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Bell, T. W., Allen, J. G., Cavanaugh, K. C., Siegel, D. A. (2020). Three decades of variability in California's giant kelp forests from the Landsat satellites. Remote Sensing of Environment. 238:110811. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.06.039 [Link]

Bell, T. W., Nidzieko, N. J., Siegel, D. A., Miller, R. J., Cavanaugh, K. C., Nelson, N. B., Reed, D. C., Fedorov, D., Moran, C., Snyder, J. N., et al. (2020). The Utility of Satellites and Autonomous Remote Sensing Platforms for Monitoring Offshore Aquaculture Farms: A Case Study for Canopy Forming Kelps. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.520223 [Link]

Dressler, T. L., Lafferty, K. D., Jerde, C. L., Dudley, T. (2020). Looking where it's hard to see: a case study documenting rare. Journal of Fish Biology. 97:572--576. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14401 [Link]

Ezzat, L., Lamy, T., Maher, R. L., Munsterman, K. S., Landfield, K. M., Schmeltzer, E. R., Clements, C. S., Thurber, R. L. V., Burkepile, D. E. (2020). Parrotfish predation drives distinct microbial communities in reef-building corals. Animal Microbiome. 2. DOI: 10.1186/s42523-020-0024-0 [Link]

Goddard, J. H. R., Goddard, W. M., Goddard, Z. E. (2020). Benthic Heterobranch Sea Slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Santa Barbara County, California. I. Review of the literature, and Naples Point, 2002--2019. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Series. 66:27--298. [Link]

Lafferty, K. D., Garcia-Vedrenne, A. E., McLaughlin, J. P., Childress, J. N., Morse, M. F., Jerde, C. L. (2020). At Palmyra Atoll, the fish-community environmental DNA signal changes across habitats but not with tides. Journal of Fish Biology. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14403 [Link]

Lamy, T., Koenigs, C., Holbrook, S. J., Miller, R. J., Stier, A. C., Reed, D. C. (2020). Foundation species promote community stability by increasing diversity in a giant kelp forest. Ecology. 101. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2987 [Link]

McElroy, M. E., Dressler, T. L., Titcomb, G. C., Wilson, E. A., Deiner, K., Dudley, T. L., Eliason, E. J., Evans, N. T., Gaines, S. D., Lafferty, K. D., et al. (2020). Calibrating Environmental DNA Metabarcoding to Conventional Surveys for Measuring Fish Species Richness. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00276 [Link]

Meyer-Gutbrod, E. L., Love, M. S., Schroeder, D. M., Claisse, J. T., Kui, L., Miller, R. J. (2020). Forecasting the legacy of offshore oil and gas platforms on fish community structure and productivity. Ecological Applications. 30. DOI: 10.1002/eap.2185 [Link]

Miller, R. J., Adeleye, A. S., Page, H. M., Kui, L., Lenihan, H. S., Keller, A. A. (2020). Nano and traditional copper and zinc antifouling coatings: metal release and impact on marine sessile invertebrate communities. Journal of Nanoparticle Research. 22. DOI: 10.1007/s11051-020-04875-x [Link]

Rassweiler, A., Dubel, A. K., Hernan, G., Kushner, D. J., Caselle, J. E., Sprague, J. L., Kui, L., Lamy, T., Lester, S. E., Miller, R. J., et al. (2020). Roving Divers Surveying Fish in Fixed Areas Capture Similar Patterns in Biogeography but Different Estimates of Density When Compared With Belt Transects. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00272 [Link]

Sepulveda, A. J., Nelson, N. M., Jerde, C. L., Luikart, G. (2020). Are Environmental DNA Methods Ready for Aquatic Invasive Species Management?. Trends in Ecology &Evolution. 35:668--678. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.03.011 [Link]

Snyder, J. N., Bell, T. W., Siegel, D. A., Nidzieko, N. J., Cavanaugh, K. C. (2020). Sea Surface Temperature Imagery Elucidates Spatiotemporal Nutrient Patterns for Offshore Kelp Aquaculture Siting in the Southern California Bight. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00022 [Link]

Turner, T. L. (2020). Four new Scopalina from Southern California: the first Scopalinida (Porifera:Demospongiae) from the Eastern Pacific. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.11.246710 [Link]

Turner, T. L. (2020). The marine sponge Hymeniacidon perlevis is a globally-distributed invasive species. Aquatic Invasions. DOI: 10.1101/2020.02.13.948000 [Link]

Turner, T. L. (2020). The order Tethyida (Porifera) in California: taxonomy, systematics, and the first member of the family Hemiasterellidae in the Eastern Pacific. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.05.026518 [Link]

Catlett, D., Matson, P. G., Carlson, C. A., Wilbanks, E. G., Siegel, D. A., Iglesias-Rodriguez, M. D. (2019). Evaluation of accuracy and precision in an amplicon sequencing workflow for marine protist communities. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 18:20--40. DOI: 10.1002/lom3.10343 [Link]

