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This website is designed to help expand the knowledge and understanding of subtidal benthic epifaunal population dynamics. Our research focuses on individual, population, and community level responses to environmental change such as species invasion, global warming and anthropogenic influences. We hope you enjoy learning more about this area of research and encourage you to contact us with your questions and comments. |
| Little is known about the environmental cues controlling recruitment, establishment and persistence of marine benthic epifaunal communities. In particular, the timing and quantity of recruitment of invasive species is not well understood. As global biological invasion events increase, through range expansions of native species and introduction of exotic species, it becomes increasingly important to understand the spatial and temporal processes controlling epifaunal community dynamics. Invasive species are of special concern when they threaten ecosystem diversity and commercially important species. Our current monitoring program focuses on temporal and spatial population dynamics for a number of native and invasive hard-substrate benthic animals in several sites along the northern coast of eastern Long Island Sound. |  |
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If you would like to learn more about the NSF - LTREB program please visit their web site at http://www.nsf.gov/bio/progdes/ltreb.htm |
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Support for
this site is provided by National Science Foundation Grant (OCE - 0002251)
to Dr. Robert B. Whitlatch (University of Connecticut), and Dr. John J.
Stachowicz (Univeristy of California, Davis). This grant is part of the
NSF program for Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB), which
promotes the further development of established long-term environmental
monitoring research.