Life is all connected, each organism playing its part in huge, complex food webs. At the center of each web is a ‘keystone’ species, without which the web would change dramatically or collapse entirely. Learn more about the marine food webs surrounding Cape Cod and how they are dealing with climate change!

Dr. Agnes Mittermayr is a marine ecologist at the Center for Coastal Studies, specializing in the ecosystem on the bottom of the ocean. She holds a PhD in Biological Oceanography and studies how ecosystems react to and recover from human-caused disturbances.