Kathleen E. Knick

TL;DR: In this article, the first submersible reconnaissance of the Blake Ridge Diapir provides the geological and ecological contexts for chemosynthetic communities established in close association with methane seeps.

TL;DR: This paper evaluated diversity indices for invertebrates associated with mussel beds at six deep-sea hydrothermal vents and two seeps and found that invertebrate diversity was significantly higher at seeps than vents.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed spatial variation in patch-scale effects of complexity on intertidal biodiversity and found that the relationship varied among functional groups and according to local abiotic and biotic conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between the diet of very small (4-40 mm CW) juvenile blue crabs and the benthic infauna in shallow, unvegetated nursery coves.

TL;DR: Cutting biovolume of macrofaunal communities sampled at 9N and 11N in 2001 was correlated with in- creasing age of the mussel beds and is postulated to be largely a response to biological processes; including competition for inorganic substrates by free living and symbiotic chemoautotrophs and mussel induced mortality of larvae of macro faunal species.