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2012
Layman, C.A., Araújo, M.S., Boucek, R., Harrison, E., Jud, Z.R., Matich, P., Hammerschlag-Peyer, C.M., Rosenblatt, A., Vaudo, J., Yeager, L.A., Post, D.M., and Bearhop, S. In press. Applying Stable Isotopes to Examine Food Web Structure: An Overview of Analytical Tools. Biological Reviews.
Layman, C.A . and Allgeier, J.A. 2012. Characterizing trophic ecology of generalist consumers: a
case study on the invasive lionfish Pterois volitans in The Bahamas. Marine Ecology Progress Series 448:131-141.
Jud, Z.R. and Layman, C.A. 2012. Site fidelity and movement patterns in the invasive lionfish, Pterois spp.
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 414-415:69-74.
Hammerschlag-Peyer, C.M. and Layman, C.A. 2012. Mechanisms driving resource use variation
in an abundant coastal fish predator. Bulletin of Marine Science.
2011
Hammerschlag-Peyer, C.M, Yeager, L.A., Araújo, M.S. and Layman, C.A. 2011. A hypothesis-testing framework for studies investigating ontogenetic niche shifts using stable isotope ratios. PLoS One 6(11):e27104.
Allgeier, J.E., Rosemond, A.D., and Layman, C.A. In press. Variation in nutrient limitation and
seagrass nutrient content in Bahamian tidal creeks. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 407:330-336.
Araújo, M.S., Bolnick, D.I., and Layman, C.A. The ecological causes of individual specialization. Ecology Letters 14:948-958..
Valentine-Rose, L., Layman, C.A. and Rypel, A.L. 2011.Community secondary production as a measure of ecosystem function: a case study with aquatic ecosystem fragmentation. Bulletin of Marine Science 87(4):913-937.
Montaña, C.G., Layman, C.A. and Winemiller, K.O. 2011. Gape size influences seasonal patterns of
piscivore diets in three Neotropical rivers. Neotropical Ichthyology 9(3):647-655.
Jud, Z.R., Layman, C.A., Lee, J.A., and Arrington, D.A. 2011. Recent invasion of a Florida
estuarine/riverine system by the lionfish Pterois volitans. Aquatic Biology 13:21-26.
Stoner, E.W., Layman, C.A., Yeager, L.A., and Hassett, H. 2011. Effect of anthropogenic
disturbance on abundance and size of the benthic jellyfish Cassiopea spp. Marine Pollution Bulletin 62:1109-1114.
Yeager, L.A., Allgeier, J.A. and Layman. C.A. 2011. Experimental test of the importance of
landscape and patch scale variables in predicting fish community assembly. Oecologia 167(1):157-168.
Yeager, L.A. and Layman. C.A. 2011. Energy flow to consumers in a sub-tropical oyster reef
food web. Aquatic Ecology 45(2):267-277.
Montaña, C.G., Layman, C.A., and Taphorn, D.C. 2010. Inventario de la ictiofauna del Caño La
Guardia, afluente del río Capanaparo (cuenca del Orinoco), estado Apure, Venezuela. Biota Colombiana 11:75-88.
Heithaus, E.R., Heithaus, P.A., Heithaus, M.R., Burkholder, D. and Layman, C.A. 2011. Trophic
dynamics of a relatively pristine subtropical fringing mangrove community. Marine Ecology Progress Series 428:49-61.
Layman, C.A., Allgeier, J.E., Rosemond, A.D., Dahlgren, C.P., and Yeager, L.A. 2011. Marine
Fisheries Declines Viewed Upside Down: Human Impacts on Consumer-Driven Nutrient Recycling. Ecological Applications 21(2):343-349.
Valentine-Rose, L. and Layman, C.A. 2011. Response of fish assemblage structure and function
following restoration of two small Bahamian tidal creeks. Restoration Ecology 19(2):205-215.
Jud, Z.R., Shenker, J.M. and Layman, C.A. 2011. Dietary variation of age-0 tarpon (Megalops
atlanticus) in anthropogenically-modified nursery habitats. Environmental Biology of Fishes 90(3):223-233.
Allgeier, J.A., Rosemond, A.D., and Layman, C.A. 2011. The frequency and magnitude of non-
additive responses to multiple nutrient enrichment. Journal of Applied Ecology 48(1):96-101.
Grol, M.G.G., Nagelkerken, I., Rypel, A.L., and Layman, C.A. 2011. Simple ecological trade-
offs give rise to emergent cross-ecosystem distributions of a coral reef fish. Oecologia 165:79-88.
Matich, P., Heithaus, M.R., and Layman, C.A. 2011. Contrasting patterns of individual
specialization and trophic coupling in two marine apex predators. Journal of Animal Ecology 80: 294-305.
2010
Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., Kramer, P.A., Valentine-Rose, L.M., Dahlgren, C.P., and Burke, L. 2010. Indicator taxa to assess anthropogenic impacts in Bahamas and Caribbean tidal creeks. Caribbean Journal of Science 46(1):12-18.
