A5009170465- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Forest Management and Policy
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Career Development and Diversity
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Language and cultural evolution
- Ethics in Clinical Research
Duke University
2015-2025
University of Chicago
2025
Marine Conservation Institute
2020-2022
University of South Carolina Beaufort
2020-2021
Mote Marine Laboratory
2016
What are the greatest sizes that largest marine megafauna obtain? This is a simple question with difficult and complex answer. Many of largest-sized species occur in world’s oceans. For many these, rarity, remoteness, quite simply logistics measuring these giants has made obtaining accurate size measurements difficult. Inaccurate reports maximum run rampant through scientific literature popular media. Moreover, how intraspecific variation body animals relates to sex, population structure,...
Sharks and other top predators have a substantial impact on their ecosystems through trophically mediated effects, understanding the scope of this is essential to forming an accurate picture energy flow within ecosystem. One most important factors consider when assessing predator's ecosystem metabolic rate, which dependent number environmental including temperature, as well underlying physiological anatomical characteristics. Here standard (SMR) routine rates (RMR) swimming dynamics nurse...
Abstract Academic review, promotion, and tenure processes place a premium on frequent publication in high‐impact factor (IF) journals. However, conservation often relies species‐specific information that is unlikely to have the broad appeal needed for high‐IF Instead, this distributed low‐IF, taxa‐ region‐specific This suggests potential mismatch between incentives academic researchers scientific needs of implementation. To explore mismatch, we looked at federal implementation United States...
The global distribution of primary production and consumption by humans (fisheries) is well-documented, but we have no map linking the central ecological process within food webs to temperature other drivers. Using standardized assays that span 105° latitude on four continents, show rates bait generalist predators in shallow marine ecosystems are tightly linked both composition consumer assemblages. Unexpectedly, peaked at midlatitudes (25 35°) Northern Southern Hemispheres across seagrass...
Mutualisms can increase the ability of foundation species to resist individual stressors, but it remains unclear whether mutualisms also ameliorate co-occurring stressors for habitat-forming species. To examine a suspected mutualist could improve species’ resistance multiple we tested how common coral-dwelling crab affected corals exposed macroalgal contact and physical wounding during widespread heat stress event using flow-through tanks supplied with seawater from nearby reef flat. High...
Allowing for invisible name changes is a matter of dignity trans researchers. This would prevent their own publication record from outing them without consent. A single, centralized change request through ORCID iD alleviate the burden changing each individually.
Megafauna shape ecosystems globally through trophic interactions, ecology of fear, and ecosystem engineering. Highly productive salt marshes at the interface terrestrial marine systems have potential to support megafauna species, but a recent global meta-analysis consumer-plant interactions in found few studies investigated impacts wild megafauna. We conducted literature review document variety that 34 species utilize marshes, including sharks, manatees, pinnipeds, crocodilians, sea otters,...
Scientific professional societies are reviewing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices policies in response to recent calls for much-needed change. Organizations like scientific contribute establishing disciplinary norms, can influence the diversity of workforces multiple ways through both action inaction. This paper examines these issues using American Elasmobranch Society (AES), a medium-sized society, as case study. It consists three parts: (1) an analysis demographics AES...
Abstract Mantids are influential generalist predators in terrestrial systems. Therefore, large mantid species like the European mantid, Mantis religiosa (Linnaeus, 1758), often used by humans and purposefully introduced as a form of biocontrol, greatly expanding their geographic ranges. However, mantids rarely recorded marine In this study, we present an observation living salt marsh actively moulting vegetation Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Bay, California, United States America. Not only these...