Professor Brian Fry - Griffith University

Site Degrees

BA (Cornell), MS (University of Texas), PhD (University of Texas)

Senior Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Nathan

Contact details for Professor Brian Fry

Research Expertise

Stable isotope ecology
Estuaries and coasts
Watersheds

Selected Publications

Fry, B. and Chumchal, M.M. (In press). Sulfur stable isotope indicators of residency in estuarine fish. Limnology and Oceanography.
Fry, B., Rogers, K., Barry, B., Barr, N. and DudleyB. . (In press). Eutrophication indicators in the Hutt River Estuary, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research.
Fry, B. and Cormier, N. (2011). Chemical ecology of red mangroves, Rhizophora mangle L., in the Hawaiian islands. Pacific Science 65:219-234.
Fry, B. (2011). Mississippi River sustenance of Louisiana brown shrimp. Fishery Bulletin 109:147–161.
Olson, R.J., Popp, B.N., Graham, B.S., López-Ibarra, G.A., Galván-Magaña, F., Lennert-Cody, C.E., Bocanegra-Castillo, N., Wallsgrove, N.J., Gier, E., Alatorre-Ramírez, V., Ballance, L.T., and Fry, B., (2010). Food web inferences of stable isotope spatial patterns in copepods and yellowfin tuna in the pelagic eastern Pacific Ocean. Progress in Oceanography 86:124-138.
Fry, B. and Boyd, B. (2010). Oxygen Concentration and Isotope Studies of Productivity and Respiration on the Louisiana Continental Shelf, July 2007. pp. 223-241. In: Naohiko Ohkouchi, Ichiro Tayasu, and Keisuke Koba (eds) Earth, Life, and Isotopes Kyoto University Press.
Izdepski, C.W., Day, J.W. Jr., Sasser, C.E. and B. Fry. (2009). Early floating marsh establishment and growth dynamics in a nutrient amended wetland in the lower Mississippi Delta. Wetlands 29:1004-1013.
Fry, B., Cormier, N. and Demopoulos, A.W. J. . 2009. Adventures in an isotopically ordered world – the chemical ecology of Micronesian mangroves and crabs. In: N. Yoshida, (Ed.), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Isotopomers, 292pp. ISI2008-18:50-56.
Day, J.W., Cable, J.E., Cowan, J.H.Jr, DeLaune,R. De Mutsert, K., Fry, B., Mashriqui, H., Justic, D., Kemp P., Lane, R.R., Rick, J., Rick, S., Rozas, L.P., Snedden, G., Swenson, E., Twilley, R.R. and Wissel, B. (2009). The impacts of pulsed reintroduction of river water on a Mississippi delta coastal basin. Journal of Coastal Research 54:225-243.
Swarzenski, C.M., Doyle, T.W. Fry, B. and Hargis, T.G. (2008). Biogeochemical response of organi-rich freshwater marshes in the Louisiana delta plain to chronic river water influx. Biogeochemistry 90:49-63.
Wissel, B., Quiñones-Rivera, Z.J. and Fry, B. (2008). Combined analyses of O2 and CO2 for studying the coupling of photosynthesis and respiration in aquatic systems. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65: 2378–2388.
Fry, B. (2008). Importance of open bays as nurseries for Louisiana brown shrimp. Estuaries and Coasts 31:776-789.
Fry, B. Cieri, M., Hughes, J., Tobias, C., Deegan, L. A. and PetersonM B. (2008). Stable isotope monitoring of benthic-pelagic coupling with salt marsh fish. Marine Ecology Progress Series 369:193-204.
Wells, R.J.D., Cowan, J.H. Jr., and Fry, B. (2008). Feeding ecology of red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series 361:213-225.
Galván, K., Fleeger, J. W. and Fry, B. (2008). Stable isotope addition reveals dietary importance of phytoplankton and benthic microalgae to saltmarsh infauna. Marine Ecology Progress Series 359:37-49.
Demopoulos, A.W.J., Cormier, N., Ewel, K. C. and Fry, B. (2008). Use of multiple chemical tracers to define habitat use of Indo-Pacific Mangrove Crab, Scylla Serrata (Decapoda: Portunidae). Estuaries and Coasts 31:371-381.
Chumchal, M.M, Drenner, R.W., Fry, B., Hambright, K.D. and Newland, L.W. (2008). Habitat-specific differences in mercury concentrations of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) from Caddo Lake, Texas. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137:195-208.
Demopolous, A., Fry, B. and Smith, C. (2007). Food-web structure in exotic and native mangroves: a Hawaii-Puerto Rico comparison. Oecologia 153: 675-686.
Quinones, Z.J., Wissel, B., Justic, D. and Fry, B. (2007). Partitioning oxygen sources and sinks in a eutrophied coastal ecosystem using stable oxygen isotopes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 342: 69-83.
Popp, B.N., Graham, B.S., Olson, R.J., Hannides, C.C.S., Lott, M.J., Lopez-Ibarra, G.A., Galvan-Magana, F. and Fry, B. (2007). Insight into the trophic ecology of yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares, from compound-specific nitrogen isotopes analysis of proteinaceous amino acids, pp. 173-190. In T. Dawson and R. Siegwolf (eds.) Isotopes as Tracers of Ecological Change. Elsevier, Academic Press.
Fry, B. (2007). Coupled N, C, and S isotope measurements using a dual column GC system. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 21: 750-756.
Swenson, E.M., Cable, J.E., Fry, B., Justic, D., Das, A., Snedden, G. and Swarzenski, C. (2006). Estuarine flushing times influenced by freshwater diversions. pp. 403-412 In V.P. Singh and Y.J. Xu (eds.) Coastal Hydrology and Processes. Water Resources Publications, LLC, Highlands Ranch CO.
Fry, B. (2006). Stable Isotope Ecology. Springer.
Maddi, P., Carman, K., Fry, B. and Wissel, B. (2006). Use of primary production by harpacticoid copepods in a Louisiana salt-marsh food web, pp. 65-81. In: J.C. Kromkamp, J.F.C. de Brouwer, G.F. Blanchard, R.M. Forster, and V. Creach (eds), Functioning of Microphytobenthos in Estuaries.
Benstead, J.P., March, J.G., Fry, B., Ewel, K.C. and Pringle, C.M. . (2006). Trophic support of inshore fisheries on a Pacific island: testing IsoSource in a multiple-source stable isotope analysis. Ecology 87: 326-333.
Turner, R. E., Rabalais, N. N., Fry, B., Atilla, N., Milan, C. S., Lee, J. M., Normandeau, C., Oswald, T. A., Swenson, E. M. and Tomasko, D. A. (2006). Paleo-indicators and water quality change in the Charlotte Harbor Estuary (Florida). Limnology and Oceanography 51: 518-533.
Chimner, R.A., Kaneshiro, M.Y., Fry, B. and Cormier, N. (2006). Current extent and historical expansion of introduced mangroves on Oahu, Hawaii. Pacific Science 60:377-383.