Brad Erisman

Postdoctoral Employee - Gulf of California
Email: berisman@ucsd.edu
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Research Interests

• the evolution, life history, behavioral ecology, and conservation of marine fishes

• the behavior and reproductive biology of serranid fishes (i.e. groupers, seabasses) from the Gulf of California

Using Reproductive Parameters to Manage Grouper Fisheries in Gulf of California

Reef Fish Conservation in the Eastern Pacific

Discovering the Hidden Biodiversity in the Gulf of California with DeepSee 

Education
Ph.D.  UCSD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography 2008
Thesis: Reproductive Biology and Evolution of Groupers, Sea Basses and Related Fish
M.S. Biology, California State University, Northridge
B.S. Aquatic Biology, UC Santa Barbara

Publications

Erisman BE, Hastings PA (2008) Breakdown of the size-advantage: Evolutionary changes in mating behavior influence the loss of sex change in groupers. PNAS In review.

Erisman, B.E., and T. Konotchick. 2007. Observations of spawning in the leather bass, Dermatolepis dermatolepis, near Cocos Island, Costa Rica.  Ichthyol Research: In press

Erisman, B.E., M.L. Buckhorn, and P.A. Hastings. 2007. Spawning patterns in the leopard grouper, Mycteroperca rosacea, in comparison with other aggregating groupers. Marine Biology 151:1849 1861

Erisman, B.E., J. Rosales-Casian, and P.A. Hastings 2007. Evidence of gonochorism in a grouper, Mycteroperca rosacea, from the Gulf of California, Mexico. Environ Biol Fishes DOI:10.1007/s10641-007-9246-1.

Erisman, B.E., and L.G. Allen. 2006. Reproductive behavior of a temperate serranid fish, Paralabrax clathratus (Girard), from Santa Catalina Island, California, U.S.A.  J. Fish Biol. 68:157-184. 

Erisman, B.E., and L.G. Allen. 2005. Color Patterns and Associated Behaviors in the Kelp Bass, Paralabrax clathratus (Teleostei: Serranidae).  Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 104:45-62.

Adreani, M.S., B.E. Erisman, and R.R. Warner.  2004. Observations of courtship and spawning behavior in the California sheephead, Semicossyphus pulcher (Pisces: Labridae).  Environ. Biol. Fish. 71:13-19.