Ecology and Systematics

Monk, S. G., and T. Brush. 2007. Response of brood-parasitic Bronzed Cowbird to playback of the song of Audubon’s Oriole. Southwestern Naturalist 52: 438-441.

Judd, F. W., R. I. Lonard, K. R. Summy, and R. A. Mazariegos. 2007.
Seasonal variation in dune vegetation at South Padre Island, Texas. Texas Journal of Science 59:113-126.

Lonard, R.I. 2007. Vulpia C.C. Gmelin. pp. 448-454. In: Flora of North America - North of Mexico. Vol. 24, Magnoliophyta: Commelinaceae (in part): Poaceae, part 1. eds. Barkworth, M.E., K.M. Capels, S. Long, L.K. Anderton, and M.B. Piep. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford. 911 pp.

Everitt, J. H., C. Yang, K. R. Summy, F. W. Judd, and M. R. Davis. 2007.
Evaluation of color-infrared photography and digital imagery to map black
mangrove on the Texas gulf coast. Journal of Coastal Research 23:230-235.

Sternberg, M. A. and F. W. Judd. 2006. Rodent communities of native woodland,
replanted, and secondary succession sites in the Lower Rio Grande Valley,
Texas. Texas Journal of Science 58:98-118.

Lonard, R. I. and F. W. Judd. 2006. Notes on invasive plants in the Rio Grande Delta of Cameron County, Texas. Texas Journal of Science 58:271-277.

Lonard, R. I., F. W. Judd, J. H. Everitt, and M. R. Davis. 2006. Remote sensing of resaca wetlands in South Texas. Proceedings of the 20th Biennial Workshop on Aerial Photography, Videography, and High Resolution Digital Imagery for Resource Assessment, Weslaco, Texas. October 4-6, 2005. American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 6 pp.

Summy, K. R., F. W. Judd, R. I. Lonard, R. A. Masariegos, J. H. Everitt, and M. R. Davis. 2006. Effectiveness of aerial color infrared photography for mapping vegetative cover within dune areas of South Padre Island, Texas. Proceedings of the 20th Biennial Workshop on Aerial Photography, Videography, and High Resolution Digital Imagery for Resource Assessment, Weslaco, Texas. October 4-6, 2005. American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 12 pp.

Mazariegos, R. A., K. R. Summy, F. W. Judd, R. I. Lonard, and M. R. Heep.2006. Evaluation of CIR photography in the development of vegetation maps for spoil islands of the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas. Proceedings of the 20th Biennial Workshop on Aerial Photography, Videogrphy, and High Resolution Digital Imagery for Resource Assessment, Weslaco, Texas. October 4-6, 2005. American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 7 pp.

Rupert, Corinna, and T. Brush. 2006. Breeding densities of birds along a riparian corridor in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society 39:48-58.

Brush, T. 2005. Breeding birdlife of a tropical frontier, the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX. 245 pp.

Garrett, G. P., C. Hubbs, and R. J. Edwards. 2005. Threatened fishes of the world: Cyprinodon eximius Girard 1859. Environmental Biology of Fishes 72:98.

Edwards, R. J. 2005. Feasibility of Reintroducing Rio Grande Silvery Minnows (Hybognathus amarus) to the Rio Grande, Big Bend Region, Texas. Final Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Austin, TX, 100 pp.

Dahm, C. N., R. J. Edwards and F. P. Gelwick. 2005. Gulf Coast Rivers of the Southwestern United States. Pp. 181-228, in: Rivers of North America, (A. Benke and C. Cushing, eds.). Elsevier Academic Press, Amsterdam; Boston, 1168 pp.

Judd, F. W., and K. J. Irwin. 2005. Part II. Species Accounts. Anura, Microhylidae, Hypopachus variolosus. Pp. 506-508, in "Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species". M. J. Lannoo (ed.), University of California Press, Berkeley, California. 1,094 pp.  

Irwin, K. J., and F. W. Judd. 2005. Part II. Species Accounts. Caudata. Salamandridae, Notophthalmus meridionalis, pp. 884-887 in "Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species". M. J. Lannoo (ed.), University of California Press, Berkeley, California. 1,094 pp.

Ellison, K., and T. Brush. 2004. Hooded Oriole nest failure associated with a novel nest site. Western Birds 35:71-78.

