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Heat-shock protein expression in Mytilus californianus : seasonal and tidal height comparisons

Creator:: Roberts, Deirdre
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: californianus: Seasonal and Tidal Height Comparisons Abstract approved: Bruce Menge I examined heat-shock

Environmental factors and plant-animal interactions on rocky shores along the Oregon coast

Creator:: Brosnan, Deborah M.
Abstract:: Factors affecting the persistence of mussels (Mytilus californianus) and their associated epibiont species were studied along the central Oregon coast. Interactions between mussels and their algal epibionts (Endocladia muricata) varied in sign and strength with environmental conditions. In extreme temperatures mussel—epibiont interactions determined survival of individual mussels, and persistence of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Algal community structure and organization in high intertidal rockpools

Creator:: van Tamelen, Peter G.
Abstract:: Gradients of physical disturbance are central to theories of community organization yet rarely are studies performed in which physical factors are experimentally manipulated. Pothole tidepool algal communities exhibit distinct zonation patterns from top to bottom that result from scouring by rocks and other debris in the pools. Scouring is easily...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Hiah Intertidal Rockpools Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: Bruce A. Menge Professor of

The effects of biomechanical and ecological factors on population and community structure of wave-exposed, intertidal macroalgae

Creator:: Blanchette, Carol A.
Abstract:: I examined the biomechanical factors that influence the sizes of intertidal macroalgae by studying a population of Fucus gardneri at Fogarty Creek Point, OR. I constructed a mathematical model to predict optimal sizes and probabilities of survival for Fucus under conditions of high and low wave exposure. Predicted optimal sizes...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -17459 to Bruce Menge) and a Mellon Foundation grant to Jane Lubchenco and Bruce Menge. TABLE OF

Effects of interactions between predators, variable predation regimes, and species body size on rocky intertidal communities : comparative and experimental approaches

Creator:: Navarrete, Sergio A.
Abstract:: The body size (W) of animal species is one of the best predictors of population density (D) when large assemblages are considered. It has been shown that theoretically the D-W relationship can be the consequence of two other distributions: the log-normal distribution of body sizes of the species and of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The ecological consequences of the reduction of species diversity : experimental approaches

Creator:: Allison, Gary William
Abstract:: The influence of loss of diversity on community dynamics and ecosystem functioning has recently received considerable attention. Although study of biodiversity has a long history within ecology, empirical investigations exploring consequences of loss have been rare. Because many factors confound diversity comparisons, experimental manipulations of diversity offer the most direct...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Reduction of Species Diversity: Experimental Approaches. Abstract approved: Bruce A. Menge Abstract

Patterns and dynamics of context-dependency in the marine rocky intertidal

Creator:: Berlow, Eric Layani
Abstract:: As ecologists are being called upon to predict the consequences of human perturbations to natural communities, an important goal is to understand what factors drive variability or consistency in nature. In the rocky intertidal of San Juan Island, Washington, a comparative experimental approach was used to investigate spatial and temporal...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the Marine Rocky Intertidal Abstract approved: Bruce A. Menge Abstract approved: Jane

Bottom-up and top-down forces in tidepools : the influence of nutrients, herbivores, and wave exposure on community structure

Creator:: Nielsen, Karina Johanna
Abstract:: The relationship between nutrients and community structure is poorly understood in open-coast habitats. I created a system of artificial tidepools, of identical age and physical dimensions, at two sites that differed in wave exposure, and manipulated nutrient levels and the abundance of herbivores. Using these unique field mesocosms, I explored...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: indebted to my advisors, Bruce Menge and Jane Lubchenco, for creating a terrific intellectual environment

Oceanographic influences on rocky intertidal communities : coastal upwelling, invertebrate growth rates, and keystone predation

Creator:: Sanford, Eric (Eric David)
Abstract:: The influence of large-scale processes on natural communities has become one of the central issues of modern ecology. I combined field and laboratory studies to investigate the effects of variation in coastal upwelling on rocky intertidal communities along the central Oregon coast. I examined whether the growth of intertidal barnacles...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Predation. Abstract approved: Bruce A. Menge Abstract approved: The influence of large-scale processes

Rocky intertidal oceanography: an association between community structure and nearshore phytoplankton concentration

Creator:: Menge, Bruce A., Daley, Bryon A., Wheeler, Patricia A., and Strub, P. Ted
Abstract:: On Oregon coastal rocky shores, filter‐feeders were relatively abundant and macrophytes were relatively scarce at Strawberry Hill, whereas opposite abundance patterns occurred at Boiler Bay. To determine whether nearshore oceanographic differences were associated with these patterns, we made shore‐based measurements of nutrient and Chl a concentrations. We used a three‐level...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: MENGE, BRUCE A., BRYON A. DALEY, PATRICIA A. WHEELER, AND P

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Heat-shock protein expression in Mytilus californianus : seasonal and tidal height comparisons

Environmental factors and plant-animal interactions on rocky shores along the Oregon coast

Algal community structure and organization in high intertidal rockpools

The effects of biomechanical and ecological factors on population and community structure of wave-exposed, intertidal macroalgae

Effects of interactions between predators, variable predation regimes, and species body size on rocky intertidal communities : comparative and experimental approaches

The ecological consequences of the reduction of species diversity : experimental approaches

Patterns and dynamics of context-dependency in the marine rocky intertidal

Bottom-up and top-down forces in tidepools : the influence of nutrients, herbivores, and wave exposure on community structure

Oceanographic influences on rocky intertidal communities : coastal upwelling, invertebrate growth rates, and keystone predation

Rocky intertidal oceanography: an association between community structure and nearshore phytoplankton concentration

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