Marine diversity shift linked to interactions among grazers, nutrients and propagule banks

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 185, Issue , 1999, Pages 309-314

  Worm, Boris ^a   Lotze, Heike K ^a   Boström, Christoffer ^b   Engkvist, Roland ^c   Labanauskas, Vytautas ^d   Sommer, Ulrich ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Coastal ecosystems; Community structure; Diversity; Dormancy; Eutrophication; Fucus vesiculosus; Herbivory; Macroalgae

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING;

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA; FUCUS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS;

EID: 0033588438     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps185309     Document Type: Article

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