Personnel Profiles

• Mailing address:
• Department of Biological Sciences
• Florida International University
• 11200 SW 8th St, OE 167
• Miami, FL 33199
• Email: trexlerj@fiu.edu

Busch, D.E. and J.C. Trexler. 2003. Monitoring Ecosystems: Interdisciplinary Approaches for Evaluating Ecoregional Initiatives. Island Press : Washington, D.C.

Ogden, L.A., J.C. Trexler, D.L. Childers, E.E. Gaiser and K.Z.S. Schwartz. 2019. Chapter 2: The Everglades as Icon, in Childers, D.L., E.E. Gaiser and L.A. Ogden (eds.) The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape. Oxford University Press : New York, New York

Sklar, F.H., J.M. Beerens, L.A. Brandt, C. Coronado-Molina, S.E. Davis, T.A. Frankovich, C.J. Madden, A. Mclean, J.C. Trexler and W. Wilcox. 2019. Chapter 8: Back to the Future - Rebuilding the Everglades, in Childers, D.L., E.E. Gaiser and L.A. Ogden (eds.) The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape. Oxford University Press : New York, New York

Trexler, J.C. and W.F. Loftus. 2016. Invertebrates of the Florida Everglades, pp. 321-356 in Batzer, D. and D. Boix (eds.) Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands. Springer International Publishing

Gaiser, E.E., A.D. Gottlieb, S.S. Lee and J.C. Trexler. 2015. The Importance of Species-Based Microbial Assessment of Water Quality in Freshwater Everglades Wetlands, pp. 115-130 in Entry, J., K. Jayachandran, A.D. Gottlieb and A. Ogram (eds.) Microbiology of the Everglades Ecosystem. CRC Press : Boca Raton, Florida

Trexler, J.C., E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski and J.L. Sanchez. 2015. The Role of Periphyton Mats in Consumer Community Structure and Function in Calcareous Wetlands: Lessons from the Everglades, pp. 155-179 in Entry, J., K. Jayachandran, A.D. Gottlieb and A. Ogram (eds.) Microbiology of the Everglades Ecosystem. CRC Press : Boca Raton, Florida

Gaiser, E.E., J.C. Trexler and P. Wetzel. 2012. The Florida Everglades, pp. 231-252 in Batzer, D. and A. Baldwin (eds.) Wetland Habitats of North America: Ecology and Conservation Concerns. University of California Press : Berkeley

Jopp, F., D.L. DeAngelis and J.C. Trexler. 2011. Chapter 18. Trophic Cascades and Food Web Stability in Fish Communities of the Everglades, pp. 257-268 in Jopp, F., H. Reuter and B. Breckling (eds.) Modelling Complex Ecological Dynamics- An Introduction into Ecological Modeling for Students, Teachers & Scientists. Springer-Verlag : Berlin, Heidelberg

Trexler, J.C., D.L. DeAngelis and J. Jiang. 2011. Community assembly and mode of reproduction: predicting the distribution of livebearing fishes, in Evans, J., A. Pilastro and I. Schlupp (eds.) Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes. University of Chicago Press : Chicago, IL

DeAngelis, D.L., J.C. Trexler and D.D. Donalson. 2010. Competition dynamics in a seasonally varying wetland, pp. 1-14 in Cantrell, S., C. Cosner and S. Ruan (eds.) Spatial Ecology. Chapman Hall/CRC Press : Boca Raton, FL

Trexler, J.C. and D.L. DeAngelis. 2010. Modeling the evolution of complex reproductive adaptations in poeciliid fishes: Matrotrophy and superfetation, pp. 231-240 in Uribe, M.C. and H.J. Greer (eds.) Viviparous Fishes II. New Life Publications : Homestead, FL

Trexler, J.C. and D.E. Busch. 2003. Monitoring, assessment, and ecoregional initiatives: a synthesis, pp. 405-424 in Busch, D.E. and J.C. Trexler (eds.) Monitoring Ecosystems: Interdisciplinary Approaches for Evaluating Ecoregional Initiatives. Island Press : Washington, D.C.

Trexler, J.C., W.F. Loftus and J. Chick. 2003. Setting and monitoring restoration goals in the absence of historical data: The case of fishes in the Florida Everglades, pp. 351-376 in Busch, D.E. and J.C. Trexler (eds.) Monitoring Ecosystems: Interdisciplinary Approaches for Evaluating Ecoregional Initiatives. Island Press : Washington, D.C.

