Large benthic decapods play an increasingly important role in commercial fisheries
worldwide, yet their roles in the marine ecosystem are less well understood. A synthesis of …

Predation is a dominant structuring force in ecological communities. In aquatic
environments, predation on bivalves has long been an important focal interaction for …

Penguin foraging and breeding success depend on broad-scale environmental and local-
scale hydrographic features of their habitat. We investigated the effect of local tidal currents …

Linkages between predators and their prey across the subtidal-intertidal boundary remain
relatively unexplored. The influence of tidal phase, tidal height and wave exposure on the …

Dominance hierarchies have been well studied in myriad terrestrial animals, but surprisingly
little is known about hierarchies in marine invertebrates; examples are limited to a few …

During the 1990s the rock lobster Jasus lalandii shifted its focus of distribution south-
eastwards along the coast of South Africa, to establish a dense population in an area where …

The invasive Asian shore crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus, is ubiquitous in the rocky intertidal
zone of the western North Atlantic. A likely contributor to this colonization is that H …

Adult green crabs are highly aggressive predators that exhibit fast population growth in
newly invaded areas and potentially compete with juvenile lobsters for limited resources …

Predicting the strength and context-dependency of species interactions across multiple
scales is a core area in ecology. This is especially challenging in the marine environment …

The expansion of the aquaculture industry in the last several decades has raised concerns
about potential ecological impacts of the industry. Bivalve culture, particularly mussel …