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  1. Vulnerability of Gulf Ribbed Mussels to Marsh Surface Maximum Temperatures

    Article • Journal of Shellfish Research, April 2025, National Shellfisheries Association

    Brian Roberts

  2. Vegetation and Habitat Classification of Created and Natural Brackish Marshes via Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS): A Case Study of the Lake Hermitage Marsh Creation Project

    Article • Estuaries and Coasts, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Roberts

  3. Coastal wetland restoration through the lens of Odum's theory of ecosystem development

    Article • Restoration Ecology, December 2023, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  4. Fishery Closures, More Than Predator Release, Increased Persistence of Nearshore Fishes and Invertebrates to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Article • Estuaries and Coasts, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Roberts

  5. Editorial: Gulf of Mexico estuaries: ecology of the nearshore and coastal ecosystems impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Article • Frontiers in Environmental Science, May 2023, Frontiers

    Brian Roberts

  6. Can biodiversity of preexisting and created salt marshes match across scales? An assessment from microbes to predators

    Article • Ecosphere, March 2023, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  7. Towards relevant ecological experiments and assessments of coastal oil spill effects: Insights from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Article • Frontiers in Environmental Science, January 2023, Frontiers

    Brian Roberts

  8. Gulf ribbed mussels increase plant growth, primary production, and soil nitrogen cycling potential in salt marshes

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, May 2022, Inter-Research Science Center

    Brian Roberts

  9. Long-term assessments are critical to determining persistence and shoreline protection from oyster reef nature-based coastal defenses

    Article • Ecological Engineering, May 2022, Elsevier

    Brian Roberts

  10. Phytoplankton dynamics in Louisiana estuaries: Building a baseline to understand current and future change

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, February 2022, Elsevier

    Brian Roberts

  11. Seasonal impoundment management reduces nitrogen cycling but not resilience to surface fire in a tidal wetland

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, February 2022, Elsevier

    Brian Roberts

  12. Fiddler crab burrowing increases salt marsh greenhouse gas emissions

    Article • Biodegradation, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Roberts

  13. Prior exposure to weathered oil influences foraging of an ecologically important saltmarsh resident fish

    Article • PeerJ, January 2022, PeerJ

    Brian Roberts

  14. Meta‐analysis of salt marsh vegetation impacts and recovery: a synthesis following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Article • Ecological Applications, December 2021, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  15. Lack of long-term effect of coarse woody debris dam restoration on ecosystem functioning and water quality in Coastal Plain streams

    Article • Freshwater Science, December 2021, University of Chicago Press

    Brian Roberts

  16. Transport Processes in the Gulf of Mexico Along the River-Estuary-Shelf-Ocean Continuum: a Review of Research from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative

    Article • Estuaries and Coasts, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Roberts

  17. Body size, trophic position, and the coupling of different energy pathways across a saltmarsh landscape

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography Letters, September 2021, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  18. Response of Stream Metabolism to Coarse Woody Debris Additions Along a Catchment Disturbance Gradient

    Article • Ecosystems, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Roberts

  19. Stable isotope analyses identify trophic niche partitioning between sympatric terrestrial vertebrates in coastal saltmarshes with differing oiling histories

    Article • PeerJ, July 2021, PeerJ

    Brian Roberts

  20. Biogeography of ammonia oxidizers in New England and Gulf of Mexico salt marshes and the potential importance of comammox

    Article • ISME Communications, March 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Brian Roberts

  21. Pelagic denitrification and methane oxidation in oxygen-depleted waters of the Louisiana shelf

    Article • Biodegradation, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Roberts

  22. Critical Research Gaps for Understanding Environmental Impacts of Discharging Treated Municipal Wastewater into Assimilation Wetlands

    Article • Wetlands, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Roberts

  23. Previous oil exposure alters Gulf KillifishFundulus grandisoil avoidance behavior

    Article • PeerJ, December 2020, PeerJ

    Brian Roberts

  24. Previous oil exposure alters oil avoidance behavior in a common marsh fish, the Gulf KillifishFundulus grandis

    Article • June 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Brian Roberts

  25. No Evidence for Long-term Impacts of Oil Spill Contamination on Salt Marsh Soil Nitrogen Cycling Processes

    Article • Estuaries and Coasts, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Roberts

  26. Influence of local and regional drivers on spatial and temporal variation of ammonia‐oxidizing communities in Gulf of Mexico salt marshes

    Article • Environmental Microbiology Reports, November 2019, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  27. Spring net community production and its coupling with the CO2 dynamics in the surface water of the northern Gulf of Mexico

    Article • Biogeosciences, September 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Brian Roberts

  28. Simultaneous estimation of dispersal and survival of the gulf killifish Fundulus grandis from a batch-tagging experiment

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, August 2019, Inter-Research Science Center

    Brian Roberts

  29. Physical and Biogeochemical Controls on pH Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico During Summer Hypoxia

