PUBLICATIONS
DATA PRODUCTS AND REPORTS
- Morton, D.N., Antonino, C., Broughton, F., Dykman, L., Kuris, A., and Kevin D. Lafferty. 2021. A food web including parasites for kelp forests of the Santa Barbara Channel, California. Scientific Data. 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00880-4
- Morton, D.N., and K.D. Lafferty. Parasites in kelp-forest food webs increase food-chain length, complexity and specialization, reduce connectance. Submitted to Ecological Monographs.
- Morton, D.N. 2020. The effects of parasites on the kelp-forest food web. Doctoral dissertation, UC Santa Barbara.
- McLaughlin, J.P., Morton, D.N., and K.D. Lafferty. 2020. “Parasites in Marine Food Webs”. Marine Disease Ecology. (Eds) Behringer, Silliman, & Lafferty. Oxford University Press
- Morton, D.N., Bell, T.W., and T.W. Anderson. 2016. Spatial synchrony of amphipods in giant kelp forests. Marine Biology. 163: 1-11.
- Morton, D.N., and T.W. Anderson. 2013. Spatial patterns of invertebrate settlement in giant kelp forests. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 485: 75-89.
- Morton, D.N., and J.S. Shima. 2013. Habitat configuration and availability influences the settlement of temperate reef fishes (Tripterygiidae). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 449: 215-22
DATA PRODUCTS AND REPORTS
- Morton, D.N. et al. 2021. Data from: A food web including parasites for kelp forests of the Santa Barbara Channel, California. Dryad Digit. Repos. 3. doi:https://doi.org/10.25349/D9JG70.
- Lafferty, K.D., Rassweiler, A.,Gotschalk, C.C., Morton, D.N., Bell, T.W., Henderikx, F., Kushner, D.J. Sprague, J., Johnson, C. and Washburn, L. 2019. The response of kelp forest organisms to spatial and temporal variation in wave energy in the California Channel Islands. Camarillo (CA): US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. OCS Study BOEM.
- Lafferty, K.D., and Morton, D.N., 2018, Site table and bias corrections for Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) hind casts at the California Channel Islands: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FV1X7H.
- Washburn, L., Gotschalk, C.C., Rassweiler, A., Morton, D.N. and Lafferty, K.D., 2018, Hourly wave-height observations from 2013 to 2017 at 32 sites throughout the Channel Islands National Park and San Nicolas Island: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P90QS9WZ.
- Lafferty, K.D., Morton, D.N., Gotschalk, C.C., Henderikx, F., Rassweiler, A., and Washburn, L., 2018, Hourly wave height and period hindcasts at 32 sites throughout the Channel Islands National Park and San Nicolas Island from 2000-2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P91KH2Q7.