National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

NCEAS Working Groups

Modeling spatially structured dynamics in benthic populations

Project Description

A review of the most recent data from benthic ecology makes a compelling argument that the static paradigm of keystone predation and prey refugia should be subsumed by spatially-explicit dynamic models. We propose to assemble an NCEAS workgroup with experience in both empirical studies of benthic ecology and simulation modeling to develop alternative approaches from this new synthesis.

Principal Investigator(s)

Carlos Robles, Hal Batchelder, Mark W. Denny, Robert A. Desharnais, Douglas Donalson, Roger M. Nisbet

Project Dates

Start: March 20, 2000

End: December 10, 2000

completed

Participants

Patricia Arriola
California State University, Los Angeles
Hal Batchelder
University of California, Berkeley
David Blakeway
California State University, Los Angeles
Emily Carrington
University of Rhode Island
Bryant Chesney
California State University, Los Angeles
Don De Angelis
University of Miami
Mark W. Denny
Stanford University
Robert A. Desharnais
California State University, Los Angeles
Douglas Donalson
University of California, Santa Barbara
Steven D. Gaines
University of California, Santa Barbara
Kevin Johnson
California State University, Los Angeles
Ricardo Lopez
California State University, Los Angeles
Roger M. Nisbet
University of California, Santa Barbara
Roger Paillet
Unknown
Hong-lie Qiu
California State University, Los Angeles
Carlos Robles
California State University, Los Angeles
Jeffrey Shima
University of California, Santa Barbara
Vivianna Velazquez
California State University, Los Angeles

Products

  1. Presentations / 2001

    Extracting historical population trends from photographic records of rocky shore communities

  2. Book Chapter / 2003

    Spatially extensive, high resolution images of rocky shore communities

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  3. Presentations / 2000

    A fine-scale view of mussel recruitment patterns

  4. Presentations / 2000

    Differential settlement of the mussels Mytilus californicus and M. trossulus on sheltered and exposed rocky shores

  5. Presentations / 2000

    Subsuming the intertidal predation paradigm in spatially structured dynamics

  6. Presentations / 2001

    Movements of individuals of the keystone predator Pisaster ochraceua over intertidal landscapes with varying wave exposures and prey distributions

  7. Journal Article / 2001

    The shifting balance of littoral predator-prey interactions in regimes of hydrodynamic stress

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  8. Journal Article / 2002

    History and current development of a paradigm of predation in rocky intertidal communities

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