Anthony Ricciardi
Associate Professor, Invasion Ecology

Redpath Museum & McGill School of Environment
McGill University

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2013

Paolucci, E., H.J. MacIsaac, and A. Ricciardi. 2013. Origin matters: Alien consumers inflict greater damage on prey populations than do native consumers. Diversity and Distributions. In press.
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Ricciardi, A., M.F. Hoopes, M.P. Marchetti, and J.L. Lockwood. 2013. Progress toward understanding the ecological impacts of non-native species. Ecological Monographs. In press.
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Reid, A.J., L.J. Chapman, and A. Ricciardi. 2013. Wetland edges as peak refugia from an introduced piscivore. Aquatic Conservation.  In press.
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Ward, J.M. and A. Ricciardi. 2013. Impacts of Dreissena on benthic macroinvertebrate communities: predictable patterns revealed by invasion history. In: Quagga and Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impacts, and Control (T.F. Nalepa & D. Schloesser, eds.), CRC Press. In press.

Dick, J.T.A., K. Gallagher, S. Avlijas, H. Clarke, S. Lewis, S. Leung, D. Minchin, J. Caffrey, M. Alexander, C. Maguire, C. Harrod, N. Reid, N. Haddaway, K. Farnsworth, M. Penk and A. Ricciardi. 2013. Ecological impacts of an invasive predator explained and predicted by comparative functional responses. Biological Invasions 15:837–846.
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2012

Kipp, R., I. Hébert, M. Lacharité and A. Ricciardi. 2012. Impacts of predation by the Eurasian round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) on molluscs in the upper St. Lawrence River. Journal of Great Lakes Research 38:78-89.
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Kipp, R. and A. Ricciardi. 2012. Impacts of the Eurasian round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) on benthic communities in the upper St. Lawrence River. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 69: 469-486.
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Ricciardi, A. 2012. Invasive Species. Pp.5547–5560 In: Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (R.A.Meyers, ed.), Springer.
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Ricciardi, A., S. Avlijas, and J. Marty. 2012. Forecasting the ecological impacts of the Hemimysis anomala invasion in North America: lessons from other freshwater mysid introductions. Journal of Great Lakes Research 38 (Suppl. 2): 7-13.
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2011

Trumpickas, J., N.E. Mandrak and A. Ricciardi. 2011. Nearshore fish assemblages associated with introduced predatory fishes in lakes. Aquatic Conservation 21: 338-347.
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Ricciardi, A., M.E. Palmer and N.D. Yan. 2011. Should biological invasions be managed as natural disasters? BioScience 61: 312-317.
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Kestrup, Å.M., J.T.A. Dick and A. Ricciardi. 2011. Interactions between invasive and native crustaceans: differential functional responses of intraguild predators towards juvenile hetero-specifics. Biological Invasions 13: 731-737.
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Kestrup, Ǻ.M., S.H. Thomas, K. van Rensburg, A. Ricciardi and M.A. Duffy. 2011. Differential infection of exotic and native freshwater amphipods by a parasitic water mold in the St. Lawrence River. Biological Invasions 13: 769-779.
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Ricciardi, A. and H.J. MacIsaac. 2011. Impacts of biological invasions on freshwater ecosystems. pp. 211-224 In: Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology: The Legacy of Charles Elton (D.M. Richardson, ed.), Wiley-Blackwell.
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Ricciardi, A., L. Jones, Ǻ.M. Kestrup and J.M. Ward. 2011. Expanding the propagule pressure concept to understand the impact of biological invasions. Pp. 225-235 In: Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology: The Legacy of Charles Elton (D.M. Richardson, ed.), Wiley-Blackwell.
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MacIsaac, H.J., R.A. Tedla and A. Ricciardi. 2011. Patterns and rate of growth of studies in invasion ecology.  pp. 51-60 In: Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology: The Legacy of Charles Elton (D.M. Richardson, ed.), Wiley-Blackwell.
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Kulhanek, S.A., A. Ricciardi and B. Leung. 2011. Is invasion history a useful tool for predicting the impacts of the world's worst aquatic invasive species? Ecological Applications 21: 189-202.
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Kulhanek, S.A., B. Leung and A. Ricciardi. 2011. Using ecological niche-based modeling techniques to predict the establishment, abundance and relative impacts of introduced species: application to the common carp (Cyprinus carpio). Ecological Applications 21: 203-213.
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Simberloff, D. et al. 2011. Non-natives: 141 scientists object. Nature 475: 36.
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2010

