Publications and Media
Publications
- Glazner, R., J. Ballard, A.R. Armitage. 2021. Marsh and mangrove vegetation provide different prey refuge values for the marsh periwinkle Littoraria irrorata. Marine Ecology Progress Series: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13785
- Goeke, J.A., A.R. Armitage. 2021. Coastal woody encroachment reduces food quality for basal consumers. Ecosphere 12(5): e03511, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3511
- Kuhn, A.L., J.S. Kominoski, A.R. Armitage, S.P. Charles, S.C. Pennings, C.A. Weaver, T.R. Maddox. Accepted. Buried hurricane legacies: elevated sulfide and decreased root biomass in coastal wetlands. Ecosphere
- Peng, D. H. Guo, A.R. Armitage, S.C. Pennings. 2021. Competition and abiotic stress affect the size of mangroves near their geographic range limit. Journal of Plant Ecology https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtab079
- Pennings, S.C., R.M. Glazner, Z.J. Hughes, J.S. Kominoski, A.R. Armitage. 2021. Effects of mangrove cover on coastal erosion during a hurricane in Texas, USA. Ecology 102(4): e03309, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3309
- Armitage, A.R., C.A. Weaver, J.S. Kominoski, and S.C. Pennings. 2020. Resistance to hurricane effects varies among wetland vegetation types in the marsh-mangrove ecotone. Estuaries and Coasts, 43 (5): 960-970, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-019-00577-3
- Armitage, A.R., C.A. Weaver, A.A. Whitt, S.C. Pennings. 2020. Effects of mangrove encroachment on tidal wetland plant, nekton, and bird communities in the Western Gulf of Mexico. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 248: 106767, doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106767
- Charles, S.P., J.S. Kominoski, A.R. Armitage, H. Guo, C.A. Weaver, and S.C. Pennings. 2020. Quantifying how changing mangrove cover affects ecosystem carbon storage in coastal wetlands. Ecology 101(2): e02916, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2916
- Glazner, R., J. Blennau, A.R. Armitage. 2020. Mangroves alter predator-prey interactions by enhancing prey refuge value in a mangrove-marsh ecotone. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 526: 151336, doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2020.151336
- Hogan, J.A., R.A. Feagin, G. Starr,... A.R. Armitage,... S.C. Pennings, ...J.S. Kominoski, C.J. Patrick, et al. 2020. A research framework to investigate cross-ecosystem responses to tropical cyclones. BioScience, biaa034, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa034
- Osland, M.J., R.H. Day, C.T. Hall, L.C. Feher, A.R. Armitage, J. Cebrian, K.H. Dunton, A.R. Hughes, D.A. Kaplan, A.K. Langston, A. Macy, C.A. Weaver, G.H. Anderson, K. Cummins, I.C. Feller, C.M. Snyder. 2020. Temperature thresholds for black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) freeze damage, mortality, and recovery in North America: refining tipping points for range expansion in a warming climate. Journal of Ecology 108: 654-665, doi:10.1111/1365‐2745.13285
- Patrick, C.J., L. Yeager, A.R. Armitage, F. Carvallo, V.M. Congdon, K. Dunton, M. Fisher, A.K. Hardison, J.D. Hogan, J. Hosen, X. Hu, B. Kiel Reese, S. Kinard, J.S. Kominoski, X. Lin, Z. Liu, P.A. Montagna, S.C. Pennings, L. Walker, C.A. Weaver, M. Wetz. 2020. A system level analysis of coastal ecosystem responses to hurricane impacts. Estuaries and Coasts 43 (5): 943-959, doi:10.1007/s12237-019-00690-3
- Weaver, C.A. and A.R. Armitage. 2020. Above- and belowground responses to nutrient enrichment within a marsh-mangrove ecotone. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 243: 106884, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106884
- Weaver, C.A. and A.R. Armitage. 2018. Nutrient enrichment shifts mangrove height distribution: implications for coastal woody encroachment. PLoS ONE 13(3): e0193617, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193617
- Guo, H., C.A. Weaver, S. Charles, A. Whitt, S. Dastidar, P. D'Odorico, J. Fuentes, J. Kominoski, A.R. Armitage, S.C. Pennings. 2017. Coastal regime shifts: rapid responses of coastal wetlands to changes in mangrove cover. Ecology 98: 762-772, doi: 10.1002/ecy.1698
- Armitage, A.R., W.E. Highfield, S.D. Brody, P. Louchouarn. 2015. The contribution of mangrove expansion to salt marsh loss on the Texas Gulf coast. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0125404, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125404
- Madrid, E.N., A.R. Armitage, J. López-Portillo. 2014. Avicennia germinans (black mangrove) vessel architecture is linked to chilling and salinity tolerance in the Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers in Plant Science: 5:503, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00503
- Guo, H., Y. Zhang, Z. Lan and S. C. Pennings. 2013. Biotic interactions mediate the expansion of black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) into salt marshes under climate change. Global Change Biology 19:2765-2774, doi: 10.1111/gcb.12221
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Media releases
- Soggy coastal soils? Here’s why ecologists love them - Science News for Students - 2020
- Mangroves: A Coastal Savior? - University of Houston - 2019
- An Ecological Mystery: Black Mangroves - Texas A&M University at Galveston - 2018
- Research Grants On Fast Track After Harvey - Houston Public Media - 2017
- Forests between the Tides: Conserving Earth's vanishing mangrove ecosystems - BioScience - 2015
- March of the Mangroves: Studying the effects of mangrove expansion on coastal wildlife - Texas Shores - 2014
- Advancing Mangroves - Science and the Sea podcast - 2014
- Mangroves push north, crowd habitat for whooping cranes - Houston Chronicle - 2012
- What are the mangrove trees telling us about the Texas coast? - KUHF - 2012