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1 1 BIOL 311 (Coastal Marine Ecology) St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada September - December Professor: Dr. Ricardo A. Scrosati Figures used in lectures

2 2 Sources of figures For each figure seen in this booklet, the letter besides the figure indicates the publication in which the figure originally appeared (see list below) and the associated number indicates the page in that publication containing the figure. A Akçakaya, H.R., M.A. Burgman & L.R. Ginzburg Applied population ecology. Principles and computer excercises using RAMAS EcoLab. Sinauer, Sunderland, 285 p. A&D Ang, P.O. & R.E. DeWreede Matrix models for algal life history stages. Marine Ecology Progress Series 59: B1 Bertness, M.D The ecology of Atlantic shorelines. Sinauer, Sunderland, 417 p. B2 Bertness, M.D., S.D. Gaines & M.E. Hay Marine community ecology. Sinauer, Sunderland, 550 p. Bj Bjørnstad O.N., R.A. Ims & X. Lambin Spatial population dynamics: analyzing patterns and processes of population synchrony. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14: C Connolly, S.R., B.A. Menge & J. Roughgarden A latitudinal gradient in recruitment of intertidal invertebrates in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Ecology 82: G Gotelli, N.J A primer of ecology. Sinauer, Sunderland, 206 p. G&W Graham, L.E. & L.W. Wilcox Algae. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 640 p. Ja Jackson, J.B.C. and 18 others Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems. Science 293: Je Jennings, S., M.J. Kaiser & J.D. Reynolds Marine fisheries ecology. Blackwell Science, Oxford, 417 p. Jo John, D.M., S.J. Hawkins & J.H. Price Plant-animal interactions in the marine benthos. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 570 p. J Johnson, M.P Metapopulation dynamics of Tigriopus brevicornis (Harpacticoida) in intertidal rock pools. Marine Ecology Progress Series 211: Ko Kokko, H., A. Mackenzie, J.D. Reynolds, J. Lindström & W.J. Sutherland Measures of inequality are not equal. The American Naturalist 72: K1 Krebs, C.J Ecology. The experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. Addison Wesley Longman, Menlo Park, 801 p. K2 Krebs, C.J Ecological methodology. Benjamin Cummings, Menlo Park, 620 p.

3 3 L Little, C The biology of soft shores and estuaries. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 252 p. L&K Little, C. & J.A. Kitching The biology of rocky shores. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 240 p. L&H Lobban, C.S. & P.J. Harrison Seaweed ecology and physiology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 366 p. M Mann, K.H Ecology of coastal waters, with implications for management. Blackwell Science, Oxford, 406 p. Me Menge, B.A Indirect effects in marine rocky intertidal interaction webs: patterns and importance. Ecological Monographs 65: N Nybakken, J.W Marine biology, an ecological approach. Benjamin Cummings, Menlo Park, 481 p. R Raffaelli, D Trends in research on shallow water food webs. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 250: Ro Roberts, C.M., J.A. Bohnsack, F. Gell, J.P. Hawkins & R. Goodridge Effects of marine reserves on adjacent fisheries. Science 294: Ru Ruiz, G.M., P.W. Fofonoff, J.T. Carlton, M.J. Wonham & A.H. Hines Invasion of coastal marine communities in North America: apparent patterns, processes, and biases. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 31: S1 Scrosati, R A discrete-time logistic model of frond dynamics for Mazzaella parksii (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales). Journal of Applied Phycology 16: S2 Scrosati, R Synchrony of frond dynamics among patches of the clonal seaweed Mazzaella parksii (Rhodophyta) at local spatial scale. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 84: S&D Scrosati, R. & R.E. DeWreede Demographic models to simulate the stable ratio between ecologically similar gametophytes and tetrasporophytes in populations of the Gigartinaceae (Rhodophyta). Phycological Research 47: V van den Hoek, C., D.G. Mann & H.M. Jahns Algae. An introduction to phycology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 623 p.

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