Biology & Life Sciences

Diversity in the Nearshore: The NaGISA Collection

Published December 5, 2019 Curated Collections

This collection of papers highlights research performed under the auspices of the Natural Geography in Shore Areas (NaGISA) project, a component of the Census of Marine Life program. NaGISA is a collaborative effort aimed at inventorying and monitoring biodiversity in rocky bottom macroalgal and soft bottom seagrass communities from the high intertidal zone to 20 meters in depth at a global scale. The papers of this collection describe large-scale distribution patterns of assemblages associated with rocky shores around the globe, as well as specific patterns for taxa such as macroalgae, polychaetes, and echinoderms.

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10.1371/journal.pbio.0060162

PLOS Biology Beyond Competition: Incorporating Positive Interactions between Species to Predict Ecosystem Invasibility
June 24, 2008 Fabio Bulleri, John F Bruno, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

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PLOS ONE Neutrality and the Response of Rare Species to Environmental Variance
October 7, 2024 Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Iacopo Bertocci, Stefano Vaselli, Elena Maggi, Fabio Bulleri
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10.1371/journal.pone.0012946

PLOS ONE Spatial Relationships between Polychaete Assemblages and Environmental Variables over Broad Geographical Scales
September 23, 2010 Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Katrin Iken, Brenda Konar, Juan Cruz-Motta, Ann Knowlton, Gerhard Pohle, Alberto Castelli, Laura Tamburello, Angela Mead, Tom Trott, Patricia Miloslavich, Melisa Wong, Yoshihisa Shirayama, Claudio Lardicci, Gabriela Palomo, Elena Maggi
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10.1371/journal.pone.0013195

PLOS ONE Current Patterns of Macroalgal Diversity and Biomass in Northern Hemisphere Rocky Shores
October 7, 2010 Brenda Konar, Katrin Iken, Juan José Cruz-Motta, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Ann Knowlton, Gerhard Pohle, Patricia Miloslavich, Matt Edwards, Thomas Trott, Edward Kimani, Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez, Melisa Wong, Stuart Jenkins, Angelica Silva, Isabel Sousa Pinto, Yoshihisa Shirayama
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10.1371/journal.pone.0014354

PLOS ONE Patterns of Spatial Variation of Assemblages Associated with Intertidal Rocky Shores: A Global Perspective
December 16, 2010 Juan José Cruz-Motta, Patricia Miloslavich, Gabriela Palomo, Katrin Iken, Brenda Konar, Gerhard Pohle, Tom Trott, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, César Herrera, Alejandra Hernández, Adriana Sardi, Andrea Bueno, Julio Castillo, Eduardo Klein, Edlin Guerra-Castro, Judith Gobin, Diana Isabel Gómez, Rafael Riosmena-Rodríguez, Angela Mead, Gregorio Bigatti, Ann Knowlton, Yoshihisa Shirayama
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10.1371/journal.pone.0013845

PLOS ONE Large-Scale Spatial Distribution Patterns of Echinoderms in Nearshore Rocky Habitats
November 5, 2010 Katrin Iken, Brenda Konar, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Juan José Cruz-Motta, Ann Knowlton, Gerhard Pohle, Angela Mead, Patricia Miloslavich, Melisa Wong, Thomas Trott, Nova Mieszkowska, Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez, Laura Airoldi, Edward Kimani, Yoshihisa Shirayama, Simonetta Fraschetti, Manuel Ortiz-Touzet, Angelica Silva
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1000606

PLOS Biology Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes
April 5, 2011 Camilo Mora, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Arturo Ayala Bocos, Paula M. Ayotte, Stuart Banks, Andrew G. Bauman, Maria Beger, Sandra Bessudo, David J. Booth, Eran Brokovich, Andrew Brooks, Pascale Chabanet, Joshua E. Cinner, Jorge Cortés, Juan J. Cruz-Motta, Amilcar Cupul Magaña, Edward E. DeMartini, Graham J. Edgar, David A. Feary, Sebastian C. A. Ferse, Alan M. Friedlander, Kevin J. Gaston, Charlotte Gough, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Alison Green, Hector Guzman, Marah Hardt, Michel Kulbicki, Yves Letourneur, Andres López Pérez, Michel Loreau, Yossi Loya, Camilo Martinez, Ismael Mascareñas-Osorio, Tau Morove, Marc-Olivier Nadon, Yohei Nakamura, Gustavo Paredes, Nicholas V. C. Polunin, Morgan S. Pratchett, Héctor Reyes Bonilla, Fernando Rivera, Enric Sala, Stuart A. Sandin, German Soler, Rick Stuart-Smith, Emmanuel Tessier, Derek P. Tittensor, Mark Tupper, Paolo Usseglio, Laurent Vigliola, Laurent Wantiez, Ivor Williams, Shaun K. Wilson, Fernando A. Zapata
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10.1371/journal.pone.0018606

PLOS ONE Aspects of Benthic Decapod Diversity and Distribution from Rocky Nearshore Habitat at Geographically Widely Dispersed Sites
April 14, 2011 Gerhard Pohle, Katrin Iken, K. Robert Clarke, Thomas Trott, Brenda Konar, Juan José Cruz-Motta, Melisa Wong, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Angela Mead, Patricia Miloslavich, Nova Mieszkowska, Rebecca Milne, Laura Tamburello, Ann Knowlton, Edward Kimani, Yoshihisa Shirayama
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10.1371/journal.pone.0071396

PLOS ONE Large-Scale Spatial Distribution Patterns of Gastropod Assemblages in Rocky Shores
August 13, 2013 Patricia Miloslavich, Juan Cruz-Motta, Eduardo Klein, Katrin Iken, Vanessa Weinberger, Brenda Konar, Tom Trott, Gerhard Pohle, Gregorio Bigatti, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Yoshihisa Shirayama, Angela Mead, Gabriela Palomo, Manuel Ortiz, Judith Gobin, Adriana Sardi, Juan Díaz, Ann Knowlton, Melisa Wong, Ana Peralta
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001682

PLOS Biology Biotic and Human Vulnerability to Projected Changes in Ocean Biogeochemistry over the 21st Century
October 15, 2013 Camilo Mora, Chih-Lin Wei, Audrey Rollo, Teresa Amaro, Amy Baco, David Billett, Laurent Bopp, Qi Chen, Mark Collier, Roberto Danovaro, Andrew Gooday, Benjamin Grupe, Paul Halloran, Jeroen Ingels, Daniel Jones, Lisa Levin, Hideyuki Nakano, Karl Norling, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Michael Rex, Henry Ruhl, Craig Smith, Andrew Sweetman, Andrew Thurber, Jerry Tjiputra, Paolo Usseglio, Les Watling, Tongwen Wu, Moriaki Yasuhara