Claisse, J. T., Love, M. S., Meyer-Gutbrod, E. L., Williams, C. M., I I, D. J. P. (2019). Fishes with high reproductive output potential on California offshore oil and gas platforms. Bulletin of Marine Science. 95:515--534. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2019.0016 [Link]

Ezzat, L., Lamy, T., Maher, R., Munsterman, K., Landfield, K., Schmeltzer, E., Gaulke, C., Burkepile, D., Thurber, R. V. (2019). Surgeonfish feces increase microbial opportunism in reef-building corals. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 631:81--97. DOI: 10.3354/meps13119 [Link]

Gries, C., Servilla, M., O'Brien, M., Vanderbilt, K., Smith, C., Costa, D., Grossman-Clarke, S. (2019). Achieving FAIR Data Principles at the Environmental Data Initiative,the US-LTER Data Repository. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 3. DOI: 10.3897/biss.3.37047 [Link]

Guazzo, R., Schulman-Janiger, A., Smith, M., Barlow, J., D'Spain, G., Rimington, D., Hildebrand, J. (2019). Gray whale migration patterns through the Southern California Bight from multi-year visual and acoustic monitoring. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 625:181--203. DOI: 10.3354/meps12989 [Link]

Hildebrand, J. (2019). The characteristics of song: An overview for marine mammals. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 145:1919--1919. DOI: 10.1121/1.5101968 [Link]

James, A. K., Kelly, L. W., Nelson, C. E., Wilbanks, E. G., Carlson, C. A. (2019). Elevated pCO2 alters marine heterotrophic bacterial community composition and metabolic potential in response to a pulse of phytoplankton organic matter. Environmental Microbiology. 21:541--556. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14484 [Link]

Jerde, C. L. (2019). Can we manage fisheries with the inherent uncertainty from eDNA?. Journal of Fish Biology. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14218 [Link]

Kröncke, I., Neumann, H., Dippner, J. W., Holbrook, S., Lamy, T., Miller, R., Padedda, B. M., Pulina, S., Reed, D. C., Reinikainen, M., et al. (2019). Comparison of biological and ecological long-term trends related to northern hemisphere climate in different marine ecosystems. Nature Conservation. 34:311--341. DOI: 10.3897/natureconservation.34.30209 [Link]

Lamy, T., Wang, S., Renard, D., Lafferty, K. D., Reed, D. C., Miller, R. J. (2019). Species insurance trumps spatial insurance in stabilizing biomass of a marine macroalgal metacommunity. Ecology. 100. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2719 [Link]

Love, M. S. (2019). Fishes and invertebrates of oil and gas platforms off California: an introduction and summary. Bulletin of Marine Science. 95:463--476. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2019.0043 [Link]

Love, M. S., Claisse, J. T., Roeper, A. (2019). An analysis of the fish assemblages around 23 oil and gas platforms off California with comparisons with natural habitats. Bulletin of Marine Science. 95:477--514. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2018.0061 [Link]

Love, M. S., Kui, L., Claisse, J. T. (2019). The role of jacket complexity in structuring fish assemblages in the midwaters of two California oil and gas platforms. Bulletin of Marine Science. 95:597--616. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2017.1131 [Link]

Love, M. S., Nishimoto, M. M., Snook, L., Kui, L. (2019). An analysis of the sessile, structure-forming invertebrates living on California oil and gas platforms. Bulletin of Marine Science. 95:583--596. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2017.1042 [Link]

Matson, P. G., Washburn, L., Fields, E. A., Gotschalk, C., Ladd, T. M., Siegel, D. A., Welch, Z. S., Iglesias-Rodriguez, M. D. (2019). Formation, Development, and Propagation of a Rare Coastal Coccolithophore Bloom. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 124:3298--3316. DOI: 10.1029/2019jc015072 [Link]

Meyer-Gutbrod, E. L., Kui, L., Nishimoto, M. M., Love, M. S., Schroeder, D. M., Miller, R. J. (2019). Fish densities associated with structural elements of oil and gas platforms in southern California. Bulletin of Marine Science. 95:639--656. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2018.0078 [Link]

Meyer-Gutbrod, E. L., Love, M. S., Claisse, J. T., Page, H. M., Schroeder, D. M., Miller, R. J. (2019). Decommissioning impacts on biotic assemblages associated with shell mounds beneath southern California offshore oil and gas platforms. Bulletin of Marine Science. 95:683--702. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2018.0077 [Link]

Michaud, K. M., Emery, K. A., Dugan, J. E., Hubbard, D. M., Miller, R. J. (2019). Wrack resource use by intertidal consumers on sandy beaches. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 221:66--71. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2019.03.014 [Link]

