Scientific Journal Articles

Lamb, RW, A Pérez-Matus, V Garmendia, J Suarez-Moncada, MT Ortega, S Banks, NT Sanchez, A Dubey, and JD Witman. 2025. Discovery of populations of the critically endangered coral Rhizopsammia wellingtoni in the Galápagos mesophotic zone. Conservation Science and Practice, e70103.
https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70103

Agarwal, M, RW Lamb, F Smith, and JD Witman. 2024. Distribution and ecology of shallow-water black corals across a depth gradient on Galápagos rocky reefs. Coral Reefs, 1-13.

Castello y Tickell, S, N Low, RW Lamb, M Brandt, and JD Witman. 2022. Distribution and feeding ecology of sea stars in the Galapagos rocky subtidal zone. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 553: 151754.

Preston, DL and RW Lamb. 2021. Effects of trout aquaculture on water chemistry of tropical montane streams in Ecuador. River Research and Applications: 1– 5.

Fernández-Cisternas, I, J Majlis, MI Ávila-Thieme, RW Lamb, and A Pérez-Matus. 2021. Endemic species dominate reef fish interaction networks on two isolated oceanic islands. Coral Reefs: 1-15.

Tuttle, L, RW Lamb, and A Springer. Differential learning by native versus invasive predators to avoid distasteful cleaning mutualists. 2021. Functional Ecology, 35: 1481-1490.

Lang, AE, A Yakhkind, RW Lamb, and KM Stack. Effect of a Basic Training Nicotine-Free Policy on Soldiers in the United States Army. 2021. Chest, 160: 1137-1139.

Lamb, RW, F Smith, and JD Witman. 2020. Consumer mobility predicts impacts of herbivory across an environmental stress gradient. Ecology: e02910.

Beltram, FL, RW Lamb, F Smith, and JD Witman. 2019. Rapid proliferation and impacts of cyanobacterial mats on Galapagos rocky reefs during the 2014–2017 El Niño Southern Oscillation. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 514: 18-26.

Lamb, RW, AW Aued, F Smith, P Salinas de Leon, J Suarez, M Gomez-Chiarri, R Smolowitz, C Giray, and JD Witman. 2018. El Niño drives a widespread ulcerative skin disease outbreak in Galapagos marine fishes. Scientific Reports, 8:16602.

Quimbayo, JP, MS Dias, M Kulbicki, TC Mendes, RW Lamb, AF Johnson, O Aburto-Oropeza, JJ Alvarado, AA Bocos, CE Ferreira, E Garcia, OJ Luiz, I Mascareñas-Osorio, HT Pinhiero, E Salas, FA Zapata, and SR Floeter. 2018. Determinants of reef fish assemblages in tropical oceanic islands. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03506

Witman, JD and RW Lamb. 2018. Persistent differences between coastal and offshore kelp forest communities in a warming Gulf of Maine. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189388

Winkler, NS, MP Goicoechea, RW Lamb, and A Perez-Matus. 2017. Diet reveals links between morphology and foraging in a cryptic temperate reef fish. Ecology and Evolution
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3604

Perez-Matus, A, F Sánchez, JC González-But, and RW Lamb. 2016. Understory algae associations and predation risk influence broad-scale kelp habitat use in a temperate reef fish. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 559: 147–158.

Witman, JD, RW Lamb, and JEK Byrnes. 2015. Towards an integration of scale and complexity in marine ecology. Ecological Monographs, 85(4): 475-504.

Lamb, RW and DW Johnson. 2010. Trophic restructuring of coral reef fish communities in a large marine reserve. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 408: 169-180.

Conference Proceedings

Lamb RW. Effects of ocean warming on fish community composition and species-specific dietary shifts. Oral Presentation – Western Society of Naturalists, Portland, OR November 2024

Lamb RW. Fish Ecology in a Rapidly Changing World. Invited Seminar – Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, St. Augustine, FL March 2024.

Lamb RW. Ecología de peces de Galápagos: retos y oportunidades para la investigación y conservación. Invited Public Seminar – Consejo de Gobierno de Santa Cruz, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador February 2024.

Lamb RW, S Thorrold, A Perez-Matus, C Munson, M Zeff, F Smith, and JD Witman. Effects of ocean warming on fish community composition and species-specific dietary shifts. Oral Presentation – Indopacific Fish Conference, Auckland, NZ November 2023.

Lamb RW. Population dynamics and feeding ecology of Galapagos reef fishes. Invited Research Seminar – University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL October 2023.

Lamb RW, JD Witman, and S Thorrold. Fish Ecology in a Rapidly Changing World. Oral Presentation – University of Florida SFFGS Invited Seminar, Gainseville, FL. September 2023.

Lamb RW, S Thorrold, A Perez-Matus, C Munson, M Zeff, F Smith, and JD Witman. A multi-species test of the temperature constraint hypothesis across a regional upwelling gradient. Oral Presentation – Benthic Ecology Meeting, Miami, FL April 2023.

Lamb RW, JD Witman, and S Thorrold. Population dynamics and feeding ecology of Galapagos reef fishes. Oral Presentation – University of Florida Nature Coast Biological Station Seminar, Cedar Key, FL. October 2022.