Vegetated marine and freshwater habitats are being increasingly lost around the world.
Habitat restoration is a critical step for conserving these valuable habitats, but new …

Crab fisheries play a crucial role in global fishery economics, but they heavily rely on wild
catches. With the decline and exploratory limits of wild populations, expanding the scale and …

Habitat complexity describes a wide array of spatial distribution patterns of physical
structures in habitats. It affects aquatic ecosystems on multiple levels from individuals (eg …

Latitudinal gradients in species interactions are widely cited as potential causes or
consequences of global patterns of biodiversity. However, mechanistic studies documenting …

Trophic cascades focusing on direct (consumptive) effects have been well studied in marine
ecosystems. However, less attention has been given to cascades involving indirect …

Spatially complex habitats provide refuge for prey and mediate many predator–prey
interactions. Increasing anthropogenic pressures are eroding such habitats, reducing their …

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

Identifying and quantifying the relevant properties of habitat structure that mediate predator–
prey interactions remains a persistent challenge. Most previous studies investigate effects of …

Mesopredators must contend with both top-down (predation pressure by top predators) and
bottom-up (food availability) drivers when selecting habitat. We studied the distribution and …

The consumptive and nonconsumptive effects of predators on their prey and the indirect
effects of these interactions that cascade through food webs have been studied for over half …