Peer-Reviewed Publications – Sarasota County Natural Area Ecosystems

Note: Please send additional publications to Meg Lowman at New College of Florida, mlowman@ncf.edu

• Adams, F. (1996). "Tropical hardwood hammocks in Florida." Florida Wildlife. 50(1): 21-23. 
• Austin, D.F. 1978. Some endangered Florida plants. Florida Wildlife May-June 78: 26-30.
• Benschoff, P. 2004. Florida from the treetops. IN: Forest Canopies (eds. M. D. Lowman and H. B. Rinker), Elsevier Publishers, California, pp. 481-3.
• Burgess, J. 2004. Canopy walkways: highways in the sky. IN: Forest Canopies (eds. M. D. Lowman and H. B. Rinker), Elsevier Publishers, California, pp. 456-7.
• Burgess, E., J. Burgess, and M.D. Lowman 1998. How quickly do bromeliads decay? J. Brom. Soc. 48: 177-183.
• Burgess, J.B., E.A. Burgess, M.D. Lowman, and D.C. Randle. 2002. Water pollution in bromeliad tanks – an experimental approach. J. Brom. Soc. 52(2): 58-62.
• DeGange, A, J. Fitzpatrick, J.N. Layne, and G.E. Woolfenden. 1989.  Acorn harvesting by Florida Scrub Jays.  Ecology 70:  348-356. 
• Dragovich, Al, J.A. Kelly Jr, and H.G. Goodell. 1968. Hydrological and biological characteristics of Florida’s West Coast tributaries. US Fish & Wildlife Service. Fisher Bull 66(3): 463-477.
• Duever, M. J.  and J.M. McCollom. 1990.   "Hydrologic study within the Myakka River State Park. Final C-6415.  Ecosystem Research Unit, National Audobon Society.
• Dunson, W.A., C.J. Paradise, and R.L. Van Fleet. 1998. Patterns of water chemistry and fish occurrence in wetlands of hydric pine flatwoods. J. Freshwat. Ecol. 12: 553-65.
• Emmel, C.T. (1992). Mother Nature Reeks Havoc on Endangered Species.Fla. Naturalist. Fall:12. 15-21.
• Fitzgerald, S. M., and G.W. Tanner. (1992)  "Avian community response to fire and mechanical shrub control in south Florida." Journal of Range Management. 45: 396-400.
• Fitzpatrick, J. 1986. Demographic routes to cooperative breeding in some New World jays. IN: Evolution of Behavior (eds. M. Nitecki and J. Kitchell), Oxford University Press, New York.  Pp. 137-160.
• Fitzpatrick, J. 1991. Florida’s vanishing scrubland. Bull. FieldMuseum of Natural History. Jan/Feb. 2 pp.
• Fitzpatrick, J. 1992. Vanishing Florida scrub. Fla. Naturalist 65(1): 8-9.
• Fitzpatrick, J. and G.E. Woolfenden. 1989. Florida Scrub Jay. IN: Lifetime Reproduction in Birds, (ed. I. Newton), Academic press, London. Pp. 201-18.
• Fitzpatrick, J., G.E. Woolfenden, and R. L. Curry. 1994.  Fire and conservation biology of Florida scrub jays.  J.  Ornithol.  135: 493-494. 
• Fitzpatrick, J.  and G.  E.  Woolfenden. 1996.  Florida Scrub Jay forages on back of white-tailed deer.  Condor 98: 422-423.
• Fitzpatrick, J., G.E. Woolfenden, and B. White. 1999. Dispersal distance and its demographic consequences in the Florida scrub jay. IN: Proc. XXII Inter. Ornith. Congress, Durban, South Africa (eds. N.J. Adams and R.H. Slotow).
• Fitzpatrick, J., G.E. Woolfenden, and K.J. McGowan. 1986. Sources of variance in lifetime fitness of Florida scrub jays. Acta XIX Congr. Internat. Ornithol.  876-891.
• Fitzpatrick, J., and G.E. Woolfdenden. 1988. Components of lifetime reproductive success in the Florida Scrub Jay. IN: Reproductive Success, eds. Clutton-Brock, T. and G. E. Woolfenden. Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago.  Pp. 305-320.
• Fitzpatrick, J. G.E. Woolfenden, and R. Bowman. 1999. Dispersal distance and its demographic consequent in the Florida Scrub-jay. IN: Proc. XXII Inernat. Ornith. Congress, Durban, South Africa, (eds. N.J. Adams and R.H. Slotow), Symposium S41.2.
• Ford, C. R. and J.R. Brooks. 2002. "Detecting ecosystem response to increasing river flow in southwest Florida, USA." Forest Ecology and Management. 160:45-64.