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, August 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Brian Roberts

  30. Spring net community production and its coupling with the CO2 dynamics in the surface water of the northern Gulf of Mexico

    Article • March 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Brian Roberts

  31. Supplementary material to "Spring net community production and its coupling with the CO2 dynamics in the surface water of the northern Gulf of Mexico"

    Article • March 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Brian Roberts

  32. Spatial distribution and morphological responses to predation in the salt marsh periwinkle

    Article • Ecosphere, June 2018, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  33. Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON)

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, December 2017, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  34. Effects of seasonality and environmental gradients on Spartina alterniflora allometry and primary production

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, October 2017, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  35. The metabolic regimes of flowing waters

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, October 2017, Wiley

    Brian Roberts, Nancy B Grimm, Emily S Bernhardt

  36. Age validation and seasonal growth patterns of a subtropical marsh fish: The Gulf Killifish, Fundulus grandis

    Article • Environmental Biology of Fishes, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Roberts

  37. Stable and radiocarbon isotopic composition of dissolved organic matter in the Gulf of Mexico

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2017, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  38. Key taxa in food web responses to stressors: the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, March 2017, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  39. Mississippi River Plume Enriches Microbial Diversity in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, July 2016, Frontiers

    Brian Roberts

  40. Hercules 265 rapid response: Immediate ecosystem impacts of a natural gas blowout incident

    Article • Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography, July 2016, Elsevier

    Brian Roberts

  41. Population Dynamics and Community Composition of Ammonia Oxidizers in Salt Marshes after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, June 2016, Frontiers

    Brian Roberts

  42. Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Benthic Respiration and Net Nutrient Fluxes in the Atchafalaya River Delta Estuary

    Article • Estuaries and Coasts, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Roberts

  43. Hydrologic remediation for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and forest response

    Article • Ecohydrology, March 2015, Wiley

    Beth Middleton, Brian Roberts

  44. Spatial and Temporal Variability of Nitrification Potential and Ammonia-Oxidizer Abundances in Louisiana Salt Marshes

    Article • Estuaries and Coasts, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Roberts

  45. Fish Assemblages in Louisiana Salt Marshes: Effects of the Macondo Oil Spill

    Article • Estuaries and Coasts, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Roberts

  46. A Rapid Response Study of the Hercules Gas Well Blowout

    Article • Eos, September 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Brian Roberts

  47. Overview of Research into the Coastal Effects of the Macondo Blowout from the Coastal Waters Consortium: A GoMRI Consortium

    Article • International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings, May 2014, International Oil Spill Conference

    Brian Roberts

  48. Spatial variability of phosphorus sorption dynamics in Louisiana salt marshes

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, March 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Brian Roberts

  49. River discharge influences on particulate organic carbon age structure in the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River System

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, February 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Brian Roberts

  50. Distinguishing dynamics of dissolved organic matter components in a forested stream using kinetic enrichments

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, November 2011, Wiley

    Emily S Bernhardt, Brian Roberts

  51. Examining the coupling of carbon and nitrogen cycles in Appalachian streams: the role of dissolved organic nitrogen

    Article • Ecology, March 2011, Wiley

    Emily S Bernhardt, Brian Roberts

  52. Resource synergy in stream periphyton communities

    Article • Journal of Ecology, January 2011, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  53. Applying the light : nutrient hypothesis to stream periphyton

    Article • Freshwater Biology, April 2010, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  54. Stream ecosystem responses to the 2007 spring freeze in the southeastern United States: unexpected effects of climate change

    Article • Global Change Biology, June 2009, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  55. Quantifying phosphorus and light effects in stream algae

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, January 2009, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  56. 13C dynamics in benthic algae: Effects of light, phosphorus, and biomass development

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, July 2008, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  57. In‐stream biotic control on nutrient biogeochemistry in a forested stream, West Fork of Walker Branch

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Brian Roberts

  58. Multiple Scales of Temporal Variability in Ecosystem Metabolism Rates: Results from 2 Years of Continuous Monitoring in a Forested Headwater Stream

    Article • Ecosystems, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Brian Roberts

  59. Nutrient and light availability regulate the relative contribution of autotrophs and heterotrophs to respiration in freshwater pelagic ecosystems

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, January 2006, Wiley

    Brian Roberts

  60. Rapid and Precise Determination of the δ18O of Dissolved and Gaseous Dioxygen via Gas Chromatography−Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, April 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Brian Roberts

  61. Field Verification of Predictions of the Waquoit Bay Nitrogen Loading Model

    Article • Biological Bulletin, October 1997, University of Chicago Press

    Brian Roberts

  62. Release of N2 and N20 from Salt-Marsh Sediments Subject to Different Land-Derived Nitrogen Loads

    Article • Biological Bulletin, October 1997, University of Chicago Press

    Brian Roberts