James, William Graduate Faculty
- Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Environment , College of Arts, Sciences & Education
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected scholarly works & creative activities
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Article
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2026Guiding practices drive catch-and-release support and habitat concerns in Everglades recreational fishery. OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT. 281.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2026.108332 Web of Science: 001850582500001
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2026Scale-dependent effects of species richness and asynchrony regulate the temporal stability of consumer-mediated nutrient dynamics.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 123:e2532469123.Full Text via DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2532469123
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2026Decoupled drivers of diversity and composition in coastal forage fish communities reveal pathways for restoration effects in the Florida Everglades. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES.Full Text via DOI: 10.3354/meps15315
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2026Body size and temperature interact with time of day to shape the activity pattern of an ectothermic predator. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE. 13.Full Text via DOI: 10.1098/rsos.260735 Web of Science: 001845696100001
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2026High Site Fidelity and Elevated δ¹5N in Bonefish (Albula vulpes) Suggest Localized Wastewater Stress in a Marine National Park. ESTUARIES AND COASTS. 49.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12237-026-01769-4 Web of Science: 001810667300001
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2026Isotopic insights into nutrient contributions and transport pathways in north-central Florida Bay. ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE. 333.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2026.109765 Web of Science: 001702384300001
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2026Tipping the balance: reef community shifts after a regional urchin population collapse. CORAL REEFS.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s00338-026-02822-1 Web of Science: 001684554000001
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2026Variation in food web reliance on green and brown energy pathways across ecosystem gradients. PLOS ONE. 21.Full Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0336521 Web of Science: 001698196800002
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2026COMPARISON OF TAGGING TECHNIQUES FOR TRACKING FRESHWATER TROPICAL SHRIMP: ASSESSMENT OF SURVIVAL AND BEHAVIOUR AS A FUNCTION OF TAG TYPE. Crustaceana. 99:413-437.Full Text via DOI: 10.1163/15685403-bja10515 Web of Science: 001745607200003
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2026Gone but not forgotten: Collaborative telemetry network provides insight into out-of-system movements of Common Snook. MARINE AND COASTAL FISHERIES. 18.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/mcfafs/vtaf050 Web of Science: 001664493800001
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2025Hierarchical habitat selection by a predatory fish in a patchy seascape. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 15.Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-27322-0 Web of Science: 001635632500001
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2025Remote sensing and foraging data illustrate landscape-scale considerations for coastal restoration and avian management. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS. 35.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/eap.70152 Web of Science: 001648044800011
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2025Linking a seasonal freshwater prey subsidy to the body condition of an estuarine consumer in a subtropical coastal river. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 15.Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-25211-0 Web of Science: 001621175200023
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2025A multi-estuary assessment of pharmaceutical exposure and risk of pharmacological effects in a recreational fishery. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY. 44:2832-2847.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/etojnl/vgaf125 Web of Science: 001554213500001
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2025Linking hydrology, temperature, and energetics: Global change implications for the foraging ecology of a generalist predator. MARINE AND COASTAL FISHERIES. 17.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/mcfafs/vtaf031 Web of Science: 001582842500001
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2025Long-term patterns in the relative abundance of Common Snook as a factor of shifting environmental conditions in the Florida coastal Everglades. MARINE AND COASTAL FISHERIES. 17.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/mcfafs/vtaf026 Web of Science: 001574584600001
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2025Response of submerged aquatic vegetation seascapes to a large-scale seagrass die-off: A case study in Florida Bay. ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE. 318.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109221 Web of Science: 001443114700001
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2025Between a Dry Marsh and a Salty Place: Estuarine Habitat Suitability for a Freshwater Fish (Florida Bass) and Implications for Ecosystem Restoration and Climate Change. ESTUARIES AND COASTS. 48.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12237-025-01561-w Web of Science: 001503663400001
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2025Occurrence of pharmaceuticals in muscle tissue of red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) across subtropical estuaries: Comparison to blood plasma and implications for human exposure. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. 972.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179106
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2025Trophic niche dynamics of two fish mesoconsumers in adjacent coastal habitats with varying nutrient regimes. OECOLOGIA. 207.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s00442-025-05680-w Web of Science: 001434874900002
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2025Cause and consequences of Common Snook (Centropomus undecimalis) space use specialization in a subtropical riverscape. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 15.Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-82158-4 Web of Science: 001398126400019
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2025Stakeholder diversity matters: employing the wisdom of crowds for data-poor fisheries assessments. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 15.Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-84970-4 Web of Science: 001390048200035
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2024Seascape structure likely influences marsh-derived resource use by highly abundant estuarine consumers over a small spatial scale. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES. 751:1-12.Full Text via DOI: 10.3354/meps14755 Web of Science: 001425473400001
