Restoration
When ecosystems are pushed past their threshold of disturbance they may depend on human intervention to recover. We use resistance and resilience as well as novel research to holistically inform restoration of threatened habitat types.
Current Projects:
Understanding community assemblages to determine persistence of remnant patches and inform restoration success
Examining an interaction network between understory, canopy-forming kelp species , and herbivores for restoration applications
Cultured bull kelp on green gravel in the lab and outplanted at sites with remnant bull kelp patches: Timber Cove in Sonoma County and Portuguese Beach in Mendocino County.
Past Projects:
Effect of recovery of sea otters on their invertebrate prey in the seagrass ecosystem of southeast Alaska.