We use extensive population data and a population model with dispersal to test hypotheses concerning survival, growth, reproduction, and dispersal between subpopulations in putative source and sink habitats for the Baltic clam Macoma balthica.
Research
Our role in this multi-investigator project is to evaluate the relative roles of food and refuge in determining the value of essential habitats to the distribution and abundance of blue crabs in nursery habitats and dispersal corridors.
Program measures faunal responses to differing levels of dissolved oxygen in the York and Patuxent rivers of Chesapeake Bay.
Experiments test habitat-specific and density-dependent mortality for subtidal, soft-bottom, deep-burrowing prey, thereby enabling development of a conceptual model for marine benthos.