MER Students and Postdoctoral Fellows Presenting at the 2011 WSN Meeting
Harley Lab
Rebecca Kordas – EXPERIMENTAL WARMING REDUCES INVERTEBRATE DENSITY AND COMMUNITY RICHNESS ON ROCKY SHORES
Rebecca Gooding – MULTIPLE CLIMATE VARIABLES MAY INDIRECTLY REDUCE MUSSEL POPULATIONS VIA INCREASED GROWTH AND FEEDING OF A KEYSTONE PREDATOR
Jennifer Jorve – INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF SHORE LEVEL AND EXPERIMENTAL WARMING ON ADULT AND JUVENILE INTERTIDAL KELP
Kyle Demes – SURVIVAL OF THE WEAKEST: INCREASED FROND MECHANICAL STRENGTH IN A WAVE-SWEPT KELP INHIBITS SELF-PRUNING INCREASING MORTALITY
Kat Anderson – NON-NATIVE LITTORINA LITTOREA IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: DISTRIBUTION, POTENTIAL IMPACTS, AND PROBABILITY OF SUCCESSFUL ESTABLISHMENT.
Jocelyn Nelson (poster) – A WAR ON TWO FRONTS: THE INTERACTIVE EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND INVASIVE SPECIES ON COASTAL MARINE COMMUNITIES
Manon Picard (poster) – THE EFFECTS OF INCREASED ACIDITY ON MOLLUSCAN EARLY DEVELOPMENT: CRITICAL THRESHOLD AND ACCLIMATION
Theresa Coyle – RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SALINITY AND VARIATION IN TROPHIC STRUCTURE ON ROCKY SHORES
Chan’s Lab
Rebecca Goldman Martone – WHERE’S THE BIOMASS? SEA OTTERS DRIVE REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN SUBTIDAL ROCKY REEF FOOD WEBS ON VANCOUVER ISLAND
O’Connor Lab
Ross Whippo – BENTHIC COMMUNITY STRUCTURE MEDIATED BY THE RED SEA URCHIN STRONGYLOCENTROTUS FRANCISCANUS IN THE SAN JUAN ARCHIPELAGO
Martone Lab
Laura Anderson – HARMFUL OR HELPFUL? BENEFITS RELAYED BY THE BROWN ALGAL EPIPHYTE, SORANTHERA ULVOIDEA, TO ITS RED ALGAL HOST, ODONTHALIA FLOCOSSA
Bess Kennedy – A CURIOUS SYMBIOSIS: EXPLORING THE PHYSIOLOGICAL BENEFITS AND COSTS OF THE REVERSE LICHEN, PRASIOLA BOREALIS AND ITS MYCOBIONT