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Human Trampling In The Upper Rocky Intertidal: Trampling And Recovery In Barnacle Mediated Succession, Timothy Lawrence Grubba
Human Trampling In The Upper Rocky Intertidal: Trampling And Recovery In Barnacle Mediated Succession, Timothy Lawrence Grubba
Dissertations and Theses
Marine intertidal ecosystems are vulnerable to human interference,
because trampling can be a significant problem. I studied the impacts of
trampling on community patterns and succession in a rocky intertidal
habitats. This study was divided into two phases: ( 1) a trampling phase and
(2) a recovery phase. Both phases are focused on two barnacles, Balanus
glandula and Chthamalus dalli, and on fucoid and red algae. The trampling
phase tested the effects of trampling on these organisms. The effects of
herbivores, primarily limpets (Collisella digitalis) were also tested to
determine whether anthropogenic (trampling) and natural (herbivory and
limpet bulldozing) disturbances …