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121. Morrissette, H., Baez, S. K., Beers, L., Bood, N., Martinez, N., Novelo, K., ... & Canty, S. W. Belize Blue Carbon: Establishing a National Carbon Stock Estimate for Mangrove Ecosystems. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4230108

118. Doucette, V. E., Rodriguez Bravo, L. M., Altieri, A. H., & Johnson, M. D. (2022). Negative effects of a zoanthid competitor limit coral calcification more than ocean acidification. Royal Society Open Science, 9(11), 220760. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220760

116. Yan, H. F., Casey, J. M., Knowlton, N., Duffy, J. E., & Brandl, S. J. (2023). Examining the diversity, stability and functioning of marine fish communities across a latitudinal gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(1), 166-177. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13611

115. Brandl, S. J., Lefcheck, J. S., Bates, A. E., Rasher, D. B., & Norin, T. (2022). Can metabolic traits explain animal community assembly and functioning?. Biological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12892

114. Harper, L. M., Lefcheck, J. S., Whippo, R., Jones, M. S., Foltz, Z., & Duffy, J. E. (2022). Blinded by the bright: How species‐poor habitats contribute to regional biodiversity across a tropical seascape. Diversity and Distributions. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13632

113. Sempere-Valverde, J., Ramalhosa, P., Chebaane, S., Espinosa, F., Monteiro, J. G., Bernal-Ibáñez, A., ... & Canning-Clode, J. (2023). Location and building material determine fouling assemblages within marinas: A case study in Madeira Island (NE Atlantic, Portugal). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 187, 114522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114522

112. R.J. Orth, W.C. Dennison, D.J. Wilcox, R.A. Batuik, J.B. Landry, C. Gurbisz, J. Keisman, M. Hannam, J.S. Lefcheck, R.R. Murphy, K.A. Moore, C.J. Patrick, J. Testa, D.E. Weller, M.F. Merritt. Data synthesis for environmental management: A case study of Chesapeake Bay. (2022) Journal of Environmental Management, 321. 115901, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115901

111. Muraoka, W. T., Cramer, K. L., O’Dea, A., Zhao, J. X., Leonard, N. D., & Norris, R. D. (2022). Historical declines in parrotfish on Belizean coral reefs linked to shifts in reef exploitation following European colonization. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 939. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.972172

109.Castro, N., Gestoso, I., Marques, C. S., Ramalhosa, P., Monteiro, J. G., Costa, J. L., & Canning-Clode, J. (2022). Anthropogenic pressure leads to more introductions: Examining the influence of marine traffic and artificial structures on non-indigenous species presence on an offshore island

108.Quimbayo, J. P., Silva, F. C., Barreto, C. R., Pavone, C. B., Lefcheck, J. S., Leite, K., ... & Flores, A. A. (2022). The COVID-19 pandemic has altered illegal fishing activities inside and outside a marine protected area. Current Biology, 32(14), R765-R766.

106. Duffy, J. E., Stachowicz, J. J., Reynolds, P. L., Hovel, K. A., Jahnke, M., Sotka, E. E., ... & Olsen, J. L. (2022). A Pleistocene legacy structures variation in modern seagrass ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(32), e2121425119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2121425119

105.Ramus, A. P., Lefcheck, J. S., & Long, Z. T. (2022). Foundational biodiversity effects propagate through coastal food webs via multiple pathways. Ecology, 103(11), e3796. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3796

104. Aoki, L. R., Rappazzo, B., Beatty, D. S., Domke, L. K., Eckert, G. L., Eisenlord, M. E., ... & Harvell, C. D. (2022). Disease surveillance by artificial intelligence links eelgrass wasting disease to ocean warming across latitudes. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12152

103.Ashton, G. V., Freestone, A. L., Duffy, J. E., Torchin, M. E., Sewall, B. J., Tracy, B., ... & Ruiz, G. M. (2022). Predator control of marine communities increases with temperature across 115 degrees of latitude. Science, 376(6598), 1215-1219.https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc4916

102. Bernal-Ibáñez, A., Chebaane, S., Sempere-Valverde, J., Faria, J., Ramalhosa, P., Kaufmann, M., ... & Cacabelos, E. (2022). A worrying arrival: the first record of brown macroalga Rugulopteryx okamurae in Madeira Island and its invasive risk. BioInvasions Record, 11(4).

