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• Carroll JC, Gobler CJ, Peterson BJ. 2008 Resource limitation of eelgrass in New York estuaries: Nutrient stress alleviation by hard clam. Marine Ecology Progress Series 369:51-62 [Download PDF]
• Wall, C.C., Peterson, B.J., Gobler, C.J., 2008. The facilitation of seagrass (Zostera marina) productivity by suspension-feeding bivalves. Marine Ecology Progress Series 357: 165-174
• Weiss, M.B., Curran, P.B., Peterson, B.J., Gobler, C.J., 2007. The influence of plankton composition and water quality on hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria L.) populations across Long Island's south shore lagoon estuaries. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 345:12-25
• Valentine, J. F., K. L. Heck, Jr., D. Blackmon, M. E. Goecker, J.Christian, R. M. Kroutil, K. D. Kirsch, B. J. Peterson, M. Beck and M. A. Vanderklift. 2007. Food web interactions along seagrass-coral reef boundaries: an experimental test of the impacts of piscivore reduction on cross-habitat energy exchange using the marine protected areas of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series 333: 37-50. [Download PDF]
• Warren, J. D. and B. J. Peterson. 2007. Classification of estuarine bottom habitat and vegetation canopy height using backscatter intensity from an acoustic doppler current profiler. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 72: 53-62. [Download PDF]
• Peterson, B. J., C. M. Chester and J. W. Fourqurean. 2006. The role of the sponge community in controlling phytoplankton blooms in Florida Bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series 328: 93-103 [Download PDF]
  
• Fourqurean, J. W., J. N. Boyer, M. J. Durako, B. J. Peterson and L. N. Hefty.  2003. The statistcal relationship between benthic habitats and water quality in Florida Bay. Ecological Applications 13(2): 474-489. [Download PDF]
• Carlson, P.R., Jr., L.A. Yarbro, B.J. Peterson, A. Ketron, H. Arnold, and K. A. Madley. 2002. The influence of sediment sulfide on the structure of south Florida seagrass communities. pp.215-227 in Greening, H.S. (ed.) 2002. Seagrass Management: It's Not Just Nutrients! Aug. 22-24, 2000; Tampa Bay Estuary Program. St. Petersburg, FL [Download PDF]
  
• Peterson, B. J., C. D. Rose, L. Rutten and J. W. Fourqurean. 2002. Disturbance and recovery following catastrophic grazing: studies of a successional chronosequence in a seagrass bed. OKIOS 97:361-370. [Download PDF]
• Peterson, B. J., K. R. Thompson, J. H. Cowan, Jr. and K. L. Heck, Jr.,2001. Comparison of predation pressure in temperate and subtropical regions based on chronographic tethering. Marine Ecology Progress Series 224: 77-85. [Download PDF]
• Peterson, B. J. and K. L. Heck. 2001. An experimental test of the mechanism by which suspension feeding bivalves elevate seagrass productivity. Marine Ecology Progress Series 218: 115-125. [Download PDF]
• Peterson B. J. and J.W. Fourqurean.  2001.  Large-scale patterns in seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) demographics in south Florida.  Limnology and Oceanography 46:1077-1090. [Download PDF]
• Peterson, B. J. and K. L. Heck.  2001.  Interactions between suspension feeding bivalves and seagreabivalves and seagrass assemblages - a facultative mutualism. Marine Ecology Progress Series 213: 143-155. [Download PDF]
• Peterson, B. J. and K. L. Heck. 1999. The potential for suspension feeding bivalves to increase seagrass productivity. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 240:37-52.[Download PDF]