Michael Judge

 

Michael L. Judge, Associate Professor and Associate Chair

B.S., University of Rhode Island

Ph.D., University of California at Davis.

 

Professional Interests:
Effects of water flow on marine benthic invertebrates; role of habitat cues on molting frequency of crab megalopae; environmental toxicology of metals in sediments; effects of spatial and temporal variations in recruitment on community succession.

Publications:
O'Connor, N.J. and M.L. Judge. 1999. Cues in salt marshes stimulate molting of fiddler crab Uca pugnax megalopae: more evidence from field experiments. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 181:131-139.

Judge, M.L. and S.F. Craig. 1997. Positive flow dependence in the initial colonization of a fouling community: results from in situ water current manipulations. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 210: 209-222.

O'Connor, N.J. and M.L. Judge. 1997. Flexibility in timing of molting of fiddler crab megalopae: evidence from in situ manipulation of cues. Marine Ecology - Progress Series, 146(1-3): 55-60.

Xie, K.Y., D.C. Locke, D. Habib, M. Judge, and C. Kriss. 1997. Environmental chemical impact of recycled plastic timbers used in the Tiffany Street Pier, South Bronx, New York. Resources, Conservation, and Recycling, 21:199-211

Levinton, J.S., M.L. Judge, and J.P. Kurdziel. 1995. Functional differences between the major and minor claws of fiddler crabs (Uca, family Ocypodidae, Order Decapoda, Subphylum Crustacea). Journal of Experimental Marine BiologY and Ecology, 193: 147-160.

Levinton, J.S., D.E. Martinez, M.M. McCartney, and M.L. Judge. 1995. The effect of water flow on movement, burrowing, and distributions of the gastropod Ilyanassa obsoleta in a tidal creek. Marine Biology 122: 417-424.

Judge, M.L., L.D. Coen, and K.L. Heck, Jr. 1993. Does Mercenaria mercenaria encounter elevated food levels in seagrass beds?: results from a novel technique to collect suspended food resources, Marine Ecology Progress Series 92: 141-150.

Levinton, J.S. and M.L. Judge. 1993. The relationship of closing force to body size for the major claw of Uca pugnax (Decapoda: Ocypodidae), Functional Ecology 7: 339-345.

Judge, M.L., L.D. Coen and K.L. Heck, Jr. 1992. The effect of long-term alteration of in situ water currents on the growth of Mercenaria mercenaria in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Limnology and Oceanographv 37: 1550-1559.

Quinn, J.F., C.L. Wolin and M.L. Judge. 1989. An experimental analysis of patch size, habitat subdivision, and extinction in a marine intertidal snail. Conservation Biology 3: 242-251.

Judge, M.L., J.F. Quinn and C.L. Wolin. 1988. Variability in recruitment of Balanus glandula (Darwin, 1854) along the central California coast. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 119: 235-251.

Judge, M.L. 1988. The effects of increased drag on Lottia gigantea (Sowerby, 1834) foraging behaviour. Functional Ecology 2: 363-369.

Address:
Manhattan College/College of Mount Saint Vincent
Department of Biology
Science Hall
Riverdale, NY 10471

Phone: 718-405-3391 (Mount Saint Vincent), 718-862-7880 (Manhattan)

Fax: 718-405-3719 (Mount Saint Vincent), 718-862-7946 (Manhattan)

E-mail: michael.judge@manhattan.edu

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