Publications

R Beldade, JB Heiser, DR Robertson, JL Gasparini, SR Floeter, G Bernardi. 2009. Historical biogeography and speciation in creole wrasses (labridae, Clepticus). Marine Biology. 156: 679-687

Paddack MJ, Aguilar C, Appeldoorn RS, Beets J, Burkett EW, Chittaro PM, Clarke K, Esteves R, Fonseca AC, Forrester GE, Friedlander AM, García-Sais J, González-Sansón G, Jordan LKB, McClellan D, Miller MW, Molloy P, Mumby PJ, Nagelkerken I, Nemeth M, Navas-Camacho R, Pitt J, Polunin NVC, Reyes-Nivia MC, Robertson DR, Ramírez AR, Salas E, Smith SR, Spieler RE, Steele MA, Williams ID, Wormald C, Watkinson AR, Reynolds J, Côté IM. 2009. Recent Caribbean-wide declines in reef fish abundance. Current Biology.19: 1-6

Craig MT, Graham RT, Torres RA, Hyde JR, Freitas MO, Ferreira BP, Hostim- Silva M, Gerhardinger LC, Bertoncinis AA, Robertson DR.. 2009. How many species of goliath grouper are there? Cryptic genetic diversity in a threatened marine fish and the resurrection of a geopolitical species. Endangered Species Research 7: 167-174

Robertson DR, Cramer K. 2009. Marine shore-fishes and biogeographic subdivisions of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Marine Ecology Progress Series 380: 1-17

Robertson, D. R., J. H. Christy, R. Collin, R. G. Cooke, L. D’Croz, K. W. Kaufmann, S. Heckadon Moreno, J. L. Mate, A. O’Dea, and M. Torchin. 2009. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Marine research, education, and conservation in Panama. Smithsonian Contributions to Marine Sciences. 38: 73-93.

Floeter, S, Rocha L, Robertson DR, Joyeux J-C, Smith-Vaniz W, Wirtz P, Edwards AJ, Barreiros JP, Ferriera CEL, Gasparini JL, Brito A, Falcon M, Bowen BW, Bernandi G. (2008) Atlantic reef fish biogeography and evolution. Journal of Biogeography 35: 22-47

Choat JH and Robertson DR (2008). An ecological survey of the St Helena and Ascension Island populations of the Jack (Epinephelus adscensionis) with a review of management options. Report to the St Helena Government, 83 pp.

Domingues VS, Alexandrou M, Almada VC, Robertson DR, Brito ASRS, Bernardi G 2008 Tropical fishes in a temperate sea: evolution of the wrasse Thalassoma pavo and the parrotfish Sparisoma cretense in the Mediterranean and the adjacent Macaronesian and Cape Verde Archipelagos . Marine Biology 154: 465-474.

Floeter, S, Rocha L, Robertson DR, Joyeux J-C, Smith-Vaniz W, Wirtz P, Edwards AJ, Barreiros JP, Ferriera CEL, Gasparini JL, Brito A, Falcon M, Bowen BW, Bernandi G. 2008 Atlantic reef fish biogeography and evolution. Journal of Biogeography 35: 22-47

Trip EL, Choat JH, Wilson DT, Robertson DR. 2008 Inter-oceanic analysis of demographic variation in a widely distributed Indo-Pacific coral reef fish. Marine Ecology Progress Series 373: 97-109

Robertson DR 2008 Global biogeographic databases on marine fishes: caveat emptor. Diversity and Distributions. 14: 891-892

D. Ross Robertson and William F. Smith-Vaniz. 2008. Rotenone: An Essential but Demonized Tool for Assessing Marine Fish Diversity. Vol. 58 No. 2 - BioScience 165

Horne JB, van Herwerden L, Choat JH, Robertson DR. 2008 High population connectivity across the Indo-Pacific: congruent lack of phylogeographic structure in three reef fish congeners, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 49: 629-638

Rocha LA, Rocha CR, Robertson DR, Bowen BW 2008 Comparative phylogeography of Atlantic reef fishes indicates both origin and accumulation of diversity in the Caribbean. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 157-172

Debrot D, Choat JH, Posada JM, Robertson, DR 2007 High densities of the large bodied parrotfishes (Scaridae) at two Venezuelan offshore reefs: comparison among four localities in the Caribbean. Proc 60th Gulf & Caribb Fish Inst Nov 5-9, 2007; Punta Cana, Dominican Rep., 335-337.

