Selected Scientific Publications

The Wells Reserve has employed or hosted researchers whose work on site has been shared through these articles, reports, and presentations. Wells NERR staff are shown in boldface. Please notify the webmaster of any corrections or additions to this listing.

Updated: 2007.08.01

Angier B, Piergrossi A, Spahn K. 2006. Wells Reserve Research Library: A use and user analysis. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship 47. [ View article ]

Attar Engineering, Inc. 1996. Hydrologic investigations of Drakes Island culvert and marsh. Attar Engineering, Inc., Eliot, Maine. 63p.

Baldwin RF. 2005. Pool-breeding amphibian habitat use and conservation in southern Maine's urbanizing landscapes. Doctoral thesis. University of Maine. 147p.

Bernatchez G. 2006. The effects of crab-gastropod interactions on the benthic macroinfaunal commmunity of a salt marsh mudflat. Abstract, Benthic Ecology Meeting. Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Bernatchez G, Trussell G. 2007. The non-consumptive effects of an invasive predator on macrofaunal diversity, abundance in a New England salt marsh. Abstract, Benthic Ecology Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.

Bertness MD, Ewanchuk PJ. 2002. Latitudinal and climate-driven variation in the strength and nature of biological interactions in New England salt marshes. Oecologia 132:392-401. [ View abstract ]

Blecharczyk J. 2001. Assessment of a coastal wetland: The effects of fragmentation by roadways in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. 40p + maps. Master's Project, Antioch New England Graduate School, Keene, New Hampshire.

Boumans R, Burdick D, Dionne M. 2002. Modeling habitat change in salt marshes following tidal restoration. Restoration Ecology 10: 543-555.

Bricker SD, Lipton D, Mason A, Dionne M, Keeley D, Krahforst C, Latimer J, Pennock J. 2005. Improving methods and indicators for evaluating coastal water eutrophication: a pilot study in the Gulf of Maine. Report to NOAA-CICEET. 66p.

Bryan R, Dionne M, Cook R, Jones J, Goodspeed A. 1997. Maine citizens guide to evaluating, restoring and managing tidal marshes. Maine Audubon Society, Falmouth, Maine.

Buchsbaum R, Burdick DM, Cook R, Diers T, Dionne M, Hughes K, Milton R, Neckles HA, Roberts L, Roman CT, Taylor J, Thompson D. 1999. Standards and criteria for evaluating tidal wetland restoration in the Gulf of Maine: workshop results. Estuarine Research Federation Abstracts with Programs.

Burdick DM, Boumans M, Dionne M, Short FT. 1999. Impacts to salt marshes from tidal restrictions and ecological responses to tidal restoration. Report submitted to the Estuarine Reserves Division, NOAA.

Burdick D, Dionne M. 1994. Comparison of salt marsh restoration and creation techniques in promoting native vegetation and functional values. New Hamphshire Coastal Program, Concord. 65p.

Burdick D, Dionne M, Boumans R, Short F. 1997. Ecological responses to tidal restoration in two New England salt marshes. Wetlands Ecology and Management 4:129-144.

Burdick DM, Boumans RM, Dionne M. 1999. Modeling habitat change following tidal restoration in New England salt marshes. Estuarine Research Federation Abstracts with Programs.

Cameron C, Bowron TM, Hall J, Butler M, Graham J (editors). 2000. Getting dirty: the why and how of salt marsh restoration. Marine issues committee special publication 8. Ecology Action Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 24 p.

Caporale DA, Kocher TD, Smith RP Jr, Rand PW, Lacombe EH. 1993. OspB sequence variation of Borrelia burgdorferi along the coast of Maine. Proceedings of the 2nd European Symposium on Lyme Disease. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 52:408.

Claesson S. 2000. New England shipwreck survey initiative (NESSI): a tidal archaeological resources survey in Wells, Maine. Report submitted to the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. NESSI Survey Report No. 2. 63 p + appendices.

