The Keystone Species Concept: Variation in Interaction Strength in a Rocky Intertidal Habitat

1994 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce A. Menge ◽  
Eric L. Berlow ◽  
Carol A. Blanchette ◽  
Sergio A. Navarrete ◽  
Sylvia B. Yamada
Keyword(s):  
Species Concept ◽  
Interaction Strength ◽  
Keystone Species ◽  
Rocky Intertidal ◽  
Intertidal Habitat

Neuroecology, Chemical Defense, and the Keystone Species Concept

2007 ◽  
Vol 213 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard K. Zimmer ◽  
Ryan P. Ferrer
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Defense ◽  
Species Concept ◽  
Keystone Species

scholarly journals Quantifying temporal trends in anthropogenic litter in a rocky intertidal habitat

2020 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
pp. 111543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor A. Weideman ◽  
Vonica Perold ◽  
Aaniyah Omardien ◽  
Lucy K. Smyth ◽  
Peter G. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Rocky Intertidal ◽  
Intertidal Habitat

The Keystone-Species Concept in Ecology and Conservation

BioScience ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Scott Mills ◽  
Daniel F. Doak
Keyword(s):  
Species Concept ◽  
Keystone Species

scholarly journals Future sea-level rise drives rocky intertidal habitat loss and benthic community change

PeerJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e9186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolas J. Kaplanis ◽  
Clinton B. Edwards ◽  
Yoan Eynaud ◽  
Jennifer E. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Community Change ◽  
Rocky Intertidal ◽  
Areal Extent ◽  
Intertidal Habitat ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Habitat Area

The impacts of sea-level rise (SLR) are likely to be the greatest for ecosystems that exist at the land-sea interface, where small changes in sea-level could result in drastic changes in habitat availability. Rocky intertidal ecosystems possess a number of characteristics which make them highly vulnerable to changes in sea-level, yet our understanding of potential community-scale responses to future SLR scenarios is limited. Combining remote-sensing with in-situ large-area imaging, we quantified habitat extent and characterized the biological community at two rocky intertidal study locations in California, USA. We then used a model-based approach to estimate how a range of SLR scenarios would affect total habitat area, areal extent of dominant benthic space occupiers, and numerical abundance of invertebrates. Our results suggest that SLR will reduce total available rocky intertidal habitat area at our study locations, leading to an overall decrease in areal extent of dominant benthic space occupiers, and a reduction in invertebrate abundances. As large-scale environmental changes, such as SLR, accelerate in the next century, more extensive spatially explicit monitoring at ecologically relevant scales will be needed to visualize and quantify their impacts to biological systems.

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