Craig M T, Eble JA, Bowen BW. Robertson DR 2007 High genetic connectivity across the Indian and Pacific Oceans in the reef fish Myripristis berndti (Holocentridae). Marine Ecology Progress Series 334: 245-254.

Lessios HA, Robertson DR. 2006 Crossing the impassable: genetic connections in 20 reef fishes across the Eastern Pacific Barrier. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B). 273: 2201-2208

Bowen BW, Bass AL, Muss AJ, Carlin J, Robertson DR. 2006 Phylogeography of two Atlantic squirrelfishes (Family Holocentridae): exploring links between pelagic larval duration and population connectivity. Marine Biology. 149: 899-913

Robertson DR, Karg F, Moura R, Victor BC, Bernardi G. 2006 Mechanisms of speciation and faunal enrichment in Atlantic parrotfishes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40: 795-807

Craig MT, Hastings PA, Pondella DJ, Robertson DR, Rosales-Casián JA. 2006 Phylogeography of the flag cabrilla, Epinephelus labriformis (Serranidae): implications for the biogeography of the Tropical Eastern Pacific and the early stages of speciation in a marine shore fish. Journal of Biogeography 33: 969-979

Zapata F, Robertson DR. 2006 How many shore-fish species are there in the Tropical Eastern Pacific? Journal of Biogeography. 34: 38-51.

Robertson DR, Choat JH, Posada JM, Pitt J, Ackerman JL. 2005. Ocean surgeonfish Acanthurus bahianus II. Fishing effects on longevity, size and abundance? Marine Ecology Progress Series 295: 245-256.

Mora C & Robertson DR. 2005. Factors shaping the range-size frequency distribution of the endemic fish fauna of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Journal of Biogeography 32: 277-286.

Robertson DR, Ackerman JL, Choat JH, Posada JM, Pitt J . 2005. Ocean surgeonfish Acanthurus bahianus I. The geography of demography. Marine Ecology Progress Series 295: 229-244.

Rocha LA, DR Robertson, CR. Rocha, JL. Van Tassell, M Craig, BW. Bowen. Recent colonization of the Atlantic by an Indo-Pacific reef fish Molecular Ecology 14: 3921-3928

Rocha Luiz A, Robertson D. Ross , Roman Joe and Bowen Brian W. 2005. Ecological speciation in tropical reef fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) B 272: 573-579.

Mora C & Robertson DR. 2005. Causes of latitudinal gradients in species richness: a test with the endemic shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Ecology 86: 1771- 1782.

Munroe TA. & Robertson DR 2005 Symphurus ocellaris, a new shallow-water symphurine tonguefish collected off Pacific Panama (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae) Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118:576-581

Bergenius MJA, McCormick MI, Meekan MG and Robertson DR 2005 Environmental influences on the planktonic growth, and the duration and magnitude of settlement of a coral reef fish. Marine Biology 147:291-300

Robertson, D. Ross, Grove, Jack S., and McCosker, John E. 2004. "Tropical transpacific shore fishes." Pacific Science 58(4): 507-565.

H.A. Lessios, J. Kane, and D.R. Robertson. 2003c. Phylogeography of the pantropical sea urchin Tripneustes: contrasting patterns of population structure between oceans. Evolution 57: 2026-2036.

Bernardi G, Bucciarelli G, Costagliola D, Robertson DR, Heiser JB. 2003e. Ecology and evolution of the coral reef fish genus Thalassoma (Labridae): 1. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography. Marine Biology 144: 369-375.

Choat, JH, Robertson D R, Ackerman J L, and Posada J M. 2003a. An age-based demographic analysis of the Caribbean stoplight parrotfish Sparisoma viride. Marine Ecology Progress Series 246: 265-277.

