A5018137416- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
University of California, Santa Barbara
2020-2023
Ecological Society of America
2020
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2020
Abstract Ecosystems are changing at alarming rates because of climate change and a wide variety other anthropogenic stressors. These stressors have the potential to cause phase shifts less productive ecosystems. A major challenge for ecologists is identify ecosystem attributes that enhance resilience can buffer systems from desirable alternative states. In this study, we used Northern Channel Islands, California, as model kelp forest had been perturbed loss an important sea star predator due...
Abstract Marine protected areas (MPAs) have become a popular tool utilised across global oceans to achieve variety of conservation goals. Because the reasons for MPA implementation can differ, it is imperative that resource managers design and execute management strategies allow them effectively assess performance relative goals they set. We compared three monitoring techniques commonly survey groundfish populations different depth strata temperate rocky reef habitat: underwater visual...
A recent disease epidemic across the northeast Pacific has effectively extirpated sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides), an important urchin predator, resulting in formation of barrens and loss kelp forests some regions. In a recently published study, we investigated role predator redundancy buffering from these phase shifts. We found that two additional predators compensated for prevented transition to barrens. However, since both alternative are fished, this effect was much...