Stephen T. Ross's
Publications
Books
Ross, S. T. 2001. The
Inland
Fishes of
Mississippi. University Press of
Mississippi, Jackson. 624 p.
Refereed Chapters
in Books
Ross, S. T. In
press. Native fishes. In:
Mississippi Encyclopedia. C. R.
Wilson (ed). University Press of Mississippi.
Ross, S. T. and
W. J. Matthews. In review.
Evolution and ecology of North American
freshwater fish assemblages. In:
North American Freshwater Fishes:
Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. R. L.
Mayden and B. M. Burr (eds.). Johns
Hopkins University Press.
Ross, S. T., and
W. M. Brenneman. 1997.
Fish collectors and collections of the inland
fishes of Mississippi, p. 479-485. In: T. W. Pietsch and W. D. Anderson
(eds.). Collection building in
ichthyology and herpetology. Special
Publication Number 3, American Society of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologists. Lawrence, Kansas.
Ross, S. T. 1990. Ecology of
southeastern stream fishes:
Geographical, macro- and
micro-habitat considerations, p. 11-13. In:
M. Bain (ed.), Ecology and assessment of warmwater streams: workshop
synopsis. U. S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Biol. Rep. 90(5). 44 p
Ross,
S. T., J. A. Baker, and K. E. Clark. 1987. Microhabitat partitioning of
southeastern stream fishes: Temporal and spatial predictability. In:
Matthews, W. J. and D. C. Heins (eds.). Symposium
on the Evolutionary and Community
Ecology of North American
Stream Fishes. University of Oklahoma
Press, p. 4251.
Ross, S. T. 1984. A review of
surf zone ichthyofaunas in the
Gulf of Mexico, p. 2534. In: Cofer-Shabica (ed.),
Proceedings of
the Research Conference on Northern Gulf of Mexico Barrier Islands and
Estuaries. U. S. Nat. Park Service.
Research Papers
Ross, S T., W. T.
Slack, R. J. Heise, M. A. Dugo, H. Rogillio, B. R. Bowen,
P. Mickle,
and R. W. Heard. 2008. Estuarine and coastal habitat use of Gulf
sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi) in the
north-central Gulf of Mexico. Accepted for publication in Estuaries and
Coasts.
Peterson, M. S.,
M. R. Weber, M. L. Partyka, and S. T. Ross. 2007. Integrating in situ quantitative geographic
information tools and size-specific laboratory-based growth zones in a
dynamic
river-mouth estuary. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater
Ecosystems
17:602-618.
Heise, R. J., W.
T. Slack, S. T. Ross, and M. A. Dugo. 2005. Gulf
sturgeon summer
habitat use and fall migration in the Pascagoula River, Mississippi. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 21:461-468.
Dugo, M. A., B.
R. Kreiser, S. T. Ross, W. T. Slack, R. J. Heise, and B. R. Bowen. 2004. Conservation and management
implications of finescale genetic structure of Gulf sturgeon in the
Pascagoula
River, Mississippi. Journal of Applied
Ichthyology 20:243-251.
Slack, W. T., S.
T. Ross, and J. A. Ewing, III. 2004.
Ecology and population structure of the bayou darter, Etheostoma
rubrum: disjunct riffle habitats and downstream
transport of larvae. Environmental
Biology of Fishes 71:151-164.
Heise, R. J., W.
T. Slack, S. T. Ross, and M. A. Dugo. 2004. Spawning
and associated
movement patterns of Gulf sturgeon in the Pascagoula River drainage,
Mississippi. Transactions of the
American Fisheries Society 133:221-230.
Schofield, P.,
and S. T. Ross. 2003.
Habitat selection of the channel darter, Percina (Cottogaster) copelandi:
a
surrogate for the imperiled pearl darter, Percina
aurora. Journal of Freshwater
Ecology 18:249-257.
Ross, S. T., M.
T. O'Connell, D. M. Patrick, C. A. Latorre, W. T. Slack, J. G. Knight,
and S.