Carlin, JL, Robertson, DR and Bowen BW. 2003d. Ancient divergences and recent connections in two tropical Atlantic reef fishes Epinephelus adscensionis and Rypticus saponaceus (Percoidei: Serranidae). Marine Biology 143: 1057-1069.

Bay L K, Choat J H, van Herwerden L, Robertson D R. 2003g. High genetic diversities and complex genetic structure in an Indo-Pacific tropical reef fish (Chlorurus sordidus): evidence of an unstable evolutionary past? Marine Biology 144: 377-383.

Randall JE, Allen GR and Robertson DR. 2003b. Myripristis earlei, a new soldierfish (Beryciformes: Holocentridae) from the Marquesas and Phoenix Islands. Zoological Studies 42: 405-410.

Costagliola D, Robertson DR, Guidetti P, Stefanni S, Wirtz P, Heiser JB Bernardi G. 2003f. Evolution of the coral reef fish Thalassoma spp. (Labridae). 2. Evolution of the eastern Atlantic species. Marine Biology 144: 377-383.

Randall, J.E., Earle J.L., Robertson D.R. 2002f . Iniistius auropunctatus, a new razorfish (Perciformes: Labradae) from the Marquesas Islands. Cybium 26: 92-98.

Bergenius M. A. J., Meekan M.G., Robertson D. R. and McCormick M.I. 2002a. Larval growth predicts recruitment success of a coral reef fish. Oecologia 131: 521-525.

Choat J.H., Robertson D.R. Age-based studies on coral reef fishes. 2002d. pp 57-80. In: Sale P.F., Ed. Coral Reef Fishes: dynamics and diversity in a complex ecosystem. Academic Press, San Diego.

Rocha L, Bass A, Robertson DR and Bowen BW. 2002b. Adult habitat preferences, larval dispersal and the comparative phylogeography of three Atlantic surgeonfishes (Teleostei: Acanthuridae). Molecular Evolution 11: 243-252.

Swearer, SE, Shima, JS, Hellberg, ME, Thorrold, SR, Jones, GP, Robertson, DR, Morgan, SG, Selkoe, KQ, Ruiz, GM, Warner RR. 2002e. Evidence of self-recruitment in demersal marine populations. Bulletin of Marine Science 70: 251-272.

Allen G.R. and Robertson D.R. 2002c. Halichoeres salmofasciatus, a new species of wrasse (Pisces: Labridae) from Isla del Coco, tropical eastern Pacific. Aqua 5: 65-72.

Chao L.N., Bearez P., Robertson D.R. 2001h. A new genus and new species of Sciaenidae from the Gulf of Panama (Perciformes, Sciaenidae). Revista Biologia Tropical 49: 81-87.

Muss A., Robertson D. R., Stepien C.A., Wirtz P., Bowen B. W. 2001c. Phylogeography of Ophioblennius: the role of ocean currents and geography in reef fish evolution. Evolution 55: 561-572.

McCosker J., Robertson D.R. 2001f . Aplatophis zorro, a new species of eastern Pacific snake-eel, with comments on new world ophichthid distributions (Anguilliformes:Ophichthidae). Revista Biologia Tropical. 49: 13-19.

Hastings P.A., Robertson D.R. (Eds). 2001i. Systematics of tropical eastern Pacific fishes. Revista Biologia Tropical Supplement 49: XIV + 209 pp.

Robertson D.R. 2001d. Population maintenance among tropical reef-fishes: inferences from the biology of small-island endemics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98: 5668-5670.

Collette, B.B., Robertson D.R. 2001g. Redescription of Ammodytoides gilli, the tropical eastern Pacific sand lance (Teleostei, Ammodytoidae). Revista Biologia Tropical. 49: 111-115.

Victor BC, Wellington GM, Robertson DR, Ruttenberg B. 2001j. The effects of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation event on the distribution of reef associated labrid fishes in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of Marine Science 69: 279-288.