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The role of inducible resistance in the seafan fungal epizootic, June 2004

Sick seafans by the seashore: Climate change and coral resistance in disease, November 2003

The rising tide of ocean diseases: Unsolved problems and research priorities

Climate warming and disease impacts

Climate change and coral

Climate change and coral reefs

Climate change seminar series, November 2002

Topic: Ocean Diseases

The strength of trophic cascades across ecosystems: Predictions from allometry and energetics

What determines the strength of a trophic cascade?

Trophic cascades have been documented in a diversity of ecological systems and can be important in determining biomass distribution within a community. To date, the literature on trophic cascades has focused on whether and in which systems cascades occur. Many biological (e.g., productivity : biomass ratios) and methodological (e.g., experiment size or duration) factors vary with the ecosystem in which data were collected, but ecosystem type, per se, does not provide mechanistic insights into factors controlling cascade strength.