Crain CM, Silliman BR, Bertness SL, Bertness MD. 2004. Physical and biotic drivers of plant distribution across estuarine salinity gradients. Ecology 85(9):2539-2549.

Dionne M. 1993. Fish habitat value of salt marsh creation and reference sites for the New Hampshire Port Authority mitigation plan. Prepared for Jackson Estuarine Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham. 32p.

Dionne M. 1994. Coastal Habitat Alteration. Pages 113-120 in Stevenson D, Braasch E, editors. Gulf of Maine Habitat: Workshop proceedings, RARGOM Report number 94-2. 146 pp.

Dionne M. 1999. Fish utilization of salt marsh habitat in the Gulf of Maine. Gulf of Maine News Spring:1-7.

Dionne M. 2000. Ecosystem indicator: fish. Pages 15-17 in Regional standards to identify and evaluate tidal wetland restoration in the Gulf of Maine. HA Neckles and M Dionne, editors. Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine.

Dionne M. 2000. Coastal habitat function from a fisheye perspective: what can we learn from secondary consumers? Pages 39-40 in Using biology to signal ecological health. Final report of a regional conference, Massachussetts Bay National Estuary Program, Boston, Mass.

Dionne M. 2001. Pilot deployment and evaluation of the YSI 6600 vented level probe for use in the National Estuarine Research Reserve systemwide monitoring program. NOAA/UNH Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology. 27 p.

Dionne M, Burdick D, Cook R, Buchsbaum R, Fuller S. 1998. Scoping paper 5: Physical alterations to water and salt marshes. Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Montreal, Cananda. 57 p + appendices.

Dionne M, Deegan L, Fell P, Weinstein M. 1998. Animal interactions and secondary productivity. Pages 19-23 in Research in New England marsh-estuarine ecosystems: directions and priorities into the next millenium. R.A. Orson, RS Warren, WA Niering, P Van Patten, editors. Connecticut Sea Grant.

Dionne M, Emerson J, Smith S. 2002. Managing non-point source inputs in priority coastal watersheds: looking at shoreland land use in the Webhannet and Ogunquit watersheds. Maine Coastal Program. 47p.

Dionne M, Orringer S, Iken H. 1994. A survey of meiobenthos and ichthyoplankton in two contrasting estuaries at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine. Draft final data report submitted to NOAA/SRD, Silver Spring, Maryland. 11 p.

Dionne M, Orringer S, Smith T. 2001. Coastal habitat function from a fisheye perspective. New England Estuarine Research Society. Program and abstracts, spring meeting, Salem, Massachusetts.

Dionne M, Rahmani A. 2001. Mysteries in a grain of sand; speculative play between science and art at the edge between land and water. ArtSci2001. New York, New York. Program with abstracts available.

Dionne M, Short F, Burdick D. 1999. Fish utilization of restored, created and reference salt-marsh habitat in the Gulf of Maine. American Fisheries Society Symposium 22:384-404.

Eberhardt AL. 2004. Fish versus human corridors: The impacts of road culverts on nekton community composition and movement in New England salt marshes. MS Thesis, University of New Hampshire. 134p.

Elias SP, Lubelczyk CB, Rand PW, Lacombe EH, Holman MS, Smith RP Jr. 2006. Deer browse resistant exotic-invasive understory: An indicator of elevated human risk of exposure to Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in southern coastal Maine woodlands. Journal of Medical Entomology 43(6):1142-1152.

Ewanchuk PJ. 2003. The ecology of Northern New England salt marsh plant communities. Dissertation in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. 198p.

Ewanchuk PJ. 2003. Recovery of a northern New England salt marsh plant community from winter icing. Oecologia 136:616-626. [ View abstract ]

Fogel BN, Crain CM, Bertness MD. 2004. Community level engineering effects of Triglochin maritima (seaside arrowgrass) in a salt marsh in northern New England, USA. Journal of Ecology 92:589-597.

