Faculty Highlights

Publications

Dissertation

Vetter, E. W.  1995.  Southern California Nebalia, Ecology, Production, Natural History and Systematics of three Subtidal Species.  Ph.D. thesis, University of California, San Diego.

Publications

Vetter, E. W.   1994.  Hotspots of benthic production.  Nature 372: 47.

Vetter, E. W.   1995.  Detritus-Based Patches of High Secondary Production in the Nearshore Benthos.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 120: 251-262.

Vetter, E. W.   1996.  Nebalia daytoni, n. sp. A leptostracan from Southern California (Crustacea: Phyllocarida).  Crustaceana 69: 379-386.

Vetter, E. W.   1996.  Enrichment experiments and infaunal population cycles on a Southern California sand plain: response of the leptostracan Nebalia daytoni and other infauna.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 137: 95-101.

Vetter, E. W.   1996.  Secondary production of a Southern California Nebalia (Crustacea: Leptostraca).  Marine Ecology Progress Series 137: 83-93.

Martin, J., E. W. Vetter and C. Cash-Clark.  1996.  Description and external morphology of a new species of Nebalia Leach, 1814 (Crustacea, Phyllocarida, Leptostraca) from Southern California, with a key to extant Families and Genera of the Leptostraca.  Journal of Crustacean Research 16: 347-372.

Vetter, E. W.  1996.  Life history patterns of two Southern California Nebalia (Crustacean; Leptostraca): the failure of form to predict function.  Marine Biology 127: 131-141.

Vetter, E. W. 1998.  Population dynamics of a dense assemblage of marine detritivores.  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology  226: 131-161.

Vetter, E. W., P. K. Dayton. 1998  Macrofaunal Communities within and adjacent to a Detritus-Rich Submarine Canyon System.  Deep-Sea Research II  45: 25-54.

Gibbons, M. J. et al. 1999.  The taxonomic richness of South Africa’s marine fauna: a crisis at hand.  South African Journal of Science 95: 8-12. (too many authors to list all)

Vetter, E. W., P. K. Dayton. 1999 Organic enrichment by macrophyte detritus, and abundance patterns of megafaunal populations in submarine canyons.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 186:137-148.

Adams E. Akai M. Alendal G. Golmen L. Haugan P. Herzog H. Masutani S. Murai S. Nihous G. Ohsumi T. Shirayama Y. Smith C. Vetter E. Wong CS. 2002. International field experiment on ocean carbon sequestration. [Letter] Environmental Science & Technology. 36(21):399A.

Summers, J., E. Vetter, C. Smith, P. Bergman E. Adams, M. Akai  2004. Results of international field experiment on a natural CO2 analogue, Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies 7, Volume I.

Vetter, E. W. and C. R. Smith, 2005, Ecological effects of deep-ocean CO2 enrichment: Insights from natural high-CO2 habitats, Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans.  110: C09S13, 10 pp.

Haney T.A., J.W. Martin, and E.W. Vetter, 2007. Leptostraca, The Light and Smith Manual Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon, Fourth Edition, University of California Press, Berkeley

Vetter, E. W., C. R. Smith, F. C. and De Leo, 2010, Hawaiian Hotspots: enhanced megafaunal abundance and diversity in submarine canyons on the oceanic islands of Hawaii, Marine Ecology.  31: 183-199

De Leo, F., J.C. Drazen, E.W. Vetter, A. A. Rowden, and C.R. Smith, 2012. The effects of submarine canyons and the oxygen minimum zone on deep-sea fish assemblages off Hawai'i.  Deep-Sea Research Part 1 64: 54-70.