Personnel Profiles

• Mailing address:
• Institute of Environment
• Florida International University
• 11200 SW 8th St.
• Miami, FL 33199
• Email: wjames@fiu.edu

Jones, B.L.H., R.O. Santos, W.R. James, S. Shephard, A.J. Adams, R. Boucek, L. Coals, S.V. Costa, L.C. Cullen-Unsworth, and J.S. Rehage. 2025. Stakeholder diversity matters: employing the wisdom of crowds for data-poor fisheries assessments. Scientific Reports 15: 440.

Santos, R.O., M. White, W.R. James, N. Viadero, J. Massie, R. Boucek, and J.S. Rehage. 2025. Cause and consequences of Common Snook (Centropomus undecimalis) space use specialization in a subtropical riverscape. Scientific Reports 15: 2004.

Castillo, N., R.O. Santos, W.R. James, R. Rezek, D. Cerveny, R. Boucek, A.J. Adams, J. Fick, T. Brodin, and J.S. Rehage. 2024. Differential tissue distribution of pharmaceuticals in a wild subtropical marine fish. Aquatic Toxicology 275: 107064.

Castillo, N., R.O. Santos, W.R. James, R. Rezek, D. Cerveny, R. Boucek, A.J. Adams, J. Fick, T. Brodin, and J.S. Rehage. 2024. Widespread pharmaceutical exposure at concentrations of concern for a subtropical coastal fishery: Bonefish (Albula vulpes). Marine Pollution Bulletin 209, Part A: 117143.

Castillo, N., W.R. James, R.O. Santos, R. Rezek, D. Cerveny, R. Boucek, A.J. Adams, S. Trabelsi, A. Distrubell, M. Sandquist, J. Fick, T. Brodin, and J.S. Rehage. 2024. Identifying pathways of pharmaceutical exposure in a mesoconsumer marine fish. Journal of Hazardous Materials 477: 135382.

Castillo, N., W.R. James, R.O. Santos, R. Rezek, D. Cerveny, R. Boucek, A.J. Adams, T. Goldberg, L. Campbell, A. Perez, J. Schmitter-Soto, J. Lewis, J. Fick, T. Brodin, and J.S. Rehage. 2024. Understanding pharmaceutical exposure and the potential for effects in marine biota: A survey of bonefish (Albula vulpes) across the Caribbean Basin. Chemosphere 349: 140949.

James, W.R., B. Furman, J. Rodemann, S.V. Costa, Z.F. Fratto, J. Nelson, J.S. Rehage, and R.O. Santos. 2024. Widespread habitat loss leads to ecosystem-scale decrease in trophic function. Global Change Biology 30: e17263.

Jones, B.L.H., R.O. Santos, W.R. James, S.V. Costa, A.J. Adams, R. Boucek, L. Coals, L.C. Cullen-Unsworth, S. Shephard, and J.S. Rehage. 2024. New directions for Indigenous and local knowledge research and application in fisheries science: Lessons from a systematic review. Fish and Fisheries DOI: 10.1111/faf.12831.

Kahmann, G., J.S. Rehage, J. Massie, J. Nelson, R.O. Santos, N. Viadero, W.R. James, R. Boucek, D. Crane, and R. Rezek. 2024. Trophic niche of a nonnative invader and environmental drivers of its increasing populations in the coastal Everglades. Biological Invasions DOI: 10.1007/s10530-024-03444-w.

Calhoun-Grosch, S., E.M. Foster, W.R. James, R.O. Santos, J.S. Rehage, and J. Nelson. 2023. Trophic niche metrics reveal long-term shift in Florida Bay food webs. Ecosystems 26: 1183-1194.

Gervasi, C.L., M. Karnauskas, A. Rios, R.O. Santos, W.R. James, R. Rezek, and J.S. Rehage. 2023. Rapid approach for assessing an unregulated fishery using a series of data-limited tools. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science, 15: e10270.