Nishimoto, M. M., Simons, R. D., Love, M. S. (2019). Offshore oil production platforms as potential sources of larvae to coastal shelf regions off southern California. Bulletin of Marine Science. 95:535--558. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2019.0033 [Link]

Nishimoto, M. M., Washburn, L., Love, M. S., Schroeder, D. M., Emery, B. M., Kui, L. (2019). Timing of juvenile fish settlement at offshore oil platforms coincides with water mass advection into the Santa Barbara Channel, California. Bulletin of Marine Science. 95:559--582. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2018.0068 [Link]

Page, H. M., Simons, R. D., Zaleski, S. F., Miller, R. J., Dugan, J. E., Schroeder, D. M., Doheny, B., Goddard, J. H. (2019). Distribution and potential larval connectivity of the non-native Watersipora (Bryozoa) among harbors, offshore oil platforms, and natural reefs. Aquatic Invasions. 14:615--637. DOI: 10.3391/ai.2019.14.4.04 [Link]

Page, H. M., Zaleski, S. F., Miller, R. J., Dugan, J. E., Schroeder, D. M., Doheny, B. (2019). Regional patterns in shallow water invertebrate assemblages on offshore oil and gas platforms along the Pacific continental shelf. Bulletin of Marine Science. 95:617--638. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2017.1155 [Link]

Sainz, J. F., Lorenzo, E. D., Bell, T. W., Gaines, S., Lenihan, H., Miller, R. J. (2019). Spatial Planning of Marine Aquaculture Under Climate Decadal Variability: A Case Study for Mussel Farms in Southern California. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00253 [Link]

Wang, S., Lamy, T., Hallett, L. M., Loreau, M. (2019). Stability and synchrony across ecological hierarchies in heterogeneous metacommunities: linking theory to data. Ecography. 42:1200--1211. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04290 [Link]

Yorke, C. E., Page, H. M., Miller, R. J. (2019). Sea urchins mediate the availability of kelp detritus to benthic consumers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286:20190846. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0846 [Link]

Yorke, C., Hanns, B., Shears, N., Page, H., Miller, R. (2019). Living kelp versus plankton as food sources for suspension feeders. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 614:21--33. DOI: 10.3354/meps12906 [Link]

Castorani, M. C. N., Reed, D. C., Miller, R. J. (2018). Loss of foundation species: disturbance frequency outweighs severity in structuring kelp forest communities. Ecology. 99:2442--2454. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2485 [Link]

Catlett, D., Siegel, D. A. (2018). Phytoplankton Pigment Communities Can be Modeled Using Unique Relationships With Spectral Absorption Signatures in a Dynamic Coastal Environment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 123:246--264. DOI: 10.1002/2017jc013195 [Link]

Lafferty, K. D., Benesh, K. C., Mahon, A. R., Jerde, C. L., Lowe, C. G. (2018). Detecting Southern California's White Sharks With Environmental DNA. Frontiers in Marine Science. 5. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00355 [Link]

Lenihan, H. S., Peterson, C. H., Miller, R. J., Kayal, M., Potoski, M. (2018). Biotic disturbance mitigates effects of multiple stressors in a marine benthic community. Ecosphere. 9:e02314. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2314 [Link]

Love, M. S., McCrea, M., Kui, L. (2018). Aspects of the Life Histories of Pinkrose Rockfish (Sebastes simulator) and Swordspine Rockfish (Sebastes ensifer) with Notes on the Subgenus Sebastomus. Bulletin, Southern California Academy of Sciences. 117:64--76. DOI: 10.3160/soca-117-01-64-76.1 [Link]

Miller, R. J., Lafferty, K. D., Lamy, T., Kui, L., Rassweiler, A., Reed, D. C. (2018). Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, increases faunal diversity through physical engineering. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 285:20172571. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2571 [Link]

Muller-Karger, F. E., Hestir, E., Ade, C., Turpie, K., Roberts, D. A., Siegel, D., Miller, R. J., Humm, D., Izenberg, N., Keller, M., et al. (2018). Satellite sensor requirements for monitoring essential biodiversity variables of coastal ecosystems. Ecological Applications. 28:749--760. DOI: 10.1002/eap.1682 [Link]

Muller-Karger, F. E., Miloslavich, P., Bax, N. J., Simmons, S., Costello, M. J., Pinto, I. S., Canonico, G., Turner, W., Gill, M., Montes, E., et al. (2018). Advancing Marine Biological Observations and Data Requirements of the Complementary Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) and Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) Frameworks. Frontiers in Marine Science. 5. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00211 [Link]

Smith, J. M., Brzezinski, M. A., Melack, J. M., Miller, R. J., Reed, D. C. (2018). Urea as a source of nitrogen to giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera). Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 3:365--373. DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10088 [Link]

