Odum School Faculty

James W. Porter Associate Dean Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor Odum School of Ecology/School of Marine Programs University of Georgia Ecology Bldg. Athens, GA   30602-2202 (706) 542-3410 Fax: (706) 542-6040 e-mail: jporter@uga.edu Graduate Faculty Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program Water Resources Faculty Lab website

Education
Ph.D. - Yale University

Research Interests
Theoretical ecology
Coral reefs
Predator-prey dynamics
Marine ecosystems

Research Projects
Successional dynamics of marine benthos, Georgia coast and Florida coral reefs; ecological physiology and oxygen metabolism in benthic marine invertebrates.

Selected Publications
Lafferty, K.D., J. W. Porter, and S.E. Ford. In press. Are Diseases increasing in the ocean? Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. (2004).

Hu, C., K. E. Hackett, M. K. Callahan, S. Andréfouët, J. Wheaton, K. Steidinger, W. Jaap, J. W. Porter, and F. E. Muller-Karger 2003. The 2002 ocean color anomaly in the Florida Bight: A cause of local coral reef decline? Geophys. Res. Let. 30:1151-1155.

Sutherland , K.P., James W. Porter, C. Torres.  2004. Disease and immunity in Caribbean and Indo-Pacific zooxanthellate corals. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 266:273-302.

Lafferty, K.D., J. W. Porter, and S.E. Ford.  2004. Are Diseases increasing in the ocean? Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 35:31-54.

McCallum, H.I., A. Kuris, C.D. Harvell, K.D. Lafferty, G.W. Smith, and J.W. Porter.  2004. Does terrestrial epidemiology apply to marine systems? Trends Ecol. Evol. 19:585-591.

Harvell, D., R. Aronson, N. Baron, J. Connell, A. Dobson, S. Ellner, L. Gerber, K. Kim, A. Kuris, H. McCallum, K. Lafferty, B. McKay, J. Porter, M. Pascual, G. Smith, K. Sutherland, and J. Ward.  2004. The rising tide of ocean diseases: Unsolved problems and research priorities. Front. Ecol. Environ. 2: 375-382.

Porter, J.W., and K.G. Porter. 2002.  The Everglades, Florida Bay, and Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys. CRC Press; Boca Raton, FL. 1,000 pp.

Porter, J.W., Ed. 2001.  The Ecology and Etiology of Newly Emerging Marine Diseases. Kluwer Academic Publishers; Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 228 pp.

Hu, C., K. E. Hackett, M. K. Callahan, S. Andréfouët, J. Wheaton, K. Steidinger, W. Jaap, J. W. Porter, and F. E. Muller-Karger 2003. The 2002 ocean color anomaly in the Florida Bight: A cause of local coral reef decline? Geophys. Res. Let. 30:1151-1155.

Sutherland , K.P., James W. Porter, C. Torres. 2004. Disease and immunity in Caribbean and Indo-Pacific zooxanthellate corals. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 266:273-302.

Last Updated: January 22, 2007

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