Publications: Migration and Habitat Use Concepts
Kerr, L.A. and D.H. Secor. 2012. Partial migration across populations of white perch (Morone americana): a flexible life history strategy adapted for persistence in a variable estuarine environment. Estuaries and Coasts 35: 227-336.
Williams, E.P., A.C. Peer,
T.J. Miller, D.H. Secor, and A.R. Place. 2012. A phylogeny of the temperate sea
basses (Moronidae) characterized by a translocation of the mt-ND6 gene. Journal of Fish Biology 80: 110-130.
Wingate, R.L., D.H. Secor, and R.T. Kraus. 2011. Patterns of
striped bass residence and migration in a sub-estuary of the Chesapeake Bay.
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 140: 1441-1450.
Petitgas,
P., D.H. Secor, I. McQuinn, G. Huse, and N. Lo. 2010. What is a collapsed stock
and what is required for its recovery?
Mechanisms that sustain and establish life-cycle closure in space and
time. ICES J. Marine Science 67: 1841-1848.
Secor,
D.H. 2010. Is otolith science transformative? New views on fish migration.
Environ. Biol. Fishes 89: 209-220.
Kerr, L.A., S.X. Cadrin, and D.H. Secor. 2010. Simulation modeling as a tool for examining the consequences of spatial structure and connectivity to local and regional population dynamics. ICES J. Mar. Sci.67: 1631-1639.
Kerr, L.A. and D.H. Secor. 2010.
Latent effects of early life history on partial
migration for an estuarine-dependent fish. Environ. Biol. Fishes 89: 479-492.
Niklitschek, E.J., D. H. Secor, A. Lafon, P. Toledo, M.
George-Nascimento. 2010. Segregation of
SE Pacific and SW Atlantic blue whiting stocks: evidence from complementary
otolith microchemistry and parasite assemblages. Environ. Biol. Fishes 89: 399-413.
Kerr, L.A., S.X.
Cadrin, and D.H. Secor. 2010. The role of spatial dynamics in the stability,
resilience, and productivity of fish populations: An evaluation based on white
perch in the Chesapeake Bay. Ecological
Applications 20: 497-507.
Cairns, D.K., D.H. Secor, W.E. Morrison, and J.A. Hallet. 2009.
Salinity-linked growth in anguillid eels and the paradox of temperate-zone
anadromy. J. Fish Biol. 74: 2094–2114
Kerr, L.A., Piccoli, P.M. & Secor, D.H. 2009. Partial migration as exemplified by the estuarine-dependent white perch. Fisheries 34 (3): 114-123.
Secor, D.H.,
Kerr, L.A. and Cadrin, S.X. 2009. Connectivity
effects on productivity, stability, and persistence in an Atlantic herring
metapopulation. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 66: 1726-1732
Kerr, L.A. and D.H. Secor. 2009. Bioenergetic trajectories
underlying partial migration in Patuxent River (Chesapeake Bay) white perch (Morone americana). Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 66:
602-612.
Secor, D.H. and L.A. Kerr. 2009. A lexicon of life cycle diversity in
diadromous and other fishes. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 69: 537-556.
Cadrin,
S.X. and D.H. Secor. 2009. Chapter 22, p. 405-426. Accounting for spatial
population structure in stock assessment: past, present and future. In R.J.
Beamish and B.J. Rothschild (eds.) Future of Fishery Science in North America. 405 Fish & Fisheries Series, Springer
Science.
Secor, D.H. and P.M. Piccoli. 2007. Determination of
frequency of anadromous migrations by Chesapeake Bay
striped bass based upon otolith microchemical analysis. Fisheries Bulletin 105:
62-73.
Secor, D.H. 2007. The year-class phenomenon and the storage
effect in marine fishes. J. Sea Res. 57: 91-103.
Secor, D.H. and J.R. Rooker.
2005. Connectivity in the life histories of fishes that use estuaries. Introduction to series of papers. Estuarine,
Coastal, and Shelf Science 64: 1-4.
Kraus,
R.T. and Secor, D.H. 2005. Evaluation
of connectivity in estuarine-dependent white perch populations of Chesapeake Bay. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science. 64: 94-107.
Kraus,
R.T. and Secor, D.H. 2004. The dynamics of white perch (Morone americana
Gmelin) population contingents in the Patuxent River Estuary, Maryland USA.