101. Chebaane, S., Canning-Clode, J., Ramalhosa, P., Belz, J., Castro, N., Órfão, I., ... & Monteiro, J. G. (2022). From Plates to Baits: Using a Remote Video Foraging System to Study the Impact of Foraging on Fouling Non-Indigenous Species. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(5), 611. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10050611

100. Weinstock JB, Vargas L, Collin R. Zooplankton Abundance Reflects Oxygen Concentration and Dissolved Organic Matter in a Seasonally Hypoxic Estuary. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 2022; 10(3):427. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10030427

98. Cooke, R., Gearty, W., Chapman, A.S.A. et al. Anthropogenic disruptions to longstanding patterns of trophic-size structure in vertebrates. Nat Ecol Evol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01726-x

97. Cacabelos, E., Gestoso, I., Ramalhosa, P. et al. Role of non-indigenous species in structuring benthic communities after fragmentation events: an experimental approach. Biol Invasions (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02768-9

96. Stewart HA, Janiak DS, Wright JL, Hunt DAGA and others (2022) Epibiont community composition of red mangroves Rhizophora mangle are contingent on root characteristics. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 686:15-35. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13999

95. Robert Aguilar, Sanjeevi Prakash, Matthew B Ogburn, Katrina M Pagenkopp Lohan, Kenneth S MacDonald, III, Amy C Driskell, Shane T Ahyong, Matthieu Leray, Shelby E McIlroy, Troy D Tuckey, J Antonio Baeza, Unresolved taxonomy confounds invasive species identification: the Lysmata vittata Stimpson, 1860 (Decapoda: Caridea: Lysmatidae) species complex and recent introduction of Lysmata vittata sensu stricto in the western Atlantic, Journal of Crustacean Biology, Volume 42, Issue 1, March 2022, ruab079, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruab079

94. Shah Esmaeili Y., Corte G.N., Checon H.H., Bilatto C.G., Lefcheck J.S., Amaral A.C.Z., Turra A. (2021) Revealing the drivers of taxonomic and functional diversity of nearshore fish assemblages: implications for conservation priorities. Diversity and Distributions (in press).https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13453

93. Johnson, M.D., Swaminathan, S.D., Nixon, E.N. et al. Differential susceptibility of reef-building corals to deoxygenation reveals remarkable hypoxia tolerance. Sci Rep 11, 23168 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01078-9

92. Lefcheck, J.S., Edgar, G.J., Stuart-Smith, R.D. et al. Species richness and identity both determine the biomass of global reef fish communities. Nat Commun 12, 6875 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27212-9

91. Satterthwaite EV, Bax NJ, Miloslavich P, Ratnarajah L, Canonico G, Dunn D, Simmons SE, Carini RJ, Evans K, Allain V, Appeltans W, Batten S, Benedetti-Cecchi L, Bernard ATF, Bristol S, Benson A, Buttigieg PL, Gerhardinger LC, Chiba S, Davies TE, Duffy JE, Giron-Nava A, Hsu AJ, Kraberg AC, Kudela RM, Lear D, Montes E, Muller-Karger FE, O’Brien TD, Obura D, Provoost P, Pruckner S, Rebelo L-M, Selig ER, Kjesbu OS, Starger C, Stuart-Smith RD, Vierros M, Waller J, Weatherdon LV, Wellman TP and Zivian A (2021) Establishing the Foundation for the Global Observing System for Marine Life. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:737416. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.737416

90. Montes, E., Lefcheck, J. S., Guerra-Castro, E., Klein, E., Kavanaugh, M. T., de Azevedo Mazzuco, A. C., Bigatti, G., Cordeiro, C. A. M. M., Simoes, N., Macaya, E. C., Moity, N., Londoño-Cruz, E., Helmuth, B., Choi, F., Soto, E. H., Miloslavich, P., & Muller-Karger, F. E. (2021). OPTIMIZING LARGE-SCALE BIODIVERSITY SAMPLING EFFORT: TOWARD AN UNBALANCED SURVEY DESIGN. Oceanography, 34(2), 80–91. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27085040

89. Ritter CJ, Harper LM, Lefcheck JS, Paul VJ, Whippo R, Jones S, Ogburn MB and Duffy JE (2021) Patterns of Consumption Across a Caribbean Seascape: Roles of Habitat and Consumer Species Composition Through Time. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:742907. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.742907

88. de Pablo, L.X., Lefcheck, J.S., Harper, L. et al. A doubling of stony coral cover on shallow forereefs at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize from 2014 to 2019. Sci Rep 11, 19185 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96799-2

87. Maggie D. Johnson, Lucia M. Rodriguez Bravo, Noelle Lucey, Andrew H. Altieri, Environmental legacy effects and acclimatization of a crustose coralline alga to ocean acidification,Climate Change Ecology,Volume 2,10016 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecochg.2021.100016.