Gatto, J. and J.C. Trexler. 2019. Seasonality of fish recruitment in a pulsed floodplain ecosystem: Estimation and hydrological controls. Environmental Biology of Fishes 102: 595-613

Parkos, J.J.III, J. Kline and J.C. Trexler. 2019. Signal from the noise: model-based interpretation of variable correspondence between active and passive samplers. Ecosphere 10: e02858

Sanchez, J.L., H.D. Bracken-Grissom and J.C. Trexler. 2019. Freshwater-to-marine transitions may explain the evolution of herbivory in the subgenus Mollienesia (genus Poecilia, mollies and guppies). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 127: 742-761

Sanchez, J.L. and J.C. Trexler. 2018. When is an herbivore not an herbivore? Detritivory facilitates herbivory in a freshwater system. Ecology and Evolution 8: 5977-5991

Beerens, J.M., J.C. Trexler and C.P. Catano. 2017. Predicting wading bird and aquatic faunal responses to ecosystem restoration scenarios. Restoration Ecology 25: S86-S98

Botson, B.B., D.E. Gawlik and J.C. Trexler. 2016. Mechanisms That Generate Resource Pulses in a Fluctuating Wetland. PLoS ONE 11: e0158864

Sanchez, J.L. and J.C. Trexler. 2016. The adaptive evolution of herbivory in freshwater systems. Ecosphere 7: e01414

Venne, L.S., J.C. Trexler and P.C. Frederick. 2016. Prescribed burn creates pulsed effects on a wetland aquatic community. Hydrobiologia 771: 281-295

Yurek, S., D.L. DeAngelis, J.C. Trexler, J.A. Klassen and L. Larsen. 2016. Persistence and diversity of directional landscape connectivity improves biomass pulsing in simulations of expanding and contracting wetlands. Ecological Complexity 28: 1-11

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

Ruehl, C. and J.C. Trexler. 2015. Reciprocal transplant reveals trade-off of resource quality and predation risk in the field . Oecologia 179: 117-127

Gaiser, E.E., P. Sullivan, F. Tobias, A. Bramburger and J.C. Trexler. 2014. Boundary effects on benthic microbial phosphorus concentrations and diatom beta diversity in a hydrologically-modified, nutrient-limited wetland. Wetlands 34: 55-64

Goss, C., W.F. Loftus and J.C. Trexler. 2014. Seasonal Fish Dispersal in Ephemeral Wetlands of the Florida Everglades. Wetlands 34: 147-157

Harrison, E., J.C. Trexler, T.M. Collins, E. Vazquez-Dominguez, U. Razo-Mendivil, W.A. Matamoros and C. Barrientos. 2014. Genetic Evidence for Multiple Sources of the Non-Native Fish Cichlasoma urophthalmus (Günther; Mayan Cichlids) in Southern Florida. PLoS ONE 9: e104173

Kline, J., W.F. Loftus, K. Kotun, J.C. Trexler, J.S. Rehage, J.J. Lorenz and M. Robinson. 2014. Recent Fish Introductions Into Everglades National Park: An Unforeseen Consequence of Water Management? Wetlands 34: 175-187

Mukherjee, S., M.R. Heithaus, J.C. Trexler, J. Ray-Mukherjee and J.J. Vaudo. 2014. Perceived Risk of Predation Affects Reproductive Life-History Traits in Gambusia holbrooki, but Not in Heterandria formosa. PLoS ONE 9: e88832

Sokol, E.R., J.M. Hoch, E.E. Gaiser and J.C. Trexler. 2014. Metacommunity structure along resource and disturbance gradients in Everglades wetlands. Wetlands 34: 135-146

Abbey-Lee, R., E.E. Gaiser and J.C. Trexler. 2013. Relative roles of dispersal dynamics and competition in determining the isotopic niche breadth of a wetland fish. Freshwater Biology 58: 780-792

Apodaca, J.J., J.C. Trexler, N. Jue, M. Schrader and J. Travis. 2013. Large-scale natural disturbance alters genetic population structure of the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna. The American Naturalist 181: 254-263

Banet, A.I. and J.C. Trexler. 2013. Space-for-Time Substitution Works in Everglades Ecological Forecasting Models. PLoS ONE 8: e81025

Giacomini, H.C., D.L. DeAngelis, J.C. Trexler and M. PetrereJr.. 2013. Trait contributions to fish community assembly emerge from trophic interactions in an individual-based model. Ecological Modelling 251: 32-43

Harrison, E., J. Lorenz and J.C. Trexler. 2013. Per Capita Effects of Non-native Mayan Cichlids (Cichlasoma urophthalmus; Gunther) on Native Fish in the Estuarine Southern Everglades. Copeia 2013: 80-96

Lee, S.S., E.E. Gaiser and J.C. Trexler. 2013. Diatom-based models for inferring hydrology and periphyton abundance in a subtropical karstic wetland: Implications for ecosystem-scale bioassessment. Wetlands 33: 157-173

Ruehl, C. and J.C. Trexler. 2013. A suite of prey traits determine predator and nutrient enrichment effects in a tri-trophic food web. Ecosphere 4: 75

