Brice Xavier Semmens

The paper uses microbial and small plankton communities to predict baleen whale densities in the Southern California Current Ecosystem, finding strong predictive relationships with up to 99% variability explained.

The paper uses long-term larval abundance data and species distribution models to predict fishery recruitment in two reef fish species, finding that larval abundance correlates with future catch and environmental trends.

The paper tests the TEEL hypothesis by analyzing larval rockfish diets and finds that lower trophic position prey correlates with better growth and survival.

This study shows that diet and size-at-birth influence larval rockfish growth and survival by affecting feeding success and initial size.

The paper investigates how recruitment limitation affects fishing-induced collapse in a spawning aggregation fishery, finding that sporadic recruitment events and environmental factors influence population dynamics and recovery.