86. Johnson, M.D., Scott, J.J., Leray, M. et al. Rapid ecosystem-scale consequences of acute deoxygenation on a Caribbean coral reef. Nat Commun 12, 4522 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24777-3

85. Leray, M., Wilkins, L.G.E., Apprill, A., Bik, H.M., et al. Natural experiments and long-term monitoring are critical to understand and predict marine host–microbe ecology and evolution. PLOS BIOLOGY, (2021).https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001322

84. Castro N, Ramalhosa P, Cacabelos E, Costa JL, Canning-Clode J, Gestoso I (2021) Winners and losers: prevalence of non-indigenous species under simulated marine heatwaves and high propagule pressure. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 668:21-38. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13710

83. Vicente, J., Webb, M.K., Paulay, G. et al. Unveiling hidden sponge biodiversity within the Hawaiian reef cryptofauna. Coral Reefs (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02109-7

82. Shah Esmaeili Y, Corte GN, Checon HH, Gomes TRC, Lefcheck JS, Amaral ACZ, Turra A (2021) Comprehensive assessment of shallow surf zone fish biodiversity requires a combination of sampling methods. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 667:131-144. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13711

81. Bailey, H., A. D. Fandel, K. Silva, E. Gryzb, E. McDonald, A. L. Hoover, M. B. Ogburn, and A. N. Rice. Identifying and predicting occurrence and abundance of a vocal animal species based on individually specific calls. Ecosphere 12(8):e03685. (2021) https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3685

80. Gagnon, K., Gustafsson, C., Salo, T., Rossi, F., Gunell, S., Richardson, J.P., Reynolds, P.L., Duffy, J.E. and Boström, C. (2021), Role of food web interactions in promoting resilience to nutrient enrichment in a brackish water eelgrass (Zostera marina) ecosystem. Limnol Oceanogr, 66: 2810-2826. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11792

79. Gaubert-Boussarie J, Altieri AH, Duffy JE, Campbell JE. (2021) Seagrass structural and elemental indicators reveal high nutrient availability within a tropical lagoon in Panama. Peer J, DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11308.

77. Duffy, J.E. Ocean Ecology: Marine Life in the Age of Humans. Princeton University Press (2021).

76. Bernal-Ibáñez A, Cacabelos E, Melo R and Gestoso I The Role of Sea-Urchins in Marine Forests From Azores, Webbnesia, and Cabo Verde: Human Pressures, Climate-Change Effects and Restoration Opportunities. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:649873. (2021) doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.649873

75. Weinstock JB, Collin R (2021) Hypoxia and warming are associated with reductions in larval bivalve abundance in a tropical lagoon. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 662:85-95. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13630

73.Bernal-Ibáñez, A., Gestoso, I., Wirtz, P. et al. The collapse of marine forests: drastic reduction in populations of the family Sargassaceae in Madeira Island (NE Atlantic). Reg Environ Change 21, 71 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01801-2

74. Gizzi F, Monteiro JG, Silva R, Schäfer S, Castro N, Almeida S, Chebaane S, Bernal-Ibáñez A, Henriques F, Gestoso I and Canning-Clode J (2021) Disease Outbreak in a Keystone Grazer Population Brings Hope to the Recovery of Macroalgal Forests in a Barren Dominated Island. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:645578. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.645578

71. Anker, A., & Grave, S. (2021) Opaepupu, a new genus and species of bivalve-associated shrimp (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from Hawai’i. Zootaxa, 4903(1), 55–70. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4903.1.3

70. Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Bruce W. Pfirrmann, F. Joel Fodrie, Jonathan H. Grabowski, A. Randall Hughes, Ashley R. Smyth, Consumption rates vary based on the presence and type of oyster structure: A seasonal and latitudinal comparison, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology,Volume 536,2021,151501,ISSN 0022-0981,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2020.151501

69. Dean S. Janiak, David Branson,Impacts of habitat and predation on epifaunal communities from seagrass beds and artificial structures, Marine Environmental Research, Volume 163, 2021,105225, ISSN 0141-1136, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105225.

