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James T. Carlton

Director
Marine Ecology
Ph.D. from the University of California
James.T.Carlton@williams.edu
860-572-5359 ext. 3

Selected Publications, Abstracts, Reports, and Manuscripts
(as of February 2010)

1967. Edward L. Bousfield and J. T. Carlton. New records of Talitridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the central California coast. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 66(4): 277-284.

1968. J. T. Carlton. Thoreau and the cockles of Cape Cod. The Thoreau Society Bulletin (Concord, Massachusetts), 103: 8.

1969. J. T. Carlton. Littorina littorea in California (San Francisco and Trinidad Bays). The Veliger 11(3): 283-284.

1969. J. T. Carlton and Victor A. Zullo. Early records of the barnacle Balanus improvisus Darwin from the Pacific coast of North America. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences no. 75, 6 pp.

1970. Barry Roth and J. T. Carlton. A forgotten periodical of west American conchology. Nautilus 84(1): 31-32.

1971. J. T. Carlton. The Mills College collection of the letters and possessions of Josiah Keep. Ibid., pp. 20-21 (Abstract).

1971. J. T. Carlton. Anomalous records of introduced estuarine Mollusca of California. The Echo 4, Abstracts and Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Malacologists 1971, pp. 15-16 (Abstract).

1971. J. T. Carlton. Remarks on the current status of marine pollution research. The Echo 4, Abstracts and Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Malacologists 1971, pp. 16-17 (Abstract).

1972. Victor A. Zullo, Dea B. Beach, and J. T. Carlton. New barnacle records (Cirripedia, Thoracica). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4), 39(6): 65-74.

1972. J. T. Carlton. Current status of marine pollution research in the San Francisco Bay area. A talk presented before the San Francisco Bay and Estuarine Association, April 20, 1972. [transcribed from a tape recording; privately assembled, and widely distributed in California and elsewhere. Submitted as annex to his testimony several years later by Joel W. Hedgpeth during testimony before either the State of California or the U. S. Congress, but "through a mistake" (J. W. Hedgpeth, personal communication), it was never printed].

1973. J. T. Carlton. Gastropod shell modification by hermit crabs, and paleoecological implications. The Echo 5, Abstracts and Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Malacologists 1972, p. 23 (Abstract).

1973. J. T. Carlton. Corbicula in San Francisco, California. The Nautilus 87(3): 87.

1974. J. T. Carlton. The biology and ecology of northern California intertidal gastropods: the state of our knowledge. Annual Report of the Western Society of Malacologists 7: 51-58.

1975. Ralph I. Smith and J. T. Carlton, editors. Light's Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates of the Central California Coast. Third Edition. University of California Press, Berkeley, 716 pages, 156 plates.

1975. J. T. Carlton. Introduced intertidal invertebrates, pp. 17-25, in: Light's Manual.

1975. J. T. Carlton and Armand M. Kuris. Decapod Crustacea, pp. 385-412, in: Light's Manual.

1975. J. T. Carlton and Barry Roth. Phylum Mollusca: Shelled Gastropods, pp. 467-514, in: Light's Manual.

1975. Eugene V. Coan and J. T. Carlton. Phylum Mollusca: Bivalvia, pp. 543-578, in: Light's Manual.

1976. J. T. Carlton. Pacific coast Acmaeidae: a brief history of biological and systematic studies. Ibid., pp. 14-15 (Abstract).

1976. J. T. Carlton. Marine plant limpets of the northeastern Pacific: patterns of host utilization and comparative plant: limpet distributions. Ibid., pp. 22-25.

1976. J. T. Carlton. Comments on cosmopolitanism. Bulletin of the American Malacological Union 1975: 63 (Abstract).

1976. J. T. Carlton. Extinct and endangered populations of the endemic mudsnail Cerithidea californica in northern California. Bulletin of the American Malacological Union 1975: 65 (Abstract).

1977. Armand M. Kuris and J. T. Carlton. Description of a new species, Crangon handi, and a new genus, Lissocrangon, of crangonid shrimps (Crustacea: Caridea) from the California coast, with notes on adaptation in body shape and coloration. Biological Bulletin 153: 540-559.

1979. J. T. Carlton. Chlamydoconcha orcutti Dall: review and distribution of a little-known bivalve. The Veliger 21: 375-378.

1979. David R. Lindberg and J. T. Carlton. Intertidal marine Mollusca of southeast Farallon Island, San Francisco County, California. Annual Report of the Western Society of Malacologists 11: 7 (Abstract).

1979. Armand Kuris, Michael Brody, and J. T. Carlton. Experimental field study of hermit crab resource utilization: snail shell wear and movement. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 60(2): 118 (Abstract).

1979. J. T. Carlton. History, biogeography, and ecology of the introduced marine and estuarine invertebrates of the Pacific coast of North America. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Davis, 904 pp. [Abstract: 1980. History, biogeography, and ecology of the introduced marine and estuarine invertebrates of the Pacific coast of North America. Dissertation Abstracts International 41(2): 450B-451B [as 919 pp.] (No. 8016741)]

SPECIES INDEX : Carlton, J.T. 1979. History, Biogeography, and Ecology of the Introduced Marine and Estuarine Invertebrates of the Pacific Coast of North America. Ph. D. thesis. University of California, Davis. [Index by] Todd W. Miller and John W. Chapman [posted February 1999 at the following website:] http://bubo.hmsc.orst.edu/library/carlton.html. Index site still active April 2002: http://osulibrary.orst.edu/guin/carlton.htm

1979. J. T. Carlton. Introduced invertebrates of San Francisco Bay, pp. 427-444, in T. J. Conomos, editor, San Francisco Bay: The Urbanized Estuary. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, San Francisco.

