Publications
PDFs are available for all of the published articles listed below. The links at the end of each article will take you directly to the article on the journal's website. If the article is a free-access publication or if you or your library has an on-line subscription to the journal, you will be able to download and/or print the article directly from the link. If you do not have access to the pdf and would like a reprint of the article, please send an email to broberts (at) lumcon.edu
(underline indicates student author, italics indicates post-doc author)
2024
Gartelman A, Xu K, Maiti K, Liu H, Moran K, Wilson C, Roberts BJ, Nelson J. 2024. Sedimentation processes and morphological changes in a dredge pit and surrounding environment on Ship Shoal in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Geology. In press. DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107218.
2023
Keppeler FW, Engel AS, Hooper-Bùi LM, López-Duarte PC, Martin CW, Olin JA, Polito MJ, Rabalais NN, Roberts BJ, Swenson EM, Jensen OP. 2023. Coastal wetland restoration through the lens of Odum's theory of ecosystem development. Restoration Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/rec.14072. [link]
Okin KL, Able KW, de Mutsert K, Fodrie FJ, López-Duarte PC, Martin CW, McCann MJ, Olin JA, Polito MJ, Roberts BJ, Jensen OP. 2023. Fishery closures, more than predator release, increased persistence of nearshore fishes and invertebrates to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Estuaries and Coasts. DOI:10.1007/s12237-023-01246-2. [link]
Martin CW, Olin JA, López-Duarte P, Roberts BJ (editors). 2023. Gulf of Mexico estuaries: Ecology of the nearshore and coastal ecosystems impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-8325-2455-8. [link]
Martin CW, López-Duarte PC, Olin JA, Roberts BJ. 2023. Gulf of Mexico estuaries: ecology of the nearshore and coastal ecosystems impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Frontiers in Environmental Science 11:1203443. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1203443. [link]
Keppeler FW, Junker JR, Shaw MJ, Alford SB, Engel AS, Hooper-Bui LM, Jensen OP, Lamb K, López-Duarte PC, Martin CW, McDonald AM, Olin JA, Paterson AT, Polito MJ, Rabalais NN, Roberts BJ, Rossi RE, Swenson EM. 2023. Can created saltmarshes match biodiversity of pre-existing ones across scales? An assessment from microbes to predators. Ecosphere. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4461. [link]
Martin CW, McDonald AM, Valentine J, Roberts BJ. 2023. Towards relevant ecological experiments and assessments of coastal oil spill effects: insights from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10:1092097. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1092097. [link]
2022
Roberts BJ, Griffiths NA, Houser JN, Mulholland PJ. 2022. Response of stream metabolism to coarse woody debris additions along a catchment disturbance gradient. Ecosystems 25:828-842. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00687-9. [link]
Rossi RE, Schutte CA, Logarbo J, Bourgeois C, Roberts BJ. 2022. Gulf ribbed mussels increase plant growth, primary production and soil nitrogen cycling potential in salt marshes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 689: 33–46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14032. [link]
Justic D, Kourafalou V, Mariotti G, He S, Weisberg R, Androulidakis Y, Barker C, Bracco A, Dzwonkowski B, Hu C, Huang H, Jacobs G, Le Hénaff M, Liu Y, Morey S, Nittrouer J, Overton E, Paris CB, Roberts BJ, Rose K, Valle-Levinson A, Wiggert J. 2022. Transport processes in the Gulf of Mexico along the river-estuary-shelf-ocean continuum: a review of research from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. Estuaries and Coasts 45:621-657, DOI: 10.1007/s12237-021-01005-1 [link]
*Editor's Choice Paper for May 2022 Issue
**Highlighted in Febuary 2022 Issue of Coastal & Estuarine News (CESN) [link]
La Peyre MK, Leblanc Buie SC, Rossi RE, Roberts BJ. 2022. Long term assessments are critical to determining persistence and shoreline protection from oyster reef nature-based coastal defenses. Environmental Engineering 178: 106603. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106603. [link]
Sweet JA, Bargu S, Morrison W, Parsons M, Pathare MG, Roberts BJ, Soniat TM, Stauffer BA. 2022. Trends in phytoplankton dynamics in Louisiana estuaries: building a baseline to understand current and future change. Marine Pollution Bulletin 175: 113344. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113344 [link]
Grow A, Schutte CA, Roberts BJ. 2022. Fiddler crab burrowing increases salt marsh greenhouse gas emissions. Biogeochemistry 158: 73-90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-021-00886-5. [link]
