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Selected Publications:
Schultz, E. T., L. M. Clifton, and R. R. Warner. 1991. Energetic constraints and size-based tactics: The adaptive significance of breeding-schedule variation in a marine fish (Embiotocidae: Micrometrus minimus). American Naturalist 138:1408-1430.
Schultz, E. T. 1993. The effect of birth date on fitness of female dwarf perch, Micrometrus minimus (Perciformes: Embiotocidae). Evolution 47:520-539.
Schultz, E. T. and R. K. Cowen. 1994. Recruitment of coral reef fishes to Bermuda: Local retention or long-distance transport? Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 109:15-28.
Conover, D. O. and E. T. Schultz. 1995. Phenotypic similarity and the evolutionary significance of countergradient variation. Trends Ecol. Evol. 10:248-252.
Schultz, E. T. and D. O. Conover. 1997. Latitudinal differences in somatic energy storage: adaptive responses to seasonality in an estuarine fish (Atherinidae: Menidia menidia). Oecologia 109:516-529.
Schultz, E. T., D. O. Conover, and A. Ehtisham. 1998. The dead of winter: size-dependent variation and genetic differences in seasonal mortality among Atlantic silversides (Atherinidae: Menidia menidia) from different latitudes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:1149-1157.
Schultz E. T. and D. O. Conover. 1999. The allometry of energy reserve depletion: test of a mechanism for size dependent winter mortality. Oecologia 119: 474-483.
Schultz, E. T., R. K. Cowen, K. M. M. Lwiza, and A. M. Gospodarek. 2000. Explaining advection: do larval bay anchovy (Anchoa mitchilli) show selective tidal stream transport? ICES Journal of Marine Science 57: 360-371.
Hurst, T., E. T. Schultz, and D. O. Conover. 2000. Seasonal energy dynamics of young-of-the year striped bass (Morone saxatilis) and the role of starvation in winter mortality. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 129: 145-157.
Billerbeck, J. M., E. T. Schultz, and D. O. Conover. 2000. Adaptive variation in energy acquisition and allocation among latitudinal populations of the Atlantic silverside. Oecologia 122: 210-219.
Schultz, E.T., and P.C. Rountos. 2001. Analysis of daily growth patterns in young-of-year male dwarf surfperch (Embiotocidae: Micrometrus minimus) reveals alternative strategies: breed after birth or grow. Copeia 2001: 14-24.
Schultz, E. T., T. E. Lankford, and D. O. Conover. 2002. The covariance of routine and compensatory juvenile growth rates over a seasonality gradient in a coastal fish. Oecologia 133: 501-509. (available on LINK http://link.springer.de/)
Schultz, E. T., K.M.M.L. Lwiza, M.C. Fencil, and J.M. Martin. 2003. Mechanisms promoting upriver transport of larvae of two fishes in the Hudson River Estuary (USA). Marine Ecology Progress Series 251:263-277.
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Undergraduate and Graduate Student Advisees:
Previous undergraduate Honor's Program advisees: Rebecca Jordan, Pericles Rountos, Megan Fencil, Michelle Topper, Carolyn Abbott
Current undergraduate Honor's Program advisees: Stephen Struble
Previous M.S. students: Angela Gospodarek, Jennifer Martin, Justin Schaefer
Current M.S. students: Heather Fried
Current Ph.D. students: Lori LaPlante, Jose Pereira, Justin Davis
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