Top-down and bottom-up regulation of New Zealand rocky intertidal communities

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 297-330

  Menge, Bruce A ^c   Daley, Bryon A ^a   Lubchenco, Jane ^c   Sanford, Eric ^c   Dahlhoff, Elizabeth ^b   Halpin, Patricia M ^c   Hudson, Gregory ^c   Burnaford, Jennifer L ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Barnacles; Benthic pelagic coupling; Grazing impact; Mussels; Nearshore ecosystem dynamics; Predation; Recruitment; RNA:DNA; Rocky intertidal community regulation; Rocky intertidal oceanography; Scale dependent variability; Sea stars

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; GRAZING; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT; ROCKY SHORE; UPWELLING; ZONATION;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

ANOSTRACA; BIVALVIA; CHAMAESIPHO COLUMNA; CIRRIPEDIA; DURVILLEA; GASTROPODA; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; STICHASTER AUSTRALIS;

EID: 0032806131     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1999)069[0297:TDABUR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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