Experimental analyses of causes of patterns of distribution and abundance of intertidal
animals and plants on rocky shores have been a major activity for many years. In this review …

Ecological theories and hypotheses are usually complex because of natural variability in
space and time, which often makes the design of experiments difficult. This book describes …

Here is one biologist's interpretation of the chronology of life during the last six hundred
million years of earth history: an extended essay that draws on the author's own data and a …

The usefulness and generality of the keystone species concept has recently been
questioned. We investigated variation in interaction strength between the original keystone …

The description of pattern is of fundamental importance in ecology. Irrespective of the field of
study, all marine ecologists are faced with the problem of establishing and quantifying …

Evechinus chloroticus (Val.) is a primary determinant of community structure on shallow
subtidal rocky reefs in northern New Zealand. Its abundance shows a strong inverse …

One of the most interesting and vexing problems in ecology is how distinctly different
communities of plants and animals can occur in the same ecosystem. The theory of these …

I examined the spatial and temporal partitioning of variation in settlement and early survival
of an intertidal barnacle, Tesseropora rosea. Monthly, for 3 yr, I monitored the density of …

Habitat structure may have important effects on the structure of natural communities. At least
two aspects of habitat structure should be considered-the composition of the habitat (ie the …

The feeding behaviour of the crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci (L.), was studied
on fifteen reefs of the Great Barrier Reef between June 1986 and December 1987. Feeding …