Protected Species Research Publications - Human Impacts

2015-2016

• Bradbury et al. 2016. Genetic mixed stock analysis disentangles spatial and temporal variation in composition of the West Greenland Atlantic Salmon fishery. ICES Journal of Marine Science  
• Byrd et al. 2016. Sea turtle bycatch in the large-mesh gillnet flounder fishery in Carteret County, North Carolina, USA, June-November 2009. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
• Carlson et al. 2016. Characterizing loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, bycatch in the US shark bottom longline fishery. Bulletin of Marine Science
• Conner et al. 2016. Evaluating impacts using a BACI design, ratios, and a Bayesian approach with a focus on restoration. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
• Dias et al. 2016. Evidence of cetaceans' exposure to petroleum products following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Endangered Species Research
• Eguchi et al. 2016. Predicting overlap between drift gillnet fishing and leatherback turtle habitat in the California Current Ecosystem. Fisheries Oceanography
• Harding et al. 2016. Wastewater treatment plant effluent alters pituitary gland gonadotropin mRNA levels in juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch).  Aquatic Toxicology
• Jaramillo-Legorreta et al. 2016. Passive acoustic monitoring of the decline of Mexico's critically endangered vaquita. Conservation Biology
• Leitwein et al. 2016. Ancestry and adaptive evolution of anadromous, resident, and adfluvial rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the San Francisco Bay Area: application of adaptive genomic variation to conservation in a highly impacted landscape. Evolutionary Applications
• Martin et al. 2016. An ecosystem services perspective for the oceanic eastern tropical Pacific: commercial fisheries, carbon storage, recreational fishing, and biodiversity.  Frontiers in Marine Science
• McIntyre et al. 2016. Severe coal tar sealcoat runoff toxicity to fish is reversed by bioretention infiltration. Environmental Science & Technology
• Meador et al. 2016. Contaminants of emerging concern in a large temperate estuary. Environmental Pollution
• Miller et al. 2016. Detecting sedimentation impacts to coral reefs resulting from dredging the Port of Miami, Florida USA. PeerJ
• Miller et al. 2016. Reef-scale trends in Florida Acropora spp. abundance and the effects of population enhancement. PeerJ
• Monteiro et al. 2016. Long-term spatial and temporal patterns of sea turtle strandings in southern Brazil. Marine Biology
• Moser et al. 2016. Biology and life history of green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris): state of the science. Journal of Applied Ichthyology
• Ortiz et al. 2016. Reducing green sea turtle bycatch in small-scale fisheries using illuminated gillnets: the cost of saving a sea turtle.  Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Penaluna et al. 2016. Conservation of native Pacific trout diversity in western North America. Fisheries Magazine
• Peters et al. 2016. Changes in streambed composition in salmonid spawning habitat of the Elwha River during dam removal. Journal of the American Water Resources Association
• Putman et al. 2015. Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacts on sea turtles could span the Atlantic.  Biology Letters
• Wallace et al. 2016. Estimating sea turtle exposures to Deepwater Horizon oil. Endangered Species Research
• Yan Jiao and Browder. 2015. Modeling spatially-varying ecological relationships using geographically weighted Generalized Linear Model: a simulation study based on longline seabird bycatch. Fisheries Research
• Ylitalo et al. 2016. Determining oil and dispersant exposure in sea turtles from the northern Gulf of Mexico resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Endangered Species Research
   