Kestrup, Ǻ. and A. Ricciardi. 2010. Influence of conductivity on the life histories of exotic and native amphipods in the St. Lawrence River. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 176: 249-262.
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Ward, J.M. and A. Ricciardi. 2010. Community-level effects of co-occurring native and exotic ecosystem engineers. Freshwater Biology 55: 1803-1817.
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Kipp, R., S.A. Bailey, H. MacIsaac, and A. Ricciardi. 2010. Transoceanic ships as vectors for nonindigenous freshwater bryozoans. Diversity and Distributions 16: 77-83.
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2009

Ricciardi, A. and D. Simberloff. 2009. Assisted colonization is not a viable conservation strategy. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24: 248-253.
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Faculty of 1000 'Must Read'. Richard Hobbs: Faculty of 1000 Biology, 11 May 2009.
Letters and response [or pdf of response]

Kestrup, Ǻ. and A. Ricciardi. 2009. Are interactions among Ponto-Caspian invaders driving amphipod species replacement in the St. Lawrence River? Journal of Great Lakes Research 35: 392-398.
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Kestrup, Ǻ.M. and A. Ricciardi. 2009. Environmental heterogeneity limits the local dominance of an invasive freshwater crustacean. Biological Invasions 11: 2095-2105
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Wilson, S.J. and A. Ricciardi. 2009. Epiphytic macroinvertebrate communities on Eurasian milfoil and native milfoils in Eastern North America. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 66: 18-30.
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2008

Kestrup, Ǻ.M. and A. Ricciardi. 2008. Occurrence of the Ponto-Caspian mysid shrimp Hemimysis anomala (Crustacea, Mysida) in the St. Lawrence River. Aquatic Invasions 3: 461-464.
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Jokela, A. and A. Ricciardi. 2008. Predicting zebra mussel fouling on native mussels from physico-chemical variables. Freshwater Biology 53: 1845-1856.
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Gonzalez, A., A. Lambert and A. Ricciardi. 2008. When does ecosystem engineering facilitate invasion and species replacement? Oikos 117: 1247-1257.
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Ricciardi, A. and R. Kipp. 2008. Predicting the number of ecologically harmful species in an aquatic system. Diversity and Distributions 14: 374-380.
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Appendix S1
Appendix S2

Ricciardi, A. and H.J. MacIsaac. 2008. The book that began invasion ecology. Nature 452: 34.
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Ricciardi, A. and H.J. MacIsaac. 2008. Evaluating the effectiveness of ballast water exchange policy in the Great Lakes. Ecological Applications 18: 1321-1323.
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Ricciardi, A. 2008. Antarctica invaded. Science 319: 409.
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2007

Ward, J.M. and A. Ricciardi. 2007. Impacts of Dreissena invasions on benthic macroinvertebrate communities: a meta-analysis. Diversity and Distributions 13: 155-165.
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Appendix S1

Ricciardi, A. 2007. Are modern biological invasions an unprecedented form of global change? Conservation Biology 21: 329-336.
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Ricciardi, A. and J. Cohen. 2007. The invasiveness of an introduced species does not predict its impact. Biological Invasions 9: 309-315.
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2006

Ricciardi, A. 2006. How protected are coral reefs? Science 314: 757.
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Ricciardi, A. and J.M. Ward. 2006. Comment on "Opposing effects of native and exotic herbivores on plant invasions". Science 313: 298.
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Ricciardi, A. 2006. Patterns of invasion of the Laurentian Great Lakes in relation to changes in vector activity. Diversity and Distributions 12: 425-433.
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Ricciardi, A. and M. Mottiar. 2006. Does Darwin's naturalization hypothesis explain fish invasions? Biological Invasions 8: 1403-1407.
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2005

Jones, L.A. and A. Ricciardi. 2005. Influence of physicochemical factors on the distribution and biomass of invasive mussels in the St. Lawrence River. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62: 1953-1962.
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Palmer, M.E. and A. Ricciardi. 2005. Community interactions affecting the relative abundance of native and invasive amphipods in the St. Lawrence River. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62: 1111-1118.
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Ricciardi, A. 2005. Facilitation and synergistic interactions among introduced aquatic species. In: Invasive Alien Species: A New Synthesis. (H.A. Mooney, R.N. Mack, J. McNeely, L.E. Neville, P.J. Schei and J.K. Waage, eds.), Island Press, Washington, D.C.  pp. 162-178.
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Rixon, C.A.M., I.C. Duggan, N.M.N. Bergeron, A. Ricciardi and H.J. MacIsaac. 2005. Invasion risks posed by the aquarium trade and live fish markets on the Laurentian Great Lakes. Biodiversity and Conservation 14: 1365–1381.
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2004