D. Wilkins. 2001. Stream erosion and densities of Etheostoma
rubrum (Percidae) and associated riffle-inhabiting fishes- biotic
stability
in a variable habitat. Copeia 2001(4):
916-927.
Warren, M. L.,
Jr., B. M. Burr, S. J. Walsh, H. L. Bart, Jr., R. C. Cashner, D. A.
Etnier, B.
J. Freeman, B. R. Kuhajda, R. L. Mayden, H. W. Robison, S. T. Ross, and
W. C.
Starnes. 2000. Diversity,
distribution, and conservation
status of the native freshwater fishes of the Southeastern United
States. Fisheries 25:7-31.
O’Connell,
M. T., S. T. Ross, J. A. Ewing,
III, and W. T. Slack. 1998.
Distribution and habitat affinities of the
blackmouth shiner (Notropis melanostomus)
in Mississippi, including eight newly discovered localities in the
upper
Pascagoula River drainage. Proceedings
SE Fishes Council 36:1-6.
W. T. Slack, M.
T. O’Connell, T. L. Peterson, J. A. Ewing, III, and S. T. Ross. 1997. Ichthyofaunal and habitat associations of
disjunct populations of southern redbelly dace, Phoxinus
erythrogaster (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in Mississippi.
American Midland Naturalist 137:251-265.
W. T. Slack, M.
T. O’Connell, T. L. Peterson, J. A. Ewing, III, and S. T. Ross. 1995. Status of the southern redbelly dace, Phoxinus erythrogaster, in Hatcher Bayou
and streams of the Yazoo drainage, Mississippi. Proceedings
SE Fishes Council 32:1-11.
Knight, J. G.,
and S. T. Ross. 1994. Feeding habits of the bayou darter.
Transactions of the American Fisheries
Society 123:794-802.
Ross, S. T., and
T. A. Doherty. 1994. Short-term
persistence and stability of barrier island fish assemblages. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
38:49-67.
Ross, S. T., and
S. D. Wilkins. 1993. Reproductive
behavior and larval characteristics of the threatened bayou darter (Etheostoma rubrum) in Mississippi. Copeia
1993:1127-1132.
Beckett,
D. C., B. J. Viskup, and S. T. Ross. 1992. Occurrence
of Lepomis spp.
(Centrarchidae) in Horn Island ponds. Northeast
Gulf Science 12:129-133.
Ross,
S. T., D. C. Heins, and J. W. Burris. 1992. Fishes of Okatoma Creek, a
free-flowing stream in South-Central Mississippi. Proceedings
SE Fishes Council 26:2-10.
Knight, J.
G.,
and S. T. Ross. 1992. Reproduction, age
and growth of the bayou darter, Etheostoma
rubrum (Pisces, Percidae); an endemic of Bayou Pierre.
American Midland Naturalist 127:91-105.
Ross, S.
T., J.
G. Knight, and D. S. Wilkins. 1992. Distribution
and microhabitat dynamics of the
threatened bayou darter, Etheostoma rubrum. Copeia 1992:658-671.
Peterson,
M. S.,
and S. T. Ross. 1991. Dynamics of
littoral fishes and decapods along a coastal river-estuarine gradient. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
33:467-483.
Patrick,
D. M.,
J. Mao, and S. T. Ross. 1991. Accelerated
erosion in the Bayou Pierre Basin,
southwest Mississippi:
Characterization and causes, p. 36-44. In: Proceedings Mississippi Water
Resources Conference, B. J. Daniel (ed.). 26-27
March 1991, Jackson, Mississippi. Water
Resources Research Inst., Mississippi
State, Mississippi.
Ross, S. T. 1991. Mechanisms
structuring stream fish
assemblages- Are there lessons from
introduced species? Environmental
Biology of Fishes 30:359-368.
Ross, S.
T., J.
Knight, and D. Wilkins. 1990. Longitudinal
occurrence of the bayou darter
(Percidae: Etheostoma rubrum) in Bayou Pierre a
response to stream order or habitat availability? Polish Archives in
Hydrobiology 37(1-2):221-233.
