JEFFREY C. CARRIER
W.W. Diehl Professor of Biology
Albion College, Albion, MI
A selected listing of relevant papers in the scientific literature follows:
Books
Carrier, J.C. 2006. Discovering Sharks. Voyageur Press. St. Paul. 48 pp. ISBN 10-0-7603-2562-6.
Carrier, J. C., J. Musick, and M. Heithaus. 2004. Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives. CRC Press, LLC. Boca Raton. 596 pp. ISBN 0-8493-1514-X.
Research Articles
Pratt, H.L. and J. C. Carrier. 2007. The Nurse Shark, Mating and Nursery Habitat in the Dry Tortugas, Florida. IN C. McCandless, N. Kohler, and H.L. Pratt (Eds.) Shark Nursery Grounds of the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast Waters of the United States. American Fisheries Society. Baltimore, MD.
Marshall, G; Bakhtiari, M; Shepard, M; Tweedy, J; Rasch, D;
Abernathy, K; Joliff, B; CARRIER, JC; Heithaus, MR
Heithaus, Michael R., Derek Burkholder, Robert E. Hueter, Linda I. Heithaus, Harold L. Pratt, Jr., and JEFFREY C. CARRIER. 2007. Spatial and temporal variation in shark communities of the lower Florida Keys and evidence for historical population declines. Can. J. Fish. & Aq. Sci. 64(10): 1302-1313.
Pratt, H.L., Jr. and J. C. CARRIER. 2005. Elasmobranch Courtship and Mating Behavior IN: William Hamlett (Ed.) Reproductive Behavior and Phylogeny of Elasmobranchs. Science Publishers, Inc. Queensland, Australia.
Whitney, N., H.L. Pratt, Jr. and J. CARRIER. 2004. Group courtship, mating behavior, and siphon sac function in the whitetip reef shark, Triaenodon obesus. Animal Behaviour.68(6): 1435-1442.
Carrier, J., H.L. Pratt, Jr., and J.I. Castro. 2004. Elasmobranch Reproduction IN: Carrier, J. C., J. Musick, and M. Heithaus (Eds.) Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives. CRC Press, LLC. Boca Raton.
Carrier, J., F. Murru, M. Walsh, and H.L. Pratt, Jr. 2004. Assessing reproductive potential and gestation in nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum) using ultrasonography and endoscopy: an example of bridging the gap between field research and captive studies. IN: Warmolts, D. and M. Smith (Eds.) Manual of Elasmobranch Husbandry. Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Columbus, OH.
Carrier, J., F. Murru, M. Walsh, and H.L. Pratt, Jr. 2003. Assessing reproductive potential and gestation in nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum) using ultrasonography and endoscopy: an example of bridging the gap between field research and captive studies. Zoo Biology 22(2): 179-187. [.pdf file] NOTE: this is a large (20Mb) file. Allow adequate time for download.
Saville, K, A. Lindley, N. Maries, J. CARRIER, H. Pratt, Jr. 2002. Multiple paternity in the nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Environ. Biol. of Fishes 63(3): 347-351.
Pratt, H.L., Jr. and J.C. CARRIER. 2001. A review of elasmobranch reproductive behavior with a case study on the nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum. Environ. Biol. of Fishes 60(1-3): 157-188.
Carrier, J.C. and H.L. Pratt, Jr. 1998. Habitat management and closure of a nurse shark breeding and nursery ground. Fisheries Research 39:209-213.
Carrier, J.C., H.L. Pratt, Jr., and L.K. Martin. 1994. Group reproductive behaviors in free-living nurse sharks, Ginglymostoma cirratum. Copeia 1994: 646-656.
Carrier, J.C. and C. A. Luer. 1990. Growth rates in the nurse shark Ginglymostoma cirratum. Copeia 1990: 676-682.
Carrier, J.C. 1985. Nurse sharks of Big Pine Key: comparative success of three types of external tags. J. Fla. Acad. Sci. 48(3): 146-154.
Carrier, J. C. 1985. Nurse sharks of Big Pine Key, Florida (USA): an investigation of growth and movements, and a comparison of several types of external tags, p.655-660. In: Proc. 5th Internat. Coral Reef Congr., C. Gabrie and V. Harmeli, (eds.). vol. 6, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Antenne-Museum-EPHE, Moorea, French Polynesia.
Carrier, J.C. and D.H. Evans. 1976. The role of environmental calcium in the freshwater survival of the marine teleost Lagodon rhomboides. J. Experimental Biol. 65: 529- 538.
Evans, D.H., J.C. CARRIER, and M. Bogan. 1974. The effect of external potassium ions on the electrical potential measured across the gills of the teleost Dormitator maculatus. J. Experimental Biol. 61: 277-283.
Carrier, J.C. and D.H. Evans. 1973. Ion and water turnover in the freshwater elasmobranch Potamotrygon sp. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 45A: 667-670.
Carrier, J.C. and D.H. Evans. 1972. Ion, water and urea turnover rates in the nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 41A: 761-764.