Palmer, M.E. and A. Ricciardi. 2004. Physical factors affecting the relative abundance of native and invasive amphipods in the St. Lawrence River. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82: 1886-1893.
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Ricciardi, A. and F.G. Whoriskey. 2004. Exotic species replacement: Shifting dominance of dreissenid mussels in the Soulanges Canal, upper St. Lawrence River, Canada. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 23: 507-514.
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Ricciardi, A. and S.K. Atkinson. 2004. Distinctiveness magnifies the impact of biological invaders in aquatic ecosystems. Ecology Letters 7: 781-784.
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Ricciardi, A. 2004. Assessing species invasions as a cause of extinction. (Letter) Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19: 619.
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Holeck K., E.L. Mills, H.J. MacIsaac, M. Dochoda, R.I. Colautti and A. Ricciardi. 2004. Bridging troubled waters: understanding links between biological invasions, transoceanic shipping, and other entry vectors in the Laurentian Great Lakes. BioScience 10: 919-929.
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Colautti, R., A. Ricciardi, I.A. Grigorovich, and H.J. MacIsaac. 2004. Is invasion success explained by the Enemy Release Hypothesis? Ecology Letters 7: 721-733.
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2003 & earlier

Ricciardi, A. 2003. Predicting the impacts of an introduced species from its invasion history: an empirical approach applied to zebra mussel invasions. Freshwater Biology 48: 972-981.
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Ojaveer, H., E. Leppakoski, S. Olenin and A. Ricciardi. 2002. Ecological impacts of alien species in the Baltic Sea and in the Great Lakes: an inter-ecosystem comparison. In: Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe: Distributions, Impacts, and Management (E. Leppäkoski, S. Olenin, and S. Gollasch, eds.), Kluwer Scientific Publishers.
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Ricciardi, A. 2001. Facilitative interactions among aquatic invaders: Is an "invasional meltdown" occurring in the Great Lakes? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58: 2513-2525.
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Johnson, L.E., A. Ricciardi and J.T. Carlton. 2001. Overland dispersal of aquatic invasive species: a risk assessment of transient recreational boating. Ecological Applications 11: 1789-1799.
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MacIsaac, H.J., I.A. Grigorovich and A. Ricciardi. 2001. Reassessment of species invasions concepts: The Great Lakes basin as a model. Biological Invasions 3: 405-416.
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Ricciardi, A., R.N. Mack, W.M. Steiner and D.Simberloff. 2000. Toward a global information system for invasive species. BioScience 50: 239-244.
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Ricciardi, A. and H.J. MacIsaac. 2000. Recent mass invasion of the North American Great Lakes by Ponto-Caspian species. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 15: 62-65.
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Ricciardi, A. and J.B. Rasmussen. 1999. Extinction rates of North American freshwater fauna. Conservation Biology 13: 1220-1222.
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Ricciardi, A. and Bourget. 1999. Global patterns of macroinvertebrate biomass in marine intertidal communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 185: 21-35.
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Ricciardi, A., R.J. Neves and J. B. Rasmussen. 1998. Impending extinctions of North American freshwater mussels (Unionoida) following the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) invasion. Journal of Animal Ecology 67: 613-619.
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Ricciardi, A. and J.B. Rasmussen. 1998. Predicting the identity and impact of future biological invaders: a priority for aquatic resource management. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55: 1759-1765
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Ricciardi, A. 1998. Global range expansion of the Asian mussel Limnoperna fortunei (Mytilidae): another fouling threat to freshwater systems. Biofouling 13: 97-106.
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Ricciardi, A., F.G. Whoriskey, and J.B. Rasmussen. 1997. The role of the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) in structuring macroinvertebrate communities on hard substrata. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54: 2596-2608
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Ricciardi, A., F.G. Whoriskey, and J.B. Rasmussen. 1996. Impact of the Dreissena invasion on native unionid bivalves in the upper St. Lawrence River. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 53: 1434-1444.
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Ricciardi, A., F.L. Snyder, D.O. Kelch, and H.M. Reiswig. 1995. Lethal and sublethal effects of sponge overgrowth on introduced dreissenid mussels in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River system. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 52: 2695-2703.
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Ricciardi, A., F.G. Whoriskey, and J.B. Rasmussen. 1995. Predicting the intensity and impact of Dreissena infestation on native unionid bivalves from Dreissena field density. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 52: 1449-1461.
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Ricciardi, A., R. Serrouya, and F.G. Whoriskey. 1995. Aerial exposure tolerance of zebra and quagga mussels (Bivalvia: Dreissenidae): implications for overland dispersal. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 52: 470-477.
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