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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 …