Making mountains out of barnacles: The dynamics of acorn barnacle hummocking

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1382-1394

  Bertness, Mark D ^a   Gaines, Steven D ^b   Yeh, Su Ming ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acorn barnacles; Density dependent mortality; Filter feeding; Group benefits; Semi balanus balanoides

Indexed keywords

FILTER FEEDER; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT; SUBSTRATE;

ANIMALIA; BALANIDAE; BALANUS; CIRRIPEDIA; INVERTEBRATA; MEGABALANUS ROSA; SEMIBALANUS BALANOIDES; THORACICA;

EID: 0031822979     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[1382:MMOOBT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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