Jones SF, Schutte CA, Roberts BJ, Thorne KM. 2022. Seasonal impoundment reduces nutrient cycling but not resilience to surface fire in a tidal wetland. Journal of Environmental Management 303: 114153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114153. [link]
McDonald AM, Martin CW, Rieucau G, Roberts BJ. 2022. Prior exposure to weathered oil influences foraging of an ecologically important saltmarsh resident fish. PeerJ 9:e12593 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12593. [link]
Zengel S, Weaver J, Mendelssohn I, Graham S, Lin Q, Hester M, Willis J, Silliman B, Fleeger J, McClenachan G, Rabalais N, Turner RE, Hughes R, Cebrian J, Deis DR, Rutherford N, Roberts BJ. 2022. Meta-analysis of salt marsh vegetation impacts and recovery: a synthesis following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Ecological Applications 32(1):e02489. DOI: 10.1002/eap.2489. [link]
2021
Bickley S, Helms BS, Isenberg D, Feminella JW, Roberts BJ, Griffiths NA. 2021. Lack of long-term effect of coarse woody debris dam restoration on ecosystem functioning and water quality in coastal plain streams. Freshwater Science 40(4): 593–607. DOI: 10.1086/717325 [link]
Keppeler FW, Olin JA, Lopez-Duarte P, Polito MJ, Hooper-Bùi L, Taylor SS, Rabalais NN, Fodrie FJ, Roberts BJ, Turner RE, Martin CW, Jensen OP. 2021. Body size, trophic position, and the coupling of different energy pathways in a saltmarsh landscape. Limnology and Oceanography Letters 6: 360-368. DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10212. [link]
Roberts BJ, Griffiths NA, Houser JN, Mulholland PJ. 2021. Response of stream metabolism to coarse woody debris additions along a catchment disturbance gradient. Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00687-9. [link]
Moyo S, Bennadji H, Laguarite D, Perez-Umphrey A, Snider AM, Bonisoli-Alquati A, Olin JA, Stouffer PC, Taylor SS, López-Duarte P, Roberts BJ, Hooper-Bui L, Polito MJ. 2021. Stable isotope analyses identify trophic niche partitioning between sympatric terrestrial vertebrates in coastal saltmarshes with differing oiling histories. PeerJ 9:e11392 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11392. [link]
Rogener MK, Hunter KS, Rabalais NN, Roberts BJ, Bracco A, Stewart FJ, Joye SB. 2021. Pelagic denitrification and methane oxidation in oxygen-depleted waters of the Louisiana Shelf. Biogeochemistry 154: 231-254. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-021-00778-8. [link]
Bernhard AE, Beltz J, Giblin AE, Roberts BJ. 2021. Biogeography of ammonia oxidizers in New England and Gulf of Mexico salt marshes and the potential importance of comammox. ISME Communications 1: 9 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s43705-021-00008-0. [link]
Sloey TM, Roberts BJ, Flaska SR, Nelson JA. 2021. Critical data gaps for understanding environmental impacts of discharging treated municipal wastewater into natural assimilation wetlands. Wetlands 41: 15. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-021-01396-8. [link]
2020
Martin CW, McDonald AM, Rieucau G, Roberts BJ. 2020. Previous oil exposure alters Gulf Killifish Fundulus grandis oil avoidance behavior. PeerJ 8:e10587 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10587. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10587 [link]
Schutte CA, Marton JM, Bernhard AE, Giblin AE, Roberts BJ. 2020. No evidence for long-term impacts of oil spill contamination on salt marsh soil nitrogen cycling processes. Estuaries and Coasts 43: 865–879. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-020-00699-z. [link]
**Highlighted in May 2020 Issue of Coastal & Estuarine News (CESN) [link]
2019
Kolker AS, McClure UE, Pahl J, Roberts BJ. 2019. Marine Science at High Tide: The impacts of rising waters on the people and places that study the sea. ECO magazine Sep/Oct 2019: 36-39. [link]
Bernhard AE, Chelsky A, Giblin AE, Roberts BJ. 2019. Influence of local and regional drivers on spatial and temporal variation of ammonia oxidizing communities in Gulf of Mexico salt marshes. Environmental Microbiology Reports 11(6): 825-834. DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12802. [link]
Jiang Z-P, Cai W-J, Lehrter J, Chen B, Ouyang Z, Le C, Roberts BJ, Hussain N, Scaboo MK, Zhang J, Xu Y. 2019. Spring net community production and its coupling with the CO2 dynamics in the surface water of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Biogeosciences 16: 3507–3525. DOI:
10.5194/bg-16-3507-2019 [link]
Jiang Z-P, Cai W-J, Chen B, Wang K, Han C, Roberts BJ, Hussain N, Li Q. 2019. Physical and biogeochemical controls on pH dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico during summer hypoxia. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 124: 5979– 5998. DOI: 10.1029/2019JC015140 [link]
Jensen OP, Martin CW, Oken KL, Fodrie FJ, López-Duarte PC, Able KW, Roberts BJ. 2019. Simultaneous estimation of dispersal and survival
of the gulf killifish Fundulus grandis from a batch tagging experiment. Marine Ecology Progress Series 624: 183-194. DOI: 10.3354/meps13040 [link]
