Predicting direct and indirect interactions during succession in a mid-littoral rocky shore assemblage

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-72

  Benedetti Cecchi, Lisandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algae (Rissoella verruculosa); Bacteria (Rivularia spp.); Barnacles (Chthamalus spp.); Direct and indirect interactions; Ecological models; Facilitation; Grazing; Inhibition; Interaction webs; Predictive ecology; Rocky shores; Succession

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; ROCKY SHORE; SUCCESSION;

(NORTHWEST); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CHTHAMALUS; CIRRIPEDIA; GASTROPODA; RIVULARIA;

EID: 0033976268     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2000)070[0045:PDAIID]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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