Disturbance and gap formation in a marine benthic mosaic: Influence of shifting macroalgal patches on seagrass structure and mobile invertebrates

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 121-130

  Holmquist, Jeff G ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Anomura; Brachyura; Caridea; Disturbance; Drift algae; Gap; Laurencia spp.; Macroalgae; Mollusca; Ophiuroidea; Seagrass; Structural complexity; Thelassia testudinum

Indexed keywords

BENTHES; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; MACROALGAE; SEAGRASS MEADOW;

ALGAE; ANEMURA; ANOMURA; BRACHYURA; CARIDEA; DECAPODA; HALOPHILA; HYDROCHARITACEAE; INVERTEBRATA; LAURENCIA; MOLLUSCA; OPHIUROIDEA; THALASSIA; THALASSIA TESTUNDINUM;

EID: 0030696798     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps158121     Document Type: Article

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