Charles H. Peterson

TL;DR: The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil release posed the challenges of two types of spill: a familiar spill characterized by buoyant oil, fouling and killing organisms at the sea surface and eventually grounding on and damaging sensitive shoreline habitats, and a novel deepwater spill involving many unknowns as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: It is suggested that T. jerichonana may produce a chemical substance that induces settlement of these competitors, and this process of selecting habitat based on biogenic cues may be especially adaptive and widespread among later-successional species that occupy a physically variable and unpredictable environment.

TL;DR: The demonstrated importance of interactions with biotic history raises questions about the interpretation of bioassays, pollutant impacts, responses to weather, paleoecological changes, and results in experimental ecology and physiology whenever the equivalence of organisms is assumed without a knowledge of historical conditioning.

TL;DR: Greater temporal variability of living populations at Mugu Lagoon, probably caused by a more harsh physical environment, increased the differences in composition between living and dead assemblages, which suggests that correspondence in relative abundances betweenliving and deadassemblages generally should be expected to decrease as the life environment becomes more harsh.

TL;DR: A predictive model based on assessment of benthic community structure conducted at the taxonomic level of phyla that could be used to link cause and effect for multiple chemical stressors in marine ecosystems is presented.