Michael Salmon
PhD: University of Maryland, 1964
Research Professor
Research interests: animal behavior

Contact information
Office: SC 264
Phone: (561) 297-2747
Email: salmon@fau.edu
http://www.fau.edu/divdept/biology/people/msalmon.htm

*Kellmeyer, K. and M. Salmon. 2001. Hatching rhythms of Uca thayeri Rathbun: Timing in semidiurnal and mixed tidal regimes. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 260:169-183.

*Weaver, A. and M. Salmon. 2002. Hatching rhythms of Uca thayeri: Evidence for phenotypic plasticity. J. Crust. Biol. 22: 429-438.

Horch, K., M. Salmon & R. Forward. 2002. Evidence for a two-pigment visual system in the fiddler crab, Uca thayeri. J. Comp. Physiol. A 188:493-499.

Salmon, M. 2003. Artificial night lighting and sea turtles. 2003. The Biologist 50: 163-168.

*Constantino, M. A. & M. Salmon. 2003. Role of chemical and visual cues in prey recognition by leatherback posthatchlngs (Dermochelys coriacea L). Zoology 106:173-181.

Salmon, M., T. T. Jones & K. W. Horch. 2004. Ontogeny of diving and feeding behavior in juvenile sea turtles: leatherbacks (Dermochelys coriacea L) and green turtles (Chelonia mydas L) in the Florida Current. Journal of Herpetology 38:36-43

*Tuxbury, S. M. & M. Salmon. 2005. Competitive interactions between artificial lighting and natural cues during seafinding by hatchling marine turtles. Biological Conservation 21:311-316.

*Makowski, C., R. Slattery & M. Salmon 2005. “Shark fishing”: a method for determining the abundance and distribution of sea turtles at shallow reef habitats. Herpetol. Rev. 36: 36-38.

*Bertolotti, L. and M. Salmon. 2005. Do embedded roadway lights protect sea turtles? Environmental Management 36(5): 702-710.

Salmon, M. 2005. Protecting sea turtles from artificial night lighting at Florida’s oceanic beaches. In “Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting”, C. Rich and T. Longcore, eds. Island Press, Washington, D.C.

*Mackowski, C., J. A. Seminoff & M. Salmon. 2006. Home range and habitat use of juvenile Atlantic green turtles (Chelonia mydas L.) on shallow reef habitats in Palm Beach, Florida, USA. Marine Biology 148:1167-1179.

*Sella, K.A., M. Salmon & B.E. Witherington. 2006. Does filtered lighting protect marine turtle hatchlings? Chelonian Conservation and Biology 5:255-261.

Perry, G., B.W. Buchanan, R.N. Fisher, M. Salmon, & S. E. Wise. 2007. Effects of artificial night lighting on urban reptiles and amphibians. In “Urban Herpetology”, R.E. Jung and J. C. Mitchell, eds. Herpetological Conservation 3, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. (in press).

*Lorne, J. & M. Salmon. 2007. Can hatchlings exposed to beach lighting recover, and orient normally offshore? Endangered Species Research (in press).

*Studies based upon undergraduate research or Masters theses completed at FAU.

 
 


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