James, W.R., V. Bautista, R. Rezek, J.S. Rehage, and R.O. Santos. 2023. A review of the potential impacts of commercial inshore pink shrimp fisheries on the recreational flats fishery in Biscayne Bay, FL, USA. Environmental Biology of Fishes 106: 349-360.

Rezek, R., J. Massie, J. Nelson, R.O. Santos, N. Viadero, W.R. James, R. Boucek, and J.S. Rehage. 2023. The effects of temperature and flooding duration on the structure and magnitude of a floodplain prey subsidy. Freshwater Biology 68: 1518-1529.

Rezek, R., W.R. James, V. Bautista, I. Zink, J.S. Rehage, and R.O. Santos. 2023. Temporal trends of Biscayne Bay pink shrimp fisheries catch, economic indicators, and potential interactions with South Florida recreational flats fisheries. Environmental Biology of Fishes 106: 361-379.

Rodemann, J., W.R. James, J.S. Rehage, H. Baktoft, S.V. Costa, R.D. Ellis, L. Gonzalez, and R.O. Santos. 2023. Residency and fine-scale habitat use of juvenile goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara) in a mangrove nursery. Bulletin of Marine Science 99: 111-118.

Gervasi, C.L., J. Nelson, P.K. Swart, R.O. Santos, R. Rezek, W.R. James, A.E. Jefferson, J.M. Drymon, J. Carroll, R. Boucek, and J.S. Rehage. 2022. Otolith stable isotope micro-sampling to discriminate poorly studied stocks: Crevalle Jack in the eastern gulf of Mexico. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 278: 108130.

Gervasi, C.L., R.O. Santos, R. Rezek, W.R. James, R. Boucek, C. Bradshaw, C. Kavanagh, J.K. Osborne, and J.S. Rehage. 2022. Bottom-up conservation: using translational ecology to inform conservation priorities for a recreational fishery. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 79: 47-62.

James, W.R., R.O. Santos, J. Rodemann, R. Rezek, Z.F. Fratto, B. Furman, M.O. Hall, C.R. Kelble, J.S. Rehage, and J. Nelson. 2022. Widespread seagrass die-off has no legacy effect on basal resource use of seagrass food webs in Florida Bay, USA. ICES Journal of Marine Science 79: 1831-1842.

James, W.R., R.O. Santos, J.S. Rehage, J.C. Doerr, and J. Nelson. 2022. E-scape: Consumer-specific landscapes of energetic resources derived from stable isotope analysis and remote sensing. Journal of Animal Ecology 91: 381-390.

Massie, J., R.O. Santos, R. Rezek, W.R. James, N. Viadero, R. Boucek, D.A. Blewett, A.A. Trotter, P.W. Stevens, and J.S. Rehage. 2022. Primed and cued: long-term acoustic telemetry links interannual and seasonal variations in freshwater flows to the spawning migrations of Common Snook in the Florida Everglades. Movement Ecology 10: 48.

Rodemann, J., W.R. James, R.O. Santos, B. Furman, Z.F. Fratto, V. Bautista, J. Hernandez, N. Viadero, J. Linenfelser, L.A. Lacy, M.O. Hall, C.R. Kelble, C. Kavanaugh, and J.S. Rehage. 2021. Impact of extreme disturbances on suspended sediment in western Florida Bay: Implications for seagrass resilience. Frontiers in Marine Science 8: 633240.

Eggenberger, C., R.O. Santos, T.A. Frankovich, W.R. James, C.J. Madden, J. Nelson, and J.S. Rehage. 2019. Coupling telemetry and stable isotope techniques to unravel movement: Snook habitat use across variable nutrient environments. Fisheries Research 218: 35-47.

James, W. Ryan. 2020. A seascape approach to understanding coastal food web dynamics and species distributions. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

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.

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.

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.

Sturges, J., W.R. James, and R. Rezek. 2024. Brown, green, and everything between: Contextualizing Everglades food web energy dynamics. 2024 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, April 29, 2024.