Christopher D. McQuaid

Research interests

Publications

• Upwelling areas as climate change refugia for the distribution and genetic diversity of a marine macroalga

  Journal of Biogeography · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12744

• Tough Adults, Frail Babies: An Analysis of Stress Sensitivity across Early Life-History Stages of Widely Introduced Marine Invertebrates

  PLoS ONE · 2012 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0046672

• Tough Adults, Frail Babies: An Analysis of Stress Sensitivity across Early Life-History Stages of Widely Introduced Marine Invertebrates

  PLoS ONE · 2012 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0046672

• Thermal adaptation in the intertidal snailEchinolittorina malaccanacontradicts current theory by revealing the crucial roles of resting metabolism

  Journal of Experimental Biology · 2011 · 10.1242/jeb.059899

• A review of marine phylogeography in southern Africa

  South African Journal of Science · 2011 · 10.4102/sajs.v107i5/6.514

• Non-climatic thermal adaptation: implications for species' responses to climate warming

  Biology Letters · 2010 · 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0233

• Non-climatic thermal adaptation: implications for species' responses to climate warming

  Biology Letters · 2010 · 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0233

• Warming reduces metabolic rate in marine snails: adaptation to fluctuating high temperatures challenges the metabolic theory of ecology

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1414

• Unexpected genetic structure of mussel populations in South Africa: indigenous Perna perna and invasive Mytilus galloprovincialis

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2007 · 10.3354/meps337135

• Implications of life history for genetic structure and migration rates of southern African coastal invertebrates: planktonic, abbreviated and direct development

  Marine Biology · 2007 · 10.1007/s00227-007-0724-y

• Balancing survival and reproduction: seasonality of wave action, attachment strength and reproductive output in indigenous Perna perna and invasive Mytilus galloprovincialis mussels

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2007 · 10.3354/meps334155

• Implications of life history for genetic structure and migration rates of southern African coastal invertebrates: planktonic, abbreviated and direct development

  Marine Biology · 2007 · 10.1007/s00227-007-0724-y

• Balancing survival and reproduction: seasonality of wave action, attachment strength and reproductive output in indigenous Perna perna and invasive Mytilus galloprovincialis mussels

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2007 · 10.3354/meps334155

• Unexpected genetic structure of mussel populations in South Africa: indigenous Perna perna and invasive Mytilus galloprovincialis

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2007 · 10.3354/meps337135

• Hydrodynamic stress and habitat partitioning between indigenous (Perna perna) and invasive (Mytilus galloprovincialis) mussels: constraints of an evolutionary strategy

  Marine Biology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-006-0328-y

• Will the invasive mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck replace the indigenous Perna perna L. on the south coast of South Africa?

  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology · 2006 · 10.1016/j.jembe.2006.07.006

• Will the invasive mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck replace the indigenous Perna perna L. on the south coast of South Africa?

  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology · 2006 · 10.1016/j.jembe.2006.07.006

• Biogeographic and nearshoreoffshore trends in isotope ratios of intertidal mussels and their food sources around the coast of southern Africa

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2006 · 10.3354/meps318063

• Biogeographic and nearshoreoffshore trends in isotope ratios of intertidal mussels and their food sources around the coast of southern Africa

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2006 · 10.3354/meps318063

• Marine alien species of South Africa — status and impacts

  African Journal of Marine Science · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.2989/18142320509504088

• Effect of wave exposure on growth and mortality rates of the mussel Perna perna: bottom-up regulation of intertidal populations

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.3354/meps206147

• Limited wind-driven dispersal of intertidal mussel larvae: in situ evidence from the plankton and the spread of the invasive species Mytilus galloprovincialis in South Africa

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2000 · 10.3354/meps201211

• Zooplankton structure and grazing in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean in late austral summer 1993

  Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers · 2000 · 10.1016/s0967-0637(99)00121-1

• Trophic structure of the marine food web at the Prince Edward Islands (Southern Ocean) determined by d13C and d15N analysis

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2000 · 10.3354/meps208013

• Zooplankton structure and grazing in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean in late austral summer 1993

  Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers · 2000 · 10.1016/s0967-0637(99)00121-1

• Distribution of surface zooplankton and seabirds across the Southern Ocean

  Polar Biology · 1996 · 10.1007/s003000050054

• Prey composition and daily rations of myctophid fishes in the Southern Ocean

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 1996 · 10.3354/meps134001

• Gradients of intertidal primary productivity around the coast of South Africa and their relationships with consumer biomass

  Oecologia · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00333251

• Comparative structure of the macrozooplankton/ micronekton communities of the Subtropical and Antarctic Polar Fronts

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 1994 · 10.3354/meps111155

• Comparative structure of the macrozooplankton/ micronekton communities of the Subtropical and Antarctic Polar Fronts

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 1994 · 10.3354/meps111155

• Phytoplankton production and biomass at frontal zones in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean

  Polar Biology · 1993 · 10.1007/bf00233138

• Predator-Prey Role Reversal in a Marine Benthic Ecosystem

  Science · 1988 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.242.4875.62

• Trophic structure of rocky intertidal communities response to wave action and implications for energy flow

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 1985 · 10.3354/meps022153

• Trophic structure of rocky intertidal communities response to wave action and implications for energy flow

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 1985 · 10.3354/meps022153

• Influence of sea temperature, substratum and wave exposure on rocky intertidal communities: an analysis of faunal and floral biomass

  Marine Ecology Progress Series · 1984 · https://doi.org/10.3354/meps019145

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