Movement Ecology and Reproductive Resilience (MERR) Laboratory Publications
Carroll J, Lowerre-Barbieri SK. 2019. Interactions of dimorphic growth, reproductive behavior, and a size-regulated fishery: a case study using spotted seatrout Cynoscion nebulosus. Marine Ecology Progress Series 608:233-245.
Zarada K, Walters Burnsed S, Bickford J, Ducharme-Barth N, Ahrens RNM, Lowerre-Barbieri S. 2019. Estimating site-specific spawning parameters for a spawning aggregation: an example with spotted seatrout. Marine Ecology Progress Series 624:117-129.
Boucek RE, Leone EH, Bickford J, Walters Burnsed S, Lowerre-Barbieri S. 2017. More Than Just a Spawning Location: Examining Fine Scale Space Use of Two Estuarine Fish Species at a Spawning Aggregation Site. Frontiers in Marine Science 4:355.
Lowerre-Barbieri SK, Walters S, Bickford J, Cooper W, Muller R. 2013. Site fidelity and reproductive timing at a spotted seatrout spawning aggregation site: individual versus population scale behavior. Marine Ecology Progress Series 481:181-197.
Lowerre-Barbieri SK, Henderson N, Llopiz J, Walters S, Bickford J, Muller R. 2009. Defining a spawning population (spotted seatrout Cynoscion nebulosus) over temporal, spatial, and demographic scales. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 394: 231-245.
Walters S, Lowerre-Barbieri S, Bickford J. 2009. Using a passive acoustic survey to identify spotted seatrout spawning sites and associated habitat in Tampa Bay. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 138: 88-98.
Walters S, Lowerre-Barbieri S, Bickford J, Crabtree L, Mann D. 2007. Preliminary results on seasonal and diel periodicities of a resident Cynoscion nebulosus spawning aggregation in Tampa Bay, Florida. Proceedings of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, 58: 295-296.
Tringali M, Lowerre-Barbieri SK. 2023. Reproductive resilience or sweepstakes recruitment success? Assessing drivers of reproductive success in harvested marine fish. Fish and Fisheries.
Burnsed SW, Lowerre-Barbieri S, Bickford J, Leone EH. 2020. Recruitment and movement ecology of red drum Sciaenops ocellatus differs by natal estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series 633:181-196.
Lowerre-Barbieri LK, Tringali MD, Shea CP, Walters Burnsed S, Bickford J, Murphy M, Porch C. 2018. Assessing red drum spawning aggregations and abundance in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico: a multidisciplinary approach. ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 76, Issue 2, March-April 2019, Pages 516–529.
Lowerre-Barbieri SK, SL Walters Burnsed, and JW Bickford. 2016. Assessing reproductive behavior important to fisheries management: A case study with red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus. Ecological Applications 26:979-995.
Lowerre-Barbieri SK, Barbieri Luiz R, Flanders JR, Woodward AG, Cotton CF, Knowlton MK. 2008. Use of passive acoustics to determine red drum spawning in Georgia waters. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 137: 562-575.
Gottesman HM, Patterson III WF, Peebles EB, Switzer TS, Lowerre-Barbieri SK. 2024. Distinguishing West Florida gag (Mycteroperca microlepis) nurseries with otolith stable isotopes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 749: 127-139.
Lowerre-Barbieri SK, Menendez H, Bickford JW, Switzer TS, Barbieri LR, Koenig CC. 2020. Testing assumptions about sex change and spatial management in the protogynous gag grouper, Mycteroperca microlepis. Marine Ecology Progress Series 639:199–214.
Lowerre-Barbieri SK, Wall K, Friess C, Keenan S, Lembke C, et al. 2025. Movement traits important to conservation and fisheries management: an example with red snapper. Sci Rep. 15:4614.
Lowerre-Barbieri S, Crabtree L, Switzer T, Walters Burnsed S, Guenther C. 2015. Assessing reproductive resilience: an example with South Atlantic red snapper Lutjanus campechanus. Marine Ecology Progress Series 526:125-141.
Lowerre‐Barbieri SK, Brown‐Peterson NJ, Wyanski DM, Menendez HS, Friess C, et al. 2023. A unified framework and terminology for reproductive traits integral to understanding fish population productivity. Mar Coast Fish. 15(6):e10276.
Ganias K, Lowerre-Barbieri S. 2018. Oocyte recruitment and fecundity type in fishes: Refining terms to reflect underlying processes and drivers. Fish and Fisheries 19 (3) 562-572.
Lowerre-Barbieri S, DeCelles G, Pepin P, Catalán IA, Muhling B, Erisman B, Cadrin SX, Alós J, Ospina-Alvarez A, Stachura MM, Tringali MD, Burnsed SW, Paris CB. 2016. Reproductive Resilience: a paradigm shift in understanding spawner-recruit systems in exploited marine fish. Fish and Fisheries 18 (2) 285-312.
