as fish habitat? 
Bulletin of Marine Science 80(3):513-527.

Valentine-Rose, L.M., Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A. and Rypel, A.L. 2007. Habitat fragmentation affects fish
secondary production in Bahamian tidal creeks. Bulletin of Marine Science 80(3):863-878.

2006

Montaña, C.G., Taphorn, D., Layman, C.A., and Lasso C.A. Distribución, alimentación y reproducción de tres especies
de pavones Cichla spp. (Perciformes, Cichlidae) en la cuenca baja del río Ventuari, Estado Amazonas, Venezuela. Memoria de la Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales 165: 83-102.

Arrington, D.A., Davidson, B.K., Winemiller, K.O., and Layman, C.A. Influence of life history and seasonal hydrology on lipid storage in three Neotropical fish species. Journal of Fish Biology 68:1-16.

Dahlgren, C.P., Kellison, G.T., Adams, A.J., Gillanders, B.M., Kendall, M.S., Layman, C.A., Ley, J.A., Nagelkerken, I., and Serafy, J.E. Marine nurseries and effective juvenile haitats: concepts and applications. Marine Ecology Progress Series 312: 291-295.

Layman, C.A., Dahlgren, C.P., Kellison, G.T., Adams, A.J., Gillanders, B.M., Kendall, M.S.,  Ley, J.A., Nagelkerken, I., and Serafy, J.E. Reply Comment: Marine nurseries and effective juvenile haitats Marine Ecology Progress Series 318: 307-308.

Adams, A.J., Dahlgren, C.P., Kellison, G.T., Kendall, M.S., Layman, C.A., Ley, J.A., Nagelkerken, I., and Serafy, J.E. Review: Nursery function of tropical back-reef systems. Marine Ecology Progress Series 318: 287-301.

Winemiller, K.O., Montoya, J., Layman, C.A., Roelke, D., and Cotner, J. 2006. Seasonally varying impact of detritivorous fishes on the benthic ecology of a tropical floodplain river. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25(1):250-262..

Hoeinghaus, D.J., Winemiller, K.O., Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., and Jepsen, D.B. 2006. Effects of seasonality and migratory prey on body condition of Cichla species in a tropical floodplain river. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 15:398-407 .

2005

Layman, C.A., Winemiller, K.O., Arrington, D.A., and Jepsen, D.B. 2005. Body size and trophic position in a diverse tropical food web. Ecology 86(9):2530-2535.

Layman, C.A., Langerhans, R.B., and Winemiller, K.O. 2005. Do species traits characterize changes in fish assemblage composition following commercial netting? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62:1-9..

Layman, C.A., and Winemiller, K.O. 2005. Patterns of habitat segregation among large fishes in a Neotropical floodplain river. Neotropical Ichthyology 3(1):103-109. *no web link to article

Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., and Blackwell, M. 2005. Community-based collaboration restores tidal Flow to an island estuary (Bahamas). Ecological Restoration 23(1):58-59.

Arrington, D.A., Winemiller, K.O., and Layman, C.A. 2005. Community assembly at the patch scale in a species-rich tropical river. Oecologia 144(1):157-167.

Langerhans, R.B., Layman, C.A., and DeWitt, T.J. 2005. Bigger is not always better in the evolution of male genitalia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(21): 7618-7623.
    
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Layman, C.A., Winemiller, K.O., and D.A. Arrington. 2005. Describing the structure and function of a Neotropical river food web using stable isotopes, stomach contents, and functional experiments. In: Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development, and Environmental Change. Elsevier/Academic Press, pp. 395-406.

Scharler, U.M., Hulot, F.D., Baird, D.J., Cross, W.F., Culp, J., Layman, C.A., Raffaelli, D., Vos, M. and Winemiller, K.O. 2005. Central Issues for Aquatic Food Webs: From Chemical Cues to Whole System Responses. In: Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development, and Environmental Change. Elsevier/Academic Press, pp. 451-462.

Winemiller, K.O. and Layman, C.A. 2005. Pattern, Process and Scale in the Food Web Paradigm: Moving on the Path from Abstraction to Prediction. In: Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development, and Environmental Change . Elsevier/Academic Press, pp. 10-23.

 2004      

Layman, C.A. and Winemiller, K.O. 2004. Size-based responses of prey to piscivore exclusion in a Neotropical river. Ecology 85(5):1311-1320.

Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., Langerhans, R.B and Silliman, B.R.  2004. Degree of fragmentation affects assemblage structure in Andros Island (Bahamas) estuaries. Caribbean Journal of Science 40(2):232-244.

Layman, C.A., Jepsen, D.B., and Winemiller, K.O. 2004. Erratum: Structure of tropical river food webs revealed by stable isotope ratios. Oikos 107(1):222. 

Langerhans, R.B., Layman, C.A., Shokrollahi, A.M. and DeWitt, T.J. Predator-driven phenotypic diversification in Gambusia affinis. Evolution 58(10):2305-2318.

Silliman, B. R., Layman, C. A., K. Geyer and Zieman, J.C. 2004. Predation by the black clawed mud crab, Panopeus herbstii, in mid-Atlantic salt marshes: further evidence for top-down control of community structure. Estuaries 27(2):188-196.

2003

Layman, C.A.,Arrington, D.A., and Silliman, B.R. 2003. Underwater Visual Census Provides “Snapshot” Assessment for Tidal Connectivity Restoration (Bahamas). Ecological Restoration 21(12):132-133.

Langerhans, R.B., Layman, C.A., Langerhans, A.K, and DeWitt, T.J. 2003. Habitat-associated morphological divergence in two Neotropical fish species. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 80:689-698.

Hoeinghaus, D., Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A. and Winemiller, K.O. 2003. Spatiotemporal variation in fish assemblage structure in tropical floodplain creeks. Environmental Biology of Fishes 67(4):379-387.

Hoeinghaus, D., Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A. and Winemiller, K.O. 2003.  Movement of Cichla spp. (Cichlidae) in a Venezuelan floodplain river. Neotropical Ichthyology 1(2):121-126.

Silliman, B. R., Layman, C. A., and Altieri, A..  2003. Potential mutualism between a Xanthid crab and Alpheus shrimp in Mid-Atlantic salt marshes. Journal of Crustacean Biology 23(4):876-879.

2002      

Layman, C.A. and Silliman, B.R. 2002. Preliminary survey and diet analysis of juvenile fishes of an estuarine creek on Andros Island, Bahamas. Bulletin of Marine Science 70(1):199-210.

2001      

Layman, C.A. and Smith, D.E. 2001. Sampling bias of minnow traps in shallow aquatic habitats on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Wetlands. 21(1):145-154.

2000      

Layman, C.A. 2000. Fish assemblage structure of the shallow ocean surf-zone on the Eastern Shore of Virginia barrier islands. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 51:201-213.

Layman, C.A., Smith, D.E. and Herod, J.D. 2000. Seasonally varying importance of abiotic and biotic factors in marsh pond fish communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 207:155-169.