GRAHAM E. FORRESTER
University of Rhode Island
Department of Natural Resources Science
College of the Environment and Life Sciences
114 Coastal Institute
Kingston, RI 02881
(401) 874-7054
email: gforrester@uri.edu

 
  1. Forrester. G. E. 1990.  Factors influencing the juvenile demography of a coral-reef fish.  Ecology 71:1666-1681. [PDF Copy]

  2. Forrester. G. E.  1991.  Social status, individual size and group composition as determinants of food consumption by humbug damselfishes.  Animal Behaviour 42:701-711. [PDF Copy]

  3. Forrester, G. E.  1994.  Influences of predatory fish on drift dispersal and local density of stream insects.  Ecology 75:1208-1222 . [PDF Copy]

  4. Sale, P. F., G. E. Forrester and P. S. Levin.  1994.  The fishes of coral reefs - ecology and management.  National Geographic Research and Exploration 10:224-235.

  5. Forrester, G. E.,  J. G. Chase and W. McArthy.  1994.  Diel and density-related changes in food consumption and prey selection by brook trout in a New Hampshire stream.  Environmental Biology of Fishes 39:310-311. [PDF Copy]

  6. Douglas, P. L., G. E. Forrester and S. D. Cooper.  1994.  Effects of trout on the diel periodicity of drifting in baetid mayflies.  Oecologia 98:48-56. [PDF Copy]

  7. Forrester, G. E.  1994.  Changes in diel patterns of drift behaviour by mayflies under the risk of trout predation:  variation in response among taxa.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51:2549-57. [PDF Copy]

  8. Forrester, G. E.  1995.  Strong regulation of abundance in a coral reef fish by density-dependent survival and recruitment.  Oecologia 103:275-282. [PDF Copy]

  9. O'Bryan, L. M. and G. E. Forrester.  1997.  Effects of fish presence and simulated moonlight gradients on nighttime horizontal movements of a predatory zooplankter, Chaoborus punctipennis.  Journal of Plankton Research 19:1441-1453. [PDF Copy]

  10. Steele, M. A., G. E. Forrester and G. R. Almany.  1998.  Interactive effects of predators and conspecific density on recruitment patterns in three reef fishes.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 172:115-125. [PDF Copy]

  11. Forrester, G. E.  1999.  The influence of adult density on the settlement of larval coral reef fish. Coral Reefs 18:85-89. [PDF Copy]

  12. Malone, J. M., G. E. Forrester and M. A. Steele.  1999. Effects of subcutaneous microtags on the growth, survival and vulnerability to predation of small reef fishes.  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 237:243-253. [PDF Copy]

  13. Forrester, G. E., T. L. Dudley and N. B. Grimm.  1999.  Trophic interactions in open systems:  influences of predators and nutrients on food chains in streams.  Limnology and Oceanography 44:1187-1197. [PDF Copy]

  14. Holbrook, S. J., G. E. Forrester and R. J. Schmitt.  2000.  Spatial patterns in the abundance of damselfish reflect the availability of suitable habitat.  Oecologia 122: 109-120. [PDF Copy]

  15. Forrester, G. E. and M. A. Steele.  2000.  Variation in the presence and cause of density-dependent mortality in three species of reef fishes.  Ecology 81:2416–2427. [PDF Copy]

  16. Steele, M. A. and G. E. Forrester.  2002.  Early post-settlement predation on three reef fishes: effects on spatial patterns of abundance.  Ecology83:1076-1091. [PDF Copy]

  17. Forrester, G. E., R. R. Vance and M. A. Steele.  2002.  Simulating large-scale population dynamics using small-scale data.  Pages 275-301 in P. Sale (editor), Coral Reef Fishes: dynamics and Diversity in a Complex Ecosystem.  Academic Press. [PDF Copy]

  18. Steele, M. A. and G. E. Forrester.  2002.  Temporal variation in the relative importance of sublethal effects of predators and competitors on growth of a temperate reef fish. Marine Ecology progress Series 237:233-245. [PDF Copy]

  19. Steele, M. A., A. M. Findlay, J. C. Malone, M. H. Carr and G. Forrester.  2002.  A simple method for estimating larval supply in reef fishes and a test for limitation of population size by larval supply in the kelp bass, Paralabrax clathratus.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 235:195-203. [PDF Copy]

  20. Forrester, G. E and S. Swearer.  2002.  Trace elements in otoliths indicate the use of open-coast versus bay nursery habitats by juvenile California halibut.  Marine Ecology progress Series 241:201-213.  [PDF Copy]

  21. Finley, R. J. and G. E. Forrester. 2003. Impact of ectoparasites on the demography of a small reef fish. Marine Ecology progress Series 248:305-309. [PDF Copy]

  22. Forrester, G. E., B. I. Fredericks, D. Gerdeman, B. Evans, M. A. Steele, K. Zayed, L. Schweitzer, I. H. Suffet, R. R. Vance, and R. F. Ambrose.  2003. Growth of estuarine fish is associated with the combined concentration of sediment contaminants and shows no adaptation or acclimation to past conditions.  Marine Environmental Research 56:423-432. [PDF Copy]

  23. Swearer, S. E., G. E. Forrester, M. A. Steele, A. J. Brooks and D. W. Lea.  2003.  Spatio-temporal and interspecific variation in otolith trace-elemental fingerprints in a temperate estuarine fish assemblage.  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 56:1111-1123. [PDF Copy]

  24. Forrester, G. E. and M. A. Steele.  2004.  A Shortage of structural refuges from predation causes density-dependent prey mortality at multiple spatial scales.  Ecology 85:1332-1342.

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  25. Steele, M. A. and G. E. Forrester. 2005. Small-scale field experiments accurately scale up to predict density dependence in reef fish populations at large scales.  Proceedings of the National Academy of the USA 102:13513–13516. [PDF Copy]

  26. Forrester, G. E.  2005. A field experiment testing for correspondence between trace elements in otoliths and in the environment, and for evidence of adaptation to prior habitats.  Estuaries 28:974-981. [PDF Copy]

  27. Forrester, G. E., B. Evans, M. A. Steele and R. R. Vance.  2006. Assessing the magnitude of intra- and interspecific competition in two coral-reef fishes.  Oecologia 148:632-640. [PDF Copy]

  28. Forrester, G. E. and R. J. Finley.  2006.  Parasitism and a shortage of refuges jointly mediate the strength of density dependence in a reef fish. Ecology 87:1110-1115. [PDF Copy]

  29. Tallman, J. C. and G. E. Forrester.  2007. Oyster grow-out cages function as artificial reefs for temperate fishes.  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:790-799. [PDF Copy]

  30. Forrester, G. E., M. A. Steele, J. F. Samhouri, R. R. Vance. 2008. Settling larvae of a small coral reef fish discriminate reef features at large, but not small, spatial scales. Limnology & Oceanography 53:1956-62. [PDF Copy]

  31. Forrester, G. E., M. A. Steele, J. F. Samhouri, B. Evans, R. R. Vance. 2008. Spatial density dependence scales up but does not produce temporal density dependence in a reef fish. Ecology 89:2980-85. [PDF Copy]