NCEAS Project 2720
Modeling spatially structured dynamics in benthic populations
- Carlos Robles
- Hal Batchelder
- Mark W. Denny
- Robert A. Desharnais
- Douglas Donalson
- Roger M. Nisbet
| Activity | Dates | Further Information |
|---|---|---|
| Working Group | 20th—24th March 2000 | Participant List |
| Working Group | 4th—10th December 2000 | Participant List |
Abstract
A review of the most recent data from benthic ecology makes a compelling argument that the static paradigm of keystone predation and prey refugia should be subsumed by spatially-explicit dynamic models. We propose to assemble an NCEAS workgroup with experience in both empirical studies of benthic ecology and simulation modeling to develop alternative approaches from this new synthesis.
| Type | Products of NCEAS Research |
|---|---|
| Presentations | Blakeway, David; Robles, Carlos. 2001. Extracting historical population trends from photographic records of rocky shore communities. CEA-CREST 2nd Annual Conference on Environmental Science, California State University, Los Angeles, May 2001. |
| Book Chapter | Blakeway, David; Robles, Carlos; Fuentes, D.; Qiu, Hong-lie. 2003. Spatially extensive, high resolution images of rocky shore communities. Edited by Seuront, L.; Strutton, P.. Handbook of Scaling Methods in Aquatic Ecology: Measurement, Analysis, Simulation. CRC Press. Boca Raton, Fl. Pages 109-124. |
| Presentations | Robles, Carlos; Chesney, Bryant. 2000. A fine-scale view of mussel recruitment patterns. 85th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, August 2000. Snowbird, UT. |
| Presentations | Robles, Carlos; Johnson, Kevin. 2000. Differential settlement of the mussels Mytilus californicus and M. trossulus on sheltered and exposed rocky shores. 85th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, August 2000. Snowbird, UT. |
| Presentations | Robles, Carlos; Desharnais, Robert A. 2000. Subsuming the intertidal predation paradigm in spatially structured dynamics. Annual meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, June 2000. Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| Presentations | Robles, Carlos; Paillet, Roger; Shima, Jeffrey. 2001. Movements of individuals of the keystone predator Pisaster ochraceua over intertidal landscapes with varying wave exposures and prey distributions. CEA-CREST 2nd Annual Conference on Environmental Science, May 2001. California State University, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA. |
| Journal Article | Robles, Carlos; Alvarado, M. A.; Desharnais, Robert A. 2001. The shifting balance of littoral predator-prey interactions in regimes of hydrodynamic stress. Oecologia. Vol: 128. Pages 142-152. |
| Journal Article | Robles, Carlos; Desharnais, Robert A. 2002. History and current development of a paradigm of predation in rocky intertidal communities. Ecology. Vol: 83(6). Pages 1521-1536. |