Gelatinous zooplankton play a crucial role in marine planktonic food webs. However, primarily due to methodological challenges, the in situ diet of zooplankton remains poorly investigated and little is known about their trophic... more
Gelatinous zooplankton play a crucial role in pelagic marine food webs, however, due to methodological challenges and persistent misconceptions of their importance, the trophic role of gelatinous zooplankton remains poorly investigated.... more
Urban tourist beach ecosystems provide the essential service of recreation. These ecosystems also support critical ecological functions where biodiversity conservation is not usually a priority. The sudden lockdown due to the COVID-19... more
In the South Atlantic Bight (SAB), responses of zooplankton communities to physical dynamics were evaluated monthly at two sites on the continental shelf offshore from Savannah, GA, USA, between December 2015 and December 2017.... more
Novel markers of fecal pollution in tropical waters are needed since conventional methods recommended for other geographical regions may not apply. To address this, the prevalence of thermotolerant coliforms, enterococci, coliphages, and... more
Two novel gull-specific quantitative PCR (qPCR) assays were developed using 16S rRNA gene sequences from gull fecal clone libraries: a SYBR green assay targeting Streptococcus spp. (gull3) and a hydrolysis TaqMan assay targeting... more
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Novel markers of fecal pollution in tropical waters are needed since conventional methods recommended for other geographical regions may not apply. To address this, the prevalence of thermotolerant coliforms, enterococci, coliphages, and... more
CITATIONS 9 READS 47 6 authors, including: Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Ancient fecal microbiomes and viromes give insight about pre-Columbian Caribbean cultures View project Carlos... more
We monitored 11 populations of eight species of Eleutherodactylus in Puerto Rico from 1989 through 2001. We determined relative abundance of active frogs along transects established in the Caribbean National Forest (El Yunque), Carite... more
Body size (SVL) of adult Eleutherodactylus coqui frogs infected versus non-infected with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) were compared to determine a potential fitness cost of chytridiomycosis in persisting populations. Studies were... more
Molecular Laboratory (J. Wood, Boulder, Colorado, USA) for PCR (polymerase chain reaction) assay. Three of the fi ve samples were Bd positive. The voucher specimens are deposited in the Saint Joseph's College zoology collection.