Selected Peer Reviewed Publications

*Keene State Undergraduate

Sasaki, M, Barley, JM, Gignoux-Wolfsohn, S, Hays, CG, Kelly, MW, Putnam, AB, Sheth, SN, Andrew R. Villeneuve, AR, and BS Cheng. 2022. Greater local adaptation to temperature in the ocean than on land. Nature Climate Change 12:1175-1180.

Barley, JM, Brian S. Cheng, BS, Sasaki, M, Gignoux-Wolfsohn, S, Hays, CG, Putnam, AB, Sheth, S, Villeneuve, AR,and M Kelly. 2021. Limited plasticity in thermally tolerant ectotherm populations: evidence for a trade-off. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288(1958.) https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0765

Hays, CG, Hanley, TC, Hughes, AR, Trusky, SB, Zerebecki, RA, and EE Sotka. 2021. Local adaptation in marine foundation species at microgeographic scales. Biological Bulletin 241:16-29. https://doi.org/10.1086/714821

Hays, CG, Hanley, TC, Graves, RM*, Schenck, FR, and AR Hughes. 2020. Linking spatial patterns of adult and seed diversity across the depth gradient in the seagrass Zostera marina. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00813-1

Von Staats, DA, Hanley, TC, Hays, CG, Madden, SR, Sotka, EE, and AR Hughes. 2020. Intra-meadow variation in seagrass flowering phenology across depths. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00814-0

Follett, E, Hays, CG, and H Knepf. 2019. Canopy-mediated hydrodynamics contributes to greater allelic richness in seeds produced higher in meadows of the coastal eelgrass Zostera marina.  Frontiers in Marine Science 6:8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00008

Novak, AB, Bayley, HK, Hays, CG, and AR Hughes. 2017. Effects of source population identity and diversity on seagrass restoration performance.  PeerJ 5:e2972 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2972

Hughes AR, Hanley, TC, Schenck, FR, and CG Hays. 2016. Genetic diversity of seagrass seeds influences seedling morphology and biomass.  Ecology 97(12):3538-3546. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1587

Hays, CG, and CM Fagan*.  2016.  Evolution and Conservation Biology: General Principles.  In:  Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, 1st Edition.  Amsterdam: Elsevier. (*=KSC undergraduate)

Dawson, MN, Hays, CG, Grosberg, RK, and PT Raimondi.  2014. Dispersal potential and the population genetic structure of synchronously diverging co-distributed taxa in the marine intertidal of the eastern North Pacific. Ecological Monographs 84:435-456. 

Watson, J, Hays, CG, Siegel, DA, P.T. Raimondi, PT, S. Mitarai, S, Blanchette, CA, C. Dong, C, and JA McWilliams.  2011.  Currents connecting communities: a study of nearshore marine species in the Southern California Bight.  Ecology 92(6): 1193-1200. https://doi.org/10.1890/10-1436.1

Springer, YP, Hays, CG, Carr, MH, and MR Mackey.  2010. Towards ecosystem-based management of marine macroalgae: the bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana.  In:  Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review.  Eds. R.N. Gibson, R.J.A. Atkinson, and J.D.M. Gordon, CRC Press.

Dlugosch, KM, and CG Hays.  2008.  Genotypes on the move: some things old and some things new shape the genetics of colonization during species invasions.  Molecular Ecology 17(21):4583-4585.

Hays, CG.  2007.  Adaptive phenotypic differentiation across the intertidal gradient in the alga Silvetia compressa.  Ecology.  88(1):149-157.  

Hays, CG.  2005.  The effects of nutrient availability, grazer assemblage and source population on the interaction between Thalassia testudinum (turtle grass) and its algal epiphytes.  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 314(1):53-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2004.08.017

Heck, KL, Hays, CG, and RJ Orth.  2003.  A critical evaluation of the nursery role hypothesis for seagrass meadows.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 253:123-136.

Sheridan PF, and CG Hays. 2003. Are mangroves nursery habitat for transient fish and decapods?  Wetlands 23(2):449-458.

Minello TJ, Able KW, Weinstein MP, and CG Hays.  2003.  Salt marshes as nurseries for nekton:  testing hypotheses on density, growth, and survivorship though meta-analysis.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 246:39-59.

Beck, MW, Heck, KL, Able, KW, Childers, DL, Eggleston, DB, Gillanders, BM, Halpern, B, Hays, CG, Hoshino, K, Minello, TJ, Orth, RJ, Sheridan, PF, and MR Weinstein.  2001.  The identification, conservation, and management of estuarine and marine nurseries for fish and invertebrates. Bioscience 51(8):633-641. https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0633:TICAMO]2.0.CO;2