Publications by authors named "B R Silliman"
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- NBS are actions that work with nature to improve ecosystem protection against hazards, but there's limited understanding of their performance.
- Systematic mapping of global evidence on NBS interventions across six coastal ecosystems was conducted to assess their ecological, physical, economic, and social performance.
- Over 37,000 articles were reviewed, with 252 relevant studies identified, providing insights into the effectiveness of NBS for coastal protection.
Predators regulate communities through top-down control in many ecosystems. Because most studies of top-down control last less than a year and focus on only a subset of the community, they may miss predator effects that manifest at longer timescales or across whole food webs. In southeastern US salt marshes, short-term and small-scale experiments indicate that nektonic predators (e.
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- Academic promotion and tenure processes emphasize publishing in high-impact factor journals, which often do not align with the specific needs of conservation research.
- The study examines federal implementation of the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) and finds that most cited academic sources come from low-impact journals that focus on specific taxonomies or regions.
- The authors argue for better recognition and funding of specialized scientific research, as it plays a crucial role in supporting effective conservation laws.
In salt marsh ecosystems, daggerblade grass shrimp, Palaemon (Palaemonetes) pugio, play a crucial role in food webs and serve as the definitive host for the bopyrid isopod Probopyrus pandalicola. These ectoparasites infest the branchial chambers of grass shrimp, which can lead to decreased energy availability and sterilization of infected hosts. Although bopyrid isopod infestation of daggerblade grass shrimp has been frequently reported in literature from coastal marshes of the southeastern United States, the prevalence of this parasite has not been recently documented in daggerblade grass shrimp from marshes of the northeastern United States.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnderstanding how climate and local stressors interact is paramount for predicting future ecosystem structure. The effects of multiple stressors are often examined in small-scale and short-term field experiments, limiting understanding of the spatial and temporal generality of the findings. Using a 22-year observational dataset of plant and grazer abundance in a southeastern US salt marsh, we analyzed how changes in drought and grazer density combined to affect plant biomass.
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