Search Results - "Silliman, Brian R."
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Consumer control as a common driver of coastal vegetation worldwide
Published in Ecological monographs (01-08-2016)“…Rapid, global, anthropogenic alteration of food webs in ecosystems necessitates a better understanding of how consumers regulate natural communities. We…”
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Secondary foundation species as drivers of trophic and functional diversity: evidence from a tree-epiphyte system
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-01-2014)“…Facilitation cascades arise where primary foundation species facilitate secondary (dependent) foundation species, and collectively, they increase habitat…”
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A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2
Published in Frontiers in ecology and the environment (01-12-2011)“…Recent research has highlighted the valuable role that coastal and marine ecosystems play in sequestering carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). The carbon (C) sequestered in…”
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Facilitation shifts paradigms and can amplify coastal restoration efforts
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-11-2015)“…Restoration has been elevated as an important strategy to reverse the decline of coastal wetlands worldwide. Current practice in restoration science emphasizes…”
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The present and future role of coastal wetland vegetation in protecting shorelines: answering recent challenges to the paradigm
Published in Climatic change (01-05-2011)“…For more than a century, coastal wetlands have been recognized for their ability to stabilize shorelines and protect coastal communities. However, this…”
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Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP–Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-07-2012)“…More than 2 y have passed since the BP– Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, yet we still have little understanding of its ecological impacts…”
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A keystone mutualism underpins resilience of a coastal ecosystem to drought
Published in Nature communications (18-08-2016)“…Droughts are increasing in severity and frequency, yet the mechanisms that strengthen ecosystem resilience to this stress remain poorly understood. Here, we…”
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Variable responses to top-down and bottom-up control on multiple traits in the foundational plant, Spartina alterniflora
Published in PloS one (25-05-2023)“…While the effects of top-down and bottom-up forces on aboveground plant growth have been extensively examined, less is known about the relative impacts of…”
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Time to cash in on positive interactions for coral restoration
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (22-06-2017)“…Coral reefs are among the most biodiverse and productive ecosystems on Earth, and provide critical ecosystem services such as protein provisioning, coastal…”
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Shorebirds-driven trophic cascade helps restore coastal wetland multifunctionality
Published in Nature communications (06-12-2023)“…Ecosystem restoration has traditionally focused on re-establishing vegetation and other foundation species at basal trophic levels, with mixed outcomes. Here,…”
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Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri, gen. nov., sp. nov
Published in The ISME Journal (01-12-2019)“…Bacterial symbionts are integral to the health and homeostasis of invertebrate hosts. Notably, members of the Rickettsiales genus Wolbachia influence several…”
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Positive Ecological Interactions and the Success of Seagrass Restoration
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (20-02-2020)“…Seagrasses are a valuable environmental resource. They provide a multitude of ecosystem services including nursery habitat, improved water quality, coastal…”
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Climate Change, Human Impacts, and Coastal Ecosystems in the Anthropocene
Published in Current biology (07-10-2019)“…Coastal zones, the world’s most densely populated regions, are increasingly threatened by climate change stressors — rising and warming seas, intensifying…”
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A large invasive consumer reduces coastal ecosystem resilience by disabling positive species interactions
Published in Nature communications (01-11-2021)“…Invasive consumers can cause extensive ecological damage to native communities but effects on ecosystem resilience are less understood. Here, we use drone…”
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A Three-Stage Symbiosis Forms the Foundation of Seagrass Ecosystems
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (15-06-2012)“…Seagrasses evolved from terrestrial plants into marine foundation species around 100 million years ago. Their ecological success, however, remains a mystery…”
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Artificial habitats host elevated densities of large reef-associated predators
Published in PloS one (02-09-2020)“…Large predators play important ecological roles, yet many are disproportionately imperiled. In marine systems, artificial reefs are often deployed to restore…”
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Non-Linearity in Ecosystem Services: Temporal and Spatial Variability in Coastal Protection
Published in Frontiers in ecology and the environment (01-02-2009)“…Natural processes tend to vary over time and space, as well as between species. The ecosystem services these natural processes provide are therefore also…”
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Habitat collapse due to overgrazing threatens turtle conservation in marine protected areas
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-02-2014)“…Marine protected areas (MPAs) are key tools for combatting the global overexploitation of endangered species. The prevailing paradigm is that MPAs are…”
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Shoreline Development Drives Invasion of Phragmites australis and the Loss of Plant Diversity on New England Salt Marshes
Published in Conservation biology (01-10-2004)“…The reed Phragmites australis Cav. is aggressively invading salt marshes along the Atlantic Coast of North America. We examined the interactive role of habitat…”
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Hierarchical Organization via a Facilitation Cascade in Intertidal Cordgrass Bed Communities
Published in The American naturalist (01-02-2007)“…It has recently been proposed that many communities are structured by a hierarchy of interactions in which facilitation by foundation species is of primary…”
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