Publications of the VCU Rice Center

001: Blem, C. R. and L. B. Blem.  2006.  Variation in mass of female Prothonotary Warblers during nesting.  The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 118:3-12.

002:  Smock, L.A., A.B. Wright and A.C. Benke. 2005. Atlantic Coast Rivers of the Southeastern United States. Pages 72-122 in A.C. Benke and C. E. Cushing (editors). Rivers of North America. Academic Press, New York.

003: Mitchell, J.C., and S.C. Walls. 2006. Field Notes: Opheodrys aestivus (Rough Greensnake). Catesbeiana 26:26-27.

004: Viverette, C.B., G.C. Garman, S.P. McIninch, A.C. Markham, B.D. Watts, and S.A. Macko. 2007. Finfish-waterbird trophic interactions in tidal freshwater tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. Waterbirds 30, Special Publication 1:50-62.        

005: Ware, J.L., C. Viverette, J.D. Kleopfer, L. Pletcher, D. Massey, and A. Wright. 2008. Infection of spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) with Ichthyophonus-like organisms.  Virginia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 44:174-176.

006: Egghart, Chris. 2008. Slave and free black settlement and historical land use along the lower James River: a cartographical case study.  Archeological Society of Virginia Quarterly Bulletin 63:40-49.

007: Smock, L.A., A.B. Wright and A.C. Benke.  2010.  Atlantic Coast Rivers of the Southeastern United States.  Pages 32-55 in A.C. Benke and C. E. Cushing (editors). Field Guide to Rivers of North America.  Academic Press, New York.

008: M. T. Balazik, G. C. Garman, M. L. Fine, C. H. Hager and S. P. McIninch. 2010. Changes in age composition and growth characteristics of Atlantic sturgeon ( Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) over 400 years. Biol. Lett. published online 17 March 2010.

009: Kraus, J.M. and J.R. Vonesh. 2010. Feedbacks between community assembly and habitat selection shape variation in local colonization.  Journal of Animal Ecology 79:795-802.

010: Ganguly, S. S. and L. A. Smock.  Spatial and temporal variability of invertebrate communities in vernal pools on the coastal plain of Virginia.  Journal of Freshwater Ecology 25:413- 420.

011: Brantley, S., and D. Young. 2009. Contribution of sunflecks is minimal in expanding shrub thickets compared to temperate forest.  Ecology 90:1021-1029.

012:  Pullen, K.D., A. Best, and J.L. Ware. 2010. Prevalence of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is correlated with season and not urbanization in central Virginia.  Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 19:9-16.

013:  Van Allen B.G., V.S. Briggs, M.W. McCoy and J.R. Vonesh. 2010.  Carryover effects of the larval environment on post-metamorphic performance in two hylid frogs.  Oecologia 164:891-898,

014:  Kraus, J.M., L.T. Pletcher and J.R. Vonesh. 2010. Variation in active vs. passive resource inputs to experimental pools: mechanisms and possible consequences for food webs. Freshwater Biology 56:491-502.

015: Bukaveckas, P. A., L. E. Barry, M. J. Beckwith, V. David, and B. Lederer.  2010. Factors determining the location of the chlorophyll maximum and the fate of algal production within the tidal freshwater James River. Estuaries and Coasts 34:569-582.

016: Baker, S.A., and R.J. Dyer. 2011.  Invasion genetics of Microstegium vimineum (Poaceae) within the James River basin of Virginia, USA.  Conservation Genetics, Published Online 25 January 2011.

017: Egghart, C.  2010. Archaeology of the environment: human land use and its impacts along the lower James River.  Archeological Society of Virginia Quarterly Bulletin 65:132-152.

018: Dyer RJ, D.M. Chan, V.J. Gardiakos, and C.A. Meadows. 2012.  Pollination graphs: Quantifying pollen pool covariance networks and the influence of intervening landscape on genetic connectivity in the North American understory tree, Cornus florida L.  Landscape Ecology. In press.

019: Grillo, E. L., R. C. Fithian, H. Cross , C. Wallace,  C. Viverette, R. Reilly, and D.C.G. Mayer. Presence of Plasmodium and Haemoproteus in breeding Prothonotary warblers (Protonotaria citrea: Parulidae): Temporal and spatial trends in infection prevalence. Journal of Parasitology. In press