1980. J. T. Carlton and Roger Mann. Biology of ships' ballast water: experimental studies with the R. V. KNORR from Bermuda to Woods Hole and development of ballast tank sampling methodology. Annual Sea Grant Report 1979-1980. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, p. 22.

1981. J. T. Carlton and Ernest W. Iverson. Biogeography and natural history of Sphaeroma walkeri Stebbing (Crustacea: Isopoda) and its introduction to San Diego Bay, California. Journal of Natural History 15: 31-48.

1981. J. T. Carlton. [On introduced species, including Figures 11 and 12 and Table 3], pp. 20-25, in: Joel W. Hedgpeth and Steven Obrebski, Willapa Bay: a historical perspective and a rationale for research. Office of Biological Services, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C. FWS/OBS-81/03.

1981. J. T. Carlton and Roger Mann. Population maintenance, manageability, and utilization of introduced species: pathways, patterns, and case histories. Journal of Shellfish Research 1(1): 109-110 (Abstract).

1981. J. T. Carlton. Caveat indigenae: The unintentional introduction of exotic species with target species in mariculture operations, and the potential ecological impact on the adjacent environment. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), 69th Statutory Meeting, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Mariculture Committee, C.M. 1981/F:17, 5 pp.

1982. J. T. Carlton, Donald P. Cheney, and Geerat J. Vermeij, Conveners [editors]. A minisymposium and workshop. Ecological effects and biogeography of an introduced marine species: the periwinkle, Littorina littorea. Abstracts of Papers presented at the Littorina Minisymposium and Workshop. First North American Symposium on Littorina, 28 - 30 August 1981, Nahant. Malacological Review 15: 143-150.

1982. J. T. Carlton. The historical biogeography of Littorina littorea on the Atlantic coast of North America, and implications for the interpretation of the structure of New England intertidal communities. Malacological Review 15: 146 (Abstract).

1982. J. T. Carlton. Bibliography of Pacific coast Acmaeidae, pp. 106-119, in: D. R. Lindberg, Acmaeidae, Gastropoda, MOLLUSCA, Invertebrates of the San Francisco Bay Estuary System. The Boxwood Press, Pacific Grove, California, 122 pp.

1982. J. T. Carlton, Arleen M. Navarret, and Roger Mann. Biology of ships' ballast water: the role of ballast water in the transoceanic dispersal of marine organisms. Final Project Report, National Science Foundation, Division of Applied Research (Biology), DAR-8008450, 161 pp.

1983. Gayle A. Brenchley and J. T. Carlton. Competitive displacement of native mud snails by introduced periwinkles in the New England intertidal zone. Biological Bulletin 165: 543-558.

1984. Rudolf S. Scheltema and J. T. Carlton. Methods of dispersal among fouling organisms and possible consequences for range extension and geographical variation, pp. 127-133, In: J. D. Costlow and R. C. Tipper, eds., Marine biodeterioration: an interdisciplinary study. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 384 pp.

1984. J. T. Carlton. [Letter on the ecological use of 'strategy']. BioScience 34: 602.

1985. J. T. Carlton and Judith A. Scanlon. Progression and dispersal of an introduced alga: Codium fragile ssp. tomentosoides (Chlorophyta) on the Atlantic coast of North America. Botanica Marina 28: 155-165.

1985. J. T. Carlton. Transoceanic and interoceanic dispersal of coastal marine organisms: the biology of ballast water. Oceanography and Marine Biology, An Annual Review 23: 313-371. [Some reprints distributed with English translations of German quotations on pages 313, 318, and 321-322]

1987. J. T. Carlton. Patterns of transoceanic marine biological invasions in the Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of Marine Science 41: 452-465.

1987. J. T. Carlton. Introduced species and the Galapagos Marine Resources Reserve. Unpublished manuscript prepared for the 1987 symposium, "Scientific Research and the Galapagos Marine Resources Reserve", cosponsored by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) and the Instituto Oceanografico de la Armada (Guayaquil, Ecuador). [This manuscript (some copies of which may bear the page numbers 144-163, and some copies of which may bear the annotation "1989, in press") was prepared and submitted for this April 1987 conference [JTC attended, in Guayaquil], for a planned symposium volume to be published by WHOI. The volume did not appear]

1988. J. T. Carlton et al. Professor Ralph I. Smith: A tribute to his manuals of marine invertebrates and to his academic progeny. The Veliger 31: 135-138.

1988. Sally E. Walker and J. T. Carlton. How hermit crabs bias the fossil record of gastropods. American Zoologist 28(4): 3A (Abstract).

1989. J. T. Carlton. Man's role in changing the face of the ocean: biological invasions and implications for conservation of near-shore environments. Conservation Biology 3: 265-273.

1989. Brian W. Meehan, J. T. Carlton and Roman Wenne. Genetic affinities of the bivalve Macoma balthica from the Pacific coast of North America: evidence for recent introduction and historical distribution. Marine Biology 102: 235-241.

1990. J. T. Carlton, Janet K. Thompson, Laurence E. Schemel, and Frederic H. Nichols. Remarkable invasion of San Francisco Bay (California, USA) by the Asian clam Potamocorbula amurensis. I. Introduction and dispersal. Marine Ecology Progress Series 66: 81-94.

1990. Joseph Schormann, J. T. Carlton, and Margaret R. Dochoda. The ship as a vector in biotic invasions. The Institute of Marine Engineers International Conference (IMAS 90), Marine Technology and the Environment, London, 23 - 25 May 1990. Transactions of the Institute of Marine Engineers (C), Volume 102, Conference C, Paper 19, pages 147 - 152.

1990. J. T. Carlton. Preventive options for the management and control of accidental intercontinental transfers of exotic organisms by ballast water. Manuscript, 12 pages. Distributed and presented at the Workshop on Exotic Species and the Shipping Industry. International Joint Commission (IJC) and Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC). Toronto, Canada, March 2, 1990.Widely distributed sous table (and occasionally cited) thereafter.

