Expert Profile

Zachary Siders

Ast Prof

AG-SCHL FOR, FISH, & GEOMATICS | COLLEGE- AGRICUL / NAT RES

Research Terms & Keywords

Research Terms

Fisheries Oceanography Ecology Marine Biology Biodiversity Biogeography Marine Ecosystems Population Ecology Natural Resources Conservation Wildlife Management Animal Behavior Ichthyology Statistics Natural Sciences Demography Population Dynamics

Keywords

Bayesian Statistics Biotelemetry Community Ecology Conservation Biology Conservation Planning Elasmobranchs Endangered Species Fisheries And Wildlife Fisheries Management And Policy Fisheries Oceanography Highly Migratory Fishes Machine Learning Marine Conservation Marine Ecology Marine Megafauna Movement Ecology Numerical Simulation Population Estimates Spatial Analysis Testudines Wetlands

Research Projects

Ends

Title

04-2026

Evaluating the efficacy of Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management to assess and project Protected Species Impacts in the Pacific Evaluating the efficacy of Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management to assess and project Protected Species Impacts in the Pacific

01-2023

2021 Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Project for Protected Species Impacts Assessments for Hawaii and American Samoa Longline Fisheries 2021 Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Project for Protected Species Impacts Assessments for Hawaii and American Samoa Longline Fisheries

04-2021

Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Project for Protected Species Impacts Assessment for Hawaii and American Samoa Longline Fisheries Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Project for Protected Species Impacts Assessment for Hawaii and American Samoa Longline Fisheries

04-2021

Biography

I am a quantitative ecologist and fisheries scientist studying patterns across the ecological hierarchy in search of the processes that link individuals to populations, populations to communities, and communities to ecosystems. I specialize in integrating analytical methods into synthetic models aimed at providing robust inference and filling data gaps. I have applied these integrated models in a broad set of interdisciplinary problems ranging from building risk maps for conservation and natural resource priority species to estimating life history characteristics of data-deficient species. Above all, I enjoy solving puzzles across the natural sciences.

Degrees

Doctorate of Philosophy, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

University of Florida ▪ 2017
Master of Science, Biology

University of North Carolina Wilmington ▪ 2013
Bachelor of Science, Biology

University of North Carolina Wilmington ▪ 2011
Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry

University of North Carolina Wilmington ▪ 2011

Publications

1. Perry, D. et al. Psychological commitment of freshwater anglers and its relation to their preferences for stocking and other management actions. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 81, 768–780 (2024).

2. Duermit-Moreau, E., Bojko, J., Siders, Z. A., Stephens, N. C. & Behringer, D. C. Decapod fisheries and parasite species richness: an exploration of host traits and parasitic influence. Rev Fish Biol Fisheries (2024) doi:10.1007/s11160-024-09860-4.

3. Collins, A., Fluech, B., Siders, Z., Sipos, M. & Zangroniz, A. Diving for Data: Florida Sea Grant’s Great Goliath Grouper Count. Oceanog 37, 102–103 (2024).

4. Love, G. D. et al. Estuarine nekton community shows minimal response following large-scale oyster reef habitat loss in Apalachicola Bay, Florida. Hydrobiologia (2024) doi:10.1007/s10750-024-05548-9.

5. Long, C. A., Ahrens, R. N. M., Jones, T. T. & Siders, Z. A. A machine learning approach for protected species bycatch estimation. Frontiers in Marine Science 11, 1331292 (2024).

6. Siders, Z. A. et al. Predicting time-at-depth weighted biodiversity patterns for sharks of the North Pacific. Ecography n/a, e07249 (2024).

7. Suriyamongkol, T., Siders, Z. A. & Mali, I. Conservation implications of somatic growth and length-at-age in Pseudemys gorzugi, Rio Grande Cooter. Hydrobiologia (2024) doi:10.1007/s10750-024-05486-6.

8. Siders, Z. A. et al. Potential of dynamic ocean management strategies for western Paci?c leatherback sea turtle bycatch mitigation in New Zealand. Frontiers in Marine Science 11, 1342475 (2024).

