Publications

2023
Decker MBeth, Brodeur RD, Ciannelli L, Britt LL, Bond NA, DiFiore BP, Jr GLHunt.  2023.  Cyclic variability of eastern Bering Sea jellyfish relates to regional physical conditions. Progress in Oceanography. 210:102923.
2022
Hunt GL, Yasumiishi EM, Eisner LB, Stabeno PJ, Decker MB.  2022.  Climate warming and the loss of sea ice: The impact of sea-ice variability on the southeastern Bering Sea pelagic ecosystem. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 79:937–953.
2021
Huo Y, Decker MB, Wang L, Zhao J, Lemoine H, Lankowicz K, Bi H.  2021.  The influence of a deep‐water intrusion on the distribution of chrysaora melanaster in the southeastern Bering Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 126
2020
Slater WL, Pierson JJ, Decker MB, Houde ED, Lozano C, Seuberling J.  2020.  Fewer copepods, fewer anchovies, and more jellyfish: How does hypoxia impact the Chesapeake Bay zooplankton community? Diversity. 12:35.
2019
Ruzicka J, Brodeur RD, Cieciel K, Decker MB.  2019.  Examining the ecological role of jellyfish in the Eastern Bering Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 77:791–802.
DiFiore BP, Queenborough SA, Madin EMP, Paul VJ, Decker MB, Stier AC.  2019.  Grazing halos on coral reefs: Predation risk, herbivore density, and habitat size influence grazing patterns that are visible from space. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 627:71–81.
2018
Chiaverano LM, Robinson KL, Tam J, Ruzicka JJ, Quiñones J, Aleksa KT, Hernandez FJ, Brodeur RD, Leaf R, Uye S-ichi et al..  2018.  Evaluating the role of large jellyfish and forage fishes as energy pathways, and their interplay with fisheries, in the Northern Humboldt Current System. Progress in Oceanography. 164:28–36.
Decker MB, Robinson KL, Dorji S, Cieciel KD, Barceló C, Ruzicka JJ, Brodeur RD.  2018.  Jellyfish and forage fish spatial overlap on the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf during periods of high and low jellyfish biomass. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 591:57–69.
2015
Robinson KL, Ruzicka JJ, Hernandez FJ, Graham WM, Decker MB, Brodeur RD, Sutor M.  2015.  Evaluating energy flows through jellyfish and Gulf Menhaden (Brevoortia Patronus) and the effects of fishing on the northern Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 72:2301–2312.
2014
Purcell JE, Decker MBeth, Breitburg DL, Broughton KJ.  2014.  Fine-scale vertical distributions of Mnemiopsis leidyi ctenophores: predation on copepods relative to stratification and hypoxia. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES. 500:103–120.
Robinson K, Ruzicka J, Decker MB, Brodeur R, Hernandez F, Quiñones J, Acha M, Uye S-ichi, Mianzan H, Graham W.  2014.  Jellyfish, forage fish, and the world's major fisheries. Oceanography. 27:104–115.
Decker MBeth, Cieciel K, Zavolokin A, Lauth R, Brodeur RD, Coyle KO.  2014.  Population fluctuations of jellyfish in the Bering Sea and their ecological role in this productive shelf ecosystem. Jellyfish blooms. :153–183.
Dawson MN, Cieciel K, Decker MBeth, Hays GC, Lucas CH, Pitt KA.  2014.  Population-level perspectives on global change: genetic and demographic analyses indicate various scales, timing, and causes of scyphozoan jellyfish blooms. Biological Invasions. :1–17.
Chen K, Ciannelli L, Decker MBeth, Ladd C, Cheng W, Zhou Z, Chan K-S.  2014.  Reconstructing Source-Sink Dynamics in a Population with a Pelagic Dispersal Phase. PloS one. 9:e95316.
Bayha KM, Chang MH, Mariani CL, Richardson JL, Edwards DL, DeBoer TS, Moseley C, Aksoy E, Decker MB, Gaffney PM et al..  2014.  Worldwide phylogeography of the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA data. Biological Invasions. :1–24.
2013
Decker MBeth, Liu H, Ciannelli L, Ladd C, Cheng W, Chan K-S.  2013.  Linking changes in eastern Bering Sea jellyfish populations to environmental factors via nonlinear time series models. Marine Ecology Progress Series . (494):179-189.
Condon RH, Duarte CM, Pitt KA, Robinson KL, Lucas CH, Sutherland KR, Mianzan HW, Bogeberg M, Purcell JE, Decker MBeth et al..  2013.  Recurrent jellyfish blooms are a consequence of global oscillations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110:1000–1005.
2012
Duarte CM, Pitt KA, Lucas CH, Purcell JE, Uye S-ichi, Robinson K, Brotz L, Decker MBeth, Sutherland KR, Malej A et al..  2012.  Is global ocean sprawl a cause of jellyfish blooms? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 11:91–97.
Condon RH, Graham WM, Duarte CM, Pitt KA, Lucas CH, Haddock SHD, Sutherland KR, Robinson KL, Dawson MN, Decker MBeth et al..  2012.  Questioning the rise of gelatinous zooplankton in the world's oceans. Bioscience. 62:160–169.
2011
Liu H, Ciannelli L, Decker MBeth, Ladd C, Chan K-S.  2011.  Nonparametric threshold model of zero-inflated spatio-temporal data with application to shifts in jellyfish distribution. Journal of agricultural, biological, and environmental statistics. 16:185–201.
2010
Kolesar SE, Breitburg DL, Purcell JE, Decker MBeth.  2010.  Effects of hypoxia on Mnemiopsis leidyi, ichthyoplankton and copepods: Clearance rates and vertical habitat overlap. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 411:173–188.
