Publications

Correa, S.B. and Winemiller, K. (2018), Terrestrial-aquatic trophic linkages support fish production in a tropical oligotrophic river, Oecologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4093-7

Drovetski, Sergei V., Reeves, Andrew B., Red’kin, Yaroslav A., Fadeev, Igor V., Koblik, Evgeniy A., Sotnikov, Vladimir N., Voelker, Gary. Multi-locus reassessment of a striking discord between mtDNA gene trees and taxonomy across two congeneric species complexes, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolutions, Volume 120, 2018, 43-52, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790317304347

Entwistle, C., Mora, M. A. and Knight, R. (2018), Estimating coastal wetland gain and losses in Galveston County and Cameron County, Texas, USA. Integr Environ Assess Manag, 14: 120–129. doi:10.1002/ieam.1973

Neam, K. D. and Lacher, T. E. (2018), Multi-scale effects of habitat structure and landscape context on a vertebrate with limited dispersal ability (the brown-throated sloth, Bradypus variegatus). Biotropica. doi:10.1111/btp.12540

Srinivasan M, Swannack TM, Grant WE, Rajan J, Wursig B. To feed or not to feed? Bioenergetic impacts of fear-driven behaviors in lactating dolphins. Ecol Evol. 2018;8:1384-1398. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3732

Leignel V., Hurtado L. A., Segonzac M. (2017) Ecology, adaptation and acclimatisation mechanisms of Bythograeidae Williams, 1980, a unique endemic hydrothermal vent crabs family: current state of knowledge. Marine and Freshwater Research 69, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF17007

Hodo, C.L., M.R. Mauldin, J.E. Light, K. Wilkins, S. Tang, Y. Nakazawa, G.L. Emerson, J.M. Ritter, J.L. Mansell, and S.A. Hamer. (2018), A novel poxvirus in proliferative lesions of wild rodents in east-central Texas. Accepted at Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Anderson, A., J.E. Light, O.M. Takano*, and M.L. Morrison. (2018), Population structure of the Townsend’s big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii townsendii) in California. Accepted at Journal of Mammalogy.

Arcangeli, J., J.E. Light, and F.A. Cervantes. 2018. Molecular and morphological evidences of diversification in the Grayish mouse opossum Tlacuatzin canescens (Didelphimorphia). Journal of Mammalogy 99: 138-158.

Light, J.E., S.E. Harper, K.P. Johnson, J.D. Demastes, and T.A. Spradling. 2018. Development and characterization of 12 novel polymorphic microsatellite loci for the mammal chewing louse Geomydoecues ewingi (Insecta: Phthiraptera) and a comparison of next-generation sequencing approaches for use in parasitology.  Journal of Parasitology 104: 89-95.

Grace, Jacquelyn K., Anderson, David J. Early-life maltreatment predicts adult stress resposne in a long-lived wild bird. Biology Letters, Volume 14, January 2018, http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/1/20170679 

Angeli, N. F., Lundgren, I. F., Pollock, C. G., Hillis-Starr, Z. M. and Fitzgerald, L. A. (2018), Dispersal and population state of an endangered island lizard following a conservation translocation. Ecol Appl. doi:10.1002/eap.1650

Michelato, Mariana, Furuya, Wilson M. and Gatlin, Delbert M. III (2018). “Metabolic responses of Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus to methionine and taurine supplementation.” Aquaculture Vol 485 2 February 2018: 66-72.

Kevin W. Conway, Daemin Kim, Lukas Rüber, Héctor S. Espinosa Pérez, Philip A. Hastings, Molecular systematics of the New World clingfish genus Gobiesox (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) and the origin of a freshwater clade, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Available online 28 April 2017, ISSN 1055-7903, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.04.024.

Margot A. Wood, Ryan Sheridan, Rusty A. Feagin, Jose Pablo Castro, Thomas E. Lacher Jr., Comparison of land use change in payments for environmental services and National Biological Corridor Programs, Land Use Policy, Volume 63, April 2017, Pages 440-449, ISSN 0264-8377, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.02.005.

