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| John
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| I explore disturbances and other
processes that influence the organization of benthic invertebrate
communities, particularly in sedimentary habitats or soft bottom
ecosystems and often where human activities are major disturbances. We
recently discovered the most diverse soft bottom community in the world at
the shelf edge in Monterey Bay, and dramatic degradation of inner shelf
communities from regional warming in the last 25 years. Both patterns are
linked to food, which increases at the shelf break and decreases with
warming water. I also work in freshwater benthic ecosystems, and
coordinate a dozen habitat restoration projects in local sand dunes and
wetlands in cooperation with the Watershed Institute at
CSUMB.
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