DNA metabarcoding is an important tool for molecular ecology. However, its effectiveness
hinges on the quality of reference sequence databases and classification parameters …

Ecosystems are changing at alarming rates because of climate change and a wide variety of
other anthropogenic stressors. These stressors have the potential to cause phase shifts to …

Animal consumers excrete dissolved inorganic nitrogen, an essential nutrient for regulating
primary production and macroalgal growth in the ocean. Often overlooked in attempts to …

Eelgrasses Zostera are foundation species that perform myriad ecosystem services, yet
research into their habitat function is often focused on regions susceptible to intense …

To restore an area of temperate rocky-reef degraded by sedimentation, scour, and burial, a
large quarry rock reef, the Palos Verdes Restoration Reef (PVR), was built with a …

Life history parameters for fishes have generally been applied to species across their entire
range, however, different ecological and environmental conditions and processes (eg, sea …

In many marine ecosystems worldwide, overfishing is a prominent cause in removing large
predatory fishes from ecological communities. Fluctuation in the abundance of higher trophic …

Life history parameters for fishes have generally been applied to species across their entire
range, however, varying ecological and environmental processes (eg, sea surface …

Palos Verdes Reef (PVR) is an artificial reef designed to restore rocky-reef associated
marine species by directly restoring rocky-reef habitat that has been impacted by scour …

A time series of 22 samples collected in April and July were taken of the fish assemblages of
San Diego Bay over 11 non-consecutive years from 1995 to 2019. Each sample consisted of …