Jeff M. Martin*, Rachel A. Martin, and Jim I. Mead. Late Pleistocene and Holocene Bison of the Colorado Plateau. The Southwestern Naturalist 2017 62 (1), 14-28 http://dx.doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909-62.1.14 *Graduate Student

Jacquelyn K. Grace, Laure Martin-Gousset, Frédéric Angelier, Delayed effect of early-life corticosterone treatment on adult anti-predator behavior in a common passerine, Physiology & Behavior, Available online 19 April 2017, ISSN 0031-9384, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.04.018. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938416311301)

Jessica L Yorzinski, The cognitive basis of individual recognition, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Volume 16, August 2017, Pages 53-57, ISSN 2352-1546, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.03.009. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154616302170)

Conway, K.W., G.I. Moore & A.P. Summers. (2017). Nettorhamphos radula, new genus and species of clingfish (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from Western Australia. Copeia, 105: 28-140. http://www.asihcopeiaonline.org/doi/abs/10.1643/CI-16-560

C.S. ADAMS, W.A. RYBERG, T.J. HIBBITTS, B.L. PIERCE, J.B. PIERCE, D.C. RUDOLPH. Evaluating Effectiveness and Cost of Time-lapse Triggered Camera Trapping Techniques to Detect Terrestrial Squamate Diversity. Herpetological Review. VOLUME 48, NUMBER 1. MARCH 2017. Page 44. ISSN 0018-084X

Huntley J.W.*, Voelker G. (2017). A tale of the nearly tail-less: the effects of Plio-Pleistocene climate change on the diversification of the African avian genus Sylvietta. —Zoologica Scripta, 00, 1–13. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.12240/full *Graduate Student

Dilawar Hussain, Abdul Mateen, Delbert M. Gatlin III, Alleviation of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) toxicity by calcium bentonite clay: Effects on growth performance, condition indices and bioaccumulation of AFB1 residues in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), Aquaculture, Volume 475, 1 June 2017, Pages 8-15, ISSN 0044-8486, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.04.003.

Orbach DN, Marshall CD, Mesnick SL, Würsig B (2017) Patterns of cetacean vaginal folds yield insights into functionality. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0175037. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0175037

Walkup, Danielle, Leavitt D.J., Fitzgerald L.A. 2017. Effects of habitat fragmentation on population structure of dune-dwelling lizards. Ecosphere DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1729

Mohan JA, Sutton TT, Cook AB, Boswell KM, David Wells RJ. Influence of oceanographic conditions on abundance and distribution of post-larval and juvenile carangid fishes in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Fish Oceanogr. 2017;00:1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/fog.12214

Conway, K.W., K.M. Kubicek* & R. Britz. (2017). Morphological novelty and moderate developmental truncation in the skeleton of  Barboides, Africa’s smallest vertebrates (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Journal of Morphology. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20670 *Grad Student

Wells, R.J.D., Rooker, J.R., Quigg, A. et al. Influence of mesoscale oceanographic features on pelagic food webs in the Gulf of Mexico. Mar Biol (2017) 164: 92. doi:10.1007/s00227-017-3122-0

Sutili, F.J., Gatlin, D.M., Heinzmann, B.M. and Baldisserotto, B. (2017), Plant essential oils as fish diet additives: benefits on fish health and stability in feed. Rev Aquacult. doi:10.1111/raq.12197

Rosales, M., S. Castillo, C. Pohlenz and D. M. Gatlin III (2017) Evaluation of dried yeast and threonine fermentation biomass as partial fish meal replacements in the diet of red drum Sciaenops ocellatus. J. Animal Feed Science Tech., 232: 190-197.

Peachey, B. L., E. M. Scott and D. M. Gatlin III (2017) Dietary histidine requirement and physiological effects of dietary histidine deficiency in juvenile red drum Sciaenops ocellatus. Aquaculture, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.10.032.