9. Chong, L., Siders, Z. A., Lorenzen, K., Ahrens, R. N. M. & Camp, E. V. Global synthesis of effects and feedbacks from artificial reefs on socioecological systems in recreational fisheries. Fish and Fisheries 25, 303–319 (2024).

10. Siders, Z. A., Stratmann, T. A., Turner Tomaszewicz, C. N., Walde, A. D. & Munscher, E. C. Somatic Growth and Maturity for Four Species of River Cooter Including Pseudemys concinna suwanniensis, P. nelsoni, P. peninsularis, and P. texana. Biology 12, 19 (2023).

11. Siders, Z. A., Martin, S. L., Ahrens, R. N. M., Littnan, C. & Jones, T. T. Update to NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-PIFSC-101: Incorporating Uncertainty in Maturation and Latest Fishery Take. 29 (2023).

12. Chamberlin, D. W., Siders, Z. A., Barnett, B. K. & Patterson, W. F. Eye lens-derived ?14C signatures validate extreme longevity in the deepwater scorpaenid blackbelly rosefish (Helicolenus dactylopterus). Sci Rep 13, 7438 (2023).

13. Camp, E., Siders, Z., Ropicki, A. & Asche, F. An Introduction to Harvest Tags for Marine Recreational Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fa253-2023 (2023).

14. Chamberlin, D. W., Siders, Z. A., Barnett, B. K., Ahrens, R. N. M. & Patterson, W. F. Highly variable length-at-age in vermilion snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens) validated via Bayesian analysis of bomb radiocarbon. Fisheries Research 264, 106732 (2023).

15. Chong, L. et al. Examining the performance of alternative harvest regulations for short-lived taxa: A case study of Florida Bay scallop management. Fisheries Research 263, 106683 (2023).

16. Vilas, D. et al. Evaluating red tide effects on the West Florida Shelf using a spatiotemporal ecosystem modeling framework. Scientific Reports 13, 2541 (2023).

17. Siders, Z. A. et al. Evaluation of a long-term information tool reveals continued suitability for identifying bycatch hotspots but little effect on fisher location choice. Biological Conservation 279, 109912 (2023).

18. Siders, Z. A., Caltabellotta, F. P., Loesser, K. B., Trotta, L. B. & Baiser, B. Using pictographs as traits to explore morphological diversity in sharks. Ecology and Evolution 13:e9761, (2023).

19. Vilas, D., Fletcher, R. J., Siders, Z. A. & Chagaris, D. Understanding the temporal dynamics of estimated environmental niche hypervolumes for marine fishes. Ecology and Evolution 12, (2022).

20. Siders, Z. A., Westgate, A. J., Bell, K. R. & Koopman, H. N. Highly variable basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) diving behavior in the lower Bay of Fundy, Canada. Front. Mar. Sci. 9, 976857 (2022).

21. Siders, Z. A. et al. Functional and phylogenetic diversity of sharks in the Northeastern Pacific. Journal of Biogeography jbi.14383 (2022) doi:10.1111/jbi.14383.

22. Caltabellotta, F. P., Siders, Z. A., Cailliet, G. M., Motta, F. S. & Gadig, O. B. F. Preliminary age and growth of the deep-water goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni (Jordan, 1898). Mar. Freshwater Res. 72, 432–438 (2021).

23. Collins, A. B. et al. One fish, two fish, twelve years of huge fish: An overview of the Great Goliath Grouper Count in Florida. in Proceedings of the 74th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute (Destin, FL, 2021).

24. Tuckett, Q. M. et al. Non-native poeciliids in hot water: the role of thermal springs in facilitating invasion of tropical species. Hydrobiologia 848, 4731–4745 (2021).

25. McCullough, J. L. K. et al. An Acoustic Survey of Beaked Whales and Kogia spp. in the Mariana Archipelago Using Drifting Recorders. Front. Mar. Sci. 8, 664292 (2021).

