Marine chemical ecology
Idea and coordination: Joseph R. Pawlik*
Biological Sciences and Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 5001 Masonboro Loop Road, Wilmington, North Carolina 28409, USA
ABSTRACT: Marine chemical ecology has emerged as a vibrant subdiscipline of marine ecology over
the past 20 yr. The first symposium devoted specifically to marine chemical ecology was held, in conjunction with the 29th Annual Benthic Ecology Meeting, at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA, from March 9 to 10, 2000, with over 70 symposium participants from around the world. Topics of oral presentations and posters ranged from chemical antipredatory defenses of algae and invertebrates to antifouling, allelopathy, sunscreening agents, antimicrobial defenses, and chemical
cues for larval settlement and metamorphosis. Articles in this MEPS Theme Section were submitted
as original research contributions to the symposium. Abstracts of all symposium presentations are
available at the Benthic Ecology Meeting Web site: http://www.uncwil.edu/cmsr/bem2000.