Castillo, S. and D. M. Gatlin III (2017) Dietary requirements for leucine, isoleucine and valine (branched-chain amino acids) by juvenile red drum Sciaenops ocellatus. Aquaculture Nutr., DOI: 10.1111/anu.12644.

Matthew A. Kwiatkowski, Daniel Saenz*, Toby Hibbitts. Habitat Use and Movement Patterns of the Southern Crawfish Frog (Rana areolata). Final Report to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. 2017 *Graduate Student

Downey, M. C., Rollins, D., Hernández, F., Wester, D. B. and Grahmann, E. D. (2017), An evaluation of northern bobwhite translocation to restore populations. Jour. Wild. Mgmt.. doi:10.1002/jwmg.21245

Toby Hibbitts, Lee Fitzgerald , Danielle Walkup , Wade Ryberg. Why didn’t the lizard cross the road?: Dunes Sagebrush Lizards exhibit road avoidance behaviour.  CSIRO Wildlife Research. WR16184  Accepted 21 March 2017. http://www.publish.csiro.au/WR/justaccepted/WR16184

A.M. Garcia, K.O. Winemiller, D.J. Hoeinghaus, M.C. Claudino, R. Bastos, F. Correa, S. Huckembeck, J. Vieira, D. Loebmann, P. Abreu, C. Ducatti. Hydrologic pulsing promotes spatial connectivity and food web subsidies in a subtropical coastal ecosystem. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES. Vol. 567: 17–28, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12060

Blend, Charles K.; Dronen, Norman O.; Rácz, Gábor R.; and Gardner, Scott Lyell, “Pseudopecoelus mccauleyi n. sp. and Podocotyle sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from the Deep Waters off Oregon and British Columbia with an Updated Key to the Species of Pseudopecoelus von Wicklen, 1946 and Checklist of Parasites from Lycodes cortezianus (Perciformes: Zoarcidae)” (2017). Scott Gardner Publications & Papers. 3. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/slg/3

Mark W. Vandersea, Steven R. Kibler, Scott B. Van Sant, Patricia A. Tester, Kate Sullivan, Ginny Eckert, Charlayna Cammarata*, Kim Reece, Gail Scott, Allen Place, Kris Holderied, Dominic Hondolero, and R. Wayne Litaker (2017) qPCR assays for Alexandrium fundyense and A. ostenfeldii (Dinophyceae) identified from Alaskan waters and a review of species-specific Alexandrium molecular assays. Phycologia: May 2017, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 303-320. http://www.phycologia.org/doi/abs/10.2216/16-41.1?code=iphy-site *Graduate Student

NORMAN O. DRONEN, NOTHIALA R. AL-KASSAR, ATHEER H. ALI, MOHANAD F. ABDULHAMEED, BASIM H. ABDULLAH, SABEEH H. AL-MAYAH. 2017. Intraspecific variation in adult Uvitellina iraquensis Dronen, Ali & Al-Amura, 2013 (Cyclocoelidae: Haematotrephinae) from two collection sites of white-tailed lapwing, Vanellusleucurus (Lichtenstein) (Charadriiformes: Charadriidae), in Iraq. Zootaxa. Vol 4242, No 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4242.1.1

Roach, N. S., E. A. Hunter, N. P. Nibbelink, and K. Barrett. 2017. Poor transferability of a distribution model for a widespread coastal marsh bird in the southeastern United States. Ecosphere 8(3):e01715. 10.1002/ecs2.1715

VanSomeren, L. L., Barboza, P. S., Gustine, D. D., and Bret-Harte, M. S. (2017) Variation in δ¹⁵N and δ¹³C Values of Forages for arctic Caribou: effects of location, phenology and simulated digestion. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom., doi: 10.1002/rcm.7849.