26. Hutchinson, M., Siders, Z. A., Stahl, J. & Bigelow, K. Quantitative Estimates of Post-Release Survival Rates of Sharks Captured in Pacific Tuna Longline Fisheries Reveal Handling and Discard Practices That Improve Survivorship. (2021).

27. Trotta, L. B., Siders, Z. A., Sessa, E. B. & Baiser, B. The role of phylogenetic scale in Darwin’s naturalization conundrum in the critically imperilled pine rockland ecosystem. Diversity and Distributions 27, 618–631 (2021).

28. Mobini, S. et al. Microtopographical patterns promote different responses in fibroblasts and Schwann cells: A possible feature for neural implants. J Biomed Mater Res 109, 64–76 (2021).

29. Martin, S. L. et al. Update to Assessing the Population-Level Impacts of North Pacific Loggerhead and Western Pacific Leatherback Turtle Interactions, Inclusion of the Hawaii-Based Deep-Set and American Samoa-Based Longline Fisheries. https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/24251 (2020).

30. Hazelkorn, R. A., Wells, R. S., Siders, Z. A., DeLynn, R. & Lovewell, G. N. Physical maturity in common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from Sarasota Bay, Florida. Mar Mam Sci 36, 1309–1321 (2020).

31. Siders, Z. A. & Havens, K. E. Revisiting the total maximum daily load total phosphorus goal in Lake Okeechobee. Hydrobiologia 847, 4221–4232 (2020).

32. Siders, Z. A. et al. Ensemble Random Forests as a tool for modeling rare occurrences. Endang. Species. Res. 43, 183–197 (2020).

33. Siders, Z. A., Ahrens, R. N. M., Allen, M. S. & Walters, C. J. Density?dependent prey behaviours and mutable predator foraging modes induce Allee effects and over?prediction of prey mortality rates. Freshw. Biol. 65, 1752–1764 (2020).

34. Martin, S. L. et al. Assessing the Population Level Impacts of North Pacific Loggerhead and Western Pacific Leatherback Interactions in the Hawaii-Based Shallow Set Longline Fishery. https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/23037 (2020).

35. Rolim, F. A., Siders, Z. A., Caltabellotta, F. P., Rotundo, M. M. & Vaske?Júnior, T. Growth and derived life-history characteristics of the Brazilian electric ray Narcine brasiliensis. Journal of Fish Biology 97, 396–408 (2020).

36. Caltabellotta, F. P. et al. Age and growth of three endemic threatened guitarfishes Pseudobatos horkelii, P. percellens and Zapteryx brevirostris in the western South Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Fish Biology 95, 1236–1248 (2019).

37. Matthias, B. G. et al. Understanding the effects of density and environmental variability on the process of fish growth. Fisheries Research 198, 209–219 (2018).

38. Lynch, A. J. et al. Grand Challenges in the Management and Conservation of North American Inland Fishes and Fisheries. Fisheries 42, 115–124 (2017).

39. Koopman, H. N., Westgate, A. J. & Siders, Z. A. Declining fecundity and factors affecting embryo quality in the American lobster ( Homarus americanus ) from the Bay of Fundy. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 72, 352–363 (2015).

40. Koopman, H., Westgate, A., Siders, Z. & Cahoon, L. Rapid Subsurface Ocean Warming in the Bay of Fundy as Measured by Free-Swimming Basking Sharks. o 27, 14–17 (2014).

41. Westgate, A., Koopman, H., Siders, Z., Wong, S. & Ronconi, R. Population density and abundance of basking sharks Cetorhinus maximus in the lower Bay of Fundy, Canada. Endang. Species. Res. 23, 177–185 (2014).

42. Koopman, H. N. & Siders, Z. A. Variation in egg quality in blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus, from North Carolina: does female size matter? Journal of Crustacean Biology 33, 481–487 (2013).

43. Siders, Z. A., Westgate, A. J., Johnston, D. W., Murison, L. D. & Koopman, H. N. Seasonal Variation in the Spatial Distribution of Basking Sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) in the Lower Bay of Fundy, Canada. PLoS ONE 8, e82074 (2013).