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Developing Salt-Marsh Restoration Strategies to Optimize Habitat Use by the B...
This study focused on the predator-prey relationship of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, to the marsh periwinkle, Littoraria irrorata, and olive nerite, Neritina reclivata,... -
Foraging ecology of large benthic mesopredators: Effects of myliobatid rays o...
The impacts of schooling mesopredators (smaller sharks and rays that are prey to large sharks) on benthic shellfish communities has become a strong concern for natural resource... -
Seasonal and Spatial Effects of Wastewater Effluent on Oyster Ecology and San...
Wastewater treatment plants (WTP) input large amounts of effluent into coastal and estuarine waters. These effluents contain high concentrations of nutrients and microbes. These... -
Use of N stable isotope and microbial analyses to define wastewater influence...
We assessed short-term ecological and potential human health effects of wastewater treatment plant (WTP) effluent by measuring δ15N‰ and microbial concentrations in oysters and... -
Exploited Species Impacts on Trophic Linkages Along Reef–Seagrass Interfaces ...
The removal of fish biomass by extensive commercial and recreational fishing has been hypothesized to drastically alter the strength of trophic linkages among adjacent habitats.... -
Invasion Ecology: Effects of Habitat Alteration on the Survival of an Exotic...
The Dr. John Valentine Lab at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab reports the findings of a three year study conducted in the upper reaches of the Mobile Bay Estuary and the lower Mobile... -
Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) Shark Longline Project: Coastal Gulf of Mexico ...
In May 2006 the Powers Fisheries Ecology Lab in collaboration with National Marine Fisheries Service initiated a nearshore longline survey to investigate the abundance and... -
How do piscivorous fish assemblage, species richness, and density impact indi...
While numerous studies have noted the potential for cascading impacts resulting from piscivorous fish depletion from coral reef food webs (Jackson 2001, Jackson et al. 2001,... -
Alabama Oyster Reef Restoration: Larval Recruitment in Mobile Bay (2006-2007)
In addition to the multimillion dollar US fishery they support, oyster reefs are a critical component of healthy estuaries fulfilling several key ecological functions. Their... -
Temporal variability in summertime bottom hypoxia in shallow areas of Mobile ...
From July-September, 2004, time series data were collected from a stationary mooring located off the coast of Fairhope, Alabama. The data collected include pressure,... -
Seasonal Variation in Nutrients and Microalgal Community Composition in Mobil...
A transect was sampled from Mobile Bay, Alabama to 40 km offshore at monthly to bi-monthly intervals from March, 2007. Horizontal salinity gradients ranged from 8 to 18 PSU in... -
Collaborative Research: Impact of Solar Radiation and Nutrients on Biogeochem...
This dataset contains transect data from two research cruises to the Ross Sea, Antarctica, aboard the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer (NBP) in December 2004 to January 2005 (NBP04-09)... -
Compass Port Baseline Marine Surveys: Northern Gulf of Mexico (Alabama) Ichth...
In 2004 Compass Port LLC (Compass Port) and the Dauphin Island Sea lab (DISL) developed a research plan to assess the possible biological impacts of the proposed Compass Port... -
Compass Port Baseline Marine Surveys: Northern Gulf of Mexico (Alabama) Zoopl...
In 2004 Compass Port LLC (Compass Port) and the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) developed a research plan to assess the possible biological impacts of the proposed Compass Port... -
Ecosystem Services Provided by Oyster Reefs: An Experimental Assessment in Mo...
The Alabama Oyster Reef Restoration Program began in 2004 to experimentally assess ecosystem benefits of oyster reef restoration in marsh creeks in Mobile Bay, AL, USA, and... -
The effects of invasive Eurasian milfoil, Myriophyllum spicatum, on community...
The objectives of study are to determine the extent to which the presence of Myriophyllum spicatum has altered community structure and the intensity of predator-prey... -
Trophic Dynamics of Created Salt Marshes in Coastal Alabama (2006-2007)
Salt marshes provide ecosystem services that include critical habitat for commercially important crustaceans and fish, and energy export to adjacent estuarine habitats. The goal... -
Long-term Ecosystem Dynamics in Coastal Lagoons of Perdido Bay, Florida: Wate...
Dissolved oxygen data from field experiments conducted in three lagoonal environments in Perdido Bay, Florida, on a bimonthly basis since December 2001. For each experiment,... -
Long-term Ecosystem Dynamics in Coastal Lagoons of Perdido Bay, Florida: Seag...
As part of a comparison of benthic metabolic rates between bottom types (bare sediment vs. with seagrass patches) within and across three lagoonal environments in Perdido Bay,... -
Long-term Ecosystem Dynamics in Coastal Lagoons of Perdido Bay, Florida: Nutr...
Nutrients and water quality have been measured in three lagoonal environments in Perdido Bay, Florida, since Dec 2000. The data include dissolved inorganic nitrogen, dissolved...