Hathcock, C. R. and T. Brush. 2004. Breeding decline and nest-site shift of the Altamira oriole at Santa Ana National Wildlife.

Lonard, R. I., F. W. Judd, J. H. Everitt, D. E. Escobar, M. R. Davis, M. M. Crawford, and M. E. Desai. 2004. Riparian vegetation at the mouth of the Rio Grande. Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Workshop on Color Photography & Videography in Resource Assessment. Amherst, Massachusetts, May 16-18, 2001. American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 9 pp.

Lonard, R. I., J. H. Everitt, D. E. Escobar, F. W. Judd, D. L. Drawe, and M. R. Davis. 2004. Vegetative characteristics and remote sensing of plant communities in South Texas. Proceedings of the 18th Biennieal Workshop on Color Photography & Videography in Resource Assessment. Amherst, Massachusetts, May 16-18, 2001. American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 14 pp.

Eddy, M. R., and F. W. Judd. 2004. Comparison of branch elongation among four Acacia species and Texas ebony in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Texas Journal of Science, 56 : 253-262.

Lonard, R. I., F. W. Judd, E. H. Smith, and C. Yang. 2004. Recovery of vegetation following a wildfire in a barrier island grassland, Padre Island National Seashore, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 49:173-188.

Judd, F. W., and R. I. Lonard. 2004. Community ecology of freshwater,brackish and salt marshes of the Rio Grande Delta. Texas Journal of Science, 56: 103-122.

Microbiology

Materon, L.A. and T. Eubanks. 2008. Isolation and characterization of nitrogen-fixing bacteria nodulating Phaseolus vulgaris in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Texas J. Scie. 60:97-112.

Davelos Baines A.L, Xiao K & Kinkel L.L. 2007. Lack of correspondence
between genetic and phenotypic groups among soilborne streptomycetes.
FEMS Microbiology Ecology 59:564-575.

Materon, L.A., M. Martinez-Garcia, and V. McDonald. 2007. Identification of sources of microbial pathogens on cantaloupe rinds from pre-harvest to post-harvest operations. World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 23:1281-1287.

Cosansu, S., H. Kuleasan, K. Ayhan, and L.A. Materon. 2007. Antimicrobial activity and protein profiles of Pedioicoccus spp. isolated from Turkish sucuk. J. Food Proc. & Preservation 31:190-200.

Martinez, E., Little, C.R., and Davelos Baines, A.L. 2007. Variation in antibiotic inhibitory abilities among streptomycetes from south Texas agricultural soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 39: 268-275.

Chintapalli, R., Wilson, J.P., and Little, C.R. 2006. Using fungal isolation rates from pearl millet caryopses to assess grain mold and weathering resistance. International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter 47: 146-148.

Little, C.R. 2006. Occurrence of Leveillula taurica cleistothecia on honey mesquite in southern Texas. Plant Disease 90: 1358.

Zibilske, L.M., and L.A. Materon. 2005. Biochemical properties of decomposing cotton and corn stem and root residues. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 69:378-386.

Koretsky, C. M., P. Van Cappellen, T. J. DiChristina, J. E. Kostka, K. L. Lowe, C. M. Moore, A. N. Roychoudhury, and E. Viollier. 2005. Salt marsh pore water geochemistry does not correlate with microbial community structure. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 62: 233-251.

Materon, L.A. 2004. Survival of Eschirichia coli O157:H7 applied to cantaloupes and the effectiveness of chlorinated water and lactic acid as disinfectants. World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 19:867-873.

Little, C.R., and Magill, C.W. 2004. Colonization of sorghum peduncles by Fusarium thapsinum and Curvularia lunata: subsequent pigment accumulation. International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter 45: 28-30.

Organismal and Cellular Physiology

Kuris, A.M., Hechinger, R.F., Shaw, J.C., Whitney, K., Aguirre, L.M., Boch, C., Dobson, A.P., Dunham, E.J., Fredensborg, B.L., Huspeni, T.C., Lorda, J., Mababa, L., Mancini, F., Mora, A., Pickering, M., Talhouk, N., Torchin, M.E., Lafferty, K.D.(2008) Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries. Nature 454, 515-518.

