Ecological disturbances alter biotic communities and ecosystems. In many coastal zones disturbances are increasing, including algal blooms, storms, hypoxic events, and fish kills. These disturbances are often related, for example blooms releasing toxins or depleting dissolved oxygen, ultimately killing fish. Depending on the intensity, duration, and geographic extent of a disturbance, the fish community can take days to years to recover from disturbances. To explore the relationships among environmental disturbances, sport fish, and forage fish communities, this thesis examined two Florida estuaries with differing disturbance regimes. Using an ensemble modelling approach combining generalized linear models (GLM), Bayesian modelling, and Bay...
Estuaries are among the most productive ecosystems on the planet and provide many important function...
Estuaries are widely recognized as important habitats for the early life history stages of commercia...
The focus of this dissertation was to explore variability in population dynamics and environmental f...
Ecological disturbances alter biotic communities and ecosystems. In many coastal zones disturbances ...
Globally, coastal habitats are experiencing degradation due to the increase of human population grow...
Examining diversity over multiple spatial and temporal scales affords the opportunity to develop a m...
Understanding how species communities respond to land use and environmental change over space and ti...
With the majority of Earth’s population living in coastal areas, estuarine ecosystems have been part...
Predicting patterns of abundance and composition of biotic assemblages is essential to our understan...
Fishing, other human activities, and natural perturbations can alter the species composition and siz...
Marine fish communities are threatened by the interrelated effects of anthropogenic disturbance, hab...
Between 1988 and 2014, otter trawls, seine nets, and plankton nets were deployed along the salinity ...
The ecology of estuaries is shaped significantly by the extent of freshwater discharge which regulat...
The work presented here was conceived to determine whether structure in marine communities could be ...
Fluctuations in the population abundances of interacting species are widespread. Such fluctuations c...
Estuaries are among the most productive ecosystems on the planet and provide many important function...
Estuaries are widely recognized as important habitats for the early life history stages of commercia...
The focus of this dissertation was to explore variability in population dynamics and environmental f...
Ecological disturbances alter biotic communities and ecosystems. In many coastal zones disturbances ...
Globally, coastal habitats are experiencing degradation due to the increase of human population grow...
Examining diversity over multiple spatial and temporal scales affords the opportunity to develop a m...
Understanding how species communities respond to land use and environmental change over space and ti...
With the majority of Earth’s population living in coastal areas, estuarine ecosystems have been part...
Predicting patterns of abundance and composition of biotic assemblages is essential to our understan...
Fishing, other human activities, and natural perturbations can alter the species composition and siz...
Marine fish communities are threatened by the interrelated effects of anthropogenic disturbance, hab...
Between 1988 and 2014, otter trawls, seine nets, and plankton nets were deployed along the salinity ...
The ecology of estuaries is shaped significantly by the extent of freshwater discharge which regulat...
The work presented here was conceived to determine whether structure in marine communities could be ...
Fluctuations in the population abundances of interacting species are widespread. Such fluctuations c...
Estuaries are among the most productive ecosystems on the planet and provide many important function...
Estuaries are widely recognized as important habitats for the early life history stages of commercia...
The focus of this dissertation was to explore variability in population dynamics and environmental f...