Water temperature, predation, and the neglected role of physiological rate effects in rocky intertidal communities

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 881-891

  Sanford, Eric ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTERIAS; ASTEROIDEA; PISASTER; PISASTER OCHRACEUS;

EID: 0036707170     PISSN: 00031569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/42.4.881     Document Type: Conference Paper

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