Dr. Kelly Smith Associate Professor B.S. (Biology) State University of New York, College at Oswego, 1987 Ph.D. (Ecology and Evolution) Rutgers University, 1995 Email: ksmith@unf.edu Phone: 904-620-1954 Office: 3/2232 Home Page

TEACHING: Ichthyology, Limnology, Marine Biology, Marine Ecology, General Biology II, Current Applications in Biology, Principles in Biology

RESEARCH SUMMARY:
My current research interests focus on juvenile fish ecology in estuarine environments. I am especially interested in the interaction between habitat structure and quality, and population size and species diversity of estuarine resident fishes. I am currently investigating the effects of salt marsh vegetation type and geographic location on abundances and habitat use by juvenile killifishes in Northeast Florida. Much of my research has direct implications for management and conservation of estuarine habitats and resources.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Galleher, S. N., I. Gonzalez, M. Gilg, and K. Smith.  In Press. Abundance and distribution of larval and juvenile Fundulus heteroclitus in Northeast Florida Marshes. In Press. Southeastern Naturalist.

Galleher, S.N., M.R. Gilg and K.J. Smith.  Comparison of sub-adult thermal maxima in Fundulus heteroclitus and F. grandis.  In Press.  Fish Physiology and Biochemistry.

Able, K. W., K. J. Smith, and S. M. Hagan. 2005. Fish composition and abundance in New Jersey salt marsh pools: sampling technique effects.  Northeastern Naturalist. 12(4): 485-502.

Smith, K. J., & Able, K. W. 2003. Dissolved oxygen dynamics in salt marsh pools and its potential impacts on fish assemblages. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 258: 223-232.

Smith, K., G. L. Taghon, and K. W. Able. 2001. Trophic linkages in marshes: feeding in young-of-the-year mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus. In: Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology. M. Weinstein and D. Kreeger, eds. Kluwer Press.

Able, K. W., D. A. Witting, R. S. McBride, R. A. Rountree, and K. J. Smith. 1996. Fishes of polyhaline estuarine shores in Great Bay - Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey: a case study of seasonal, tidal, and habitat influences. In:Estuarine Shores: Hydrological, Geomorphological and Ecological Interactions. K. F. Nordstrom and C. T. Roman (Eds).

Smith, K., and K. W. Able. 1994. Salt marsh tide pools as winter refuges for the mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus, in New Jersey. Estuaries 17(1B):237-245.