2008
Jahncke J, Vlietstra LS, Decker MBeth, Jr GLHunt.  2008.  Marine bird abundance around the Pribilof Islands: a multi-year comparison. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 55:1809–1826.
Brodeur RD, Decker MBeth, Ciannelli L, Purcell JE, Bond NA, Stabeno PJ, Acuna E, Jr GLHunt.  2008.  Rise and fall of jellyfish in the eastern Bering Sea in relation to climate regime shifts. Progress in Oceanography. 77:103–111.
2007
Decker MB, Brown CW, Hood RR, Purcell JE, Gross TF, Matanoski JC, Bannon RO, Setzler-Hamilton EM.  2007.  Predicting the distribution of the scyphomedusa Chrysaora quinquecirrha in Chesapeake Bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 329:99–113.
2005
Purcell JE, Decker MB.  2005.  Effects of climate on relative predation by scyphomedusae and ctenophores on copepods in Chesapeake Bay during 1987-2000. Limnology and Oceanography. 50:376–387.
2004
Decker M.B, Breitburg D.L, Purcell J.E.  2004.  Effects of low dissolved oxygen on zooplankton predation by the ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi. Marine Ecology Progress Series. (280)
2003
Decker M.B, Breitburg D.L, Marcus N.H.  2003.  Geographical differences in the behavioral response of zooplankton to hypoxia: local adaptation to an anthropogenic stressor? Ecological Applications. 13(4):1104-1109.
Breitburg D.L, Adamack A., Rose K.A, Kolesar S.E, Decker M.B., Purcell J.E, Keister J.E, Cowan, Jr. J.H.  2003.  The pattern and influence of low dissolved oxygen in the Patuxent River, a seasonally hypoxic estuary. Estuaries. 26(2A):280-297.
2002
Brown C.W, Hood R.R, Li Z., Decker M.B., Gross T., Purcell J., Wang H..  2002.  Forecasting system predicts presence of sea nettles in Chesapeake Bay. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union. 83(30):321,325-326.
2001
Purcell J.E, Shiganova T., Decker M.B, Houde E.D.  2001.  The ctenophore Mnemiopsis in native and exotic habitats: U.S. estuaries versus the Black Sea basin. Hydrobiologia. 451:145-176.
Condon R, Decker M.B., Purcell J.E.  2001.  Effects of low dissolved oxygen on survival and asexual reproduction of scyphozoan polyps (Chrysaora quinquecirrha). Hydrobiologia. 451:89-95.
Purcell J.E, Breitburg D.L, Decker M.B., Graham W.M, Youngbluth M.J, Rastoff K.A.  2001.  Pelagic cnidarians and ctenophores in low dissolved oxygen environments: a review. Coastal Hypoxia: Consequences for Living Resources and Ecosystems. N. N. Rabalais and R. E. Turner (eds.). Coastal and Estuarine Studies 58:77-100.
2000
Kitaysky A.S, Hunt, Jr. G.L, Flint E.N, Rubega M.A, Decker M.B..  2000.  Resource allocation in breeding seabirds: responses to fluctuations in their food supply. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 206:283-296.
1999
Mehlum F., Hunt G.L, Klusek Z., Decker M.B.  1999.  Scale-dependent correlations between the abundance of Brunnich's guillemots and their prey. J. Anim. Ecol.. 68:60-72.
1998
Decker M.B, Gavrilo M., Mehlum F., Bakken V..  1998.  Distribution and abundance of birds and marine mammals in the Eastern Barents Sea and the Kara Sea, late summer 1995. Meddelelser. 155
Mehlum F, Jr GLHunt, Decker MBeth, Nordlund N.  1998.  Hydrographic features, cetaceans and the foraging of thick-billed murres and other marine birds in the northwestern Barents Sea. Arctic. :243–252.
1996
Hunt, Jr G.L., Decker M.B, Kitaysky A.S.  1996.  Fluctuations in the Bering Sea ecosystem as reflected in the reproductive ecology and diets of kittiwakes on the Pribilof Islands, 1975 to 1990. Aquatic Predators and Their Prey (eds. S. P. R. Greenstreet and M. L. Tasker).
Decker M.B, Hunt, Jr. G.L.  1996.  Foraging by murres (Uria sp.) at tidal fronts surrounding the Pribilof Islands, Alaska. Marine Ecology Progress Series . 139:1-10.
Hunt, Jr G.L., Coyle K.O, Hoffman S., Decker M.B, Flint E..  1996.  Foraging ecology of short-tailed shearwaters near the Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 141:1-11.
Mehlum F., Hunt, Jr. G.L, Klusek Z., Decker M.B, Nordlund N..  1996.  The importance of prey aggregations to the distribution of Brunnich's Guillemonts in Storfjorden, Svalbard. Polar Biology. 16:537-547.
Decker M.B, Hunt, Jr. G.L, Byrd G.V.  1996.  The relationship among sea-surface temperature, the abundance of juvenile walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), and the reproductive performance and diets of seabirds at the Pribilof Islands, southeastern Bering Sea. U. S. Dep. Commer. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS - Ecology of Juvenile Walleye Pollock, Theragra chalcogramma. 126:213-214.
1995
Decker M.B, Hunt, Jr. G.L, Byrd G.V.  1995.  The relationship between sea-surface temperature, the abundance of juvenile walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), and the reproductive performance and diets of seabirds at the Pribilof Islands, southeastern Bering Sea. Climate change and northern fish populations. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. (R. J. Beamish, ed.). 121:425-437.
1992
Coyle K.O, Hunt, Jr. G.L, Decker M.B, Weingartner T.J.  1992.  Murre foraging, epibenthic sound scattering and tidal advection over a shoal near St. George Island, Bering Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 83:1-14.