New Blog 1: Dusky Grouper

Thursday 1 November 2012

Dusky Grouper

These types of long-term monitoring projects have influenced my interests in the interactions between these organisms and the factors that control their trophic relationships, and this was the focus of my PhD research. In this work I wanted to know which factors determine the structure and dynamics of algal communities in the NW Mediterranean. I focused on the trophic relationships between fish, sea urchins and algae, the populations dynamics of sea urchins, and the effects of seasonality (as a limiting factor for algal growth) on these interactions.