#WSN2013 it was great fun to come back to you after my time on the right coast. Hope to be back again soon! Now on to kelp at @nceas!

Kushner: if only they gave us 1 minute for every year of data we'd collected... #WSN2013

Kushner: Channel Island cucumber fishery a model for showing how MPAs facilitate recovery and long-term population persistence. #WSN2013

Needles: otters INCREASE invasive fouling organisms by removing competitors and potentially eating fouling org. consumers #WSN2013

Needles: how do you exclude sea stars from dock pillings? Get medieval on them and ring pillings with steel bird spikes! #WSN2013

Freehan: disease has effectively replaced predators as the control of Nova Scotia urchins, facilitating kelp. #WSN2013

.@Mpyrifera: high survivorship of juv. kelps at medium density, but low at high or low density. Balance of comp and facilitation?#WSN2013

I admit, ordination plots still leave me cold. I want to see the underlying data! #amiahorriblemultivariatescientist? #WSN2013

Map of sea star wasting disease at http://data.piscoweb.org/marine1/seastardisease.html from Moritsch #WSN2013

Moritsch: 2013 sea star wasting disease doesn't so far appear to be linked with water temps the same wy it has been in the past #WSN2013

.@algaebarnacle shows that intertidal understory has strong facilitating effect on intertidal kelps #WSN2013

Cool video from Filbee-Dexter showing deep water urchins covered in detrital kelp! Hope they're on YouTube! #WSN2013

Hovel: complexity of type of habitat lost influences the severity of habitat loss on species richness #WSN2013

Dawson: larval duration and many other reproductive behaviors interact- dispersal syndromes predict popn differentiation. #WSN2013

Dawson gets audience to vote- we think there's a weak relationship between larval duration an population genetic structure #WSN2013

Howard: in a warming ocean giant kelp can sexually outcompete other kelps around it. #WSN2013

Howard: diff sp of kelp gamete pheromones fight it out by tricking other sprecies into releasing their gametes too soon! #WSN2013 #tricksy

Kelp gametes give off pheromones! Totally going to bottle it for new eau de kelp line of high end perfume and cologne! #WSN2013

What are organizations like @CaliforniaOST in other states? #wsn2013

This jet lag will just make me start to enjoy #wsn2013 earlier!

So, tweeps, who's going to be at #wsn2013? AAH tweetup?

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