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Campbell, K.L., R. Armitage, J.M. Labonté. 2026. Microbial communities display key functional differences between reference and restored salt marshes. Microbial Ecology 89: 21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-025-02661-7

Thompson, J.E., S.C. Pennings, R. Armitage. 2026. Spatial mismatch between black mangrove Avicennia germinans and associated herbivores along the range edge ecotone. Estuaries and Coasts 49: 145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-026-01772-9

Armitage, A.R., A. Gaona Hernandez, A.E. McDonald, M. Palmer, J.E. Thompson. 2025. When less is more: The value of restored wetlands as bird habitat changes over time. Ecological Restoration https://doi.org/10.3368/er.43.2.97

Armitage, A.R., S. Dittmann, A.R. Jones, J.J. Kelleway, B. Madikizela, J. O’Connor, F. Porri, K. Rogers, M. Waycott, C. Whitcraft, J.B. Adams. 2025. Global complexities and challenges in the restoration of hypersaline coastal wetlands. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures 3: e5, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2025.1

Smulders, F.O.H, J.E. Campbell, A.H. Altieri, R. Armitage, E.S. Bakker, S.C. Barry, et al. 2025. Temperature drives seagrass recovery across the Western North Atlantic. Global Change Biology 31: e70171. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70172

Campbell, J.E., O.K. Rhoades, C.J. Munson, A.H. Altieri, J.G. Douglass, K.L. Heck Jr., V.J. Paul, A.R. Armitage, S.C. Barry, et al. 2024. Herbivore effects increase with latitude across the extent of a foundational seagrass. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8: 663-675. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02336-5

Goeke, J.A., T.W. Boutton, A.R. Armitage. 2024. Foundation species shift causes a partial loss of functional support for benthic coastal consumers. Estuaries and Coasts 47: 1637-1649. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-024-01389-w

Kaalstad, S., M.J. Osland, D.J. Devlin, C.E. Proffitt, L.C. Feher, A.R. Armitage, R.H. Day, et al. 2024. Temperature thresholds for leaf damage from two extreme freeze events (2018 and 2021) near the northern range limit of black mangroves (Avicennia germinans) in southeastern North America. Estuaries and Coasts 47: 292-300. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01279-7

Martinez, M., M.J. Osland, J.B. Grace, N.M. Enwright, C.L. Stagg, S. Kaalstad, G.H. Anderson, A.R. Armitage, J. Cebrian, et al. 2024. Integrating remote sensing with ground-based observations to quantify the effects of an extreme freeze event on black mangroves (Avicennia germinans) at the landscape scale. Ecosystems 27: 45-60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-023-00871-z

Bansal, S., Creed, I.F., Tangen, B.A., Bridgham, S.D., Desai, A.R., Krauss, K.W., … Armitage, A.R., Baldocchi, D., et al. 2023. Practical guide to measuring wetland carbon pools and fluxes. Wetlands (Mark Brinson Review). 43: 105 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-023-01722-2

Bardou, R., M.J. Osland, S. Scyphers, C. Shepard, K.E. Aerni, J.B. Alemu I, … A.R. Armitage, R. Baker, et al. 2023. Rapidly changing range limits in a warming world: critical data limitations and knowledge gaps for advancing understanding of mangrove range dynamics in the southeastern United States. Estuaries and Coasts 46: 1123-1140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01209-7

Fourqurean, J.W., J.E. Campbell, O.K. Rhoades, C.J. Munson, J.R. Krause, A.H. Altieri, J.G. Douglass, K.L. Heck Jr., V.J. Paul, A.R. Armitage, et al. 2023. Seagrass abundance predicts soil organic carbon stocks across the range of Thalassia testudinum in the western North Atlantic. Estuaries and Coasts 46: 1280-1301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01210-0

Goeke, J.A., E.M. Foster, A.R. Armitage. 2023.  Negative outcomes of novel trophic interactions along mangrove range edges. Ecology 104: e4051. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4051

Hockaday, A.C., A.R. Armitage, S.C. Pennings. 2023. Insights from observations and manipulative experiments into competition between mangroves and salt marsh vegetation. Estuaries and Coasts 46: 417-430. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-022-01162-x

Armitage, A.R., J.A. Goeke, C.-K. Ho. 2022. Does compensatory mitigation restore food webs in coastal wetlands? A terrestrial arthropod case study on the upper Texas coast. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10: 965557. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.965557