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Marine Benthic Ecology

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Academics

DAYTON, PAUL

Emeritus

LEVIN, LISA

Professor

SMITH, JENNIFER

Associate Professor

Lab Website

PARNELL, Ed

Associate Researcher

HECHINGER, RYAN

Associate Professor

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Centers, Labs, and Projects

California Current Ecosystem Long Term Ecological Research (CCE-LTER)
Investigating nonlinear transitions in the California Current coastal pelagic ecosystem.

Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (CMBC)
Promotes interdisciplinary research and educational approaches to maintain the integrity of ocean ecosystems and manage their use in the face of rapid and inevitable global change.

Dayton Lab

Levin Lab

Recent Publications

Impact of habitat structure on fish populations in kelp forests at a seascape scale (2016) [10.3354/meps11885]

Sievers, K. T.; Barr, R. J.; Maloney, J. M.; Driscoll, N. W.; Anderson, T. W.

The effects of tectonic deformation and sediment allocation on shelf habitats and megabenthic distribution and diversity in southern California (2016) [10.1016/j.ecss.2015.11.020]

Switzer, Ryan D.; Parnell, P. Ed; Leichter, James L.; Driscoll, Neal W.

Macrobenthos relative to the oxygen minimum zone on the East Indian margin, Bay of Bengal (2015) [10.1111/maec.12176]

Raman, A. V.; Damodaran, R.; Levin, L. A.; Ganesh, T.; Rao, Y. K. V.; Nanduri, S.; Madhusoodhanan, R.