1991. J. T. Carlton, Geerat J. Vermeij, David R. Lindberg, Debby A. Carlton, and Elizabeth C. Dudley. The first historical extinction of a marine invertebrate in an ocean basin: the demise of the eelgrass limpet Lottia alveus. Biological Bulletin 180: 72-80. [See review and commentary: Stephen Jay Gould, 1991, On the Loss of a Limpet. Natural History 100: 22-27]

1991. Andrea Locke, Donald M. Reid, W. Gary Sprules, J. T. Carlton, and Henry C. van Leeuwen. Effectiveness of mid-ocean exchange in controlling freshwater and coastal zooplankton in ballast water. Canadian Technical Report Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences no. 1822, 93 pp.

1991. John W. Chapman and J. T. Carlton. A test of criteria for introduced species: the global invasion by the isopod Synidotea laevidorsalis (Miers, 1881). Journal of Crustacean Biology 11: 386 - 400.

1991. Jody Berman and J. T. Carlton. Marine invasion processes: interactions between native and introduced marsh snails. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 150: 267 - 281.

1991. J. T. Carlton. Predictions of the arrival of the zebra mussel in North America. Dreissena polymorpha Information Review 2(2): 1.

1991. J. T. Carlton, John W. Chapman, Henry Lee, and R. L. Steele. How prevalent are toxic marine phytoplankton introductions? Fifth International Conference on Toxic Marine Phytoplankton, Newport, Rhode Island, page 20 [Abstract].

1992. J. T. Carlton. Dispersal of living organisms into aquatic ecosystems as mediated by aquaculture and fisheries activities, pp. 13-45, In: Aaron Rosenfield and Roger Mann, editors, Dispersal of Living Organisms into Aquatic Ecosystems. Maryland Sea Grant Publication, College Park, Maryland, 471 pp.

1992. J. T. Carlton. Introduced marine and estuarine mollusks of North America: an end-of-the-20th-century perspective. Journal of Shellfish Research 11: 489 - 505. [Republished in soft-bound volume: "Molluscan Introductions and Transfers. Risk Considerations and Implications. Ed. by James T. Carlton and Aaron Rosenfield. Maryland Sea Grant Publication, College Park, Maryland, 69 pp., 1994]

1992. Ladd E. Johnson and J. T. Carlton. Counter-productive public information: the "Noah Fallacy" and mussel myths. Dreissena polymorpha Information Review 3(3): 2-4.

1992. J. T. Carlton. Blue immigrants: the marine biology of maritime history. The Log (Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic CT), 44: 31-36.

1992. J. T. Carlton. Irreversible global invasions of alien species in coastal waters: the deluge grows and grows, pp. 76 - 78, in: National Forum on Ocean Conservation (Summary), Office of Environmental Awareness, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., November 19-21, 1991.

1992. J. T. Carlton. Marine species introductions by ships' ballast water: an overview, pp. 23 - 25, in: M. Richard DeVoe, ed., Introductions and Transfers of Marine Species. Achieving a Balance between Economic Development and Resource Protection. South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, Charleston, South Carolina.

1992. J. T. Carlton. An international perspective on species introductions: the ICES protocol, pp. 31-34, in: M. Richard DeVoe, ed., Introductions and Transfers of Marine Species. Achieving a Balance between Economic Development and Resource Protection. South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, Charleston, South Carolina.

1992. J. T. Carlton. Overview of the issues concerning marine species introductions and transfers, pp. 65 - 67, in: M. Richard DeVoe, ed., Introductions and Transfers of Marine Species. Achieving a Balance between Economic Development and Resource Protection. South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, Charleston, South Carolina.

1993. J. T. Carlton. Dispersal mechanisms of the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha), Chapter 40, pp. 677 - 697, in: Thomas F. Nalepa and Donald W. Schloesser, editors, Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impacts, and Control. CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida.

1993. Edward L. Mills, Joseph H. Leach, J. T. Carlton, and Carol Secor. Exotic species in the Great Lakes: a history of biotic crises and anthropogenic introductions. Journal of Great Lakes Research 19: 1-54.

1993. David F. Reid, Joseph Bidwell, J. T. Carlton, Ladd Johnson, Ellen Marsden, S. Jerrine Nichols. Zebra Mussel Specific Containment Protocols (ASSP - 12/29/93). NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI. GLERL Contribution No. 890.

1993. Edward L. Mills, Joseph H. Leach, Carol L. Secor, and J. T. Carlton. What's Next? The Prediction and Management of Exotic Species in the Great Lakes (Report of the 1991 Workshop). Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 22 pp.

1993. Cheryl Ann Butman and J. T. Carlton. Biological diversity in marine systems (BioMar). A proposed national research initiative. Report of an NSF Workshop 28-29 March 1993, Denver, Colorado. Division of Ocean Sciences, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., 20 pp.

1993. Jonathan B. Geller, J. T. Carlton, and Dennis A. Powers. Interspecific and intrapopulation variation in mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences of Mytilus spp. (Bivalvia: Mollusca). Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology 2(1): 44 - 50. [as of 1999, this journal was merged with the new journal Marine Biotechnology]

1993. J. T. Carlton and Jonathan B. Geller. Ecological roulette: The global transport of nonindigenous marine organisms. Science 261: 78-82. [Perspectives essay in reference to this article: "Foreign Invaders," by Joel W. Hedgpeth, pp. 34-35]

1993. J. T. Carlton. Neoextinctions of marine invertebrates. American Zoologist 33(6): 499-509.

1993. Andrea Locke, Donald M. Reid, Henry C. van Leeuwen, W. Gary Sprules and J. T. Carlton. Ballast water exchange as a means of controlling dispersal of freshwater organisms by ships. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 50: 2086-2093.

