Massive prey recruitment and the control of rocky subtidal communities on large spatial scales

By J. D. Witman, Salvatore J. Genovese, J. Bruno, J. W. McLaughlin, B. Pavlin. 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Influence of chronic, low-level hydrodynamic forces on subtidal community structure (2003, background): “For instance, the pattern of increased submergence of sea urchin distributions at exposed locations documented here also occurs at other areas within the Gulf of Maine (Witman 1987), in the Galápagos and Seychelles Islands (Witman & Dayton 2001), and in Alaska (Konar & Estes 2003).”
A boom–bust phylum? Ecological and evolutionary consequences of density variations in echinoderms (2009, background): “In the North Atlantic, a number of studies link sudden population increases in Asterias rubens and A. forbesi to increased food supply or enhanced recruitment (Sloan and Aldridge 1981, Witman et al. 2003).”
Successional development of fouling communities on open ocean aquaculture fish cages in the western Gulf of Maine, USA (2007, result): “Mussels have become increasingly prevalent in the Gulf of Maine in the last ten years (Harris and Tyrell, 2001; Witman et al., 2003), and this may explain some of the differences between the results presented here and those from earlier studies in the same region.”
Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century (2016, background): “Many kelp forest ecosystems are naturally highly variable on both seasonal and interannual time scales, and over small spatial scales (42–44), reflecting a high reactivity to environmental drivers and variation in their capacity to resist (45) and recover from both small- and large-scale disturbance”
Detection of alternative stable states in marine communities (2004, background): “However, recent and relatively long-term studies show that historical events can leave strong signatures on community dynamics for years afterwards (e.g., Paine et al., 1985; Knowlton, 1992; Dye, 1998; Underwood, 1998a, 1999; Foster et al., 2003; Witman et al., 2003).”
BEHAVIORAL INDIRECT INTERACTIONS: MULTIPLE PREDATOR EFFECTS AND PREY SWITCHING IN THE ROCKY SUBTIDAL (2004, methodology): “The percent cover of macroinvertebrate and algal species (excluding crustose coralline algae) on each slide was quantified by identifying their presence under 200 randomly placed dots (Witman et al. 2003).”