e coast,'' Sanford concluded. ''Thus, scientists and resource managers have to be careful in assuming that local studies of species interactions apply everywhere that the species co-occur. These results are a strong argument for conserving and maintaining whole, intact marine communities, rather than focusing on certain target species.''

Other coauthors of the Science study are Melissa S. Roth, a former Stanford undergraduate now with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Glenn C. Johns, a Stanford postdoctoral fellow; and John P. Wares, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California-Davis.

This study was part of the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) - a consortium of marine scientists from Stanford, Oregon State University, the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of California-Santa Cruz - funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities program at Stanford.

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Contact: Mark Shwartz
mshwartz@stanford.edu
650-723-9296
Stanford University
15-May-2003

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