68. Noelle M Lucey, Eileen Haskett, Rachel Collin,Hypoxia from depth shocks shallow tropical reef animals,Climate Change Ecology, Volume 2 , 2021, 100010,ISSN 2666-9005, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecochg.2021.100010

67. Archana, A., & Baker, D. M. (2020). Multifunctionality of an urbanized coastal marine ecosystem. Frontiers in Marine Science, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.557145

66. Lucey N, Haskett E and Collin R (2020) Multi-stressor Extremes Found on a Tropical Coral Reef Impair Performance. Front. Mar. Sci. 7:588764. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.588764

65. Ramalhosa, P., Gestoso, I., Rocha, R. M., Lambert, G., & Canning-Clode, J. (2021). Ascidian biodiversity in the shallow waters of the Madeira Archipelago: Fouling studies on artificial substrates and new records. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 43, 101672.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101672

64. Yang, B.; Hawthorne, T.L.; Hessing-Lewis, M.; Duffy, E.J.; Reshitnyk, L.Y.; Feinman, M.; Searson, H. Developing an Introductory UAV/Drone Mapping Training Program for Seagrass Monitoring and Research. Drones 2020, 4, 70.

63. Whalen, Matthew A., et al. Climate drives the geography of marine consumption by changing predator communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005255117

62. Lambert G. The Ascidiacea collected during the 2017 British Columbia Hakai MarineGEO BioBlitz. Zootaxa. 2019 Aug;4657(3):zootaxa.4657.3.1. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.1.

61.Murphy, C.E., Orth, R.J. & Lefcheck, J.S. Habitat Primarily Structures Seagrass Epifaunal Communities: a Regional-Scale Assessment in the Chesapeake Bay. Estuaries and Coasts 44, 442–452 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00864-4

60. R.J. Orth, J.S. Lefcheck, K.S. McGlathery, L. Aoki, M.L. Luckenbach, K.A. Moore, M.P.J. Oreska, R. Snyder, D.J. Wilcox, B. Luck. (2020) Restoration of seagrass habitat leads to rapid recovery of coastal ecosystem services. Science Advances

59. Radashevsky VI, Pankova VV, Malyar VV, Neretina TV, Choi JW, et al. (2020) Molecular analysis of Spiophanes bombyx complex (Annelida: Spionidae) with description of a new species. PLOS ONE 15(7): e0234238. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234238

58. Janiak DS, Freeman CJ, Seemann J, Campbell JE, Paul VJ, Duffy JE (2020) Spatial variation in the effects of predator exclusion on epifaunal community development in seagrass beds. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 649:21-33. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13449

57. Whalen MA, Millard-Martin BR, Cox KD, Lemay MA, Paulay G (2020) Poleward range expansion of invasive bopyrid isopod, Orthione griffenis Markham, 2004, confirmed by establishment in Central British Columbia, Canada. BioInvasions Records 9(3): 538– 548, https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2020.9.3.09

56. Monteiro, J.G., Jiménez, J.L., Gizzi, F. et al. Novel approach to enhance coastal habitat and biotope mapping with drone aerial imagery analysis. Sci Rep 11, 574 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80612-7

55. Susanne Schäfer, João Monteiro, Nuno Castro, Francesca Gizzi, Filipe Henriques, Patrício Ramalhosa, Manuela Isabel Parente, Gil Rilov, Ignacio Gestoso, João Canning-Clode, Lost and found: A new hope for the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa in the marine ecosystem of a subtropical Atlantic Island, Regional Studies in Marine Science, Volume 41, 2021,101575,ISSN 23524855,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2020.101575

52. Freeman, C. J., Easson, C. G., Matterson, K. O., Thacker, R. W., Baker, D. M., & Paul, V. J. (2020). Microbial symbionts and ecological divergence of Caribbean sponges: A new perspective on an ancient association. The ISME Journal, 1-13.

