Nelson Valdivia

This paper introduces a method to experimentally infect intermediate hosts with parasite eggs from definitive hosts, enabling controlled infections and balanced sample sizes across host sizes.

This study shows that bull kelp populations rapidly recover from small-scale harvesting due to high recruitment and spatial heterogeneity.

The paper examines how the understory community of bull kelp responds to removal, finding rapid recovery in composition and biomass but incomplete recovery in some metrics.