Variable predation: effects of whelks on a mid-intertidal successional community

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 301-321

  Navarrete, Sergio A ^a,b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caging experiment; Community variability; Mussels; Nucella; Predation frequency and intensity; Rocky intertidal; Succession; Temporal variation; Whelks

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITIES; PREDATION; SUCCESSION; VARIABILITY; WHELK;

BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA; MYTILUS CALIFORNIANUS; MYTILUS TROSSULUS; NUCELLA CANALICULATA; NUCELLA EMARGINATA;

EID: 0030433640     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2963520     Document Type: Article

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