51.Parenti, L., Pitassy, D., Jaafar, Z., Vinnikov, K., Redmond, N., & Cole, K. (2020). Fishes collected during the 2017 MarineGEO assessment of Kāne‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1-31. doi:10.1017/S0025315420000417

50. Chernyshev AV, Polyakova NE, Vignesh MS, et al. A histology-free description of a new species of the genus Tetrastemma (Nemertea: Hoplonemertea: Monostilifera) from Hawaii and India. Zootaxa. 2020 Jul;4808(2):zootaxa.4808.2.10. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.2.10

49. Brandl, S. J., Casey, J. M., & Meyer, C. P. (2020). Dietary and habitat niche partitioning in congeneric cryptobenthic reef fish species. Coral Reefs, 1-13.

48. Wang, A., Conti-Jerpe, I. E., Richards, J. L., & Baker, D. M. (2020). Phestilla subodiosus sp. nov.(Nudibranchia, Trinchesiidae), a corallivorous pest species in the aquarium trade. ZooKeys, 909, 1.

47. Lohan, K. M. P., DiMaria, R., Martin, D. L., Ross, C., & Ruiz, G. M. (2020). Diversity and microhabitat associations of Labyrinthula spp. in the Indian River Lagoon System. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 137(2), 145-157.

46. Cramer, K. L., O'Dea, A., Leonard‐Pingel, J. S., & Norris, R. D. (2019). Millennial‐scale change in the structure of a Caribbean reef ecosystem and the role of human and natural disturbance. Ecography

44. Gizzi, F., Jiménez, J., Schäfer, S., Castro, N., Costa, S., Lourenço, S., José, R., Canning-Clode, J., & Monteiro, J. (2020). Before and after a disease outbreak: Tracking a keystone species recovery from a mass mortality event. Marine environmental research, 156, 104905

43. Chen, J., McIlroy, S. E., Archana, A., Baker, D. M., & Panagiotou, G. (2019). A pollution gradient contributes to the taxonomic, functional, and resistome diversity of microbial communities in marine sediments. Microbiome, 7(1), 104.

42. Cacabelos, E., Gestoso, I., Ramalhosa, P., Riera, L., Neto, A. I., & Canning-Clode, J. (2019). Intertidal assemblages across boulders and rocky platforms: a multi-scaled approach in a subtropical island. Marine Biodiversity, 1-15.

40. Schäfer, S., Monteiro, J., Castro, N., Rilov, G., & Canning-Clode, J. (2019). Cronius ruber (Lamarck, 1818) arrives to Madeira Island: a new indication of the ongoing tropicalization of the northeastern Atlantic. Marine Biodiversity, 1-9.

39. Gestoso, I., Cacabelos, E., Ramalhosa, P. & Canning-Clode, J. Plasticrusts: A new potential threat in the Anthropocene’s rocky shores. Science of The Total Environment 687, 413–415 (2019) 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.123

38. Clark, J. B., Neale, P., Tzortziou, M., Cao, F. & Hood, R. R. A mechanistic model of photochemical transformation and degradation of colored dissolved organic matter. Marine Chemistry 103666 (2019). 10.1016/j.marchem.2019.103666

37. Kauffman, J. B., Adame, M. F., Arifanti, V. B., Schile-Beers, L. M., Bernardino, A. F., Bhomia, R. K., ... & MacKenzie, R. A. (2020). Total ecosystem carbon stocks of mangroves across broad global environmental and physical gradients. Ecological Monographs, e01405.

36. Johnson MD, Rodriguez Bravo LM, O’Connor SE, Varley NF and Altieri AH. 2019. pH Variability Exacerbates Effects of Ocean Acidification on a Caribbean Crustose Coralline Alga. Front. Mar. Sci. 6:150. doi: 10.3389/fmars. e00150.

35. Brandl, S. J. et al. Demographic dynamics of the smallest marine vertebrates fuel coral reef ecosystem functioning. Science 364, 1189–1192 (2019).

34. Duffy, J.E., Benedetti-Cecchi, L., Trinanes, J.A., Muller-Karger, F.E., Ambo-Rappe, R., Boström, C., Buschmann, A.H., Byrnes, J., Coles, R.G., Creed, J. and Cullen-Unsworth, L. 2019. Toward a coordinated global observing system for seagrasses and marine macroalgae. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 317.