Haney RA, Silliman BR, Fry AJ, Layman CA, Rand DM. 2007. The Pleistocene history of the sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus): Non-equilibrium evolutionary dynamics within a diversifying species complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43(3):743-754.

Hayes PS. 2005. An estimate of the economic value of southern Maine tidal wetlands to the Maine commercial groundfish industry. MS Thesis, Antioch New England Graduate School. 137p.

Hazelton E, Theodose T, Knight T. 2007. Partitioning of glutamine synthetase in Spartina grasses. Abstract, New England Estuarine Research Society, Spring Meeting, Maine Department of Marine Resources, West Boothbay Harbor.

Hill HW, Kelley JT, Belknap DF, Dickson SM. 2004. The effects of storms and storm-generated currents on sand beaches in Southern Maine, USA. Marine Geology 210:149-168. [ View abstract ]

Hoffman C. 1995. Tidal hydrology and vegetation dynamics in the Thirty Acre Marsh, Wells, Maine. 9p + data and maps.

Hoffman C. 1997. Wetland response to partial restoration of tidal flow: A report on salinity, water table and vegetation abundance data collected in the Drake's Island Marsh, Wells, Maine. Submitted to the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Wells, Maine. 4p + data, maps, and figures.

Holden WF. 1997. Fresh water, suspended sediment, and nutrient influx to the Little River and Webhannet River estuaries, Wells, Maine. Dissertation, Boston University. 258p.

Holman MS. 2003. Report on the diversity and distribution of mosquito species (Diptera:Culicidae) trapped in 2002 in York, Cumberland, and Knox Counties, Maine. Maine Department of Conservation Technical Report No. 45. 22p.

Holman MS, Caporale DA, Goldberg J, Lacombe E, Lubelczyk C, Rand PW, Smith RP. 2004. Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti, and Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis, southern coastal Maine. Emerging Infectious Diseases 10(4):744-746.

Jennings DT. 2001. Spiders (Araneae) of Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Wells, York County, Maine. Unpublished report to the Wells Reserve. 10 p.

Kelly JR. 1997. Final report on dissolved oxygen in Maine estuaries and embayments: 1996 results and analyses. Report submitted to Wells NERR, Maine Department of Environmental Protection, and Casco Bay Estuary Project. 95p.

Kelly JR, Libby PS. 1996. Final report on dissolved oxygen levels in select Maine estuaries and embayments. Report submitted to Wells NERR and Maine Department of Environmental Protection Marine Program. Battelle Ocean Sciences, Duxbury, Massachusetts. 46p.

Konisky RA. 2003. Spatial modeling and visualization of habitat response to hydrologic restoration in New England salt marshes. Dissertation, University of New Hampshire, Durham.

Konisky R, Burdick DM. 2001. Analysis and modeling of the tidal hydrology of Wheeler Refuge (York, Maine). Unpublished report. Jackson Estuarine Laboratory, University of New Hampshire.

Konisky RA, Burdick DM. 2003. Analysis of tidal and storm hydrology at Drakes Island Marsh (Wells, Maine) and scenarios for improvement. Report to the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Wells, Maine. 17p.

Konisky R, Burdick DM. 2004. Effects of stressors on invasive and halophytic plants of New England salt marshes: A framework for predicting response to tidal restoration. Wetlands 24(2):434-447. [ View abstract ]

Kuo C-H. 1998. Quantitative assessment of hydrogeology in the Merriland River, Branch Brook, and Webhannet River watersheds, Wells, Maine. Dissertation, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Lacombe EH, Rand PW, Smith RP Jr. 1993. Disparity of Borrelia burgdorferi infection rates of adult Ixodes dammini on deer and vegetation. Journal of Infectious Diseases 167:1236-1238.

