A5016494429- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Marine animal studies overview
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Fossil Insects in Amber
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
Mote Marine Laboratory
2020-2024
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
2022
University of California, Davis
2015-2020
Bay Institute
2018
Cornell University
2013-2014
Abstract Dispersal of benthic species in the sea is mediated primarily through small, vulnerable larvae that must survive minutes to months as members plankton community while being transported by strong, dynamic currents. As climate change alters ocean conditions, dispersal these will be affected, with pervasive ecological and evolutionary consequences. We review impacts oceanic changes on larval transport, physiology, behavior. then discuss implications for population connectivity...
We used a metagenomic approach to identify viruses that may be involved in the ecology of Daphnia spp. Oneida and Cayuga lakes (upstate New York). identified several highly represented, putative eukaryotic, circular, single‐stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) viral genomes. Among these, we discovered genotype similar both sequence genomic architecture virus previously reported from hyperthermal lake shares characteristics ribonucleic (RNA) DNA viruses. quantitative polymerase chain...
Marine debris is a global environmental problem especially apparent on small islands throughout the world. We implemented an educational outreach program to engage primary and secondary students in scientific process using tangible issue of marine typical island Indonesia (Barrang Lompo, Spermonde Islands, South Sulawesi). Over three-year period, conducted systematic sampling their island's beaches. They quantified enormity problem, discussed data, compared experiences with partner schools...
Complex life cycles have evolved independently numerous times in marine animals as well disparate algae. Such histories typically involve a dispersive immature stage followed by settlement and metamorphosis to an adult on the sea floor. One commonality among exhibiting transitions of this type is that their larvae pass through ‘precompetent’ period which they do not respond localized cues, before entering ‘competent’ period, during cues can induce settlement. Despite widespread existence...
Human-caused environmental change will have significant non-lethal and indirect impacts on organisms due to altered sensory pathways, with consequences for ecological interactions. While a growing body of work addresses how global ocean can impair the way obtain use information direct their behavior, these efforts typically focused one step pathway (e.g. reception cue/signal), modality visual), or factor temperature). An integrated view aspects impact multiple pathways consequently processes...
Ocean acidification is expected to degrade marine ecosystems, yet most studies focus on organismal-level impacts rather than ecological perturbations. Field are especially sparse, particularly ones examining shifts in direct and indirect consumer interactions. Here we address such connections within tidepool communities of rocky shores, focusing a three-level food web involving the keystone sea star predator,
A common life cycle pattern in benthic-dwelling taxa the ocean is an obligate pre-competent dispersal period of microscopic propagules followed by their entry into a competent period, during which they are capable transitioning back to sea floor at settlement. The behavior larvae periods varies: some characterized discriminating that will only accept high quality habitat settle, whereas from other may initially be discriminating, but become increasingly ‘desperate’ settle as age. Larvae this...
Settlement-the generally irreversible transition from a planktonic phase to benthic phase-is critical stage in the life history of many shoreline organisms. It is reasonable expect that larvae are under intense selection pressure identify appropriate settlement habitat. Several decades studies have focused mainly on local indicators use suitable habitat, such as olfactory cues indicate presence conspecifics or favored food source. Our recent work has shown seashore-dwelling echinoids (sea...
In coastal ecosystems, attributes of fluid motion can prompt animal larvae to rise or sink in the water column and select microhabitats within which they attach commit a benthic existence. Echinoid (sea urchin sand dollar) living along wave-exposed shorelines, intense turbulence characteristic surf zones cause individuals undergo an abrupt life-history shift characterized by precocious entry into competence: stage at will settle complete metamorphosis response local cues. However,...
Abstract Predators mediate the strength of trophic cascades indirectly by decreasing number prey consuming a basal resource and altering responses that dictate foraging. The these indirect effects further depends on abiotic factors. For example, attributes environment, such as turbulent flows in aquatic habitats disrupt spatial information available from chemical cues, can impose “sensory stresses” impair ability predators or to detect each other. multi-faceted impacts sensory stress both...
Quality of riparian and in-stream habitat, concentrations ambient stream nitrate soluble reactive phosphorus, the diversity abundance aquatic macroinvertebrates were measured to characterize habitats within bordering Palenque National Park, Chiapas, Mexico. Though habitat at majority sites was relatively intact, frequently characterized by high suggesting that many ecosystems around park influenced sewage, agricultural runoff, or both. Abundance decreased with increasing all increased most sites.