1994. D. V. Subba Rao, W. G. Sprules, A. Locke, and J. T. Carlton. Exotic phytoplankton from ships' ballast waters: risk of potential spread to mariculture sites on Canada's east coast. Canadian Data Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 937, 51 pp.

1994. Jonathan B. Geller, J. T. Carlton, and Dennis A. Powers. PCR-based detection of mtDNA haplotypes of native and invading mussels on the northeastern Pacific coast: latitudinal pattern of invasion. Marine Biology 119: 243-249.

1994. J. T. Carlton and Aaron Rosenfield, editors. Molluscan Introductions and Transfers. Risk Considerations and Implications. A Symposium Proceedings. Maryland Sea Grant Publication, College Park, Maryland, 69 pp. [A bound document, being a reprint of papers from the Journal of Shellfish Research, volume 10, pp. 373-388 (1991) and volume 11, 7 papers (1992), including Carlton, 1992, JSR 11: 489ff]

1994. J. T. Carlton. Biological invasions and biodiversity in the sea: the ecological and human impacts of nonindigenous marine and estuarine organisms. Keynote Address, pp. 5 - 11, in: Nonindigenous Estuarine and Marine Organisms (NEMO), Proceedings of the Conference and Workshop, Seattle, Washington, April 1993, U. S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of the Chief Scientist, 125 pp. (September 1994). Government Document No. C55.2:N73, Government Printing Office No. 0208-C-04.

1994. Edward L. Mills, Joseph H. Leach, J. T. Carlton, and Carol L. Secor. Exotic species and the integrity of the Great Lakes: lessons from the past. BioScience 44: 666-676.

1994. John W. Chapman and J. T. Carlton. Predicted discoveries of the introduced isopod Synidotea laevidorsalis (Miers, 1881). Journal of Crustacean Biology 14: 700-714.

1995. Cheryl Ann Butman and J. T. Carlton, Co-Chairs. National Research Council, Ocean Studies Board and Board on Biology, Committee on Biological Diversity in Marine Systems. Understanding marine biodiversity: A research agenda for the nation. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. (ISBN 0-309-05225-4), xii + 180 pp. [Released March 21, 1995] 1995. J. T. Carlton and Janet Hodder. Biogeography and dispersal of coastal marine organisms: experimental studies on a replica of a 16th-century sailing vessel. Marine Biology 121: 721-730.

1995. J. T. Carlton. Exotic species update: are ballast water regulations working? Focus (International Joint Commission, Washington, D.C.), 20(1): 8-9.

1995. James T. Carlton, Donald M. Reid, and Henry van Leeuwen. Shipping Study. The role of shipping in the introduction of non-indigenous aquatic organisms to the coastal waters of the United States (other than the Great Lakes) and an analysis of control options. The National Sea Grant College Program/Connecticut Sea Grant Project R/ES-6. Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard, Washington, D.C. and Groton, Connecticut. Report Number CG-D-11-95. Government Accession Number AD-A294809. xxviii + 213 pages and Appendices A-I (122 pages). [Cover bears the date "April, 1995", but the report contains no new information after April, 1993, when the report was submitted to the USCG]

1995. Cheryl Ann Butman, J. T. Carlton, and Stephen R. Palumbi. Whaling effects on deep-sea biodiversity. Conservation Biology 9: 462-464.

1995. J. T. Carlton. Marine invasions and the preservation of coastal diversity. Endangered Species Update (School of Natural Resources, The University of Michigan), 12(4/5): 1-3.

1995. J. T. Carlton and Katherine Richardson. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Code of Practice on the Introductions and Transfers of Marine Organisms, 1994. Preamble and a Brief Outline of the ICES Code of Practice, 1994. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen, Denmark, iii + 5 pp.

1995. Andrew N. Cohen, J. T. Carlton, and Monique C. Fountain. Introduction, dispersal and potential impacts of the green crab Carcinus maenas in San Francisco Bay, California. Marine Biology 122: 225-237.

1995. Sally E. Walker and J. T. Carlton. Taphonomic losses become taphonomic gains: an experimental approach using the rocky shore gastropod, Tegula funebralis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 114: 197-217.

1995. Cheryl Ann Butman and J. T. Carlton. Marine biological diversity: some important issues, opportunities and critical research needs. American Geophysical Union. U. S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994. Reviews of Geophysics, Supplement (July), pages 1201-1209.

1995. Richard A. Everett, Gregory M. Ruiz, and J. T. Carlton. Effect of oyster mariculture on submerged aquatic vegetation: an experimental test in a Pacific Northwest estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series 125: 205-217. Also released as: James T. Carlton, Gregory M. Ruiz, and Richard A. Everett, 1991. The Structure of Benthic Estuarine Communities Associated with Dense Suspended Populations of the Introduced Japanese Oyster Crassostrea gigas: Years 1 and 2. South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve Technical Report No. SOS 1-91, iv + 79 pp.

1995. J. T. Carlton. Exotic species in the sea: Biological invasions and marine biodiversity. UNESCO IMS Newsletter (International Marine Science), Paris, Nos. 75/76: 11-12, 14.

1995. J. T. Carlton and Cheryl Ann Butman. Understanding marine biodiversity. A Research Agenda for the Nation. Oceanus (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 38(2): 4-8.

1995. Andrew N. Cohen and J. T. Carlton. Biological Study. Nonindigenous Aquatic Species in a United States Estuary: A Case Study of the Biological Invasions of the San Francisco Bay and Delta. A Report for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C., and The National Sea Grant College Program, Connecticut Sea Grant, NTIS Report Number PB96-166525, 246 pp. + Appendices (December, 1995). NOAA Grant Number NA36RG0467. Available at: http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/TR/ELIB:701 (Available both as digital images and as ASCII text, the latter with some misreading errors.)

