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Full-Text Articles in Population Biology
Rapid: Ecological Resistance Of Multiply Stressed Populations: The Response Of Tidal Marsh Birds And Plants To Hurricane Sandy, Brian J. Olsen, Chris S. Elphick, Greg Shriver
Rapid: Ecological Resistance Of Multiply Stressed Populations: The Response Of Tidal Marsh Birds And Plants To Hurricane Sandy, Brian J. Olsen, Chris S. Elphick, Greg Shriver
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
All animal and plant populations can weather change. However, the amount of environmental change a population can absorb is likely to depend upon other, past and ongoing stresses that the population experiences. This project will test whether the ability of populations of native plants and animals in coastal marshes to withstand the recent, extreme storm Hurricane Sandy was greater or less in marshes more subject to past stresses. Researchers will compare the abundances of marsh plants and animals before and after the storm and test whether vulnerability was greater in more specialized species or in marshes surrounded by development, invaded …
Population Ecology And Epidemiology Of Sea Lice In Canadian Waters, Sonja M. Saksida, Ian Bricknell, Shawn M. C. Robinson, Simon Jones
Population Ecology And Epidemiology Of Sea Lice In Canadian Waters, Sonja M. Saksida, Ian Bricknell, Shawn M. C. Robinson, Simon Jones
Maine Sea Grant Publications
Sea lice are found on farmed and wild fish on both the west coast and east coast of Canada. The predominant species on both coasts is referred to as Lepeophtheirus salmonis but indications are that the two groups are genetically different. Caligus species are also found on both coasts, these too are different species: Caligus clemensi and C. elongatus, respectively. There has been extensive work on sea lice on both wild and farmed fish over the last decade. Research indicates that L. salmonis, commonly referred to as the salmon louse; may have a broader host range than commonly …
The American Lobster Settlement Index: An Early Warning System?, Maine Sea Grant College Program
The American Lobster Settlement Index: An Early Warning System?, Maine Sea Grant College Program
Maine Sea Grant Publications
The harvest of American lobsters is the Gulf of Maine’s largest, most valuable, and most iconic fishery. The catch has never been higher, but how long will it last? Fishing communities in eastern Maine and southern Nova Scotia are seeing historically high landings, some five times higher than the 1980s. At the same time, the lobster fishery south of Cape Cod has all but collapsed, plagued by shell disease and stressfully warm summers. It has never been more important to monitor this vital fishery. The American Lobster Settlement Index measures the annual pulse of baby lobsters to rocky nurseries some …