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Patch shape, connectivity, and foraging by oldfield mice (Peromyscus polionotus)

The effect of gut passage by two species of avian frugivore on seeds of pokeweed, Phytolacca americana

Fungi-mediated mortality of seeds of two old-field plant species

Marine Ecosystem Services

Simple fisheries and marine reserve models of interacting species: An overview and example with recruitment facilitation

Accounting for species interactions is a key component of ecosystem-based management. Simple models of species interactions provide a framework for making qualitative comparisons and identifying critical dynamics.

The role of symbiont diversity in coral response to climate change

Why evolution matters to conservation

Biodiversity and spatial management: Simple models of interacting species

Designing marine reserves for interacting species: Insights from theory

The primary goals of marine reserves include protecting biodiversity and ecosystem structure. Therefore, a multispecies approach to designing and monitoring reserve networks is necessary. To gain insight into how the interactions between species in marine communities may affect reserve design, we synthesize marine reserve community models and community models with habitat destruction and fragmentation, and we develop new extensions of existing models.

Predation, competition, and the recovery of overexploited fish stocks in marine reserves

Community interactions alter the management actions necessary to recover overfished species using marine reserves. For example, in communities where a larger species preys on their juveniles' competitors, overfishing of the larger species may cause prey population expansion; subsequent increased competition for the juveniles of the overfished species may impede its recovery within reserves. We explore the implications of such community interactions for reserve design with a model of a subtidal rockfish (genus Sebastes) system from the Northeast Pacific Ocean within a no-take reserve.