Martorelli, S.R., Fredensborg, B.L., Leung, T.L.F., Poulin, R. 2008. Four trematode cercariae from the New Zealand intertidal snail Zeacumantus subcarinatus (Batillariidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 35, 73-84.

Espinoza SY, Breen L, Varghese N, Faulkes Z. 2006. Loss of escape-related giant neurons in a spiny lobster, Panulirus argus. The Biological Bulletin 211(3): 223-231.

Faulkes Z. 2006. The locomotor toolbox of the spanner crab, Ranina ranina (Brachyura, Raninidae). Crustaceana 79(2): 143-155.

Faulkes Z. 2006. Digging mechanisms and substrate preferences of shovel nosed lobsters, Ibacus peronii (Decapoda: Scyllaridae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 26(1): 69-72.

Lambert G, Faulkes Z, Lambert C.C, Scofield V.L. 2005. Ascidians of South Padre Island, Texas, with a key to species. Texas Journal of Science 57(3): 251-262.

Faulkes Z. 2005. Mechanisms of behavioral switching. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 191(3): 197-199.

Faulkes, Z. 2004. Loss of escape responses and giant neurons in the tailflipping circuits of slipper lobsters. Arthropod Structure & Development 33(2): 113-123.


Physiological Ecology

DeYoe, H.R., E. Buskey, F. Jochem. 2007. Physiological Responses of Aureoumbra lagunensis and Synechococcus sp. to Nitrogen Addition in a Mesocosm Experiment. Harmful Algae. v.6(1): 48-55.

DeYoe, H.R., D. Hinojosa-Kettelkamp, J. Carter, A. Vasquez and K.R. Summy. 2005. Quantifying spatial distribution of wind tidal flat cyanobacterial mats using color and color infrared photography. Proceedings of 20th Biennial Workshop on Aerial Photography, Videography and High Resolution Digital Imagery for Resource Assessment.

Remote Sensing

Summy, K.R., Little, C.R., Mazariegos, R.A., Valdez, R., Hinojosa-Kettelkamp, D.L., Carter, J., and Yousef, S. 2004. Evaluation of artificial lighting sources for the acquisition of color infrared imagery under glasshouse conditions. Subtropical Plant Scie. 56: 44-51.

Yousef, S., K.R. Summy, C.R. Little, A. Kuang and H. DeYoe. 2005. Detection of stressors in glasshouse crops using color infrared imagery: III. Effects of salt toxicity and nitrogen deficiency. Proceedings of 20th Biennial Workshop on Aerial Photography, Videography and High Resolution Digital Imagery for Resource Assessment, Weslaco, TX.

Summy, K.R., H.R. DeYoe, J.H. Everitt and M.R. Davis. 2004. Use of aerial color infrared photography for mapping the spatial distribution of cyanobacterial mats in wind-tidal flats of the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas. Proceedings of 19th Biennial Workshop on Color Photography, Videography and Airborne Imaging for Resource Assessment.

Summy, K. R., C. R. Little, R. A. Mazariegos, J. H. Everitt, M. R. Davis, J. V. French, and A. W. Scott, Jr. 2004. Detecting Stress in Glasshouse Plants Using Color Infrared Imagery: A Potential New Application for Remote Sensing. Subtropical Plant Science 55:51-58.

Everitt, J. H., K. R. Summy, D. E. Escobar, and M. R. Davis. 2004. An Overview of Aircraft Remote Sensing in Integrated Pest Management. Subtropical Plant Science 55:59-67.

Summy, K. R., C. R. Little, R. A. Mazariegos, J. H. Everitt, and M. R. Davis. 2004. Technical feasibility of color infrared imagery for monitoring physiological stress in glasshouse crops. In Proceedings, 19th Biennial Workshop on Color Photography & Videography and Airborne Imaging for Resource Assessment, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Logan, UT, 6-8 October 2003 (CDROM).

Summy, K. R., H. R. DeYoe, J. H. Everitt, and M. R. Davis. 2004. Use of Aerial Color Infrared Photography for Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Cyanobacterial Mats in Wind-Tidal Flats of the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas. In Proceedings, 19th Biennial Workshop on Color Photography & Videography and Airborne Imaging for Resource Assessment, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Logan, UT, 6-8 October 2003 (CDROM).