Professor: Dr. Ricardo A. Scrosati (Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Marine Ecology)
Office: room JBB 335-J
Office phone: 867-5289
Email: rscrosat@stfx.ca

Research Laboratory webpage: click here.

Course Syllabus: click here.

Lecture Figures: click here.
 

- Field trip 1 (Muddy shores - Antigonish Harbour): click here.

- Tides website: click here.
- Tor Bay rocky intertidal organisms: click here.

- Lecture on population dynamics of clonal and unitary seaweeds: click here.
- Lecture on algal life-history modelling: click here.
- Lecture on the environmental stress model of community organization: click here.
- Kelp - urchin photos: click here.
- Paper on kelp invasion in Argentina (Casas et al. 2004): click here.  -  Undariapicture
- Zebra mussel picture.
- Paper on fisheries and marine biodiversity loss (Worm et al. 2006): click here.
- Principles of reserve design: click here (source: Primack, R.B. 2002. Essentials of conservation biology. Sinauer, 698 p.)

Guidelines for research paper: click here.
Guidelines for oral presentation: click here.
 

Course papers (click on the 'pdf' links to download):

Bjørnstad O.N., R.A. Ims & X. Lambin 1999. Spatial population dynamics: analyzing patterns and processes of population synchrony. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14:427-432. pdf

Bruno J.F., J.J. Stachowicz & M.D. Bertness 2003. Inclusion of facilitation into ecological theory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18: 119-125. pdf

Connolly, S.R., B.A. Menge & J. Roughgarden 2001. A latitudinal gradient in recruitment of intertidal invertebrates in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Ecology 82: 1799-1813. pdf

Grosholz, E. 2002. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of coastal invasions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17: 22-27. pdf

Jackson, J.B.C. and 18 others 2001. Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems. Science 293: 629-638. pdf

Johnson, M.P. 2001. Metapopulation dynamics of Tigriopus brevicornis (Harpacticoida) in intertidal rock pools. Marine Ecology Progress Series 211: 215-224. pdf

Kokko, H., A. Mackenzie, J.D. Reynolds, J. Lindström & W.J. Sutherland 1999. Measures of inequality are not equal. The American Naturalist 72: 358-382. pdf

Laska, M.S. & J.T. Wootton 1998. Theoretical concepts and empirical approaches to measuring interaction strength. Ecology 79: 461-476. pdf

Menge, B.A. 1995. Indirect effects in marine rocky intertidal interaction webs: patterns and importance. Ecological Monographs 65: 21-74. pdf

Raffaelli, D. 2000. Trends in research on shallow water food webs. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 250: 223-232. pdf

Roberts, C.M., J.A. Bohnsack, F. Gell, J.P. Hawkins & R. Goodridge 2001. Effects of marine reserves on adjacent fisheries. Science 294: 1920-1923. pdf

Ruiz, G.M., P.W. Fofonoff, J.T. Carlton, M.J. Wonham & A.H. Hines 2000. Invasion of coastal marine communities in North America: apparent patterns, processes, and biases. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 31: 481-531. pdf

Scrosati, R. 2004a. A discrete-time logistic model of frond dynamics for Mazzaella parksii (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales). Journal of Applied Phycology 16: 69-72. pdf

Scrosati, R. 2004b. Synchrony of frond dynamics among patches of the clonal seaweed Mazzaella parksii (Rhodophyta) at local spatial scale. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 84: 883-886. pdf

Scrosati, R. & R.E. DeWreede 1998. The impact of frond crowding on frond bleaching in the clonal intertidal alga Mazzaella cornucopiae (Rhodophyta, Gigartinaceae) from British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Phycology 34: 228-232. pdf

Scrosati, R. & R.E. DeWreede 1999. Demographic models to simulate the stable ratio between ecologically similar gametophytes and tetrasporophytes in populations of the Gigartinaceae (Rhodophyta). Phycological Research 47: 153-157. pdf

Scrosati, R. & C. Heaven 2007. Spatial trends in community richness, diversity, and evenness across rocky intertidal environmental stress gradients in eastern Canada. Marine Ecology Progress Series 342: 1-14. pdf