Varga, L., Wiggins, S., Hildebrand, J. (2018). Behavior of singing fin whales Balaenoptera physalus tracked acoustically offshore of Southern California. Endangered Species Research. 35:113--124. DOI: 10.3354/esr00881 [Link]

Viola, S. M., Page, H. M., Zaleski, S. F., Miller, R. J., Doheny, B., Dugan, J. E., Schroeder, D. M., Schroeter, S. C. (2018). Anthropogenic disturbance facilitates a non-native species on offshore oil platforms. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55:1583--1593. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13104 [Link]

Wear, E. K., Wilbanks, E. G., Nelson, C. E., Carlson, C. A. (2018). Primer selection impacts specific population abundances but not community dynamics in a monthly time-series 16S {rRNA} gene amplicon analysis of coastal marine bacterioplankton. Environmental Microbiology. 20:2709--2726. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14091 [Link]

Bell, T. W., Reed, D. C., Nelson, N. B., Siegel, D. A. (2017). Regional patterns of physiological condition determine giant kelp net primary production dynamics. Limnology and Oceanography. 63:472--483. DOI: 10.1002/lno.10753 [Link]

Fedorov, D. V., Kvilekval, K. G., Doheny, B., Sampson, S., Miller, R. J., Manjunath, B. S. (2017). Deep learning for all: managing and analyzing underwater and remote sensing imagery on the web using BisQue. UC Santa Barbara Previously Published Works. . [Link]

Guerra, A. S., Madigan, D. J., Love, M. S., McCauley, D. J. (2017). The worth of giants: The consumptive and non-consumptive use value of the giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas). Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 28:296--304. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2837 [Link]

Lamy, T., Laroche, F., David, P., Massol, F., Jarne, P. (2017). The contribution of species-genetic diversity correlations to the understanding of community assembly rules. Oikos. 126:759--771. DOI: 10.1111/oik.03997 [Link]

Lamy, T., Reed, D. C., Rassweiler, A., Siegel, D. A., Kui, L., Bell, T. W., Simons, R. D., Miller, R. J. (2017). Scale-specific drivers of kelp forest communities. Oecologia. 186:217--233. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-017-3994-1 [Link]

Reed, D., Washburn, L., Rassweiler, A., Miller, R., Bell, T., Harrer, S. (2016). Extreme warming challenges sentinel status of kelp forests as indicators of climate change. Nature Communications. 7. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13757 [Link]

Bell, T. W., Cavanaugh, K. C., Reed, D. C., Siegel, D. A. (2015). Geographical variability in the controls of giant kelp biomass dynamics. Journal of Biogeography. 42:2010--2021. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12550 [Link]

Bell, T. W., Cavanaugh, K. C., Siegel, D. A. (2015). Remote monitoring of giant kelp biomass and physiological condition: An evaluation of the potential for the Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI) mission. Remote Sensing of Environment. 167:218--228. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.05.003 [Link]

Castorani, M. C. N., Reed, D. C., Alberto, F., Bell, T. W., Simons, R. D., Cavanaugh, K. C., Siegel, D. A., Raimondi, P. T. (2015). Connectivity structures local population dynamics: a long-term empirical test in a large metapopulation system. Ecology. 96:3141--3152. DOI: 10.1890/15-0283.1 [Link]

Johansson, M. L., Alberto, F., Reed, D. C., Raimondi, P. T., Coelho, N. C., Young, M. A., Drake, P. T., Edwards, C. A., Cavanaugh, K., Assis, J., et al. (2015). Seascape drivers {ofMacrocystis} pyriferapopulation genetic structure in the northeast Pacific. Molecular Ecology. 24:4866--4885. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13371 [Link]

Koenigs, C., Miller, R., Page, H. (2015). Top predators rely on carbon derived from giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 537:1--8. DOI: 10.3354/meps11467 [Link]

Miller, R. J., Page, H. M., Reed, D. C. (2015). Trophic versus structural effects of a marine foundation species, giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera). Oecologia. 179:1199--1209. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-015-3441-0 [Link]

Wear, E. K., Carlson, C. A., James, A. K., Brzezinski, M. A., Windecker, L. A., Nelson, C. E. (2015). Synchronous shifts in dissolved organic carbon bioavailability and bacterial community responses over the course of an upwelling-driven phytoplankton bloom. Limnology and Oceanography. 60:657--677. DOI: 10.1002/lno.10042 [Link]

Rahimi, A. M., Miller, R. J., Fedorov, D. V., Sunderrajan, S., Doheny, B. M., Page, H. M., Manjunath, B. S. (2014). Marine Biodiversity Classification Using Dropout Regularization. 2014 ICPR Workshop on Computer Vision for Analysis of Underwater Imagery. DOI: 10.1109/cvaui.2014.17 [Link]


Books & Charpters

Love, M. S., Passarelli, J. K. Miller and Lea's guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. (2020).. [Link]