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Food-Web Structure of Seagrass Communities across Different Spatial Scales and Human Impacts
(2011-07)
Seagrass beds provide important habitat for a wide range of marine species but are threatened by multiple human impacts in coastal waters. Although seagrass communities have been well-studied in the field, a quantification ...
Maintenance of Positive Diversity-Stability Relations along a Gradient of Environmental Stress
(2010-04)
Background: Environmental stress is widely considered to be an important factor in regulating whether changes in diversity will affect the functioning and stability of ecological communities. Methodology/Principal Findings: ...
Reciprocal Subsidies and Food Web Pathways Leading to Chum Salmon Fry in a Temperate Marine-Terrestrial Ecotone
(2010-04)
Stable isotope analysis was used to determine the relative proportions of terrestrial and marine subsidies of carbon to invertebrates along a tidal gradient (low-intertidal, mid-intertidal, high-intertidal, supralittoral) ...
A Meta-Analysis of Community Response Predictability to Anthropogenic Disturbances
(2012-09)
Disturbances often lead to changes in average values of community properties; however, disturbances can also affect the predictability of a community's response. We performed a meta-analysis to determine how response ...
A Meta-Analysis of Probiotic Efficacy for Gastrointestinal Diseases
(2012-04)
Background: Meta-analyses on the effects of probiotics on specific gastrointestinal diseases have generally shown positive effects on disease prevention and treatment; however, the relative efficacy of probiotic use for ...