Florida Coastal Everglades LTER - Personnel Profiles

Frank Mazzotti

FCE Site Role
Project Collaborator

Affiliation
University of Florida

Research
Conservation planning, endangered species, impacts of human activities on fish and wildlife resources, landscape ecology, environmental education, invasive species

Contact
- Mailing address:
- University of Florida
- IFAS, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center
- 3205 College Avenue
- Davie, FL 33314-7719
- Email: fjma@ufl.edu

FCE Publications (12)
Journal Articles
Strickland, B.A., P.J. Flood, J. Kline, F.J. Mazzotti, M.R. Heithaus, and J.C. Trexler. 2023. An apex predator engineers wetland food-web heterogeneity through nutrient enrichment and habitat modification. Journal of Animal Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13939.

Strickland, B.A., K.R. Gastrich, J. Beauchamp, F.J. Mazzotti, and M.R. Heithaus. 2022. Effects of hydrology on the movements of a large-bodied predator in a managed freshwater marsh. Hydrobiologia 849: 861-878.

Strickland, B.A., K.R. Gastrich, F.J. Mazzotti, J. Massie, V.A. Paz, N. Viadero, J.S. Rehage, and M.R. Heithaus. 2020. Variation in movement behavior of alligators after a major hurricane. Animal Biotelemetry 8: 7.

Catano, C.P., S.S. Romanach, J.M. Beerens, L. Pearlstine, L.A. Brandt, K.M. Hart, F.J. Mazzotti, and J.C. Trexler. 2015. Using scenario planning to evaluate the impacts of climate change on wildlife populations and communities in the Florida Everglades. Environmental Management 55: 807-823.

Rosenblatt, A.E., J. Nifong, M.R. Heithaus, F.J. Mazzotti, M.S. Cherkiss, B.M. Jeffery, R.M. Elsey, R.A. Decker, B. Silliman, L.J. GuilletteJr., R.H. Lowers, and J.C. Larson. 2015. Factors affecting individual foraging specialization and temporal diet stability across the range of a large "generalist" apex predator. Oecologia 178: 5-16.

Green, T.W., D.H. Slone, E. Swain, M.S. Cherkiss, M. Lohmann, F.J. Mazzotti, and K.G. Rice. 2014. Evaluating effects of Everglades restoration on American Crocodile populations in South Florida using a spatially-explicit, stage-based population model. Wetlands 34: 213-224.

Rosenblatt, A.E., J. Nifong, M.R. Heithaus, M.W. Parry, and F.J. Mazzotti. 2014. New record of Everglades mink in Everglades National Park from the stomach of an American alligator. Southeastern Naturalist 13: N22-N25.

Rosenblatt, A.E., S. Zona, M.R. Heithaus, and F.J. Mazzotti. 2014. Are seeds consumed by crocodilians viable? A test of the crocodilian saurochory hypothesis. Southeastern Naturalist 13: N26-N29.

Platt, S.G., R.M. Elsey, H. Liu, T.R. Rainwater, J. Nifong, A.E. Rosenblatt, M.R. Heithaus, and F.J. Mazzotti. 2013. Frugivory and seed dispersal by crocodilians: an overlooked form of saurochory? Journal of Zoology 291: 87-99.

Rosenblatt, A.E., M.R. Heithaus, F.J. Mazzotti, M.S. Cherkiss, and B.M. Jeffery. 2013. Intra-population variation in activity ranges, diel patterns, movement rates, and habitat use of American alligators in a subtropical estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 135: 182-190.

Lorenz, J.J., B. Langan-Mulrooney, P. Frezza, R.G. Harvey, and F.J. Mazzotti. 2009. Roseate spoonbill reproduction as an indicator for restoration of the Everglades and the Everglades estuaries. Ecological Indicators 9: S96-S107.

Mazzotti, F.J., G.R. Best, L.A. Brandt, M.S. Cherkiss, B.M. Jeffery, and K.G. Rice. 2009. Alligators and crocodiles as indicators for restoration of Everglades ecosystems. Ecological Indicators 9: S137-S149.

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Frank Mazzotti