2018
Rietl AJ, Sorrentino MG, Roberts BJ. 2018. Spatial distribution and morphological responses to predation in the salt marsh periwinkle. Ecosphere (6):e02316. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2316 [link]
McClain CR, Conover J, Conover J, Roberts BJ, Schutte V. 2018. Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON). Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 27: 11-13. DOI: 10.1002/lob.10220. [link]
Bernhardt ES, Heffernan JB, Grimm NB, Stanley EH, Harvey JW, Arroita M, Appling AP, Cohen MJ, McDowell WH, Hall Jr RO, Read JS, Roberts BJ, Stets EG, Yackulic CB. 2018. The Metabolic Regimes of Flowing Waters. Limnology and Oceanography 63(S1):S99-S118. DOI: 10.1002/lno.10726. [link]
2017
Hill TD, Roberts BJ. 2017. Effects of seasonality and environmental gradients on Spartina alterniflora allometry and primary production. Ecology and Evolution 7(22): 9676–9688. DOI:10.1002/ece3.3494. [link]
Walker B, Druffel ERM, Kolasinski J, Roberts BJ, Xu X, Rosenheim BE. 2017. Stable and radiocarbon isotopic composition of dissolved organic matter in the Gulf of Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters 44: 8424-8434. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL074155. [link]
Vastano AR, Able KW, Jensen OP, López-Duarte PC, Martin CW, Roberts BJ. 2017. Age Validation and Seasonal Growth Patterns of a Subtropical Marsh Fish: The Gulf Killifish, Fundulus grandis. Environmental Biology of Fishes 100(10):1315-1327. DOI: 10.1007/s10641-017-0645-7. [link]
McCann MJ, Able KW, Christian RR, Fodrie FJ, Jensen OP, Johnson JJ, Lopez-Duarte PC, Martin CW, Olin JA, Polito MJ, Roberts BJ, Ziegler SL. 2017. Key taxa in food web responses to stressors: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15(3): 142-149. DOI: 10.1002/fee.1474 [link]
2016
Mason OU, Canter E, Gillies LE, Paisie T and Roberts BJ. 2016. Mississippi River plume enriches microbial diversity in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:1048. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01048. [link]
Bernhard AE, Scheffer R, Giblin AE, Marton JM, Roberts BJ. 2016. Population Dynamics and Community Composition of Ammonia Oxidizers in Salt Marshes after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:854. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00854. [link]
Weber SC, Peterson L, Battles JJ, Roberts BJ, Peterson RN, Hollander DJ, Chanton JP, Joye SB, Montoya JP. 2016. Hercules 265 Rapid Response: Immediate ecosystem impacts of a natural gas blowout incident. Deep Sea Research Part II 129:66-76. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.11.010. [link]
2015
Roberts BJ, Doty SM. 2015. Spatial and temporal patterns of benthic respiration and net nutrient fluxes in the Atchafalaya River Delta Estuary. Estuaries and Coasts 38(6):1918-1936. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-015-9965-z. [link]
Middleton BA, Johnson D, Roberts BJ. 2015. Hydrologic remediation for the Deepwater Horizon Incident drove ancillary primary production increase in coastal swamps. Ecohydrology 8(5):838-850. DOI: 10.1002/eco.1625. [link]
Marton JM, Roberts BJ, Bernhard AE, Giblin AE. 2015. Spatial and temporal variability of nitrification potential and ammonia-oxidizer abundances in Louisiana salt marshes. Estuaries and Coasts 38(6):1824-1837. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-015-9943-5. [link]
Able KW, Lopez-Duarte PC, Fodrie FJ, Jensen OP, Martin CW, Roberts BJ, Valenti J, O’Connor K, Halbert SC. 2015. Fish Assemblages in Louisiana Salt Marshes: Effects of the Macondo Oil Spill. Estuaries and Coasts 38(5):1385-1398. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-014-9890-6. [link]
2014
Joye SB, Montoya JP, Murawski SA, Özgökmen TM, Wade TL, Montuoro R, Roberts BJ, Hollander DJ, Jeffrey WH, Chanton JP. 2014. A Rapid Response Study of the Hercules Gas Well Blowout. Eos 95(38): 341-342. DOI: 10.1002/2014EO380002 [link]
Hitchcock G, Lenes J, Benner R, Daly K, Murrell M, Roberts B, Walsh J. 2014. Chapter 7: Respiration. In: Benway HW, Coble PG (Editors). Report of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Carbon Cycle Synthesis Workshop, March 27-28, 2013, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program and North American Carbon Program, pp. 39-43. [link]
Hooper-Bui, LM, Rabalais NN, Engel AS, Turner RE, McClenachan G, Roberts B, Overton EB, Justic D, Strudivant K, Brown K, Conover J. 2014. Overview of Research into the Coastal Effects of the Macondo Blowout from the Coastal Waters Consortium: A GoMRI Consortium. International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings May 2014, Vol. 2014, No. 1 (May 2014) pp. 604-617. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2014.1.604. [link]
