Michael H. Graham
- Marine Science
- Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
- 831-771-4481
- mgraham@mlml.cal state.edu
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Websites
- Lab Website (phycology.mlml.calstate.edu)
- Home Page (phycology.mlml.calstate.edu)
- Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (mlml.calstate.edu)
About me
Dr. Mike Graham is an experimental ecologist interested in the population biology of habitat-forming species, and the role that variability in the population dynamics and biogeography of these species plays in regulating the ecology and evolution of their associated communities. His research program currently focuses on seaweed-based systems (primarily kelps) and has two primary objectives. First, to investigate the various physiological, ecological, and genetical processes that regulate kelp population biology, and thus the temporal and spatial dynamics of the kelp habitat. Second, to examine the consequences of such habitat dynamics on the various physical and biological processes that ultimately determine the productivity, structure, and diversity of kelp forest communities. His research spans microscopic to global spatial scales and ecological to evolutionary temporal scales, and focuses on both top-down (e.g. herbivory, competition, disturbance, facilitation) and bottom-up forces (e.g. recruitment, photosynthetic physiology).
Featured publications (5 of 14 publications)
Graham, Michael H, Joan Parker and Paul K Dayton. 2011. The Essential Naturalist: Timeless Readings in Natural History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Graham, M., B. Kinlan and R. Grosberg. 2010. Post-glacial redistribution and shifts in productivity of giant kelp forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B: 399-406.
Demes, K., M. Graham and T. Suskiewicz. 2009. Phenotypic plasticity reconciles incongruous molecular and morphological taxonomies. Journal of Phycology: 1266-1269.
Stachowicz, J., M. Graham, M. Bracken and A. Szoboszlai. 2008. Diversity enhances cover and stability of seaweed assemblages. Ecology: 3008-3019.
Graham, M., B. Kinlan, L. Druehl, L. Garske and S. Banks. 2007. Deep-water kelp refugia as potential hotspots of tropical marine diversity and productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: 16576-80.
Featured postions and honors (1 of 2 awards)
2011 – Co-Editor, Journal of Phycology, Phycological Society of America
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Publications
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Henriquez, L., A. Buschmann, M. Maldonado, M. Graham, M. Hernandez-Gonzalez, S. Pereda and M. Bobadilla. 2011. GRAZING ON GIANT KELP MICROSCOPIC PHASES AND THE RECRUITMENT SUCCESS OF ANNUAL POPULATIONS OF MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA (LAMINARIALES, PHAEOPHYTA) IN SOUTHERN CHILE. Journal of Phycology: 252-258.
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Demes, K. and M. Graham. 2011. Abiotic regulation of investment in sexual versus vegetative reproduction in the clonal kelp Laminaria sinclairii (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae). Journal of Phycology: 463-470.
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Graham, Michael H, Joan Parker and Paul K Dayton. 2011. The Essential Naturalist: Timeless Readings in Natural History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Graham, M., B. Kinlan and R. Grosberg. 2010. Post-glacial redistribution and shifts in productivity of giant kelp forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B: 399-406.
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Graham, M. 2010. Seaweed Invasions. Journal of Phycology 46: 412-413.
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Graham, M. 2010. Comparisons between East-Asian isoyake and deforestation in global kelp systems. Bulletin of Fisheries Research Agency: 47-50.
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Demes, K., M. Graham and T. Suskiewicz. 2009. Phenotypic plasticity reconciles incongruous molecular and morphological taxonomies. Journal of Phycology: 1266-1269.
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Stachowicz, J., R. Best, M. Bracken and M. Graham. 2008. Complementarity in marine biodiversity manipulations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: 18842-18847.
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Stachowicz, J., M. Graham, M. Bracken and A. Szoboszlai. 2008. Diversity enhances cover and stability of seaweed assemblages. Ecology: 3008-3019.
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Graham, M.H., B.S. Halpern and M.H. Carr. 2008. Diversity and dynamics of Californian subtidal kelp forests. In Food Webs and the Dynamics of Marine Benthic Ecosystems, edited by T.R. McClanahan, 103-134. Oxford University Press.
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Erlandson, J.M., M.H. Graham, R.S. Steneck, J.A. Estes, B.J. Bourque and D. Corbett. 2007. Peopling the Americas via a kelp highway. Journal of Island and Coastal Archeology 1: 161-174.
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Graham, M., B. Kinlan, L. Druehl, L. Garske and S. Banks. 2007. Deep-water kelp refugia as potential hotspots of tropical marine diversity and productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: 16576-80.
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Graham, M.H. 2007. Sea-level change, effects on coastlines. In Encyclopedia of Tidepools, edited by S.D. Gaines and M.W. Deny, 497-498. University of California.
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Hernandez-Carmona, G., B. Hughes and M.H. Graham. 2006. Reproductive longevity of drifting kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (Phaeophyceae) in Monterey Bay, USA. Journal of Phycology 42: 1199-1207.
Educational Background
2000 – PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Oceanography)
1995 – MS, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (Marine Science)
1992 – B.A., UC Santa Barbara (Aquatic Biology/Geography)
Grants
Seaweed strain selection and preservation to optimize harvest yields for abalone culture
Effects of ocean climate change on recruitment of kelp populations
Integrated culture of seaweeds and red abalone in Monterey Harbor.
Collaborative Research: Biodiversity and ecosystem function in seaweed communities
Positions & Honors
2011 – Co-Editor, Journal of Phycology, Phycological Society of America
2008 – Fellow, California Academy of Sciences
Collaborators, Advisors & Advisees
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Edwards, M – San Diego State University
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Kinlan, B – NOAA