Search Results - "Pennings, S C"

Latitudinal variation in top-down and bottom-up control of a salt marsh food web by Marczak, L. B., Ho, C.-K., Więski, K., Vu, H., Denno, R. F., Pennings, S. C.

“…The shrub Iva frutescens , which occupies the terrestrial border of U.S. Atlantic Coast salt marshes, supports a food web that varies strongly across latitude…”
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Salt marsh plant zonation: the relative importance of competition and physical factors by Pennings, Steven C., Callaway, Ragan M.

“…In Carpinteria Salt Marsh, Salicornia virginica (pickleweed) grows at lower marsh elevations than does Arthrocnemum subterminalis (Parish's glasswort)…”
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Species-Specific Patterns of Litter Processing by Terrestrial Isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in High Intertidal Salt Marshes and Coastal Forests by Zimmer, M., Pennings, S. C., Buck, T. L., Carefoot, T. H.

“…1. The species-specificity of litter processing by three species of isopods at the interface between salt marsh and coastal forest habitats in the…”
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advantages of clonal integration under different ecological conditions: a community-wide test by Pennings, Steven C., Callaway, Ragan M.

“…The "connectedness" of clonal plants has been shown to promote survival and growth in a variety of single-species, single-factor studies, but experiments…”
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A System Level Analysis of Coastal Ecosystem Responses to Hurricane Impacts by Patrick, C. J., Yeager, L., Armitage, A. R., Carvallo, F., Congdon, V. M., Dunton, K. H., Fisher, M., Hardison, A. K., Hogan, J. D., Hosen, J., Hu, X., Reese, B. Kiel, Kinard, S., Kominoski, J. S., Lin, X., Liu, Z., Montagna, P. A., Pennings, S. C., Walker, L., Weaver, C. A., Wetz, M.

“…Tropical cyclones are major disturbances for coastal systems. Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, USA, on August 25, 2017 as a category 4 storm. There…”
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Effects of wrack burial in salt-stressed habitats: Batis maritima in a southwest Atlantic salt marsh by Pennings, Steven C., Richards, Christina L.

“…In coastal salt marshes, mats of wrack (dead plant stems) that are deposited on the marsh by high tides can kill underlying vegetation and initiate secondary…”
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Hepatopancreatic endosymbionts in coastal isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda), and their contribution to digestion by ZIMMER, M, DANKO, J. P, PENNINGS, S. C, DANFORD, A. R, ZIEGLER, A, UGLOW, R. F, CAREFOOT, T. H

“…Three isopod species (Crustacea: Isopoda), commonly found in the intertidal and supratidal zones of the North American pacific coast, were studied with respect…”
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Cellulose digestion and phenol oxidation in coastal isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda) by ZIMMER, M, DANKO, J. P, PENNINGS, S. C, DANFORD, A. R, CAREFOOT, T. H, ZIEGLER, A, UGLOW, R. F

“…In order to test three hypotheses on digestive constraints that may have affected the colonization of land by isopods, two marine isopods and one…”
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Facilitation May Buffer Competitive Effects: Indirect and Diffuse Interactions among Salt Marsh Plants by Callaway, Ragan M., Pennings, Steven C.

“…Direct interactions among plant species may be highly modified by indirect or diffuse effects within a multispecies community. We investigated the direct and…”
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Estimation of Abundance and Distribution of Salt Marsh Plants from Images Using Deep Learning by Parashar, J., Bhandarkar, S. M., Simon, J., Hopkinson, B. M., Pennings, S. C.

“…Recent advances in computer vision and machine learning, most notably deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), are exploited to identify and localize various…”
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Selectivity and Growth of the Generalist Herbivore Dolabella Auricularia Feeding Upon Complementary Resources by Pennings, Steven C., Nadeau, Masatomo T., Paul, Valerie J.

“…An assumption of most optimal diet theory is that different resources are substitutable, that is, that they are identical in all relevant aspects and so can be…”
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Sequestration of dietary secondary metabolites by three species of sea hares: location, specificity and dynamics by Pennings, S C, Paul, V J

“…The location of sequestered secondary metabolites in three species of sea hares--Stylocheilus longicauda, Dolabella auricularia and Aplysia californica--was…”
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Phenotypic Plasticity and Interactions among Plants by Callaway, Ragan M., Pennings, Steven C., Richards, Christina L.

“…We know a great deal about the plastic responses of plant phenotypes to the abiotic and biotic environment, but very little about the consequences of…”
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Effect of Plant Toughness, Calcification, and Chemistry on Herbivory by Dolabella Auricularia by Pennings, Steven C., Paul, Valerie J.

“…Most studies of feeding preferences of herbivores have focussed on the role of plant secondary metabolites; very few studies have experimentally tested the…”
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Secondary metabolites of the cyanobacterium Microcoleus lyngbyaceus and the sea hare Stylocheilus longicauda : palatability and toxicity by PENNINGS, S. C, WEISS, A. M, PAUL, V. J

“…The cyanobacterium Microcoleus lyngbyaceus (Lyngbya majuscula) produces a variety of nitrogen-containing secondary metabolites. M. lyngbyaceus is eaten by the…”
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Impact of a parasitic plant on the zonation of two salt marsh perennials by Callaway, R.M, Pennings, S.C

“…Animal, fungal, and bacterial consumers can have dramatic effects on the structure of plant communities, often by consuming dominant competitors and indirectly…”
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Fiddler crab–vegetation interactions in hypersaline habitats by Nomann, Benjamin E, Pennings, Steven C

“…Abiotic conditions often change ecological interactions. Studies in areas with low to moderate soil salinities have demonstrated a facultative mutualism…”
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Predator-prey interactions in opisthobranch gastropods: effects of prey body size and habitat complexity by Pennings, Steven C.

“…This study examines size-specific predation by navanax Aglaja inermis (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia), upon the sea hare Aplysia californica (hereafter Aplysia)…”
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Feeding Preferences of a Generalist Salt-Marsh Crab: Relative Importance of Multiple Plant Traits by Pennings, Steven C., Carefoot, Thomas H., Siska, Erin L., Chase, Margo E., Page, Teresa A.

“…Few studies have evaluated the relative importance of multiple plant traits to herbivore diet choice, especially with an experimental approach. Moreover,…”
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Geographic Variation in Positive and Negative Interactions among Salt Marsh Plants by Pennings, Steven C., Selig, Elizabeth R., Houser, Letise T., Bertness, Mark D.

“…A pressing problem for ecologists is determining whether our understanding of communities, often developed from work at fine scales, can explain processes…”
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