Top-down and bottom-up regulation of phytoplankton assemblages in tidepools

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 145, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 161-177

  Metaxas, Anna ^a,b   Scheibling, Robert E ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community regulation; Enclosures; Experimental manipulations; Grazing; Nutrients; Phytoplankton; Spatial variability; Tidepools

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY REGULATION; GRAZING; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON; TIDE POOL; TIDE POOLS;

CANADA, NOVA SCOTIA, HALIFAX;

EID: 0030302720     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps145161     Document Type: Article

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