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Marine Biology
A French Twist: Self-Regulated Fishing, Public Data, and Independent Environmental Monitoring in the Bay Of Brest
The Killer Kiss of Kohn's Snails
Understanding food web dynamics: Ignoring generalists is leading us astray
Our understanding of food web dynamics has come a long way since Bob Paine reinvigorated the study of species interaction networks. Our mathematical theory for predator-prey interactions and food web stability in particular has progressed in leaps-and-bounds. Nevertheless, I will argue that we — as both theoreticians and empiricists — are largely ignoring the interactions of generalist predators by assuming that the (more feasible) study of specialist predators will suffice. Despite my academic grandfather’s call for man
ANISEED 2015: a digital framework for the comparative developmental biology of ascidians.
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Effects of shoreline armoring on beach wrack subsidies to the nearshore ecotone in an estuarine fjord.
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Preference Alters Consumptive Effects of Predators: Top- Down Effects of a Native Crab on a System of Native and Introduced Prey
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Behavioral plasticity in an invaded system: non-native whelks recognize risk from native crabs
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Invasive species as a new food source: does a nudibranch predator prefer eating an invasive bryozoan?
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