Kenneth Heck, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
Marine Sciences Dauphin Island Sea Lab 
Area:
Seagrass ecology

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2024 Campbell JE, Kennedy Rhoades O, Munson CJ, Altieri AH, Douglass JG, Heck KL, Paul VJ, Armitage AR, Barry SC, Bethel E, Christ L, Christianen MJA, Dodillet G, Dutton K, Fourqurean JW, et al. Herbivore effects increase with latitude across the extent of a foundational seagrass. Nature Ecology & Evolution. PMID 38366132 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02336-5  0.578
2020 Furman BT, Peterson BJ, Heck KL. Will the Florida Big Bend Area Become the Next Gulf of Mexico Reef Tract? Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. DOI: 10.3389/Fmars.2020.00334  0.655
2019 Marco-Méndez C, Ferrero-Vicente LM, Prado P, Lizaso JS, Ibáñez C, Heck K. Factors driving waterfowl feeding preferences and foraging impacts on submerged aquatic vegetation ecosystems Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. DOI: 10.3389/Conf.Fmars.2019.08.00069  0.354
2016 Hyndes GA, Heck KL, Vergés A, Harvey ES, Kendrick GA, Lavery PS, McMahon K, Orth RJ, Pearce A, Vanderklift M, Wernberg T, Whiting S, Wilson S. Accelerating Tropicalization and the Transformation of Temperate Seagrass Meadows. Bioscience. 66: 938-948. PMID 28533562 DOI: 10.1093/Biosci/Biw111  0.324
2016 Sharma S, Goff J, Moody RM, Byron D, Heck KL, Powers SP, Ferraro C, Cebrian J. Do restored oyster reefs benefit seagrasses? An experimental study in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Restoration Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/Rec.12329  0.331
2016 McDonald AM, Prado P, Heck KL, Fourqurean JW, Frankovich TA, Dunton KH, Cebrian J. Seagrass growth, reproductive, and morphological plasticity across environmental gradients over a large spatial scale Aquatic Botany. 134: 87-96. DOI: 10.1016/J.Aquabot.2016.07.007  0.551
2015 Scyphers SB, Powers SP, Heck KL. Ecological value of submerged breakwaters for habitat enhancement on a residential scale. Environmental Management. 55: 383-91. PMID 25365947 DOI: 10.1007/S00267-014-0394-8  0.313
2015 Heck KL, Fodrie FJ, Madsen S, Baillie CJ, Byron DA. Seagrass consumption by native and a tropically associated fish species: Potential impacts of the tropicalization of the northern Gulf of Mexico Marine Ecology Progress Series. 520: 165-173. DOI: 10.3354/Meps11104  0.335
2015 McDonald RB, Moody RM, Heck KL, Cebrian J. Fish, Macroinvertebrate and Epifaunal Communities in Shallow Coastal Lagoons with Varying Seagrass Cover of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Estuaries and Coasts. DOI: 10.1007/S12237-015-0031-7  0.388
2014 Byron D, Heck KL, Kennedy MA. Presence of Juvenile Lionfish in a Northern Gulf of Mexico Nursery Habitat Gulf of Mexico Science. 32. DOI: 10.18785/goms.3201.08  0.33
2013 Peterson BJ, Valentine JF, Heck KL. The snapper-grunt pump: Habitat modification and facilitation of the associated benthic plant communities by reef-resident fish Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 441: 50-54. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jembe.2013.01.015  0.558
2013 Baggett LP, Heck KL, Frankovich TA, Armitage AR, Fourqurean JW. Stoichiometry, growth, and fecundity responses to nutrient enrichment by invertebrate grazers in sub-tropical turtle grass (Thalassia testudinum) meadows Marine Biology. 160: 169-180. DOI: 10.1007/S00227-012-2075-6  0.588
2011 Scyphers SB, Powers SP, Heck KL, Byron D. Oyster reefs as natural breakwaters mitigate shoreline loss and facilitate fisheries. Plos One. 6: e22396. PMID 21850223 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0022396  0.374
2010 Baggett LP, Heck KL, Frankovich TA, Armitage AR, Fourqurean JW. Nutrient enrichment, grazer identity, and their effects on epiphytic algal assemblages: Field experiments in subtropical turtlegrass Thalassia testudinum meadows Marine Ecology Progress Series. 406: 33-45. DOI: 10.3354/Meps08533  0.591
2010 Fodrie FJ, Heck KL, Powers SP, Graham W, Robinson K. Climate-related, decadal-scale assemblage changes of seagrass-associated fishes in the northern Gulf of Mexico Global Change Biology. 16: 48-59. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2486.2009.01889.X  0.304
2009 Waycott M, Duarte CM, Carruthers TJ, Orth RJ, Dennison WC, Olyarnik S, Calladine A, Fourqurean JW, Heck KL, Hughes AR, Kendrick GA, Kenworthy WJ, Short FT, Williams SL. Accelerating loss of seagrasses across the globe threatens coastal ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 12377-81. PMID 19587236 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0905620106  0.594
2009 Geraldi NR, Powers SP, Heck KL, Cebrian J. Can habitat restoration be redundant? Response of mobile fishes and crustaceans to oyster reef restoration in marsh tidal creeks Marine Ecology Progress Series. 389: 171-180. DOI: 10.3354/Meps08224  0.331
