Plant-animal interactions in seagrass beds: Ongoing and future challenges for understanding population and community dynamics

Population Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 167-177

  Nakaoka, Masahiro ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abundance and diversity; Eastern Asia; Habitat structure; Herbivory; Landscape pattern

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; EPIFAUNA; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAGRASS MEADOW;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; HALOPHILA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 28444451521     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-005-0226-z     Document Type: Review

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