Yurek, S., D.L. DeAngelis, J.C. Trexler, F. Jopp and D.D. Donalson. 2013. Simulating mechanisms for dispersal, production and stranding of small forage fish in temporary wetland habitats. Ecological Modelling 250: 391-401

Belicka, L., E.R. Sokol, J.M. Hoch, R. Jaffe and J.C. Trexler. 2012. A molecular and stable isotopic approach to investigate the importance of algal and detrital energy pathways in a freshwater marsh. Wetlands 32: 531-542

McElroy, T.C., K.L. Kandl and J.C. Trexler. 2012. Temporal Population Genetic Structure of Eastern Mosquitofish in a Dynamic Aquatic Landscape. Journal of Heredity 102: 678-687

Obaza, A., D.L. DeAngelis and J.C. Trexler. 2011. Using data from an encounter sampler to model fish dispersal. Journal of Fish Biology 78: 495-513

Parkos, J.J.III, C.R. RuetzIII and J.C. Trexler. 2011. Disturbance regime and limits on benefits of refuge use for fishes in a fluctuating hydroscape. Oikos 120: 1519-1530

Ruehl, C. and J.C. Trexler. 2011. Comparison of snail density, standing stock, and body size between Caribbean karst wetlands and other freshwater ecosystems. Hydrobiologia 665: 1-13

Sargeant, B., E.E. Gaiser and J.C. Trexler. 2011. Indirect and direct controls of macroinvertebrates and small fish by abiotic factors and trophic interactions in the Florida Everglades. Freshwater Biology 56: 2334-2346

DeAngelis, D.L., J.C. Trexler, C. Cosner, A. Obaza and F. Jopp. 2010. Fish population dynamics in a seasonally varying wetland. Ecological Modelling 221: 1131-1137

Jopp, F., D.L. DeAngelis and J.C. Trexler. 2010. Modeling seasonal dynamics of small fish cohorts in fluctuating freshwater marsh landscapes. Landscape Ecology 25: 1041-1054

Sargeant, B., E.E. Gaiser and J.C. Trexler. 2010. Biotic and Abiotic Determinants of Intermediate-Consumer Trophic Diversity in the Florida Everglades. Marine & Freshwater Research 61: 11-22

Doren, R.F., J.C. Trexler, A.D. Gottlieb and M. Harwell. 2009. Ecological Indicators for System-wide Assessment of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Program. Ecological Indicators 9: S2-S16

Trexler, J.C. and C. Goss. 2009. Aquatic fauna as indicators for Everglades restoration: Applying dynamic targets in assessments. Ecological Indicators 9: S108-S119

Gaiser, E.E., R.F. Doren, P. McCormick, S. Newman, J.H. Richards and J.C. Trexler. 2008. Comment on "Estimating Ecological Thresholds for Phosphorus in the Everglades". Environmental Science & Technology 42: 6770-6771

Liston, S.E., S. Newman and J.C. Trexler. 2008. Macroinvertebrate Community Response to Eutrophication in an Oligotrophic Wetland: An in situ Mesocosm Experiment. Wetlands 28: 686-694

Dorn, N.J. and J.C. Trexler. 2007. Crayfish assemblage shifts in a large drought-prone wetland: the roles of hydrology and competition. Freshwater Biology 20: 113-115

Dorn, N.J., J.C. Trexler and E.E. Gaiser. 2006. Exploring the role of large predators in marsh food webs: evidence for a behaviorally-mediated trophic cascade. Hydrobiologia 569: 375-386

Gaiser, E.E., J.H. Richards, J.C. Trexler, R.D. Jones and D.L. Childers. 2006. Periphyton responses to eutrophication in the Florida Everglades: Cross-system patterns of structural and compositional change. Limnology and Oceanography 51: 617-630

Green, D., J.C. Trexler, J.J. Lorenz, C.C. McIvor and T.E. Philippi. 2006. Spatial patterns of fish communities along two estuarine gradients in southern Florida . Hydrobiologia 569: 387-399

Rehage, J.S. and J.C. Trexler. 2006. Assessing the net effect of anthropogenic disturbance on aquatic communities in wetlands: Community structure relative to distance from canals. Hydrobiologia 569: 359-373

Trexler, J.C., E.E. Gaiser and D.L. Childers. 2006. Interaction of hydrology and nutrients in controlling ecosystem function in oligotrophic coastal environments of South Florida. Hydrobiologia 569: 1-2

Williams, A.J. and J.C. Trexler. 2006. A preliminary analysis of the correlation of food-web characteristics with hydrology and nutrient gradients in the southern Everglades. Hydrobiologia 569: 493-504

DeAngelis, D.L., J.C. Trexler and W.F. Loftus. 2005. Life history trade-offs and community dynamics of small fishes in a seasonally pulsed wetland. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62: 781-790

