Thermal stress gradient causes increasingly negative effects towards the range limit of an invasive mussel

Settlement of the invasive mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis in a warm temperate estuarine embayment in South Africa

(2021) J Radloff et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AQUATIC SCIENCE

Biogeographic drivers of distribution and abundance in an alien ecosystem engineer: Transboundary range expansion, barriers to spread, and spatial structure

(2021) Kevin C. K. Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

New three-way symbiosis: an eukaryotic alga, a blue mussel, and an endolithic cyanobacteria

(2021) Michael Zuykov et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Biotic interactions are more often important at species’ warm versus cool range edges

(2021) Alexandra Paquette et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Commensalism, antagonism or mutualism? Effects of epibiosis on the trophic relationships of mussels and epibiotic barnacles

(2021) Eleonora Puccinelli et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Intertidal estimates of sea urchin abundance reveal congruence in spatial structure for a guild of consumers

(2021) Kevin C. K. Ma et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Weather and topography regulate the benefit of a conditionally helpful parasite

(2021) Jonathan R. Monsinjon et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Ectoparasites reduce scope for growth in a rocky-shore mussel (Perna perna) by raising maintenance costs

(2020) Aldwin Ndhlovu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Predicting the performance of cosmopolitan species: dynamic energy budget model skill drops across large spatial scales

(2019) Cristián J. Monaco et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Local range boundaries vs. large-scale trade-offs: climatic and competitive constraints on tree growth

(2019) Leander D. L. Anderegg et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate warming reduces the reproductive advantage of a globally invasive intertidal mussel

(2019) Cristián J. Monaco et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Symbiotic endolithic microbes alter host morphology and reduce host vulnerability to high environmental temperatures

(2019) Alyssa‐Lois M. Gehman et al.   Ecosphere

Range edges in heterogeneous landscapes: Integrating geographic scale and climate complexity into range dynamics

(2019) Meagan F. Oldfather et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Re-assessing the origins of the invasive mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis in southern Africa

(2018) G. I. Zardi et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Shell morphometrics and growth rate of the invasive bivalve mollusc Mytilus galloprovincialis in the Knysna estuarine embayment, South Africa

(2018) AN Hodgson et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AQUATIC SCIENCE

Thermal tolerance limits as indicators of current and future intertidal zonation patterns in a diverse mussel guild

(2018) Cascade J. B. Sorte et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Applicability of Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) models across steep environmental gradients

(2018) Cristián J. Monaco et al.   Scientific Reports

Rehabilitating mussel beds in Coffee Bay, South Africa: Towards fostering cooperative small-scale fisheries governance and enabling community upliftment

(2016) Gurutze Calvo-Ugarteburu et al.   AMBIO

Long-term, high frequency in situ measurements of intertidal mussel bed temperatures using biomimetic sensors

(2016) Brian Helmuth et al.   Scientific Data

Enemies with benefits: parasitic endoliths protect mussels against heat stress

(2016) G. I. Zardi et al.   Scientific Reports

Barnacle settlement on rocky shores: Substratum preference and epibiosis on mussels

(2015) Caroline Bell et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Disentangling the effects of propagule supply and environmental filtering on the spatial structure of a rocky shore metacommunity

(2015) N Valdivia et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Sub-lethal and sub-specific temperature effects are better predictors of mussel distribution than thermal tolerance

(2015) M Tagliarolo et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Disentangling the effects of propagule supply and environmental filtering on the spatial structure of a rocky shore metacommunity

(2015) N Valdivia et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Sub-lethal and sub-specific temperature effects are better predictors of mussel distribution than thermal tolerance

(2015) M Tagliarolo et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Oceanographic Conditions Limit the Spread of a Marine Invader along Southern African Shores

(2015) Jorge Assis et al.   PLoS One

Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

(2014) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Trait-mediated environmental filtering drives assembly at biogeographic transition zones

(2013) Brigitte Sommer et al.   ECOLOGY

A Coastal Seawater Temperature Dataset for Biogeographical Studies: Large Biases between In Situ and Remotely-Sensed Data Sets around the Coast of South Africa

(2013) Albertus J. Smit et al.   PLoS One

Comparison of phototrophic shell-degrading endoliths in invasive and native populations of the intertidal mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis

(2012) Nathalie Marquet et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Love Thy Neighbour: Group Properties of Gaping Behaviour in Mussel Aggregations

(2012) Katy R. Nicastro et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic density dependence and environmental filtering predict seedling mortality in a tropical forest

(2011) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Recruit/algal interaction prevents recovery of overexploited mussel beds: Indirect evidence that post-settlement mortality structures mussel populations

(2011) Johan Erlandsson et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Scale-dependent patterns and processes of intertidal mussel recruitment around southern Africa

(2011) K Reaugh-Flower et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Upwelling intensity and wave exposure determine recruitment of intertidal mussels and barnacles in the southern Benguela upwelling region

(2011) MC Pfaff et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Rocky intertidal temperature variability along the southeast coast of Australia: comparing data from in situ loggers, satellite-derived SST and terrestrial weather stations

(2011) JA Lathlean et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Response of Mytilus galloprovincialis (L.) to increasing seawater temperature and to marteliosis: Metabolic and physiological parameters

(2010) Andreas Anestis et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

The effects of within-shore water movement on growth of the intertidal mussel Perna perna: An experimental field test of bottom-up control at centimetre scales

(2010) Christopher David McQuaid et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

The combination of selection and dispersal helps explain genetic structure in intertidal mussels

(2010) G. I. Zardi et al.   OECOLOGIA

The role of gaping behaviour in habitat partitioning between coexisting intertidal mussels

(2010) Katy R Nicastro et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Mechanisms of habitat segregation between an invasive and an indigenous mussel: settlement, post-settlement mortality and recruitment

(2009) Sarah J. Bownes et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Effects of Endolithic Parasitism on Invasive and Indigenous Mussels in a Variable Physical Environment

(2009) Gerardo Ivan Zardi et al.   PLoS One

Ecological lever and interface ecology: epibiosis modulates the interactions between host and environment

(2008) Martin Wahl   BIOFOULING