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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: Smith, K., and K. W. Able. 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. |
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