Allgeier, J.A., Rosemond, A.D, Mehring, A.S., and Layman, C.A. 2010. Synergistic nutrient co-limitation across a gradient of ecosystem fragmentation in subtropical mangrove-dominated wetlands. Limnology and Oceanography 55(6):2660-2668.
Hammerschlag-Peyer, C.P. and Layman, C.A. 2010. Specialization in individual-level movement patterns of snapper in Bahamian wetlands. Marine Ecology Progress Series 415:211-220.
Matich, P., Heithaus, M.R., and Layman, C.A.. 2010. Size-based variation in inter-tissue comparisons of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures of bull sharks and tiger sharks. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 67(5):877-885.
Layman, C.A., Montaña, C.G., and Allgeier, J.E. 2010. Linking community assembly and rates of water level change in river littoral habitats. Aquatic Ecology 44:269–273.
2009
Adams, A.J., Wolfe, R.K., and Layman, C.A. 2009. Preliminary examination of how human-driven freshwater flow alteration affects trophic ecology of juvenile snook (Centropomus undecimalis) in Estuarine Creeks. Estuaries and Coasts 32(4):819-828.
Roach, K.A., Winemiller, K.O., Layman, C.A., and Zeug, S.C. 2009. Consistent trophic patterns among fishes in lagoon and channel habitats of a tropical floodplain river: evidence from stable isotopes. Acta Oecologica 35(4):513-522.
2008
Montaña, C.G., Layman, C.A., and Taphorn, D.C. 2008. Comparison of fish assemblages in two littoral habitats in a Neotropical morichal stream in Venezuela. Neotropical Ichthyology 6(4):577-582.
Layman, C.A. and Post, D.M. 2008. Can stable isotope ratios provide for community-wide measures of trophic structure? Reply. Ecology 89(8):2358-2359.
Rypel, A.L. and Layman, C.A. 2008. Degree of hydrologic connectivity loss determines population-level characteristics of gray snapper in tidal creeks. Canadian Journal of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences 65:335-339.
2007
Layman, C.A., Quattrochi, J.P., Peyer, C.M., and Allgeier, J.E. 2007. Niche width collapse in a resilient top predator following ecosystem fragmentation. Ecology Letters.
Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., Montaña, C.G., Post, D.M. 2007. Can Stable Isotope Ratios Provide for Community-wide Measures of Trophic Structure? Ecology 88(1): 42-48.
Post, D.M., Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., Takimoto, G., Quattrochi, J., and Montaña, C.G.2007. Getting to the fat of the matter: models, methods and assumptions for dealing with lipids in stable isotope analyses. Oecologia 152:179–189
Rypel, A.L., Layman, C.A., and Arrington, D.A. 2007. Water depth modifies relative predation risk for
a motile fish taxa in Bahamian tidal creeks. Estuaries and Coasts 30(3):1-8.
Valentine-Rose, L., Cherry, J.A., Culp, J.J., Perez, K.E., Pollock, J.B., Arrington, D.A., and Layman,
C.A. 2007. Floral and faunal differences between fragmented and unfragmented Bahamian tidal creeks. Wetlands 27(3):702-718.
Haney, R.A., Silliman, B.R., Fry, A.J., Layman, C.A., and Rand, D.M. 2007. The Pleistocene history
of the sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus): Non-equilibrium evolutionary dynamics
within a diversifying species complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
Layman, C.A. 2007. What can stable isotope ratios reveal about mangroves as fish habitat?
Bulletin of Marine Science 80(3):513-527.
Valentine-Rose, L.M., Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A. and Rypel, A.L. 2007. Habitat fragmentation affects fish
secondary production in Bahamian tidal creeks. Bulletin of Marine Science 80(3):863-878.
2006
Montaña, C.G., Taphorn, D., Layman, C.A., and Lasso C.A. Distribución, alimentación y reproducción de tres especies
de pavones Cichla spp. (Perciformes, Cichlidae) en la cuenca baja del río Ventuari, Estado Amazonas,
Venezuela. Memoria de la Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales 165: 83-102.
Arrington, D.A., Davidson, B.K., Winemiller, K.O., and Layman, C.A. Influence of life history and seasonal hydrology on lipid storage in three Neotropical fish species. Journal of Fish Biology 68:1-16.
Dahlgren, C.P., Kellison, G.T., Adams, A.J., Gillanders, B.M., Kendall, M.S., Layman, C.A., Ley, J.A., Nagelkerken, I., and Serafy, J.E. Marine nurseries and effective juvenile haitats: concepts and applications. Marine Ecology Progress Series 312: 291-295.
Layman, C.A., Dahlgren, C.P., Kellison, G.T., Adams, A.J., Gillanders, B.M., Kendall, M.S., Ley, J.A., Nagelkerken, I., and Serafy, J.E. Reply Comment: Marine nurseries and effective juvenile haitats Marine Ecology Progress Series 318: 307-308.
Adams, A.J., Dahlgren, C.P., Kellison, G.T., Kendall, M.S., Layman, C.A., Ley, J.A., Nagelkerken, I., and Serafy, J.E. Review: Nursery function of tropical back-reef systems. Marine Ecology Progress Series 318: 287-301.