Marton JM and Roberts BJ. 2014. Spatial variability in phosphorus sorption dynamics in Louisiana salt marshes. JGR-Biogeosciences 119: 451–465. DOI: 10.1002/2013JG002486. [link]
2013
Rosenheim BE, Roe KE, Roberts BJ, Kolker AS, Allison MA, Johannesson KH. 2013. River discharge influences on particulate organic carbon age structure in the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River System. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 27:1-13. DOI: 10.1002/gbc.20018.[link]
2012
Lutz BD, Bernhardt ES, Roberts BJ, Mulholland PJ, Cory RM. 2012 Distinguishing terrestrial and autochthonous organic matter dynamics in a forested stream using kinetic enrichments and fluorescence spectroscopy. Limnology and Oceanography 57(1): 76-89. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.1.0076. [link]
2011
Lutz BD, Bernhardt ES, Roberts BJ, Mulholland PJ. 2011. Examining the coupling of carbon and nitrogen cycles in Appalachian streams: the role of dissolved organic nitrogen. Ecology 92(3): 720-732. DOI: 10.1890/10-0899.1 . [link]
Hill WR, Roberts BJ, Francoeur SN, Fanta SE. 2011. Resource energy and the autotrophic: heterotrophic balance in experimental streams. Journal of Ecology 99:454-463. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01785.x [link]
2010
Fanta SE, Hill WR, Smith TB, Roberts BJ. 2010. Applying the light : nutrient hypothesis to stream periphyton. Freshwater Biology DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02309.x [link]
2009
Hill WR, Fanta SE, Roberts BJ. 2009. Quantifying phosphorus and light effects in stream algae. Limnology and Oceanography 54(1):368-380. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.1.0368. [link]
Mulholland PJ, Roberts BJ, Hill WR, Smith JG. 2009. Stream ecosystem responses to the 2007 spring freeze in the Southeastern United States: unexpected effects of climate change. Global Change Biology 15(7): 1767-1776. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01864.x [link]
2008
Hill WR, Fanta SE, Roberts BJ. 2008. 13C dynamics in benthic algae: effects of light, phosphorus, and biomass development. Limnology and Oceanography 53(4): 1217-1226. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.4.1217. [link]
2007
Roberts BJ, Mulholland PJ. 2007. In-stream biotic control on nutrient biogeochemistry in a forested headwater stream, West Fork of Walker Branch. JGR-Biogeosciences 112, G04002, DOI:10.1029/2007JG000422 [link]
Roberts BJ, Mulholland PJ, Hill WR. 2007. Multiple scales of temporal variability in ecosystem metabolism rates: results from two years of continuous monitoring in a forested headwater stream. Ecosystems 10(4): 588-606. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9059-2 [link]
*Awarded Hynes Award for New Investigators by the North American Benthological Society (now Society for Freshwater Science)
Roberts BJ, Mulholland PJ, Houser JN. 2007. Effects of upland disturbance and in-stream restorations on hydrodynamics and ammonium uptake in headwater streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 26(1):38-53. DOI: 10.1899/0887-3593(2007)26[38:EOUDAI]2.0.CO;2. [link]
2006
Roberts BJ, Howarth RW. 2006. Nutrient and light availability regulate the relative contribution of autotrophs and heterotrophs to respiration in freshwater pelagic ecosystems. Limnology and Oceanography 51(1): 288-298. DOI:10.4319/lo.2006.51.1.0288. [link]
2000
Roberts BJ, Russ ME, Ostrom NE. 2000. Rapid and precise determination of δ18O of dissolved and gaseous di-oxygen via gas chromatography-isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Environmental Science and Technology 34(11):2337-2341. DOI: 10.1021/es991109d. [link]
1997
Heberlig L, Valiela I, Roberts BJ, Soucy LA. 1997. A field verification of the Waquoit Bay Nitrogen Loading Model. Biological Bulletin 193: 294-295. DOI: 10.1086/BBLv193n2p294. [link]
Lee RY, Joye SB, Roberts BJ, Valiela I. 1997. Release of N2 and N2O from salt marsh sediments subject to different land-derived nitrogen loads. Biological Bulletin 193:292-293. DOI: 10.1086/BBLv193n2p292. [link]
PDFs are available for all of the published articles listed below. The links at the end of each article will take you directly to the article on the journal's website. If the article is a free-access publication or if you or your library has an on-line subscription to the journal, you will be able to download and/or print the article directly from the link. If you do not have access to the pdf and would like a reprint of the article, please send an email to broberts (at) lumcon.edu
(underline indicates student author, italics indicates post-doc author)
2024
Gartelman A, Xu K, Maiti K, Liu H, Moran K, Wilson C, Roberts BJ, Nelson J. 2024. Sedimentation processes and morphological changes in a dredge pit and surrounding environment on Ship Shoal in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Geology. In press. DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107218.
