Few concepts in ecology have been so influential as that of the trophic cascade. Since the
1980s, the term has been a central or major theme of more than 2000 scientific articles …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 841–851 Abstract Ecological specialisation concerns all species
and underlies many major ecological and evolutionary patterns. Yet its status as a unifying …

Large brown seaweeds dominate coastal hard substrata throughout many of the world's
oceans. In coastal North Carolina, USA, this dominance by brown seaweeds is facilitated by …

The interdisciplinary field of marine chemical ecology is an expanding and dynamic science.
It is no surprise that the breadth of marine organisms studied expanded in concert with …

Models and empirical studies on host selection in plant–insect, alga–amphipod, host–
parasite and prey–predator systems assume that oviposition preference is determined by …

Kelp forests dominated by species of Laminariales are globally recognized as key habitats
on subtidal temperate rocky reefs. Forests characterized by fucalean seaweed, in contrast …

Crustaceans, like all aquatic invertebrates, take up and accumulate metals from a wide
range of sources and the trace metal concentrations within their tissues and bodies show …

The impacts of climatic change on organisms depend on the interaction of multiple stressors
and how these may affect the interactions among species. Consumer–prey relationships …

The nutritional value of kelp Laminaria hyperborea (Gunn.) Foslie and the importance of
bacterial degradation in making kelp available to consumers were tested by no-choice …

Acknowledgments REFERENCES I. DIVERSITY AND NATURAL PRODUCTS CHEMISTRY
OF MARINE MACROALGAE This chapter considers interactions between herbivores and …