2017

• Arkoosh et al. 2017. Alteration of thyroid hormone concentrations in juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) exposed to polybrominated diphenyl ethers, BDE-47 and BDE-99. Chemosphere
• Baumgartner et al. 2017. North Atlantic right whale foraging ecology and its role in human caused mortality. Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Borggaard et al. 2017. Managing U.S. Atlantic large whale entanglements: Four guiding principles. Marine Policy
• Byrd et al. 2017. Differential risk of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) bycatch in North Carolina, USA. Aquatic Mammals
• Chasco et al. 2017. Competing tradeoffs between increasing marine mammal predation and fisheries harvest of Chinook Salmon. Scientific Reports
• Cholewiak et aql. 2017.  Beaked whales demonstrate marked acoustic response to shipboard echosounders. Royal Society Open Science 
• Fahlman et al. 2017. Defining risk variables causing gas embolism in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) caught in trawls and gillnets. Scientific Reports
• Feist et al. 2017. Roads to ruin: conservation threats to a sentinel species across an urban gradient. Ecological Applications
• Forney et al. 2017. Nowhere to go: noise impact assessments for marine mammal populations with high site fidelity. Endangered Species Research
• Hall et al. 2018. Predicting the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls on cetacean populations through impacts on immunity and calf survival. Environmental Pollution
• Heenan et al. 2017. Long-term monitoring dataset of coral reef fish assemblages in the Western Central Pacific. Scientific Reports
• Hinke et al. 2017. Identifying risk: Concurrent overlap of the Antarctic krill fishery with krill-dependent predators in the Scotia Sea. PLoS One 
• Holst et al. 2017. Cetacean sightings and acoustic detections during a seismic survey off Nicaragua and Costa Rica, November-December 2004. International Journal of Tropical Biology
• Holt et al. 2017. Noise levels received by endangered killer whales (Orcinus orca) before and after vessel regulations. Endangered Species Research
• Liermann et al. 2017. Relocation and Recolonization of Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in two tributaries to the Elwha River: Implications for management and monitoring. Transactions of the American Fishery Society
• Lopez Arriaza et al. 2017. Size-conditional smolting and the response of Carmel River steelhead to two decades of conservation efforts. PLoS One
• Meador et al. 2017. Determining potential adverse effects in marine fish exposed to pharmaceuticals and personal care products with the fish plasma model and whole-body tissue concentrations. Environmental Pollution
• Raverty et al. 2017. Respiratory microbiome of endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales and microbiota of surrounding sea surface microlayer in the Eastern North Pacific. Scientific Reports
• Redfern et al. 2017. Assessing the risk of chronic shipping noise to baleen whales off Southern California, USA. Endangered Species Research
• Reinhardt et al. 2017. Catch rate and at-vessel mortality of circle hooks versus J-hooks in pelagic longline fisheries: a global meta-analysis. Fish and Fisheries. 
• Soldevilla et al. 2017. Spatial distribution and dive behavior of Gulf of Mexico Bryde’s whales: potential risk for vessel strikes and fisheries interactions. Endangered Species Research
• Stone et al. 2017. A five-year, in situ growth study on shallow-water populations of the gorgonian octocoral (Calcigorgia spiculifera) in the Gulf of Alaska. PLoS One
• Swimmer et al. 2017. Sea turtle bycatch mitigation in U.S. longline fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science
• Taylor et al. 2017. Extinction is imminent for Mexico's endemic porpoise unless fishery bycatch is eliminated. Conservation Letters
• Tolimieri et al. 2017. Population assessment using multivariate time‐series analysis: a case study of rockfishes in Puget Sound. Ecology and Evolution
• Van Oppen et al. 2017. Shifting paradigms in restoration of the world’s coral reefs. Global Change Biology
• Waples et al. 2017. Human-mediated evolution in a threatened species? Juvenile life-history changes in Snake River salmon. Evolutionary Applications
• Ward et al. 2017. Evaluating signals of oil spill impacts, climate, and species interactions in Pacific herring and Pacific salmon populations in Prince William Sound and Copper River, Alaska. PLoS One
• Wilkin et al. 2017. Marine mammal response operations during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Endangered Species Research
   