2023
Keppeler FW, Engel AS, Hooper-Bùi LM, López-Duarte PC, Martin CW, Olin JA, Polito MJ, Rabalais NN, Roberts BJ, Swenson EM, Jensen OP. 2023. Coastal wetland restoration through the lens of Odum's theory of ecosystem development. Restoration Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/rec.14072. [link]
Okin KL, Able KW, de Mutsert K, Fodrie FJ, López-Duarte PC, Martin CW, McCann MJ, Olin JA, Polito MJ, Roberts BJ, Jensen OP. 2023. Fishery closures, more than predator release, increased persistence of nearshore fishes and invertebrates to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Estuaries and Coasts. DOI:10.1007/s12237-023-01246-2. [link]
Martin CW, Olin JA, López-Duarte P, Roberts BJ (editors). 2023. Gulf of Mexico estuaries: Ecology of the nearshore and coastal ecosystems impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-8325-2455-8. [link]
Martin CW, López-Duarte PC, Olin JA, Roberts BJ. 2023. Gulf of Mexico estuaries: ecology of the nearshore and coastal ecosystems impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Frontiers in Environmental Science 11:1203443. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1203443. [link]
Keppeler FW, Junker JR, Shaw MJ, Alford SB, Engel AS, Hooper-Bui LM, Jensen OP, Lamb K, López-Duarte PC, Martin CW, McDonald AM, Olin JA, Paterson AT, Polito MJ, Rabalais NN, Roberts BJ, Rossi RE, Swenson EM. 2023. Can created saltmarshes match biodiversity of pre-existing ones across scales? An assessment from microbes to predators. Ecosphere. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4461. [link]
Martin CW, McDonald AM, Valentine J, Roberts BJ. 2023. Towards relevant ecological experiments and assessments of coastal oil spill effects: insights from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10:1092097. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1092097. [link]
2022
Roberts BJ, Griffiths NA, Houser JN, Mulholland PJ. 2022. Response of stream metabolism to coarse woody debris additions along a catchment disturbance gradient. Ecosystems 25:828-842. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00687-9. [link]
Rossi RE, Schutte CA, Logarbo J, Bourgeois C, Roberts BJ. 2022. Gulf ribbed mussels increase plant growth, primary production and soil nitrogen cycling potential in salt marshes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 689: 33–46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14032. [link]
Justic D, Kourafalou V, Mariotti G, He S, Weisberg R, Androulidakis Y, Barker C, Bracco A, Dzwonkowski B, Hu C, Huang H, Jacobs G, Le Hénaff M, Liu Y, Morey S, Nittrouer J, Overton E, Paris CB, Roberts BJ, Rose K, Valle-Levinson A, Wiggert J. 2022. Transport processes in the Gulf of Mexico along the river-estuary-shelf-ocean continuum: a review of research from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. Estuaries and Coasts 45:621-657, DOI: 10.1007/s12237-021-01005-1 [link]
*Editor's Choice Paper for May 2022 Issue
**Highlighted in Febuary 2022 Issue of Coastal & Estuarine News (CESN) [link]
La Peyre MK, Leblanc Buie SC, Rossi RE, Roberts BJ. 2022. Long term assessments are critical to determining persistence and shoreline protection from oyster reef nature-based coastal defenses. Environmental Engineering 178: 106603. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106603. [link]
Sweet JA, Bargu S, Morrison W, Parsons M, Pathare MG, Roberts BJ, Soniat TM, Stauffer BA. 2022. Trends in phytoplankton dynamics in Louisiana estuaries: building a baseline to understand current and future change. Marine Pollution Bulletin 175: 113344. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113344 [link]
Grow A, Schutte CA, Roberts BJ. 2022. Fiddler crab burrowing increases salt marsh greenhouse gas emissions. Biogeochemistry 158: 73-90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-021-00886-5. [link]
Jones SF, Schutte CA, Roberts BJ, Thorne KM. 2022. Seasonal impoundment reduces nutrient cycling but not resilience to surface fire in a tidal wetland. Journal of Environmental Management 303: 114153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114153. [link]
McDonald AM, Martin CW, Rieucau G, Roberts BJ. 2022. Prior exposure to weathered oil influences foraging of an ecologically important saltmarsh resident fish. PeerJ 9:e12593 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12593. [link]