Lowerre-Barbieri SK, Brown-Peterson NJ, Murua H, Tomkiewicz J, Wyanski DM, Saborido-Rey F. 2011. Emerging issues and methodological advances in fisheries reproductive biology Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science, 3: 32-51.
Lowerre-Barbieri SK, Ganias K, Saborido-Rey F, Murua H, Hunter JR. 2011. Reproductive timing in marine fishes: variability, temporal scales, and methods. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science, 3: 71-91.
Brown-Peterson NJ, Wyanski DM, Saborido-Rey F, Macewicz BJ, Lowerre-Barbieri SK. 2011. A standardized terminology for describing reproductive development in fishes. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science, 3: 52-70.
Lowerre-Barbieri SK. 2009. Reproduction in relation to conservation and exploitation of marine fishes. In Barrie G.M. Jamieson, ed., Reproductive biology and phylogeny of fishes (Agnathans and bony fishes), Enfield: Science Publishers, 371-394.
Lowerre-Barbieri S, Friess C, Griffin LP, Morely D, Skomal GB, Bickford JW, Hammerschlag N, Rider MJ, Smukall MJ, Van Zinnicq Bergmann MPM, Guttridge TL, Kroetz AM, Grubbs RD, Gervasi CL, Rehage JS, Poulakis GR, Bassos-Hull K, Gardiner JM, Casselberry GA, Young J, Perkinson M, Abercrombie DL, Addis DT, Block BA, Acosta A, Adams AJ, Danylchuk AJ, Cooke SJ, Whoriskey FG, Brownscombe JW. 2021. Movescapes and eco-evolutionary movement strategies in marine fish: Assessing a connectivity hotspot. Fish and Fisheries 22 (6) 1321-1344.
Friess C, Lowerre-Barbieri S, Poulakis GR, Hammerschlag N, Gardiner JM, Kroetz AM, Bassos-Hull K, Bickford J, Bohaboy EC, Ellis RD, Menendez H, Patterson WF, Price ME, Rehage JS, Shea CP, Smukall MJ, Walters-Burnsed S, Wilkinson KA, Young J, Collins A, DeGroot BC, Peterson CT, Purtlebaugh C, Randall M, Scharer RM, Schloesser RW, Wiley TR, Alvarez GA, Danylchuck A, Fox AG, Grubbs RD, Hill A, Locascio JV, O’Donnell PM, Skomal GB, Whoriskey FG, Griffin LP. 2021. Regional-scale variability in the movement ecology of marine fishes revealed by an integrative acoustic tracking network. Marine Ecology Progress Series 663: 157-177.
Lowerre-Barbieri SK, Kays R, Thorson JT, Wikelski M. 2019. The ocean’s movescape: fisheries management in the bio-logging decade (2018–2028). ICES Journal of Marine Science 76 (2): 477-488.
Lowerre-Barbieri SK, Catalan IA, Opdal AF. 2019. Preparing for the future: integrating spatial ecology into ecosystem-based management. ICES Journal of Marine Science 76 (2): 467-479.
Lembke C, Lowerre-Barbieri SK, Mann D, Taylor C. 2018. Using Three Acoustic Technologies on Underwater Gliders to Survey Fish. Marine Technology Society Journal 52 (6) 39-52.
Boucek RE, Leone E, Bickford J, Walters-Burnsed S, Lowerre-Barbieri S. 2017. More Than Just a Spawning Location: Examining Fine Scale Space Use of Two Estuarine Fish Species at a Spawning Aggregation Site. Frontiers in Marine Science 4:355.
Boucek RE, Leone EH, Bickford J, Walters Burnsed S, Lowerre-Barbieri S. 2017. More Than Just a Spawning Location: Examining Fine Scale Space Use of Two Estuarine Fish Species at a Spawning Aggregation Site. Frontiers in Marine Science 4:355.
Lowerre-Barbieri SK, Villegas-Ríos D, Walters S, Bickford J, Cooper W, et al. 2014. Spawning Site Selection and Contingent Behavior in Common Snook, Centropomus undecimalis. PLOS ONE 9(11): e113544.
Lowerre-Barbieri SK, Vose FE, Whittington JA. 2003. Catch-and-release fishing on a spawning aggregation of common snook: Does it affect reproductive output?. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 132: 940-952.
Walters S, Lowerre-Barbieri S, Bickford J, Tustison J, Landsberg JH. 2013. Effects of Karenia brevis red tide on the spatial distribution of spawning aggregations of sand seatrout Cynoscion arenarius in Tampa Bay, Florida. Marine Ecology Progress Series 479:191-202.