BIOL 311 - COASTAL MARINE ECOLOGY
St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, Nova
Scotia, Canada)
BIOL 311 - COASTAL MARINE ECOLOGY
St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, Nova
Scotia, Canada)
Marine Ecology Lab webpage: click here.
Course Syllabus: click here.
Guidelines for Field
Project:
click
here.
- Lecture Figures
(large PDF file):
click
here.
- Intertidal zone:
click here.
- Mussel-seastar system: click here.
- Cages: click here.
Course papers
Note:
The pdf links shown below are only for the use of BIOL311 students, in
agreement with the Fair
Dealing provision in the Copyright Act.
Arribas, L.P., L. Donnarumma,
M.G. Palomo & R.A. Scrosati 2014. Intertidal mussels as ecosystem
engineers: their associated invertebrate biodiversity under contrasting
wave exposures. Marine Biodiversity
44: 203-211. pdf
Beermann, A.J., J.A. Ellrich,
M. Molis & R.A. Scrosati 2013. Effects of seaweed canopies and
adult barnacles on barnacle recruitment: the interplay of positive and
negative influences. Journal of
Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 448: 162-170. pdf
Boizard, S.D. & R.E.
DeWreede 2006. Inexpensive water motion measurement devices and
techniques and their utility in macroalgal ecology: a review. ScienceAsia 32: 43-49. 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
Buschmann, A.H. & A. Bravo
1990. Intertidal amphipods as potential dispersal agents of carpospores
of Iridaea laminarioides
(Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Journal
of Phycology 26: 417-420. pdf
Cole, S.W.B., R.A. Scrosati, J.C. Tam & A.V. Sussmann 2011. Regional decoupling between NW Atlantic barnacle recruit and adult density is related to changes in pelagic food supply and benthic disturbance. Journal of Sea Research 65: 33-37. 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
Ellrich, J.A., R.A. Scrosati & M. Molis 2015a. Predator nonconsumptive effects on prey recruitment weaken with recruit density. Ecology 96: 611-616. pdfJackson, J.B.C. et al. 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
Johnston, B.R., M. Molis &
R.A. Scrosati 2012. Predator chemical cues affect prey feeding activity
differently in juveniles and adults. Canadian
Journal of Zoology 90: 128-132. pdf
Keppel, E.A., R.A. Scrosati
& S.C. Courtenay 2015. Interactive effects of ocean acidification
and warming on subtidal mussels and sea stars from Atlantic Canada. Marine Biology Research 11:
337-348. 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
Menge, B.A. & D.N.L. Menge
2013. Dynamics of coastal meta-ecosystems: the intermittent upwelling
hypothesis and a test in rocky intertidal regions. Ecological Monographs 83: 283-310. pdf
Molis, M., I. Preuss, A.
Firmenich & J. Ellrich 2011. Predation risk indirectly enhances
survival of seaweed recruits but not intraspecific competition in an
intermediate herbivore species. Journal
of Ecology 99: 807-817. 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
Petzold, W., M.T. Willers &
R.A. Scrosati 2014. Visual record of intertidal disturbance caused by
sea ice in the spring on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia. F1000Research 3: 112. link
Petzold, W. & R.A. Scrosati
2014. Differential recolonization of Atlantic intertidal habitats after
disturbance reveals potential bottom-up community regulation. F1000Research 3: 247. link
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
Sagarin, R. & A. Pauchard 2010. Observational approaches in ecology open new ground in a changing world. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8: 379–386. pd
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. & L.K. Eckersley 2007. Thermal insulation of the intertidal zone by the ice foot. Journal of Sea Research 58: 331-334. pdf
Scrosati, R.A. & J.A.
Ellrich 2016. A 12-year record of intertidal barnacle recruitment in
Atlantic Canada (2005-2016): relationships with sea surface temperature
and phytoplankton abundance. PeerJ
4: e2623. pdf
Scrosati, R.A. & J.A.
Ellrich 2018. Benthic-pelagic coupling and bottom-up forcing in rocky
intertidal communities along the Atlantic Canadian coast. Ecosphere 9: article e02229. pdf
Scrosati, R. & C. Heaven
2006. Field technique to quantify intensity of scouring by sea ice in
rocky intertidal habitats. Marine
Ecology Progress Series 320: 293-295. 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
Scrosati, R.A., B. van Genne, C.S. Heaven & C.A. Watt 2011. Species richness and diversity in different functional groups across environmental stress gradients: a model for marine rocky shores. Ecography 34: 151-161. pdfSousa, W.P. 1979. Disturbance
in marine intertidal boulder fields: the nonequilibrium maintenance of
species diversity. Ecology
60: 1225-1239. pdf
Tam, J.C. & R.A. Scrosati 2011. Mussel and dogwhelk distribution along the northwest Atlantic coast: testing predictions derived from the abundant-centre model. Journal of Biogeography 38: 1536-1545. pdf
Tam, J.C. & R.A. Scrosati
2014. Distribution of cryptic mussel species (Mytilus edulis and M. trossulus) along wave exposure
gradients on northwest Atlantic rocky shores. Marine Biology Research 10: 51-60. pdf
Underwood, A.J. 1991. The logic
of ecological experiments: a case history from studies of the
distribution of macroalgae on rocky intertidal shores. Journal of the Marine Biological
Association of the United Kingdom 71: 841-866. pdf
Watt, C.A. & R.A. Scrosati
2013. Bioengineer effects on understory species richness, diversity,
and composition change along an environmental stress gradient:
experimental and mensurative evidence. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
123: 10-18. pdf
Zwerschke, N., M. Bollen, M.
Molis & R.A. Scrosati 2013. An environmental stress model correctly
predicts unimodal trends in overall species richness and diversity
along intertidal elevation gradients. Helgoland
Marine Research 67: 663-674. pdf