33. Topor, ZM, Rasher, DB, Duffy, JE, Brandl, SJ. 2019. Marine protected areas enhance coral reef functioning by promoting fish biodiversity. Conservation Letters. e12638.

32. Rogers, K., Kelleway, J.J., Saintilan, N., Megonigal, J.P., Adams, J.B., Holmquist, J.R., Lu, M., Schile-Beers, L., Zawadzki, A., Mazumder, D. and Woodroffe, C.D., 2019. Wetland carbon storage controlled by millennial-scale variation in relative sea-level rise. Nature, 567 (7746), p.91.

31. Cheng, B. S., Altieri, A. H., Torchin, M. E., and Ruiz, G. M. 2019. Can marine reserves restore lost ecosystem functioning? A global synthesis. Ecology 100 (4): e02617.

30. Janiak, D.S., R.W. Osman, C.J. Freeman, and V.J. Paul. 2018. Artificial structures versus mangrove prop roots: a general comparison of epifaunal communities within the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 607:85-98.

27. Cheng, B.S., G.M. Ruiz, A.H. Altieri, and M.E. Torchin. 2018. The biogeography of invasion in tropical and temperate seagrass beds: Testing interactive effects of predation and propagule pressure. Diversity and Distributions 00:1-13.

26. Brandl, S. J., C. H. R. Goatley, D. R. Bellwood, and L. Tornabene. 2018. The hidden half: ecology and evolution of cryptobenthic fishes on coral reefs. Biological Reviews 0.

25. Mueller, P., L. M. Schile-Beers, T. J. Mozdzer, G. L. Chmura, T. Dinter, Y. Kuzyakov, A. V de Groot, P. Esselink, C. Smit, A. D’Alpaos, C. Ibáñez, M. Lazarus, U. Neumeier, B. J. Johnson, A. H. Baldwin, S. A. Yarwood, D. I. Montemayor, Z. Yang, J. Wu, K. Jensen, and S. Nolte. 2018. Global-change effects on early-stage decomposition processes in tidal wetlands – implications from a global survey using standardized litter. Biogeosciences 15:3189–3202.

24. Seemann, J., A. Yingst, R. D. Stuart-Smith, G. J. Edgar, and A. H. Altieri. 2018. The importance of sponges and mangroves in supporting fish communities on degraded coral reefs in Caribbean Panama. PeerJ 6:e4455.

22. Campbell, J. E., A. H. Altieri, L. N. Johnston, C. D. Kuempel, R. Paperno, V. J. Paul, and J. E. Duffy. 2018. Herbivore community determines the magnitude and mechanism of nutrient effects on subtropical and tropical seagrasses. Journal of Ecology 106:401–412.

21. Clark, J. B., W. Long, M. Tzortziou, P. J. Neale, and R. R. Hood. 2018. Wind-Driven Dissolved Organic Matter Dynamics in a Chesapeake Bay Tidal Marsh-Estuary System. Estuaries and Coasts 41:708–723.

20. Nelson, N. G., R. Muñoz-Carpena, P. J. Neale, M. Tzortziou, and J. P. Megonigal. 2017. Temporal variability in the importance of hydrologic, biotic, and climatic descriptors of dissolved oxygen dynamics in a shallow tidal-marsh creek. Water Resources Research 53:7103–7120.

19. Brandl, S. J., J. M. Casey, N. Knowlton, and J. E. Duffy. 2017. Marine dock pilings foster diverse, native cryptobenthic fish assemblages across bioregions. Ecology and Evolution 7:7069–7079.

17. Duffy, J. E., C. M. Godwin, and B. J. Cardinale. 2017. Biodiversity effects in the wild are common and as strong as key drivers of productivity. Nature 549:261–264.

16. Staaterman, E., M. Ogburn, A. Altieri, S. Brandl, R. Whippo, J. Seemann, M. Goodison, and J. Duffy. 2017. Bioacoustic measurements complement visual biodiversity surveys: preliminary evidence from four shallow marine habitats. Marine Ecology Progress Series 575:207–215.

15. Hamilton, J. F., R. W. Osman, and I. C. Feller. 2017. Modeling local effects on propagule movement and the potential expansion of mangroves and associated fauna: testing in a sub-tropical lagoon. Hydrobiologia 803:173–187.

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