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2024Trophic niche of a nonnative invader and environmental drivers of its increasing populations in the coastal Everglades. BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS. 26:4245-4263.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10530-024-03444-w Web of Science: 001324613900002
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2024Widespread pharmaceutical exposure at concentrations of concern for a subtropical coastal fishery: Bonefish (Albula vulpes). MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN. 209.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.117143 Web of Science: 001345476300001
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2024Differential tissue distribution of pharmaceuticals in a wild subtropical marine fish. Aquatic Toxicology. 275.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2024.107064 Web of Science: 001307210800001
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2024Identifying pathways of pharmaceutical exposure in a mesoconsumer marine fish. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS. 477.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.135382 Web of Science: 001285456800001
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2024New directions for Indigenous and local knowledge research and application in fisheries science: Lessons from a systematic review. FISH AND FISHERIES. 25:647-671.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/faf.12831 Web of Science: 001205950300001
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2024Widespread habitat loss leads to ecosystem-scale decrease in trophic function. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY. 30.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17263 Web of Science: 001193990100001
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2023An integrative salt marsh conceptual framework for global comparisons. LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY LETTERS. 8:830-849.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10346 Web of Science: 001028802600001
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2023Rapid approach for assessing an unregulated fishery using a series of data-limited tools. MARINE AND COASTAL FISHERIES. 15.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/mcf2.10270 Web of Science: 001095311800004
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2023Characterizing potential resource use of sargasso-dominant sea wrack by terrestrial invertebrate fauna during sargasso influxes in South Florida. ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE. 291.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108414 Web of Science: 001055299900001
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2023The effects of temperature and flooding duration on the structure and magnitude of a floodplain prey subsidy. FRESHWATER BIOLOGY. 68:1518-1529.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/fwb.14145 Web of Science: 001020080500001
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2023Trophic Niche Metrics Reveal Long-Term Shift in Florida Bay Food Webs. ECOSYSTEMS. 26:1183-1194.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10021-023-00825-5 Web of Science: 000939735300001
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2023Residency and fine-scale habitat use of juvenile goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara) in a mangrove nursery. BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE. 99:111-117.Full Text via DOI: 10.5343/bms.2022.0061 Web of Science: 000994011700005
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2023Temporal trends of Biscayne Bay pink shrimp fisheries catch, economic indicators, and potential interactions with South Florida recreational flats fisheries. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 106:361-379.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10641-022-01314-9 Web of Science: 000836750700001
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2022Primed and cued: long-term acoustic telemetry links interannual and seasonal variations in freshwater flows to the spawning migrations of Common Snook in the Florida Everglades. Movement Ecology. 10.Full Text via DOI: 10.1186/s40462-022-00350-5 Web of Science: 000882734400001
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2022Otolith stable isotope micro-sampling to discriminate poorly studied stocks: Crevalle Jack in the eastern gulf of Mexico. ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE. 278.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2022.108130 Web of Science: 000880000900003
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2022Widespread seagrass die-off has no legacy effect on basal resource use of seagrass food webs in Florida Bay, USA. ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE. 79:1831-1842.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsac112 Web of Science: 000813228100001
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2022E-scape: Consumer-specific landscapes of energetic resources derived from stable isotope analysis and remote sensing. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY. 91:381-390.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13637 Web of Science: 000722054200001
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2022Influence of seascape spatial pattern on the trophic niche of an omnivorous fish. ECOSPHERE. 13.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3944 Web of Science: 000760264100034
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2022Bottom-up conservation: using translational ecology to inform conservation priorities for a recreational fishery. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES. 79:47-62.Full Text via DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2021-0024 Web of Science: 000740695100005
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2021Foundation Species Shift Alters the Energetic Landscape of Marsh Nekton. ESTUARIES AND COASTS. 44:1671-1680.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12237-020-00852-8 Web of Science: 000583985200001
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2021Novel Applications of Technology for Advancing Tidal Marsh Ecology. ESTUARIES AND COASTS. 44:1568-1578.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12237-021-00939-w Web of Science: 000640756600001
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2021Seascape Configuration Influences the Community Structure of Marsh Nekton. ESTUARIES AND COASTS. 44:1521-1533.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12237-020-00853-7 Web of Science: 000583985200002
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2021Stress gradients interact with disturbance to reveal alternative states in salt marsh: Multivariate resilience at the landscape scale. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY. 109:3211-3223.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13552 Web of Science: 000592387800001
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2021Impact of Extreme Disturbances on Suspended Sediment in Western Florida Bay: Implications for Seagrass Resilience. FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE. 8.Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.633240 Web of Science: 000680016500001
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2021Seascape ecology: identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES. 663:1-29.Full Text via DOI: 10.3354/meps13661 Web of Science: 000644439200001
