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Jennifer Rehage

Jennifer Rehage

FCE Site Role
Principal Investigator

Affiliation
Florida International University

Research
Aquatic ecology

FCE Working groups
Consumers, Consumer-Mediated Nutrient Transport

  • Contact
    • Mailing address:
    • Department of Earth and Environment
    • Florida International University
    • 11200 SW 8th St, AHC5 365
    • Miami, FL 33199
  • Recent FCE Leveraged Projects
    Understanding the drivers of algal blooms in Florida Bay

    Authors: Rehage, J.
    Funding organization: National Park Service - Department of the Interior, South Florida Water Management District
    Time period: 01 Jun 2023 - 01 Sep 2026

    Redesign of the Everglades fishing guide reporting system

    Authors: Rehage, J., R.O. Santos
    Funding organization: National Park Service - Department of the Interior
    Time period: 01 Dec 2022 - 01 Jan 2025

    Role of marsh-mangrove interface habitats as aquatic refuges for wetland fishes & other aquatic animals

    Authors: Rehage, J.
    Funding organization: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
    Time period: 01 Apr 2023 - 01 Apr 2024

    Effects of freshwater inflows and seagrass die-off on recreational fisheries: A trophic & movement ecology approach

    Authors: Rehage, J., R.O. Santos, C.R. Kelble, M.O. Hall, J. Nelson
    Funding organization: Everglades National Park
    Time period: 01 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2023

    An examination of the risk of pharmaceuticals in South Florida: extent and pathways of exposure in a valuable recreational fishery, bonefish

    Authors: Rehage, J., R.O. Santos, W.R. James
    Funding organization: EPA
    Time period: 01 Jan 2022 - 01 Jan 2023

    Effects of seagrass die off on recreational fisheries: movement effects

    Authors: Rehage, J., R.O. Santos, J. Rodemann
    Funding organization: Ocean Tracking Network
    Time period: 01 Jan 2020 - 01 Jan 2023

    Impacts of submarine groundwater discharge on seagrass in Florida Bay

    Authors: Carroll, J., J.K. Kelly, J.S. Rehage, B. Furman
    Funding organization: EPA
    Time period: 01 Jan 2021 - 01 Jan 2023

    Role of marsh-mangrove interface habitats as aquatic refuges for wetland fishes & other aquatic animals. RECOVER (Restoration Coordination & Verification), Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan

    Authors: Rehage, J.
    Funding organization: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
    Time period: 01 Jan 2020 - 01 Jan 2022

    Role of marsh-mangrove habitats as refuges for dry-down refuges for marsh fishes

    Authors: Rehage, J.
    Funding organization: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
    Time period: 01 Jan 2008 - 31 Dec 2021

    Abiotic effects on movement of Spotted Seatrout and Grey Snapper in response to a seagrass die-off

    Authors: Rehage, J., J. Rodemann, R.O. Santos
    Funding organization: FACT, Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA)
    Time period: 01 Jan 2020 - 01 Jan 2021

    Role of Florida Bay coastal embayments as fish habitat: linking the trophic and movement ecology of recreational fisheries

    Authors: Rehage, J., T.A. Frankovich, R.O. Santos
    Funding organization: South Florida Water Management District
    Time period: 01 Jan 2019 - 01 Jan 2021

    Examining the threat of pharmaceuticals to South Florida bonefish

    Authors: Rehage, J., R.O. Santos, T. Brodin, J. Fick, P. Cardinali
    Funding organization: Bonefish & Tarpon Trust
    Time period: 01 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2020

  • Recent FCE Presentations

    Goldner, V., W.R. James, J. Rodemann, R.O. Santos, M. White, C. Eggenberger, R. Boucek, and J.S. Rehage. 2024. Gone but not forgotten: collaborative telemetry network provides insight into out-of-system movements of common snook. 2024 Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) Symposium, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, September 25, 2024.

    White, M., W.R. James, R.O. Santos, J. Massie, and J.S. Rehage. 2024. Temporal variability in estuarine consumer movement strategies: ecological causes and consequences. 2024 Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) Symposium, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, September 24, 2024.

    James, W.R., J. Rodemann, J.S. Rehage, and R.O. Santos. 2024. Widespread seagrass loss leads to ecosystem-scale decrease in trophic function. 15th International Seagrass Biology Workshop, Napoli, Italy, June 19, 2024.

    Rodemann, J., W.R. James, D. Gann, J.S. Rehage, and R.O. Santos. 2024. Development of an upscaled submerged aquatic vegetation leaf cover model for long-term time series analysis in Florida Bay. 15th International Seagrass Biology Workshop, Napoli, Italy, June 19, 2024.

    Distrubell, A., N. Castillo, W.R. James, S. Trabelsi, R.O. Santos, D. Cerveny, R. Rezek, R. Boucek, A.J. Adams, J. Fick, T. Brodin, and J.S. Rehage. 2024. A Statewide survey of pharmaceutical exposure: Red Drum in Florida Estuaries. 44th Annual Meeting of the Florida Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, St. Augustine Beach, Florida, May 15, 2024.

    Eggenberger, C., N. Viadero, R.O. Santos, R.M. Price, W.R. James, C.J. Madden, Y.P. Papastamatiou, and J.S. Rehage. 2024. Seascape Heterogeneity drives movement strategy selection in estuarine predators. 44th Annual Meeting of the Florida Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, St. Augustine Beach, Florida, May 15, 2024.

