Scientists have identified the cells behind the bioclocks keeping time with tides in tiny marine organisms. The biological ...

On any piece of rocky shore one notices bands of different life. The intertidal is a transition zone between land and sea ...

The term keystone species was first coined by Robert Paine (1966) after extensive studies examining the interaction strengths of food webs in rocky intertidal ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest.

“And you can be my assistant,” I kindly informed her. We were exploring the intertidal zone — that extraordinary world between high and low tide — on a very special beach: the beach I grew ...

But despite its apparent lethargy,Pisaster ochraceus serves as a top predator of the intertidal zone—tiger of the tide pool—though it lacks anything like a brain. Sarah Ann Thompson ...

However, we also found that several factors, especially tourism and infrastructure development, have had a negative impact on the biodiversity in the intertidal zones of coastal areas. We also ...

In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted. The orange ...