A decade of invertebrate recruitment at Santa Catalina Island, California by Peter J. Edmunds, Jessica Clayton

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Over, Under, Sideways and Down: Patterns of Marine Species Richness in Nearshore Habitats off Santa Catalina Island, California by David W. Ginsburg, Andrew H. Huang

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Impacts of boat mooring disturbance on productivity and respiration in rhodolith beds from Catalina Island, USA by Dillon Dolinar, Diana Steller, Scott Gabara, Billie Beckley, Ju-Hyoung Kim, Matthew Edwards

“… Aggregations of rhodoliths, habitat-forming, free-living coralline red algae, form beds throughout the world’s oceans. On Santa Catalina Island, California, USA, rhodolith beds occur in protected coves where dense networks of moorings support recreational boating activities. …”
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Paradoxical Exception to Island Tameness: Increased Defensiveness in an Insular Population of Rattlesnakes by William K. Hayes, Carl E. Person, Gerad A. Fox, Julie L. King, Erick Briggs, Eric C. K. Gren

“…Because some insular rattlesnake populations lack functional rattles, presumably the consequence of relaxed selection from reduced predation, we hypothesized that the Santa Catalina Island, California, USA, population of the southern Pacific rattlesnake (<i>Crotalus helleri</i>, which possesses a functional rattle), would exhibit a decrement in defensive behavior relative to their mainland counterparts. …”
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