A5078475291- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
University of Florida
2020-2023
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
2021
Dauphin Island Sea Lab
2020
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
2019
Abstract Climate change is altering naturally fluctuating environmental conditions in coastal and estuarine ecosystems across the globe. Departures from long-term averages ranges of variables are increasingly being observed as directional changes [e.g., rising sea levels, surface temperatures (SST)] less predictable periodic cycles (e.g., Atlantic or Pacific decadal oscillations) extremes flooding, marine heatwaves). Quantifying short- impacts climate on tidal marsh seascape structure...
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Abstract Coastal wetlands are rapidly disappearing worldwide due to a variety of processes, including climate change and flood control. The rate loss in the Mississippi River Delta is among highest world billions dollars have been allocated build restore coastal wetlands. A key question guiding assessment whether created salt marshes similar biodiversity preexisting, reference marshes. However, numerous metrics used make these determinations typically scale dependent often conflicting. Here,...
Seagrass meadows provide greater predator refuge and resource availability than unvegetated habitats generally improve the survival growth rates of associated animals. Few studies, however, have examined how these relationships might vary at a region-wide spatial scale. The blue crab Callinectes sapidus is commercially important species that uses turtlegrass Thalassia testudinum habitats, but it unclear if use seagrass varies across northern Gulf Mexico (GOM), USA. We conducted synoptic...
Drift macroalgae, often found in clumps or mats adjacent to within seagrass beds, can increase the value of beds as habitat for nekton via added food resources and structural complexity. But, algal biomass increases, it also decrease light availability, inhibit faunal movements, smother benthic communities, contribute hypoxia, all which reduce abundance. We quantified abundance distribution drift macroalgae meadows dominated by turtle grass Thalassia testudinum across northern Gulf Mexico...
Drift macroalgae, often found in clumps or mats adjacent to within seagrass beds, can provide additional food resources and habitat complexity, leading increased animal abundance, but large concentrations also inhibit faunal movements, smother benthic communities, contribute hypoxia, reducing nekton abundance. Despite its ubiquity, few studies have quantified drift macroalgal prevalence over spatial scales effects on seagrass-associated nekton, hindering our understanding of the functional...
Foundation species such as corals, trees, and bivalves enhance ecosystem function biodiversity by creating habitat for associated organisms, ameliorating stress, modifying energy flow. However, theory generally ignores their ecological functions after death. Here we review the traits of dead foundation relative to living counterparts, processes that control persistence. We also conduct a meta-analysis quantify where effect on community is unique or redundant counterparts. focus marine...