A global synthesis of predation on bivalves

A Meira, JE Byers, R Sousa - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Predation is a dominant structuring force in ecological communities. In aquatic
environments, predation on bivalves has long been an important focal interaction for …

Causes of decoupling between larval supply and settlement and consequences for understanding recruitment and population connectivity

J Pineda, F Porri, V Starczak, J Blythe - Journal of Experimental Marine …, 2010 - Elsevier
Marine broadcast spawners have two-phase life cycles, with pelagic larvae and benthic
adults. Larval supply and settlement link these two phases and are crucial for the …

Species co‐occurrence networks: can they reveal trophic and non‐trophic interactions in ecological communities?

MA Freilich, E Wieters, BR Broitman, PA Marquet… - Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Co‐occurrence methods are increasingly utilized in ecology to infer networks of species
interactions where detailed knowledge based on empirical studies is difficult to obtain. Their …

Linking macroecology and community ecology: refining predictions of species distributions using biotic interaction networks

PPA Staniczenko, P Sivasubramaniam… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Macroecological models for predicting species distributions usually only include abiotic
environmental conditions as explanatory variables, despite knowledge from community …

Trophic niche size and overlap decreases with increasing ecosystem productivity

JS Lesser, WR James, CD Stallings, RM Wilson… - Oikos, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The production and transfer of biomass through trophic relationships is a core ecosystem
function. The movement of energy through the food web is mediated by organisms operating …

Interacting environmental mosaics drive geographic variation in mussel performance and predation vulnerability

KJ Kroeker, E Sanford, JM Rose, CA Blanchette… - Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Although theory suggests geographic variation in species' performance is determined by
multiple niche parameters, little consideration has been given to the spatial structure of …

Scales of benthic–pelagic coupling and the intensity of species interactions: from recruitment limitation to top-down control

SA Navarrete, EA Wieters, BR Broitman… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - pnas.org
Large and usually unpredictable variation in species interaction strength has been a major
roadblock to applying local experimental results to large-scale management and …

Sea Star Wasting Disease in the Keystone Predator Pisaster ochraceus in Oregon: Insights into Differential Population Impacts, Recovery, Predation Rate, and …

BA Menge, EB Cerny-Chipman, A Johnson, J Sullivan… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Sea star wasting disease (SSWD) first appeared in Oregon in April 2014, and by June had
spread to most of the coast. Although delayed compared to areas to the north and south …

Dynamics of coastal meta‐ecosystems: the intermittent upwelling hypothesis and a test in rocky intertidal regions

BA Menge, DNL Menge - Ecological Monographs, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The intermittent upwelling hypothesis (IUH) predicts that the strength of ecological subsidies,
organismal growth responses, and species interactions will vary unimodally along a …

Upwelling areas as climate change refugia for the distribution and genetic diversity of a marine macroalga

CR Lourenço, GI Zardi, CD McQuaid… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Global climate change has profound and diverse effects on biological diversity.
Identifying present‐day climate refugia is an increasingly recognized strategy for the …