Various Publications

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Mark Carr
General Publications

• Cole, R.G., C. Syms, N.K. Davey, N. Gust, P. Notman, R. Stewart, C. Radford, G. Carbines, M.H. Carr and A.G. Jeffs. 2007. Does breathing apparatus affect fish counts and observations? A comparison at three New Zealand fished and protected areas. Marine Biology. 150:1379-1395.
• Graham, M.B., B.S. Halpern, and M.H. Carr. 2008. Diversity and dynamics of Californian subtidal kelp forests. Pages 103-134 /in/ T.R. McClanahan and G. M. Branch (eds), Food Webs and the Dynamics of Marine Reefs, Oxford University Press.
• Anderson, T.W., M.H. Carr, and M.A Hixon. 2007. Patterns and mechanisms of variable settlement and recruitment of a coral reef fish. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 350: 109–116, 2007.
• Carr, M.H. and C. Syms. 2006. Chapter 15: Recruitment. pp. 411-427 In: Allen, L.G., D.J. Pondella II, and M.H. Horn (eds.) The Ecology of California Marine Fishes. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
• Stoms, D.M., F.W. Davis, S.J. Andelman, M.H. Carr, S.D. Gaines, B.S. Halpern, R. Hoenicke, S.G. Leibowitz, A. Leydecker, E.M.P. Madin, H. Tallis, and R.R. Warner. 2005. Integrated coastal reserve planning: making the land-sea connection. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3:429-436.
• Gaylord, B., S.D. Gaines, D.A. Siegel, and M.H. Carr. 2005. Consequences of population structure and life history for fisheries yields using marine reserves. Ecological Applications 15:2180-2191.
• Bergen, L. and M.H Carr. 2004. Designing the Channel Islands marine reserves: a case study of science-based reserve design. Current: The Journal of Marine Education 20:13-16.
• Bergen, LK and MH Carr (2003). Science as a catalyst for policy: informing the develoment of marine reserves. Environment 45:8-19.
• Shanks, AL, B Grantham, and MH Carr (2003). Propagule dispersal distance and the size and spacing of marine reserves. Ecological Applications 13:S159-169
• Carr, MH, JE Neigel, JA Estes, SJ Andelman, RR Warner, and JL Largier (2003). Comparing marine and terrestrial ecosystems: implications for the design of coastal marine reserves. Ecological Applications 13:S90-S107.
• Carr, MH, TW Anderson, and MA Hixon (2002). Biodiversity, population regulation, and the stability of coral-reef fish communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:11241-11245.
• Steele, MA, JC Malone, AM Findlay, MH Carr, and GE Forrester (2002). A simple method for estimating larval supply in reef fishes and a preliminary test of population limitation by larval delivery in the kelp bass, Paralabrax clathratus . Marine Ecology Progress Series 235:195-203.
• Anderson, TW, CT Bartels, MA Hixon, E Bartels, MH Carr, and JM Shenker (2002). Current flow and catch efficiency in sampling settlement-stage larvae of coral-reef fishes. Fishery Bulletin 100:404-413
• Reed, DC, PT Raimondi, MH Carr and L Goldwasser (2000) . The role of dispersal and disturbance in determining spatial heterogeneity in sedentary kelp-forest organisms. Ecology 81:2011-2026.
• Carr, MH (2000). Marine protected areas: challenges and opportunities for understanding and conserving coastal marine ecosystems. Environmental Conservation 27:106-109
• Murray, SN, RF Ambrose, JA Bohnsack, LW Botsford, MH Carr,GE Davis, PK Dayton, D Gotshall, DR Gunderson, MA Hixon, J Lubchenco, M Mangel, A MacCall, DA McArdle, JC Ogden, J Roughgarden, RM Starr, MJ Tegner, and MM Yoklavich (1999). No - take reserve networks: sustaining fishery populations and marine ecosystems. Fisheries 24:11-25.
• Carr, MH and PT Raimondi (1999). Marine protected areas as a precautionary approach to management. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports 40:71-76.
• Allison, G, J Lubchenco and MH Carr (1998). Marine reserves are necessary but not sufficient for marine conservation. Ecological Applications 8(1) Supplement:S79-S92.
• Anderson, TW and MH Carr (1998). BINCKE: A highly efficient net for collecting reef-associated fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes 51:111-115
• Hixon, MA and MH Carr (1997). Synergistic predation, density dependence, and population regulation in marine fish. Science 277(15 August):946-949.
• Carr, MH and MA Hixon (1997). Artificial reefs: the importance of comparisons with natural reefs. Fisheries 22(4):28-33.
• Caley, MJ, MH Carr, MA Hixon, TP Hughes, GP Jones, and BA Menge (1996). Recruitment and the population dynamics of open marine populations. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 27:477-500.
• Carr, MH and MA Hixon (1995). Predation effects on early survivorship of coral reef fishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 124:31-42
• Carr, MH (1994). Effects of macroalgal dynamics on recruitment of a temperate reef fish. Ecology 75:1320-1333
• Carr, MH (1994). Predicting the recruitment of temperate reef fishes in response to changes in macrophyte density caused by disturbance. pages 255-269 In: D.J. Stouder, K.L. Fresh and R.J. Feller (eds.), Theory and Application of Fish Feeding Ecology . The Belle W. Baruch Library in Marine Science Number 18, University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC.
• Carr, MH and DC Reed (1993). Conceptual issues relevant to marine harvest refuges: examples from temperate reef fishes. Canadian Journal of Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries 50:2019-2028
• Carr, MH (1991). Habitat selection and recruitment of an assemblage of temperate zone reef fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 146:113-137
• Carr, MH (1989). Effects of macroalgal assemblages on the recruitment of temperate zone reef fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 126:59-76