Feldpausch-Parker AM, Parker ID, Vidon ES. Privileging Consumptive Use: A Critique of Ideology, Power, and Discourse in the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. Conservat Soc [serial online] 2017 [cited 2017 Mar 9];15:33-40. Available from: http://www.conservationandsociety.org/text.asp?2017/15/1/33/201395

Gustine D, Barboza P, Adams L, Griffith B, Cameron R, Whitten K (2017) Advancing the match-mismatch framework for large herbivores in the Arctic: Evaluating the evidence for a trophic mismatch in caribou. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0171807. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0171807

Vaun C. Cummins Jr, Steven D. Rawles, Kenneth R. Thompson, Alejandro Velasquez, Yuka Kobayashi, Janelle Hager, Carl D. Webster, Evaluation of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae meal as partial or total replacement of marine fish meal in practical diets for Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei), Aquaculture, Available online 20 February 2017, ISSN 0044-8486, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.02.022

Lopez, Roel R., Michael L. Morrison, and Israel D. Parker. Applied Wildlife Habitat Management. Texas A&M University Press, 2017.

Hurtado LA, De La Rosa-Reyna X, Mateos M, Shaver DJ, Metz R, Thiltges J, Hill J, Reyes-Lopez MA, Johnson C. 2016. Thousands of SNPs in the critically endangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) revealed by ddRAD-seq: opportunities for previously elusive conservation genetics research. Gulf of Mexico Science 33 (2): 214-218. http://goms.disl.org/images/goms-33-02-214.pdf

Fitzgerald, D. B., Winemiller, K. O., Sabaj Pérez, M. H. and Sousa, L. M. (2017), Using trophic structure to reveal patterns of trait-based community assembly across niche dimensions. Functional Ecology. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12838

J.R.S. Vitule, A.A. Agostinho, V.M. Azevedo-Santos, V.S. Daga, W.R.T. Darwall, D.B. Fitzgerald, F.A. Frehse, D.J. Hoeinghaus, D.P. Lima-Junior, A.L.B. Magalhães, M.L. Orsi, A.A. Padial, F.M. Pelicice, M. Petrere Jr., P.S. Pompeu, K.O. Winemiller We need better understanding about functional diversity and vulnerability of tropical freshwater fishes  Biodiversity and Conservation. March 2017, Volume 26, Issue 3, pp 757–762

EVALUATION OF FISH AND INVERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGES ASSOCIATED WITH TORPEDOGRASS (Panicum repens) IN LAKE CONROE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TEXAS. A Thesis by CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW MYNATT. Submitted to the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE. December 2016. Major Subject: Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

USES OF AMERICAN WATER-WILLOW (Justicia americana) BY RESERVOIR FISHES AND INVERTEBRATES IN LAKE CONROE, TEXAS. A Thesis by RYAN CHRISTOPHER O’HANLON. Submitted to the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE. December 2016. Major Subject: Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

Rossi, W., M. Newcomb and D. M. Gatlin III (2017) Assessing the nutritional value of an enzymatically processed soybean meal in early juvenile red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus L. Aquaculture, 467:94-101.

Pewitt, E., S. Castillo, A. Velásquez and D. M. Gatlin III (2017) The dietary tryptophan requirement of juvenile red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus. Aquaculture 469:112–116.

Pereira, R. T., P. V. Rosa and D. M. Gatlin III (2017) Arginine and glutamine in diets for Nile tilapia: innate immune responses, amino acids circulating profile and whole-body deposition. Aquaculture, 473:135-144.

Rossi, W., Jr., M. Ju, M. E. Hume, J. R. Tomasso, and D. M. Gatlin III (2017) A more comprehensive evaluation of soybean products in the diet of red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus L. Aquaculture Res., DOI: 10.1111/are.13334.

