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Low recruitment drives the decline of red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) along the southeast USA Atlantic coast: Inferences from fishery-independent trap and video monitoring by Bacheler, Nathan M, Klibansky, Nikolai, Bubley, Walter J, Smart, Tracey I

“…Red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) is a reef-associated, economically-important, winter-spawning, protogynous Sparidae species that appears to have declined in…”
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Tropical storms influence the movement behavior of a demersal oceanic fish species by Bacheler, Nathan M., Shertzer, Kyle W., Cheshire, Robin T., MacMahan, Jamie H.

“…Extreme weather events strongly influence marine, freshwater, and estuarine ecosystems in myriad ways. We quantified movements of a demersal oceanic fish…”
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Environmental conditions, diel period, and fish size influence the horizontal and vertical movements of red snapper by Bacheler, Nathan M., Shertzer, Kyle W., Runde, Brendan J., Rudershausen, Paul J., Buckel, Jeffrey A.

“…Most demersal fishes are difficult to observe and track due to methodological and analytical constraints. We used an acoustic positioning system to elucidate…”
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Meta-Analysis Reveals Artificial Reefs Can Be Effective Tools for Fish Community Enhancement but Are Not One-Size-Fits-All by Paxton, Avery B., Shertzer, Kyle W., Bacheler, Nathan M., Kellison, G. Todd, Riley, Kenneth L., Taylor, J. Christopher

“…Approaches towards habitat conservation and restoration often include supplementing or enhancing existing, degraded, or lost natural habitats. In aquatic…”
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Modelling individual variability in habitat selection and movement using integrated step‐selection analysis by Chatterjee, Nilanjan, Wolfson, David, Kim, Dongmin, Velez, Juliana, Freeman, Smith, Bacheler, Nathan M., Shertzer, Kyle, Taylor, J. Christopher, Fieberg, John

“…Integrated step‐selection analysis (ISSA) is frequently used to study habitat selection using animal movement data. Methods for incorporating random effects in…”
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Occupancy models for monitoring marine fish: a bayesian hierarchical approach to model imperfect detection with a novel gear combination by Coggins, Jr, Lewis G, Bacheler, Nathan M, Gwinn, Daniel C

“…Occupancy models using incidence data collected repeatedly at sites across the range of a population are increasingly employed to infer patterns and processes…”
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Spatial Distribution of Reef Fish Species along the Southeast US Atlantic Coast Inferred from Underwater Video Survey Data by Bacheler, Nathan M, Schobernd, Zebulon H, Berrane, David J, Schobernd, Christina M, Mitchell, Warren A, Teer, Bradford Z, Gregalis, Kevan C, Glasgow, Dawn M

“…Marine fish abundance and distribution often varies across spatial scales for a variety of reasons, and this variability has significant ecological and…”
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Calibration of fish counts in video surveys: a case study from the Southeast Reef Fish Survey by Bacheler, Nathan M., Shertzer, Kyle W., Schobernd, Zebulon H., Coggins, Lewis G.

“…Changes to sampling gears or vessels can influence the catchability or detectability of fish, leading to biased trends in abundance. Despite the widespread use…”
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Climate Indices, Water Temperature, and Fishing Predict Broad Scale Variation in Fishes on Temperate Reefs by Geraldi, Nathan Robert, Kellison, G. T., Bacheler, Nathan M.

“…Determining what abiotic and biotic factors affect the diversity and abundance of species through time and space is a basic goal of ecology and an integral…”
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A review and synthesis of the benefits, drawbacks, and considerations of using traps to survey fish and decapods by Bacheler, Nathan M

“…Abstract Traps (or pots) are one of the oldest and most widespread scientific survey gears for fish and decapod crustaceans around the world. Here, I review…”
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Can subsets of species indicate overall patterns in biodiversity? by Klibansky, Nikolai, Shertzer, Kyle W., Kellison, G. Todd, Bacheler, Nathan M.

“…Resource limitations often allow only a subset of species to be counted. But using subsets may bias inferences on spatial or temporal trends in biodiversity…”
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Catchability of reef fish species in traps is strongly affected by water temperature and substrate by Bacheler, Nathan M., Shertzer, Kyle W.

“…It is commonly assumed in surveys that the likelihood of capturing or observing individuals of a given species is constant. Yet evidence is building that…”
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Invasive lionfish reduce native fish abundance on a regional scale by Ballew, Nicholas G., Bacheler, Nathan M., Kellison, G. Todd, Schueller, Amy M.

“…Invasive lionfish pose an unprecedented threat to biodiversity and fisheries throughout Atlantic waters off of the southeastern United States, the Caribbean…”
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Tracking an invasion: how the distribution and abundance of Lionfish (Pterois spp.) has changed along the U.S. Atlantic coast by Finch, Margaret W., Ballenger, Joseph C., Bacheler, Nathan M., Bubley, Walter J.

“…Central to invasive species management plans or strategies is monitoring of the population on an appropriate scale, including a characterization of some basic…”
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Multi-decadal decline in reef fish abundance and species richness in the southeast USA assessed by standardized trap catches by Bacheler, Nathan M, Smart, Tracey I

“…Reef fish species naturally fluctuate in abundance over various temporal and spatial scales, but recent broad-scale declines in abundance have been observed…”
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Evaluation of six methods for external attachment of electronic tags to fish: assessment of tag retention, growth and fish welfare by Runde, Brendan J., Buckel, Jeffrey A., Bacheler, Nathan M., Tharp, Ryan M., Rudershausen, Paul J., Harms, Craig A., Ben‐Horin, Tal

“…External attachment of electronic tags has been increasingly used in fish studies. Many researchers have used ad hoc attachment methods and provided little or…”
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Estimating relative abundance and species richness from video surveys of reef fishes by Bacheler, Nathan M., Shertzer, Kyle W.

“…Underwater video sampling has become a common approach to index fish abundance and diversity, but little has been published on determining how much video to…”
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Repetitive capture of marine fishes: implications for estimating number and mortality of releases by Runde, Brendan J, Buckel, Jeffrey A, Shertzer, Kyle W, Bacheler, Nathan M, Rudershausen, Paul J, Sauls, Beverly

“…In some fisheries, releases are a high percentage of total catch. Recent tagging data of marine fishes have revealed that recapture of the same individual…”
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Does hook type influence the catch rate, size, and injury of grouper in a North Carolina commercial fishery? by Bacheler, Nathan M., Buckel, Jeffrey A.

“…Members of the Epinephelinae subfamily of serranids (“grouper”) are heavily exploited by both recreational and commercial hook-and-line fishermen on the…”
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Ontogenetic and sex-specific differences in density-dependent habitat selection of a marine fish population by Bartolino, Valerio, Ciannelli, Lorenzo, Bacheler, Nathan M., Chan, Kung-Sik

“…The spatial dynamics of species are the result of complex interactions between density-independent and density-dependent sources of variability. Disentangling…”
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