Paradigm lost: Reconsidering functional form and group hypotheses in marine ecology

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 250, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 207-221

  Padilla, Dianna K ^a   Allen, Bengt J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional group; Marine algae; Plant animal interactions

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY;

ALGA; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034734086     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(00)00197-0     Document Type: Article

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