Technical Publications:

• Springer, Y., C. Hays, M. Carr, and M. Mackey. 2007. Ecology and management of the bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana: a synthesis with recommendations for future research. A Lenfest Ocean Program Research Series report, 48 pages.
• Carr, M.H., P.T. Raimondi, S. Lonhart, M. Readdie, K. Kusic, R. Gaddam, H. Livingston, and D. Malone. 2006. Informing decision-making for the coastal highway management plan: a biological sensitivity assessment for intertidal and shallow subtidal habitats on the Big Sur Coast. 186 pages, plus appendices.
• Carr, M., Z. Grader, T. Raftican, and K. Wing. 2005. Making the MPLA Work: Statement by a WWF Panel to the MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force. White paper to the Blue Ribbon Task Force for the California State Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Blue Ribbon Task Force. Convened by the World Wildlife Fund, San Francisco, CA December, 2004.
• Casper, D., M.H. Carr, P. Raimondi and N. Grant. 2004. Development and preliminary results of strontium depuration studies in edible tissues of rockfishes ( Sebastes ). Report to the U. S. Food and Drug Administration. 37 pages and Appendices.
• Carr, MH, MV McGinnis, GE Forrester, J Harding, PT Raimondi (2003). Consequences of Alternative Decommissioning Options to Reef Fish Assemblages and Implications for Decommissioning Policy. MMS OCS Study 2003-053. Final Study Report. 104 pp.
• Starr, RM, MH Carr, J Caselle, JA Estes, C Pomeroy, C Syms, D VenTresca, and MM Yoklavich (2002). A review of the ecological effectiveness of subtidal marine reserves in Central California. Part II: Summary of existing marine reserves in Central California and their potential benefits. A Report to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. 12 pp.
• Carr, MH and C Syms (2002). Marine reserves in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: what we do and don't know. Pp. 51-72 In: Starr, RM, MH Carr, J Caselle, JA Estes, C Pomeroy, C Syms, D VenTresca, and MM Yoklavich. A review of the ecological effectiveness of subtidal marine reserves in Central California. Part I: Synopsis of scientific investigations. A Report to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
• Syms, C and MH Carr (2002). International Clearinghouse for MPA Effectiveness Measures: a Conceptual Design. Report prepared for the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
• Syms, C and MH Carr (2001). Marine protected areas: evaluating MPA effectiveness in an uncertain world. Available at Marinet: North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation site.
• Carr, MH and AA Ammann (2000). Contrasting effects of La Nina and El Nino on recruitment of juvenile rockfishes. Ecosystem Observations, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary:11-12.
• Holbrook SJ, RF Ambrose, L Botsford, MH Carr, PT Raimondi, MJ Tegner (2000). Ecological Issues Related to Decommissioning of California's Offshore Production Platforms. A Report to the University of California Marine Council by The Select Scientific Advisory Committee on Decommissioning, University of California.
• Workshop. NOAA/NMFS Tech. Memo SWFC-255.
• Carr, MH, T Hourigan, D Ito, D McArdle, Li Morgan, W Palsson, R Parrish, S Ralston, P Reilly, J Sladek, and R Starr (1998). "Working group on design considerations" pp. 143-148 In: M.M. Yoklavich Marine Harvest Refugia for West Coast Rockfish
• Carr, MH and PT Raimondi (1998). "Concepts relevant to the design and evaluation of harvest reserves" pp. 27-31 In: M.M. Yoklavich Marine Harvest Refugia for West Coast Rockfish: A Workshop. NOAA/NMFS Tech. Memo SWFC-255
• Dynamics of Coral Reef Fishes. CRC Reef Research Centre, Townsville, Australia, 297 pp.
• Carr, MH (1998). Effects of spatial structure on the relationship between larval supply, habitat availability and recruitment of reef fishes. pp. 215-218 In: Jones, GP, Doherty, PJ, Mapstone, BD, and Howlett, ReelFish '95: Recruitment and Population
• Carr, MH (1998). Defining and measuring "recruitment": is the bandwagon headed straight to hell? pp. 132-134 In: Jones, G.P., Doherty, P.J., Mapstone, B.D., and Howlett, L. ReeFish '95: Recruitment and Population Dynamics of Coral Reef Fishes. CRC Reef Research Centre, Townsville, Australia, 297 pp.
• Hixon, MA, MH Carr and JP Beets (1997). Artificial reefs: importance of comparisons with natural reefs. pp. 51-59 In: W. Seaman Future Artificial Reefs in the U.S. Coastal Ocean: Can Science Resolve the Biological Enhancement Question? Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, Washington D.C. Special Report No. 64.
• Carr, MH (1991). Patterns, mechanisms and consequences of recruitment of a temperate marine reef fish. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 190 pp. NOAA Sea Grant publication, University of Southern California Sea Grant Program.
• Carr, MH (1990). Overview of kelp-fish associations in California, with a review of natural and harvest impacts on the kelp canopy and nearshore fish associations. pp. 117-135 In: W.N. Wheeler (ed.), Federal-Provincial Marine Plant Working Group on Kelp Biology and Kelp-Fish Interactions. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Province of British Columbia.