A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from ...

“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 ...

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.

In the low-low tides of July 2023, about 80 islanders and 30 people from Qualicum, Halalt, and Tla’amin Nations gathered on the intertidal for another great community event. We explored clam gardens ...