Will’s research on the relationship between salinity and oyster population dynamics in Apalachicola Bay, Florida (including Kimbro et al. and Pusack et al.) was brought up during oral arguments in the matter of Florida vs. Georgia before the U.S. Supreme Court. Long story short, more water from Georgia would have mitigated the 2012 oyster fishery collapse, and Florida did not overharvest oysters prior to 2012.
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White Lab at Western Society of Naturalists
Will presented work on the adaptive management of sex-changing fish populations at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Naturalists in Pasadena, CA. PDF of talk
New publication: predator outbreaks on Apalachicola Bay, FL, oyster reefs
A new paper – in collaboration with David Kimbro (Northeastern) and Chris Stallings (USF) examines the factors contributing to the collapse of the Apalachicola Bay oyster fishery in 2011-2012.
Kimbro DL, White JW, Tillotson H, Cox N, Christopher M, Stokes-Cawley O, Yuan S, Pusack T, Stallings CD. 2017. Local and regional stressors interact to drive a salinization-induced outbreak of predators on Florida oyster reefs. Ecosphere 8: e01992