R.T. Pereira, P.V. Rosa, D.M. Gatlin III, Glutamine and arginine in diets for Nile tilapia: Effects on growth, innate immune responses, plasma amino acid profiles and whole-body composition, Aquaculture, Available online 3 February 2017, ISSN 0044-8486, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.01.033

van Riper, Carena J., Adam C. Landon, Sarah Kidd, David Toledo, Patrick Bitterman, Lee A. Fitzgerald, Elise F. Granek, Sonia Ibarra, David Iwaniec, Christopher M. Raymond. (2017). A conceptual model of the socio-cultural drivers of ecosystem service valuation and the importance of critical pluralism. Bioscience DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw170

Chinchilla-Ramírez, M., Borrego, E.J., DeWitt, T.J., Kolomiets, M.V. and Bernal, J.S. (2017), Maize seedling morphology and defence hormone profiles, but not herbivory tolerance, were mediated by domestication and modern breeding. Ann Appl Biol. doi:10.1111/aab.12331

Pereira LS, Keppeler FW, Agostinho AA, Winemiller KO (2017) Is There a Relationship between Fish Cannibalism and Latitude or Species Richness? PLoS ONE 12(1): e0169813. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0169813

ANDREA VILLAMIZAR-GOMEZ MICHAEL, R. J. FORSTNER, THANCHIRA SURIYAMONGKOL*, KAITLYN N. FORKS*, WILLIAM E. GRANT, HSIAO-HSUAN WANG, IVANA MALI. Prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Two Sympatric Treefrog Species, Hyla cinerea and Hyla versicolor. Herpetological Review, 2016, 47(4), 601–605. *Undergraduate Research Scholars.

Hastings, P.A. & K.W. Conway. (2017). Gobiesox lanceolatus, a new species of clingfish (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from the Los Frailes submarine canyon, Gulf of California, Mexico. ZOOTAXA, 4221: 393–400. http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4221.3.8

Long, A.M., Marshall, M.E., Morrison, M.L., K.B. Hays, S.L. Farrell. Responses of a Federally Endangered Songbird to Understory Thinning in Oak-Juniper Woodlands. Environmental Management (2017). doi:10.1007/s00267-016-0810-3.

Rodrigo F. Bastos, Fabiano Corrêa, Kirk O. Winemiller, Alexandre M. Garcia. Are you what you eat? Effects of trophic discrimination factors on estimates of food assimilation and trophic position with a new estimation method. Ecological Indicators, Volume 75, April 2017, Pages 234–241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.12.007

Oona M. Takano, Preston S. Mitchell, Daniel R. Gustafsson, Alphonse Adite, Gary Voelker, and Jessica E. Light (2017) AN ASSESSMENT OF HOST ASSOCIATIONS, GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS, AND GENETIC DIVERSITY OF AVIAN CHEWING LICE (INSECTA: PHTHIRAPTERA) FROM BENIN. Journal of Parasitology In-Press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1645/16-137

Schalk, C.M., Montaña, C.G., Winemiller, K.O. and Fitzgerald, L.A. (2016), Trophic plasticity, environmental gradients and food-web structure of tropical pond communities. Freshw Biol. doi:10.1111/fwb.12882

Behavioral Patterns of Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus truncatus) Within the Galveston—Port Bolivar Ferry Lane Alexandria E. Rivard, Frances P. Gelwick, and Wyndylyn von Zharen Southeastern Naturalist 2016 15 (4), 742-759

Long, A.M., Colón, M.R., Bosman J.L., Robinson, D.H., Pruett, H.L., McFarland, T.M., Mathewson, H A., Szewczak, J.M., Newnam, J.C. and Morrison, M.L. (2016), A before–after control–impact assessment to understand the potential impacts of highway construction noise and activity on an endangered songbird. Ecology and Evolution, 00: 1–11. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2608

Hurtado, L.A., Mateos, M. and Liu, S. (2016), Phylogeographic patterns of a lower intertidal isopod in the Gulf of California and the Caribbean and comparison with other intertidal isopods. Ecology and Evolution, 00: 1–12. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2599

A Call for Evaluation of the Contribution Made by Rescue, Resuscitation, Rehabilitation, and Release Translocations to Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) Population Recovery. Charles W. Caillouet, Jr., Nathan F. Putman, Donna J. Shaver, Roldán A. Valverde, Erin E. Seney*, Kenneth J. Lohmann, Katherine L. Mansfield, Benny J. Gallaway, Joseph P. Flanagan, and Matthew H. Godfrey. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 11:486–496. Submitted: 3 July 2016; Accepted: 10 October 2016; Published: 16 December 2016. *Former Student – received PhD.