2018

• Arkoosh et al. 2018. Dietary exposure to a binary mixture of polybrominated diphenyl ethers alters innate immunity and disease susceptibility in juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
• Balmer et al. 2018. Long-term trends in a northern Gulf of Mexico common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) population in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management
• Braun McNeill et al. 2018. Trends in fishery-dependent captures of sea turtles in a western North Atlantic foraging region. Endangered Species Research
• Caretta, JV. 2018. A machine-learning approach to assign species to 'unidentified' entangled whales. Endangered Species Research
• Chittaro et al. 2018. Variability in the performance of juvenile Chinook salmon is explained primarily by when and where they resided in estuarine habitats. Ecology of Fresh Water Fish
• Cinner et al. 2018. Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Farmer et al. 2018. Resilience of the endangered sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus to foraging disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico, USA: a bioenergetic approach. Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Farmer et al. 2018. Population consequences of disturbance by offshore oil and gas activity for endangered sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus). Biological Conservation
• Gorospe et al. 2018. Local biomass baselines and the recovery potential for Hawaiian coral reef fish communities.  Frontiers in Marine Science 
• Hall et al. 2018. Predicting the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls on cetacean populations through impacts on immunity and calf survival. Environmental Pollution
• Harborne et al. 2018. Modelling and mapping regional‐scale patterns of fishing impact and fish stocks to support coral‐reef management in Micronesia. Diversity and Distributions
• Haver et al. 2018. Monitoring long-term soundscape trends in U.S. waters: The NOAA/NPS Ocean Noise Reference Station Network. Marine Policy
• Olsen et al. 2018. Ocean futures under ocean acidification, marine protection, and changing fishing pressures explored using a worldwide suite of ecosystem models.  Frontiers in Marine Science
• Richerson et al. 2018. Predicting the economic impacts of the 2017 West Coast salmon troll ocean fishery closure. Marine Policy
• Scales et al. 2018. Fisheries bycatch risk to marine megafauna is intensified in Lagrangian coherent structures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  
• Stimmelmayr et al. 2018. Oil fouling in subsistence-harvested ringed (Phoca hispida) and spotted seals (Phoca largha) from the Bering Strait region, Alaska: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon bile and tissue levels and pathological findings. Marine Pollution Bulletin
• Stoffel et al. 2018. Demographic histories and genetic diversity across pinnipeds are shaped by human exploitation, ecology and life-history. Nature Communications
• Wetzel et al. 2018. The effect of reduced data on the ability to monitor rebuilding of overfished fish stocks. Fishery Bulletin
   

2019

• Barraza et al. 2019. Trace metals in green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) inhabiting two southern California coastal estuaries. Chemosphere
• Brame et al. 2019. Biology, ecology, and status of the smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata, in the USA. Endangered Species Research 
• Brownell et al. 2019.  Bycatch in gillnet fisheries threatens Critically Endangered small cetaceans and other aquatic megafauna. Endangered Species Research
• Foley et al. 2019. Characterizing watercraft-related mortality of sea turtles in Florida. The Journal of Wildlife Management 
• Hildebrand et al. 2019. Assessing seasonality and density from passive acoustic monitoring of signals presumed to be from pygmy and dwarf sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers in Marine Science
• Joyce et al. 2019. Behavioral responses of satellite tracked Blainville’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris) to mid-frequency active sonar. Marine Mammal Science
• Melvin et al. 2019. Lessons from seabird conservation in Alaskan longline fisheries. Conservation Biology
• National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019.  Research Review of Interventions to Increase the Persistence and Resilience of Coral Reefs. The National Academia Press 
• Sharp et al. 2019. Gross and histopathologic diagnoses from North Atlantic right whale (Eubalena glacialis) mortalities between 2003 and 2018. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
• Wood et al. 2019. Rates of increase in gray seal (Halichoerus grypus atlantica) pupping at recolonized U.S. sites, 1988-2019. Journal of Mammalogy
• Woodworth-Jefcoats et al. 2019. Relative impacts of simultaneous stressors on a pelagic marine ecosystem. Frontiers in Marine Science 
• Wren et al. 2019. Variations in black-footed albatross sightings in a North Pacific transitional area due to changes in fleet dynamics and oceanography 2006 - 2017.  Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 
• Zarri et al. 2019. Managing hydropower dam releases for water users and imperiled fishes with contrasting thermal habitat requirements. Journal of Applied Ecology
• Zollett and Swimmer. 2019. Safe handling practices to increase post-capture survival of cetaceans, sea turtles, seabirds, sharks, and billfish in tuna fisheries. Endangered Species Research