2024
Peck, E.K., Wittyngham, S.S., Smith, A.J., Guilderson, T.P., Woodruff, J.D., and Kirwan, M.L.
(submitted). Current methods overestimate coastal blue carbon potential. PNAS.
Wittyngham, S.S. & Johnson (2025). Herbivore fronts shape saltmarsh plant traits and performance. Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71360
Wittyngham, S.S., Johnson, D.S., Chen, Y., and Kirwan, M.L. (2024). A grazing crab drives saltmarsh carbon storage and recovery. Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4385
Publications
2022
Wittyngham, S.S., Pant, M., Martinez-Soto, K., & Johnson, D.S. (2022). Biotic recovery following ice-rafting in a salt marsh. Estuaries & Coasts, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-021-01023-z
2021
Langston, A.K., Coleman, D.J., Jung, N. W., Shawler, J.L., Smith, A.J., Williams, B.L., Wittyngham, S.S., Chambers, R.M., Perry, J.E., & Kirwan, M.L. (2022). The effect of marsh age on ecosystem function in a rapidly transgressing marsh. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00652-6
Wittyngham, S.S. (2021). Salinity and simulated herbivory influence Spartina alterniflora traits and defense strategy. Estuaries & Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00841-x
2020
*denotes undergraduate mentee
Johnson, D.S., Martínez-Soto, K., Pant, M., Wittyngham, S.S., & Goetz, E. (2020). The fiddler crab Minuca pugnax (Smith, 1870) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) reduces saltmarsh algae in its expanded range. Journal of Crustacean Biology. doi: 10.1093/jcbiol/ruaa073.
*Failon, C.M., Wittyngham, S.S., & Johnson, D.S. (2020). Ecological associations of Littoraria irrorata with Spartina cynosuroides and Spartina alterniflora. Wetlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-020-01306-4.
2019
Johnson, D.S., Crowley, C., Longmire, K., Nelson, J., Williams, B., & Wittyngham, S. (2019). The fiddler crab, Minuca pugnax, follows Bergmann's rule. Ecology and Evolution. 9, 14489-14497.
Sebilian Wittyngham, S., Moderan, J., & Boyer, K.E. (2019). Temperature and salinity effects on Stuckenia pectinata traits and susceptibility to grazing. Aquatic Botany, 158, 1-8.
2016
Stoner, E.W., Sebilian, S.S., & Layman, C.A. (2016). Comparison of zooxanthellae densities from upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea xamachana, across coastal habitats of The Bahamas. Revista de Biologia Marina Y Oceanografia, 51(1), 203-208.
2014
Stoner, E.W., Yeager, L.A., Sweatman, J.L., Sebilian, S.S., & Layman, C.A. (2014). Modification of a seagrass community by benthic jellyfish blooms and nutrient enrichment. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 461, 185-192.
2023
Wittyngham, S.S., Carey, J. & Johnson, D.S. (2023). Resource availability and plant age drive defense against herbivory in salt marshes. Oikos, https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09672
2025
Wittyngham, S.S. and M.L. Kirwan (in revision). Environmental drivers of Phragmites australis and herbaceous biomass in retreating coastal forests. Global Change Biology.
Wittyngham, S.S., Jobe, J., Whitbeck, M., and Kirwan, M.L. (in prep). A large-scale field experiment to assess invasive species management efforts. Conservation Biology.
Yang, Wittyngham, S.S., and Liu, W. (in prep). Effects of fire and herbicide on the adaptive strategies of the invasive Phragmites australis: Implications for management. Oikos