1996. J. T. Carlton. Marine bioinvasions: the alteration of marine ecosystems by nonindigenous species. Oceanography 9(1): 36-43.

1996. Cheryl Ann Butman, J. T. Carlton, and Stephen R. Palumbi. Whales don't fall like snow: Reply to Jelmert. Conservation Biology 10(2): 655-656.

1996. J. T. Carlton and R. Mann. Transfers and world-wide introductions, Chapter 20, pp. 691-706, in: V. S. Kennedy, R. I. E. Newell, and A. F. Eble, editors, The Eastern Oyster: Crassostrea virginica. Maryland Sea Grant, College Park, Maryland.

1996. J. T. Carlton. Marine conservation ecology: recognizing the roles of invasions and extinctions in a long-term era of declining systematics and taxonomy. Supplement to the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 77(3): 70 (Abstract).

1996. J. T. Carlton. Biological invasions and cryptogenic species. Ecology 77: 1653-1655.

1996. L. E. Johnson and J. T. Carlton. Post-establishment spread in large-scale invasions: the dispersal mechanisms of the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha. Ecology 77: 1686-1690.

1996. L. David Smith, Marjorie J. Wonham, Linda D. McCann, Donald M. Reid, Gregory M. Ruiz, and James T. Carlton. Shipping Study II. Biological Invasions by Nonindigenous Species in United States Waters: Quantifying the Role of Ballast Water and Sediments, Parts I and II. The National Sea Grant College Program/Connecticut Sea Grant Project R/ES-6. Prepared for U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center, Groton CT and United States Coast Guard Marine Safety and Environmental Protection, Washington, D.C. Report No. CG-D-02-97, Government Accession No. AD-A321543, xxv + 97 pp. + Appendices A-M. (Final Report July 1996).

1996. J. T. Carlton. Pattern, process, and prediction in marine invasion ecology. Biological Conservation 78(1/2): 97-106.

1996. Edward L. Mills, David L. Strayer, Mark D. Scheuerell, and J. T. Carlton. Exotic species in the Hudson River basin: a history of invasions and introductions. Estuaries 19(4): 814-823.

1997. Donald M. Reid and J. T. Carlton. Shipping Study I-A A Study of the Introduction of Aquatic Nuisance Species by Vessels Entering the Great Lakes and Canadian Waters Adjacent to the United States. National Biological Invasions Shipping Study (NABISS). The National Sea Grant College Program/Connecticut Sea Grant Project R/ES-6. Prepared for U.S. Coast Guard Research and Center, Groton CT and United States Coast Guard Marine Safety and Environmental Protection, Washington, D.C. Report No. CG-D-17-97, Government Accession No. AD-A325351, xii + 86 pp. [Final Report, March 1997]

1997. Andrew N. Cohen and J. T. Carlton. Transoceanic transport mechanisms : The introduction of the Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis, to California. Pacific Science 51:1-11.

1997. J. T. Carlton and Mary H. Ruckelshaus. Nonindigenous marine invertebrates and algae, pp. 187-201, in: Strangers in Paradise. Impact and Management of Non-Indigenous Species in Florida. Edited by Daniel Simberloff, Don C. Schmitz, and Tom C. Brown. Island Press, Washington, D.C. and Covelo CA, 467 pp.

1997. J. T. Carlton. Making the maritime world relevant today: interweaving the history, policy, science, and literature of the oceans. Keynote Address, Council of American Maritime Museums (CAMM) (USS Constitution Museum, Charleston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts), March 20, 1997, Manuscript (8 pp.). [posted on the Mystic Seaport Museum website; address as of August 2001: www.mysticseaport.org/camm/keynote.97.html]

1997. Richard W. Pierce, J. T. Carlton, Deborah A. Carlton, and Jonathan B. Geller. Ballast water as a vector for tintinnid transport. Marine Ecology Progress Series 149: 295-297.

1997. J. T. Carlton, Chair. Report of the Study Group on Marine Biocontrol of Invasive Species. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen, Denmark. Document CM 1997/Env:10, 30 pages.

1997. J. T. Carlton. Les invasions biologiques marines: un tableau d'ensemble [Marine biological invasions: a global picture], pp. 7-12, in: Dynamiques d'especes marines invasives: application a l'expansion de Caulerpa taxifolia en Mediterranee. Seminaire international organise avec le concours du ministere de l'Environnement et du programme Environnement, Vie, Societes du CNRS, les 13-14-15 mars 1997 [Paris]. Published by Technique & Documentation (TEC DOC), London, New York, Paris. ISSN 1159-5590, ISBN 2-7430-0236-0, 379 [+2] pages.

1997. J. T. Carlton. La lutte biologique, avantages et risques [The advantages and risks of controlling invasive species by biological means], pp. 279-284 [in English, with French title and French abstract], in: Dynamiques d'especes marines invasives: application a l'expansion de Caulerpa taxifolia en Mediterranee. Seminaire international organise avec le concours du ministere de l'Environnement et du programme Environnement, Vie, Societes du CNRS, les 13-14-15 mars 1997 [Paris]. Published by Technique & Documentation (TEC DOC), London, New York, Paris. ISSN 1159-5590, ISBN 2-7430-0236-0, 379 [+2] pages.

1997. Gregory M. Ruiz, James T. Carlton, Edwin D. Grosholz, and Anson H. Hines. Global invasions of marine and estuarine habitats by non-indigenous species: mechanisms, extent, and consequences. American Zoologist 37(6): 621-632.