• Garvin,M.C.,  K.A. Tarvin, L.M. Stark, G.E. Woolfenden, J. Fitzpatrick and J.F. Day. 2004. Arboviral infection in two species of wild jays (Aves: Corvidae): evident for population impacts. J. Medical Entomology 41: 215 – 225.
• Garvin,M.C.,  K.A. Tarvin, L.M. Stark, G.E. Woolfenden, J. Fitzpatrick and J.F. Day. 2004. Arbovira seroprevalence and patterns of infection in two species of wild jay during a non-epizootic period in Florida.  J. Medical Entomology (in press).
• Grubb, T.C. Jr., G.E. Woolfenden, and J. Fitzpatrick. 1998. Factors affecting nutritional condition of fledgling Florida scrub jays: a ptilochronology approach. Condor 100: 753-756.
• Hansen, W.G., G. Bitton, J.L. Fox, and P.L. Brezonik. 1977. Hydrocarbon status in Florida real estate canals. Marine Poll.Bull. 8(3): 57-62.
• Hela, I. 1952. Remarks on the climate of southern Florida. Bull. Mar. Sci. of the Gulf and Caribbean2(2): 438-447.
• Hierro, J. L.  and E.S. Menges. 2002. "Fire intensity and shrub regeneration in Palmetto-Dominated Flatwoods of Central Florida." Florida Scientist. 651 (Winter 2002): 51-61.
• Hooks, H. 1977. Phosphate in Florida today – an overview. Florida  Scientist 40(3): 213-218.
• Horvitz, C. and R. H. Hofstetter. (1995). "Invasive exotic plants and regeneration niches: subtropical hardwood forests after hurricanes as a model system." Ecological Applications. Special issue (Use of Ecological Concepts in Conservation Biology: Lessons from the Southeast): 76 p + figures.
• Huck, R.B. 1987. "Plant communities along an edaphic continuum in a central Florida watershed." Biological Sciences. 50 (2): 111-128.
• Huffman, J.M., and W.S. Judd. 1998. Vascular flora of Myakka River State Park, Sarasota and Manatee counties, Florida. Castenea. 63:25-50.
• Lindall, W.N. Jr. 1973. Alterations of estuaries of South Florida: a threat to its fish resources. Mar. Fisheries Rev. 35(10): 26-33.
• Lowman, M.D. 2004. Tarzan or Jane? The history of canopy ecology. IN: Forest Canopies, Elsevier Press, San Diego CA. pp. 379-393.
• Lowman, M.D. 2004. Ecotourism and the treetops: complement, not conflict, for emerging science. IN: Forest Canopies, Elsevier Press, San Diego CA. pp 466-489.
• Lowman, M.D. Ecotourism and its impact on forest conservation. 2004.
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• Lowman, M.D., M. Hunter, H.B. Rinker, T. Schowalter and S. Conte. 2002. Canopy walkways-highways in the sky. IN: The Global Canopy Handbook (eds. Andrew W. Mitchell, Katherine Secoy, Tobias Jackson), Techniques of Access and Study in the forest roof. Pp 35-40.
• Lowman, M.D. 2001. Plants in the forest canopy: some reflections on current research and future direction. Plant Ecology 153: 39-50.
• Lowman, M.D., L. Downey, A. Farres and E. Mermin. 1999. Abundance and mortality of two ephiphytic Tillandsias(Bromeliaceae) in a Florida hammock. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 48: 25-28.
• Lowman, M.D. 1998. Forest canopies 1998: global perspectives. Selbyana 18(2): 1-3.
• Lowman, M.D. and W. Linnerooth. 1995. Population dynamics of some native Florida epiphytes. II. Mortality after a storm. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 45: 15-18.
• Maehr, D. S. and J. A. Cox (1995). "Landscape features and panthers in Florida." Conservation Biology. 9(5): 1008-1019.
• Mackenthun, K.M. 1971. Nutrients and their relationship to weed and algal growths. Water Hyacinth Control J. 9: 58-61.
• Marzluff, J.M, G.E. Woolfenden, J. Fitzpatrick, and R. P. Balda 1996.  Breeding partnerships of two New World jays. IN: Partnerships in Birds, (ed. J.M. Black), Oxford University Press, Oxford.  Pp. 138-161.
• McDonald, D., G.E.Woolfenden, and J. Fitzpatrick. 1996. Actuarial senescence and demographic heterogeneity in the Florida scrub jay. Ecology 77(8): 2373-81.
• McDonald, D., W. Potts, J. Fitzpatrick, and G.E. Woolfenden. 1999. Microsatellites reveal complex genetic structure among Florida scrub jays. Proc. Royal Soc. London 266: 1117-1125.
• Moore, J.C. 1951. The range of the Florida manatee. Quart. J. Fla. Acad. Sci 14(1): 1-19.
