Browsing Theses/Dissertations by Author "Aronson, Richard"

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Predatory Capacity of King Crabs in Antarctica

Steffel, Brittan V (2017-12)

For millions of years, cold water temperatures have excluded shell-crushing (durophagous) predators from continental-shelf environments off the western Antarctic Peninsula. Recently, however, king crabs, Paralomis ...
Reef-Building Threatened by Ecosystem Decline: A Case Study from Buck Island, U.S. Virgin Islands

Whitcher, Elizabeth (2017-05)

Coral reefs are critical barriers to coastal erosion and flooding throughout tropical regions, but their role in coastal protection is threatened by declining coral populations and sea-level rise. Climate change is causing ...