Zengel S, Weaver J, Mendelssohn I, Graham S, Lin Q, Hester M, Willis J, Silliman B, Fleeger J, McClenachan G, Rabalais N, Turner RE, Hughes R, Cebrian J, Deis DR, Rutherford N, Roberts BJ. 2022. Meta-analysis of salt marsh vegetation impacts and recovery: a synthesis following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Ecological Applications 32(1):e02489. DOI: 10.1002/eap.2489. [link]
2021
Bickley S, Helms BS, Isenberg D, Feminella JW, Roberts BJ, Griffiths NA. 2021. Lack of long-term effect of coarse woody debris dam restoration on ecosystem functioning and water quality in coastal plain streams. Freshwater Science 40(4): 593–607. DOI: 10.1086/717325 [link]
Keppeler FW, Olin JA, Lopez-Duarte P, Polito MJ, Hooper-Bùi L, Taylor SS, Rabalais NN, Fodrie FJ, Roberts BJ, Turner RE, Martin CW, Jensen OP. 2021. Body size, trophic position, and the coupling of different energy pathways in a saltmarsh landscape. Limnology and Oceanography Letters 6: 360-368. DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10212. [link]
Roberts BJ, Griffiths NA, Houser JN, Mulholland PJ. 2021. Response of stream metabolism to coarse woody debris additions along a catchment disturbance gradient. Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00687-9. [link]
Moyo S, Bennadji H, Laguarite D, Perez-Umphrey A, Snider AM, Bonisoli-Alquati A, Olin JA, Stouffer PC, Taylor SS, López-Duarte P, Roberts BJ, Hooper-Bui L, Polito MJ. 2021. Stable isotope analyses identify trophic niche partitioning between sympatric terrestrial vertebrates in coastal saltmarshes with differing oiling histories. PeerJ 9:e11392 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11392. [link]
Rogener MK, Hunter KS, Rabalais NN, Roberts BJ, Bracco A, Stewart FJ, Joye SB. 2021. Pelagic denitrification and methane oxidation in oxygen-depleted waters of the Louisiana Shelf. Biogeochemistry 154: 231-254. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-021-00778-8. [link]
Bernhard AE, Beltz J, Giblin AE, Roberts BJ. 2021. Biogeography of ammonia oxidizers in New England and Gulf of Mexico salt marshes and the potential importance of comammox. ISME Communications 1: 9 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s43705-021-00008-0. [link]
Sloey TM, Roberts BJ, Flaska SR, Nelson JA. 2021. Critical data gaps for understanding environmental impacts of discharging treated municipal wastewater into natural assimilation wetlands. Wetlands 41: 15. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-021-01396-8. [link]
2020
Martin CW, McDonald AM, Rieucau G, Roberts BJ. 2020. Previous oil exposure alters Gulf Killifish Fundulus grandis oil avoidance behavior. PeerJ 8:e10587 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10587. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10587 [link]
Schutte CA, Marton JM, Bernhard AE, Giblin AE, Roberts BJ. 2020. No evidence for long-term impacts of oil spill contamination on salt marsh soil nitrogen cycling processes. Estuaries and Coasts 43: 865–879. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-020-00699-z. [link]
**Highlighted in May 2020 Issue of Coastal & Estuarine News (CESN) [link]
2019
Kolker AS, McClure UE, Pahl J, Roberts BJ. 2019. Marine Science at High Tide: The impacts of rising waters on the people and places that study the sea. ECO magazine Sep/Oct 2019: 36-39. [link]
Bernhard AE, Chelsky A, Giblin AE, Roberts BJ. 2019. Influence of local and regional drivers on spatial and temporal variation of ammonia oxidizing communities in Gulf of Mexico salt marshes. Environmental Microbiology Reports 11(6): 825-834. DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12802. [link]
Jiang Z-P, Cai W-J, Lehrter J, Chen B, Ouyang Z, Le C, Roberts BJ, Hussain N, Scaboo MK, Zhang J, Xu Y. 2019. Spring net community production and its coupling with the CO2 dynamics in the surface water of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Biogeosciences 16: 3507–3525. DOI:
10.5194/bg-16-3507-2019 [link]
Jiang Z-P, Cai W-J, Chen B, Wang K, Han C, Roberts BJ, Hussain N, Li Q. 2019. Physical and biogeochemical controls on pH dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico during summer hypoxia. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 124: 5979– 5998. DOI: 10.1029/2019JC015140 [link]
Jensen OP, Martin CW, Oken KL, Fodrie FJ, López-Duarte PC, Able KW, Roberts BJ. 2019. Simultaneous estimation of dispersal and survival
of the gulf killifish Fundulus grandis from a batch tagging experiment. Marine Ecology Progress Series 624: 183-194. DOI: 10.3354/meps13040 [link]