Rapidly Increasing Invasion of Eastern Texas Forestlands by the Most Prevalent Invasive Shrubs: Chinese and European Privets Aminta Arevilca*, Luis Elissetche, Michael Scanlin, Sara Stephens*, Hsiao-Hsuan Wang, and William Grant Southeastern Naturalist 2016 15 (sp9), 61-67 *WFSC Undergraduate Research Scholars

Recent Range Expansions by Chinese Tallow (Triadica sebifera (L.) Small), the Most Prevalent Invasive Tree in the Forestlands of Eastern Texas Thanchira Suriyamongkol*, Erin McGrew*, Lela Culpepper, Kacy Beck, Hsiao-Hsuan Wang, and William E. Grant Southeastern Naturalist 2016 15 (sp9), 68-75 *WFSC Undergraduate Research Scholars

VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS IN THE CONSERVATION OF SEA TURTLES IN COSTA RICA. A Professional Paper by STUART M. RECKSEIT. Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF WILDLIFE SCIENCE. December 2016.

Portnoy, D.S., S.C. Willis, E. Hunt, D.G. Swift, J.R. Gold & K.W. Conway. (available online 1st December 2016). Molecular phylogenetics of the New World searobins (Triglidae; Prionotinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.11.017

Ronald Sosa, Christopher M. Schalk*. Seasonal Activity and Species Habitat Guilds Influence Road-Kill Patterns of Neotropical Snakes. Tropical Conservation Science October-December 2016 9: 1940082916679662, doi:10.1177/1940082916679662 *Biodiversity Research Teaching Collection.

Emily Pewitt*, Sergio Castillo*, Alejandro Velásquez*, Delbert M. Gatlin III, The dietary tryptophan requirement of juvenile red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, Aquaculture, Available online 24 November 2016, ISSN 0044-8486, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2016.11.030. *Graduate students

Activity of Insectivorous Bats is Related to Water Availability in a Highly Modified Mexican Temperate Forest. Celia López-González, Abraham Lozano, Emma P. Gómez-Ruiz, and Ricardo López-Wilchis. Acta Chiropterologica 2016 18 (2), 409-421. http://dx.doi.org/10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.2.008

James P. Grover, Daniel L. Roelke, Bryan W. Brooks. (2017), Population persistence in flowing-water habitats: Conditions where flow-based management of harmful algal blooms works, and where it does not. Ecological Engineering, Volume 99, February 2017, Pages 172–181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.11.044

McKenzie, J. L. and Alvarado Bremer, J. R. (2016), Genetic identification of istiophorid larvae from the Gulf of Mexico based on the analysis of mitochondrial DNA control region sequences. J Fish Biol. doi:10.1111/jfb.13212

Fujiwara M, Zhou C, Acres C, Martinez-Andrade F (2016) Interaction between Penaeid Shrimp and Fish Populations in the Gulf of Mexico: Importance of Shrimp as Forage Species. PLoS ONE 11(11): e0166479. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0166479

OUTLAW, D.C., HARVEY, J.A.*, DROVETSKI, S.V. and VOELKER, G. (2016) ‘Diversity and distribution of avian haemosporidians in sub-Saharan Africa: an inter-regional biogeographic overview’, Parasitology, pp. 1–9. doi: 10.1017/S0031182016001979. *Graduate Student

