MARINE ECOLOGY READING LIST

Biology 313

Fall 1999

Structure of Marine Communities

• Buss, L.W. 1979. Bryozoan overgrowth interactions- the interdependence of competition for space and food. Nature 281:475- 477.
• Peterson, C.H. 1977. Competitive organization of the soft-bottom macrobenthic communities of southern California lagoons. Marine Biology 43:343-359
• Peterson, C.H. and R. Black 1988. Density-dependent mortality caused by physical stress interacting with biotic history. American Naturalist. 131:257-270

Larval Ecology and Settlement

• Farrell, T.M., D. Bracher, J. Roughgarden 1991. Cross-shelf transport causes recruitment to intertidal populations in central California. Limnology and Oceanography 36:279-288.
• Grosberg, R.K. 1981. Competitive ability influences habitat choice in marine invertebrates. Nature 290:700-702.
• Pawlick, J.R., C.A. Butman, and V.R. Starczak 1991. Hydrodynamic facilitation of a reef-building tube worm. Science 251:421- 424.

Rocky Intertidal Communities

• Gaines, S., S. Brown, and J. Roughgarden. 1985. Spatial variation in larval concentrations as a cause of spatial variation in settlement for the barnacle Balanus glandula. Oecologia 67:267-272.
• Jenkins, S.R., T. A. Norton, S.J. Hawkins. 1999. Settlement and post-settlement interactions between Semibalanus balanoidses (L.) (Crustacea:Cirripedia) and three species of fucoid canopy algae. Journal of Experimental Marine Ecology and Biology 236:49-67.
• Kim, J.H. and R.E. De Wreede 1996. Effect of size and season of disturbance on algal patch recovery in a rocky intertidal community. Marine Ecology Progress Series 133:217-228.
• Lubchenco, J. 1978. Plant species diversity in a marine intertidal community: importance of herbivore food preference and algal competitive abilities. American Naturalist 112:23-39.
• Menge, B.A., B.A. Daley, P.A. Wheeler, and P.T. Strub 1997. Rocky intertidal oceanography: an association between community structure and nearshore phytoplankton concentration. Limnology and Oceanography 42:57-66.
• Metaxas, A., H.L. Hunt, R.E. Sheibling 1994. Spatial and temporal variability of macrobenthic communities in tidepools on a rocky shore in Nova Scotia, Canada. Marine Ecology Progress Series 105:89-103.
• Paine, R.T. 1966. Food web complexity and species diversity. American Naturalist 100:65-75.
• Sousa, W.P. 1979. Experimental investigation of disturbance and ecological succession in a rocky intertidal algal community. Ecological Monographs 49:227-254.

Rocky Subtidal Communities and Multiple Stable States

• Connell, J.H. and W.P.Sousa. 1983. On the evidence needed to judge ecological stability or persistence. American Naturalist 121:789-824.
• Sutherland, J.P. 1974. Multiple stable points in natural communities. American Naturalist 964:859-873.

Kelp Beds

• Estes, J.A., M.T. Tinker, T.M. Williams, and D.F. Doak 1998. Killer whale predation on sea otters linking oceanic and nearshore ecosystems. Science 282:473-476
• Simenstad, C.A., J.A. Estes, and K.W. Keyon 1978. Aleuts, sea otters, and alternate stable-state communities. Science 200:403-411.

Soft-bottom Communities

• Ambrose, W.G., Jr. 1984. Role of predatory infauna in structuring marine soft-bottom communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series 17:109-115.
• Commito, J.A. 1982. Effects of Lunatia heros predation on the population dynamics of Mya arenaria and Macoma balthica in Maine, USA. Marine Biology 29:187-193.
• Hsieh, H-L, and C-F. Hsu 1999. Differential recruitment of annelids onto tidal elevations in an estuarine mud flat. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 177:93-102.
• Peterson, C.H. 1991. Intertidal zonation of marine invertebrates in sand and mud. American Scientist 79:236-248.
• Posey, M. , C. Powell, L. Cahoon, D. Linquist 1995. Top down vs. bottom up control of benthic community composition on an intertidal mudflat. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 185:19-31.
• Rhoads, D.C. and D.K. Young. 1970. The influence of deposit- feeding organisms on sediment stability and community trophic structure. Journal of Marine Research 28:150-178.
• Virnstein, R.W. 1977. The importance of predation by crabs and fishes on benthic infauna in Chesapeake Bay. Ecology 58:1199-1217.
• Woodin, S.A. 1985. Effects of defecation by arenicolid polychaete adults on spionid polychaete juveniles in field experiments: selective settlement or differential mortality. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 87:119-132.

