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Publications In Review or In Press
Furman, B. and K. L.
Heck, Jr. (In review). Effects of nutrient enrichment and
grazers on coral reefs: An experimental assessment. Marine Ecology
Progress Series.
Geraldi, N. R., S. P. Powers, K. L. Heck, Jr. and J. Cebrian. (In
review). Can habitat restoration be functionally redundant for fish?
Response of transient fish and crustaceans to oyster reef restoration in
tidal creeks. Marine Ecology Progress Series.
McKay, K.M. and K.L. Heck, Jr. (In press). Presence of the Jonah
crab, Cancer borealis, significantly
reduces kelp consumption by the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus
droebachiensis. Marine Ecoloyg Progress Series
Kramer, K.L. and K.L. Heck, Jr. (In press).
Has Marine Reserve establishment made a difference? Fish community
structure, grazing intensity and benthic cover on protected and fished
patch reefs in the Florida Keys. Marine Ecology Progress Series.
Johnson, M. W. and K.L. Heck, Jr. (In
press). Habitat fragmentation influences survival and growth of
transplanted northern quahog (Mercenaria mercenaria Linné) in Big
Lagoon, FL. J. Shellfish Res.
Cebrian, Just , C. D. Foster, R. Plutchak1, K. L. Sheehan, M.E. C.
Miller, A. Anton, K. Major,
K. L. Heck, Jr. and S. P. Powers. (In press). The impact of
Hurricane Ivan on the primary productivity and metabolism of marsh tidal
creeks. Aquat Ecol.
J. F. Valentine, K. L. Heck, Jr., M. R.
Dardeau, and H. Burch. (In press). Ecosystem-Based Management of Mobile
Bay, Alabama. Pp.000-000 In: Ecosystem-Based Management (J.W. Day and A.
Yanex-Arancibia (eds.) Texas A&M Press.
2007
Heck, K.L. Jr. and JF. Valentine.
2007. The primacy of top-down effects in shallow benthic ecosystems.
Estuaries and Coasts 30: 371-381.
Vanderklift, M.A., J. How, T. Wernberg, L. D. MacArthur, K. L. Heck
Jr., and J. F. Valentine . 2007. Proximity to reef influences the
density of small predatory fishes while type of seagrass influences
intensity of predation on crabs. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 340:
235-243.
Valentine, J. F., K. L. Heck, Jr., D.
Blackmon, M. E. Goecker, J. Christian, R. M. Kroutil, K. D. Kirsch, B.
J. Peterson, M. Beck and M. A. Vanderklift. 2007. Food web
interactions along seagrass-coral reef boundaries: effects of piscivore
reductions on cross-habitat energy exchange. Marine Ecology
Progress Series. 333: 37-50.
2006
Byron, D. and K.L.
Heck, Jr. 2006. Hurricane effects on seagrasses along Alabama's Gulf
Coast. Estuaries and Coasts. 29 (6A): 939-942.
Heck, K. L., Jr., J. F. Valentine, J. R. Pennock, G. Chaplin and P.
M. Spitzer. 2006. Effects of nutrient enrichment and grazing on
shoal grass (Halodule wrightii) and its epiphytes: Results of a field
experiment. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 326: 145-156.
Orth, R.J., T.J.B. Carruthers, W.C. Dennison, C.M. Duarte, J.W.
Fourqurean, K.L. Heck, Jr., A.R. Hughes, G.A. Kendrick, W.J.
Kenworthy, S. Olyarnik, F.T. Short, M. Waycott and S.L. Williams. 2006.
A global crisis for seagrass ecosystems. Bioscience. 56 (12):987-996.
Lipcius, R.N., D.B. Eggleston, K.L. Heck, Jr., R.D. Seitz, and J.
van Montfrans. 2006. Ecology of post-larval and young juvenile blue crabs.
In: V.S. Kennedy and L.E. Cronin (editors). The Blue Crab,
Callinectes sapidus, pp.
535-564. University of Maryland Sea Grant Press, 800 pp.
Johnson, M.W. and K.L. Heck, Jr. 2006. Seagrass patch
characteristics alter direct and indirect interactions in a tri-trophic
estuarine food web. Estuaries and Coasts. 29 (3): 499-510.