• Mumme, R. S. J. Schoech, G. E. Woolfenden, and J. Fitzpatrick. 2000. Life and death in the fast lane: demographic consequences of road mortality in the Florida scrub-jay. Conservation Biology 14: 501-512.
• Mushinsky, H., E. McCoy, and R. Kluson. 2001. Habitat factors influencing the distribution of small vertebrates on unmined and phosphate-mined flatlands in Central Florida. FIPR Publ #03-115-180. Bartow FL.
• Newton, I. 1989.  Florida Scrub Jay.   IN: Lifetime Reproduction in Birds, Eds. Newton, I. and G.E. Woolfenden,  Pp. 201-218. Academic Press, London.
• Parker, G.G. 1973. Highlights of water management in the southwest Florida water management district. Ground Water 11 (3): 16-25.
• Platt, W.R.F. Doren. Et. al. (2000). Effects of Hurricane Andrew on stands of slash pine (Pinus elliotti var densa) in the Everglades region of south Florida (USA).  Plant Ecology. 146: 43-60.
• Provost, M.W. 1973. Mean high water mark and use of tidelands in Florida. Fla. Scientist 36 (1): 50-66.
• Quinn, J., G. E. Woolfendeon, J. Fitzpatrick, and B. White. 1999. Multi-locus DNA fingerprinting supports genetic monogamy in Florida scrub jays. Behav. Ecology and Sociobiol. 45: 1-10.
• Rubenstein, D. and R.W. Wrangham (eds.) 1986.  Sexual asymmetries in the life history    of the Florida Scrub Jay.  IN:  Ecological Aspects of Social  Evolution:  Birds and mammals.  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ. Pp. 37-107.
• Siver, P.A. 1993. Scaled Chrysophyceae and Synurophyceae from Florida. IV. The Flora of Lower Lake Myakka and Lake Tarpon. Fla. Scientist 56 (2): 100-117.
• Stenzler, and J. Fitzpatrick. 2002. Isolation of microsatellite loci in the Florida scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens. Molecular Ecology Notes 2: 547-550.
• Stith, B., J. Fitzpatrick, G.E. Woolfenden, and B. Pranty. 1996. Classification and conservation of metapopulations: a case study of the Florida scrub jay. IN: Metapopulations and Wildlife Conservation. (ed. D.R. McCullough). Island Press, Washington, DC, Pp. 187-215.
• Sun, G., S.G. McNulty, et al. (2001). "Effects of Timber Mangement on the Hydrology of Wetland Forests in the Southern United States." Forest Ecology and Management. 143: 227-236.
• Tanner, G. W., W.S. Terry, and R.B. Kalmbacher. (1988). "Mechanical shrub control on flatwoods range in south Florida." Journal of Range Management. 41: 245-248.
• Tanner, G.W. L.D.S. and F.G. Martin (1984). "Cattle behavior on a south Florida range." Journal of Range Management. 37(3): 248-251.
• Terry, W.S. and G.W. Tanner (1984). "Mineral concentration within Freshwater marsh plant communities." J. Freshwater Ecology. 2(5): 509-518.
• Watts, A.C. and G.W. Tanner. 2003. Fire and roller chopping have varying effects on dry prairie plant species (Florida). Ecological Restoration 21: 205-207.
• Woolfenden, G.E. and J. Fitzpatrick. 1986. Sexual asymmetries in the life history of the Florida scrub jay. IN: Ecological Aspects of Social Evolution: Birds and mammals, eds. D. Rubenstein and R.W. Wrangham, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton. Pp. 37-107.
• Woolfenden, G.E., and K.J. McGowan. 1986.  Sources of variance in lifetime fitness of Florida Scrub Jays. Acta XIX Congr. Internat Ornithol., pp. 876-891. 
• Woolfenden, G.E. and J. Fitzpatrick. 1996.  Florida Scrub Jay.  IN: Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida. (eds. Rodgers, J. A., Jr., H.W. Kale II, and H.T. Smith), Vol. 5, Birds. Univ. Press of Florida, Gainesville. Pp. 267-280.
• Woolfenden, G.E. and J. Fitzpatrick. 1990 Florida Scrub Jays: a synopsis after 18 years of study. IN: Cooperative Breeding in Birds:  Long-term Studies of Ecologv and Behavior. (eds. P.B. Stacey and W. D. Koenig), Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, Pp. 240-266.
• Woolfenden, G. E., and J. Fitzpatrick. 1991. Florida Scrub Jay ecology and conservation. IN: Bird Population Studies, Relevance to Conservation and Management., (eds. C. M. Perrins, J. D. Lebreton, and G. J. M. Hirons).   Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford. Pp. 542-565.