Harper, Leah
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center staff
Selected Publications
Article
Bates, Amanda E., Davies, Megan A., Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Lazzari, Natali, Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Ling, Scott D., Mellin, Camille, Mouillot, David, Bernard, Anthony T. F., Bennett, Scott, Brown, Christopher J., Burrows, Michael T., Butler, Claire L., Cinner, Joshua, Clausius, Ella, Cooper, Antonia, Costello, Mark John, Denis-Roy, Lara, Edgar, Graham J., Fuchs, Yann Herrera, Johnson, Olivia J., Gordó-Vilaseca, Cesc, Hautecoeur, Cyril, Harper, Leah M., Heather, Freddie J. et al. 2024. "Overcome imposter syndrome: Contribute to working groups and build strong networks ." Biological Conservation , 293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110566 .
2024
Yang, Bo, Hawthorne, Timothy L., Aoki, Lillian, Beatty, Deanna S., Copeland, Tyler, Domke, Lia K., Eckert, Ginny L., Gomes, Carla P., Graham, Olivia J., Harvell, C. Drew, Hovel, Kevin A., Hessing‐Lewis, Margot, Harper, Leah, Mueller, Ryan S., Rappazzo, Brendan, Reshitnyk, Luba, Stachowicz, John J., Tomas, Fiona, and Duffy, J. Emmett. 2023. "Low-Altitude UAV Imaging Accurately Quantifies Eelgrass Wasting Disease From Alaska to California ." Geophysical Research Letters , 50, (4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101985 .
2023
Harper, Leah M., Huebner, Lindsay K., O'Cain, Elijah D., Ruzicka, Rob, Gleason, Daniel F., and Fogarty, Nicole D. 2023. "Multi-year coral recruitment study across the Florida Reef Tract reveals boom-or-bust pattern among broadcast spawners and consistency among brooders." Marine Ecology Progress Series , 721 39–58. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14399 .
2023
Harper, Leah M., Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Whippo, Ross, Jones, M. Scott, Foltz, Zachary, and Duffy, J. Emmett. 2022. "Blinded by the bright: How species‐poor habitats contribute to regional biodiversity across a tropical seascape ." Diversity and Distributions , 28, (11) 2272–2285. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13632 .
2022
Aoki, Lillian R., Rappazzo, Brendan, Beatty, Deanna S., Domke, Lia K., Eckert, Ginny L., Eisenlord, Morgan E., Graham, Olivia J., Harper, Leah, Hawthorne, Timothy L., Hessing-Lewis, Margot, Hovel, Kevin A., Monteith, Zachary L., Mueller, Ryan S., Olson, Angeleen M., Prentice, Carolyn, Stachowicz, John J., Tomas, Fiona, Yang, Bo, Duffy, J. Emmett, Gomes, Carla, and Harvell, C. Drew. 2022. "Disease surveillance by artificial intelligence links eelgrass wasting disease to ocean warming across latitudes ." Limnology and Oceanography , https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12152 .
2022
Beatty, Deanna S., Aoki, Lillian R., Rappazzo, Brendan, Bergman, Chelsea, Domke, Lia K., Duffy, J. Emmett, Dubois, Katie, Eckert, Ginny L., Gomes, Carla, Graham, Olivia J., Harper, Leah, Harvell, C. Drew, Hawthorne, Timothy L., Hessing-Lewis, Margot, Hovel, Kevin, Monteith, Zachary L., Mueller, Ryan S., Olson, Angeleen M., Prentice, Carolyn, Tomas, Fiona, Yang, Bo, and Stachowicz, John J. 2022. "Predictable Changes in Eelgrass Microbiomes with Increasing Wasting Disease Prevalence across 23 degrees Latitude in the Northeastern Pacific ." Msystems , https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00224-22 .
2022
de Pablo, Luis X., Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Harper, Leah, Paul, Valerie J., Jones, Scott, Whippo, Ross, Seemann, Janina, Kline, David I., and Duffy, J. Emmett. 2021. "A doubling of stony coral cover on shallow forereefs at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize from 2014 to 2019 ." Scientific Reports , 11, (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96799-2 .
2021
Harper, Leah M., Huebner, Lindsay K., O'Cain, Elijah D., Ruzicka, Rob, Gleason, Daniel F., and Fogarty, Nicole D. 2021. "Methodological recommendations for assessing scleractinian and octocoral recruitment to settlement tiles ." PeerJ , 9. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12549 .
2021
Ritter, Carmen J., Harper, Leah M., Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Paul, Valerie J., Whippo, Ross, Jones, Scott, Ogburn, Matthew B., and Duffy, J. Emmett. 2021. "Patterns of Consumption Across a Caribbean Seascape: Roles of Habitat and Consumer Species Composition Through Time ." Frontiers in Marine Science , 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.742907 .
2021
Dataset
Ritter, Carmen J., Harper, Leah M., Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Paul, Valerie J., Whippo, Ross D. B., Jones, Michael, Ogburn, Matthew B., and Duffy, J. Emmett. 2021. [Dataset] Data Push: Patterns of consumption across a Caribbean seascape: Roles of habitat and consumer species composition through time . Distributed by Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. https://doi.org/10.25573/SERC.16744585.V1 .
2021
Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, MarineGEO, and Harper, Leah M. 2021. [Dataset] MarineGEO Beach Seines Protocol . https://doi.org/10.25573/SERC.14925105.V1 .
2021
Harper, Leah M., Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, and MarineGEO. 2021. [Dataset] MarineGEO Benthic Photoquadrats Protocol . https://doi.org/10.25573/SERC.14717823.V1 .
2021
Harper, Leah M., Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, and MarineGEO. 2021. [Dataset] MarineGEO Coral Reef Habitat Monitoring Protocol . https://doi.org/10.25573/SERC.14714175.V1 .
2021
Harper, Leah M., MarineGEO, and Network, Tennenbaum Marine Observatories. 2021. [Dataset] MarineGEO Sampling Event's Environmental Monitoring Protocol . https://doi.org/10.25573/SERC.14555511.V1 .
2021
Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, MarineGEO, and Harper, Leah M. 2021. [Dataset] MarineGEO Sediment Organic Matter Protocol . https://doi.org/10.25573/SERC.14925111.V1 .
2021
Harper, Leah M., Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, and MarineGEO. 2021. [Dataset] MarineGEO Ulva Assay Protocol . https://doi.org/10.25573/SERC.14717808.V1 .
2021