Marine Ecology Progress Series. 279:
247-259.
Secor, D.H. 2004. Fish
migration and the unit stock: three
formative debates, p. 17-44. In Steven X. Cadrin, Kevin D. Friedland, John R.
Waldman (ed.s). Stock Identification Methods.
Elsevier Inc., Burlington.
Secor, D. H.
2002. Estuarine dependency and
life history evolution in temperate sea basses. Fisheries Science 68: (Suppl. 1): 178-181.
Secor, D.H. 2002. Historical
roots of the migration triangle. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 215:329‑335.
Secor, D.H., J.R. Rooker, E. Zlokovitz and V.S. Zdanowicz.
2001. Identification of riverine, estuarine, and coastal contingents of
Hudson River striped bass based upon otolith elemental fingerprints.
Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 211: 245-253.
Secor, D.H. 1999. Specifying divergent migration patterns in the concept of stock: The Contingent Hypothesis. Fish. Res. 43: 13-34.
Publications: Otolith Chemistry as a Scalar of Estuarine Habitat Use
Kerr, L.A., R.T. Kraus, and D.H. Secor. 2007. Stable
isotope (δ13C and δ18O) composition of otoliths as a proxy for environmental salinity
experienced by an estuarine fish. Mar.
Ecol. Progress Series 348: 245-253.
Elsdon, T.S., Wells, B.K.,
Campana, S.E., Gillanders, B.M., Jones, C.M., Limburg, K.E., Secor, D.H., Thorrold,
S.R., and Walther, B.D. 2008. Otolith
chemistry to describe movements and life-history parameters of fishes:
hypotheses, assumptions, limitations and inferences using five methods.
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 46: 207-330.
Kraus,
R.T. and D.H. Secor. 2004. Partitioning of strontium in otoliths of estuarine
fishes: experimentation in a model
system, white perch Morone americana
(Gmelin). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 302:
85-106
Rooker, J.R., R.T. Kraus, and D.H. Secor. 2004. Dispersive
behaviors of black drum and red drum: Is otolith Sr:Ca a reliable indicator of
salinity history. Estuaries 27: 334-341.
Kraus, R.T., and D.H. Secor. 2003.
Otolith Sr:Ca response to a manipulated environment in young American eels. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 33: 79-85.
Secor, D.H. and J.R. Rooker. 2000. Is otolith strontium a useful scalar of life-cycles in estuarine fishes? Fish. Res. 46(1-3): 359-371.
Kimura, R, D.H. Secor, E.D. Houde and P.M. Piccoli. 2000. Up-estuary dispersal of young-of-the-year bay anchovy Anchoa mitchilli in the Chesapeake Bay: Inferences from microprobe analysis of Sr in otoliths. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 208: 217-227.
Secor, D.H., T. Ota and M. Tanaka. 1998. Use of otolith
microanalysis to determine estuarine migrations of Ariake Sea Japanese
seabass. Fish. Sci. 64: 740-743.
Secor, D.H. and P. M. Piccoli. 1996. Age- and
sex-dependent migrations of the Hudson River striped bass population
determined from otolith microanalysis. Estuaries 19: 778-793.
Secor, D.H., A. Henderson-Arzapalo and P.M. Piccoli. 1995.
Can otolith microchemistry chart patterns of migration and habitat
utilization in anadromous fishes? J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 192: 15-33.
Secor, D. H. 1992.
Application of otolith microchemistry analysis to investigate anadromy
in Chesapeake Bay striped bass. Fish. Bull. 90(4):798-806.
Publications: Pollution Ecology
Arslan, Z. and Secor, D.H. 2005.
Analysis of trace transition elements and heavy metals in fish otoliths as
tracers of habitat use by American eels in the Hudson
River estuary. Estuaries. 28: 382-393.
Ashley, J.T.F, D.H. Secor, E. Zlokovitz, J.E. Baker and
S.Q. Wales. 2000. Linking habitat use of Hudson River striped bass to
accumulation of polychorinated biphenyl congeners. Environ. Sci. Techn.
34: 1023-1029.
Zlokovitz, E.R. and D.H. Secor. 1999. Effect of habitat use on PCB body burden in Hudson River striped bass (Morone saxatilis). Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 56 (Suppl.1): 86-93.