1997 . Edward L. Mills, Mark D. Scheuerell, James T. Carlton, and David L. Strayer. Biological invasions in the Hudson River Basin: An inventory and historical analysis. New York State Museum Circular No. 57, 51 pp.

1998. Andrew N. Cohen and James T. Carlton. Accelerating invasion rate in a highly invaded estuary. Science 279(5350): 555-558.

1998. Claudia E. Mills and J. T. Carlton. Rationale for a system of international reserves for the open ocean. Conservation Biology, 12: 244-247.

1998. J. T. Carlton. Bioinvaders in the sea: reducing the flow of ballast water. World Conservation 28(4)/29(1) [double issue]: 9-10. [Formerly the IUCN Bulletin]

1998. James T. Carlton and Andrew N. Cohen. Periwinkle's progress: The Atlantic snail Littorina saxatili (Mollusca: Gastropoda) establishes a colony on a Pacific shore. The Veliger 41(4): 333-338.

1998. James T. Carlton. Apostrophe to the ocean. Conservation Biology 12(6): 1165-1167.

1998. James T. Carlton, editor. Ballast Water: Ecological and Fisheries Implications. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 224, 146 pp.

1998. Gregory M. Ruiz, L. David Smith, Anson Hines, James T. Carlton, and D. Wayne Coats. Ballast water and non-indigenous species in US coastal waters, pp. 5-10, in: James T. Carlton, editor. Ballast Water: Ecological and Fisheries Implications. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 224, 146 pp.

1999. James T. Carlton and Claudia E. Mills. Preserving living marine resources: havens on the high seas, pp. 3-8, in W. S. Wooster and W. T. Burke, eds., University of Washington School of Marine Affairs, 25th Anniversary, Proceedings of the Public Program, Seattle, May 7-8, 1998, xii + 106 pp.

1999. James T. Carlton The scale and ecological consequences of biological invasions in the world's oceans, pp. 195-212, in: Odd Terje Sandlund, Peter Johan Schei, and uslaug Viken, editors, Invasive Species and Biodiversity Management. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 431 pp.

1999. James T. Carlton. A journal of biological invasions. Biological Invasions 1(1): 1.

1999. L. David Smith, Marjorie J. Wonham, Linda D. McCann, Gregory M. Ruiz, Anson H. Hines, and James T. Carlton. Invasion pressure to a ballast-flooded estuary and an assessment of inoculant survival. Biological Invasions 1(1): 67-87.

1999. Stephan L. Coles, Ralph C. DeFelice, Lu G. Eldredge, and James T. Carlton. Historical and recent introductions of nonindigenous marine species into Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Marine Biology 135:147-158.

1999. James T. Carlton, Jonathan B. Geller, Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla, and Elliott A. Norse. Historical extinction in the sea. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30: 515 - 538.

1999. James T. Carlton. Molluscan invasions in marine and estuarine communities. Malacologia 41(2): 439-454.

1999. James T. Carlton. Don't invasions happen anyway? p. 2; Pre-colonial and colonial invasions: cryptogenic species, p. 5; Marine bioinvasions of New England, p. 9; Marine bioinvasives of New England shores, pp. 20-21; Why should we care?, p. 24. Maritimes (University of Rhode Island, Office of Marine Programs, Narragansett, Rhode Island) 41(4).

2000. James T. Carlton and Gregory Ruiz, The vectors of invasions by alien species, pp. 46 - 50, in: Best Management Practices for Preventing and Controlling Invasive Alien Species. The South Africa: United States of America Bi-National Commission. Symposium Proceedings. Edited by Guy Preston, Gordon Brown and Ernita van Wyk. The Working for Water Programme, Cape Town, South Africa, 316 pp. (ISBN 0-620-26172-2)

2000. Marjorie J. Wonham, James T. Carlton, Gregory M. Ruiz and L. David Smith. Fish and ships: relating dispersal frequency to success in biological invasions. Marine Biology 136: 1111 - 1121.

2000. James T. Carlton. Global change and biological invasions in the oceans, pp. 31 - 53, in: Harold A. Mooney and Richard J. Hobbs, eds., Invasive Species in a Changing World. Island Press, Covelo CA, 457 pp.

2000. Martha Hill Canning and James T. Carlton. Predation on kamptozoans (Entoprocta). Invertebrate Biology 119: 386 - 387.

2000. Gregory M. Ruiz, Paul W. Fofonoff, James T. Carlton, Marjorie J. Wonham, and Anson H. Hines. Invasion of coastal marine communities in North America: apparent patterns, processes, and biases. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 31: 481-531.

2000. Carlton, James T. Quo Vadimus Exotica Oceanica?: Marine Bioinvasion Ecology in the Twenty-First Century, pp. 6 - 23 in: Judith Pederson, editor. Marine Bioinvasions: Proceedings of the First National Conference. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Sea Grant College Program, MITSG 00-2, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 427 pp.

2000. Mills, C.E., A.N. Cohen, H.K. Berry, M.J. Wonham, B. Bingham, B. Bookheim, J.T. Carlton, J.W. Chapman, J. Cordell, L.H. Harris, T. Klinger, A.J. Kohn, C. Lambert, G. Lambert, K. Li, D.L. Secord, and J. Toft. The 1998 Puget Sound Expedition: a shallow water rapid assessment survey for nonindigenous species, with comparisons to San Francisco Bay, pp. 130 - 138 in: Judith Pederson, editor. Marine Bioinvasions: Proceedings of the First National Conference. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Sea Grant College Program, MITSG 00-2, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 427 pp.

2001. James T. Carlton. Endangered marine invertebrates, pp. 455 - 464, in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Volume 2. Academic Press, San Diego, California.

