Dominant species are the most abundant species in a community, exerting a strong influence over the occurrence and distribution of other species. In contrast, keystone species have effects on ...

Paine, R. T. The Pisaster-Tegula interaction: Prey parches, predator food preferences and intertide community structure. Ecology 60, 950-961 (1969) Paine, R. T. Food web complexity and species ...

We analyze the interactions among marine ecology and biodiversity, fisheries, socioeconomics, climate change, and more. We use sequence-based approaches, flow cytometry, modeling, and other techniques ...

Restoration Ecology 21:390-398. Dickens ... a framework for understanding local and regional influences on community structure. Ecography 10: 939-949. Hobbs, RJ, E Higgs, CM Hall and multiple authors ...

A theoretical perspective to the study of community and ecosystem ecology examining the role of interactions ... abiotic and biotic controls of community structure, the effects of disturbance, food ...

My current research is focused on 1) how environmental heterogeneity affects invasibility and extinction in communities, and 2) how landscape spatial structure ... patch processes on community ...