Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Humans are tampering with the selective forces acting on organisms all over the planet and accelerating the rates at which ...

The dispersal stages of organisms with sessile adults must be able to select habitats with suitable environmental conditions for establishment and survival, and also must be able to reach those ...

Hydrodynamic forces produced by breaking waves make the rocky intertidal zone one of the most physically stressful environments on the planet, and for many ecological studies, it is important to ...

Algae such as rockweeds are a fundamental part of marine ecosystems, providing habitat and food to many other marine organisms while also providing ecosystem services like oxygenation of the water. In ...

Looking down over Moose Cove as Helmuth Lab researchers wait for the tide to drop in the early morning in Lubec, Maine Tim Briggs As Tim Briggs strolls along the beach in Tidal Falls, Maine, he spies ...

A comprehensive study on the rhythmicity of limpets -- mobile intertidal molluscs -- employing field and laboratory observations, as well assembling a clock oriented transcriptome -- shows that in the ...

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Intertidal mudflats are dynamic coastal zones subject to the rhythmic influence of tides, where fine sedimentary substrates create habitats for a diverse range of infaunal organisms. These communities ...

We follow a team of students from the University of Oregon's Institute of Marine Biology as they pry up rocks and wiggle into tight crevices in search of specimens for the Smithsonian Institution.

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Good minus tides in late April enticed us out to inspect some intertidal zones. Among the first things we noticed were live cockles on the surface, although they are customarily buried an inch or two ...