2018
Rietl AJ, Sorrentino MG, Roberts BJ. 2018. Spatial distribution and morphological responses to predation in the salt marsh periwinkle. Ecosphere (6):e02316. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2316 [link]
McClain CR, Conover J, Conover J, Roberts BJ, Schutte V. 2018. Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON). Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 27: 11-13. DOI: 10.1002/lob.10220. [link]
Bernhardt ES, Heffernan JB, Grimm NB, Stanley EH, Harvey JW, Arroita M, Appling AP, Cohen MJ, McDowell WH, Hall Jr RO, Read JS, Roberts BJ, Stets EG, Yackulic CB. 2018. The Metabolic Regimes of Flowing Waters. Limnology and Oceanography 63(S1):S99-S118. DOI: 10.1002/lno.10726. [link]
2017
Hill TD, Roberts BJ. 2017. Effects of seasonality and environmental gradients on Spartina alterniflora allometry and primary production. Ecology and Evolution 7(22): 9676–9688. DOI:10.1002/ece3.3494. [link]
Walker B, Druffel ERM, Kolasinski J, Roberts BJ, Xu X, Rosenheim BE. 2017. Stable and radiocarbon isotopic composition of dissolved organic matter in the Gulf of Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters 44: 8424-8434. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL074155. [link]
Vastano AR, Able KW, Jensen OP, López-Duarte PC, Martin CW, Roberts BJ. 2017. Age Validation and Seasonal Growth Patterns of a Subtropical Marsh Fish: The Gulf Killifish, Fundulus grandis. Environmental Biology of Fishes 100(10):1315-1327. DOI: 10.1007/s10641-017-0645-7. [link]
McCann MJ, Able KW, Christian RR, Fodrie FJ, Jensen OP, Johnson JJ, Lopez-Duarte PC, Martin CW, Olin JA, Polito MJ, Roberts BJ, Ziegler SL. 2017. Key taxa in food web responses to stressors: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15(3): 142-149. DOI: 10.1002/fee.1474 [link]
2016
Mason OU, Canter E, Gillies LE, Paisie T and Roberts BJ. 2016. Mississippi River plume enriches microbial diversity in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:1048. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01048. [link]
Bernhard AE, Scheffer R, Giblin AE, Marton JM, Roberts BJ. 2016. Population Dynamics and Community Composition of Ammonia Oxidizers in Salt Marshes after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:854. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00854. [link]
Weber SC, Peterson L, Battles JJ, Roberts BJ, Peterson RN, Hollander DJ, Chanton JP, Joye SB, Montoya JP. 2016. Hercules 265 Rapid Response: Immediate ecosystem impacts of a natural gas blowout incident. Deep Sea Research Part II 129:66-76. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.11.010. [link]
2015
Roberts BJ, Doty SM. 2015. Spatial and temporal patterns of benthic respiration and net nutrient fluxes in the Atchafalaya River Delta Estuary. Estuaries and Coasts 38(6):1918-1936. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-015-9965-z. [link]
Middleton BA, Johnson D, Roberts BJ. 2015. Hydrologic remediation for the Deepwater Horizon Incident drove ancillary primary production increase in coastal swamps. Ecohydrology 8(5):838-850. DOI: 10.1002/eco.1625. [link]
Marton JM, Roberts BJ, Bernhard AE, Giblin AE. 2015. Spatial and temporal variability of nitrification potential and ammonia-oxidizer abundances in Louisiana salt marshes. Estuaries and Coasts 38(6):1824-1837. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-015-9943-5. [link]
Able KW, Lopez-Duarte PC, Fodrie FJ, Jensen OP, Martin CW, Roberts BJ, Valenti J, O’Connor K, Halbert SC. 2015. Fish Assemblages in Louisiana Salt Marshes: Effects of the Macondo Oil Spill. Estuaries and Coasts 38(5):1385-1398. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-014-9890-6. [link]
2014
Joye SB, Montoya JP, Murawski SA, Özgökmen TM, Wade TL, Montuoro R, Roberts BJ, Hollander DJ, Jeffrey WH, Chanton JP. 2014. A Rapid Response Study of the Hercules Gas Well Blowout. Eos 95(38): 341-342. DOI: 10.1002/2014EO380002 [link]
Hitchcock G, Lenes J, Benner R, Daly K, Murrell M, Roberts B, Walsh J. 2014. Chapter 7: Respiration. In: Benway HW, Coble PG (Editors). Report of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Carbon Cycle Synthesis Workshop, March 27-28, 2013, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program and North American Carbon Program, pp. 39-43. [link]