Lee KT, Jivoff P, Bishop RE. 2005. A low cost, reliable method for quantifying coloration in Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) (Decopoda, Brachyura). Crustaceana 78(5):579-590. [View abstract]

Linnell S. 1994. A survey of impounded salt marshes in Southern Maine. Master's Project. Antioch New England Graduate School, Keene, New Hampshire.

MacKenzie RA. 2003. Northern range extension for Goeldichironomus devineyae (Insecta: Diptera). Northeastern Naturalist 10(4):465-467.

MacKenzie RA. 2004. Spatial and temporal patterns in insect emergence from a southern Maine salt marsh. American Midland Naturalist 153:257-269.

Morgan PA. 2000. Conservation and ecology of fringing salt marshes along the southern Maine/New Hampshire coast. Dissertation, University of New Hampshire, Durham. 138 p + illustrations and maps.

Morgan PA, Dionne M, MacKenzie R, Curci L. 2005. Ecological functions and values of fringing salt marshes susceptible to oil spills in Casco Bay, Maine. Prepared for Maine Oil Spill Advisory Council. Maine Sea Grant, Orono, Maine. 61p.

Morgan P, Miller J, Dalton C. 2007. Indicators of fringing salt marsh ecological function that are responsive to shoreline development pressures: Developing a useful tool for resource managers. Abstract, New England Estuarine Research Society, Spring Meeting, Maine Department of Marine Resources, West Boothbay Harbor.

Morgan PA, Short FT. 1999. Functions and values of fringing salt marshes in northern New England. New England Research Society Abstracts (spring meeting).

Morgan P, Short FT. 2000. Functions and values of salt marshes in northern New England: a comparison of fringing marshes and meadow marshes. Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine. 69 p + appendices.

Morgan P, Short FT. 2002. Using functional trajectories to model constructed salt marsh development in the Great Bay Estuary, Maine/New Hampshire. Restoration Ecology 10:461-473.

Neckles HA, Dionne M, editors. 2000. Regional standards to identify and evaluate tidal wetland restoration in the Gulf of Maine. Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine. 21 p + appendices. [Known as the "GPAC report." A PDF is available at http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/resshow/neckles/gpac.htm.]

Neckles HA, Dionne M, Burdick DM, Roman CT, Buchsbaum R, Hutchins E. 2002. A monitoring protocol to assess tidal marshes at local and regional scales. Restoration Ecology 10:556-563.

Orringer S, Reid S, Sullivan N. 1995. A survey of migratory fishes in the Little River estuary and its watershed. Draft final data report, submitted to the Institute of Museum Services, Silver Spring, Maryland. 34 p.

Pennings SC, Selig ER, Houser LT, Bertness MD. 2003. Geographic variation in positive and negative interactions among salt marsh plants. Ecology 84(6): 1527-1538.

Pennings SC, Silliman BR. 2005. Linking biogeography and community ecology: Latitudinal variation in plant-herbivore interaction strength. Ecology 86(9):2310-2319.

Pennings SC, Siska EL, Bertness MD. 2001. Latitudinal differences in plant palatability in Atlantic coast salt marshes. Ecology 82(5):1344-1359.

Rand PW, Holman MS, Lubelczyk C, Lacombe EH, DeGaetano AT, Smith RP Jr. 2004. Thermal accumulation and the early development of Ixodes scapularis. Journal of Vector Ecology 29(1):164-176..

Rand PW, Lacombe EH, Smith RP Jr, Ficker J. 1998. Participation of birds (Aves) in the emergence of Lyme disease in southern Maine. Journal of Medical Entomology 35(3):270-276.

Rand PW, Lacombe EH, Smith RP Jr, Gensheimer K, Dennis DT. 1996. Low seroprevalence of human Lyme disease near a focus of high entomologic risk. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 55:160-164.

Rand PW, Lubelczyk C, Lavigne GR, Elias S, Holman MS, Lacombe EH, Smith RP Jr. 2003. Deer density and the abundance of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 40(2):179-184.