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2020New mapping metrics to test functional response of food webs to coastal restoration. Food Webs. 25.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.fooweb.2020.e00179
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2020Trophic niche size and overlap decreases with increasing ecosystem productivity. OIKOS. 129:1303-1313.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/oik.07026
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2020Assessment of food web recovery following restoration using resource niche metrics. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. 711.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134801 Web of Science: 000509344700023
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2019Food web response to foundation species change in a coastal ecosystem. Food Webs. 21.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.fooweb.2019.e00125 Web of Science: 000646858900005
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2019Coupling telemetry and stable isotope techniques to unravel movement: Snook habitat use across variable nutrient environments. FISHERIES RESEARCH. 218:35-47.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2019.04.008 Web of Science: 000477786600005
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2018Phenotypically plastic responses to predation threat in the mangrove rivulus fish (Kryptolebias marmoratus): behavior and morphology. Evolutionary Ecology. 32:453-468.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10682-018-9952-5 Web of Science: 000445370800002
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2017Climate change and the threat of novel marine predators in Antarctica. ECOSPHERE. 8.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2017 Web of Science: 000417330000029
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2017Anti-predator responses of amphipods are more effective in the presence of conspecific chemical cues. HYDROBIOLOGIA. 797:277-288.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10750-017-3191-6 Web of Science: 000404174200020
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1996Other books in review. STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. 31:158-182.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/bf02738993
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Letter
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2020Fisheries rely on threatened salt marshes. SCIENCE. 670-671.Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.abe9332 Web of Science: 000586868600029
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Other Scholarly Work
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2026Tipping the balance: reef community shifts after a regional urchin population collapse (feb, 10.1007/s00338-026-02822-1, 2026). CORAL REEFS. 1515-1515.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s00338-026-02837-8 Web of Science: 001706576100001
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Preprint
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Review
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2024Why aquatic scientists should use sulfur stable isotope ratios (ẟ34S) more often. CHEMOSPHERE.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.141816
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2023A review of the potential impacts of commercial inshore pink shrimp fisheries on the recreational flats fishery in Biscayne Bay, FL, USA. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 349-360.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10641-022-01319-4 Web of Science: 000843243400002
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Research
principal investigator on
- Holistic assessment of the Florida Keys flats food webs awarded by Bonefish and Tarpon Unlimited 2025 - 2027
- Seagrass seascape state, stability, and function in relation to water quality in Biscayne Bay awarded by Environmental Protection Agency 2022 - 2025
- Understanding seascapes, susceptibility, and food web impacts of the fish spinning phenomenon in the Florida Keys awarded by Bonefish and Tarpon Unlimited 2024 - 2025
- A nationwide survey of pharmaceutical exposure in national parks awarded by National Park Service 2023 - 2025
co-principal investigator on
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Grant
- Enhancing our understanding of seagrass health: identifying critical thresholds and effects of land-based pollution from nutrients & emergent contaminants in Biscayne Bay awarded by Environmental Protection Agency 2024 - 2028
- Monitoring Support for Coastal Riverine Fish Dynamics and Marsh-Mangrove Habitat Use in Shark River Slough awarded by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2025 - 2027
- Assessing the resilience of coastal fisheries to press and pulse disturbances in Everglades National Park through a comprehensive analysis of fisheries-dependent records awarded by National Park Service 2024 - 2027
- Assessing spatiotemporal responses to CERP by coastal fish assemblages across Everglades National Park awarded by National Park Service 2024 - 2027
- Are Your Jacks Our Jacks? awarded by American Saltwater Guides Association 2025 - 2027
- Role of coastal lakes in Florida Bay as fish habitat for recreational fisheries (2025-2026): movement and trophic research awarded by South Florida Water Management District 2025 - 2026
- Building a Community-Driven Coastal Watershed Resilience Plan to Maximize Benefits awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin 2024 - 2026
- SAV Mapping of Biscayne Bay, Florida for SIMM awarded by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation 2024 - 2025
- Role of coastal lakes in Florida Bay as fish habitat for recreational fisheries: movement research awarded by South Florida Water Management District 2024 - 2025
- Developing a Standardized Assessment Protocol for Flats Fisheries awarded by Bonefish and Tarpon Unlimited 2023 - 2025
- Quantifying ecological importance, historical threat exposure and resilience potential for Coral reef Areas of Special Interest in Puerto Rico's Northeast Marine Corridor to support awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin 2024 - 2025
- Redesign of the Everglades fishing guide reporting system awarded by National Park Service 2022 - 2025
- Pharmaceuticals in South Florida recreational fisheries: an examination of the extent and pathways of exposure and potential impacts in bonefish awarded by Environmental Protection Agency 2022 - 2024
- Here we go again: The fate of Diadema antillarum and Caribbean reefs in the 21st century awarded by National Science Foundation 2022 - 2024
- Quantifying ecological importance, historical threat exposure and resilience potential for coral reef Areas of Special Interest in Puerto Rico¿s Northeast Marine Corridor to support efficient conservation goals awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin 2022 - 2024
- State of the science in Biscayne Bay awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin 2023
- Role of Coastal Lakes as Fish Habitat for Recreational Fisheries: Continuation of movement research awarded by South Florida Water Management District 2022 - 2023
- Role of Coastal Lakes as Habitat for Recereational Fisheries: continuation of nutrient sources research awarded by South Florida Water Management District 2022
Contact
full name
- William James
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4829-7742 (confirmed)
