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Overview

Jay R. Rooker is affiliated with Texas A&M University at Galveston in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with particular attention to marine and fisheries research.

Their body of work spans several subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, oceanography, and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics.

Key topics covered in their publications consist of marine and fisheries research, isotope analysis in ecology, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, coral and marine ecosystems studies, fish ecology and management studies, marine animal studies overview, and ichthyology and marine biology.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Ecology
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Scientific Reports
  • Bulletin of Marine Science

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Jay R. Rooker are:

  • Taxonomic Richness and Diversity of Larval Fish Assemblages in the Oceanic Gulf of Mexico: Links to Oceanographic Conditions, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Fish assemblages associated with artificial reefs assessed using multiple gear types in the northwest Gulf of Mexico, 2020, Bulletin of Marine Science
  • The Open-Ocean Gulf of Mexico After Deepwater Horizon: Synthesis of a Decade of Research, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Unidirectional trans-Atlantic gene flow and a mixed spawning area shape the genetic connectivity of Atlantic bluefin tuna, 2023, Molecular Ecology
  • Thermal sensitivity of field metabolic rate predicts differential futures for bluefin tuna juveniles across the Atlantic Ocean, 2023, Nature Communications

Jay R. Rooker collaborates frequently with several researchers including:

  • R. J. David Wells
  • Michael A. Dance
  • Michelle Zapp Sluis
  • Nathan Miller
  • Heidi Dewar

Best Publications

  • Is otolith strontium a useful scalar of life cycles in estuarine fishes

    David H Secor;Jay R Rooker

  • Natal Homing and Connectivity in Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Populations

    Jay R. Rooker;David H. Secor;Gregorio De Metrio;Ryan Schloesser

  • Life History and Stock Structure of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus)

    Jaime R. Alvarado Bremer;Barbara A. Block;Heidi Dewar;Gregorio De Metrio

  • Diel, lunar and seasonal changes in a mangrove fish assemblage off Southwestern Puerto Rico

    J. R. Rooker;G. D. Dennis

  • Fish assemblages on artificial and natural reefs in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, USA

    J. R. Rooker;Q. R. Dokken;C. V. Pattengill;G. J. Holt

  • Identification of riverine, estuarine, and coastal contingents of Hudson River striped bass based upon otolith elemental fingerprints

    David H. Secor;Jay R. Rooker;Erik Zlokovitz;Vincent S. Zdanowicz

  • Identification of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) stocks from putative nurseries using otolith chemistry

    Jay R. Rooker;David H. Secor;Vincent S. Zdanowicz;Gregorio De Metrio

  • Postsettlement patterns of habitat use by sciaenid fishes in subtropical seagrass meadows

    Jay R. Rooker;Scott A. Holt;Manuel A. Soto;G. Joan Holt

  • Discrimination of northern bluefin tuna from nursery areas in the Pacific Ocean using otolith chemistry

    Jay R. Rooker;David H. Secor;Vincent S. Zdanowicz;Tomoyuki Itoh

  • Evidence of trans-Atlantic movement and natal homing of bluefin tuna from stable isotopes in otoliths

    Jay R. Rooker;David H. Secor;Gregorio DeMetrio;Alan J. Kaufman

  • Vulnerability of newly settled red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) to predatory fish: is early-life survival enhanced by seagrass meadows?

    J. R. Rooker;G. J. Holt;S. A. Holt

  • Trophic ecology of Sargassum-associated fishes in the Gulf of Mexico determined from stable isotopes and fatty acids

    Jay R. Rooker;Jason P. Turner;Scott A. Holt

  • Utilization of subtropical seagrass meadows by newly settled red drum Sciaenops ocellatus : patterns of distribution and growth

    Jay R. Rooker;Scott A. Holt

  • Crossing the line: migratory and homing behaviors of Atlantic bluefin tuna

    Jay R Rooker;Haritz Arrizabalaga;Igaratza Fraile;David H. Secor

  • Application of RNA : DNA Ratios to Evaluate the Condition and Growth of Larval and Juvenile Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus).

    JR Rooker;GJ Holt

  • Bioaccumulation of mercury in pelagic fishes from the northern Gulf of Mexico

    Yang J. Cai;Jay R. Rooker;Gary A. Gill;Jason P. Turner

  • Evaluating post-release behaviour modification in large pelagic fish deployed with pop-up satellite archival tags

    John P. Hoolihan;Jiangang Luo;Francisco J. Abascal;Steven E. Campana

  • Spatial, Temporal, and Habitat-Related Variation in Abundance of Pelagic Fishes in the Gulf of Mexico: Potential Implications of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Jay R. Rooker;Larissa L. Kitchens;Michael A. Dance;R. J. David Wells

  • SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF HABITAT USE BY FISHES ASSOCIATED WITH SARGASSUM MATS IN THE NORTHWESTERN GULF OF MEXICO

    R. J. David;Jay R. Rooker

  • Distribution and habitat associations of billfish and swordfish larvae across mesoscale features in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Jay R. Rooker;Jay R. Rooker;Jeff R. Simms;Jeff R. Simms;R. J. David Wells;Scott A. Holt

  • Spatial and temporal variability in growth, mortality, and recruitment potential of postsettlement red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, in a subtropical estuary

    Jay R. Rooker;Jay R. Rooker;Scott A. Holt;G. Joan Holt;Lee A. Fuiman

  • Chemistry of tuna otoliths: assessment of base composition and postmortem handling effects

    J. R. Rooker;V. S. Zdanowicz;D. H. Secor

Frequent Co-Authors

David H. Secor
David H. Secor University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Antonietta Quigg
Antonietta Quigg Texas A&M University at Galveston
Miguel N. Santos
Miguel N. Santos Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Mahmood S. Shivji
Mahmood S. Shivji Nova Southeastern University
David L. Dettman
David L. Dettman University of Arizona
Molly Lutcavage
Molly Lutcavage University of Massachusetts Boston
Barbara A. Block
Barbara A. Block Stanford University
John E. Graves
John E. Graves Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Gary A. Gill
Gary A. Gill Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nicholas S. Fisher
Nicholas S. Fisher Stony Brook University

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