Rand PW, Smith RP Jr, Lacombe EH. 1991. Canine seroprevalance and the distribution of Ixodes dammini in an area of emerging Lyme disease. American Journal of Public Health 81:1331-1334.

Rowe L, Wilber P, Schaefer K, Diaz RJ, Dionne M, MacKenzie R. 2005. Benthic habitat mapping project: Webhannet and York River estuaries, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine. Final Report. 68p. NOAA/CSC/20517-PUB. Charleston, South Carolina.

Salgado CS, Pennings SC. 2005. Latitudinal variation in palatability of salt-marsh plants: Are differences constitutive? Ecology 86(6):1571-1579.

Siska EL, Pennings SC, Buck TL, Hanisak MD. 2002. Latitudinal variation in palatability of salt-marsh plants: Which traits are responsible? Ecology 83(12):3369-3381.

Smith M. Southern Maine Coastal Mosaic habitat conservation project. WNERR.

Smith RP, Lacombe EH, Rand PW, Dearborn R. 1992. Diversity of tick species biting humans in an emerging area for Lyme disease. American Journal of Public Health 82:66-69.

Smith RP Jr, Rand PW, Lacombe EH. 1990. Potential for Lyme disease in Maine: Deer survey of distribution of Ixodes dammini, the tick vector. American Journal of Public Health 80:333-335.

St Onge S. 1995. Groundwater monitoring and marshland restoration on Drake's Island, at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Wells, Maine. Submitted to Boston College, Massachusetts. 13p + data and figures.

Theodose TA. 1999. Nutrient availability, nutrient limitation, and species diversity in salt marsh forb communities. New England Estuarine Research Society Abstracts (spring meeting).

Theodose TA, Martin J. 2003. Microclimate and substrate quality controls on nitrogen mineralization in a New England high salt marsh. Plant Ecology 167:213-221.

Theodose TA, Roths JB. 1999. Relationships between nutrient availability, stress and diversity on two New England salt marshes. Plant Ecology 143:219-228.

Tyrrell M, Byers JE. 2007. Do artificial substrates favor nonindigenous fouling species over native species? Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 342:54-60.

Tyrrell M, Dionne M. 2007. Physical factors mediate effects of grazing by a nonindigenous snail species on salt marsh cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, in northeastern salt marshes. Abstract, Fifth International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Vincent R. 2000. The Little River marsh: a survey of the plant communities along the upland border. Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine. 32 p + appendices.

Wade S. 1999. Effects of tidal restriction on elevation and plant communities in five tidal marshes in Wells and Kennebunk, Maine. MS Thesis, Antioch New England Graduate School.

Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve. 2001. Watershed inputs of non-point source pollution to the Webhannet estuary. Submitted to the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment. 27 p + figures and maps.

Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Coastal Services Center. 2005. Benthic habitat mapping project: Webhannet and York river estuaries, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine. Final report. NOAA/CSC/20517-PUB. NOAA Coastal Services Center, Charleston SC. 68p.

Ward LG. 2004. Variations in physical properties and water quality in the Webhannet River estuary (Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine). Journal of Coastal Research Special Issue 45:39-58.

Whitlow L. 1999. Size-dependent vulnerability of soft-shell clams to predation by the invasive green crab in Wells, Maine. Abstracts Program. First National Conference on Marine Bioinvasions.

Whitlow L. 2000. Native species response to invasion: effects of green crabs on soft-shell clam behavior and morphology. Ecological Society of America annual meeting program with abstracts, Snowbird, Utah.

Whitlow WL. 2000. How native species respond to invasion: the impact of green crabs on soft-shell clams. Benthic Ecology annual meeting program and abstracts, Wilmington, N.C.

Whitlow WL. 2002. Changes in native species after biological invasion: effects of introduced green crabs on native soft-shell clams and an estuarine community. Dissertation in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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