Multiple mutualists provide complementary benefits to their seaweed host

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2418-2427

  Stachowicz, John J ^a   Whitlatch, Robert B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Complementarity; Diversity ecosystem function; Epiphytes; Foundation species; Marine invertebrate; Mutualism; Predation; Redundancy; Resource partitioning; Seaweed

Indexed keywords

MUTUALISM;

NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ALGAE; ANACHIS; ANACHIS LAFRESNAYI; ASCIDIACEA; ASTYRIS LUNATA; BRYOZOA; CHONDRUS; CHONDRUS CRISPUS; COSTOANACHIS LAFRESNAYI; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MITRELLA; MITRELLA LUNATA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 23944478814     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0819     Document Type: Article

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