2001. Robert S. Steneck and James T. Carlton. Human alterations of marine communities: students beware!, pp. 445 - 468, in: Mark D. Bertness, Steven D. Gaines, and Mark E. Hay. Marine Community Ecology. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers, Sunderland, Massachusetts

2001. Johnson, Ladd E., Anthony Ricciardi, and James T. Carlton. Overland dispersal of the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha): a risk assessment of mechanisms associated with transient recreational boating. Ecological Applications 11(6): 1789-1799.

2001. Bax, N., Carlton, J.T., Mathews-Amos, A., Haedrich, R.L, Howarth, F.G., Purcell, J.E, Rieser, A. and A. Gray. The control of biological invasions in the world's oceans. Conservation Biology 15: 1234-1246.

2001. James T. Carlton. Introduced species in U.S. coastal waters: environmental impacts and management priorities. Pew Oceans Commission, Arlington, Virginia, iii + 28 + (1) pp.
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2001. J. T. Carlton. Endangered marine invertebrates, pp. 455 - 464, in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Volume 2. Academic Press, San Diego, California.

2001. R. C. DeFelice, L. G. Eldredge, and J. T. Carlton. Nonindigenous invertebrates, pp. B1- B60, in: L. G. Eldredge and C. M. Smith, eds., A Guidebook of Introduced Marine Species in Hawai'i. B. P. Bishop Museum Technical Report 21. (August, 2001).

2002. L. G. Eldredge and J. T. Carlton. Hawaiian marine bioinvasions: a preliminary assessment. Pacific Science 56(2): 211-212.

2002. J. T. Carlton. Book review: "Limulus in the limelight: a species 350 million years in the making and in peril?". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 271: 227-230.

2002. J. T. Carlton. Bioinvasion Ecology: Assessing Invasion Impact and Scale, pp. 7 - 19 in: Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe. Distribution, Impacts, and Management, E. Leppþkoski, S. Gollasch, and S. Olenin, Editors. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

2002. Tim Wyatt and James T. Carlton. Phytoplankton introductions in European coastal waters: why are so few invasions reported?, pp. 41-46, in: CIESM (Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la mer Mediterranee) Workshop Monographs no. 20, 136 pp., Monaco (www.ciesm.org/publications/Istanbul02.pdf).

2003. James T. Carlton and Janet Hodder. Maritime mammals: terrestrial mammals as consumers in marine intertidal communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 256: 271-286.

2003. James T. Carlton and Andrew N. Cohen. Episodic global dispersal in shallow water marine organisms: the case history of the European shore crabs Carcinus maenas and Carcinus aestuarii. Journal of Biogeography 30: 1809-1820.

2003. Elliott A. Norse and James T. Carlton: World wide web buzz about biodiversity. Conservation Biology 17(6): 1475-1476.

2003. Gregory M. Ruiz and James T. Carlton, editors. Invasive species: vectors and management strategies. Island Press, Washington, Covelo [CA], London, 518 pp.

2003. Gregory M. Ruiz and James T. Carlton. Preface, pp. ix-xiii, in: Invasive species: vectors and management strategies, G. M. Ruiz and J. T. Carlton, eds. Island Press, Washington, Covelo CA, London, 518 pp.

2003. Paul W. Fofonoff, Gregory M. Ruiz, Brian Steves, and James T. Carlton. In ships or on ships? Mechanisms of transfer and invasion for nonnative species to the coasts of North America, pp. 152-182, in: Invasive species: vectors and management strategies, G. M. Ruiz and J. T. Carlton, eds. Island Press, Washington, Covelo CA, London, 518 pp.

2003. Gregory M. Ruiz and James T. Carlton: Invasion vectors: a conceptual framework for management, pp. 459-504, in:Invasive species: vectors and management strategies, G. M. Ruiz and J. T. Carlton, eds. Island Press, Washington, Covelo CA, London, 518 pp.

2003. James T. Carlton. Community assembly and historical biogeography in the North Atlantic Ocean: the potential role of human-mediated dispersal vectors. Hydrobiologia 503:1-8.

2004. Chela J. Zabin, James T. Carlton, L. Scott Godwin. First report of the Asian sea anemone Diadumene lineata from the Hawaiian Islands. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum no. 79, pp. 54-57.

2005. Shannon M. Weigle, L. David Smith, James T. Carlton, and Judith Pederson. Assessing the risk of introducing exotic species via the live marine species trade Conservation Biology 19: 213-223.

2005. Marjorie J. Wonham and James T. Carlton. Trends in marine biological invasions at local and regional scales: The Northeast Pacific Ocean as a model system. Biological Invasions 7: 369-392.

2005. James T. Carlton and Gregory M. Ruiz. The magnitude and consequences of bioinvasions in marine ecosystems: implications for conservation biology, pp. 123 – 148, in: Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder, eds. Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity. Island Press, Washington, DC., 470 pp.

2005. Edwin D. Grosholz, James T. Carlton, and Gregory M. Ruiz. [Letter to editor on bioinvasions]. Discover 26(7): 8 (July 2005).

2005. James T. Carlton and Gregory M. Ruiz. Vector science and integrated vector management in bioinvasion ecology: conceptual frameworks, pp. 36-58, in: Harold A. Mooney, Richard N. Mack, Jeffrey A. McNeely, Laurie E. Neville, Peter Johan Schei, and Jeffrey K. Waage, editors, Invasive Alien Species: A New Synthesis. Island Press, Covelo, California, 368 pp.

2005. Judith Pederson, Robert Bullock, James Carlton, Jennifer Dijkstra, Nicole Dobroski, et al. Marine Invaders in the Northeast. Rapid assessment survey of non-native and native marine species of float dock communities, August 2003. MIT Sea Grant College Program Publication No. 05-3, Cambridge MA, 40 pp.