    Eggenberger, C., R.O. Santos, and J.S. Rehage. 2024. Does movement strategy selection drive trophic niche separation in recreational mesoconsumer fishes? 44th Annual Meeting of the Florida Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, St. Augustine Beach, Florida, May 15, 2024.

    Badlowski, G., M. Coppola, W.R. James, J.S. Rehage, and R.O. Santos. 2024. A multi-level approach to assessing nektonic biodiversity and community structure of seagrass seascapes. 2024 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, April 29, 2024.

    Eggenberger, C., N. Viadero, R.O. Santos, R.M. Price, Y.P. Papastamatiou, and J.S. Rehage. 2024. Seascape heterogeneity drives movement strategy selection in estuarine predators. 2024 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, April 29, 2024.

    Gomez Gonzalez, E., J. Nelson, J. Sturges, J.S. Rehage, R.O. Santos, and W.R. James. 2024. LTER Cross-site comparison of fiddler crab resource use along the U.S. Atlantic following range expansion. 2024 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, April 29, 2024.

    White, M., J.S. Rehage, B.A. Strickland, J. Peters, D.E. Burkepile, J. Allgeier, A. Stier, A. Chen, A. Stajner, A. Spivak, M.C.N. Castorani, D. Capone, G. Cawley, J. Nelson, J. Caselle, K. Emery, L. Enright, R. Hopcroft, S. Grier, and N. Lemoine. 2024. Consumer nutrient dynamics of coastal and marine ecosystems in the wake of global change. 2024 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, April 29, 2024.

    Castillo, N., J.S. Rehage, W.R. James, T. Brodin, R.O. Santos, J. Fick, R. Rezek, D. Cerveny, R. Boucek, A.J. Adams, T. Goldberg, L. Campbell, A. Perez, J. Schmitter-Soto, and J. Lewis. 2023. Understanding pharmaceutical exposure and the potential for effects in marine biota: a survey of bonefish (Albula vulpes) across the Caribbean Basin. SETAC North America 44th Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, November 16, 2023.

    Rezek, R., J. Massie, J. Nelson, R.O. Santos, N. Viadero, W.R. James, R. Boucek, and J.S. Rehage. 2023. Temperature and flooding duration mediate the structure of a floodplain spatial prey subsidy. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Conference, Portland, Oregon, November 15, 2023.

    James, W.R., M. Coppola, G. Badlowski, R. Rezek, J.S. Rehage, and R.O. Santos. 2023. Spatiotemporal patterns of seagrass seascape state and stability in South Florida. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Conference, Portland, Oregon, November 14, 2023.

    Kahmann, G., J.S. Rehage, J. Massie, J. Nelson, R.O. Santos, N. Viadero, W.R. James, R. Boucek, D. Crane, J. Hutchens, and R. Rezek. 2023. Population trends and trophic ecology of invasive peacock eels (Macrognathus siamensis) in the Florida Everglades. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Conference, Portland, Oregon, November 13, 2023.

    Eggenberger, C., R.O. Santos, T.A. Frankovich, W.R. James, C.J. Madden, and J.S. Rehage. 2023. Environmental variation as driver of Common Snook and Atlantic Tarpon movement strategy selection in the Coastal Everglades. Florida Chapter American Fisheries Society Meeting, St. Augustine, Florida, May 9, 2023.

    James, W.R., J. Rodemann, G. Badlowski, V. Bautista, N. Castillo, S.V. Costa, A. Distrubell, C. Eggenberger, L. Kabat, J. Linenfelser, N. Rivas, M. Sandquist, J. Sturges, S. Trabelsi, M. White, J.S. Rehage, and R.O. Santos. 2023. Seasonal variation in trophic niche size and overlap in a seagrass food web. Benthic Ecology Meeting, Miami, Florida, April 29, 2023.

    Santos, R.O., W.R. James, C. Eggenberger, C.J. Madden, and J.S. Rehage. 2023. Testing for overlap in juvenile tarpon and snook resource use: the role of hydrological connectivity and nutrients. Benthic Ecology Meeting, Miami, Florida, April 26, 2023 - April 29, 2023.

    Rehage, J.S.. 2023. Temperature and flooding duration mediate the structure of a marsh prey subsidy in the coastal Everglades. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER) Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 19, 2023.

    Eggenberger, C., R.O. Santos, T.A. Frankovich, W.R. James, C.J. Madden, and J.S. Rehage. 2023. Environmental variation as driver of Common Snook and Atlantic Tarpon movement strategy selection in the Coastal Everglades. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER) Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 17, 2023 - April 20, 2023.

    Eggenberger, C., R.O. Santos, and J.S. Rehage. 2023. Movement Patterns and Habitat Selection of Sub-Adult Atlantic Tarpon in the Coastal Everglades. CREST CAChE All Hands Meeting, Coral Gables, Florida, April 1, 2023.

    White, M., J.S. Rehage, R.O. Santos, R. Rezek, J. Massie, and N. Viadero. 2023. When worlds collide: Consumer nutrient dynamics in the Florida Coastal Everglades. 2023 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, February 27, 2023.