The following publications are from Team Benthos lab members and collaborators between 2000-2004. More complete bibliographies are available by visiting individual web pages for Dr. Robert Whitlatch or Dr. Stephan Bullard.

Osman, R.W. and R.B. Whitlatch. 2000. Ecological interactions of invading ascidians within epifaunal communities of southern New England. Page 164-174. In: J. Pederson (ed), National Conference on Marine Bioinvasions. MIT Sea Grant Publication, Cambridge, MA

Whitlatch, R.B. and R.W. Osman. 2000. Geographical distributions and organism-habitat associations of shallow-water introduced marine fauna in New England. Pages 61-65. In: J. Pederson (ed), National Conference on Marine Bioinvasions. MIT Sea Grant Publication, Cambridge, MA.

Lohrer, A.M., R.B. Whitlatch, K. Wada and Y. Fukui. 2000. Using niche theory to understand invasion success: a case study of the Asian shore crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus. Pages 57-60. In: J. Pederson (ed), National Conference on Marine Bioinvasions. MIT Sea Grant Publication, Cambridge, MA.

Whitlatch, R.B. and J.R. Wood-Martin (eds). 2000. Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Long Island Sound Research Conference. Connecticut Sea Grant College Program Publication. 170 p.

Morgan, D.E., J.T. Swenarton, J.F. Foertch, M. Keser and R.B. Whitlatch. 2000. Growth, survival and condition index of the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) in Long Island Sound during 1997. Pages 73-81. In: R.B. Whitlatch and J.R. Wood-Martin (eds.). Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Long Island Sound Research Conference. Connecticut Sea Grant College Program Publication.

Whitlatch, R.B., A.M. Lohrer and S.F. Thrush. 2001. Scale-dependent recovery of the benthos: effects of larval and post-larval life-stages. Pages 181-197. In: Woodin, S.A. and J.Y. Aller (eds.). Organism-Sediment Symposium. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia

Thrush, S.F. and R.B. Whitlatch. 2001. Recovery dynamics in benthic communities: balancing detail with simplification. Pages 297-316 In: K. Reise (ed). Ecological Comparisons of Sedimentary Shores. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Lohrer, A.M. and R.B. Whitlatch. 2002. Modeling life-stage based recovery dynamics of marine invertebrates in soft-sediment habitats: some implications for habitat conservation. Pages 191-213. In: M. Ruth and J. Lindholm (eds.), Dynamic Modeling for Marine Conservation. Springer-Verlag, NY.

Lohrer, A.M., Y. Fukui, K. Wada and R.B. Whitlatch. 2000. Structural complexity and vertical zonation of intertidal crabs, with focus on habitat characteristics of the invasive Asian shore crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus (de Haan). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 244: 203-217.

Lohrer, A.M., R.B. Whitlatch, K. Wada and Y. Fukui. 2000. Home and away: comparisons of resource uitlization by the Asian shore crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus, in its native and invaded ranges. Bioinvasions, 2: 41-57.

Zajac, R.N. and R.B. Whitlatch. 2001. Response of macrobenthic communities to restoration efforts in a New England estuary. Estuaries 24: 167-183

Lohrer, A.M. and R.B. Whitlatch. 2002. Interactions among aliens: apparent replacement of one exotic species by another. Ecology 83: 719-733.

Lohrer, A.M. and R.B. Whitlatch. 2002. Alien crabs in Long Island Sound: relative impacts of two exotic brachyuran species. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 227: 135-144.

Stachowicz, J. J., H. Fried, R. W. Osman and R. B. Whitlatch. 2002. Reconciling pattern and process in marine bioinvasions: how important is diversity in determining community invasibility. Ecology: 83: 2575-2590.

Stachowicz, J.J., J.R. Terwin, R.B. Whitlatch, and R.W. Osman. 2002. Linking climate change and biological invasions: ocean warming facilitates non-indigenous species invasions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99: 15497-15500.

Zajac, R.N. and R.B. Whitlatch. 2003. Community and population-level responses to disturbance in a sandflat community. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 294: 101-125.

Bullard SG (2003) Larvae of anomuran and brachyuran crabs of North Carolina: A guide to the described larval stages of anomuran (Families: Porcellanidae, Albuneidae, and Hippidae) and brachyuran crabs of North Carolina, USA. Crustaceana Monogr vol 1. Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 142 pp.

Bullard SG, Hay ME (2002) Palatability of marine macro-holoplankton: nematocysts, nutritional quality, and chemistry as defenses against consumers. Limnol Oceanogr 47: 1456-1467

Bullard SG, Hay ME (2002) Plankton tethering to assess spatial and temporal patterns of planktivory over a coral reef and seagrass bed. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 225: 17-28