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Nicholas K. Schooler

Associate Researcher/Lecturer, UC Santa Barbara
Verified email at ucsb.edu
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No lines in the sand: Impacts of intense mechanized maintenance regimes on sandy beach ecosystems span the intertidal zone on urban coasts

NK Schooler, JE Dugan, DM Hubbard - Ecological Indicators, 2019 - Elsevier
As coastal population growth accelerates, intensive management practices increasingly
alter urban shorelines, creating major conservation challenges. To evaluate key ecological …

Local scale processes drive long‐term change in biodiversity of sandy beach ecosystems

NK Schooler, JE Dugan, DM Hubbard… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Evaluating impacts to biodiversity requires ecologically informed comparisons over sufficient
time spans. The vulnerability of coastal ecosystems to anthropogenic and climate change‐…

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of biomonitoring methodologies for surf zone fish communities

Z Gold, MKQ Koch, NK Schooler, KA Emery, JE Dugan… - PloS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Surf zones are highly dynamic marine ecosystems that are subject to increasing anthropogenic
and climatic pressures, posing multiple challenges for biomonitoring. Traditional …

Burrowing inhibition by fine textured beach fill: implications for recovery of beach ecosystems

…, DM Hubbard, JE Dugan, NK Schooler - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Beach nourishment is often considered the most environmentally sound method of maintaining
eroding shorelines. However, the ecological consequences are poorly understood. Fill …

Biogeographic patterns of communities across diverse marine ecosystems in southern California

…, NK Schooler, DM Hubbard, K Davis… - Marine …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Integrating results from monitoring efforts conducted across diverse marine ecosystems provides
opportunities to reveal novel biogeographic patterns at larger spatial scales and among …

[HTML][HTML] Diet of a threatened endemic fox reveals variation in sandy beach resource use on California Channel Islands

HM Page, J Schamel, KA Emery, NK Schooler… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The coastal zone provides foraging opportunities for insular populations of terrestrial
mammals, allowing for expanded habitat use, increased dietary breadth, and locally higher …

Habitat partitioning by mobile intertidal invertebrates of sandy beaches shifts with the tides

KA Emery, VR Kramer, NK Schooler, KM Michaud… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Coexistence of similar species can be influenced by the intensity of interspecific interactions,
which often depends on the availability of limiting resources. Habitat availability varies …

Detecting change in intertidal species richness on sandy beaches: calibrating across sampling designs

NK Schooler, JE Dugan, DM Hubbard - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2014 - Elsevier
Detecting changes in the biodiversity of biotic communities is fundamental to evaluating
ecological responses to anthropogenic and climatic drivers at multiple scales. Species richness, …

Scoping the Line Up: A Comparison of Biomonitoring Methodologies for Surf Zone Fish Communities

Z Gold, MKQ Koch, NK Schooler, KA Emery, JE Dugan… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Surf zones are highly dynamic marine ecosystems that are subject to increasing anthropogenic
and climatic pressures, posing multiple challenges for biomonitoring. Traditional …

First host record for the parasitoid rove beetle Aleochara sulcicollis Mannerheim, 1843 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) on the intertidal kelp fly, Fucellia rufitibia Stein …

NK Schooler, JE Dugan, HM Page - The Coleopterists Bulletin, 2012 - JSTOR
Schooler for our research. … Fabritius, K. 1981. Über das natürliche Vorkommen und
den Wirtskreis von Parasiten synanthroper Fliegen. … kmazaki, K, 2008. Aleochara fucicola …