Peterson,
M. S., and S. T. Ross. 1987. Morphometric
and meristic characteristics of a
peripheral population
of Enneacanthus. Proceedings
SE
Fishes Council 17:14.
McMichael,
R. H.
Jr., and S. T. Ross. 1987. Ecological
relationships of three species of kingfish in a surf zone habitat. Northeast Gulf Science 9:109-123.
Ross, S.
T., R.
H. McMichael, Jr., and D. Ruple. 1987. Seasonal
and diel variation in the standing
crop of fishes and
macroinvertebrates from a Gulf of Mexico surf zone.
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
25:391-412.
Ross, S.
T.
1986. Resource partitioning in fish
assemblages: A review of field studies. Copeia
1986:352-388.
Ross, S. T., W.
J. Matthews, and A. A. Echelle. 1985. Persistence
in stream fish assemblages: The
effects of environmental
change. American Naturalist 126:24-40.
Modde, T. C., and
S. T. Ross. 1983. Trophic relationships
of fishes occurring within a surf zone habitat in the northern Gulf of
Mexico. Northeast Gulf Science
6:109-120.
Ross, S. T., and
J. A. Baker. 1983. The response of
fishes to periodic spring floods in a southeastern stream.
American Midland Naturalist 109:1-14.
Ross, S. T. 1983.
Searobins (Pisces: Triglidae). Memoirs
of the Hourglass Cruises. Florida
Department of Natural Resources Vol. I, Pt. 4, 76 p.
Modde, T. C., and
S. T. Ross. 1981. Composition and
seasonality of fishes occupying a surf zone habitat in the northern
Gulf of
Mexico. U. S. National Marine Fisheries
Service, Fishery Bulletin 78:911-922.
Baker, J. A., and
S. T. Ross. 1981. Spatial and temporal
resource utilization by southeastern cyprinids. Copeia
1981:178-189.
Ross, S. T.
1980. Sexual and developmental changes
in swimbladder size of the leopard searobin, Prionotus
scitulus (Pisces: Triglidae). Copeia
1980:611-615.
Ross, S. T.
1978. The ontogeny of feeding ecology of
the Leopard Searobin, Prionotus scitulus
(Pisces: Triglidae). U. S. National Marine Fisheries Service, Fishery
Bulletin
76:225-234.
Ross, S. T. 1977. Patterns of resource
partitioning in
searobins (Pisces: Triglidae). Copeia
1977:561-571.
Ross, S. T.
1973. The systematics of Gasterosteus
aculeatus (Pisces:
Gasterosteidae) in central and southern California.
Los Angeles County Museum, Contributions in
Science No. 243, 20 p.
Greenfield, D.
W., S. T. Ross, and G. W. Deckert. 1970. Some
aspects of the life history of the Santa
Ana sucker, Catostomus (Pantosteus) santaanae
(Snyder). Calif. Fish and Game
53:166-179.
Greenfield, D.
W., D. A. Hensley, J. W. Wiley, and S. T. Ross. 1970.
The fishes of the Isla Jaltemba coral
formation and their zoogeographical significance. Copeia
1970:180-181.
Book Reviews
Ross, S. T. 2003. Freshwater
fish distribution. Tim M. Berra. Transactions
American Fisheries Society 132:406.
Ross, S. T., and
R. Darden. 2003. Nonindigenous
Freshwater Organisms, Vectors,
Biology, and Impacts. Edited by Renata
Claudi and Joseph H. Leach. Boca Raton (Florida). The
Quarterly Review of Biology 78:244.
Articles in Non-Refereed Journals
Ross, S. T. 2001. Fascinating
Fishes of the Pascagoula River. Natural
Mississippi, The Magazine of the
Nature Conservancy of Mississippi. Summer-Fall
2001:5.
Ross, S. T., and
W. T. Slack. 2000. Imperiled
fishes in Mississippi. Amer. Currents
26:1-5.
Last Update 06 November 2008,
by T.J. Krabbenhoft.
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