Gómez-Ruiz, E. P. and Lacher, T. E. (2016), Modelling the potential geographic distribution of an endangered pollination corridor in Mexico and the United States. Diversity and Distributions. doi:10.1111/ddi.12499

Maldonado, A.R., Mora, M.A. & Sericano, Seasonal Differences in Contaminant Accumulation in Neotropical Migrant and Resident Songbirds. J.L. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol (2016). doi:10.1007/s00244-016-0323-3

Fitzgerald, D. B.*, Winemiller, K.O., Sabaj Pérez, M. H. and Sousa, L. M. (2016), Seasonal changes in the assembly mechanisms structuring tropical fish communities. Ecology. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/ecy.1616 *Graduate student

Hurtado, L.A., Mateos, M., Mattos, G., Liu, S., Haye, P. A. and Paiva, P. C. (2016), Multiple transisthmian divergences, extensive cryptic diversity, occasional long-distance dispersal, and biogeographic patterns in a marine coastal isopod with an amphi-American distribution. Ecol Evol. doi:10.1002/ece3.2397

Edward J. Enriquez, Frances P. Gelwick , and Jane M. Packard. Reproductive Seasonality, Courtship and Nesting in Guadalupe Bass (Micropterus treculii). The American Midland Naturalist 176(2):173-185. 2016. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1674/0003-0031-176.2.173

Thomas E. Lacher, Jr. & Patrick Byakagaba. Oil, Gas, Wildlife & Communities: Capacity Building to Mitigate Conflicts in Uganda. APPLIED BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE, PERSPECTIVES SERIES, NO. 6. 2016 pp. 25 – 34. http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/158199/LacherByakagaba-2016.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Joseph A. Cook, Stephen E. Greiman, Salvatore J. Agosta, Robert P. Anderson, Brian S. Arbogast, Robert J. Baker, Walter Boeger, Robert D. Bradley, Daniel R. Brooks, Rebecca Cole, John R. Demboski, Andrew P. Dobson, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Ralph P. Eckerlin, Jacob Esselstyn, Kurt E. Galbreath, John Hawdon, Hopi E. Hoekstra, Susan J. Kutz, Jessica E. Light, Link E. Olson, Bruce D. Patterson, James L. Patton, Anna J. Phillips, Eric Rickart, Duke S. Rogers, Mark E. Siddall, Vasyl V. Tkach, and Eric P. Hoberg. Transformational Principles for NEON Sampling of Mammalian Parasites and Pathogens: A Response to Springer and Colleagues. BioScience 2016 : biw123v1-biw123. http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/10/07/biosci.biw123.extract

Hsiao-Hsuan Wang, Pete D. Teel, William E. Grant, Greta Schuster, A.A. Pérez de León. Simulated interactions of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), climate variation and habitat heterogeneity on southern cattle tick (Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus) eradication methods in south Texas, USA. Ecological Modelling  (2016), pp. 82-96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.10.001

Yorzinski JL, Hermann FS. (2016) Noise pollution has limited effects on nocturnal vigilance in peahens. PeerJ 4:e2525 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2525

Michael A. Dance & Jay R. Rooker. Stage-specific variability in habitat associations of juvenile red drum across a latitudinal gradient. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES. Vol. 557: 221–235, 2016. doi: 10.3354/meps11878 Published September 28, 2016

Gary Voelker, Michael Tobler, Heather L. Prestridge, Elza Duijm, Dick Groenenberg, Mark R. Hutchinson, Alyssa D. Martin, Aline Nieman, Cees S. Roselaar, and Jerry W. Huntley Three new species of Stiphrornis (Aves: Muscicapidae) from the Afro-tropics, with a molecular phylogenetic assessment of the genus Systematics And Biodiversity  Published online: 28 Sep 2016