Estuaries and Aquatic Vegetation

• Bulthuis, D. A., G. W. Brand, and M. C. Mobley. 1984. Suspended sediments and nutrients in water ebbing from seagrass-covered and denuded tidal mudflats in a southern Australian embayment. Aquatic Botany 20:257-266.
• Dennison, W. C. and R. S. Alberte. 1982. Photosynthetic responses of Zostera marina L. (eelgrass) to in situ manipulations of light intensity. Oecologia 55:137-144.
• Fonseca, M. S. and S. S. Bell. 1998. Influence of physical setting on seagrass landscapes near Beaufort, North Carolina, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 171:109-121.
• Haines, E.B. 1977. The origins of detritus in Georgia salt marsh estuaries. Oikos 29:254-260.
• Irlandi, E. A. and C. H. Peterson 1991. Modification of animal habitat by large plants: mechanisms by which seagrasses influence clam growth. Oecologica 87:307-318.
• Mattila, J., G. Chaplin, M.R. Eilers, K.L. Heck, Jr., J.P. O'Neal and J.F. Valentine 1999. Spatial and dirunal distribution of invertebrate and fish fauna of a Zostera marina bed and nearby unvegetated sediment in Damariscota River, Maine (USA). Journal of Sea Research 41:321-332.
• Peterson, C.H. 1986. Enhancement of Merenaria mercenaria densities in seagrass beds: Is patterns fixed during settlement season or altered by subsequent differential survival? Limnology and Oceanography 31:200-205.
• Short, F. T. and D. M. Burdick. 1996. Quantifying eelgrass habitat loss in relation to housing development and nitrogen loading in Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts. Estuaries 19:730-739.
• Summerson, H. C. and C. H. Peterson 1984. Role of predation in organizing benthic communities of a temperate-zone seagrass bed. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 15:63-77

Plankton Communities

• Azam, F. 1998. Microbial control of oceanic carbon flux: the plot thickens. Science 280:694-696
• Fulton, R.S. 1984. Predation, production and the organization of an estuarine copepod community. Journal of Plankton Research 6:399-413.
• Martin J.H. and 43 co-authors 1994. Testing the iron hypothesis in ecosystems of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Nature 371:123-129.
• Pauly, D. and V. Christensen 1995. Primary production required to sustain global fisheries. Science 373:255-257
• Ryther, J.H. and J.G. Sanders 1980. Experimental evidence of zooplankton control of the species composition and size distribution of marine phytoplankton. Marine Ecology Progress Series 3:279-283.

Pelagic-Benthic Coupling

• Ambrose, W.G. and P.E. Renaud 1995. Benthic response to water-column productivity patterns: evidence for benthic-pelagic coupling in the Northeast water polynya. J. Geophysical Research 100:4411-4421.
• Smith, K.L. Jr. and R.S. Kaufmann 1999. Long-term discrepancy between food supply and demand in the deep eastern North Pacific. Science. 284:1174-1177.

Coral Reefs

• Chornesky, E.A. 1989. Repeated reversals during spatial competition between corals. Ecology 70:843-855.
• Doherty, P. and T. Fowler 1994. An empirical test of recruitment limitation in a coral reef fish. Science 263:935-939.
• Glynn, P.W. 1991. Copral reef bleaching in the 1980s and possible connections with global warming. Trends in cology and Evolution 6:175-178.
• Hay, M.E. and P. R. Taylor 1985. Competition between herbivorous fishes and urchins on Caribbean reefs. Oecologia 65:591-598.
• Jackson, J.B.C. 1991. Adaptation and diversity of reef corals. BioScience 41:475-482.
• Maida, M., P.W. Sammarco, J.C. Coll 1995. Effects of soft corals on scleractinian coral recruitment I: Directional allelopathy and inhibition of settlement. Marine Ecology Progress Series 121:191-202.

Fisheries

• Auster, P.J., R.J. Malatesta, RW. Langton, L. Watling, P.C. Valentine , C. L. S. Donaldson, E.W. Langton, A.N. Shepard 1996. The impacts of mobile fishing gear on seafloor habitats in the Gulf of Maine (Northweast Atlantic): Implications for conservation of fish populations. Reviews in Fisheries Science 4:185-202.
• Botsford, L.W., J. C. Castilla, C.H. Peterson 1997. The management of fisheries and marine ecosystems. Science 277. 509-515.

Deep Sea

• Gray, J.S. 1994. Is deep-sea diversity really so high?: species diversity of the Norwegian continental shelf. Marine Ecology Progress Series 112:205-209
• Poore, G. C. B. and G. D. Wilson 1993. Marine species richness. Nature 361:597-598.
• Smith, C. R., H. Kukert, R. A. Wheatcroft, P. A. Jumars, and J. W. Deming 1989. Vent fauna on whale remains. Nature 341:27- 28.
• Snelgrove, P. V. R., J. F. Grassle, and R.F. Petrecca. 1992. The role of food patches in maintaining high deep-sea diversity: field experiments with hydrodynamically unbiased colonization trays. Limnology and Oceanography 37:1543-1550.
• Tunnicliffe, V. 1992. Hydrothermal vent communities of the deep sea. American Scientist 80:336-349.