2005.  Cohen, Andrew N., Leslie H. Harris, Brian L. Bingham, James T. Carlton, John W. Chapman, Chalres C. Lambert, Gretchen Lambert, John C. Ljubenkov, Steve N. Murray, Linda C. Rao, Kathleen Reardon and Evangelina Schwindt. 2005. Rapid Assessment Survey for exotic organisms in southern California bays and harbors, and abundance in port and non-port areas. Biological Invasions 7(6): 995-1002.

2005. Jana L. D. Davis, Nicole A. Dobroski, James T. Carlton, James Prevas, Sarah Parks, Diana Hong, and Eve Southworth. Autotomy in the Asian shore crab (Hemigrapsus sanguineus) in a non-native area of its range. Journal of Crustacean Biology 25: 655-660.

2006. James T. Carlton. Invasive species: prevention is the best strategy, page 169, in: Jay Withgott and Scott Brennan. Environment. The science behind the stories. Second edition.  Pearson Benjamin Cummings, San Francisco, 699 pp.

2006. James T. Carlton. Through the eyes of the invader [review of:  Species Invasions, Insights into ecology, evolution, and biogeography, Sax et al., editors, 2005].  Bioscience 56: 694-695.

2006. F. Arenas, J.D.D. Bishop, J.T. Carlton, P.J. Dyrynda, W.F. Farnham, D.J. Gonzalez, M. Jacobs, C. Lambert, G. Lambert, S.E. Nielsen, J.A. Pederson, J.S. Porter, S. Ward and C. A. Wood. Alien species and other notable records from a rapid assessment survey of marinas on the south coast of England.  Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 86: 1329-1337.

2006. David M. Lodge, S. L. Williams, H. J. MacIsaac, K. R. Hayes, B. Leung, S. Reichard, R. N. Mack, P. B. Moyle, M. Smith, D. A. Andow, J. T. Carlton, A. McMichael.  Biological invasions: recommendations for U. S. policy and management. Ecological Applications 16: 2035-2054.

2007. James T. Carlton.  Ballast, pp. 249-251, in  John B. Hattendorf, editor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History.  Volume 1, Oxford University Press.

2007. James T. Carlton.  Shipworm, pp. 694-696, in  John B. Hattendorf, editor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History. Volume 3, Oxford University Press.

2007. James T. Carlton, Editor.  The Light & Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon.   Fourth Edition, Completely Revised and Expanded. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1001 pp.

2007. James T. Carlton. Preface, pp. xi-xii, in: Light & Smith (above).

2007. James T. Carlton. S. F. Light and R. I. Smith, pp. xv-xvii, in: Light & Smith (above).

2007. James T. Carlton and Andrew N. Cohen. Introduced marine and estuarine invertebrates, pp. 29-31, in: Light & Smith (above).

2007. James T. Carlton and Joel W. Martin. Mystacocarida, p. 413, in: Light & Smith (above).

2007. Les Watling and James T. Carlton, Caprellidae pp. 618-629, in: Light & Smith (above).

2007. Armand M. Kuris, Patricia S. Sadeghian, James  T. Carlton. Keys to decapod Crustacea, pp. 636-656, in: Light & Smith (above).

2007. Richard Hoffman and James T. Carlton. Chilopoda, pp. 692-693, in: Light & Smith (above).

2007. James T. Carlton. Introduced species, pp. 294-297, in: Mark W. Denny and Steven D. Gaines, editors, Encyclopedia of Tidepools and Rocky Shores. University of California Press, 705 pp.

2007.  John W. Chapman, James T. Carlton, M. Renee Bellinger, and April M. H. Blakeslee. Premature refutation of a human-mediated marine species introduction: the case history of the marine snail Littorina littorea in the northwestern Atlantic.  Biological Invasions 9: 737-750.

2008. John W. Chapman, April M. H. Blakeslee, James T. Carlton, and M. Renee Bellinger. Parsimony dictates a human introduction: on the use of genetic and other data to distinguish between the natural and human-mediated invasion of the European snail Littorina littorea in North America. Biological Invasions 10: 131-133.

2008. Arthur C. Mathieson, Clinton J. Dawes, Judith Pederson, Rebecca A. Gladych, and James T. Carlton. The Asian red seaweed Grateloupia turuturu (Rhodophyta) invades the Gulf of Maine. Biological Invasions 10: 985-988.

2008. James T. Carlton. The zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha found in North America in 1986 and 1987. Journal of Great Lakes Research 34: 770-773.

2009. James T. Carlton. Deep invasion ecology and the assembly of communities in historical time, pp. 13-56, in: Gil Rilov and Jeffrey A. Crooks, editors, Biological Invasions in Marine Ecosystems. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 641 pp.

2009. Paul W. Fofonoff, Gregory M. Ruiz,, Anson H. Hines, Brian D. Steves, and James T. Carlton. Four centuries of biological invasions in tidal waters of the Chesapeake Bay region, pp. 479-506, in: Gil Rilov and Jeffrey A. Crooks, editors, Biological Invasions in Marine Ecosystems. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 641 pp.

2009. James T. Carlton and William A. Newman. Reply to Clare and Hoeg. Balanus amphitrite or Amphibalanus amphitrite? A note on barnacle nomenclature. Biofouling 25(1): 77-80.

2009. James T. Carlton and Lucius G. Eldredge. Marine bioinvasions of Hawai'i. The introduced and cryptogenic marine and estuarine animals and plants of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Cultural and Environmental Studies 4, Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, 202 pp.

2010. Jonathan B. Geller, John A. Darling, and James T. Carlton. Genetic perspectives ln marine biological invasions. Annual Review of Marine Science 2: 3676-393.

2010. Cascade J. B. Sorte, Susan L. Williams, and James T. Carlton. Marine range shifts and species introductions: comparative spread rates and community impacts. Global Ecology and Biogeography in press

 

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