@article{rudershausen_schmidt_merrell_runde_buckel_2023, title={Effectiveness of Venting and Recompression for Increasing Postrelease Survival of Barotraumatized Black Sea Bass across a Range of Depths}, volume={43}, ISSN={0275-5947 1548-8675}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10864}, DOI={10.1002/nafm.10864}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={1}, journal={North American Journal of Fisheries Management}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Rudershausen, Paul J. and Schmidt, Hailey M. and Merrell, Jeffery H. and Runde, Brendan J. and Buckel, Jeffrey A.}, year={2023}, month={Feb}, pages={257–267} }
 @article{rudershausen_poland_merrell_pelletier_mikles_buckel_2021, title={Estimating discard mortality using meta-analysis and fishery-dependent sampling}, volume={240}, ISSN={0165-7836}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2021.105962}, DOI={10.1016/j.fishres.2021.105962}, abstractNote={Estimates of discard mortality are difficult to obtain. Meta-analysis or life-history-based approaches to estimate discard mortality could provide informed estimates when direct empirical estimates are not available. We used data from published literature across a variety of fish species to determine if hooking condition (good vs. poor) and species-specific values for the Brody growth coefficient (K: a measure of fish physiology) were meaningful factors influencing discard mortality in hook and line fisheries. We then examined whether a two-step approach, combining condition- and physiology-specific estimates of discard mortality with data on proportion-by-hooking-condition hooking information for a fishery, could result in an estimate of discard mortality for dolphinfish Coryphaena hippurus comparable to an empirical estimate. A model with hooking condition, K and their interaction best fitted the published discard mortality data. K was an important negative covariate of discard mortality for good hooking condition, with higher K species experiencing greater rates of survival. In contrast, species in poor condition had similarly low rates of survival across a range of K values. Results suggests that hooking condition is the dominant source of mortality when fish are hooked in vital areas but that physiology should also be taken into account when estimating discard mortality for good condition fish. For the recreational dolphinfish fishery in the southeastern US, we estimated a median proportional discard mortality rate of 0.12 (95 % credible set: 0.07, 0.17) when combining the meta-analysis and field-collected proportion-by-condition data. This estimate was lower than the empirical estimate of dolphinfish discard mortality but the credible sets overlapped (median: 0.25; 95 % credible set: 0.05, 0.39). Estimates of discard mortality from our meta-analytic approach may be applicable to fisheries where empirical estimates of discard mortality are not available and hooking injuries are the dominant source of mortality.}, journal={Fisheries Research}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Rudershausen, P.J. and Poland, S.J. and Merrell, J.H. and Pelletier, C.B. and Mikles, C.S. and Buckel, J.A.}, year={2021}, month={Aug}, pages={105962} }
 @article{rudershausen_merrell_buckel_2021, title={Factors Influencing Colonization and Survival of Juvenile Blue Crabs Callinectes sapidus in Southeastern U.S. Tidal Creeks}, volume={13}, ISSN={1424-2818}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d13100491}, DOI={10.3390/d13100491}, abstractNote={Tidal creeks along the southeastern U.S. and Gulf of Mexico coastlines provide nursery habitats for commercially and ecologically important nekton, including juvenile blue crabs Callinectes sapidus, a valuable and heavily landed seafood species. Instream and watershed urbanization may influence the habitat value that tidal creeks provide to blue crabs. We investigated natural and anthropogenic factors influencing juvenile blue crab occupancy dynamics in eight first-order tidal creeks in coastal North Carolina (USA). An auto-logistic hierarchical multi-season (dynamic) occupancy model with separate ecological and observation sub-models was fitted to juvenile blue crab presence/absence data collected over replicate sampling visits in multiple seasons at three fixed trapping sites in each creek. Colonization and survival are the processes operating on occupancy that are estimated with this formulation of the model. Covariates considered in the ecological sub-model included watershed imperviousness, the percent of salt marsh in each creek’s high tide area, percent salt marsh edge, site-level water depth, and site-level salinity. Temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen were covariates considered in the observation sub-model. In the ecological sub-model, watershed imperviousness was a meaningful negative covariate and site-level salinity was a positive covariate of survival probability. Imperviousness and salinity were each marginally meaningful on colonization probability. Water temperature was a positive covariate of detection probability in the observation sub-model. Mean estimated detection probability across all sites and seasons of the study was 0.186. The results suggest that development in tidal creek watersheds will impact occupancy dynamics of juvenile blue crabs. This places an emphasis on minimizing losses of natural land cover classes in tidal creek watersheds to reduce the negative impacts to populations of this important species. Future research should explore the relationship between imperviousness and salinity fluctuations in tidal creeks to better understand how changing land cover influences water chemistry and ultimately the demographics of juvenile blue crabs.}, number={10}, journal={Diversity}, publisher={MDPI AG}, author={Rudershausen, Paul J. and Merrell, Jeffery H. and Buckel, Jeffrey A.}, year={2021}, month={Oct}, pages={491} }
 @article{rudershausen_m. lee_lombardo_merrell_buckel_2019, title={Survival and Habitat of Yellow‐Phase American Eels in North Carolina Tidal Creeks}, volume={148}, ISSN={0002-8487 1548-8659}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tafs.10190}, DOI={10.1002/tafs.10190}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={5}, journal={Transactions of the American Fisheries Society}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Rudershausen, Paul J. and M. Lee, Laura and Lombardo, Steven M. and Merrell, Jeffery H. and Buckel, Jeffrey A.}, year={2019}, month={Aug}, pages={978–990} }
 @article{rudershausen_merrell_buckel_2018, title={Fragmentation of habitat affects communities and movement of nekton in salt marsh tidal creeks}, volume={586}, ISSN={["1616-1599"]}, DOI={10.3354/meps12385}, abstractNote={Supplement. Code modified from Kéry (2010) for fitting random-intercept binomially distributed generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) (logit links) via Bayesian inference to data on movement of adult Fundulus heteroclitus past road and reference crossings in North Carolina tidal creeks. GLMMs were run through R software by calling JAGS software. Similar code was used for additional models fitted to other combinations of covariates (see Table 3).}, journal={MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES}, author={Rudershausen, Paul J. and Merrell, Jeffery H. and Buckel, Jeffrey A.}, year={2018}, month={Jan}, pages={57–72} }