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Overview

David B. Eggleston is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States and has a research portfolio focused on environmental science with a strong emphasis on marine and coastal ecosystems.

Their work covers several main fields and subfields, including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Aquatic Science

The primary research topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Crustacean biology and ecology
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

David B. Eggleston has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • Ecosphere
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Shellfish Research
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series

Among the recent published papers are:

  • Seascape ecology: identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science, 2021, Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Metapopulation dynamics of oysters: sources, sinks, and implications for conservation and restoration, 2021, Ecosphere
  • Impacts of the invasive blue crab Callinectes sapidus on small-scale fisheries in a Mediterranean lagoon using fishery landing data, 2025, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Spatiotemporal Variability in Sedimentation Drives Habitat Loss on Restored Subtidal Oyster Reefs, 2021, Estuaries and Coasts
  • Hard-bottom habitats support commercially important fish species: a systematic review for the North Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea, 2023, PeerJ

They have collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • D. R. Bohnenstiehl
  • Brandon J. Puckett
  • Anna Gavioli
  • Giorgio Mancinelli
  • Robert R. Christian

Best Publications

  • The Identification, Conservation, and Management of Estuarine and Marine Nurseries for Fish and Invertebrates

    Michael W. Beck;Kenneth L. Heck;Kenneth W. Able;Daniel L. Childers

  • Evidence of connectivity between juvenile and adult habitats for mobile marine fauna : an important component of nurseries

    Bronwyn M. Gillanders;Kenneth W. Able;Jennifer A. Brown;David B. Eggleston

  • ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES UNDERLYING ONTOGENETIC HABITAT SHIFTS IN A CORAL REEF FISH

    Craig P. Dahlgren;David B. Eggleston

  • DENSITY-DEPENDENT PREDATION, HABITAT VARIATION, AND THE PERSISTENCE OF MARINE BIVALVE PREY

    Rochelle D. Seitz;Romuald N. Lipcius;Anson H. Hines;David B. Eggleston

  • Recruitment in Nassau grouper Epinephelus striatus:post-settlement abundance, microhabitat features, and ontogenetic habitat shifts

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  • PRE- AND POST-SETTLEMENT DETERMINANTS OF ESTUARINE DUNGENESS CRAB RECRUITMENT'

    David B. Eggleston;David A. Armstrong

  • Organism response to habitat patchiness: species and habitat-dependent recruitment of decapod crustaceans

    David B Eggleston;Lisa L Etherington;Ward E Elis

  • Shelter Selection by Spiny Lobster Under Variable Predation Risk, Social Conditions, and Shelter Size

    David B. Eggleston;Romuald N. Lipcius

  • Density-dependent predation by blue crabs upon infaunal clam species with contrasting distribution and abundance patterns

    D. B. Eggleston;Romuald N. Lipcius;Anson H. Hines

  • The role of nearshore ecosystems as fish and shellfish nurseries

    Michael W. Beck;Kenneth L. Heck;Kenneth W. Able;Daniel L. Childers

  • Shelter scaling regulates survival of juvenile Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus

    DB Eggleston;RN Lipcius;DL Miller;L. Coba-Cetina

  • Species-specific avoidance responses by blue crabs and fish to chronic and episodic hypoxia

    G. W. Bell;D. B. Eggleston

  • Organism responses to habitat fragmentation and diversity: Habitat colonization by estuarine macrofauna

    David B Eggleston;Ward E Elis;Lisa L Etherington;Craig P Dahlgren

  • Importance of Metapopulation Connectivity to Restocking and Restoration of Marine Species

    Romuald N. Lipcius;David B. Eggleston;Sebastian J. Schreiber;Rochelle D. Seitz

  • Oyster larvae settle in response to habitat-associated underwater sounds.

    Ashlee Lillis;David B. Eggleston;DelWayne R. Bohnenstiehl

  • Hydrodynamic decoupling of recruitment, habitat quality and adult abundance in the Caribbean spiny lobster: source–sink dynamics?

    R. N. Lipcius;W. T. Stockhausen;D. B. Eggleston;L. S. Marshall

  • Large-scale blue crab recruitment: linking postlarval transport, post-settlement planktonic dispersal, and multiple nursery habitats

    Lisa L. Etherington;David B. Eggleston

  • Size- and scale-dependent chemical attraction contribute to an ontogenetic shift in sociality.

    Stephen G. Ratchford;David B. Eggleston

  • Effects of hypoxia on an estuarine predator-prey interaction : foraging behavior and mutual interference in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus and the infaunal clam prey Mya arenaria

    David L. Taylor;David B. Eggleston

  • Estuarine soundscapes: distinct acoustic characteristics of oyster reefs compared to soft-bottom habitats

    A. Lillis;DB Eggleston;Bohnenstiehl

  • Comparative impacts of two major hurricane seasons on the Neuse River and western Pamlico Sound ecosystems

    JoAnn Burkholder;David Eggleston;Howard Glasgow;Cavell Brownie

Frequent Co-Authors

DelWayne R. Bohnenstiehl
DelWayne R. Bohnenstiehl North Carolina State University
Romuald N. Lipcius
Romuald N. Lipcius Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Richard A. Luettich
Richard A. Luettich University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Anson H. Hines
Anson H. Hines Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Benjamin S. Halpern
Benjamin S. Halpern University of California, Santa Barbara
Kenneth W. Able
Kenneth W. Able Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Bronwyn M. Gillanders
Bronwyn M. Gillanders University of Adelaide
Robert J. Orth
Robert J. Orth Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Edward J. Noga
Edward J. Noga North Carolina State University
Lian Xie
Lian Xie North Carolina State University

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