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Charles A. Boch
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 12
Citations - 918
Charles A. Boch is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biomass (ecology) & Resilience (network). The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 11 publications receiving 777 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles A. Boch include Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute & University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries
Armand M. Kuris,Ryan F. Hechinger,Jenny C. Shaw,Kathleen L. Whitney,Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo,Charles A. Boch,Andrew P. Dobson,Eleca J. Dunham,Brian L. Fredensborg,Todd C. Huspeni,Julio Lorda,Luzviminda Mababa,Frank T. Mancini,Adrienne B. Mora,Maria Pickering,Nadia L. Talhouk,Mark E. Torchin,Kevin D. Lafferty +17 more
TL;DR: It is shown that parasites have substantial biomass in these ecosystems and that the annual production of free-swimming trematode transmission stages was greater than the combined biomass of all quantified parasites and was also greater than bird biomass.
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The Resilience of Marine Ecosystems to Climatic Disturbances
Jennifer K. O'Leary,Fiorenza Micheli,Laura Airoldi,Charles A. Boch,Giulio A. De Leo,Robin Elahi,Francesco Ferretti,Nicholas A. J. Graham,Steven Y. Litvin,Natalie H. N. Low,Sarah Lummis,Kerry J. Nickols,Joanne Wong +12 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest that coastal ecosystems may still hold great potential to persist in the face of climate change and that local‐ to regional‐scale management can help buffer global climatic impacts.
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Twilight spectral dynamics and the coral reef invertebrate spawning response.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that shifts in twilight color and intensity on nights both within and between evenings, immediately before and after the full moon, are correlated with the observed times of synchronized mass spawning, and that these optical phenomena are a biologically plausible cue for the synchronization of these mass spawning events.
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Effects of Light Dynamics on Coral Spawning Synchrony
Charles A. Boch,Bharath Ananthasubramaniam,Alison M. Sweeney,Francis J. Doyle,Daniel E. Morse +4 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that spawning synchrony on a particular lunar night and specific time of night is a threshold response to differential periods of darkness after twilight that is primarily influenced by lunar photoperiod and secondarily by discrete optical components of early nocturnal illumination.
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Local oceanographic variability influences the performance of juvenile abalone under climate change
Charles A. Boch,Fiorenza Micheli,M. Alnajjar,Stephen G. Monismith,Jody M. Beers,J. C. Bonilla,A. M. Espinoza,Leonardo Vazquez-Vera,C. B. Woodson +8 more
TL;DR: It is shown that abalone growth and mortality mapped to variability in stress exposure across sites and locations, indicating that management decisions aimed at maintaining and recovering valuable marine species in the face of climate change need to be informed by local variability in environmental conditions.