USGS National Wetlands Research Center: Jacoby Carter profile

Jacoby Carter, Ph.D.

Jacoby Carter picture Jacoby Carter, Ph.D. 1996. Wildlife management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Population, community, and behavioral modeling; wildlife biology and management; landscape, plant community and aquatic ecology and conservation biology.

Carter is interested in applying the tools of simulation modeling to a variety of resource management and conservation biology problems. He is also interested in community and ecosystem structure and development.

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Carter's NWRC Publications

The following list of publications is current only through 2001. For an update, please go to the online NWRC publications database (http://librrefmgr.cr.usgs.gov?func=advSearch) to search for the bibliographic citations of individual staff members.

Refereed Publications

Carter, J., A.S. Ackleh, B.P. Leonard, and H. Wang. 1999. Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) population dynamics and bamboo (subfamily Babusoideae) life history: a structured population approach to examining carrying capacity when the prey are semelparous. Ecological Modelling123:207-223.

Carter, J., and J.T. Finn. 1999. A spatially explicit, individual-base expert system for creating animal foraging models. Ecological Modelling 119:29-41.

Carter, J., A.L. Foote, and L.A. Johnson-Randall. 1999. Modeling the effects of nutria (Myocastor coypus) on wetland loss. Wetlands 19(1):209-219.

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Carter, J., and H. Wang. 1994. A model linking the population dynamics of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) with bamboo life history. Pages 299-309 in Ian D. Thompson, editor. Proceedings of the International Union of Game Biologists XXI Congress: Forests and Wildlife...Towards the 21st Century. August 15-20, 1993, Halifax, NS, Canada. Canadian Forest Service.

Other Peer Reviewed Publications

Carter, J. 1997. Review of two visual programming languages for simulation modeling. Society of Wetland Scientists Bulletin 14(1):38-39.

Carter, J., and S. Castille. 1997. An introduction to visual programming for biologists. Society of Wetlands Scientists Bulletin 14(2):13-15.

Carter, J., S. Kemmerer, R. Howard, A. Arrivillaga, E. Chappelle, M.Kim, J. Biagas, and S. Merino. 2000. Light induced fluorescence for assessing the health status of emergent marsh vegetation. Pages 449-450 in A. Crowe and L. Rochefort, editors. Quebec 2000: Millennium Wetland Event Program with Abstracts, Quebec, Canada, August 6-12, 2000.

Carter, J. 1998. Two visual programming languagues for simulation modelling: STELLA 5.0 and ModelMaker 3.0. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 79(4):237-239.

Carter, J., and B. Leonard. 2001. A review of the literature on the worldwide distribution, spread of, and efforts to eradicate the nutria (Myocaster coypus). Assessment and management of alien species that threaten ecosystems, habitats and species. Abstracts of keynote addresses and posters presented at the sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, Montreal, Canada, 12-16 March 2001. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD Technical Paper 1:115-117.

Management Reports

Carter, J., 2001, Louisiana Amphibian Monitoring Program [audio and data CD-ROM's]: U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center.

Abstracts

Arrivillaga, A., Carter, J., Fredriques, S., and Merino, S., 2001, A survey for exotic vegetation in the estuarine waters along the Gulf of Mexico coast from Suwannee Sound, Florida to Horn Island, Mississippi Sound [abs.]: 86th Annual Ecological Society of America Meeting, August 5-10, 2001, Madison, Wis.

Carter, J., and Ackleh, A.S., 2001, A dynamic model of habitat suitability for map turtles (Graptemys spp.) [abs.]: 86th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, May 27-June 1, 2001, Madison, Wis., p. 264.

Carter, J., Arrivillaga, A., and Merino, S., 2001, Survey of the distribution of estuarine sav along the Gulf Coast with a special emphasis on invasive alien species [abs.]: ERF 2001: the 16th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation, November 4-8, 2001, St. Petersburg, Fla., p.22.

Carter, J., Arrivillaga, A., Merino, S., Boustany, R., Chappelle, E., and Corp, L., 2001, Light induced flourescence for assessing the health of submerged aquatic vegetation [abs.]: ERF 2001: the 16th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation, November 4-8, 2001, St. Petersburg, Fla., p. 22.

Carter, J., and Leonard, B., 2001, A review of the literature on the worldwide distribution, spread of, and efforts to eradicate the nutria (Myocaster coypus) [abs.]: Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Environment Program, Montreal, Quebec.

Choi, Y.D., and Carter, J., 2001, Searching for a global consensus of ecological thoughts [abs.]: 86th Annual Ecological Society of America Meeting, August 5-10, 2001, Madison, Wis.

Leonard, B. P., and Carter, J., 2001, A worldwide review of nutria (Myocastor coypus) introduction and eradication efforts [abs.]: 86th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, May 27-June 1, 2001, Madison, Wis., p. 309.

Price, J.A., Arrivillaga, A., Carter, J., and Merino, S., 2001, Monitoring the inter and intra-annual changes in intermediate salinity SAV communities [abs.]: ERF 2001: the 16th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation, November 4-8, 2001, St. Petersburg, Fla., p. 112.

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