Winemiller, K.O., Montoya, J., Layman, C.A., Roelke, D., and Cotner, J. 2006. Seasonally varying impact of detritivorous fishes on the benthic ecology of a tropical floodplain river. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25(1):250-262..
Hoeinghaus, D.J., Winemiller, K.O., Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., and Jepsen, D.B. 2006. Effects of seasonality and migratory prey on body condition of Cichla species in a tropical floodplain river. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 15:398-407 .
2005
Layman, C.A., Winemiller, K.O., Arrington, D.A., and Jepsen, D.B. 2005. Body size and trophic position in a diverse tropical food web. Ecology 86(9):2530-2535.
Layman, C.A., Langerhans, R.B., and Winemiller, K.O. 2005. Do species traits characterize changes in fish assemblage composition following commercial netting? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62:1-9..
Layman, C.A., and Winemiller, K.O. 2005. Patterns of habitat segregation among large fishes in a Neotropical floodplain river. Neotropical Ichthyology 3(1):103-109. *no web link to article
Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., and Blackwell, M. 2005. Community-based collaboration restores tidal Flow to an island estuary (Bahamas). Ecological Restoration 23(1):58-59.
Arrington, D.A., Winemiller, K.O., and Layman, C.A. 2005. Community assembly at the patch scale in a species-rich tropical river. Oecologia 144(1):157-167.
Langerhans, R.B., Layman, C.A., and DeWitt, T.J. 2005. Bigger is not always better in the evolution of male genitalia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(21): 7618-7623.
Layman, C.A., Winemiller, K.O., and D.A. Arrington. 2005. Describing the structure and function of a Neotropical river food web using stable isotopes, stomach contents, and functional experiments. In: Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development, and Environmental Change. Elsevier/Academic Press, pp. 395-406.
Scharler, U.M., Hulot, F.D., Baird, D.J., Cross, W.F., Culp, J., Layman, C.A., Raffaelli, D., Vos, M. and Winemiller, K.O. 2005. Central Issues for Aquatic Food Webs: From Chemical Cues to Whole System Responses. In: Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development, and Environmental Change. Elsevier/Academic Press, pp. 451-462.
Winemiller, K.O. and Layman, C.A. 2005. Pattern, Process and Scale in the Food Web Paradigm: Moving on the Path from Abstraction to Prediction. In: Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development, and Environmental Change . Elsevier/Academic Press, pp. 10-23.
2004
Layman, C.A. and Winemiller, K.O. 2004. Size-based responses of prey to piscivore exclusion in a Neotropical river. Ecology 85(5):1311-1320.
Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., Langerhans, R.B and Silliman, B.R. 2004. Degree of fragmentation affects assemblage structure in Andros Island (Bahamas) estuaries. Caribbean Journal of Science 40(2):232-244.
Layman, C.A., Jepsen, D.B., and Winemiller, K.O. 2004. Erratum: Structure of tropical river food webs revealed by stable isotope ratios. Oikos 107(1):222.
Langerhans, R.B., Layman, C.A., Shokrollahi, A.M. and DeWitt, T.J. Predator-driven phenotypic diversification in Gambusia affinis. Evolution 58(10):2305-2318.
Silliman, B. R., Layman, C. A., K. Geyer and Zieman, J.C. 2004. Predation by the black clawed mud crab, Panopeus herbstii, in mid-Atlantic salt marshes: further evidence for top-down control of community structure. Estuaries 27(2):188-196.
2003
Layman, C.A.,Arrington, D.A., and Silliman, B.R. 2003. Underwater Visual Census Provides “Snapshot” Assessment for Tidal Connectivity Restoration (Bahamas). Ecological Restoration 21(12):132-133.
Langerhans, R.B., Layman, C.A., Langerhans, A.K, and DeWitt, T.J. 2003. Habitat-associated morphological divergence in two Neotropical fish species. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 80:689-698.
Hoeinghaus, D., Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A. and Winemiller, K.O. 2003. Spatiotemporal variation in fish assemblage structure in tropical floodplain creeks. Environmental Biology of Fishes 67(4):379-387.
Hoeinghaus, D., Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A. and Winemiller, K.O. 2003. Movement of Cichla spp. (Cichlidae) in a Venezuelan floodplain river. Neotropical Ichthyology 1(2):121-126.
Silliman, B. R., Layman, C. A., and Altieri, A.. 2003. Potential mutualism between a Xanthid crab and Alpheus shrimp in Mid-Atlantic salt marshes. Journal of Crustacean Biology 23(4):876-879.
2002
Layman, C.A. and Silliman, B.R. 2002. Preliminary survey and diet analysis of juvenile fishes of an estuarine creek on Andros Island, Bahamas. Bulletin of Marine Science 70(1):199-210.
2001
Layman, C.A. and Smith, D.E. 2001. Sampling bias of minnow traps in shallow aquatic habitats on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Wetlands. 21(1):145-154.
2000
Layman, C.A. 2000. Fish assemblage structure of the shallow ocean surf-zone on the Eastern Shore of Virginia barrier islands. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 51:201-213.
Layman, C.A., Smith, D.E. and Herod, J.D. 2000. Seasonally varying importance of abiotic and biotic factors in marsh pond fish communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 207:155-169.