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Marine Mass Mortality in a Global Change Context: Impacts on Individuals, Populations and Communities

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Sullivan Stack, Jenna

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Human actions are pushing natural systems into states that have no historical precedent. In response, empirical and theoretical researchers are increasingly focused on developing ways to predict the responses of ecological systems to change. However, significant knowledge gaps remain, often leading to “ecological surprises” where observed impacts of global change...

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theory or hypotheses. In this dissertation, I study the response to perturbations of a well
Changing Climate, Changing Contexts : Variation in Rocky Intertidal Predator-prey Interactions Seen Through an Environmental Stress Framework

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Cerny-Chipman, Elizabeth B.

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The multifaceted role of the environment in regulating the structure and dynamics of biological communities has long fascinated ecologists and motivated much debate and research. Now, in a time of accelerated global changes due to human impacts, the need to understand how the environment shapes communities has gained new urgency....

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useful pathway to link relatively well-resolved individual effects of climate change to a broader
Predictability and constraints on the structure of ecological communities in the context of climate change

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Barner, Allison K.

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Ecologists must increasingly balance the need for accurate predictions about how ecosystems will be affected by climate change, against the fact that making such predictions at the ecosystem-level may be infeasible. Although information about responses of individual species to a changing environment is increasing, scaling such information to the community...

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are fairly well documented and validated (IPCC 2014). However, translating these abiotic changes