Adrian A. Castellanos*, Matthew C. I. Medeiros, Gabriel L. Hamer, Michael E. Morrow, Micky D. Eubanks, Pete D. Teel, Sarah A. Hamer, Jessica E. Light. Decreased small mammal and on-host tick abundance in association with invasive red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta). Biol. Lett. 2016 12 20160463; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0463. Published 20 September 2016 *Graduate Student

Conley, M.D., Yeldell, N.A., Chamberlain, Michael. J. and Collier, B.A. (2016), Do movement behaviors identify reproductive habitat sampling for wild turkeys?. Ecol Evol. doi:10.1002/ece3.2401

Susan M. Cooper & Shane S. Sieckenius.  Habitat Selection of Wild Pigs and Northern Bobwhites in Shrub-Dominated Rangeland. Southeastern Naturalist 15(3):382-393. 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1656/058.015.0301

Jessica L. Yorzinski (2016) Eye blinking in an avian species is associated with gaze shifts Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 32471. doi:10.1038/srep32471

Poché DM, Grant WE, Wang H-H (2016) Visceral Leishmaniasis on the Indian Subcontinent: Modelling the Dynamic Relationship between Vector Control Schemes and Vector Life Cycles. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 10(8): e0004868. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004868

Ruzicka, R.E., Rollins, D., Lacoste, L. M. and Wester, D. B. (2016), Factors affecting trapping success of northern bobwhites in the rolling plains of Texas. Wildl. Soc. Bull.. doi:10.1002/wsb.676

Rodríguez-Jorquera, I. A., Siroski, P., Espejo, W., Nimptsch, J., Gusso Choueri, P., Brasil Choueri, R., Moraga, C. A., Mora, M. and Toor, G. S. (2016), Latin American Protected Areas: Protected from chemical pollution?. Integr Environ Assess Manag. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/ieam.1839

Judlyn M. Telesford-Checkley, Miguel A. Mora, William E. Grant, Diane E. Boellstorff, Tony L. Provin, Estimating the contribution of nitrogen and phosphorus to waterbodies by colonial nesting waterbirds, Science of The Total Environment, Available online 10 August 2016, ISSN 0048-9697, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.08.043. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969716317351)

Expanding the phenotypic plasticity paradigm to broader views of trait space and ecological function. Thomas J. DeWitt. Current Zoology. Jul 2016, zow085; DOI: 10.1093/cz/zow085

Morphologic and trophic diversity of fish assemblages in rapids of the Xingu River, a major Amazon tributary and region of endemism.  Zuluaga-Gómez, M.A., Fitzgerald, D.B.*, Giarrizzo, T., Winemiller, K.O. Environ Biol Fish (2016). doi:10.1007/s10641-016-0506-9 *graduate student

The effect of treefall gaps on the spatial distribution of three invasive plants in a mature upland forest in Maryland. Angela G. Driscoll, Nicole F. Angeli, David L. Gorchov, Ziying Jiang, Jing Zhang, and Charlotte Freeman The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 2016 143 (4), 349-358 http://dx.doi.org/10.3159/TORREY-D-15-00022.1

Preliminary Findings for a Relationship between Instream Flow and Shoal Chub Recruitment in the Lower Brazos River, Texas Anthony W. Rodger , Kevin B. Mayes , Kirk O. Winemiller  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  Vol. 145, Iss. 5, 2016

Phylogenetic analyses of the subgenus Mollienesia (Poecilia, Poeciliidae, Teleostei) reveal taxonomic inconsistencies, cryptic biodiversity, and spatio-temporal aspects of diversification in Middle America. Maura Palacios, Gary Voelker, Lenin Arias Rodriguez, Mariana Mateos, Michael Tobler. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Available online 26 July 2016, ISSN 1055-7903, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.025.(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790316301816)

Ownership property size, landscape structure, and spatial relationships in the Edwards Plateau of Texas (USA): landscape scale habitat management implications. González Afanador, E., Kjelland, M.E., Wu, X.B., Wilkins, N., Grant, W.E. Environ Syst Decis (2016). doi:10.1007/s10669-016-9604-7