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Michael H. Graham

Phycology & Ecology / Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
: 831-771-4481 / : mgraham@mlml.cal@example.com @example.com @example.comstate.edu / : Lab Website, Home Page, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

About me

Dr. Mike Graham is an experimental ecologist interested in the population biology of habitat-forming species, and the role that variability in the population dynamics and biogeography of these species plays in regulating the ecology and evolution of their associated communities. His research program currently focuses on seaweed-based systems (primarily kelps) and has two primary objectives. First, to investigate the various physiological, ecological, and genetical processes that regulate kelp population biology, and thus the temporal and spatial dynamics of the kelp habitat. Second, to examine the consequences of such habitat dynamics on the various physical and biological processes that ultimately determine the productivity, structure, and diversity of kelp forest communities. His research spans microscopic to global spatial scales and ecological to evolutionary temporal scales, and focuses on both top-down (e.g. herbivory, competition, disturbance, facilitation) and bottom-up forces (e.g. recruitment, photosynthetic physiology).

Areas of interest / keywords

aquaculture, marine biology, marine ecology, marine sciences, ocean affairs, phycology, statistics and experimental design

chile, japan, pacific northwest

kelp

Publications

1. Graham, M.H., B.S. Halpern, and M.H. Carr. 2008. Diversity and dynamics of Californian subtidal kelp forests. In Food Webs and the Dynamics of Marine Benthic Ecosystems, edited by T.R. McClanahan, 103-134. Oxford University Press. (bookchapter)

2. Erlandson, J.M., M.H. Graham, R.S. Steneck, J.A. Estes, B.J. Bourque, and D. Corbett. 2007. Peopling the Americas via a kelp highway. Journal of Island and Coastal Archeology 1: 161-174. (article)

3. Graham, M., B. Kinlan, L. Druehl, L. Garske, and S. Banks. 2007. Deep-water kelp refugia as potential hotspots of tropical marine diversity and productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: 16576-80. (article)

4. Graham, M.H. 2007. Sea-level change, effects on coastlines. In Encyclopedia of Tidepools, edited by S.D. Gaines and M.W. Deny, 497-498. University of California. (bookchapter)

5. Hernandez-Carmona, G., B. Hughes, and M.H. Graham. 2006. Reproductive longevity of drifting kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (Phaeophyceae) in Monterey Bay, USA. Journal of Phycology 42: 1199-1207. (article)

Positions & Honors

2008 – Fellow, California Academy of Sciences

Grants

1. Collaborative Research: Biodiversity and ecosystem function in seaweed communities

2. Effects of ocean climate change on recruitment of kelp populations

3. Integrated culture of seaweeds and red abalone in Monterey Harbor.

4. Seaweed strain selection and preservation to optimize harvest yields for abalone culture

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