2008 Valentine JF, Heck KL, Blackmon D, Goecker ME, Christian J, Kroutil RM, Peterson BJ, Vanderklift MA, Kirsch KD, Beck M. Exploited species impacts on trophic linkages along reef seagrass interfaces in the Florida Keys Ecological Applications. 18: 1501-1515. PMID 18767625 DOI: 10.1890/07-1720.1  0.631
2008 Furman BT, Heck KL. Effects of nutrient enrichment and grazers on coral reefs: An experimental assessment Marine Ecology Progress Series. 363: 89-101. DOI: 10.3354/meps07442  0.64
2008 Heck KL, Carruthers TJB, Duarte CM, Randall Hughes A, Kendrick G, Orth RJ, Williams SW. Trophic transfers from seagrass meadows subsidize diverse marine and terrestrial consumers Ecosystems. 11: 1198-1210. DOI: 10.1007/S10021-008-9155-Y  0.359
2007 Valentine JF, Heck KL, Blackmon D, Goecker ME, Christian J, Kroutil RM, Kirsch KD, Peterson BJ, Beck M, Vanderklift MA. Food web interactions along seagrass-coral reef boundaries: Effects of piscivore reductions on cross-habitat energy exchange Marine Ecology Progress Series. 333: 37-50. DOI: 10.3354/Meps333037  0.636
2007 Heck KL, Valentine JF. The primacy of top-down effects in shallow benthic ecosystems Estuaries and Coasts. 30: 371-381. DOI: 10.1007/BF02819384  0.304
2006 Heck KL, Valentine JF, Pennock JR, Chaplin G, Spitzer PM. Effects of nutrient enrichment and grazing on shoalgrass Halodule wrightii and its epiphytes: Results of a field experiment Marine Ecology Progress Series. 326: 145-156. DOI: 10.3354/Meps326145  0.351
2006 Orth RJ, Carruthers TJB, Dennison WC, Duarte CM, Fourqurean JW, Heck KL, Hughes AR, Kendrick GA, Kenworthy WJ, Olyarnik S, Short FT, Waycott M, Williams SL. A global crisis for seagrass ecosystems Bioscience. 56: 987-996. DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[987:Agcfse]2.0.Co;2  0.59
2006 Johnson MW, Heck KL, Fourqurean JW. Nutrient content of seagrasses and epiphytes in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Evidence of phosphorus and nitrogen limitation Aquatic Botany. 85: 103-111. DOI: 10.1016/J.Aquabot.2006.02.003  0.551
2006 Johnson MW, Heck KL. Effects of habitat fragmentation per se on decapods and fishes inhabiting seagrass meadows in the northern Gulf of Mexico Marine Ecology Progress Series. 306: 233-246.  0.332
2005 Armitage AR, Frankovich TA, Heck KL, Fourqurean JW. Experimental nutrient enrichment causes complex changes in seagrass, microalgae, and macroalgae community structure in Florida Bay Estuaries. 28: 422-434. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02693924  0.563
2003 Heck KL, Hays G, Orth RJ. Critical evaluation of the nursery role hypothesis for seagrass meadows Marine Ecology Progress Series. 253: 123-136. DOI: 10.3354/Meps253123  0.326
2001 Peterson BJ, Thompson KR, Cowan JH, Heck KL. Comparison of predation pressure in temperate and subtropical seagrass habitats based on chronographic tethering Marine Ecology Progress Series. 224: 77-85. DOI: 10.3354/Meps224077  0.514
2001 Peterson BJ, Heck KL. Positive interactions between suspension-feeding bivalves and seagrass - A facultative mutualism Marine Ecology Progress Series. 213: 143-155. DOI: 10.3354/Meps213143  0.569
1999 Peterson BJ, Heck KL. The potential for suspension feeding bivalves to increase seagrass productivity Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 240: 37-52. DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(99)00040-4  0.519
1994 Zimmerfaust RK, Fielder DR, Heck KL, Coen LD, Morgan SG. Effects of tethering on predatory escape by juvenile blue crabs Marine Ecology Progress Series. 111: 299-304. DOI: 10.3354/Meps111299  0.328
1994 Valentine JF, Heck KL, Harper P, Beck M. Effects of bioturbation in controlling turtlegrass (Thalassia testudinum Banks ex König) abundance: evidence from field enclosures and observations in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 178: 181-192. DOI: 10.1016/0022-0981(94)90035-3  0.498
1989 Wilson K, Able K, Heck K. Predation rates on juvenile blue crabs in estuarine nursery habitats: evidence for the importance of macroalgae (Ulva lactuca) Marine Ecology Progress Series. 58: 243-251. DOI: 10.3354/Meps058243  0.377
1981 Abele LG, Heck KL, Simberloff DS, Vermeij GJ. Biogeography of Crab Claw Size: Assumptions and a Null Hypothesis Systematic Biology. 30: 406-424. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/30.4.406  0.372
1980 Heck KL, Orth RJ. Structural components of eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadows in the lower Chesapeake Bay—Decapod crustacea Estuaries. 3: 289-295. DOI: 10.2307/1352084  0.335
1980 Orth RJ, Heck KL. Structural components of eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadows in the lower Chesapeake Bay—Fishes Estuaries. 3: 278-288. DOI: 10.2307/1352083  0.319
1975 Heck KL, van Belle G, Simberloff D. Explicit Calculation of the Rarefaction Diversity Measurement and the Determination of Sufficient Sample Size Ecology. 56: 1459-1461. DOI: 10.2307/1934716  0.377
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