Johnson, M.W., K.L. Heck, Jr. and J.W. Fourqurean. 2006.
Nutrient content of seagrasses and epiphytes in the northern Gulf of
Mexico: Evidence of phosphorus and nitrogen limitation. Aquatic Botany.
85 (2): 103-111.
Harter, S. L. and K. L. Heck, Jr. 2006. Growth Rates of
juvenile pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides):
Effects of habitat and predation risk. Estuaries and Coasts. 29 (2):
318-327.
Moksnes, P.-O. and K. L. Heck, Jr. 2006. Relative importance
of habitat selection and predation for the distribution of blue crab
megalopae and young juveniles. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 308:
165-181.
Heck, K. L., Jr. and J. F. Valentine. 2006. Plant-Herbivore
interactions in seagrass meadows. Journal of Experimental Marine
Biology and Ecology. 330 (1): 420-436.
Heck, K. L., Jr. and R. J. Orth. 2006. Predation in seagrass
meadows. In: A.W.D. Larkum, R. J. Orth and C. Duarte (Eds.),
Seagrasses: Biology, Ecology and their Conservation. Kluwer, Amsterdam,
pp. 537-550.
Johnson, M. W. and K. L. Heck, Jr. 2006. Effects of habitat
fragmentation per se on decapods and fishes
inhabiting seagrass meadows in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine
Ecology Progress Series. 306:233-246.
2005
Ibarra-Obando, S. E., K. L. Heck, Jr. and P. M. Spitzer. 2005.
Response of turtlegrass to natural and reduced light regimes under
conditions of rhizome isolation. Gulf of Mexico Science 23: 197-210.
Armitage, A. R., T. A. Frankovich, K. L. Heck, Jr. and J. W.
Fourqurean. 2005. Experimental nutrient enrichment cause
complex changes in seagrass, microalgae and macroalgae community
structure in Florida Bay. Estuaries
28 (3): 422-434.
Valentine, J. F. and K. L. Heck, Jr. 2005. Perspective review
of the impacts of overfishing on coral reef food web linkages. Coral
Reefs 24 (2): 209-213.
M.E.Goecker, K.L.
Heck, Jr., J.F. Valentine. 2005. Effects of
nitrogen concentrations in turtlegrass,
Thalassia testudinum, on
consumption by the bucktooth parrotfish, Sparisoma radians.
Marine Ecology Progress Series. 286: 239-248.
2004
Ibarra-Obando, S.,
K.L. Heck, Jr and P.M. Spitzer. 2004. Effects of simultaneous
changes in light, nutrients,and herbivory levels on the structure and
function of a subtropical turtlegrass meadow. Journal of Experimental
Marine Biology and Ecology. 301 (2): 193-224.
2003
Heck, K.L. Jr.,
R.J. Orth and C.G. Hays. 2003. Critical evaluation of the nursery role
hypothesis for seagrass meadows. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 253:
123-136.
Beck, M.W, K.L.
Heck, Jr, K.W. Able, D.L. Childers, D.B. Eggleston, B.M. Gillanders,
B.S. Halpern, C.G. Hays, K. Hoshino, T.J. Minello, R.J. Orth, P.F.
Sheridan and M.P. Weinstein. 2003. The role of nearshore ecosystems as
fish and shellfish nurseries. Issues in Ecology, Number 11. Ecological
Society of America, Washington, D.C. 12pp. (available at:
http://www.esa.org/sbi/sbi_issues/)
Spitzer, P.M., K.L.
Heck, Jr. and J.F. Valentine. 2003. Then and now: a comparison of
patterns in blue crab post-larval abundance and post-settlement
mortality during the early and late 1990s in the Mobile Bay system.
Bull. Mar. Sci. 72: 435-452.
2002
Heck, K.L. Jr,
L.D. Coen and D.M. Wilson. 2002. Growth of northern (Merceneria
mercenaria (L.)) and Southern (M. campechensis (Gmelin))
quahogs: influence of seagrasses and latitude. J. Shellfish Res.21:
635-642.
Able, K.W., M.P. Fahay,
K.L. Heck, Jr., C.T. Roman, M.A. Lazzari and S.C. Kaiser. 2002.