Hooper-Bui, LM, Rabalais NN, Engel AS, Turner RE, McClenachan G, Roberts B, Overton EB, Justic D, Strudivant K, Brown K, Conover J. 2014. Overview of Research into the Coastal Effects of the Macondo Blowout from the Coastal Waters Consortium: A GoMRI Consortium. International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings May 2014, Vol. 2014, No. 1 (May 2014) pp. 604-617. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2014.1.604. [link]
Marton JM and Roberts BJ. 2014. Spatial variability in phosphorus sorption dynamics in Louisiana salt marshes. JGR-Biogeosciences 119: 451–465. DOI: 10.1002/2013JG002486. [link]
2013
Rosenheim BE, Roe KE, Roberts BJ, Kolker AS, Allison MA, Johannesson KH. 2013. River discharge influences on particulate organic carbon age structure in the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River System. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 27:1-13. DOI: 10.1002/gbc.20018.[link]
2012
Lutz BD, Bernhardt ES, Roberts BJ, Mulholland PJ, Cory RM. 2012 Distinguishing terrestrial and autochthonous organic matter dynamics in a forested stream using kinetic enrichments and fluorescence spectroscopy. Limnology and Oceanography 57(1): 76-89. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.1.0076. [link]
2011
Lutz BD, Bernhardt ES, Roberts BJ, Mulholland PJ. 2011. Examining the coupling of carbon and nitrogen cycles in Appalachian streams: the role of dissolved organic nitrogen. Ecology 92(3): 720-732. DOI: 10.1890/10-0899.1 . [link]
Hill WR, Roberts BJ, Francoeur SN, Fanta SE. 2011. Resource energy and the autotrophic: heterotrophic balance in experimental streams. Journal of Ecology 99:454-463. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01785.x [link]
2010
Fanta SE, Hill WR, Smith TB, Roberts BJ. 2010. Applying the light : nutrient hypothesis to stream periphyton. Freshwater Biology DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02309.x [link]
2009
Hill WR, Fanta SE, Roberts BJ. 2009. Quantifying phosphorus and light effects in stream algae. Limnology and Oceanography 54(1):368-380. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.1.0368. [link]
Mulholland PJ, Roberts BJ, Hill WR, Smith JG. 2009. Stream ecosystem responses to the 2007 spring freeze in the Southeastern United States: unexpected effects of climate change. Global Change Biology 15(7): 1767-1776. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01864.x [link]
2008
Hill WR, Fanta SE, Roberts BJ. 2008. 13C dynamics in benthic algae: effects of light, phosphorus, and biomass development. Limnology and Oceanography 53(4): 1217-1226. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.4.1217. [link]
2007
Roberts BJ, Mulholland PJ. 2007. In-stream biotic control on nutrient biogeochemistry in a forested headwater stream, West Fork of Walker Branch. JGR-Biogeosciences 112, G04002, DOI:10.1029/2007JG000422 [link]
Roberts BJ, Mulholland PJ, Hill WR. 2007. Multiple scales of temporal variability in ecosystem metabolism rates: results from two years of continuous monitoring in a forested headwater stream. Ecosystems 10(4): 588-606. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9059-2 [link]
*Awarded Hynes Award for New Investigators by the North American Benthological Society (now Society for Freshwater Science)
Roberts BJ, Mulholland PJ, Houser JN. 2007. Effects of upland disturbance and in-stream restorations on hydrodynamics and ammonium uptake in headwater streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 26(1):38-53. DOI: 10.1899/0887-3593(2007)26[38:EOUDAI]2.0.CO;2. [link]
2006
Roberts BJ, Howarth RW. 2006. Nutrient and light availability regulate the relative contribution of autotrophs and heterotrophs to respiration in freshwater pelagic ecosystems. Limnology and Oceanography 51(1): 288-298. DOI:10.4319/lo.2006.51.1.0288. [link]
2000
Roberts BJ, Russ ME, Ostrom NE. 2000. Rapid and precise determination of δ18O of dissolved and gaseous di-oxygen via gas chromatography-isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Environmental Science and Technology 34(11):2337-2341. DOI: 10.1021/es991109d. [link]
1997
Heberlig L, Valiela I, Roberts BJ, Soucy LA. 1997. A field verification of the Waquoit Bay Nitrogen Loading Model. Biological Bulletin 193: 294-295. DOI: 10.1086/BBLv193n2p294. [link]
Lee RY, Joye SB, Roberts BJ, Valiela I. 1997. Release of N2 and N2O from salt marsh sediments subject to different land-derived nitrogen loads. Biological Bulletin 193:292-293. DOI: 10.1086/BBLv193n2p292. [link]