A humpback whale eye (Charles Scammon, 1874).

New EPA Initiative

Biodiversity and Human Health Research Program


Selected Publications

Pongsiri, M., and J. Roman. 2007. Examining the links between biodiversity and human health: an interdisciplinary research initiative at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EcoHealth, 4, 82-85.

Roman, J. 2006.  Diluting the founder effect: cryptic invasions expand a marine invader's range. 
Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences

Bowen, B. W., and J. Roman.  2005.  Gaia’s handmaidens: The Orlog principle of conservation biology. 
Conservation Biology, 19, 1037-1043. 

Rocha, L. A., D. R. Robertson, J. Roman, B. W. Bowen.  2005.  Ecological speciation in tropical reef fishes.
Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 272, 573-579.

Roman, J., and S. R. Palumbi.  2004.  A global invader at home: population structure of the green crab,
Carcinus maenas, in Europe.  Molecular Ecology, 13, 2891-2898. 

Roman, J., and S. R. Palumbi.  2003.  Whales before whaling in the North Atlantic. 
Science, 301:508-510.

Roman, J., and B. W. Bowen.  2000.  The mock turtle syndrome: genetic identification of turtle meat
purchased in the southeast United States. 
Animal Conservation 3:61-65.

Farrell, L., J. Roman, M. Sunquist.  2000.  Dietary separation of carnivores identified
by molecular analysis of scats. 
Molecular Ecology 9:1583-1590.

Roman, J., S. D. Santhuf, P. E. Moler, and B. W. Bowen. 1999. Population structure
and cryptic evolutionary units in the alligator snapping turtle.
Conservation Biology 13:135-142.