Gaiser, E.E., J.C. Trexler, J.H. Richards, D.L. Childers, D. Lee, A.L. Edwards, L.J. Scinto, K. Jayachandran, G.B. Noe and R.D. Jones. 2005. Cascading ecological effects of low-level phosphorus enrichment in the Florida Everglades. Journal of Environmental Quality 34: 717-723

Liston, S.E. and J.C. Trexler. 2005. Spatiotemporal patterns in community structure of macroinvertebrates inhabiting calcareous periphyton mats. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 24: 832-844

Trexler, J.C., W.F. Loftus and S. Perry. 2005. Disturbance frequency and community structure in a twenty-five year intervention study. Oecologia 145: 140-152

Chick, J. and J.C. Trexler. 2004. Spatial scale and abundance patterns of large fish communities in freshwater marshes of the Florida Everglades. Wetlands 24: 652-664

Noe, G.B., D.L. Childers, A.L. Edwards, E. Gaiser, K. Jayachandran, D. Lee, J. Meeder, J. Richards, L.J. Scinto, J.C. Trexler and R.D. Jones. 2002. Short-term changes in phosphorus storage in an oligotrophic Everglades wetland ecosystem receiving experimental nutrient enrichment. Biogeochemistry 59: 239-267

Cichlasoma urophthalmus cytochrome b sequences collected from the Florida Everglades (FCE) and Central America from January 2012 to May 2014

Cichlasoma urophthalmus microsatellite fragment size collected from the Florida Everglades (FCE) and Central America from June 2010 to March 2013

Consumer Stocks: Fish Biomass from Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida from February 1996 to March 2000

Consumer Stocks: Fish Biomass from Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida from February 2000 to April 2005

Consumer Stocks: Fish, Vegetation, and other Non-physical Data from Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida from February 2000 to April 2005

Consumer Stocks: Physical Data from Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida from February 1996 to April 2008

Consumer Stocks: Wet weights from Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida from March 2003 to April 2008

Fish and consumer data collected from Northeast Shark Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE) from September 2006 to September 2008

Flood, P.J. and J.C. Trexler. 2019. Are mixing models robust to trophic enrichment factors? Evaluation with simulation modeling. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019, Louisville, Kentucky, August 16, 2019.

Strickland, N.D. and J.C. Trexler. 2019. Estimation of fish biomass in the Everglades from the meter scale to the landscape scale. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019, Louisville, Kentucky, August 14, 2019.

Gatto, J. and J.C. Trexler. 2019. Predicting sustainable population growth by linking age-specific mortality and growth rate (M''/G'') to biomass in a fluctuating environment. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019, Louisville, Kentucky, August 13, 2019.

Harvey, J., C.J. Saunders, S. Newman, J. Choi, B. Rosen, J.C. Trexler, L. Larsen, D. Ho, C. Zweig, E. Tate-Boldt, C. Coronado-Molina, F. Santamaria, E. Cline, R. Jaffe, P. Regier and N. Schmadel. 2019. Forecasting the restoration of a free-flowing Everglades based on the DPM large-scale high-flow experiments. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 25, 2019.

Ontkos, A. and J.C. Trexler. 2019. Changes in habitat connectivity affect habitat use of fish in the Decomp Physical Model (DPM). Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 25, 2019.

Rosen, B., S. Newman, C.J. Saunders, J.C. Trexler, J. Harvey and E. Tate-Boldt. 2019. Algal indicators of ecosystem response in the Decomp Physical Model high-flow experiment. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 25, 2019.

Smott, S. and J.C. Trexler. 2019. Landscape-scale aquatic fauna monitoring for CERP 2005-2017. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 24, 2019.

Trexler, J.C.. 2019. Invasive species impacts in space and time: Scaling up to ecosystem function. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 24, 2019.

Evans, N.T., J.C. Trexler, S. Newman and M.I. Cook. 2019. Nutrient cycling by fishes and macroinvertebrates in the Everglades stormwater treatment areas. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 23, 2019.

Flood, P.J. and J.C. Trexler. 2019. Community composition of the upper Taylor Slough region: monitoring responses to an altered flow regime. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 23, 2019.

Gatto, J., J.C. Trexler, S. Newman, C.J. Saunders and M.I. Cook. 2019. Evaluating otolith microchemistry for tracking phosphorus experienced by Everglades fish. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 22, 2019 - April 25, 2019.

McCarthy, E., E.E. Gaiser and J.C. Trexler. 2019. Assessing fish movement through time in Everglades National Park using drift fences. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 22, 2019 - April 25, 2019.

Trexler, J.C.. 2019. Intra-community diversity of invasive species impacts in space and time: Scaling up to ecosystem function. ASLO 2019 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 28, 2019.