Seasonal distribution and abundance of fishes and decapod crustaceans
in a Cape Cod estuary. Northeastern naturalist. 9:
285-302.
Orth, R.J.,
K.L.Heck, Jr. and D.J. Tunbridge. 2002. Predation on seeds of
the seagrass Posidonia australis
in Western Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 244:
81-88.
Bologna, P.A.X. and
K.L. Heck, Jr. 2002. Impact of habitat edges on density and
secondary production of seagrass-associated fauna. Estuaries.
25: 1033-1044.
Kirsh, K.D., J.F.
Valentine and K.L Heck, Jr. 2002. Parrotfish grazing
in turtlegrass Thalassia testudinum:
evidence for the importance of seagrass consumption in food web dynamics
of the Florida keys national Marine Sanctuary. Marine Ecology
Progress Series 227: 71-85.
2001
Williams, S. W. and
K. L. Heck, Jr. 2001. 'Seagrass Communities', Pp. 317-337
In: M. Bertness, S. Gaines and M. Hay (Eds.), Marine Community
Ecology. Sinauer Press, Sunderland, Mass.
Valentine, J. F.,
K. L. Heck, Jr., K. K. Kirsch and D. Webb. 2001. The role of leaf
nitrogen content in determining turtlegrass (Thalassia testudinum)
grazing by a generalist herbivore in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. J.
Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 258: 65-86.
(PDF File)
Peterson, B. J. and
K. L. Heck, Jr. 2001. Interactions between suspension feeding
bivalves and seagrass assemblages - a facultative mutualism. Marine
Ecology Progress Series 213: 143-155.
Aronson, R. B.,
K. L. Heck, Jr. and J. F. Valentine. 2001. Measuring predation
with tethering experiments. Marine Ecology Progress Series 214: 311-312.
(PDF File)
Beck, M. W.,
K. L. Heck, Jr., K. W. Able, D. L. Childers, D. B. Eggleston, B. M.
Gillanders, B. Halpern, C. G. Hays, K. Hoshino, T. J. Minello, R. J.
Orth, P. F. Sheridan and M. P. Weinstein. 2001. The identification,
conservation and management of estuarine and marine nurseries for fish
and invertebrates. Bioscience 51: 633-641.
(PDF File)
Heck, K. L.,
Jr., L. D. Coen and S. G. Morgan. 2001. Pre-
and post-settlement factors as determinants of juvenile blue crab
abundance: results from the north-central Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology
Progress Series. 222: 163-176.
Heck, K. L.,
Jr., and P.M. Spitzer. 2001. Post Settlement
Mortality of Juvenile Blue Crabs: Patterns and Processes. Proc. of the
Blue Crab Mortality Symposium. Pgs. 18-27.
2000
Spitzer, P. M., K.
L. Heck, Jr. and J. Mattila. 2000. The effects of vegetation density
on the relative growth rates of juvenile pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides,
in Big Lagoon, Florida. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 244:67-86
Heck, K. L.,
Jr., J. R. Pennock, J. F. Valentine, L. D.
Coen and S. S. Sklenar. 2000. Effects of nutrient enrichment and large
predator removal on seagrass nursery habitats: an experimental
assessment. Limnology and Oceanography
1999
Valentine, J. R. and
K. L. Heck, Jr. 1999. Seagrass herbivory: evidence for the
continual grazing of marine grasses. Marine Ecology Progress Series
176:291-302.
Bologna, P. A. X. and
K. L. Heck, Jr. 1999. Macrofaunal associations with seagrass
epiphytes: relative importance of trophic and structural
characteristics. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 242:21-39.
Peterson, B. J.and
K. L. Heck, Jr. 1999. The potential for suspension feeding bivalves
to increase seagrass productivity. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 240:32-52.
Mattila, J., G.
Chaplin, M. R. Eilers, K. L. Heck, Jr., J. P. O'Neal and J. F.
Valentine. 1999. Abundance and composition of fish and
macroinvertebrates of a Zostera marina bed and nearby unvegetated
sediments in Damariscotta River, Maine (USA). J. Sea Research
41:321-332.
Bologna, P. A. X. and
K. L. Heck, Jr. 1999. Differential predation and growth rates of
bay scallops within a seagrass habitat. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol.
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